Henrycav81

We rarely agree but here I do. I guess we just have to accept though that some fans want to have a billionaire owner, Premier League & European football and anything less is a failure to get angry about and find scapegoats. Personally I just like to have a team and to watch football. I'm a simple man (insert your own joke here)

I'm I alone in not being too bothered about getting into the Premier League? As it stands, you can't challenge for the title without billions, and the idea of every season being a relegation battle doesn't fill me with joy. Brighton have an appealing model, focussing on buying young talent, developing them and selling on, but Southampton have shown how hard that plan is to maintain.  And the idea of becoming a consortium club making money for some faceless investment group fills me with dread.
For the time being, I just want to see sustainability, a thriving academy, and a strong community presence, and I get the impression that's the current focus. Championship football will come sooner or later.

I'll have a listen again, but what you've written above does not imply he bought the club to 'shore up' the stadium value, only that in buying the club, the value of the stadium was 'shored up' as you put it. That's rather different to stating categorically that he ONLY bought the club to protect the value of his stadium investment, which I think is a somewhat disparaging and unfair observation.

Yeah, think all the damage was done in the 7th, 1 judge with some dodgy scoring again, 2 judges had it the same as me Masternak 3 rounds ahead while 1 had it level there was no way you could have it level, thankfully it didn’t matter and Billam-Smith got the job done 

Hard to see Billam Smith doing much in this division unless he starts moving his head. He was getting picked off at will by Masternak and you'd think McGuigan will have plenty to work on if he doesn't want to see his guy stopped by Riakporhe or the like.

Football is in a state , where and how it’s being driven has to a great extent destroyed the true sport that it was , obscene money for players and wages , fans disconnected from players and more and more from clubs , massive debts and let’s be honest it could at some point come crashing around our ears ,, ,
im sorry but the original poster and his post / thinking is a major player in this being pushed further and further, jeez even to the extent that a true fan like clowes who bought the club to save it is now backhandedly questioned as to whether he bought the club to protect his investment in the ground which by the way was about the only way the club was going to survive in time if he didn’t buy the ground then the dodgy yank was out , deal off and hope Ashley actually wanted the club even for buttons or as a phoenix,
sorry Kevin hectoring but fans with your views and demands are a big part of the problem🤷🏻‍♂️

Just scored a lovely goal for Everton, the stick certain posters gave him never made sense to me, good luck to the lad. 

Haven’t we rolled the dice before didn’t turn out to well, Having nearly disappeared I’d rather stay sustainable under a real rams fan ( Morris wasn’t) than be a rich mans/corporation play thing until he/they gets bored if that means no higher than the championship so be it 

You can’t tar all footballers with the same brush, they would have all started playing football at a young age because they enjoyed football and had a passion for it not because they thought they’d have a career as a footballer if that was the case I should have asked Colin Addison for a job as a footballer when I left school in 1981 instead of going to Royce’s 
They do trot out the cliches probably because they’ve had media training and are told not to say anything controversial as it will be twisted in some way in the media 
I would be interested to know which Derby players don’t play with passion I see some that might lack ability but I’ve not noticed any that don’t try

Haven’t we rolled the dice before didn’t turn out to well, Having nearly disappeared I’d rather stay sustainable under a real rams fan ( Morris wasn’t) than be a rich mans/corporation play thing until he/they gets bored if that means no higher than the championship so be it 

Not for me thanks.
Find it much more appealing to have a local good guy trying to make us a sustainable club, over a billionaire treating us like their train set.

You can’t tar all footballers with the same brush, they would have all started playing football at a young age because they enjoyed football and had a passion for it not because they thought they’d have a career as a footballer if that was the case I should have asked Colin Addison for a job as a footballer when I left school in 1981 instead of going to Royce’s 
They do trot out the cliches probably because they’ve had media training and are told not to say anything controversial as it will be twisted in some way in the media 
I would be interested to know which Derby players don’t play with passion I see some that might lack ability but I’ve not noticed any that don’t try

Being competitive while living within our means is what I have long hoped for, Mr. Clowes delivered that, I can't praise the fellow enough.

Haven’t we rolled the dice before didn’t turn out to well, Having nearly disappeared I’d rather stay sustainable under a real rams fan ( Morris wasn’t) than be a rich mans/corporation play thing until he/they gets bored if that means no higher than the championship so be it 

I just hope he knows how to run his businesses successfully without taking advice from some random stranger on an internet forum .

Speak for yourself , the man saved derby county and gave me back my love of football and everything derby , I live and work in london swamped by chelsea , arsenal , Man U ect fans and a good few of them follow derby results , will us on , have banter and most of all see me as a proper football fan with season tickets travelling miles upon miles and see derby as a proper club , this god forsaken league 1 ? Since Mel drove our club to the wall I’ve started to experience the real passion and rollercoaster that football should be again, I’ve watched us win the league twice in my lifetime and they were great times but were wins any better feeling than wins today with the south stand and half the ground singing 21 points ?     NO, 
derby county mate ,,, that’s it 🤷🏻‍♂️, if we are meant to go up we will , if we are meant to compete at the top table again we will but I’m in no hurry to put pressure on clowes run before we can walk or place us in the hands of somebody with no connection with or understanding of our club and city to be a toy till they get bored 🤷🏻‍♂️

Haven’t we rolled the dice before didn’t turn out to well, Having nearly disappeared I’d rather stay sustainable under a real rams fan ( Morris wasn’t) than be a rich mans/corporation play thing until he/they gets bored if that means no higher than the championship so be it 

Haven’t we rolled the dice before didn’t turn out to well, Having nearly disappeared I’d rather stay sustainable under a real rams fan ( Morris wasn’t) than be a rich mans/corporation play thing until he/they gets bored if that means no higher than the championship so be it 

It’s a myth that it’s bad for your eyesight mucker, anyway must dash I’ve got an appointment at specsavers 

He's got history of blowing things up so every chance 

He's got history of blowing things up so every chance 

He's got history of blowing things up so every chance 

Can see why Cooper is under pressure from the more sensible Forest fans. They shouldn’t have to put up with seeing that, and the football is terrible too.

He dived against us at old Trafford in the 07/08 season to gain a penalty to make it 4-1 that was the turning point in our season we’d have stayed up if it wasn’t for that 😂😂

We had a choreographed goal celebration when Nigel was boss, it involved all the team sitting back for the rest of the match and not venturing past the half way line 😀