Ram-Alf

48 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Wasn’t it parliament that was trying to bypass the result of the Brexit referendum?

Those on the Opposite side were, And most of those that are half dead in the Lords tried their best.

14 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Your Joking right?

15 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

messed that up

16 minutes ago, duncanjwitham said:

I don’t see how that can possibly be true, no one would pay it. But if 7 parties have paid £5m each to have a look, we’ve pretty much cleared half the debts already ?.

My thoughts too...must have heard it wrong.

I did hear it wrong

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/new-financial-details-emerge-surrounding-prospective-Derby-county-takeover-parties/

6 minutes ago, duncanjwitham said:

Anybody know for sure what “stumping up” means in this context? I’ve always assumed it was just shown they have £5m available in a UK bank account somewhere, and maybe put it in escrow or something. To me (in everyday usage), “stumping up” means literally handing the cash over, which I can’t imagine is actually happening here.

I know i'm an old un and sometimes my memory aint what it used to be, But pretty sure one of the Admins on Talksport a while back mentioned the £5million was just to look at all finances and data and non refundable...sounds mad but

6 minutes ago, Betty Swollocks said:

When reading anything from Percy, you also have to take into account that he is a Red Dog.

He`s bound to twist the knife into us a little more than other journalists!

agent provocateur

a person employed to convince others including the EFL so that they can be convicted.

1 hour ago, Igorwasking said:

Hi all. I am searching for a signed shirt, framed - ideally from the 70’s. All I can find is either Rooney, or a non football shirt signed by McFarland (would have been ideal otherwise).

Can anyone point me in the direction of opportunity? Loweram must know something, surely? ?

7 hours ago, rammieib said:

I particularly like a tweet where a fan took a screwdriver and four screws to a game to fix his own seat.

I bet he struggled getting the seat through the turnstile.

Very surprised with this.

"If I do it and I am not honest or I don't speak about things, it wouldn't be real, so it was about me coming out"

16 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

If notifications are to be believed, then that was originally in response to my post (which you quoted).

If it was me that you are reluctant to offend, then worry ye not.  Fire away!  ?

 

However... if it was in poor taste generally speaking, and that the whole internet would be offended, then you sir, are an absolute sicko!  You should be ashamed!  Booo.  etc.

I wasn't offended, But that's personel choice, My humour knows no bounds, But I understand why it was deleted ?

14 minutes ago, ripleyram88 said:

Some "fans" at the moment - I can't even understand their viewpoint.

 

If someone ran up and pushed your wife off a cliff and killed her, would you turn round and blame her for standing too close to the edge, or the person that came out of nowhere are shoved her off.

I had a friend named Cliff, Never really liked him, Always going over the top.

24 minutes ago, CornwallRam said:

I think it's interesting that other clubs view us as gaming the system to gain an unfair advantage. The thing is though, does that stack up?

To me gaining an unfair advantage really boils down to spending more on players than comparable clubs. Did we really do that? Certainly we had one Barmby

 

Nope!

Quick Question, Is it possible to go to the ticket office and buy a ticket for home matches?

Thanks in Advance.

1 hour ago, basilrobbie said:

I think this is a bit paranoid, if you don't mind me saying so.

I fully agree with you that the EFL seek to deflect blame for, and attention from, whatever poo show they happen to be presiding over at any one time.  It's a technique that was developed under Harvey, along with unconscionable delay, in an attempt to cover the fact that they aren't up to the regulatory aspects of their job and - culturally - aren't all that keen on doing them either. When Tracey Crouch recommends that they lose all responsibility for regulatory maters, I think their Board will be secretly relieved.

But incompetence is a long way from the kind of calculated poohousery that you are accusing them of. They may listen far too much to the likes of Gibson, but as a glorified shop steward they are obliged to listen to all their Members, and not just some of them. It's the Achilles Heel in the way they have chosen to set themselves up as competition organisers (Yes, I know) and revenue generators (not very good at that either). Had Harvey still been CEO, I'd have been far more sympathetic to your view - but he isn't.

What a lot of your fans want to gloss over is why the EFL and its constituent clubs currently view your club with so much suspicion. And I'm afraid that on this point, all roads lead back to Mr. Morris, who has turned your club into a by-word in questionable practices that seem unashamedly about giving your club an unfair advantage. It's one of life ironies that he was so bad at it.

None of this is the fault of your fans. I stood in the away end at PP not so long ago and heard you lead chants of "We want Oyston out", and think a lot of you for it. But setting that aside, the fans of other clubs are heartily sick of this saga (two years old, isn't it?), in the Championship we are even more sick of the uncertainty.  My personal view is that as fans you could do more to call the club out on the way it has behaved. I understand why a siege mentality has developed - but your club is very largely in the wrong, and however badly the matter is being handled by others doesn't change that.

The administrators - unfortunately - seem to be playing to the gallery at the moment . I don't understand why they would commit so much money that you can't afford on a case that seems shaky at best, unless it was because they wanted to generate some good PR.  And they do seem to love a public statement that doesn't say very much of substance, don't they? 

I wish you a speedy outcome, even if it is a points deduction that sends you down. The January window is not far away, and there is a real danger that the club won't be a progressive player in it, as things stand. And you need to start planning for a fresh start that gives you hope for the future. Without hope, there isn't much point in following any football club.

