Tyler Durden

Can see the rest of this transfer window ending up as another nightclub ten to two pull 

His teeth are whiter than white 

8 hours ago, BaianoPOTY98 said:

Fair play to you for turning out watching Derby playing this standard of football week in week out where we cant even manage a shot on goal for 90 minutes (you guys with the statistics I’d be interested to know how many games this season that’s happened) in the poorest standard Div 1 probably ever 

Prior to us getting relegated from the Championship how many League 1 games did you watch?

You appear to know a great deal about the League that's all.

1 minute ago, oodledoodle said:

Yes, it's the fans serving up awful football. We should be ashamed.

I made the point about ingrained malcontents

But you go off with your straw man argument.

2 hours ago, Red_Dawn said:

Who was the muppet on here who gave me sh*t for calling out Kirchner as the fraud he was?

Own up, come on. 

Read the Warne out threads.

There's plenty of choices on there. 

U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton added: “This defendant flaunted his apparent wealth while allegedly diverting millions from company coffers into his private bank account. Slync investors and employees are understandably outraged, and we sympathize. We look forward to holding Mr. Kirchner accountable in federal court.”

37 minutes ago, derbydaz22 said:

Very different if Warne had us playing like West Ham in the top 7 of the Prem I don’t think anyone would be complaining.

That's the issue though isn't it.

I genuinely believe there would be fans whom would find something to moan at this scenario.

Which is the current problem in a nutshell. 

Not Warne. 

I genuinely think Warne is the focal point of the angst of a number of supporters who still have not come to terms with the fact we have been a League 1 club for 2 consecutive seasons and find it hard to accept this. 

Our league attendances only reinforce this frustration that we are too good for this League - it's like a certain section of fans are still in denial and vent their spleen at Warne for our current ongoing league position as they can't blame or have got tired of blaming Mel Morris so move onto the next scapegoat. 

I wonder what other fans think of us if they came on this forum and saw some of the post match comments given we could have gone top with the right result last night, it's truly bizarre. 

1 minute ago, Returning ram said:

We have spent 300k, that's a pot of money for transfers isn't it ? 

We're bordering on semantics or weasel words now.

I remember Warne quite clearly saying that he had a budget to juggle and he had to decide whether to use it on on a transfer fee or instead use it across a number of players all on loans or frees.

Not that I'm blaming Warne the message given out was deliberately ambiguous.

2 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:

I assume it's putting money into a specific column on an accounting sheet. One column is allowed by the EFL, the other is not. I was personally hoping to be past all this by now. But if it helps us move forward then let's do it. This will have all been agreed by the league, so let's enjoy it.

It's coming up with some Byzantine plan to effectively spend 300k on a player regardless of how the outlay is made. Same result loan fee or permanent transfer. 300k. 

It also irks me slightly that the talk in the summer was that we had a pot of money for transfers but this pot is none existent as it has a dependency on players being sold. 

Pleased that we've signed the lad but the structure of the deal leaves more questions than answers about our finances yet again....

52 minutes ago, S6 boy said:

Draws are not great in this league, but an away draw at a solid team is not an issue if it's sandwiched between victories. Let's finish off January with a couple of wins and we'll be in a great position. 

Dread what the reaction would have been on here if we'd lost yesterday's game....

2 hours ago, JfR said:

Toney gets the equalising goal on his first game back from the ban
What were the odds of that?

Dunno but don't think he would have been having a bet on it 

It's interesting how over the course of the season the moaning has evolved from not being in the playoffs to not being in the Top 2.

Shows that someone somewhere is doing something right. 

You wonder if he would still have been sacked for calling the players out in public if he'd obtained 6 wins from his matches in charge rather than 3 draws and 3 defeats 

1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

So is the implication that they are declaring bankruptcy as a way to avoid paying up on this legal liability?

 

Birmingham councli were aware of this potential huge liability ten years ago when it all surfaced and made no provision in their accounts on a year by year basis since then in case they would have to pay out.

It's caught up with them now, I assume they were hoping that they would win the case but sadly we're either misinformed or just deluded. 

On 14/01/2024 at 20:29, Cisse said:

I just learned that Birmingham, the town has gone bankrupt. I first visited England and Birmingham in 2007 and I have visited there almost yearly since. I have seen the town taking a turn to the worse but it was quite a shock to learn this news. 

I also found out that a lot of cities are doing really poorly for example Scarborough. Without going too much in politics so that the moderators don't have to close the thread could you folks enlighten me a little on this subject. Thanks.

In Birminghams case it's possible after they had to shell out over a billion pounds to female council workers whom historically were unfairly underpaid relative to their male counterparts. 

As Birmingham council made no provision for this huge compensation claim which ultimately was their own fault then this effectively left them borassic. 

5 hours ago, Derbylad01 said:

EMR are running a football special service to Lincoln, 12.14 out, 18.20 return. Cost £20 and its direct

Did they tell you that there won't be any seats on either of the two carriages 

From the BBC Sports website about Reading:-

One MP, Damian Green, is a Reading fan and was at Saturday's game against Port Vale which was abandoned after fans invaded the pitch to protest against owner Dai Yongge. 

"The word on the street is that he now doesn't want to sell and is just asset stripping and is doing it quite visibly with players," Green said.

"He is willing to sell any player of any value for what little he can get and wants to be left with the training ground as a piece of property having folded the club. 

Surely there's some half decent players still left at Reading we can get for a nominal fee?

6 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

You didn't, but you 'just hopped in' to have a little dig at what you perceived to be excessive negativity, at least that's what I took from your post.

I think you knew what you were doing, which was sniping at other members for what you perceived to be an overly negative outlook.

I don't believe your post added any more value than some of the more 'extreme' criticisms posted in this thread.  

The reality of the situation was I had to skim read back 2 pages to find anything remotely positive about the result tonight.

Am sure Warne is well aware of our deficiencies and this isn't recent news for him, that's for the training ground or transfer market.

Why not just enjoy the result and the fact that we're effectively joint second tonight.

Each to their own I guess 

Just now, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

It's absolutely fair to criticise elements of that performance and that is what people are doing.

Winning the match doesn't alter the fact that significant chunks of that second half were desperately poor and we should expect better from the players and manager.

Where did I say it's not fair to post constructive criticism 

Just hopped on here and would have been mistaken for thinking we lost the game tonight looking over some of the comments....

58 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Forest will still stay up even with a 10-point deduction as they have a decent PL manager now.

And the bottom three are crap.

If he's that good why is he at Forest

8 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

The cheeky Chesterfield lads named their "firm" the CLF Chesterfield Lunatic Fringe, Now I wonder where they got that idea from 🤷‍♂️

This is a tale from one who was there...not me, A Derby group headed for Chelsea...game postponed so they headed for Barnet Vs Ilkeston, Unfortunately the day was over before it started, Some Derby lads decided to have a go at some Barnet fans, Unfortunately either close by or with the fans were some professional wrestlers...Barnet 1 Derby 0 😁

 

I thought flares were out of fashion in the 80s

Make the Reading players practice with the tennis balls for the next month