Only problem mate is that he's now firmly in the shop window but no matter what he built a firm platform for the club and indeed deserves huge credit having made the tough decisions when the club needed it most.

Well done BIg Sam

Thanks mate

Rush seems to be one of a few inspired appointments. The head coach, Steele, the recruitment staff. It might all be luck but it is very hard to escape the conclusion that the club knows what it is doing. Nothing can completely guarantee success but it certainly gives you a good chance if you go about everything the right way.

Fully deserved. Our owners did a fantastic job appointing Sam. He's become a very important part of Derby County. SAM IN!!! PEARCE IN!!! FAWAZ IN!!!

Sam, you're the man. It's great to be a Ram again.

Appleby is in town, wonder if he's he to talk contracts? Hope so- you've done a magnificent job of turning this club around

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/742681646?-260:828

And well deserved recognition for Buckobauer.

Could have dealt with the Clough sacking better! I mean, straight after a loss against Forest, not only that, a Forest team managed by Billy Davies and only a short time after Nigel lost his mother.

Pffft ^^^^^

Omar, WTF?!!! ^^^^^^

I can't be àrsed.

Igor, I didn't suggest you to sober up and find a job

Wrong & wrong, again.

Next?

comment by RamsfanBaz. 🐑 Derby > 💩Forest: FACT (U2480)
posted 41 minutes ago
Omar, WTF?!!! ^^^^^^
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Did I touch a nerve?

Ah poor little Omar, season down the pan already, fans booing at H\T, chants of we are top of the league a distant never to be heard again memory(although a chance in league one) and it turns out that the next messiah after the second coming of the last messiah is just as shît as we said he was.

He's hurt folks and as he gets no attention on the woofs board, he seeks succour from the lovely Rams and I as a decent citizen who would only ever look down on someone as when I'm helping them up.

So Omar, get over here to me and give me great big RAMS .

Now isn't that better.

Yet another indication of how well DCFC operate behind the scenes

Something that opposition fans don't see and don't understand when you try to say how well everything is run

Congrats Sam, nice bloke too, met him a couple of times

Sam Rush has done a lot of good since joining Derby mainly because unlike many other business men (e.g. Glick or Gartside) he understands football and what the fans want. Going to watch Derby is a real pleasure in the most part (and almost tolerable when we lose) and the club does a lot of good both locally and also interntionally. I don't see why there should be an award for CEO of the year though. Football people aren't luvvies with a need to have their egos massaged.

It is nonsense how many awards are dished out. It reminds me of the Woody Allen line about how he expects there to be one soon for best fascist dictator. My Trust has an annual awards event which is a similarly nauseating back-slapping exercise in nothing at all, although perhaps this is just sour grapes on my part from amazingly never having been nominated in any category. I have my eye on "most witheringly sarcastic" one of these years though.

Sam Rush wasn't always the bees' whiskers as I recall. After he was appointed quite a few of us were disparaging about him being the mouthpiece of the Yanks, spin spin, etc. Tom Glick attracted a huge amount of ire which I felt was largely undeserved - I think he also did a decent job behind the scenes but his image was less appealing to traditional fans like us. I am grateful to Nigel Clough for the many good things he did for our club but it became clear after his departure that he was a very difficult character for the Chief Executive to work with. The atmosphere seemed to instantly change from being vaguely attritional between manager and ownership to one of all working together, despite the overall financial parameters not altering. We're all singing from the same hymn sheet now and it's a nice little tune.

I am waiting for the best awards show category I nominate the golden sea swallow of knokke (yes it exists, or did anyway).

Heb is the current holder, I believe....

Credit where credits due well done Sam Rush. But we are still in the Championship and not in the premier league

Vidal has it about right. Glick did a good job of organising the admin side of affairs. He presumably was behind Clough's appointment and the huge benefit he brought in sorting the shambolic state of our football and spending constraints.

Undoubtedly the improvement continued and even gathered pace when Sam Rush came. But the manner of Clough's sacking was certainly his low point. He could have handled it a lot better.

And here we are with the most enjoyable football games we have seen for decades. As far as the award goes, well done Sam, you deserve it.

Sacking Clough his low point, I'm shocked you never mentioned this before Ramdini!!!

Think the fact that they had a replacement management team up and running within a few days shows that the sacking was somewhat planned and Rush has a Machiavellian side to go with his pantomime villain looks. Ends seem to have justified the means.

Igor.
It was the manner in which Rush carried out the deed. Clough did a great job for DCFC and deserved a much better termination. I am NOT saying Clough should have stayed.
I acknowledged the improvement Rush brought about but the Clough phase was a very necessary transition from a state of complete shambles left by Jewell and Davies to that in which we had got rid of the expensive and mediocre signing and introduced great young players such as :-
Brayford
Keogh
Buxton
Coutts
Ward
Russell
Bryson
Grant
Eustace
Forsyth etc. and developing Academy youngsters like Hendrick Hughes OBbrien

The quality of whom speaks for itself even now.

I have no doubt that, if McLaren had come in at that point, he would most likely have been no where near as effective as Clough in providing what was then needed.

Ramdini - not sure anyone could call Eustace "great" or "young"but I'm with you on the rest