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11 hours ago, EtoileSportiveDeDerby said:

Does it have to be one or the other for the blame?

As i see it feels like a bit of both.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Splinter

 

 

 

Quite - Being entirely binary about absolutely everything is a sad part of modern life. I had to unfollow a particular DCFC related author for this today. Painting Mel Morris as the anti-christ and constantly retweeting the master of arch guesswork and knowing F all, Kieran Maguire is enough for me to click that button.....

The more I think about it, ANY points punishment now is simply a doubling up of what has already been dished out. Effectively, we've lost a lot of points over the last year through our inability to sign the right players. It won't stop the EFL, of course.

2 hours ago, jimbo jones said:

Another sterling effort from the top order ?‍♂️

Can't wait for this season to end - I know Hughton has his supporters but he had to go, things can only get better right?

6 hours ago, RAM1966 said:

It probably comes as no surprise that I am no fan of Mel, I was initially, but, when I saw the players arriving for the fees they were and the salaries they were being paid, it immediately set alarms bells ringing with me.  That day was when we signed both Butterfield and Johnson in the final hours of the TW for a combined fee of around £10M.

Where has Mel failed:

Firstly he has wasted far too much money recruiting managers to then sack them, meaning he got the appointments wrong.  Each manager, wants to build there own team and as such it cost £10Ms each time we do this, as a complete rebuild from players to formations and style of play is required.  I was particularly unimpressed with the majority of his appointments, he should of gone for someone like Warnock which knows his way out of this division and proved it on numerous occasions.   

Clement was a poor choice a talented No2 but no experience in managing, let alone in the Championship and his football was negative and dire.  Pearson was an enigma and I think there was a bust up behind the scenes, well what else can you assume from the Derby Way comments?  McLaren was a great appointment but sadly it did not work out the second time, but, we played the best football under him since Jim Smiths era.  Rowett was a complete farce, dire boring negative football and thankfully we did manage to offload him to Stoke at a profit (Only for him to be sacked as I predicted to a Stoke fan I know).  Then there was the one season gamble with Lampard, who sold the talent to fund a 1 season loan strategy to get us up.  Firstly it was always going to be risky employing a rookie, secondly what if it failed we were going to be left with a depleted squad, which is exactly what happened when Frank selected the wrong team at Wembley.  Cocu another gamble, although the guys CV looked good, he could not gasp the pace of the English game and particularly in the Championship.  History is repeating itself with Rooney on the rookie front, to be fair though Wayne has become a quick wheeler and dealer under these tough embargo conditions we are under and I wish him well.    

Then there is the financial side of things, either he has appointed a poor CFO who has badly advised him on the finances, or Mel has ignored the sensible approach to keeping the books within the EFLs P&S limits, we have had to take the nuclear option to sell the ground to stay within the rules, it also appears we have been creative with our accounting policies.  I understand the last point is perfectly legal, yet the other 23 clubs in the league were using a differing method, now the EFL have revisited our methods and we are in this endless embargo and disciplinary process. 

There is also meddling Mel, the man who allegedly enters the dressing room at HT to administer to rift the players, cancelling training camps in the sun, flies drones around Moor Farm to allegedly spy on Nigel Pearson's training methods as was reported in a national newspaper.  This is not inspirational leadership, its overpowering and the fundamental reason why the teams performance dipped as the players did not take kindly to the interference.

The communications from the club has been nothing short of a disgrace, inviting a small selection of fans into a forum and making them sign NDAs was a grave error of judgement, the only thing to come out of it was a few sentences from Rams Trust and the more detailed version from Punjabi Rams that actually told us anything (Thanks Guys).  Rams trust assured us that all was well, yet a short time later we have another open letter to the board.  That's aged well then, it fills me with even less confidence than I had before!  

Which leads me to the ticket office debacle, its still closed, many older fans with no internet can't get tickets and are missing games.  Why on earth do we still have an unmanned ticket office that could be generating income for the club.  Maybe its because we are rolling in money and don't need it?

My view is that Mel has been far too hands on, not kept an eye on the balance sheet and gambled by spending far beyond the clubs means.  How the debts are parked; with Mel personally or against the club is immaterial, everything is going to have to go through the accounts and this is going to take years to put our house back in good order.   

However you dress it up, he's the man that appoints the people in the key positions to make the key decisions, he's made poor appointments, he's sanctioned the overspending at the club to the extent we no longer own the ground.  How anyone can defend his actions is beyond me, I suspect when the accounts are all filed and up to date, there are many more that are going to desert him.  I'm sorry but the buck stops at Mel's door and the whole club from top to bottom is nothing short of a shambles which smacks of sheer incompetence.  Can anyone think of a more embarrassing situation for a football club than we are in right now?

Sometimes, less is more.....

9 minutes ago, NottsRam said:

Club have confirmed just under 16,000 have been sold or renewed so far.

That's absolutely mad - This club has fantastic support, something we should really cherish.

I was hoping they'd survive 30 mins this morning, gone past that so we should be in a position to save the match....

