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I could re-write that article saying CK is coming over to further demonstrate his commitment to buying the club and to see what he can do to help speed up the process. Nothing factual would have changed but it wouldn't get so much reaction.
As for him being shocked by what we owe, he had paid his money and would have known the financial situation weeks ago. The only person who is "shocked" (mock outrage) is the "journalist" (hack) who wrote the story. 

But he didnt sell the club did he Pete? He ran up significant losses, fell out with the EFL, put our club on the line, ducked over a number of small businesses, and left us with most likely third division football for (at least) a season. 

There are a lot of fans who are not turning up who might wish to be ‘busting a gut’ too. However, COVID has not been fair to the old - and we do have I would suggest a quite old fan demographic - nor has it been kind to many in terms of income. I think it’s a bit crass to call out fans who in the past have done their bit, but for now have good reason for not being able to attend.

This is his 9th season with us. He's lost 2 of those seasons through serious injuries and yet has fought back to be a generally reliable squad member. If anyone has given this club value over the years, he has. 
Our support has been outstanding this season, but some of our fans, sadly, are still brainless twits. 

Roos and Byrne looked shaky for 15 mins then were terrific.
Forsyth did his job well tonight and the whole team never stopped battling.
Sad to see Festy injured. 
 
Thought CKR was poor off the bench. Awful touch, very little effort. Would rather see a youngster given a go.
But overall, wow! Sensational 

Hi
Bournemouth supporter here and congratulations on the win yesterday. Should have been a draw but that's not what I came on here for.
In 2008-09 we were on zero points after 19 games - having started on -17. We were also under a transfer embargo, were struggling to pay players and had a  team with several on-league and out-of-contract recruits. For us the rest is History as Eddie Howe stepped up from youth team coach on 1st  January, lost his first 2 games but we stayed up on 46 points. 
OK! OK! I know it was League 2, and you don't want a Bournemouth history lesson. My point simply is - it can be done. Your home support may just help -it was pretty impressive yesterday.
Hope you manage it.
Good luck.

I like playing out from the back but not a fan of a CH taking the goal kick to the keeper - and it doesn’t matter who the keeper is.  My principal is never pass the ball back to the keeper between the posts in case of a mistake.  If it’s the goal kick your open to a mistake like yesterday, if it’s a normal back pass the ball could bobble, roll under the keepers foot, etc and lead to a goal.  I’d much prefer the keep takes the kick out wide to a defender.  There’s less chance of a goal if you lose possession and the keeper is in the right position.

Ahead of Jesus? Must be some player.

Considering for many years Rooney was mocked how he came across in interviews (and to some extent, still is to this day with the “errmm” comments), I’ve been nothing but impressed with his manner, positivity and the way in which he has conducted himself as our manager in interviews.
We are now seeing the benefit from all the years of experience, he has had handling the media spotlight; so much so, he’s starting to shine with his honesty, integrity and determination to our cause. The jury may still be out for some on his managerial credentials to turn around our fortunes, but he his beyond reproach on his leadership in handling the current situation we are in.
Like you @LeedsCityRam I so hope he’s here and given a decent chance of managing without his hands tied. Some say Cocu had bad luck and never got a fair chance. Rooney has had an even worse stacked deck.
For all his off field antics the media love to trip him up on, as a manager he’s maturing immensely and I’m optimistic all this learning on the job, will be to our benefit next season. He’s no quitter for sure, let’s see if his winning mentality can get us somewhere on a reasonably level playing field to everyone else.
 

Not actually that concerned about either claim. Firstly, Wycombe's grievance should be aimed at the EFL as it was the timing of the points deduction that they are upset about...which was outside our control. Highly unlikely to even make court & suspect any new prospective new owner would tell them to do one. A promotion for them this season would also shut them up I suspect.
Middlesbrough would have real difficulty proving we directly cost them Premier League revenue but in the unlikely event it did make it to court, a new owner wouldnt be too alarmed given we could in turn sting both QPR & Villa for the same, especially as the claim would be more proximate (i.e. beaten in a playoff final rather than finishing 7th). There's little chance of us settling out of court with Boro therefore.
The biggest hurdle I believe for getting new ownership is coming to an agreement with HMRC & quickly.

Evening all

We've had a 20-minute conversation this afternoon with Derby's administrators Quantuma, which is out now as a podcast.

