Reggie Greenwood

Because you were being personally abusive in your reply to me I would imagine. It’s the Mods doing their work.
No it isn’t like me to post unsubstantiated comments, whatever you choose to believe. I have no problem admitting that l misremembered something, I have a problem with your unnecessary language. I said ‘ sorry I couldn’t remember, try Google’ or words to that effect, if you find that patronising well I do apologise.
l posted a quote from Wiki above. Make of it what you want.

He made himself unable to fulfil his contract, should have worn his seatbelt! We won the employment tribunal. 

I also heard Simon Jordan and Trevor Sinclair debating it earlier on. Simon Jordan was spot on and Trevor Sinclair sounded like a right wally (which all makes sense now that he’s been charged with drunk driving before).
I hope Derby take this through the ‘real’ legal system and not the EFL’s bent system.
Derby are a business at the end of the day and Keogh couldn’t do his job after making a mistake off his own back. He should live with the consequences of that. As someone else posted, imagine if they killed somebody that night. I bet he wouldn’t be getting all of the compensation if that was the case.
There were not guarantees for Derby that he would ever play again yet they offered to keep him on a reduced contract until he was fit, that is extremely fair in my eyes.
Keogh going for the whole value of his contract also doesn’t sit right with me. I despise the guy now and everything he ever did in a Derby shirt is undone. 
 

I think even Keogh must really be aware that he was in part responsible for his situation ie badly injured and unable to do his work. Call it reckless or negligent or stupidity, there would for 99.9% of the working population been at least some consequences to his actions.
 
Instead he actually profits from it. Contract paid ion full plus additional earnings from 2 other clubs.
 
I loved Keogh as a player and Captain but this incident is beyond belief.

Very considered post 

I think people tend to go for extreme views regarding Mel Morris and his tenure. There have obviously been mistakes made, there seemed to be a lot of meddling, frequent sackings etc which I wasn’t a fan of. Now we have this EFL fiasco, although whoever is in charge of finances, CEO? Or financial director should be scrutinised also.  On the other hand, fine margins, had we gone up against Villa or not crumbled in seasons before we could be a Premier League club now. If we had beaten QPR, Morris could have enjoyed the financial clout of Prem football. He backed his managers in transfers too. How many chairman don’t? If recruitment hasn’t been up to scratch, it can’t be all on Morris, has to be recruitment team or managers who need to shoulder the blame also. He’s also invested heavily in the academy, we are producing good young players now, surely more than a decade ago for example. 
I can’t agree he’s been a disaster for Derby, neither has his tenure been a resounding success. 

Aside from all this, hope his health improves 
 

My suspicion is that in a year or so, Wolves fans will be fed up that they have reached their glass ceiling and moaning that their owners can’t or won’t take them further. If you asked me to name the most boring team in the Premier League they would be up there.
Leicester have smashed through their glass ceiling and fair play to them for that. They are a model club though, there’s probably 85 teams in the EFL and Premier League who wish they were run so well. And they relied on breaking the rules to get out this league. 

So by decent owners you actually meant cheats?

I take it you are aware that both of your examples just basically laughed at the EFL rules on their way up to the Premier League?

Are you sure? That sounds a bit positive for you. Why not the maximum 21?

So-called?
Why is it necessary to question his love for the club that he's supported all his life and poured millions into?
I was talking with @Eatonram the other day about how the fans turned on Sam Longson (a Derby fan who had massive success as Chairman) and Lionel Pickering (a Derby fan who had good success as chairman too).

Now inevitably when things aren't going well,  it's Mel's turn.

I like the guy and I have no doubt whatsoever he wants the best for the club.

He's messed up (although as @thelovebelowsaid, most fans would have taken Cocu - me included, so I'm not critical of that), but I think his mistakes are more likely because of his love to see the club succeed  rather than because he's a fake fan.

IOW, he's running the club on emotions rather than using his obvious business nous.

Just an opinion of course and maybe he's a fake fan who likes to throw his hard-earned money away for some reason unbeknown to anybody.

Love it when people’s argument for doing things differently is not signing poor players.
Imagine being Mel, like actually being Mel and when someone comes to you and says we think this player will be amazing for Derby but it’s £6m you’re going to have to pay out your own pocket for them. Ignore his net worth as a lot of that is tied up money he doesn’t have access to. It’s real cash and will impact him greatly.
He must have had some ridiculously hard calls to make and it was all to take Derby to the next level and please us fans. I will never slate him because I’m fairly certain if I had the money he did I’d have made a lot more mistakes along the way.
If he won at Wembley against QPR or Villa then he is a hero to everyone, simple as that. 

Quality player oozed class and scored a perfectly legitimate goal in the FA Cup semi final v Manure. Pity no VAR then 

Because Mel has attempted to make Derby County successful at a time when FFP/P&S and parachute payments combine to make it incredibly difficult to achieve promotion. The reality of this division means that it drains the finances of ambitious clubs who get stuck in it.
Mel selected a strategy that he thought would work and went for it. I, and others,  have always been critical of that strategy, but that neither means I was right nor Mel was wrong. My ideas were never tested and Mels were within a whisker of working.
The problem now is that too many seasons in this division have drained Mel and the club and our attempts to overcome the ridiculous handicap of FFP have caught up with us, as they would have with Norwich, Leeds, Leicester, Watford and Wolves if they hadn't been promoted.
Let's not be too hard on Mel. He tried, he failed and now walks away 10s or maybe 100s of millions poorer. I believe that the same would have happened with any other owner had they failed to get promoted...and promotion requires lots of luck or parachute payments.

Everything is easy in hindsight. I’m sure every decision that has been made has been made with the best of intentions and the best interests of the club. It would be hard to conclude that many of those decisions have not turned out to be the best, but it’s easy to be wise after the event.
A lot of things that have gone wrong are also ‘sporting’ issues, which I refuse to blame the owner for. Backing your manager isn’t a crime. Bringing in managers with decent CVs and footballing pedigree isn’t a crime. There are plenty of examples of teams who underperform out there and it is rarely the owner’s fault. That’s the nature of football I’m afraid. Sometimes other teams are better than you. It happens.
I think a lot of negative things have happened all at once which has led to a lot of conflating of issues and 2+2 is equaling 5 in a lot of cases. But I’m not angry (I’m not even faux angry) - more than anything I’m just sad that it’s turned out this way and sad for Mel as well. 

Please tell us what you would have done differently in his position.

The year arsenal won the league and we were the only team to do the double over them

13 May 1989, Arsenal 1 Derby County 2, Saunders 2.

LEAGUE DIV 3
 Heres for the younger gen z,  we have been there before , got the bruises and survived 
Chandler and Christie goal scored 
Under 4000 attendance 

4 May 1991, Derby 6 Southampton 2 (but already relegated).

I suppose being champions twice helps!

Not allowed to embed it but here's the vid:
https://youtu.be/wdFwl11WUAg
 
Off topic but because of the state of the pitch, this is another one for those complaining about Pride Park:
https://youtu.be/ITnFAqPmnTo
 

Was that the penalty spot game??

30 April 1977, Derby 4 Manchester City 0, Daly, Gemmill, Hector, Daniel.

The state of some of those Comments.