Monday 4 April 2016

Loyalty from the Fans

This morning it was announced that so far 19,000 fans have renewed their season tickets! That's just 5,000 short on this seasons figure of 24,000 and we have the summer break ahead of us. 

Of course some fans won't renew for work or personal reasons. Some will be reluctant to part with their cash after a season of poor football. Then again there is always a batch of new applicants too. 

Derby isn't a massive city and our support is fantastic. We attract higher crowds than Forest and Notts Vounty combined. Indeed we had higher attendances than Leicester before they gained promotion to the Premier League. 

The Derby County faithful are still turning out in their thousands despite a season that has seen some dreadful football. 

Yes will are still in the top six, however one must wonder how we are there! Another pitiful performance at Cardiff on Saturday sees us ever closer to dropping out of the play off zone. That could happen tomorrow night as we host a very good Hull City side. 

Unless we see some sort of miraculous turn of firm then I'm afraid we could see ourselves languishing down in around tenth place at the end. 

It is difficult to pinpoint just exactly where the points will be coming from in our final few games. 

For me it is time for a final gamble. Let Darren Wassall return to continue the excellent job he was doing at the academy and let Harry Redknapp take charge for the run in. 

If we don't go down this avenue it really does beg the question 'what exactly is Harry doing?'

Leicester City have this season shown what clubs of our size can achieve, however we are now no closer to promotion than two years ago. 

In fact I will go as far to say that firm wise we have gone backwards three years. Add the large wage bill and we are looking like a club during the Paul Jewell tenure!

It really is time for Mr Morris to make some serious decisions! He bought the club and it is his responsibility to sort it out!

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