Chris spoke at length to Quantuma CEO Carl Jackson to get an update on Derby County's administration process and the quest to find new buyers for the club.
In their first non-club interview since Derby's -21 points deduction was confirmed, we discussed a number of key issues with the administrators, including how Derby's process has been compared to other companies they deal with (2:06), which interested party is furthest along in the takeover process (9:06), how likely it is that Derby may have to sell players in January (14:55), and how they feel about fans' fears of the club being liquidated (18:48).
There are a few nuggets in there (ie, Quantuma were contacted by a new potential bidder as recently as this morning) but some issues which clearly Carl Jackson can't get drawn on in detail.

Anyway - hope you find it interesting.
 

Cheers
Chris

How do we know when a moment goes in our favour though? 
Pearson scores and we get promoted. Seems like a good moment. Had he missed, and we had another year to build in the championship, would we have fairer better in the premier league the next season? Would we be building a statue to Billy now?
QPR beat us in the final, but they’ve been pretty mediocre ever since. 
Portsmouth win the FA Cup, seems like the best thing, but end up in the lower leagues. Leicester go into admin, seems like the end of the world, but a few years later they’re winning the prem. draw a long enough timeline and you can trace any good or bad event back to any other good or bad event. 
our time will come, maybe in 5 years, maybe in 50 years. But everything that happened will have happened to get us to that point. Right now we’re in a bad place, so it seems that every event leading uk to this has been bad, and it’s hard to see past that. But when we’re back in a good place, the same events will have had a good conclusion. 
to put it another way:
“it’ll all be alright in the end… and if it’s not alright, it’s not the end”
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode 

I actually think we had one at the end of last season when Waghorn stepped up and helped us stay in the Championship.
Without that, we could be in the mess we are in now, but a whole division lower.

Martin getting unfairly sent off against Burnley. 
That one act not only ruled out a perfectly good Hendricks goal, and gifted Burnley a 6 point swing in our race for second. It also stopped Martin playing in the next game, which we also lost. Suddenly we’re 9 points further behind Burnley than we should’ve been, with no way back from there. 

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

I disagree with this in a way.
I think we've needed a Director of Football these last 6 years, someone who will remain in post no matter what, and can plan recruitment accordingly, in line with the vision the owner has set out.
Mel's 'Derby Way' was an admirable ambition, yet he never put in place the structure to achieve it, I suspect his ego overtook him and he thought he could fulfill the role himself.
The position we've been in, and the position we're going to find ourselves in when the dust settles, are naturally going to lead to a high level of manager churn.
Hire a manager and he does well, they'll be plucked away by the bigger boys, hire one who turns out to be a bad fit and we will sack them.
In Mel's time, we've been through Mac, Clement, Wassall, Pearson, Powell , Mac again, Rowett, Lampard, Cocu and Rooney.
All managers who set up and manage differently to their predecessor, and want different types of players in their squad.
All we needed in that time was consistency of management styles, so the next man could hit the ground running from day one, and not have to tear apart and rebuild the squad.
That's where a director of football may have a difference.
 
 

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.

Or if Mel had closed a deal to sell the club in January 2020, wiping out our FFP problems and any risk of liquidity problems due to COVID. 
You can add Hughes and bryson injuries in first game of 2015/16 and we bought Johnson and Butterfield instead at huge cost. neither of them as good as the players they were replacing.
 
Or if Roos hadn't dropped the ball onto John McGinn's head. Or maybe if Lampard hadn't played Mount againt Accrington, his injury in that game  started a bad run of form killing off our chances of automatic.
Oh well.

One of the clearest red card challenges I've ever seen. Not even given a penalty.

Sliding doors: Fozzy clears it. Or Bucko clears it. Or Keogh puts it anywhere else.........................................................................
Or sliding doors "no, i don't really want to come with you to see Derby against Fulham, i'm not really that fussed, I don't think i'm a football fan, perhaps I'll go to Tandy and get myself some stuff for a project"

It’s been an interesting week.  Our club has had a few sliding doors moments in the past (Sir Brian leaving, Charlie George’s shoulder, Zamora, etc) but looking back how important were the injuries to John Eustace and Chris Martin in 2014/15?  Without those we would arguably have achieved automatic promotion, Mel would have bought a PL team, no FFP issues even if we’d have come down.
Even Thorne’s injury against Ipswich on the last day of the following season.  Again, without that the big spending may have paid off.
Instead we’re staring at League 1 - which could turn out to be a good thing in the long run although it might not feel like it now.
Life’s all about fine margins.  In years to come we’ll have sliding doors moments that go in our favour.