Kathcairns

We need to protest against gibson and let world no what sour grapes man he is we are the ones who can stop him and force efl to act on him even if means that he gets bad press and so he should but also force boro to stop legal stuff.

We have to remember that the EFL's conduct in the DCFC disciplinary case has stoked media frenzies and emboldened gobby hypocrites like the Boro and Wycombe chiefs to dip their bread, to make a lot of spurious noise to allege misfortune caused by the 'guilty' party, their aim being to further damage a competitor. 
* Dragging out the proceedings for over a year and a half, allowing a fellow club (Boro) to engage in actions against DCFC whilst the disciplinary case was in progress (thereby extending the torture for a year, though the actions were thrown out)
* Drip-feeding negative updates to the media without consultation with Derby (positing 'alternative' Derby/Wycombe fixture lists for a Championship <> League One swap if a 2020/21 points deduction was applied)
* Stating their 'regret' that their appeal resulted only in a £100,000 fine for DCFC's amortisation technicalities
* Not reprimanding the Wycombe cowboy for publicly accusing DCFC of systematic cheating
Now we're in administration, minus 12 points with the prospect of further penalties, most even-minded people would surmise that Derby had copped their just desserts and a reset had been enforced.

The only bargaining chip the EFL has, that they wouldn't have the bottle to threaten the PL with, is to turn off promotion & relegation from EFL to PL & PL to EFL.
Doing this would make 90% of PL games effectively dead rubbers, ruining the PL entertainment and lowering their broadcasting revenue.
The PL would soon come back with a fairer deal for all.

Coventry City Chief Executive Dave Boddy July 2021.
“We will however continue to provide cash turnstiles on matchdays, as we know that this is a convenient ticket purchasing method for fans and works as a Club in us providing a quick and easy way to buy on a matchday.
Surprising what you can do with the right Chief Executive!
 
 

In an age of convenience, it’s a shame that Derby make it hard to buy a casual ticket 

Just over 7000 home tickets remaining, so around 3000 sold in the last 24 hours.

Wait till its Boro's turn ......I'll be sat there with the popcorn !!

This would be a very slippery slope for football if they acted on it. In world of football the 'What if?' game is the road to madness and obsession. We've all seen moments of injustice down the years, for and against. Perhaps we should start reviewing decades of penalty decisions to see if we can engineer a different result and perhaps all the clubs can chip in for a massive barn-sized super computer to re-crunch every result since football has been on TV.
Perhaps Rotherham would like to sue us for that uber soft penalty for a slight jostling of Jeff Chandler ? Or perhaps we can sue Leicester for Savages dive ? Perhaps dozens of teams can sue Liverpool for the time that we were not allowed in European competition after Heysel??
Jeez, just move on man, we've getting shafted and relegated. Well done, hope you're happy now.

Yep.
I pointed it out as a bit of a joke before but you need to look at the history of new EFL boss man Rick Parry and how his and others' decisions affected Steve Gibson. 
It all smacks of making amends and carrying out future actions of appeasement in the fear of legal repercussion.

It’s a weird hatred he’s developed. I saw a Boro fan on Twitter justify it because “we cost them promotion”, how exactly did we do that? By finishing one place above them?
What about Villa who also broke the rules, but got promoted, are they not being targeted because they finished 1 place higher? He clearly sees us as an easy target and has done for a while.
He seems to be trying to use a vendetta against us to justify his club’s failings. I thought he’d be happy enough to wave us goodbye out of the trapdoor of the league but no, this is low even by his standards.
They were relegated in 2017 and had parachute payments for three years, yet it is our spending that is the reason… right.
If the roles were reversed, I would be outraged by our conduct. I always thought it was just a Morris v Gibson thing, but now Morris has gone he’s decided to go for the every day people with mortgages to pay, and the fans who just want to go and watch their team play football. His conduct is quite embarrassing to be honest.

We didn’t just take it, we massively improved on it, by locating it in not-Middlesbrough.

