Mimester

Cetrainly better than if he pulls you off.....

The thing with pitch invasions are, clubs remind fans not to enter the pitch, it’s a criminal offence, then they use images with fans on the pitch as promotional material. Here’s Bournemouth using one to sell season tickets.
They are either serious about clamping down on it, or not.
 

Woke up, checked Twitter, cried.

Just to confirm some genius hasn't hacked Chris' Twitter to pull a cruel (but clever) prank on us all ... Mrs Kirchner has also had her say.
 
 
 
Unless she was hacked too ......

Just landed in Vegas to this news….. it’s 4pm in the afternoon here and 40 degrees ? ☀️…. Time for a cold beer and raise a glass to the new gaffer ?? ? 

Come on you freckin' Rams ? 
Happy days are here again 

Well, that will be some lovely news for the majority of Derby fans to wake up to tomorrow. ?

So exciting, what time do we think the extension will be announced?
I'm going for 5pm.

I always have a sinking feeling when I see you have quoted me in notifications knowing the tone is about to be lowered and unlike the rest of this admin process you never let me down ??

Apart from the £100 million fluidity proofed to Quantuma and the EFL you mean? FWIW, Brentford owner Matthew Benham set out with a fraction of that figure, but it clearly did not preclude success. A well run club does not need the likes of Ashley and his billions to prosper.

Sadly B4 Mel doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He’s had plenty of chances to do the right thing but still continues to be a Bamford!
I for one look forward to the day his name is never uttered again! 
 
a man we believed in and trusted has truly screwed us over and for what?! 
 
I despise that man with everything 
 

Well mel if you are reading this 30k at pp demanding to give ground back and that is what you should do now give keys to kircher and let the club to be reborn as derby county no matter if you dont like somebody in most work places you still have to work with them. And to me this the same you know Rooney is right for for this club he done his best with hands tied behind his back. This also with kircher you may not like him but he wants to do what best for this club. Just do one last thing do the right thing and see the club kircher have a brighter future.
But I am asking you to leave with some honour and respect for the derby fans that has support this great club derby county since 1884 and none of this to end.
By B4

Do we know he was drinking alcohol? Do we know re time? Do we know how long he was there? Do we know if it was an attempt to get to know Byrne/Laurence and perhaps others so they may sign a contract? Do we know he was getting backslaps or perhaps in need of distraction after a totally rubbish day? Do we know if others there such as local businessmen who may help (they're not all old)?
He seems to be the only guy willing to save us so lets round on him shall we?

I've not really seen anyone mention this yet but what the bloody hell have the administrators been doing throughout this process?
There seems to have been 2 major issues throughout this process and they seem to have ignored both of them.
Why on earth would you identify someone as the preferred bidder without having an agreement for the most important part of the transaction?
From the outside they've only really done one thing at any great speed during the whole process, and that was letting the EFL bend us over.

Its going to be a fraught couple of days. Went to bed feeling sick to my stomach about this, woke up feeling same. Lets keep other's spirits up and anyone struggling speak up

His business model completely ditched the academy, hired woeful managers on long contracts (Pardew), and despite having money, his net spend was little to none. Kirchner seems like he has more of an actual long term plan for running a football team, Ashley is a ruthless opportunist, he could have bought us months ago should he have chosen to, not the sort of owner we should be welcoming, in my opinion. 

I’m looking forward to the next week or so as we’ll either be sorted and these idiots can crawl back under their stones, or we’ll be liquidated and I’ll never look at a football forum again. Either way, I can’t wait to not have to continue to endure their pathetic crusade to kill DCFC. 

Stay classy, QPR
Prize bankers!

Fans have done us proud.
Manager and staff have done us proud.
Players have done us proud.
We are Derby we will have a great season next year..back in the Championship the year after..

