Chris_Martin

I still don't fully understand how Bennett & Lawrence got away with fines and Keogh got sacked despite him just being the passenger. 
I understand he has a degree of responsibility as club captain, but i still feel/felt the punishment was over the top, as proved in a court of law. Your point about Mel trying to save money and seeing it as an opportunity to get Keogh off the wage bill seems to make sense now. Ironically it's actually ended up costing us a lot more money which pretty much sums up Mel's running of the club to be honest. 
Lawrence was more at fault than Keogh for the 'incident', yet Keogh gets sacked for not being a good club captain essentially. Fast forward a couple of years and Lawrence now gets promoted to club captain?. Could only happen in Football! and even more so, could only happen at Derby?

Ofcourse he did, the absolute bloody hero

I'm honestly still on Keoghs side with this.
He should have been fined and that's it (which would have saved the club money overall given what eventually happened), and we may even have got some games out of him when we were short on players last season. He was found to have been wrongfully dismissed by law. The way Derby acted was probably a desperate attempt to save money as Mel's gambles all started to catch up to him. The way he was treated made a lot of our own players and former players dislike us, and maybe even stopped other players joining us.
Keogh was a good player for us overall and should have been remembered that way. Its just another thing Mel's ruined. Obviously Keogh takes some blame but if he was just fined he could have eventually recovered his relationship with the club.

Is the reason he's not starting any games anymore because he's leaving/the club wants him to leave in January? Similar to what they've done to Marshall?

1-1 FRGS Stretton

Mel?

Allsop - 8
Byrne - 8
Forsyth - 7.5
Stearman - 7.5
Davies - 7
Shinnie - 9
Bird - 7.5
Morrison - 7
Knight - 8
Lawrence - 7
Baldock - 5.5
Stretton - 6.5

Mel?

bring it on EFL....

only 7 off safety!!!?

Have said it before, he's our real captain. 

How do you have £5m in the bank and find time to do anything other than check your balance all day? 
Available funds
£5,000,000
Do you require any other service. 
Yes, check balance. 

Sorry but you’re forgetting the absolutely threadbare squad made up of ancient players who will tire and pick up knocks, and academy grads who have barely played first team football - we still need to protect and ease these in gently 

When we’re thinking about points deductions, we’re thinking optimistically that 12pts is recoverable. But 21pts, no chance. Statistically 12pts has never been done before, we’d be making history just to overturn that deficit, so there’s no chance we could do 21pts.
So I just assumed that getting an extra 21pts on top of a what we need for safety must be something akin to automatic promotion form. Like the gulf between relegation and promotion must be something like 20pts right?
So I took a look at last seasons table. We survived by a point on 44pts. And extra 21pts would have put us on 65pts, just ahead of Boro in 10th.
the season prior was a bit more high scoring.  The safety mark was 48 (Barnsley had 49, but I think it’s safe to assume that if we’re on at least mid table form, then our goal difference should be better than everyone else in the relegation zone). Another 21pts would take us to 69pts which would be 8th, just above Millwall. 
so it’s not that ridiculous to think, if we keep doing what we’re doing, we could be on form for a 10th to 8th place finish. Especially as we’re currently playing without a bunch of our best players (CKR, Bielik) so you’d hope we’d have better form throughout the season, not worse. 

Have said it before, he's our real captain. 

Have said it before, he's our real captain. 

You're aware this makes absolutely no sense at all?

Subject to additional deductions ? 
(Which will be applied next season if we don't look like making up the gap)

bring it on EFL....

bring it on EFL....

Looking forward to Bielik returning!! He is class and we can only improve with him in the team! ❤

bring it on EFL....

Awful awful officials. They have to get those decisions right. But we stood strong despite that and should have scored more anyway. But we are so solid. We have the second best defence in the division, having conceded one more than Bournemouth.
Brilliant from Allsop coming in who did everything asked of him.
Brilliant from Stearman ditto, especially having been booked really early on.
We are already on plus points despite a 12 point deduction. That was so important. We'd be 11th without the deduction. 
Come on you Rams!

I bet you can?