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46 minutes ago, Premier ram said:

Read all the posts on here over the last few days and while i am as frustrated as everybody is with the news coming out of the club i would like to give a big shout out to Wayne Rooney and Curtis Davies , Rooney is fighting a battle like no other manager in recent years has had to , for him to come out and say hes here no matter what gives me a little hope for this season

         As for Curtis , well what can you say , after signing his waiver for the last game last season , now signing on for this season at a reduced wage shows what a whole hearted , dedicated , total professional footballer and human being this guy is , hope he has an injury free season and leads by example in a difficult looking season , all the best to Wayne , Curtis and the rest of the players and staff , COME ON YOU RAMS

Spot on - I've got so much time for Wayne Rooney, he's such a strong bloke. Who knows if he'll make a good manager but if he doesn't it won't be for the lack of hard work or determination. The blokes makes mistakes, dusts himself down and carries on. I admire that immensely.

2 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

It's the point that Charlie Methvin made on the Sunderland documentary on Amazon - why do you need to care if the numbers add up if you've got someone just pouring money in from the top. That was the model at Derby, punt it for another season and the plan in place to protect us all was never in place. Now that it has happened we're all asking why but anyone who has worked in a privately owned company, of any size, will tell you that if the owner comes into your office and says "this is what I want to do and I'm paying for it" you're in career limiting mode if you turn round and say "actually, while it's just about legal, I advise against that for reasons of financial prudence".

Same in any company of any type - All multinationals will publicly talk about their culture of open communication, challenging upwards etc. The reality is as you describe. Took me a long time to work that out, once I abandoned my 'do the right thing' nature, life became easier....

2 hours ago, Woodley Ram said:

I know your comment is tongue in cheek but there are some very experienced and knowledgeable people on this site. For me the CEO and we are talking about Stephen Pearce has got away lightly so far.

He is a chartered accountant and a lot of our issues are to do with finance. He is also the operational head of DCFC so it’s his responsibility to make sure it is run correctly. If he was the CEO of any company with shareholders he would be keeping an eye on his taxi pulling up. I have no problem with his as a person but he needs to accept responsibility for the problems we are in.   

No doubt - It's just some of the ranting, some of the more personal words people use. Clearly there are people who have no understanding of a CEOs work (being described as managing day to day activities for instance) who are oh so happy to attack an individual. It won't be the proudest item on his CV, that's for sure!

8 hours ago, rynny said:

 

Essex, Kent - Same meat, different gravy! My bad, I need to fact check myself ?

I see some people have moved on from googling 'NDA' and are now pontificating on the job function and performance of the club's CEO. I always knew that if I wanted sound business advice, I should first seek the wisdom of the good people on a football club forum ?

26 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

When and why did we release Qadri? Anyone know?

We didn't, he chose to move to Essex.

Have it!

I suspect those getting their knickers in a twist over NDAs did so shortly after googling 'NDA'

2 hours ago, jimbo jones said:

Notts tomorrow. If we are just going to scrape the one win, let it be this one ?

McKiernan, Rampaul and Scrimshaw in the squad. Hopefully fit enough to play. 

 

If so, give Scrimshaw a go, I'm not sure about the 2 young lads opening either, i’d look at dropping Came down the order. He's looked promising knocking the ball around but keeps getting out chasing big shots in the powerplay.

Team i’d like to see...

Wood

Wagstaff

Guest

Came

Hudson-Prentice

Hughes

McKiernan

Thomson

Aichinson

Rampaul

Scrimshaw

Be good to see Scrimshaw and Rampaul back - So much pressure on the young batters though. No offence to Anuj Dal but it would be good to see him given a break as well, his confidence must be shot.

47 minutes ago, duncanjwitham said:

I certainly read it the other way.  No, taxman is still unpaid, and the charge is still on the crime sheet. 

I read it as a sign of the breakdown in modern literacy levels. The question is a bit awkward to read, the answer completely unclear and they both. lack. the ability to, punctuate.

