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Agreed. Literally no one in this photo is still part of the club.

Agreed. Literally no one in this photo is still part of the club.

Agreed. Literally no one in this photo is still part of the club.

Agreed. Literally no one in this photo is still part of the club.

by the way, isnt Shinnies hair a thing of beauty....so thick, lucious, full bodied and well groomed....he looks just like those photos that were in Ivans Barbers at Ripley in the 70's and 80's...

Somewhere in the UK somebody, probably an accountant, is waking up this morning and is about to become the most important person in our (footballing) lives.  Our Administrator.
They will have a number of tasks but the first job after introducing themselves will be to understand the figures and then work out a way of reducing and closing the (roughly) £300,000 per week difference between our income and our expenditure.  Most of that will be in wages and most of those wages will be largely untouchable because they relate to the players.  So some tough decisions will have to be made should any players be on a pay as you play contract, or near to an appearance generating payment to the club they left to join us, or a bonus payment or, indeed, anything else that serves to increase our outgoings. There will be negotiations with the players about taking reductions in pay, short or long term.  Some may be more willing than others. Wayne might find that the Administrator is helping him to pick his team.
Then there will be those whose wages are not so protected - the canteen staff, ticket office staff, groundsmen, physios, Academy staff and the rest.  If anyone leaves they won’t be replaced even if that means that pitches at Moor Farm don’t get mowed or prepared, even if the Cat 1 status is lost. Staff on furlough won’t be coming back, redundancies will happen.
After that comes the extraneous costs.  16,000 crowds?  Shut the North Stand.  Ticket prices? Up £5 per seat and £10 for away fans. New equipment for the gym? Cancel the order.
Alongside all that will be a wish to sell the club as a going concern.  There will be interest - from the numpties who are taking the mickey to those who are genuinely interested but have no money and (hopefully, please dear God) maybe one or two consortia who genuinely have an interest and have the resources to back it up.  But football’s general situation and ours in particular could, just could, generate no interest at all. If that’s so then the game is up.  
And what about the other players in this saga.  Expect FA from the FA, the custodians of our game, and nothing from the Department of Media and Sport or local Councils nor from the source of all this, the Premier League. There will be a collective shoulder shrug.  Sad but not our problem guv. The gleaming, sparkly football family's latest divorce. The PFA will want to ensure that their members are sorted out first and foremost.
Expect no positive help at all from the EFL.  They will hand out point deductions like confetti; they will apply their rules extra rigorously to try to prevent us from being taken over by the 3 Amigos part 2 - it will be slow and silent; they will take their time to agree a 2 year business plan should we successfully gain new owners and then monitor it strictly; they will make it impossible for us to buy German centre halves or even pay Shaun Barker fees; they will ensure that our ex-captain is rewarded for his drunken escapade.  They genuinely won’t want to lose us from the leagues (though they won’t care if we fall through them as Bolton did) but neither will they go out of their way to help.  It’s too important for them to have a big scalp to draw the others into line and to be seen to be acting tough rather than to go out of their way to be helpful. Good luck Reading and Swansea and others.
So if we are to have new owners they will themselves have a tough job to sort through all that lot.  It will take time and patience from them, and especially from us.  
We can help in the short term - buy home match tickets even if you’re not intending to go to the match, buy a new season ticket if you can afford to lose the money; help Wayne develop a siege mentality - us v them; support the players on the pitch, make them feel loved and wanted; pressure the EFL at the appropriate moments; pray to whomsoever your God may be for a bit of luck; hope that ‘the emergence of a financially sustainable picture’ means what it suggests and makes us attractive to a buyer; avoid the rumour mills on Tweeter and the rest (they’re really not good for your health)
We could do with Wayne staying, for this season at least.  His name will help to make us more attractive around the world; we are lucky that the transfer window is 14 weeks away; we will probably need the players to be flexible about their pay; and above all we will need a good Administrator, preferably one that will help manage the EFL, the PFA and generate interest from buyers.
Buckle up for the ride.  It might get rough.

I was really annoyed last night when the news broke. I was close to posting something about Mel that would have restulted in a warning. 
However this morning I'm more calmer. I'm getting too old, I've lost interest in football over the last couple of years and starting to emotionally detach myself. I'm losing the love for the game in general. 
The Premier League is ruining football with the money. Grass roots kids football is political with coaches & parents thinking its the champions league final when they don't even keep scores at that age. Then the farce that is Mel Morris' time in charge. 
I feel sorry for the people who rely on the club for a living. I feel sorry for all the die hards who its more than a club. I feel sorry for all the kids that support us who won't have witnessed any good times & who's interest in football might be lost. 
Football really isnt that fun anymore 

Won't commit to the ongoing costs of the club, but some want us to take taxpayers money. 
The EFL got this one right. It's not our money. 

