Sam Rush has done what all good dictators do and released a home made video. Always easier than facing the real media and hard questions — just release your own video so it can be conducted and edited in a controlled environment. Even throw in retired Radio Derby legend (and newly appointed DCFC media consultant) Colin Gibson - to ask the questions, giving it a more legitimate feel.
This tactic has been employed many times over the years but usually when making a propaganda film, you need to get in a well known personality to tell us it is all ok and everything will be alright.
Perhaps the club should have got Niall Horan to tell us all to get behind the board and that what they have done is the 'one direction' for Derby County (see what I have done there!).
Or maybe Robbie Savage could have flashed his pearly whites and assured us that "Doc Savage' believes GSE has our best interests at heart.
Oh no sorry that wouldn’t work….. they both think the decision was total bollocks too!
One moment the club was building slowly and needed to have patience on a tight budget. Now apparently, according to Sam, we need to push for promotion (really?... that’s a good idea!!), but to do so Sam…. surely our manager will require money?
Frankly if they hand cash to the new manager — it will be even more despicable that they made Nigel balance like a tight-rope walker and then a new guy can waltz in, enjoy the talented fruits of Clough and his team’s labour and top up with quality to do what Nigel could have done if he himself had been afforded a larger kitty.
After 5 years of being told to stay patient and that a long term plan was in place, when the baby is thrown out with the bath water overnight, you have to feel like they have wasted our time with their requests of patience. That on top of sucking dry the time of a good man, who sports an important surname to Rams fans and rebuilt our club from the disaster area it was when he arrived.
Enough ranting from me, I will let you judge Sam Rush’s video statement for yourself, he says all the right things and even throws in a new loan signing to try and line the cloud with a bit of silver.
In short:
They appreciate Nigel’s hard work (so much so that they knife him in the back shortly after what must have been a very emotional fixture for him).
They have signed 29 year old Leicester City defender Zak Whitbread on emergency loan and he will be joining Derby on loan Monday. Apparently getting a new defender is something the fans have been ‘talking about for some time’ (fans have also been talking about wanting new owners…. so if you listen to the fans....).
They are going to hurry up the process of getting us promoted.
I find myself saying 'they' — not 'us'…. am I the only one who feels like that at the moment?
Well now I have seen Sam’s video blog — it really makes me feel a whole lot better. I only lament he didn’t end it with his audition for the next series of X-Factor.
We can now forget about what happened on the weekend and know that whoever they bring in, will be far more experienced, have a history of RECENT success (sorry McLaren, McLeish, O’Neill etc — that rules you out) and be given the sizeable transfer kitty required to achieve their new goal of topping the Championship ASAP.
So that pretty well rules out most of the names on the rumoured list, except maybe Tony Pulis, who despite success with his band of thugs at Stoke, played a brand of football that his own fans hated nearly as much as opposition fans.
Pulis was seen talking to Sam Rush at the City ground on Saturday, so if it turns out to be him, talk about taking your new girlfriend out in public while you’re still married!!
In summary, I don’t know what I was so worked up about, DCFC seem to have it all in hand.
Thanks Sam, I can’t wait for the next thrilling instalment.