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The statement put out by the club puts all the blame on Covid, but if that's the case then why isn't every other club in the league also bankrupt?

Truth is, we all lived the dream when there seemed to be a bottomless money pit to fund that dream.  Now we discover that in fact it was a bottomless pile of debt, which shouldn't really have come as such a surprise.

We got so close.  And now it's time to pay the bill for all that dreaming.

Mel seemed to be under the impression that the clever thing to do was to (ALLEGEDLY) play fast and loose with commonly established accounting practices and then let loose a barrage of thinly veiled abuse aimed at whoever sought to question his actions.  As a result, we have no friends in the EFL and very few at other clubs.

Managers and players, many of them chronically underperforming, came and went, and there always seemed to be another pot of dosh somewhere to fund the latest folly, the last of which was the signing of Wazza as first a player and now as manager.

Brentford achieved promotion the right way, by living within their means, selling players when necessary (Josefzoon for example!) and building a team greater than the sum of the parts.  We did the opposite, and it damn near worked!  After complaining about the QPR/Zamora episode, for which they were belatedly punished, we then tried going down that same route ourselves.  And we too have been punished. 

Paradoxically, now that Derby fans no longer have to try to defend the indefensible,we can finally face the truth with clear consciences and move on.  We will be in league 1 next season for sure.  The next challenge is to look at how Bournemouth, Sheff Utd, Leicester & Brentford did it and learn some harsh lessons.

We've been here before and got out of the mire and into the PL (80s/90s).  So we just have to do it again now.

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Having been a Rams fan since the 1960s, I’m getting a sense of “deja vu”. I vividly remember leaving an FA Cup quarter final against Plymouth, which we had lost to an inswinging corner, wondering if the club would survive the week. Happily it did and we enjoyed good times under Arthur Cox and Jim Smith. Football is cyclical - only when you have experienced the downs can you truly appreciate the ups. There are difficult times ahead but we will come back stronger.

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