IslandExile

After the Joiners Arms debacle, how much wilder do you want us to be?

You nearly gave me heart failure, please change the title to something like 'King Kev at the Neptune'. 
We've lost a lot of top 70's footballers recently and I feared that the king had joined them from looking at the title of the topic.

I think you mean a 'Twitchel'

She has been heard humming the Collymore song at Windsor Castle.

Wish I could be there. Anyone who goes, please post a report on what he has to say. Thanks.

We're having a roster - is that as well as a squad or instead of?
I know, I know. It's soccer now.

We're having a roster - is that as well as a squad or instead of?
I know, I know. It's soccer now.

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Hear Hear Hear
I agree mate get off the mans back.

I hope that CK takes himself off if social media if only to stop reading inane rubbish from intolerant idiots …give the bloke a break ffs …it’s embarrassing reading some of the nonsense on there …he has been true to his word so far and having 25 lawyers tells you what an utter mess and shambles this club has been left in and Chris Kirchner is our saviour …now ffs to all those morons asking daft questions give it a rest !!!

Wish I could be there. Anyone who goes, please post a report on what he has to say. Thanks.

Surely 25+ lawyers involved includes the creditors they’re paying as well. CK has been open all the way through this and has pretty much delivered on everything he’s said. The only reason people are even  doubting is Fake Sheikh and Erik Alonso. They are not valid comparisons. 

This deal is going to happen 100%, If it’s delayed by 1 day it doesn’t matter. The club has been saved and we can now finally start to look forward.
The only question is can we get back into the premier league before our world famous neighbours add their 3rd star??!!! ??????

Good luck , it sounds fabulous 
 
whenever I hear Jim Smith’s name, I think of how proud he looked when the Queen came to  Pride Park 

Not seen this posted elsewhere and thought it might be of interest to some of you?
 

I googled it ? 

We're having a roster - is that as well as a squad or instead of?
I know, I know. It's soccer now.

Bugger!
 

4k a week wage cap will be lifted? ?️‍♂️

Authors make very little either way (unless they self publish) to be honest, so in truth it doesn't bother me so much. I was thinking of doing some sales myself this time and buying from the printers, so I'm looking into the possibilities of that. But also chatting to the club soon as well on whether they will get involved, in which case the sales would go into them which is a lot better than to Bezos or whoever heads it up now.
But for digital, I'm 99% sure there'll be an ebook version. I'll get that confirmed though and let you know!

Kirchner has ended up doing a bit of an impromptu Q&A on his Twitter..
 

Hi everybody, happy t̶a̶k̶e̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ Monday. 
I've been waiting for a while to get official confirmation, but just a heads up to say that Groundwork is looking like it will be set for publication on 1st August! Admittedly that is two months earlier than I thought so I am mid-panic, but it's fine. Going over old ground but basically, I put the Pride book together which came out in 2020, and as much as I enjoyed it, the twenty years it covered were pretty terrible to be a Rams fan. So this book takes in solely the Jim Smith years.
There's around 55 contributors in total ranging from Steve McClaren, Steve Round and Bill Beswick through to Igor, Eranio, Wanchope, Sturridge and more. There's also a specific section just on Jim with contributions from some of his family, Harry Redknapp and Howard Wilkinson, and a BBC Derby bonus chapter with Colin Gibson and Graham Richards reliving those years.
I've been lucky as well to be able to confirm in the last couple of days that McClaren and Igor are both providing forewords, which is a nice little bonus! Somehow it's about 120k words and 330 pages, so hopefully it's a decent comprehensive account of the time from those who lived it.
ANYWAY - I don't have info on the pre-order side of things yet besides Amazon (but I'd always recommend not to Amazon because they're doing okay for themselves) and will provide those once I do have the proper links and everything, as well as the actual correct price because I don't think it's as much as the one it says - hopefully. But yeah, that's it essentially. If anyone did read Pride and enjoyed it, I'd 100% say this is a better read. And if you read Pride and didn't enjoy it, that's okay too, I apologise profusely. If you didn't read Pride, that is fine for a third time. I'm on here daily but usually just lurk, so hopefully it doesn't look like I'm only jumping on to promote.  Generally I live in the past and the present just confuses me.