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We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

We settle the EFL points debacle and suddenly get a penalty. 

Best performance of the season so far... 

Best performance of the season so far... 

Let's imagine if the team were doing really well. I bet there would be a significant amount of fans crediting LR. It's all bias. No one really knows outside the club the dynamic of the coaching set up. Silly thread. 

Must have been watching a different game to RammieIb. One or two times he did not make the right/obvious decision, but generally his passing was good to watch. My only criticism of him at the moment is that he never looks fit enough to last more than 70 minutes. At 2-1 we needed him on to help control matters.

He passed the ball beautifully most of the game. 

2 soft goals. 2 points dropped 

Yay, I’m going to this!! After a brain haemorrhage and then lockdown I thought I’d never get to PP again. However, I’ve recovered really well over the summer, especially worked hard to improve physically and my partner is letting my son take me to the match - he’s much more worried than I am!
So, Rams, I’d appreciate a good performance and a win - though whatever happens I’ll feel like a winner just getting there.

I am sick to death of our club dieing with a thousand cuts!
I want a fresh start with all punishments done with, not kicking the can down the road constantly. The only reason we’ve been suffering all of this for so long is because no one in authority at dcfc has the class or honesty to put their hands up and say fair cop. We are a disaster of a club with no respect whatsoever for anyone else. If we held our hands up and showed a modicum of humility the EFL etc might be a little more sympathetic to our plight imo!

We've been quietly taking 'our punishment' for 2 years now! For our supposed crimes and misdemeanours I'd venture we've paid a massive price already and yet you and some others feel we should just lie down and take even more.
Tell me, what's classy about being a lamb to the slaughter, because for the life of me, I don't see your point. 

It's nothing to do with "class" it's about being treated fairly by a truly independant arbiter.

Yeah, call us a cab will ya? 

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. 
 

Think we'll struggle to win this one, but it's an interesting question and I don't blame the administrators for trying.
On the written reasons for rejecting Wigan's (similar) appeal the EFL dwelled a bit on their interpretation of a "force majeure" event re football clubs (which are almost always run at a loss, and often on the whim of a rich owner prepared to underwrite losses).
First, we are satisfied on the evidence we have seen that the Insolvency Event arose because Mr Kay, the effective owner, made a commercial decision to choose to go back on promises of continued support and stopped putting money into the Club. That cannot be regarded as a ‘Force Majeure’ event.
"In circumstances in which it is by no means uncommon in football generally and in the Championship in particular for a Club to depend on external support from its ultimate owners to bridge the gap between income and expenditure (at least without disposing of assets such as the playing staff), it is, we consider, a normal business risk that an owner will lose interest or run out of money and/or choose to deploy its resources elsewhere. This is what happened here."
I guess we need to clear a pretty high bar here. It's true that one key difference is that we had the same owner before Covid devastated our revenues (and he'd proven willing to sustain losses in the past). The problem we are likely to have is that our finances were a train wreck even before Covid, and that Mel ultimately chose (rather than was forced) to walk away.
It would also set a _very_ dangerous precedent for the EFL given that it's probably the threat of a 12 point deduction that is stopping other clubs following us into administration.
 

You’re a cab
Hope you feel better now

Yeah, call us a cab will ya?