 

 

 

I used to visit one of your boards "Back Henry Street" the distaine for the Oystons especialy K Oyston and his Son, Who at the drop of a hat would send a Solicitors letter for "slander" the Solicitor being someone who wasn't actually a Solicitor, There was open warfare against the Oystons and rightly so even to get one of your games abandoned when tennis balls thrown and then fans storming the pitch,,,one in a wheelchair.

As for our missgivings...you need to fact check your post, We were found guilty of a minor offence where a £100,000 fine was imposed, We're still waiting for the ELF who by the looks are on that Boat to China and waiting for imo us to climb the table only for them to hit us with another points penalty.

Just to remind you of the EFLs culpability...they let the Oystons milk Blackpool FC out of millions of £s while they stood and let you burn, Let Bury be sold for £1 to a sharleton, Closed their eyes to what happened to Wigan with a fictitious sale, Fed Macclesfield to the Lions, Capitulated to Anderson who was Boltons major shareholder when he was talking about liquidating them.

Sympathy we're not looking for, That seige mentality is now set in stone by the majority who pay or those who watch from afar.

41 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Said it before many times, and I'll say it again. The DET has absolutely no journalistic merit at all. None. They only care about dedicating the maximum amount of screen space to adverts as possible and churning out the highest volume of 'articles' possible. Most of it is copied/pasted from twitter and/or taken from work other outlets have done. 

Absolute rubbish.

May be no journalistic value...but there is another use ?

15 minutes ago, Bald Eagle's Barmy Army said:

No problem.

Kind regards,

Andrew, Carl, Mike and Unlucky Alf

9 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

Odd thing to say.

Who else hasn't been in contact?

Is it just the Administrator playing to the Press? Oh lord. We're happy to have transparency - at last! - but we don't need Administrators that want to be in the limelight.

 

Have to say i'm pretty upset about this, For the last 2 days I can confirm that I haven't and i'll say it again I haven't been in touch with DCFC/Administraters about an offer to buy the club, They have not sent me an NDA to sign and also the Daily Mirror didn't contact or run a story to say I was concidering buying the club.

The only correspondance that I have recieved is from the BBC and that is down to non payment of my TV lisence.

44 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

The moon landing was achieved with a computer with the computing power equivalent to a casino calculator today and twin towers, whilst clearly hit by 2 planes, witnessed some of the best piloting skills ever seen. Especially at the Pentagon as somehow the inexperienced pilot managed to fly the huge passenger plane at roughly 30 feet off the ground before hitting it the Pentagon head one...and then vanished without a trace.

Both entirely believable if you ask me.

Pretty sure the pilot was named by the FBI and CIA as Rack Juby a Saudi Night club owner.

5 minutes ago, thelovebelow said:

We'll appeal. We'll win on the last game of the season. Ousting 6th place Middlesborough. Then we'll get to Wembley and get promoted. 

Trust me. 

 

Are you in the Joiners Arms?

21 minutes ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

I don’t think the EFL would accept that the COVID pandemic actually happened

Rick Parry with proof from the Chinese Government that Covid-19 is a hoax

1 hour ago, basilrobbie said:

 

As a Blackpool fan who has a vested interest in all this, I sympathise with those of you who just wants this resolved, along with Reading and anyone else who is in the dock for these sorts of offence. Lots of people outside your fan base feel the same way.

The EFL are supposed to be fighting for their lives at the moment, and trying to make themselves seem relevant in the context of the fan led review.  This dithering, with all the opacity that goes with it, is not fair on any of us. Hopefully, it will be fatal for them, because they long ago forfeited the right to run the competitions they are responsible for.

 

 

If you're ever in The Manchester and see Richard Keogh and other players half cut, Make sure he gets in a Taxi or they'll be hell tp pay.

16 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

One article saying Mike Ashley is interested in taking over Derby.... 

Just speculation, don’t believe everything you read. 

I don't believe you.

26 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

Not sure where you’ve got that from but it definitely wasn’t a Newcastle fan.

Newcastle United are one of the biggest clubs in this country. They got relegated twice under Ashley, and the best manager they’ve had in years ditched them for China because working with him was so arduous. What about his tenure appeals to you? Honestly?

I’d also encourage you to read into the way Sports Direct employees are treated and decide if that’s someone you want running your football club (all 50% of you who are picking Mike Bloody Ashley).

Spot on yoof, One owner takes on workers and gives them a wage, While another owner doesn't like to be criticized and gets killed.

9 minutes ago, ToonTom said:

It was (2006 to 2002), 7th, 14th (no flirting with relegation whatsoever), 5th, 3rd, 4th.

As I think I said, the early days with Ashley weren't terrible. It what was to slowly come that you need to be wary of.

As I definitely said, you can finish 13th because of some fortunate results right at the last having had a terrible season of worry about relegation.

A case in point is last season when Joe Willock's goals got us up from 16th/17th to a final finish of 12th. I definitely wouldn't want to have to re-live that season just because we finished many places above the relegation spots.

I would have loved to have been in your position for all those years, Flirting around the PL, Winning the Championship twice, Football has the ability to take you to the depths of football life to the highs of emotion when winning, Even battling relegation can get the juices flowing, The football may not be pretty...like we have witnessed under several previous Managers when being set for the playoffs.

Now we're battling for our future, A battle i'm confident of winning, We'll be starting football life all over again but in which division is yet to be seen.

6 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

And just to repeat, straight from the EFL itself...

 

"This fund is not available to any Club in breach or suspected breach of EFL Regulations and Clubs will again need to submit evidence in their applications to Club eligibility."

 

And the quote the EFL...Derby never asked.