Ok so after reading the statement tonight I went away and gathered my thoughts. I think how I feel about this is quite different to others, but I hope people can read it and understand where I’m coming from. I have no positive conclusions, and I get some people aren’t really up for something like this so if it’s you then feel free to ignore this post and read on. It’s going to be long, unapologetically ponderous and contain atleast one swear word! Also I’ll be the first to admit, what I think is going on has swung wildly throughout this thread, so I’m not saying I’m 100% correct.
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My main point I want to get over here, is that I’m very concerned that Derby (anything connected to the club or the community) has found itself in the middle of a pissing contest between a lot of rich men. We were warned about this happening way back at the start of administration, by Mel in his interview with Ed Dawes and I think by Q early on too. That a lot of interest is expressed by people and you’ve got to shift through the chancers essentially. The one thing that seems weird to say at the minute is that Derby County is a huge club, and there are people out there trying to snatch us on the cheap and are trying to upset the process to put themselves in pole position without having the best offer.
Now let’s look at the culprits who’ve been involved:
Mel Morris- Now Mel’s the biggest and most important one, but there are key differences here to everyone else involved. One is that Mel has been involved in the pissing contest for *years* now with the EFL, but also he’s upfront his involvement. Many won’t like this, but I do think Mel is somewhat sceptical by some of those in the bidding process and whether they are right for the club and so are the admins. I’ll be clear, im not ‘pro-Mel’ and hope my past posts would be enough to prove that! He’s the one who’s got us in the mess and this is all his doing, but I think hes aware of that fact and is trying to do the right deal with the right person. It’s not nice for us, but I can’t see how Mel’s current position works in any other way? I have said this repeatedly but Mel loses a lot more than just money if no deal is made, but if it goes to the wrong person he also loses out. Him and the admins need the right deal here which isn’t easy.
Chris Kirchner- He may be out of the race and shouting from the sidelines but he’s been a problem for a long time. First he went about cooing Rooney but then was rattling off on Twitter until recently. He tried to be clever and gain an advantage, it didn’t work and went after the administrators. It didn’t help anything. Essentially I think he showed himself up and we became wary.
The Binnies- Bit more of an interesting on this I think, but it’s a similar pattern, came out guns blazing about their bid, all goes quiet and then blame the administrators. But I think the important thing with The Binnies, Kirchner and Ashley is that the see a club with top facilities, the potential to grow and everything else and want it on the cheap. When they don’t have a strong enough plan in how to achieve that potential then they fall short in the eyes of the admins and Morris.
Mike Ashley - The most well known and currently the one trying to pull everything in his favour. No care for anything else, he’s interested in Derby the asset and not the club. Everyone is reluctant to deal with him but if all else fails he will still be there willing to pay the lowest price possible. 
Steve Gibson and Couhig- This is old ground we don’t really want to get into, but they caused a major blockage in this and caused damage to the club. Why? Because they could.
There are more minor players involved too, ‘the itk game’ on social media of people putting confusing and unhelpful info out there which is slanted to agenda which is usually ‘Mel is bad’. Which I get, fully, but to what end is that helpful to the position the club is actually in? Journalists are doing it now too and it’s frankly confirmation bias for clicks. They are fuelling the fire to put everything in place to muddy the process, leaving it open to MA. Also don’t forget the role the EFL have had for years in this, but I think that’s down to just being useless more than anything 
Whilst everyone is trying to sort everything to their own means who’s left in the middle? The fans, the players, the management have taken hthe brunt of it. Arguably Q too, but frankly it’s their job to take it somewhat (All I’ll say about them is I think they got done over a bit when taking the job, but they have not helped themselves throughout this whole process). We are seeing the face of modern football for what it is, a contest played out on Twitter, in meeting rooms and through the press, between men for which have no passion for what football is.
Whats next? As I said at the start, there is no positive here. As fans we need to accept relegation and a likely points deduction but see the bigger picture. If you want to protest anything on Saturday then let it be about what these people have resorted this football club to. Expose the games they have played and the effects on the community around Derby County. I still think we will have a club at the end of this, but it is up to us to define what Derby County is and not anyone who takes us over.
Finally I didn’t include Appleby, that tweet came through just as I started writing this so decided to exclude him from my thinking. BUT FWIW his group was the one who haven’t really been involved so they don’t really fit in with what I’m saying!
Apologies for a long read, I’ve tried to spell/grammar check but if something doesn’t make sense I’ll try and clarify!

That's a boring Tuesday night at home in Nottingham.

Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks let’s make sure as a fanbase we maintain our dignity. Along with both the playing and non-playing staff the unity in face of adversity has been the standout example to those bickering their way through this administration circus.???

You know I love ya, but that's palpably untrue.
Morris has won Gold, Silver and Bronze in the club killing stakes, the others are just pacemakers.

The Clubs have paid the players wages.  The Prem parachute payments have always been a problem regarding the chance to go up.  The owners are all as mad as each other.  My club, Coventry City had years of overspend even in the Premiership.  The fans are the victims.  I'm not convinced this Premier League is worth the risk for those who want to get there anyway.  The Rams, Coventry City- down to League 2 , Bolton, Wigan, Sheffield, Bristol City, Middlesborough, Portsmouth, Cardiff, Swansea, Charlton,  Sunderland, Ipswich.  Jeez, i never realised just how precarious the league structure is.  
The EFL has a lot to answer for.