kevinhectoring

Yep best way to hit the big time is owners who bring an international fan base and masses more sponsorship than we have. That’s why the Derventio deal was exciting. It’s not clear folks on here want that! Much harder for a US group to transform us but (Glick was at city) they could put us into an international network of clubs. It’s anyone’s guess what that would mean. Any road up, with a strong US group we’d have stability at last and if it involves Glick he may be smart enough to achieve what MM did not with less cash. But if it’s a US group foolish enough to have Rooney as ‘their man’ at Derby, then prepare for the fan protests in about a year’s time. That’s what it will take to oust the feller

I was really lucky to get an invite along today to the yard from John O’Hare to meet up with some of the 70s legends who were meeting up to celebrate Roy Macs 70th birthday and the annual Easter visit of Alan Hinton.
i thought I would take the opportunity to take my son along to meet some of the older players who when he is grown up will hopefully be given the status that that Steve Bloomer gets now, at least he will have a few photos to show that he really did meet the men who made us famous and for a brief moment in time perhaps the greatest football team in the world ?
when I got there I was a little embarrassed to find that I was the only member of the general public in attendance and felt a little bit out of place, the classic gatecrasher at the party, fortunately I know a number of them already and was instantly welcomed, I made sure that we sat just out side of the main group to allow them to chat to each other
Every one of them made time to come over and have a sit with us, I had of course taken some stuff to get signed as it was to good an opportunity to miss, after checking that they were ok with it they signed stuff and sat and talked and had photos with my son, he loved it and entered into some great conversation with them all, he was asking them about the odd haircuts that they had on the photos ( he is only eight) he told John Ohare that he should now be called john nohare which I’m not sure if john picked up on or not, he spoke to Alan about his white boots and got me showing Alan photos of his green boots, to a man they sat and chatted away talking about anything and everything, the numbers continue to dwindle, I felt like the man in the middle sharing stories of my recent meets with Colin Boulton, Colin Todd, Frank Wignall, john McGovern, and Peter Daniel, those in attendance (some with their good ladies) were John Ohare, Alan Hinton, Alan Durban, Roy McFarland, Roger Davies, Rod Thomas, Jim Walker and Henry newton, once again it struck me that the club should make more of a fuss of these guys whilst they are with us, let’s not wait twenty year before we finally get round to making up a song for them that we sing and the younger generation doesn’t have a clue what the names Todd, McFarland, Nish, Hector, Hennessy, Boulton, Newton, Gemmill, Davies, McFarland, O’Hare, McGovern, Hinton etc mean to Derby as a city.

Bristol Rovers fans were absolutely brilliant when they came here in the Cup. That rendition of Goodnight Irene was one of the best away songs ive ever heard at PP.

Bristol is an excellent city. 

I was present for the first 2 I think supporters charter meetings as the idea was being setup, but through ill health and distance I never attended future meetings. 
The minutes of the meetings will confirm this. 
I surveyed the forum for questions to put forward and posted the meeting minutes once they were provided.
As for my opinion, it’s been a difficult season both on and off the pitch, we have an owner in ill health, takeovers, EFL appeal and a global pandemic to deal with.
Whilst I would love to know what is going on with regular updates, I would imagine hands are tied in what they can publicly discuss, and let’s be honest, when they do come out and talk it’s dismissed as PR spin.
I feel they have always been in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation.
To address this here as I know it’s been asked in various online platforms, I haven’t spoken with anyone from the club aside from the marketing team with regards to the adverts displayed on this forum.
I do understand your concerns, but aside from the deleted Collymore tweet, I haven’t seen any credible source to suggest the existence of this club is in threat, so was a little puzzled by the talk of protests if I’m totally honest.  
I have been away for the last week and enjoyed some time offline and away from social media, so apologies if I’ve missed anything more. Taking time to catch up now, but there’s a lot of posts!
At this stage I’m willing to remain patient, not freak out at every Daily Mail headline such as this mornings given their success rate on us recently (21 point deductions).
The next couple of months are huge for this club, don’t get me wrong, and I’m not sticking my head in the sand, I just feel that the club face a number of issues that need resolving and will take longer than 48hrs after the final ball was kicked.
Finally, the last 12 months have shown that football is nothing without fans, I’m hoping the communication level with fans is restored to what they were as soon as possible, with the stadiums look set to reopen, fans need to know the clubs plans going forward before parting with any money.
You look at some of this clubs that were to join the ESL, having never heard or very little communication with their owners, we have almost been spoilt in years gone by in comparison, but that’s how it should be, I hope the club are aware of how important the fans are to this club and as I say, look to reopen those lines of communication as soon as possible.