35 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Dave Hughton to step down as head coach at the end of the season. After a season like this it's not a huge surprise, something needed to happen. 

Yep, I know not the day to day activities of the coach but it's not working, that's as clear as day!

2 hours ago, jimbo jones said:

We just managed to get the night watchman out, he only scored a career best 87 runs ?‍♂️

Feels like that happens way to often to us - Cricinfo should have a separate column, 'HS (not against Derbyshire)!

1 hour ago, CBRammette said:

This isnt a rehash of all the other threads on issues or who is to blame but just wondered how and when you think this will all realistically end? We seem to be caught in a never-ending cycle whereby the club cant/wont sort/pay/do something so the EFL add more crimes and there could be more potential punishment which presumably delays any sale and then back around the cycle we go again. We fans and the players/coaches are all stuck in the middle and from the increasingly fraught tones on here it just seems everyone's had enough of it. So how and when do you think this will all end? 

It is.

4 hours ago, jimbo jones said:

Leicestershire 87-1 at lunch, Ben Aitchison with the only wicket. Looks a lovely pitch for batting, so we will probably be bowled out for 180 when we get a go ?

Wickets falling everywhere, apart from Derby!

1 minute ago, jimbo jones said:

58 run partnership for the 10th wicket, 334 to win, should have been more like 270 ?‍♂️

It'll be over today.... ?

1 hour ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Did try & contact them a few weeks ago as I remember them all being online about 15 odd years ago too. Got no reply. They don't seem to be on any newspaper archive site that I could find either

Any help/useful contact gratefully accepted ?

I'll maybe tweet Steve Nicholson, he may know?

I'm sure it's been asked a million times but.... What did happen to all the DET match reports (therams.co.uk)? It was a brilliant resource but disappeared over night...

2 minutes ago, CollyerDCFC said:

I think it would suggest that a takeover has started. The post links to a company which Morris owns and is being shut down.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - The opening up of information on the companies house site has led to so so much unfounded Twitter/Forum speculation and guesswork (Twitter 'Andy' and Kieran Mcguire are champions of this). Beyond the fact that there are 2 directors, a charge on the LTD company and the fact that a compulsory strike off coming in a few days time, you can glean naff all from that information.

5 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Hudson-Prentice has gone on loan to Sussex for the rest of the season. Makes sense, they've got a T20 quarter final coming up and we don't play again until the end of the month. Then with 4 games that don't have anything on them, use the players who will be here next year, and see what they can do.

Agreed, saves us a bit of cash as well - Watch us go and sign some ageing name on loan for 4 pointless games.....

22 minutes ago, cosmic said:

Hilarious there’s a thread celebrating the “more passionate fans” the day after this. Keep it up, lads.

What a strange post - In every ground yesterday there will have been racist and homophobic comments and abuse, that's a sad but certain fact. Derby fans have called it out, that's something to celebrate.

22 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

I think the term gained mass popularity when these lads were arguing with great passion on Question Time about how any prime minister should happily press the nuclear button.

And described as the 'Great Wall of Gammon'.....

10 hours ago, Yani P said:

Fair play to Punjabi Rams for reporting it.

Quite - Makes me feel good that we'll call out fellow fans. That may sound sarcastic, it isn't, it's right and proper that this is done.

ANYTHING in capitals - I just picture angry GAMMON smashing away at their KEYBOARD.

20 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

What keeps becoming apparent is his absolute dogged determination to get it right. It is deep within his eyes - a hypnotic certainty that whatever is thrown at him will not cause him to waver. The very essence of a winner. 

Yep - I'm also starting to like this closing ranks attitude, there are still fans that want to criticise the club at every opportunity, plenty on here but I'm a big fan of cluck the EFL and no-one like us, we don't care. Bring it on, life isn't a popularity contest, and neither is the championship ?

4 minutes ago, JG400 said:

Don't think it ever looks good when you say 'This agreement should not  be documented'  that just sounds dodgy

Agreed - It may not be particularly sinister but it never sounds quite right!

13 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I know he's not popular, but Keiran M's comment was "what Morris was proposing doesn't break the letter of the law (in terms of EFL regs), but it is clearly not in the spirit"

That's a great example of what a self important tit Maguire is. The first part of his comment is a fact based statement, the second is 'clearly' just opinion, for an accountant turned teacher, maybe he should stick to facts? At one point ever has an accountant made decisions based on the 'spirit' of the law? Twonk.

1 minute ago, Jimbo Ram said:

BBC used to be pretty much fair and neutral, the 'public service ethos' but not now. Majority of the senior posts are now taken by Tories and Tory Party funders.....hence next to no criticism of the current government.

I agree - I would also add that ALL of our media outlets have a western bias so it is interesting to watch a channel like Al Jezeera sometimes to get a different view on things. Likewise Euronews, France 24 for a none British angle....

Absolute toilet

1 hour ago, Tyler Durden said:

Or doesn't know his own limitations likewise? 

That's ambition. Nobody knows their limitations until they've pushed them, it's what successful people do