Eddie

Scrave and flange all ready for tomorrow.

At one time, in the 1970's, they tried to portray a 'nice' image by adopting a smiley badge.

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The dirties' badge has me puzzled. Is it a trilobite? Leeds Trilobite

We went into a spiral of financial meltdown, laughing-boy. Caused, in part, by idiots howling for a new manager time after time - on two occasions after fewer than 10 games. Each severance came with its own raft of huge payoffs, and each appointment brought with it a call for more players to suit the new manager's 'style'. Eventually, the purse-strings snapped, and the fan running the show and so eager to please everyone walked away - not broke, but broken to the tune of around a quarter of a billion.

It wouldn't be courtesy of Darren Ferguson or anyone else - it would be our fault entirely by not being able to extract at least a draw out of Carlisle United. Using your Christmas gift analogy, it would be the equivalent of you opening the wrapper of your gift upside-down in your haste, and you watch in horror at the bottle of Macallan 25 year old whisky falls out of the bottle bag and smashes on the floor.

I don't disagree - but if we go up, it would be churlish to deny him the opportunity to manage the club in a higher league, because the alternative is always somebody who is either untried or someone who has failed elsewhere. There are some on here who would be prepared - nay, willing - to sack him now (or after Saturday, irrespective of the result against Carlisle). The problem with that is threefold: Compensation required to pay off Warne and the rest of his staff Compensation required to pay off the club whose current manager we subsequently poach The 'new' manager finding that his budget for the next transfer window is missing the amounts paid out due to 1. and 2. above.

I'm only surprised he's not been called out on the weather.

Aren't you just assuming that he is a 'one-trick pony' based upon two relegations with Rotherham, a side operating on a far lower budget compared to Derby? Perhaps, if he is able to bring a little more quality into the club, he (and we) will flourish? Warne has certainly proved that, on very limited resources, he is able to spot players who will improve the side (this is clearly obvious with respect to how the team have performed recently). I accept that it's hardly been rivetingly exciting sometimes, but there have been some pretty decent performances.

Longer than he got - a lot longer. The way he was sacked by Sam Rush was nothing short of disgusting, and still leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Clough had basically kept Derby afloat for about 4 years, balancing the books and operating on a shoestring budget (a string which grew shorter each year) thanks to the almost complete absence of any meaningful investment by GSE, and he left Derby in a far more secure position than when he first took over. The fact that Steve McClaren then took over the reins and took the team forward on the pitch only goes so far in justifying Clough's sacking - and hindsight being 20:20, it's equally arguable that the whole financial mess which culminated in Administration and subsequent relegation would never had happened if Clough had not had his legs sawn from under him following the 1:0 defeat at the City Ground.

Some of them aren't exactly hiding in the bushes are they?

Even if we have a bad start, I think it most unlikely that we will see a knee-jerk reaction. There simply isn't the funds available to pay off all Warne's staff and pay compensation to another club whose manager we poach.

I'm inclined to agree.

I've really enjoyed this season, and wouldn't mind if it was extended for a few more weeks. /runs

The ten (10, TEN) witnesses who died was lucky though, wasn't it? No smoke without (bakery) fire, or so they say.