Indeed. seems to have forgotten about them since this in 2019.  One of the primary reasons he got an OBE was for services to sport - pull the other fecker. Can we apply pressure on mass to get him stripped of it, won't be good PR for him either way.  
@villareport
Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson is demanding an English Football League investigation into the financial conduct of three Championship teams, including Aston Villa.

Taking his stadium design …. And being able to fill it instead of having rows and rows of empty seats on an empty basis 

We need to forget about the insignificant little rick. He was probably bullied at school, hence his bitterness. This very small man means nothing to me or DCFC, so let's let him whinge and moan to his heart's content. All it does is confirm he is a vindictive rick, and the owner of a tinpot club that really no one in the north east (or the rest of England for that matter) gives a crap about. Just by talking about him we give him some form of relevance in the footballing world, so let's forget about him, and his name will fade into the annals of footballing obscurity. Whatever happens DCFC will be back and we will always, no matter what be bigger than Gibson and that horrible club he owns.

Odd that Gibson isn't sueing Villa, who came roaring past both us and Boro from the bottom half of the table after overspending massively in that particular season, and who also sold their stadium to their owners. 
Someone might think it's not really justice he's interested in. 
 

Dear Steve Gibson,
It's not Derby's fault you chose to employ Tony Pulis.
We kindly advise you that any legal actions made on the basis that it was not fair that Derby were better than middelsbrough for the season 18/19 are likely to fail on the above piece of information.
Kind regards,
Derby County.

He’s never recovered from us copying his stadium design. Can he really be serious about this ?? The EFL need to apply sanctions to Middlesbrough FC if he doesn’t desist immediately. Perhaps stopping them playing such boring football would be a starting point.
What is to stop us taking identical legal action against Aston Villa for breaching FFP and denying us a place in the Premier League ?

Here we are, administrators in, massive points deduction, an estimated £50m or whatever in debt, unable to pay wages. And then we read in the Teesside Gazette that Steve Gibson is suing Derby County. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/middlesbrough-Derby-rooney-mel-morris-21660410
His gripe is that Mel sold the stadium to another of Mel's companies (accepted as OK by the League because not every club owns their stadium and you can't force a club to) and that Derby loaned Matt Clarke when Gibson wanted him to go to Middlesbrough.
Of course claims such as these are manifestly absurd and would normally be laughed out of court. But the problem is it's inconceivable that the Derby Administrators can also afford to pay lawyers to fight the Middlesboro Chairman. Equally, it's inconceivable that Derby could afford any additional fines the courts might impose.
The sole purpose of this can only be to ensure the end of Derby County as a football club. Nothing less. The entire football world including honest Middlesbrough fans should be outraged by this behaviour and condemn it in the strongest possible terms. The club can't afford to fight this, so it's up to us fans to shame Gibson into stopping this despicable course of action.

Why would we sing he's one of our own to Rooney? 
Look at Morris and Mason Bennett and ask yourself if you'd like to be tarred with the same brush. 

Well I am not and never have been from the area so where does that put me. I consider myself as one of our own after making the journey for 52 years and still will be making it until I can’t 

Brilliant!

It's utter nonsense the one of our own malarkey imho.
This is professional sport and whereas some players are naturally more loyal because they are local, most move on because they're too good and want more money, or not good enough and the club doesn't need them.
Grealish still left a pretty big club in Villa because he wanted more from his JOB even though he'd been a Villa fan all his life.
Mason Bennett was one of our own until caught on camera saying ducking burn whilst driving past Pride Park.

If a player or member of staff is loyal to the club then he's one of our own.
 

He’s one of our own;
He’s one of our own;
He maybe a Scouser,
But he’s one of our own!
ROO-NEY. ROO-NEY. ROO-NEY. 

Was only thinking about this after his interview yesterday afternoon. Has to be ditched. We should now all have far too much respect for him to even think about singing it. He has evolved. So should the fans.