IslandExile

"Saviour"

I am balling me eyes out - all the pent up emotion. Thank heavens. ?
But let's not forget there are other things happening in the world.....Afghanistan, Ukraine
and @Mostyn6 I am very sorry for your loss.

Yeah, football's problems go far beyond the EFL.....Premier League, UEFA, FIFA, Sky etc.
Basically, money - or, strictly speaking, the distribution of it - has destroyed the people's game.
(Don't get me started on Boris ?)

There is plenty of things the EFL need to address, but it's not always simple. The one thing that the EFL really must balance is the ability for teams to be competitive which gets harder and harder every single year. The problem with parachute payments is that it's essentially a Premier League clause, not Football League, so you can forget about getting rid of that because you need the owners of Premier League clubs to vote on it. 
The EFL needs investment. Honestly, I don't understand why they try so hard to restrict spending because the 90% of the spending is EFL club to EFL club. 
Let's take Jack Marriott for example - we paid somewhere in the region of £2-4m for his services which in hindsight we shouldn't have done. However, Peterborough were able to use that money to sign Ivan Toney. Without us signing Marriott, they don't sign Toney and they don't flip him for 10-20x the profit. 
You restrict teams with money to not spend money, the knock on effect is that you reduce the market value of football players because there isn't enough clubs spending money and the lower league teams essentially don't have a market to ship their best players. It seems they only look at the buying club spending the money, rather than the selling club receiving the money. 

Stuck in the middle with Roo.

The EFL also saw fit to disregard the 3 High Court Judge verdicts they had sought to establish the creditor status of the parasite claims. 
They enabled the solicitors of Gibson and Cowpig to muddy the waters, defer progress and sustain doubt of the claim validity.
It was in the EFL's power to crush actions of Club Vs. Club and also to accept Q's legal findings - but they wouldn't, so it all dragged on until bids / PB's were nixed and the assured relegation strategy was fulfilled.
If Q wanted to detail the ups and downs of liaison and point to the money and time wastage over the period, it would make a good handbook for the EFL of how to reduced a club to rubble.  
Full of anger at the EFL; it will not subside but will be compartmentalised, once Clowes is in the driving seat and Rooney is permitted to recruit players.
Watching and waiting!

Agree
 
wait until the 2nd month of the season at least. 
August. 

I am balling me eyes out - all the pent up emotion. Thank heavens. ?
But let's not forget there are other things happening in the world.....Afghanistan, Ukraine
and @Mostyn6 I am very sorry for your loss.

I think this is looking like the most positive stage of our administration so far. Maybe just behind the day or two between Kirchner proclaiming himself the saviour of Derby County on Twitter and that pesky Jubilee Bank Holiday.
What gives me the most hope is the EFL (no, stick with me, you’ll see where I’m going). For the first time in a long, long time, we’ve actually had a positive statement from them. I was expecting a shitty little dig from them when the fixtures were announced. Some kind of alternative fixture list, a warning to Oxford fans that if they’re planning to stay in Derby for the first game, make sure it’s refundable.
When that didn’t happen, and it was just a plain old ‘this is who you’re playing’, then it seemed like there was some kind of movement. It turns out that the stadium and the loan for the season was sorted before this, hence the EFL just about being able to refrain from doing what they do best and rubbing salt in our wounds.
Throughout the process we’ve been told X, Y & Z have been obstacles, and they need sorting first. It seems like the stadium was the final thing to sort, so I really hope we finally get to do what Quantuma said many moons ago, and be pleasantly surprised by how fast things move now.

Wait for Rooney to say it! ?

Way too soon

Has he signed yet? Has he? Has he signed yet?
Have the others? Have they?
Sign them up fer chrissekes!!!

Clowes to make a formal bid on Friday to take over the club.

You can almost hear the gritted teeth through which this statement was made. **nts

Had a brilliant day on holiday yesterday at Disney wearing our Derby tops. 13 of us in our family and our friends family combined. 

We were stopped 3 times by random visitors (all not English) to the park to talk about Derby County, Wayne Rooney and hoping we survive and giving us good luck for the future. 
 
Put a massive smile on our faces knowing that if, if, we survive this massive club will rise again. 
 
Amazing news to be added today as we wake up. 
 
COME ON YOU RAMSSSSS!!! 

If I see this gentleman in the North stand next season I shall without hesitation offer him one of my werthers and the loan of my checkered blanket. 

Woah, impressive fangs
That's reassuring

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