Turk Thrust

Quite. When I heard this possible takeover my first thoughts were whether or not the owners could bring investment and success to my club. But some others seem to look at his politics first and trot out the same issues as for the previous would be owner. Some even said that politics are more important than Derby County! Sacrilege!

Well said can we put this bickering to bed and move on. The biggest lesson to learn is beggars cannot be choosers I fail to understand how people do not realise this simple fact.
I always wanted Mel to  keep the club under sound financial stewardship and not to waste loads of money trying to get the club into Premiership even if it meant more years in the championship but I got slated for this a few years ago and the main reason for this I did not want to end up selling the club to some dodgy character in the same manner when we ended up with the three amigos. 
When any football club is dying financially you cannot complain which vulture comes along to pick over the bones 
 

Quite. When I heard this possible takeover my first thoughts were whether or not the owners could bring investment and success to my club. But some others seem to look at his politics first and trot out the same issues as for the previous would be owner. Some even said that politics are more important than Derby County! Sacrilege!

Before putting Brian Clough on a Tory vs Labour moral pedestal, his views towards Justin Fashanu sexuality and his flexible socialist  attitude when taking a bung make uncomfortable reading. I haven’t got a problem with Brian Clough whatsoever and still consider him a hero but in today’s cancel culture society it’s remarkable how we find a way to excuse the misdemeanours of those we love and weaponise what we can against those we dislike. Michael Jackson, David Bowie and John Peel seemingly get a free pass when it comes to being cancelled whilst poor old Leon Brittan’s family were utterly hounded with what turned out to be a smear campaign. 
What I do think is fair is that these questions are raised with Alonso as it’s not unreasonable for fans to want to know about his views on such things. I can’t say I’m particularly thrilled if he has ‘Far’ right views but I find the views of the ‘Far’ left as equally deplorable and neo liberal cancel everybody and everything bunch the worst of the lot. This probably means the chances of us finding a perfect custodian of the club as I would like it pretty remote.

Yes. Note that we were created as an offshoot of Derbyshire Cricket Club but they thought that the first name that the football club came up with - Derbyshire FC- would be confused with the cricket side and so we became Derby County. But I do like Derby Galaxy
 

Well actually @Turk Thrust it was the Derbyshire County FA who objected. There was a lot of "bad blood" between the nascent football upstarts of the Cricket Club and the existing County FA so much so that some of our players tore off the County FA "colours" from their shorts that they had been awarded for representing the County FA. It was real cloak and dagger stuff, often to do with fixture clashes and arguments over players. Derby County were born into controversy and have seemingly courted it ever since.  

Oh I do and lots of mates who are around my age (74).  When I was first taken by dad to see Stanley Mathews at the BBG it was called soccer as much as it was called football and lots of magazines had Soccer in the title. (Soccer World, Soccer Review, Soccer Star etc) It’s not an American thing, it comes from Association football (hence soccer) to distinguish it from Rugby football (rugger). But I suppose it’s use now is just us old gits and Americans (who first adopted the word when it was still called soccer here and to distinguish it from American football)

Erm....yeah

He’s a young lad who might just make the most money in one go that he will ever see if his career doesn’t pan out. He’s 16. He’s not a Derby fan. 
How many of us at that age could honestly say we wouldn’t jump at the chance at a massive pay off, just for moving clubs. 

Sometimes fans have an absolute skewed view of life. 

I run my own company that I’ve built from the ground up. My wife is my business partner and we are now quite successful and growing. I couldn’t be more invested in the company I work for and love being my own boss. I consider myself as a very loyal type.
However, even I had my head turned when I was head hunted by a national company and was really tempted to join them and in part it was the pay incentive, the ‘national’ aspect etc. In the end I decided to stay and continue to grow my own company, but it was a massive decision for me. 
And some of us are expecting a 16 year old with no other investment in the club than a year or so of training to NOT be enticed by a big pay day and ‘national’ pull. 

