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This post is a bit sycophantic, and I'm sorry if I wind up lots of good people who are so upset and angry, but I have to admit that I am happy to be in the fan club!
That doesn't mean that I do but wish that things had gone differently.
Firstly, no one knows where we would be if someone else had been in charge! I know that's not a ringing endorsement, but we do tend to forget that things could have been worse.
Many detractors say, "If only Mel had taken different decisions," but this is the same as saying, "If only we had a local fans, with loads of money, who had made some different decisions." But, I'm not sure that there is a local fan with loads of money who would have made different decisions.
We have a football structure, where people can buy football clubs. That's the issue! If you don't like what a man has done with the best of intentions - then don't moan at him - direct your ire towards getting rid of the ownership structure.
But, is there an alternative. Germany do something that I don't fully understand. When I asked if 30,000 fans could find £2,000 each, to raise £60 million; lots of flaws were found; not least the fact that the club doesn't balance it's books; and would continually need more money. And how would this great ownership democracy work? An individual would be appointed to take charge. And they would do things that the mukti-owners would not like. So it might not be any different. Maybe fans could be on the board, but what if they made unpopular decisions.
In terms of Mel, my message is: thanks for doing your best. It is brilliant that you had the balls to have a go. Don't worry about perceived mistakes. No-one's perfect. Like you, we're all hurting, but Derby'll be alright. By definition, the club cannot always be moving upwards under every tenure, otherwise we would have been European Champions for the past 100 years! And if this was the time for us to be in a downward slope, then you probably prevented things being worse. And I've enjoyed quite a few seasons where we have won more than we have lost, and the positive feeling on a Monday morning. Don't forget the positive chants that used to call out your name.

Got a pretty handy midfielder on loan for six months from Bristol too.
It hasn’t all been a waste of money and effort for Mel either. When he has his feet up in the La-Z-boy over the forthcoming years, he can look at his mantelpiece with the two framed pictures of him together with the scarf draped Butterfield and Johnson and think how lucky he was to spend some fleeting moments with them in the glaze of the flashbulbs. 

They will have a simple game plan: let us score first. Foolproof!

Doesn’t seem to make any difference either way now.

How ironic it would be, we beat Rotherham to get out of division 3 they could be the ones to send us back there. 
Have this team got the bottle for it not to happen 

I've heard that the EFL are working on changing the rules if we stay up (we will!) and there will be automatic points deduction based on arrangement of letters in a clubs name. Any club whose letters are arranged D - E - R - B - Y will get a 24 points deduction! This season too! #youhearditherefirst

51% fan ownership.
Although 100% fan ownership hasn't worked out too well!

I don't think it has anything to do with whether he's given 'his all' or rather 'the clubs all'. Its to do with the fact he was custodian of the club - it's okay saying 'he meant well' or 'you never said anything bad when he spent lots of money'. We the fans had no say in the matter, all we could do is support the club. The clubs administration was all down to Morris, and he's left us in an incredible mess. 

I hope they re-advertise his job because I'm bloody amazing at drinking tea, watching football and being ignored. 

Personally, I don't think for one minute this rule will ever come to fruition. If you have spent millions/billions on a business would you allow some pen pushers telling you, you have to let the fans own a large percentage of the company in the future?. Just reading some of the things being said on here, would you want these people making decisions in your business? ?

Very well put. I've only commented on the "it's not in our own hands" comments. Up until now I've been nervously optimistic. Today I'm just nervous. It's no longer in our hands, but it's not all over. There are still twists to come in what's left of the season. We do however need to pick points up and I can't see at this moment where from.

Don't see why you haven't posted in a while... it only takes a second or two!  ? ?

All these cheese puns!  ?
It Scone far enough, now! 
Anyway... as it's Good Friday... let's spare a thought for what happened to this guy, later in life...
 

Young uns often miss subtlety.
Fromage comes experience.

I becha- Mel wouldn't be too impressed with all these cheese puns.

I Sancerrely hope you're not taking about recent seasons, in which our net spenwood obviously have decreased.

I think the cheese talk is stinking up this thread to much. It's cutting the disscussion off at the knees.
I'm lack toes intolerent.

I’ve had enough I’m off to book a holiday.

Just think that all these puns came from one simple spelling mistake. I'm sure that everyone will be typing more Caerphilly in future.

Stiltons more puns to pick from.

The EFL are milking it, aren't they?

Never a dull moment here at DCFC!  
 
 
*Apart from during an actual match... obvs!  ?

Yeah he could go to another team where he also wouldn't get into the first team based on his performances, then repeat.
Alternatively he could follow the footsteps of several promising youngsters like Sterling and Foden for example, who also struggled to get a regular starting place in the lineup. They listened to the advice (criticism in some eyes) given to them, took it on board and have become players who now consistently live up to their potential. Not doing it once every 10-15 games.

Disagree. Fine margins in this league.
No doubt the squad needs work, but this gradual progression rubbish winds me up. It’s hard to build gradually in this league, failure to go up in a year or two means your best players bugger off. Add 3-4 right players, confidence high, big work ethic, togetherness, unity, strength, power,  anything can happen. 

Good luck to him, don't get the animosity towards him at all. Hope he does well!