Ram Logan Josh

Thought we weren't meant to do personal insults...

According to the Washington Post Nixon is a fraud.

Linked with a move to Inverness Caledonia Thistle a couple of days ago apparently:
 
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/inverness-caledonian-thistle/3868125/caley-thistle-linked-with-english-forward-jahmal-hector-ingram/

Well I have worked in business for many years and in all modesty I understand boring things like accounts better than most, I suspect.

I was unaware of Derby's accounting policy because I followed Derby's football, not their finances. Until January 2020 when the first publicity about the EFL charge came out. I thought then that it was very unlikely that EFL would overturn an indpendent professional's valuation of PPS, and so it proved. I though then that the allegation about amortisation, as it was described in the press as depreciating to non zero values at end of contract coudl not possibly be true. And it wasn't, that wasn't what Derby were doing, and that part of the charge was dropped.    

So really even after the publicity in January 2020 there was no reason for me to believe we were doing anything wrong. In August 2020 the IDC gave it's opinion which was basically the same as mine. EFL appealed but not aware on what grounds becasue the IDC decision which I read in full,  seemed pretty overhwlemingly to destroy the EFC case, including their expert who didn't even know what his duty as expert was meant to be.
Only in May 2021 did I start to supect ther wa sreally a problem when the LAP surprsingly oeverturned the ID judgment. But unti lMM's RD interview in September 2021 it wasnt confirmed that w ehad broken teh FFP , and even then only on the EFL's preferred amortsiation method which i snot a mandatory requirement.
So the idea we should all have known MM was breaking the rules, if I (for example) didn't know until September 2021, i think is just ridiculous and offensive to all Rams fans. Couhig should be charged with bringing the game into disrepute.
 

I want to hear Derby MPs use the justification of 'I love Niall' as part of their reasoning when debating this

Ok.
Go to the game, but face the opposite way while doing the bounce.

It’s developing into an evening with Ronnie Corbett.

Imagine he’s sent a sealed bid

Don't agree with this glad we lost stuff.  Surely the dressing room feels buoyed after any win? 
Barnsley, our first target, won today (just!). I'm sure their dressing room was a happier place than ours. I doubt their players are thinking "Oh no, we've won so we're gonna have to play one more game than Derby."
I think a confident, happy, winning team leaving the dressing room would have been the best result for us.
RLJ

Don't agree with this glad we lost stuff.  Surely the dressing room feels buoyed after any win? 
Barnsley, our first target, won today (just!). I'm sure their dressing room was a happier place than ours. I doubt their players are thinking "Oh no, we've won so we're gonna have to play one more game than Derby."
I think a confident, happy, winning team leaving the dressing room would have been the best result for us.
RLJ

Don't agree with this glad we lost stuff.  Surely the dressing room feels buoyed after any win? 
Barnsley, our first target, won today (just!). I'm sure their dressing room was a happier place than ours. I doubt their players are thinking "Oh no, we've won so we're gonna have to play one more game than Derby."
I think a confident, happy, winning team leaving the dressing room would have been the best result for us.
RLJ

Don't agree with this glad we lost stuff.  Surely the dressing room feels buoyed after any win? 
Barnsley, our first target, won today (just!). I'm sure their dressing room was a happier place than ours. I doubt their players are thinking "Oh no, we've won so we're gonna have to play one more game than Derby."
I think a confident, happy, winning team leaving the dressing room would have been the best result for us.
RLJ

I think Bird and Thompson are fine in the right set up as they’ve proved recently.
Todays set up was back to the poor start of season days. 
Back then we learned:
- Morrison isn’t a starter and can seriously unbalance the side.
- If you play CKR you need runners/movement around him and getting beyond him.
- Lawrence and Morrison can’t play in the same team (look how Lawrence’s form collapses)
- We can play infront of teams all we like, but if you don’t break through them you’re going to lose.
Today we picked our strongest defence and midfield and then completely blunted them with our poor attacking selections!

I’m sure they’ll sort it out imminently. ?

He is certainly above the mean average.

