kevinhectoring

Fair comment

I was alluding to the fact that most derby fans had no concerns about the dodgy combination of stretford and CK, and no concerns that stretford and Rooney had in effect picked the PB. But with hindsight we had a lucky escape. Regulators don’t have 20:20 vision either 

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

the sheikh was fake (a lucky break)
Mike Ashley didn’t tender
and Appleby was short of cash (and didn’t want a lender)
The tweeting kirch fell off his perch, 
Got sacked, oh what a muppet
(a close escape for derby, almost owned by Stretford’s puppet)
So thank the Lord for David C, the ram who flies a plane
The only problem is we don’t know how to say his name

Not saying I have the answers but the examples of dodgy football owners comes up with alarming regularity. I'm really saying that there needs to be a total change in football governance and regulation to mitigate against the issues we have faced in the last two years. 
Not sure I understand the reference comparing regulators and fans. It isn't the fans responsibility to protect clubs against these issues.
We aren't the first, we won't be the last, therefore something needs to change to resolve the systemic issues that we have in the game. It's costing people jobs and causing enormous turmoil. We deserve better.

There was so much to like about Barcelona a decade or so ago.
They were the envy of everyone.
They appointed from within with Guardiola. They bombed out the big names like Ronaldinho, Deco, Zambrotta.
They worked harder than anyone out of possession. They introduced an amazing style of football. Their side consisted of about 8 academy players in Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Pedro. 
But off the field they started to make questionable decisions, even back then. They signed Ibrahimovic (clearly not a Barca type player) and dumped Eto’o harshly, they brought in shirt sponsors for the first time and their wage bill blew up.
They still made largely good decisions though. The signings of Neymar, Suarez and Rakitic and the appointment of Luis Enrique were all sound.
But after 2016 is when they became full on basket case. Mad signings, massive wages. Horrible decisions. 
Like you have mentioned, seems they are gambling future funds on today. Not sure why? They aren’t being run as a sound business at all.

I actually think its got more to do with how we want to set up tactically on the ball more than anything. 
Roberts, Bird and Knight having been making a line of 3 when we have the ball for the most part. With Knight and Roberts tucking in. And they a primarily responsible with starting the play. 
Roberts seems very good and comfortable at doing this. Where as frankly Fozzy wouldn't be.
So when Fozzy has played we've tended to do something a bit different and basically pushed him high,  wide and frankly out of the way. Typically another midfielder comes and plays that role then, with the left winger also tucking in field (as opposed to staying very wide). It's why I think Fozzy and Sibley have often been tried as a pair on the left. 
Either way I think that's firmly a plan B (especially as it hasn't particularly looked functional so far) and has been devised mostly with the recognition that are squad has players that don't quite fit plan A past the first team.

Bolton made 500k last season from streaming, and the article I read reckoned we'd top a million. 
The Accrington chairman makes many fair points about streaming, especially now the revenue isn't split between home and away teams, but for us it could be a major plus. 
It used to be that on away streams, the hosting side got everything up to a certain cut off point, which may have been 500, then the away team would benefit from any further customers, but now whichever team sells the stream keeps the cash. 
https://www.bt.com/sport/news/2022/july/accrington-chairman-andy-holt-wants-to-leave-efl-s-ifollow-streaming-service
https://theathletic.com/3423113/2022/07/18/efl-ifollow-streaming-tv?source=user-shared-article
Sorry to link The Athletic, but this is the piece with Boltons 500k, also mentions Ipswich pulling in 750k.

Only one sleep before it starts. Like a kid at Christmas I can't wait. The walk to the ground after a couple of shandies,the smell of the burger vans,the mingling of the crowd,the buzz of excitement. Walking through the turnstiles,up the stairs,the loud hum getting louder, up more steps and you are there. The noise of the crowd getting louder through the music, the expectation of what the season holds. The 'We are Derby' poem belted out, the roar when the teams come out. This is football. This is what I love. The season starts tomorrow at 3pm. I CANNOT WAIT! UTR!

Impeccable logic 

The team that finish top won’t be in the playoffs 

Hmm. Call me a bluff old traditionalist but I think the favourite for promotion will be the team that comes top. ?

Don’t be silly, clearly love is the route of all evil. Money doesn’t corrupt people, the love of money corrupts people. 

Er, no. Overthinking is not allowed

Ah a common mistake. The actual phrase is “the love of money is the root of all evil”. Gives it a slightly different meaning ?

Have I been saying that wrong all this time? 

He strikes me as the kind of guy who will be asked to be caretaker manager one day and reel off four wins on the bounce by cheering up the dressing room!
Then he'll get offered the job full time, crap himself and never win another game.

Hypocrisy.
 
The powers that be won’t take strong measures to rule out swearing by players, aggression, dissent, cheating,  all of which have a profound social effect, especially on kids who love the game and on fans. And the reason they won’t take strong measures is that their revenues rely on the ‘passion’. 
And then they pump this out 
Of course they should act against criminality. But they should also act against the causes of it 

I don't think any of us actually know - we haven't seen the actual agreement, so we only have second hand newspaper reports to go on.  It would not surprise me if there's some clause about renegotiating it if circumstances change, because you could make the opposite argument - what if we were to go down again? Would the EFL be happy with an £8m budget in League 2?

DC: "So we've got a limit of £X per week in the 1st division. How much more can we spend in the Championship if we get promoted?"
EFL: "The same"
DC: "But surely if we have a bigger income we're allowed to spend more?"
EFL: "No"
DC: "But how can that be?"
EFL: "Because if you don't agree to it we'll refuse you the Golden Ticket"

AFAIK The business plan isn't directly related to payments to creditors.  We've effectively agreed to pay creditors all up front (barring the payments for Bielik which aren't even due yet).  There's probably something like a 30-day invoice payment window on it or something, which is why it hasn't all been paid yet.  But beyond this initial payment there shouldn't be anything overdue to creditors.
The business plan is an EFL requirement, to stop clubs lurching from one admin into another. They basically don't want us coming out of admin and immediately splashing a load of cash on players and ending up back in admin in 6 months time.  Obviously it's not that relevant in our case, as Clowes seems fairly sensible (which probably explains the fact that our agreed wage cap is apparently higher now than it was last season in a higher league).  But more unscrupulous owners might be tempted to throw a bit of cash at a cheap club coming out of admin, and then run if it doesn't work out.
Obviously if we had agreed to pay creditors over time, then the business plan would have this factored in.