Wayne Rooney's Derby County....

[WTF11]

Some fans were sympathetic to be fair amongst the many trolls

No club, no supporters representative organisation, not one

[ozleeds]

"Very few".......were you around when we were subject to points deduction because of financial mismanagement and consequent relegation? Not a single club supported us, not a single supporter organisation did either, quite the opposite.

I say again, stop being so f00king naive.

I was here no one's fault for going down that path because of an idiot owner. Anyway, I'm naive and you're not so better to stop there before my naiveness takes over.

[WTF11]

I was here no one's fault for going down that path because of an idiot owner. Anyway, I'm naive and you're not so better to stop there before my naiveness takes over.

"No-one fault for going down that path....." but we were a laughing stock for years, the whipping boys for EVERY club, because as we all know "we all hate Leeds" is a mantra used by every other club (including Derby and Barnsley) to indicate their feelings towards the only club in Yorkshire ever to have aspired to greatness.

Other supporter organisations could have recognised that LUFC supporters were as much victims of their own club's management incompetence as anyone, but they chose not to, instead the swallowed in the misfortune of a club and supporters they hated.

We are better than that. Lampard may be a subject of extreme dislike, Rooney the same, Barnsley may be a club we dislike intensely (club and supporters), but we don't delight in their misfortune as it affect the supporters, were better than that, but please don't expect us to feel sympathy, there are limits.

[ozleeds]

I don't feel sympathy as it's not my doing I just feel what they would be going through from experience. My ozzie rules team for 37 years coped it but I took it on the chick as we were poorly run and we were crap. I looked at it as more Banter if anything. We come good and won 3 championships in 4 years should have been 4 out of 4 as one we missed out on the team got hit by gastro and had nothing in the tank. Now we are going through the same as we are struggling and the banter has returned. It's all fun to me give and take.

[WTF11]

I don't feel sympathy as it's not my doing I just feel what they would be going through from experience. My ozzie rules team for 37 years coped it but I took it on the chick as we were poorly run and we were crap. I looked at it as more Banter if anything. We come good and won 3 championships in 4 years should have been 4 out of 4 as one we missed out on the team got hit by gastro and had nothing in the tank. Now we are going through the same as we are struggling and the banter has returned. It's all fun to me give and take.

Not at the highest level of professional foitball it isn't.

[ozleeds]

Not at the highest level of professional foitball it isn't.

Hummm well, you can't get any higher in our OZZIE rules game. Like I said to me sport is just that sport you take the good and the bad others take it as world war and we know how all that goes.
I love the banter and I see the funny side but that doesn't mean I don't feel anything when my team wins or loses.

[MadAmster]

Back when Ridsdale almost did for Leeds, I will admit I did raise a smile BUT..... as with Coventry, Blackpool, Oldham, Bury and others, no way did I want the club to fold. One club towns and cities like yours and ours NEED their teams for the sake of the local economy. For me it's the 2nd time we've been on the brink of extinction in my lifetime. First was in the 80s. We were due in the High Court to get the company wound up. Stuart Webb didn't give up. He kept hunting round for a saviour and found one with 10 minutes to spare. Unfortunately, that "saviour" turned out to be Maxwell and although he gave us some decent players, he left us in a less than healthy position. We recovered and, despite relegation to the 3rd tier in 1984 we were back in the 2nd tier in '86. Having been that close and knowing how it feels, I wouldn't wish that on anybody, not even the Red Dogs from down the road. This time it's Morris who's put us in the deep, dark, brown and sticky. Hopefully Kirchner turns out to be a good un and we can be back in tier 2 in 2 years and heading back to the PL a couple of seasons after that. No guarantees though. I just hope that we stay within our budget and don't get to the brink a 3rd time.

[Belper69Ram]

What goes around comes around. Football sucess normally goes for a while for a club followed by a period in a lower league - I can remember a time when those red scumbags from Manchester with Best and the other superstars getting relegated. If the Red Dogs do go up, which looks likely at this stage, they have a good manager, a couple of good players and also a shower of sh*te players in my view with a foreign owner who is ever likely to dump them in the smelly brown stuff, as Morris did us. Derby will be back, and it will be back to the Championship for 2023/24 if we have any money and players and even a club I think. And the Red Dogs will be back in the Championnship too, although Div 1 is their destiny.