IslandExile

Well lads efl and gibson are total bankers and I say you should now think fine take another 9 points off us but one thing you cant take of us is our fight and love of this club we know our fans shall our backs and we shall have theres. We shall go downing fighting to bitter end. Until then we shall do everything in our power to stay up. Or shall be back in the champership sooner than later.

First caller will be Barry from Burton asking why Rooney hasn't tried Forsyth in a more advanced role.

I've said before that I admire any fan with emotional capacity left to care about what team we play, or engage in discussions about tactics. I feel a little bit about the points deduction too; I always thought it was coming.
My main worries are:
1) How much of the above will be sorted before January? Because if it's not, there could be a firesale of not just the first team, but all the very clearly talented U23s who could be the key to our return to this league. If they go, then we'll be scrambling around to field a team that can stay up in League One next year, let alone any talk of promotion. And perhaps a tad more pertinently;
2) Are we going to exist????????????????*
 
 
*I can't believe how many fans are not obsessively stressed by this question.

Where was this energy from the football authorities when QPR went up in 2014? 
It seems that because we weren't promoted as heroes in that playoff final, we lived long enough in the Championship to become the villains. Although we may have got a lucky escape like QPR if not for Roos' cabbage hands which he saves for special occasions.
I'd wouldn't find this such a bitter pill to swallow if I believed this was part of a wider project to completely shake up finances in English football, but it really isn't. It's a case of punishing the scene of the crime, rather than the criminal. The individuals whose terrible decision making led us to this position will likely financially recover long before the club and community does. 
It seems the EFL believe that this points deduction will send some sort of message, but there will be another Derby. And another Derby after that. The kind of ego and personality willing to put a club in financial jeopardy in the name of promotion to the Premier League is plentiful in the world of business, and such personalities don't think "better not, this club could be on its knees after I'm gone."
So long as the football authorities pretend that this sort of financial mess is the actions of a few errant individuals rather than symptomatic of a broken financial model in the game, nothing will change. There will keep on being MMs, fueled by ego and enabled by dubious accounting, trying to compete with parachute payment clubs. 
 

This is the single most important thing as it means we can retain the services of Bird, Knight, Buchanan, etc rather than having to wait until the summer before offering deals.

My great, great uncle! Proud to be related to someone who wasn't afraid to stand up for what he believed in.

And in return, we let them have Knight, Bird, Sibley and Buchanan and half the academy on the cheap?
Forget it. We're in League 1 next season, let's prepare for that.

Next season, can we go ballistic?
Errr uhm, I mean, will we still have a business plan imposed on us?

(With thanks to whoever posted this the other day... Seems like it's a good response to many posts on here ?‍♂️)

they have been agreed by the club

Lightly based on those figures

We can complain when other clubs with more significant breaches get the same, without the added baggage of two years worth of EFL restrictions.
Our treatment has been so massively disproportionate by comparison.

07 May 2022 Derby 4 - Cardiff 0
Derby, against all odds, make history and avoid relegation.......

Early Sunday morning start for our 12pm kick off in front of the Sky cameras. Can we get back to 0 points? Who's going to make a difference? The rest of the season will feel like 2007 to me, best to make the most of it. Duck the EFL.

The only good part of this decision is that it seems that we should start next season with a clean slate and be able to operate as a 'normal' club for the first time in many seasons.....

Report states the business plan is for this season only.

Now, can we please move on and make sure that this'll never happen again please? 

Thanks mate - Brutal -  got me twice ?

Tod?
Do you mean Andy Todd?
Controversial but each to their own.

"WE GOTTA FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT, FIGHT FOR THIS CLUB... " 

Stop. Pause. And think about that for a moment. That's incredible, eh?
And emphasizes why this is such a big deal.

It is a big deal. It’s huge (for us ) but if that is our fair and reasonable punishment then so be it.
 
 What is vomit inducing is the over riding sense that the EFL want more and with no rational justification.  They want to see clubs that transgress, humiliated and destroyed .. the dilatory messing about about over multi season deductions is loathsome , not sporting or proportionate in any sense. It is fundamentally wrong.  The messages coming from the EFL raises them to the status of all powerful deities … They are not. They are a petty, badly organised outfit, rife with pressure groups and individual self interest. 
 
Whatever we as DCFC or Mel have done .. there is no way in a just world that we have deserved the witch hunt they have launched and perpetuated for 2 years. The appalling, thoroughly unsportsmanlike leverage they seem to relish in applying is anathema to any lover of the game  

Stop. Pause. And think about that for a moment. That's incredible, eh?
And emphasizes why this is such a big deal.

Stop. Pause. And think about that for a moment. That's incredible, eh?
And emphasizes why this is such a big deal.