Bianoic
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3 hours ago, TexasRam said:
So what he’s been called up for his national team, what good is that for us. All last season and the 3 games this season he’s done nothing in a Rams shirt. He takes up a spot in our front 3 and has scored 1 goal in his time here. They’re the facts so you can scoff at those with the opinion he’s not all that all you want.
The ‘facts’ are that he has more than a dozen full international caps for a country who has played in the recent Euros. At age 23.
Its a ‘fact’ that he is deemed good enough to play alongside the UEFA and FIFA player of the year for 2020
The only ‘fact’ that you have mentioned is the goalscoring record, which is,of course, disappointing.
Lets give him some patience. He’s a young man who has found himself in difficult circumstances, moving to a foreign country, not knowing a word of the language, which was shortly afterwards effectively locked down by the pandemic.
Surely we understand that he will only get better with a bit of support and help, and not with criticism and derision ?
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37 minutes ago, Rev said:
No point signing Baldock, when we've got kids who can play that role at half the price.
I know where you are coming from Rev
But Stretton has , what, one or maybe two starts in the league ?
Which other kids are there ? Any with any league experience ? Its a big ask relying wholly on untried kids.
We are where we are, having to make do and mend. Not been impressed with Baldock in pre season but he's been around the block and what other realistic options are there before deadline day ? He could come good against the overall consensus just like Colin did
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Really interesting question made by the initial poster.
Im a football fan first and a Rams fan second. I follow the Rams because I love football, not the other way round.
I thought this weekends matches were fantastically entertaining
But I also am becoming incredibly frustrated about how one sided things have become in favour of the larger clubs. For example, the way they can just pick off smaller clubs best academy players is absolutely scandalous. Money is just dominating everything it seems which is just horrible.
I agree with the comments that say there will always be a Derby County, even if it had to become a phoenix club. There are far too many fans, lots of very long standing, for that not to happen.
Our second team is Notts County and we go a few times a season. Nice club, nice people, nice ground . No sizeable minority of complete drunken foul mouthed cretins threatening to ruin your enjoyment. And its nice to support a team but not be bothered at all if they lose !! Its a completely different game at that level too, in some ways far less stressful and more enjoyable.
So as well as continuing to support the Rams in whatever guise they were, I would also follow my non league club more .
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27 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
It does if you don't run it
£40m a year doesnt seem too far off the going rate for owning a team driving fir the Prem ?
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15 minutes ago, FrostedRam said:
And here lies a question. If he’s invested £200 million of his own money. How do we have debt???
I guess what he has done is guarantee loans, which we actually know the club can’t pay back as we have no assets of saleable value. In truth it’s not in Mels interest for the club to go under as i imagine he is liable for the loans. If rumours on the sale are believed he’s now looking for the new investors to take on liability of these loans.
Running a footy club for six years costs more than £200m ?
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25 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
We've already had to watch for two years, how much longer?
So has he !
If Mel walks away tomorrow, what happens ?
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6 hours ago, Oldben said:
What is the value of Derby county.
Rumour has it Mel is looking to sell for 50 million, he's not getting that.
So what is Derby county worth at present, I would like Mel to sell Derby for 20 million because I think it will encourage a buyer.
Mel might hold out for an amount but how much, 30 million.
Mel has destroyed Derby by selling anyone he could get money for, under a transfer embargo, he's guilty of making a team incapable of competing at the championship level.
A team that's of no interest to buyers.
In its current form who would pay 50 million for the club.
Mel is paying the wages, the moment he stops, for evey month wages are not paid, Derby lose 3 points, is that correct?
So if he did not pay for 2 months, that's 6 points and Derby are relegated.
With the team Derby have now its highly likely the club are relegated, so that doesn't help Mel.
It's time he sold for less, but how much?
Can I ask why this worries you ?
Things will work themselves out in timeWhilst of course we are all very invested in the future of our club, ultimately this is a private matter for Mel to resolve.
He has said before that he will do right by the club, and I believe him. He has invested £200m of his own money, as proof.
Its not in his interests for the club to be made worthless and, whilst on football matters he has shown himself to be sorely lacking, at least on business matters we can rely on the fact that he knows what he is doing.
Lets be patient and let this play out
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2 hours ago, Tamworthram said:
Not his best game yesterday but I'd stick with Roos.
I agree. Roos for the first time it seems to me was starting to actually earn us points this season with his saves, in the way that Carson did when he was at his peak. Be harsh to drop him after one mediocre game.
Personally I always feel rotating or chopping and changing keepers cannot be a helpful policy for the team. Make a decision and stick with it for a good while
Finally it does seem as if something has happened behind the scenes with Marshall. For an international goalkeeper who has just been playing in a major tournament to be deemed not capable of making even the bench of a team who has only won once in nearly 20 games doesnt make any logical sense.
