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3 hours ago, SillyBilly said:

Not really bothered whether some fans decide to go onto a piece of grass before or after a game of football. People are being blown up in Europe, some context is needed.

Won't somebody please think of the groundsman ??

I hope people go on, it's time for some sort of direct action, I don't know exactly what form that action should take but something, anything. Words and petitions are now meaningless.... Always like to remember The Housemartins' Flag Day at these times....

14 minutes ago, Carnero said:

I really don't know what some of these people think would be liquidated, perhaps they dont actually understand what it means. There's basically nothing to liquidate come the end of the season - only the player registrations of Bielik, Bird, Knight & Sibley (liquidation value £10-15m max).

No way would administrators turn down £28-30m offers without there being better offers already on the table.

A lot of bedwetting going on.

Precisely this.

24 minutes ago, Big Trav said:

Getting rid of The Binnies tells us there is higher bids on the table. Stop worrying

100% That was absolutely my first impression. Defining a preferred bidder = Defining those who are out of the running.

50 minutes ago, Ken Tram said:

It's not worth the time!

A very fair point, I still haven't finished it! ?

22 minutes ago, erathirea said:

What have you got against VI? A former lover or something?

That's why I should never try and be a smart Alec??

10 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

(iiii) Payment plan put forward to PB who says duck off

(iiiii) Q go back to their office and drawing board

(iiiiii) Meanwhile PBs are looking at where we're going to finish at the end of the season

(iiiiiii) Accountants for the PBs are now telling their employers that the new figures don't stack up

(iiiiiiii) DCFC meanwhile are 2 games to go and 3 points behind Reading after Peterboro and Barnsley are relegated

(iiiiiiiii) New offers are put forward again to Q as the trapdoor looms

(iiiiiiiiii) Q are now up poo creek as they left the paddles in the office

(iiiiiiiiiii) Reading win their next game, DCFC lose and are relegated

(iiiiiiiiiiii) Substantial lower bids are put in, Q buy a new drawing board

(iiiiiiiiiiii) Q finally have no alternative but to liquidate DCFC

(iiiiiiiiiiiii) New pheonix club is formed and accepted in the National league

(iiiiiiiiiiiiii) DCFC has a new owner, A consortium from DCFCfans message board

(iiiiiiiiiiiiiii) The new Chairman is B4ev6is, Who says DCFC as is good hands and will be all now looking forward to next having the 1st game all sell out....Come on Derby County!

 

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I saw this - Thought it might be a fine opportunity to spam the EFL, post multiple times as other clubs' fans, that sort of puerile nonsense. Easy little protest..... 

2 hours ago, hintonsboots said:

Still don't understand this gif, what are you saying?

Self policing is the only way - I assume most of them live in a corner of twitter where maybe they could be encouraged that it's a bad idea but I suspect that they, like most, will exist in an echo chamber among their cohorts. 

1 hour ago, Cook1988 said:

 

How blinkin wide is the line in that graphic?!? Is that to emphasise the data or what?

Allsop 7

Byrne 8

Forsyth 6

Davies 8

Cashin 9

Bird 7

Bielik 7

Knight 7

Ebosele 8

Lawrence 0

Plange 6

Sibley 8

Tom is an utter twonk.

1 hour ago, CBRammette said:

Listened to Colin Murray thing on 5 live. Its about 9 mins in bbc sounds. As expected update piece with no new news! Maguire on - said he heard Ashley in pole position, Binnies seemed to have gone bit quiet and Abbleby seemed to be having trouble pulling consortium together. Which is what any of us could have said and he obviously has no idea!!! No news but quite nice little summary with fans view from a lady called Jane

Yes Kieran, I can read twitter and forum pages as well!! haha.

6 hours ago, Addingham Ram said:

Looking at the Championship fixtures this weekend, I'd be very surprised if we are not comfortably the biggest gate.

 

And higher 'bums on seats' than 3 PL games.....

5 minutes ago, Ram@Lincoln said:

He had a couple of rows empty around him and two armed police stood at the entry to the directors box. Then above average numbers of police and stewards around the Derby fans, these then turned rather heavy handed after the match as they craved to manufacture the headline that we were up to no good.

That's surely not true!

2 hours ago, Chester40 said:

Controversial opinion but I laugh much more at Jimmy Carr than Stewart Lee.

I have watched Stewart a lot and find him simultaneously clever, amusing, thought-provoking and irritating smug and really tiresome.

Jimmy Carr is hit and miss but will give me a huge belly laugh that Stewart never does. Sometimes he will also subvert ideas but with a one-liner rather than 10minutes of repetition.  

As an eg he made a joke about scouts that was borderline incredibly offensive but I still felt it was just playing on the old riff that scout masters are 'dodgy', but by making himself the subject of the joke its clearly not true and he's exposing the myth. 

However,  he definitely crossed a line where I didn't laugh at all, with his jokes about rape. Its just not something I can laugh at. He joked about cancer and I can see there is a time you have to laugh at death,  there is a dark humour needed.  I think maybe the distinction is that we can laugh at good old fashioned bad luck,  but evil people really doing evil stuff not unless it's ancient history?

