Derby appointing administrators

don't give them ideas!!

 

I wondered that. Could our owners take the club, players and staff, buy the stadium and rename it say Derby County 21 and play there?

 

Starting, you'd imagine with Mr W. Rooney, Esquire. The Administrators will surely want to get his salary off the books via a negotiated settlement?

 

I totally agree, and I'd also have sympathy with the majority of Derby supporters, who at the end of the day are no different to us. That's why it's galling that the EFL haven't taken a tougher stance in the past. If the penalty for breaching FFP was expulsion, no appeals, this kind of **** would have been nipped in the bud long ago. If the "fit and proper owner" test actually meant something, we wouldn't have egotistical plonkers running clubs into the ground. And if the EFL was run properly, for the benefit of all clubs instead of the favoured few, we'd have a much stronger football structure and a more exciting sport for future fans to latch on to. Obviously Derby's owners are to blame for the mess they're in right now, but the EFL are guilty of aiding and abetting. IMHO.

 

Don't Bet365 pay his salary?

Allegedly.

 

No doubt be 1 point per season for the next 21 years reduced to 1 year on appeal.

 

The -9 deduction has been agreed by all parties i believe. Wen they enter admin next week -12 will hit them hard. The almost certainty of relegation in may. All 21 points taken is unavoidable now

 

So, they were almost certainly going down anyway. Then they agreed the 9 point penalty this season for irregularities. Then they go into administration at this stage to make sure that 12 point penalty is also this season. So essentially all their points punishments will be in a season where they almost certainly have no effect on the outcome?

That hardly seems a fair and fitting punishment. Just more manipulation of the system.

 

Derby's lawyers suggested Force Majeure to Rooney and he just said erm erm yeah well sign him.

 

Thought they were Stoke?

 

Ah yes that's true. Its whoever sponsors them then I think.

Edit: it's 32Red, Google was my friend.

 

As someone working in the club, when we get relegated do we employ less staff? Cut costs on academy, match day staff, coaches etc?

I just keep reading about how it’s tough on Derby’s staff but I’d imagine the clubs they’ve cheated such as Wycombe would probably have had to let staff go.

 

I can only speak for us but we’ve maintained similar staffing levels regardless of division. But we do have a very small number in fairness and we are a club that lives within it means.

There were 24 media and marketing at Derby last year. There are 3 of us at BFC.

 

Always the same when clubs start to implode. There will, no doubt, be very many decent workers at the club who have done absolutely nothing wrong and are now very worried. Similarly there will be many genuinely decent working-class fans out there who are concerned. Just because Derby have a proportion of moronic thicko fans baiting other teams like Barnsley doesn't mean they're all evil or everyone associated with the club should lose their jobs. It's the system, the owners and the EFL that have conspired to **** things up.

 

I was speaking to a Derby county fan who believes this won’t happen because they are too big a club. He reckoned they were in the top 10 clubs in the country and that the other clubs should stop moaning because they had more money and fans than anyone else in the league….

When I said he was deluded, I was apparently as bad as the EFL….

 

Watching Sky Sports News - don't think they have even mentioned it in the last hour.

 

And the many creditors who won't see a penny many of whom may be small businesses.

 

To be fair, they do a good job. When I saw them play on sky, I saw more of Wayne Rooney’s massive heed, than any of the woeful performance in the pitch. That must have been the work of the media crew….

 

There are fans like that at a lot of clubs. The massive city slightly to the south is a good example. They should all go and live in a land where there are lots of clouds and cuckoos. He'll not be the only Derby fan that's in denial.

 

With bells on, how do I like this post 100 times.
I get so ****** off how clubs have got away with these malpractices for years.