One possible silver light could be that if there’s a buyer lined up, they could complete the purchase fairly quickly and we might, might hold onto some of our youngsters to help the rebuild.
Straws…Clutching…At

I think tonight encapsulated all of the concerns surrounding Rooney and the team.
It would be easy to be very critical after such a flat and disappointing performance, but it was only weeks ago that people were claiming that Jagielka was the signing of the summer and there were green shoots appearing.
For me, we have to see how results and performances trend over the next 10-15 games. If the quality of performance is similar to tonight’s, that will be beyond concerning.
What worries me is that we haven’t played anyone particularly good yet, but we are still showing major frailties and finding ways to implode.
If Birmingham were a quality side, tonight wouldn’t be much of a concern. But to be honest, it was a game where quality was extremely sparse.
The difference between the two sides was that Birmingham were well drilled, organised, and set up with a good tactical plan to exploit our weaknesses.
You can understand why we’ve only won 1 in 6.

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No i don't know the guy,but i have seen him emblazoned all over the back pages when he signed Lampard / Rooney but when the going gets tough he makes the various supporters groups sign a NDA and has the audacity to say if fans start booing him he could walk away.That tells me all i need to know about the guy.

From when I started going in 1966 up until 2019/20 season I proberbly missed 10 homes games if that, Travelled the Country far and wide, Froze half to death at Carlisle at a night match, Been served food that pigs woould turn down (a hot pork pie in Rotherham ?)Hearded on trains and treated like animals by the OB (which was a fare Cop)as we did the same to them, Queued up at silly o'clock for cup tickets many hours before the ticket office opened, Begged, Borrowed and sometimes stole money to watch Derby, Thought I was a dead un at the FA Cup semi at Hillsboro when United stormed across the pitch, Had bus windows smashed in when seated, Been clumped and clumped others who wanted it...more and much more.
BUT, There was a feeling of great pride and euforia following this club, Through Brian Clough leaving, To Dave McKay entering, The night Charlie George suffered his injury, The dark very dark days in the early 80s, Leeds and Chelsea trashing the Ossie end stands seats, Mike Waterson saying we have our own "Lunatic Fringe", Being relegated and being at Norwich singing we'll be back, The nights at the BBG in European football, A Juventus fan having his checked flag burnt when draped over the Ley stand, Alan Hinton missing that penalty, A cabbage patch of a pitch, Derby fan kicking a Fulham player, Malcom McDonald crying wanting to replay the match, Ian Storey-Moore  paraded on the pitch as our new player only for him to sign for United, Franny Lee and Norman Hunter sent off for the battle of the BBG, Trevor Christie scores from the spot when given a ghost penalty for us to be promoted...all in the 60s 70s and 80s...more and much more.
Derby move to PP everyone has a seat, We can all see the game, Sky TV arrive...football has changed but I didn't see it, Slowly prices would increase at the gates, More and more TV games are being shown on TV, Kick off times are changing, Playing on a Thursday now, We have 24-7 football, A £100million player, Billionaire foreign owners, Countrys owning football teams(PSG/Man City)FIFA/EUFA corrupt organisations(allways have been)The top players are treated like Hollywood film stars, MOTD they talk more than they show the games, Ex players explaining how the game is played...the same game i've just watched, Refs miked up, God damn awfull refs, VAR...big toes being caught offside, Games lasting over 100mins, Players caught by a gentle breeze and poleaxed then faking injury...more and much more.
Please don't blame us "old uns" for not undstanding modern techknowledgy, We all know the wheel has been invented, We most likely know someone who can sort out our problems(I do)but as things change in football things change for the supporter, There's more things to look forward to, This last 18 months and struggling to see family and friends, I found that football is NOT what I used to live for, There is another world out there it's called life...And there's more, Much, Much more.
COYRs ☺️

Shame Festy’s not quite fit. Would have had Lowe on toast!

Shame Festy’s not quite fit. Would have had Lowe on toast!

Apologies I hadn't even looked at the dates, there is 4 games coming up all on Sky which is a positive. I'll look at getting a ticket for both the Stoke and Sheff U games.

EFL Twitter confirming accounts filed and now under review. About as much as we were expecting I guess…

Live footage of our accountant going through the numbers: 

David tonight

I think we need to get answers to every point on this, including the details behind each one. Why are we the only club in the entire football league default in payments to the HMRC. Do regulation 16.2, 16.3 and P&S non-submission of audited accounts really relate to purely amortisation or is there more to it? 

This is as of this morning. 

I myself remember sharing a rather delicious bottle of Beaujolais with Mel as I gave the green light to spending £3 million on Nick Blackman.
Indeed, I am to blame.

Was Fozzy not playing him on?

Was Fozzy not playing him on?

I think the point is (my view of it ) is that if he had accepted the reduced wages it would have been under a completely new contract i.e. he still would have had his original contract terminated (been sacked) but reemployed on a new contract with reduced wages. Basically the club still finding him guilty of gross misconduct but accepting they want him to remain employed with the club, albeit his worth to them is much much less.