I don't know.... but I still think it's worth unpicking rather than just cancelling. 

I don't think it's controversial, I think you'd probably be in a large majority on this site! I should note that I'm a massive Stewart Lee fan, can do little wrong IMO so my opinions are likely to reflect this...

I've got time for Jimmy Carr, makes me laugh but I, like you, can recognise that he's overstepped the mark. Even his friend David Baddiel has pulled him on it. That's the thing that, in these binary times, people struggle with - There are lines between what is funny and what's offensive, they're are blurred, subject to interpretation, sometimes difficult to articulate but they are there.

I entirely agree that things are worth discussing rather than 'cancelling' but 'cancel culture' and 'wokism' are inventions of the right. I don't believe there is some huge groundswell of demand that Jimmy Carr is 'cancelled', more an outrage at his joke. He, like everyone else that chooses to offend, has it within his wherewithal to close the issue by admitting he got it wrong, not doing it again. So often people back themselves into a corner by failing to admit that maybe they have flaws, they don't get everything right, see Johnson, B as a shining example. I don't agree with the aforementioned Baddiel on everything but look at his response to allegations of hypocrisy "Btw, to add to the complexity, some papers have picked up on the fact that apparently on a chat show in 2004, I used the word p*k*y to describe my own appearance. I'm sorry: I shouldn't have used that term. We are all learning and changing all the time. Sorry again." He's not been cancelled, we move on.

In a way, I've got a little admiration for Gibso (© @Van der MoodHoover), he has managed to scramble a deal together that results in a fantastic £0 for his football club and be celebrated as some sort of latter day Henry Kissinger style negotiator by his band of loyal fans. Kudos is due IMO.

2 minutes ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Do we think we will ever know what the deal agreed is.

No! And I for one really don't care.

Looks like the 'Boro fans are going to want to claim a 'win' though while we're just delirious ?

16 hours ago, Cisse said:

I hate the current atmosphere towards humor. You can't say or do anything without someone crying about it. The craziest thing is that now people are expected to apologize jokes in comedies that are 30-70 years old. 

2 hours ago, i-Ram said:

But there is humour. Look at the laughter responses they are getting. It might not be your kind of humour, but it is humour nontheless. No binding contracts are being offered. No women are being actually hurt in the making of this humour. I wouldnt go onto Mumsnet if you really want to avoid nasty or bitchy female jibes. A real vipers nest is that Forum. Anyway, Administration .......

Ahh, you found it funny, so it's okay? Racist jokes are in then? Little jibes about the holocaust or Jews controlling the world are right back on the agenda? Some are in the dark ages here.....

58 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

Not an option when 8,000 fans just disappeared last night in our time of need.They probably watched it on telly , but that doesn’t help DCFC. I think we have a lot of Commadore fans - Once , twice , three times a season.?. Mike Ashley will be looking and realise he is not going to sell 20,000 shirts to Rams fans.

I think you misunderstand how many fans travel long distances. For instance I'm best part of 3 hours drive away, public transport is basically impossible, I have volunteering roles with vulnerable people on Tuesday/Wednesday, I can't give that up every few weeks

31 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

Aside
To the mods.....get a grip here.

This is 2022 not the middle ages.

There are too many posts (> 0 is too many), presumably from men, offering up "their women" to whoever takes over the club.

We are all desperate for a takeover to be completed but there is no need for - and no humour in - these offensive posts.

This - There's a misogynistic free for all.

21 minutes ago, David said:

BAWT didn't actually post the screenshot themselves, had they had done I would have trusted it 100%.

And whilst I thought they would have verified before tweeting, I just wanted that added confirmation to add and hopefully allow you all to enjoy your evenings.

There is a lot of discussion even this morning on if it's even possible, worth noting that Rick Parry hasn't instantly ruled it out unlike some fans.

That would suggest to me it's not that clear cut and could be possible.

The initial reaction appears to be the EFL are on board with this, if Gibson and Couhig refuse then it will be interesting to see how it develops.

They have called for pragmatic solutions, yet according to Mel's statement Wycombe have yet to even file a claim and all Boro have done is call for talks and reportedly lowered their asking price whilst also, according to Mel's statement, unavailable for arbitration until May.

This could be the turning point, the EFL have an easy escape route if they wish to take it, and so far, it's looking positive.

Agreed - I mentioned similar earlier on, it does feel like a turning point. From my point of view, there is nowhere to go for MFC and WWFC if they are acting in (their words, not mine) "Good faith" then they must accept the offer. I've thought for a while that we are ahead in the PR game, now I know it.

All along, MFC have been pedalling the narrative that this is about the owners and administrators of the club and they they do no have a beef with the club, even this week -(these statements are) "deeply unfair, not only to our club, but also to the Derby County supporters who deserve better". As others have implied, they have a difficult choice to make now.

This is check, it's not checkmate but it's absolutely forces the hand of the 3 protagonists. Could this be the beginning of the end?