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1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:
To get out of embargo now, he likely needs to have the cash in available right now. I presume he's 'stalling' hoping the takeover/investment comes through before needing to find the cash himself
Its all rather strange and confusing.
From MMs point of view, just because he has to show that he has the means to support the club ( by proving he has the readies in a bank account or something ) doesn't mean he actually has to spend it. If the club is bought by new owners, his commitment would end that day.
And for someone who is still reportedly worth several hundreds and millions of pounds, showing that you have say £30m (figure plucked out of air ) in cash somewhere easy to get at shouldnt be too hard to demonstrate.
So I’m thinking there must be some other issue going on in the background here ?
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2 minutes ago, IslandExile said:
Ah hem.
Now is the time to despair !! ?
Not then though !!
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6 minutes ago, IslandExile said:
I despair. This hurts.
We are away
We aren't losing
We haven't conceded a goal
Its really not that bad !
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5 hours ago, Grumpy Git said:
What a farce, we are completely rudderless and an embarrassment. Talk about not having a pot to piss in.
Maybe taking the cash then having to hand it over to Posh is too much stress for the treasurer "there it was gone"!
Cheer up old chum
We’re all in it together, remember ?
Come on GG, things looking a bit better now than a month ago ?
We can do this - together , Yes ?
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34 minutes ago, Rev said:
I love everyone mate!
Well, nearly everyone.
I'm also big enough to apologise for my behaviour last night, I was like a Mardy toddler being told it's time for bed.
Welcome to the forum, btw.
(If you look hard enough, there's a topic enabling new members to introduce themselves to the forum, if they so wish.)
It's buried in the last subsection, whatever it's called these days.
The Jim Smith room.
Good on you
And I’m sorry if I wound you up - my fault
Up The Rams !!
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I think that Chris Coles is an absolute gem and Steve Nicholson comes across as a really nice fella who knows his stuff.
Before Chris it was OB , who is absolutely brilliant and surely destined for big things ( if he wants them ) - a bit like Darren Ferguson who used to be on local radio and now heads up BT Sport commentary and presents on Radio Five LiveSo someone at RD and DT must be doing something right !
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17 hours ago, LeedsCityRam said:
And is that not the main purpose of this forum?
Connecting Derby fans from outside the city together. Will be a limited turnout at Hull so reach out if you're travelling on your tod - we still need your noisy support ?
@David I grew up in Scunthorpe so I could make a) disparaging remarks about the odour of your town & b) laugh that the Codheads went non-league yet again. Tempted now?! ?
I’m travelling on my tod !
Up in west yorkshire (bingley) on tues and staying overnight and only just realised we are at Hull the following night !
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29 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:
Not sure what can be done. The EFL negotiated these terms with the Premier League in exchange for increased "solidarity" payments. I doubt most clubs with their Cat 2 and 3 academies care. I expect we are one of very few clubs affected.
You may well be right.
The Category One Academies are: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Blackburn, Burnley, Brighton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Everton, Fulham, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Reading, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham, West Brom, West Ham and Wolves.
If you take out the Premier top 6, who seem to be the main current beneficiaries, that still leaves 22 clubs with a Cat One academy. 9 of them are in the EFL. Of the rest you would think most are also exposed to losing starlets to the glamour clubs.
Maybe it should just get renegotiated, possibly as part of the Rick Parry’s/EFL aim to reduce or get rid of parachute payments ?
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On 11/08/2021 at 14:53, David said:
Wait for this one….just £250k if they played 100 games for a EFL club, £1.3m for a PL club
To play 100 games before you’re 18 would suggest you are something special, but we could potentially lose them for under 500k.
Replaces the old tribunal system, but allows PL clubs to have us all by the danglies.
Spot on, its a terrible injustice
As if the big premier clubs dont have enough advantages already, the current system actually encourages them to go trawling around EFL clubs cherry picking their best kids.
We end up losing twice over - not getting a fair price and then missing out on them improving our team when they develop !Surely something needs to be done about it ?
Maybe the solution is some kind of mandatory sell on clause of, say, 50% plus a very significant appearance fee clause. Currently these cannot be used by the club because the youngster has never signed a senior contract.
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5 minutes ago, Norman said:
It's refreshing to see that you think its Mel's job to sort the ticketing system out and book coaches....
Name me a worse run club at this very moment.
Let me know, in the next say 30 to 45 minutes or so ( seeing as you know what is happening at every other club so well) , what the season and match day ticket situation is at the following clubs ;
Hartlepool United
Ipswich Town
Norwich city
Blackburn Rovers
Newcastle United
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Would he still keep getting picked for his country if his performances were not good Texas ?