Wycombe Chairman on BBC Radio Derby - Everyone needs to listen

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

Spot on.

The fact that the Wycombe owner suggested they swap leagues with Derby and the claim would be dropped was very interesting and somewhat reasonable.

But that is the crux of Gibsons case and always has been... The stadium and then that opened the whole can of worms into their accounts as a whole.

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.
 
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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Not having a go at Rooney - more the amount been paid in wages in general by Derby and their fans pleading/media that they are finished if we accept any compensation.
 
Sad but the Wycombe owner told it as it is , hard to bear ... thought the end comment about all the other creditors ( including the stadia ownership) waving there claims .... yet the focus has been swung to Boro and Wycombe as deal breakers
 
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.
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.
No one wants to see clubs fail, but if this had been brushed under the carpet then which owner will be the next to try and pull the wool over the EFL's eyes resulting in more clubs going in to administration? Surely the whole point of FFP is about having a fair competition and also ensuring clubs aren't put at risk by their owners.
 
On H &J on talk sport they suggested that Steve Gibson and Ashley are close friends. If its him that saves them he will already know what he will pay to Boro as they will have decided it between them already.
 
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.
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.
 
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.
 
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.
In fairness, we did go through a bad patch that cost us dearly.
 
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 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.

To me the claim is a "loss of chance" claim, you can't predict all the permutations of would've/could've aunty/uncle scenario. Fact is, by cheating, Derby prevented Boro's chance of play-off involvement.


Also, while I'm here, there's a lot of chat about the Derby fans in all this, but what about the effects on Boro and Wycombe fans for the removal of opportunity (in Wycombe's case, relegation!). Cuts both ways.
 
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?)

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.
 
(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 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.
 
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.
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.
 
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