MM is a person not a company.   Also, he has said he’ll support the club to keep it out of admin which is in his power to do provided he has the cash. 
So what we need to worry about is four things: efl, our awful manager, who the new owner will be, and whether ffp means we can’t strengthen the squad 
just now admin is the least of our worries. If Alonso buys us, that could change big time. 
(But it seems the club is beginning to tell us he won’t buy us)
 

Well, the feeling's mutual so I'm sorry to disappoint you; I'll try to explain where I'm coming from as we're on the same page with a lot of what you say.
1) I'm not necessarily arguing with your assessment of Mel's tenure; my point is that if he has had enough (and he clearly has) and wants out asap, he has nothing to gain by making the type of public statements that @therams69 wants him to. I think we can all see we have moved away from "selling to someone perfect for DCFC" to "selling to whoever I can". Hence the flirtations with Gabay, Dell, BZI, Alonso and loans, charges, refinancing etc etc . He's personally bankrolled the club for the last year or so without wanting to/ got loans to cover costs, and if someone doesn't like the look of £1m plus leaving his personal bank account every month with no end in sight he won't worry too much about selling to whoever comes up with the cash first. 
Therefore, as noble as your sentiments undoubtedly are, he can't guarantee anything - the future of the club, that he will continue to bankroll it etc etc because it doesn't represent the reality. He could do all you say but he doesn't want to (and he has that right), and that's the crucial point, and therefore coming out and saying all will be well, I'll sell to the perfect DCFC buyer and will continue to fund the club until that happens is disingenuous. That was the point I was trying to make.
2) As for Stephen Pearce, everyone will have their view regards his ability as a leader and CEO, but the fact is for the last two years he's been operating in an environment where there is no strategic direction, where decisions are impossible given constant takeovers hanging over the club, where he has to find money month after month from somewhere to pay the wages. Then Covid hit, and for the last 14 months he's had to run a club with zero income. It's a hard job and in my opinion he deserves credit for keeping it going rather than calls for his resignation.  
 
 
 

Think its hyperbollox.. 

I did that with Garcia. 

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I think I could score against Harry Maguire to be fair.

As well as seeing him play well, it was nice to see Joz smiling tonight 

Would be postponed because of Coronavirus outbreak

It just shows the beauty of the game, you couldn't have two more different styles yet they are again in pole position on the final day. It's like that clip of DeChambeau driving the lake last week. What people forgot was that Lee went the long way round and they both ended up with birdie.
Did you see the Korean who took an 11 at the 17th on day one? His reaction when he got it on the green on day two was priceless.

Yeah, he is one of those that you can't help but appreciate for taking a completely different angle (often literally) to playing the game. Another one for Lee to add to his ever growing list of 'if I'd holed two more putts'.

Not getting up to watch tomorrow. English cricket has seen some miracles recently. But our usual purveyor of miracles is B Stokes and there’s no amount of pickle juice or ice baths that will revive him after what he put himself through in 41* today 

Not getting up to watch tomorrow. English cricket has seen some miracles recently. But our usual purveyor of miracles is B Stokes and there’s no amount of pickle juice or ice baths that will revive him after what he put himself through in 41* today 

I do feel for Bess. Not as if he’s trying to not play well, his confidence clearly smashed like some of his deliveries. This lead now bringing the curtain down on the tour as being anything like a success. 

Not any more 

Not any more 

Doesn’t look good but don’t give up yet. If we can get them out for 250 or less this could be a belter. 
we just need one of Bess or Leach to get into a groove tomorrow. Or Root of course 
(On the other hand it might be clear by close of play tomorrow that we’ve lost the series...) 

Meant to use anudder word completely 

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Fear not, here comes the Burnley Lara