4 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

It's easy to get lost in the various accounts and their function behind Derby County. I could get breaking up a few of the various functions, i.e. academy, etc, but when you have 14 different registered companies then it's no wonder people like Andy do a deep dive and try and find links. 

I can't imagine we're doing it for fun. You would think there is a reason, good or bad, to why we need to create this web of noise around the club. 

It's perfectly normal, most clubs will be doing something similar. ALL large organisations will be operating with a myriad of companies. My former employer, a multinational financial services company had literally thousands of Ltd companies (or their local equivalent) - As I said, perfectly normal.

3 minutes ago, ShoreRam said:

Trouble is, if it carries on like this it will be under 4 an over by then...

Let me correct myself, if it carries on like this it will be under 3 an over by then. Buffet.

6 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Big game for the 2 young spinners and McKiernan, as it was spin that did the damage for Warwickshire.

Trouble is, if it carries on like this it will be under 4 an over by then...

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Sorry, that's incorrect (not the 'getting  walloped' bit). 5 of Derbyshire's best 6 batters in one day cricket are Billy Godleman, Leus Du Plooy, Wayne Madsen, Matt Critchley and Harvey Hosein. All are missing through either injury or the Hundred. 

Warwickshire have 15 players unavailable, just saying! They do have a slightly better resources than us though! Anyway, let's smash them!!

21 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

From the teams I’ve seen across the competition I wouldn’t say that’s true, most teams are a mix of youth and very senior players, and a couple that would be considered in their prime.

Our biggest problem is no batsmen, only  Came and Wood can be considered specialist batsmen in this team.

Oh definitely, FHP at 4 FFS!!

It's all so painful to watch, we are shambolic - We actually have one of the more experience teams playing and we'll still get walloped.

Just the 3 down and motoring along at 3.4 an over. At Taunton. FFS.

v Somerset in the RLC today, hopefully an improved performance, let's get 300+ on the board to stat with....

Just now, Ruud Aralliss said:

Oh dear Baldock.  That was dreadful.

Thought we played well against Man U, however QPR are beating them 4-1.

On a positive note, at least Salford aren’t in the Championship 

Looked neat and tidy against Man U, less so today but these are pre-season friendlies - There is so little you can take from them. I'm mildly encouraged, whenever we look good in pre-season, we've been carp in the real stuff.

22 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Probably 30 short, it's a different game when you have to do more than just score singles all innings. 

To be honest, I'm surprised we got as many as we did with that batting line up.

I think you're being generous but yeah I agree, that batting line up, 275 not too bad. The bowling and fielding was disappointing. Dropped catch, misfields, overthrows, not great.

This is quite tragic! The batting looked pedestrian, I think we're 50/60 short at least.

3 hours ago, ramswriter podcast said:

i did a podcast

Yey!

3 hours ago, ramswriter podcast said:

with Kieran Maguire

Oh, oh dear.

6 hours ago, Ken Tram said:

The questionnaire was stuffed full of leading questions, almost certainly designed to get support for what they're inclined to do.

I would say, a new regulator is just as likely to be an incompetent quango, so we should be careful what we wish for!

I liked the idea of a compulsory regulation clause in player contracts, as an alternative to parachute payments.

I said that I think that football player salaries are obscene!

I thought the questions were quite balanced, nothing too leading there. Totally agree with the bit in bold, made me happy to see that. I said yes to the salary cap as well. Fundamentally, the majority of football's woes are caused by players being overpaid. And I mean overpaid, more money goes out to players than comes in to the sport, that's madness.

20 minutes ago, rynny said:

And uses the same insults as well. 

See his account lasted long though ?

I think there's a new one, I appear to have gained a new follower, not sure I feel a little grubby or rather honoured.

11 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

That sad act on the Bristol City forum is going to love this ?

He's having an absolute melt down. Small things like that put a little schadenfreude related smile on my face.