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Derby County 2-0 Sheffield Utd-Feck the EFL

DERBY COUNTY v SHEFFIELD UNITED...............………........................Championship # 26


Pride Park Stadium Saturday 15th January 2022

Every time I start the match thread with a wry observation, usually in a self-deprecating fashion and I usually succeed in creating something that no-one reads because the whole point of these match threads is just provide a just that - a thread. Unfortunately, today, I just do not know what to say.

I leave the takeover articles to you chaps (and chapeses) - and excellent they are but they are just that. We cannot effect or change the course of anything for our beloved club. With the dark dealings of the EFL and they are dark - we are being humiliated as fans, our manager, our players and the city is being humiliated by the non-accountable, vindictive and anachronistic EFL


I'm gutted Jags has gone but he has. Means a start for Stearman but again he is about 109 and will need to be used sparingly.....ahhhhh....what's the use? we don't stand a chance against the EFL


And who holds the EFL and the faceless bureaucrats to account?

Team news:-

Substitutes:

posted on 19/1/22

comment by Chicagoram (U22653)
posted about 6 hours ago
comment by FinlandRam (U3621)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
It’s nonsense. If the points has been deducted earlier in last season, how does anyone know that would not have spurred the team into 3 more wins? You can’t assume the same outcome in different scenarios even if we were crap at the time. Maybe Bielik doesn’t get injured, our form at that time continues and we mount a play off challenge.
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No, but if the points were deducted from last season's final total we and not W would have been relegated. That was his point. (I am not personally saying the points should have been deducted from last season's total!)
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Yes, but again, who is to say that’s the appropriate timing to apply the deduction? It’s just one hypothetical scenario and there are probably some rules as to why it can’t be applied after the fact for example. Again, spurious. They’d have to prove that was the only possible timing so they’d want just enough delay of submission by Derby for that to be the case but not as much delay as actually happened. Bonkers.

posted on 19/1/22

comment by Desicafu (U8481)
posted 6 hours, 55 minutes ago
Anyone else unable to sleep , preoccupied by what's going to happen to our club or what the next piece of news might be on our club?
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Haven’t been a sleeping well for a couple of months and this is not helping, only thing on my mind when trying to doze off

posted on 19/1/22

Whether Morris gets any more from candy crush or not it must still be in his interests to provide sufficient funds to see out the season. Does not need to be a gift and could be a loan. If DCFC goes bust what will the stadium be worth then? As a football stadium, nothing without a team. So what's left? Demolition and sale as industrial/business /whatever land. BUT, think of the cost of demolition Mel!

posted on 19/1/22

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013gsh

Prog last night on radio 5 live. Derby content for an hour from 35 mins on.
Not sure I learned too much more, just reinforced that Colin Murray talks a lot

posted on 19/1/22

Interesting section about whether MM could re-invent himself as the club saviour. (Sure I heard it here and not in another prog?).

posted on 19/1/22

Hmm, we’ll if that was the only route to survival then maybe but I would rather some other white knight appeared. I think unlikely, if he did then why bother going into administration in the first place

posted on 19/1/22

Cue Dixie……

posted on 19/1/22

comment by 🏁 AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 56 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013gsh

Prog last night on radio 5 live. Derby content for an hour from 35 mins on.
Not sure I learned too much more, just reinforced that Colin Murray talks a lot
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Thanks Ang. Actually I thought it was terrific and Murray did an excellent job of highlighting to the public at large all the terrible things going on at the hands of Morris, EFL, the administrators, Wycombe and Middlesborough. All the guest speakers were great also.

The more publicity all this gets the better.

posted on 19/1/22

comment by Chicagoram (U22653)
posted about a minute ago
comment by 🏁 AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 56 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013gsh

Prog last night on radio 5 live. Derby content for an hour from 35 mins on.
Not sure I learned too much more, just reinforced that Colin Murray talks a lot
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Thanks Ang. Actually I thought it was terrific and Murray did an excellent job of highlighting to the public at large all the terrible things going on at the hands of Morris, EFL, the administrators, Wycombe and Middlesborough. All the guest speakers were great also.

The more publicity all this gets the better.
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Chicago

posted on 19/1/22

How times have changed. A match thread and the threat of liquidation and we make 600 comments. Once upon a time we could do that by half time. But no one wants crofting and wildlife reports these days........🐾

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