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14 hours ago, LeedsCityRam said:

This reads like Morris was a victim of circumstance & acted like a 'reasonable person' thereafter. I would argue that is a very generous interpretation.

Reality is Morris knew towards the end ot 2017/18 that we'd overspent as a club. He publicly told Rowett we would be reining it in & relying more on Academy graduates and that was part of Rowett's rationale for jumping ship to Stoke. 

Had Morris kept to this strategy, we'd have been fine. What he then did though was to bet the house on one last attempt at promotion...got blinded by a celebrity appointment (Lampard) & spent money every bit as frivolous as his first 2 years. It was this season that provoked the ire of Gibson & interest of onlookers who couldn't reconcile his earlier statements with the approach thereafter.

Once we lost to Villa & he decided to sell having lost his gamble, he had a responsibility to manage the club prudently. Instead he doubled down with our biggest ever signing (Bielik) & a massive PR stunt (Rooney). Gibson served notice of intent to sue us May 2019 but Morris did not deal with this until 3 months ago (and even then there are suggestions he's just lumped it onto the price of PP). He said he would fund us until we were sold but cut his losses by dumping us into administration & left us to the mercy of rival clubs & a vengeful EFL. 

He also had a bid last summer from the Binnies (reported in the Athletic) which seemingly he rejected in favour of administration & a certain relegation. That sound like someone who had no option but to do what he did?

To your point about fans supporting us at Wembley and then turning on Morris, how would you expect the average fan to know the situation at the club when Morris was so secretive about the real picture & his true intentions?

Exactly @LeedsCityRam and @Brailsford Ram.

We support Derby County Football Club and we expect our owner to be loyal, honest and at the very least be reasonable, unfortunately the folk at Radio Derby had to force a pushed apology, out of the guy, after he had just put us into Administration, after fans had backed him for far too long, because we didn't want to accept that he was just a businessman making it up on the hoof and potentially gambling our beloved Derby County away to the dogs.

Sing up.

 

 

 

 

Sing up!

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2 hours ago, IslandExile said:

@CBRamette may be able to confirm this but there were tree surgeons in Cambridge called:

Bodgitt & Scarper 

Just googled it: loads of businesses, jokey or otherwise, with that name and even a Corgi Ford Transit

Havent come across them but ours is Mr Hedges

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20 hours ago, Brammie Steve said:

Owed to Rick Parry........

The business of football?

Business!!

Football's a game,

A sport,

A battle

A clash of two mighty armies over ninety minutes,

Decided by who scores the most goals.

Business?

Dog eat dog

Do others before they do you!

"Mam!

Dog's done his business

On the carpet again!

Stinking the place out."

 

 

Seemed like an appropriate moment to mention it. 

It may have been the best tribute ever but I doubt it.

I sometimes listen to a podcast called Ramswriter.

He can't write a sentence that is correct.

And yes it does matter. It you call yourself Rams writer then you should be able to write.

It's you're and it's they're and it's lose FFS

I get it. Why don't the rest of you?

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12 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

I used to work at a now defunct bank and we had a list of funny names we used to update and send round, and we wonder why it no longer exists.

The only two I really remember was:

Cleveland Beavers, hardly funny 

And

Mustapha Schitt, which was bloody hilarious.

 

My favourite name of a former coworker was the glorious "Manmeet Banga".

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5 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Exactly @LeedsCityRam and @Brailsford Ram.

We support Derby County Football Club and we expect our owner to be loyal, honest and at the very least be reasonable, unfortunately the folk at Radio Derby had to force a pushed apology, out of the guy, after he had just put us into Administration, after fans had backed him for far too long, because we didn't want to accept that he was just a businessman making it up on the hoof and potentially gambling our beloved Derby County away to the dogs.

Sing up.

 

 

 

 

Sing up!

As an aside, I saw them play the Venue earlier in the month. Still good value after all these years.

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10 hours ago, Crewton said:

Can't wait for Championship clubs to start moaning about us being able to activate contract extensions, thus "cheating" them out of free transfers.....?

Good job Middlesbrough didn't want out fullbacks or else there would be a court case pending. Still time though

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