Fine! and oh yes, the fixture list

Going on past evidence maybe but let's look on the bright side.

comment by Desicafu (U8481)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
I believe it'll be a case of submit accounts before deadline, EFL determine the books have been cooked for past three years and Wycombe take our place.

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Can’t see all that happening before August 7th. So presumably we won’t be retrospectively relegated. In for a bad season, yes.

Just to say I'm not gloating.

It seems very strange to publish to different fixture lists.
I think Mel has personnally upset some one at the EFL and this is the result.
This also messes up League One as well.

Well, don't know how true these figures are....but if correct indicate why we're (and other clubs of course) are in the proverbial. I bet even the lowliest on this list many of us would be envious of :
https://salarysport.com/football/sky-bet-championship/Derby-county/
https://salarysport.com/football/player/jack-marriott/

So much about the EFL's war against us does not make sense. Why? Maybe it's just too convenient to say that Gibson is all behind it and it's all without substance. Perhaps there is stuff about Morris's behaviour or his management of the club that might, if not vindicate the EFL's approach, at least make it a bit more understandable than at present. Can it be as simple as saying "The EFL hate us"?

But if their vendetta is against Morris, why are they effectively making it impossible for him to sell the club by spinning out the uncertainty and confusion for as long as they can? Why do they not want to draw a line under it after all this time and simply move on? And if we are actualy guilty of bad pracftice, why did the original tribunal side so strongly with DCFC, and are still doing so now with this miniscule "punishment"? It simply does not add up..

Mel's story in the history books will be an interesting one.

When he was appointed I had friends, who were big gamers saying to me "Oh no, not the Candy Crush man" such was the amorality they felt that brand carried, and how it had transformed their jobs from making fun and enjoyable puzzle games into ones where they had to maximize after-sales profit by exploiting players while skirting around gambling laws.

That might not have been Mel's doing, but it was a company he heavily invested in.

He comes across, at Derby, as thinking he's smarter than everybody else, the EFL may feel they were lured into a trap by agreeing to these policies, which along with a number of other decisions we've seen over the years are of questionable morality and appear like attempts to get away with exploiting loopholes.

That kind of behavior rubs others the wrong way, and that might be what we are seeing.

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 6 hours, 18 minutes ago
So much about the EFL's war against us does not make sense. Why? Maybe it's just too convenient to say that Gibson is all behind it and it's all without substance. Perhaps there is stuff about Morris's behaviour or his management of the club that might, if not vindicate the EFL's approach, at least make it a bit more understandable than at present. Can it be as simple as saying "The EFL hate us"?

But if their vendetta is against Morris, why are they effectively making it impossible for him to sell the club by spinning out the uncertainty and confusion for as long as they can? Why do they not want to draw a line under it after all this time and simply move on? And if we are actualy guilty of bad pracftice, why did the original tribunal side so strongly with DCFC, and are still doing so now with this miniscule "punishment"? It simply does not add up..
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Had we finished last season on 60 odd points this wouldn't be a discussion, which says it all.

That's Marriott gone then.

I'm surprised the media aren't making a bigger deal of this, as it means that contract extension options are not worth the paper they're written on.

I suppose this is the EFL flexing their muscles with regards player valuations, making it clear that our players have no residual worth unless they allow them it.

I think if Mel has any option to sue the EFL it will be over this.

hearing Waghorn has left too, along with Ibe.

Real question is, why is Rooney sticking around? This squad has 'lowest championship points tally ever' written all over it if we aren't starting in League 1. There's nobody to score out goals, we even released the goalscorers from the U23s.

Can't imagine Rooney would want that on his record, it's a death sentence to a career.

Spounds like the EFL witchunt is over:

https://www.efl.com/news/2021/july/efl-statement-derby-county-sanction