Animal is a Ram Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said: Maybe they don’t have a vendetta, maybe the club is actually a mess. 100% the club is a mess - but they always report the extremes. It was always going to be highly unlikely, but they lead with 21 point deduction and made it sound like a certainty. You don't see the headlines from the Mail anywhere else. Zag zig, r_wilcockson, FlyBritishMidland and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKWORTHRAM Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Does anyone have the full Percy article to read? I don't subscribe the Telegraph because I would never read it only for the Derby articles. I can take going down. It happens. Any team can have a bad season and fall through. Bigger clubs than us have gone down. The big worry for me is the club and the very realistic possibility that there won't be a club to support soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, IslandExile said: Agreed but, ignoring the Daily Mail, that's the outcome Percy is suggesting may happen without Alonso. Worrying times. Yes and I'm suggesting that it might happen with him too but worse, there's not a lot of money or assets left in the club. Edited May 7, 2021 by RoyMac5 IslandExile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/wayne-rooney-one-game-save-193244321.html Yahoo (?!) always have the full Percy articles without the paywall for those who haven’t read it. IslandExile, Wolfie, Mostyn6 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Also if you hit stop/cancel whilst it is still loading on the Telegraph website it doesn't load the pay wall and you can read it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazaDunn Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, EraniosSocks said: Can’t believe Amazon/Netflix passed up on the opportunity to make a documentary out of this club They didn’t pass up. They approached us under Rowett but GR didn’t want it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Tamworthram said: Maybe the Daily Mail are in cahoots with the EFL to derail our hopes of survival (we’re quite capable of doing that without any outside influence) so, expect an announcement today that the EFL are charging us with something else/launching another investigation/have turned Alonso down. P.s. Only kidding (I hope). I don’t really believe in conspiracy theories or think the whole world is determined to destroy Derby. So you think the Daily Mail has a balanced content on Derby County? TomG and Tamworthram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollycutts1982 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 10 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/wayne-rooney-one-game-save-193244321.html Yahoo (?!) always have the full Percy articles without the paywall for those who haven’t read it. It’s very pro Rooney, this is how people outside the club see it, not his fault other factors has hindered him. He is inept as a manager, failure to appoint an experienced no.2 has cost him and most importantly us (the fans/club) massively. I’d offer to drive him away from the club but his chauffeur can do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC1388 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 I know John Percy is normally the oracle in terms of information from the club but reading a lot of that article appears to be news from other places? He has asked the club to comment but they haven't, isn't it normally the club who feed him his information, so where has he got all this from? I also agree with the club keeping quiet this week, the focus needs to be on the big game on Saturday, it is also no shock to see these articles in the build up to a big game for us. It happened before big games previously too. FlyBritishMidland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said: I know John Percy is normally the oracle in terms of information from the club but reading a lot of that article appears to be news from other places? He has asked the club to comment but they haven't, isn't it normally the club who feed him his information, so where has he got all this from? When I suggested the very same about a previous Percy article I was poo-pooed and told what a paean of journalism Percy is. Ellafella 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said: I know John Percy is normally the oracle in terms of information from the club but reading a lot of that article appears to be news from other places? He has asked the club to comment but they haven't, isn't it normally the club who feed him his information, so where has he got all this from? I also agree with the club keeping quiet this week, the focus needs to be on the big game on Saturday, it is also no shock to see these articles in the build up to a big game for us. It happened before big games previously too. 1 minute ago, RoyMac5 said: When I suggested the very same about a previous Percy article I was poo-pooed and told what a paean of journalism Percy is. While he hasn’t got anything out the club directly this time, there’s nothing in the article we didn’t already know about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 minute ago, ThePrisoner said: While he hasn’t got anything out the club directly this time, there’s nothing in the article we didn’t already know about. Which is what I said about a previous article. In this article it states: "Morris and chief executive Stephen Pearce declined to take calls from Telegraph Sport this week in the build-up to Saturday’s match." But there are at least snippets of interest, are they more truthful than the Mail articles who say 'our source', who can say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramcoteRam84 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 There is an element here the club aren’t talking so journalists are filling the gaps with speculation. But once tomorrow is done we need to really start pushing for answers from the club hierarchy. If we go down tomorrow and Mel doesn’t come out and address the fans that would be shameful Leeds Ram, Kingpin and Derby4Me 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 You’d think by midweek up, down, win lose , draw there’d be some clarity. DCFC1388 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Can someone please superimpose Mel's face on this? Thank you. Leeds Ram and EraniosSocks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EraniosSocks Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 7 minutes ago, Ambitious said: Can someone please superimpose Mel's face on this? Thank you. If you take the hair away and the baseball cap, he looks like Sam Rush ollycutts1982 and Ambitious 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olton Ram Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Animal is a Ram said: I know we want more transparency around what's happening around the club, but this isn't it. Is staging an 'interview' via passive aggressive tweets a thing now?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Be very surprised if he does takeover the club truthfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamsFan10 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 John Percy - possibly the most reliable reporter on Derby - talking about a threat of insolvency if we go down. It is truly incredible how Mel managed (and still does to some extent) to keep lots of fans onside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihangel Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, RamsFan10 said: John Percy - possibly the most reliable reporter on Derby - talking about a threat of insolvency if we go down. It is truly incredible how Mel managed (and still does to some extent) to keep lots of fans onside. Importantly though, John Percy is a journalist not an expert. You have to be careful throwing out words like insolvency. Given Mel is the the clubs biggest creditor, why would he be concerned by insolvency? That couldn't arise unless he called it in. Something I thought about this morning, given that Mel Morris is probably aware what people are saying about him on here and elsewhere (on and those 'Fans' groups, 1884, ramsblog etc etc on twitter) would it be a massive surprise if he turned round and gave it a massive F U? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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