When Mel went public with his intentions to sell, I made a suggestion, write an autobiography when this is all over, and I hope he does once the dust settles.
What happened, what was the tipping point that saw him pull the plug, how did we manage to rack up this huge debt to HMRC when Fawaz down the A52 was facing winding up orders every couple of months.
Whilst ultimately his decision cost jobs, left behind a lot of debt to local businesses, which I am a creditor myself, leaving the existence of this club in jeopardy, I can’t sit here today and lay all the blame at his door, of course he must accept his part in this, not suggesting for a second he completely blameless.
Being a long time supporter of Mel, I have largely avoided discussions around him as there are still questions that I feel need answering, more clarity of what went on, closure. It would be easy to sit here and call him all the names under the sun, but I feel like I owe him the opportunity to explain, I hope he does find a way as his final Radio Derby interview didn’t really explain anything we didn’t already know, no gaps in the timeline were filled, and it’s those gaps which have left so many questions.
Do not think I am here to defend Mel, only Mel can defend himself, I have no intention of getting into drawn out debates as it will only cause more anger and frustration when right now we should be focussing on the future of this club.
You can drag up posts from the past that I and others made, but they were made with the information that we had at the time, others that raised concerns, had their doubts whilst hurt may feel smug with “I told you so”, which is their choice. I have made my enemies just from running this platform, sure there’s a few out there finger pointing.
However Mel came in, spent money, created excitement and dared us to dream which is exactly what football fans want, we had no idea it was ever to be a poo or literally bust, we were led to believe that we were on the line, pushing it at times which many clubs do, but that line was dragged out of reach when the EFL decided to review our accounts over previous seasons, accounts which they signed off.
I still to this day believe that EFL, Boro and Wycombe must also take some responsibility in all this. I also don’t think we can just ignore the impact that Covid has had, both financially and personally. Mel did not have a crystal ball, for all this to come at a time when trying to sell the club placed a fuckload of barriers in the way.
Whilst you can argue you shouldn’t live life on the edge, be prepared for the worst, I have been around 40 years and this is the first global pandemic which has changed life as we know it and seen sporting events played behind closed doors. Over the next 12 months I’m sure we will see others start to show the impact that alone has had without the EFL on their backs.
His own health issues which remain private and may not have played no part in his decision, but many things happen in life that can make you question your own mortality, did his, was his primary concern his family where the outside abuse questioned his financial support? I honestly don’t know and not trying to manufacture excuses here, losing close friends, illness, it can and does make you question where you are yourself in life.
I don’t know if we will ever see a book, if some already feel they have closure and wouldn’t be interested or believe a word he says, I for one believe it would give closure those that supported him during his tenure and feel hurt with how the club has been left, all the memories which should have been left have now been tarnished, including the one at Elland Road.
Life does go on though, I'm not going to spend another day questioning why as another mental drain that I have no desire to entertain.

I don’t understand why we are all so keen to blame Mel rather than the EFL. 
The problem with laying the blame at Mel’s door is that the logic just doesn’t add up.  It relies on 3 pillars:
Mel is as thick as mince He actively decided to ruin and devalue an asset he owns He is some kind of agent who intentionally bought Derby to ruin it. Let’s assume for a second that Mel Morris is neither stupid nor intent on ruining the club he supports, then you really have to ask – how does any of it make sense?
There is an alternative narrative to the ‘Mel ate my hamster’ view of the world. What he did during his time was try to get us promoted by sailing as close to the limit of FFP as possible, just like every other club with a reasonably minted owner.  Where he massively failed was in not having the foresight to build a time machine.
When we submitted the financial figures to the EFL on 30th June 2016 the EFL signed-off on those figures. As a result Mel based his future spending plans on how much he could put into the club while staying within FFP using that method. He funded the club on this basis for the next 3 years, without a murmur from the EFL.
Let’s say that the EFL had been even half-way competent – it’s a stretch I know, but bear with me – and had said on the 30th of June 2016.
“Mr Morris, we don’t think you should amortise in this way, can you resubmit using the previous method?”
What do you think he would have done? Given that he’s not stupid or intent on ruining the club I’m betting he’d have said:
“Right you are, I’ll change my plans accordingly”
And over the next couple of years sold Tom Laurence and not bought Krystian Beilik.  From the figures that have been quoted I think would have been enough to comply with FFP, and if it wasn’t he would have sold someone else, wouldn’t he?  Given the alternative was to destroy a really valuable asset he owned I don’t think that is an unreasonable assumption.  I would argue the EFL retrospectively moving the goal posts and a global pandemic that disproportionately hits the best supported teams are why we are where we are rather than the blame all laying at Mel’s door.

"Erm, think your as hard as Jason Knight do you, son??"

"Erm, think your as hard as Jason Knight do you, son??"

We didn't vote for brexit just to have more imminents.... ?

So if I am understanding this correctly then someone has offered £1 million pounds more to take hold of the club 
also the administrators are saying any claims from Middlesbrough and Wycombe are not football creditors but the the EFL are suggesting they are ? 
it’s no wonder a deal can’t get sorted. 
the behaviour of Middlesbrough and Wycombe is incredulous and Middlesbrough are placing themselves at the top of my do not like list replacing dirty leeds whilst irrelevant Wycombe need to give themselves a slap. 

Definately 

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