DrummerMan
Well-known member
Do you think we could buy their seats IF they do go bust? ... I mean, paint them red and jobs a good-un for the Riverside /s
What was the quote from the Wycombe owner 'has he (Mel) put the ground in to administration'. Presenter 'no'. Wycombe owner 'pardon me for being suspicious but isn't that an £81m stadium'. Presenter 'erm something like that'....Next question
Especially when he started trying to compare Wycombe coming up as a result of average points due to covid forcing the league's curtailment with the effects of Derby cheating.What a nob head that presenter was, just wasn’t listening to him at all. Kept repeating the same old cr6p.
To be fair to Rooney I'm sure I'd read a story that he'd personally paid for the transport to some of their away games.The Presenter was a bit blinked to say the least. I can understand he wants to represent the Derby fans, but he has to keep some balance.
The fairest solution is for some compensation to Boro and Wycombe, but keep Derby as a going concern with cheaper players. Their fans are upset with say Wycombe who are probably only asking for Rooney's annual salary.
Irrespective of our claim, what is his priority as a football chairman? There are 2 sides to this, one being Derby not going to the wall and two being the EFL enforcing their rules robustly and if necessarily strengthening them.I'm sure Gibson doesn't want to completely destroy Derby but at least force their hand to come up with a resolution regardless of what that is.
He (BBC Derby interviewer) certainly sounded like a school boy clutching at straws and looking for any kind of excuse to blame the next man. As the Wycombe chairman said, we are not the bad guys.The Wycombe chairman handed the interviewer's balls on toast with a little tabsco for good measure.
I wish we had him representing us instead of George Carmin QC over the Blackburn debacle.
In fairness, we did go through a bad patch that cost us dearly.Ref clutching at straws and twisting facts - The BBC Derby presenter said we finished the season badly - this was untrue.
We won 5 of our last 6 games - 15 points from 6 games or 2.5 points per game. On that form over the season we would have won the Championship.
But if we had ignored FFP and fiddled our accounts, and also sold our stadium to ourselves in the previous seasons we would still have probably kept Bamford, Traore and Gibson.In fairness, we did go through a bad patch that cost us dearly.
I don't know why you feel the need to quote that to me, I've only stated that in fairness to the presenter's statement we did go through a bad patch. With the players mentioned, we might have done better but then again, if your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle.But if we had ignored FFP and fiddled our accounts, and also sold our stadium to ourselves in the previous seasons we would still have probably kept Bamford, Traore and Gibson.
And finished a place or two higher in the league by cheating the system?
I don't know why you feel the need to quote that to me, I've only stated that in fairness to the presenter's statement we did go through a bad patch. With the players mentioned, we might have done better but then again, if your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle.
(I felt 'the need' as I was replying to your point, that's how the board works?)I don't know why you feel the need to quote that to me, I've only stated that in fairness to the presenter's statement we did go through a bad patch. With the players mentioned, we might have done better but then again, if your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle.
You are totally missing what I am saying. I agree with everything about the FFP, players, etc, the presenter made a point that Redwurzel questioned and I replied stating he was correct about the bad patch.(I felt 'the need' as I was replying to your point, that's how the board works?)
But surely that is the entire point?
Derby had players they couldn't afford under FFP and did better than us, we had sold ours to stay within the rules.
You're very welcome Norman, glad to be of service.You are totally missing what I am saying. I agree with everything about the FFP, players, etc, the presenter made a point that Redwurzel questioned and I replied stating he was correct about the bad patch.
P.S. Thank you for explaining how a message board works, without people like you, I don't know how the rest of us would get through the day.
I would agree but that is fantasy football, you cannot say that for definite.You're very welcome Norman, glad to be of service.
I am not missing what you are saying, I am saying that the bad patch wouldn't have been as bad in all likelihood if we'd had our better players, that's it.