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

My next thing that irks me is also a grammatical one. This time it is tautology. A tautology is an expression or phrase that says the same thing twice, just in a different way, for example “a round circle”. For this reason, a tautology is usually undesirable, as it can make you sound wordier than you need to be, and make you appear foolish.  It’s best to choose just one way to state your meaning and eliminate the extra and unnecessary verbiage.
common tautological examples include:-
a new innovation, evening sunset, an added bonus, an over-exaggeration, personally I think....., a short summary, in close proximity, a necessary requirement, sad misfortune, a hot water heater and so on 
You can also have logical tautologies, as with the phrase “You’re either hungry or you’re not.” “to be or not to be” These kinds of tautologies are self-cancelling. In other words, the sentence is always true since it includes both possibilities.
 

My next thing that irks me is also a grammatical one. This time it is tautology. A tautology is an expression or phrase that says the same thing twice, just in a different way, for example “a round circle”. For this reason, a tautology is usually undesirable, as it can make you sound wordier than you need to be, and make you appear foolish.  It’s best to choose just one way to state your meaning and eliminate the extra and unnecessary verbiage.
common tautological examples include:-
a new innovation, evening sunset, an added bonus, an over-exaggeration, personally I think....., a short summary, in close proximity, a necessary requirement, sad misfortune, a hot water heater and so on 
You can also have logical tautologies, as with the phrase “You’re either hungry or you’re not.” “to be or not to be” These kinds of tautologies are self-cancelling. In other words, the sentence is always true since it includes both possibilities.
 

Wheat you on about?!

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

Aberrant apostrophes!  The problem seems to lie in people’s inability to recognise that there are only two possible uses for apostrophes – one being to show ownership of something – a possessive apostrophe and the other to denote a letter (or letters) left out of a word. This is known as a contraction or abbreviation apostrophe.
examples - possessive apostrophe would be “the player’s socks” meaning the socks belonging to one player. If you are referring to the socks of many players you simply make a plural by adding an s to player and add the apostrophe so it would be “the players’ socks. 
an abbreviation apostrophe would be “the player’s left the club” in this case the word “has” has been left out and replaced by an apostrophe.
It’s true things can get slightly more complicated with words and names that already end in an ‘s’ but for a singular word ending in ‘s’ we just add ’s – as in “the boss’s complaint”. Though it can be permitted to just add an apostrophe eg “the boss’ complaint
Granted things are more difficult with “it’s” which is an example of an abbreviation apostrophe meaning “it is” but the possessive example is “its” so we have “it’s a great stadium and its pitch is perfect”.
See? Simple really. Once a damn teacher, always a teacher

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

Aberrant apostrophes!  The problem seems to lie in people’s inability to recognise that there are only two possible uses for apostrophes – one being to show ownership of something – a possessive apostrophe and the other to denote a letter (or letters) left out of a word. This is known as a contraction or abbreviation apostrophe.
examples - possessive apostrophe would be “the player’s socks” meaning the socks belonging to one player. If you are referring to the socks of many players you simply make a plural by adding an s to player and add the apostrophe so it would be “the players’ socks. 
an abbreviation apostrophe would be “the player’s left the club” in this case the word “has” has been left out and replaced by an apostrophe.
It’s true things can get slightly more complicated with words and names that already end in an ‘s’ but for a singular word ending in ‘s’ we just add ’s – as in “the boss’s complaint”. Though it can be permitted to just add an apostrophe eg “the boss’ complaint
Granted things are more difficult with “it’s” which is an example of an abbreviation apostrophe meaning “it is” but the possessive example is “its” so we have “it’s a great stadium and its pitch is perfect”.
See? Simple really. Once a damn teacher, always a teacher

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this

What’s the FA Cup and a Cordless drill got in common? No Leeds.

Their is no need to loose your shizzle over this. There most likely not doing it on purpose so it's not really they're fault. ?