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Yeah, but they don't have Birds bakery in London. No West End nightclub will bring more pleasure than two vanilla slices and an elephants foot.

If Wildsmith played for say Portsmouth and had just won the golden glove with a clean sheet every other game, is at a good age and was being released, Derby fans would be saying straight away we should sign him up....

Just watched the Collins section of the pod on YouTube and thought it and he were great.
Funny how just watching someone play on the pitch I had preconceived ideas of what sort of a person he is, but he came across completely differently to how I imagined. Relaxed, friendly, funny, discussed doing his coaching qualifications and pondering media work, that he'd be very good at based on the evidence of this.

I think we dodged a bullet to be honest.

Would we be safe having a kick around on Markeaton?
A defibrillator might be in order! 😲

If you'd been married you'd know that you wouldn't be the one doing the cutting. 

Was it this one? 
 

I understand that Palace intend to trigger a clause in his contract to keep him at the club for the 2024-5 season.

It has - but only because it’s given an insight into how great the group of players are. Celebrating with the fans from the final whistle all the way through pubs in town. Genuinely nice blokes happy for themselves, the club and the city. 
 
Compare with other stuff I saw this week with Leicester players celebrating going up by gathering in the safety of one of their mansions and having a few drinks around the kitchen island. Soulless and removed from the fans. 
 
Really shows what Warne has built and hopefully he can keep the spirit even through squad changes over summer. 

Impact on the pubs...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-68924126

Rwanda it is.

If we're looking on the basis of who we've lost since we started shipping water financially, rather than just administration, I don't think we we could realistically say that we'd have kept hold of all of them anyway, even without all our difficulties.  If we'd not had any major financial issues , I'd say we could have kept the following:
Jordan Brown: I always rated him and think he's probably one of our biggest losses.  He might have wanted to move on though anyway as he would have been struggling for a regular first team place given the competition that he would have faced.  The Orient fans seem to rate him highly.
Lee Buchanan: he might have got duff advice from his agent anyway, but I'd like to think LB probably wouldn't have acted as badly as he did.  Interestingly (or not), he seems to be one of the few members of BCFC team who their fans would like to keep when they meet their richly deserved fate and disappear into the abyss of the third division (the A38 derby will happily remain in place, just in a different direction....).  The same is not true of Bielek, by the way.
Jason Knight: would he really have gone to Bristol City if we'd not got relegated?  And for that matter, would Birdy have gone to join him?
Omari Kellyman: reputedly he didn't want to go at all, and I fear that he will be a big loss.
Dylan Williams: we would have been in a good position to reject Chelsea's offer and Dylan by now might have got 100 first team performances behind him.  As it is, I don't think that he's kicked a first-team ball for Chelsea, and I wonder whether he wonders if he did the right thing.  
Malcolm Ebiowe: we could have offered him a longer contract than we did.  The same is possible with Luke Plange.  But their subsequent stuttering progress suggests we have probably not lost as much as we thought (I hope they both prove me wrong by the way).
One that we probably would have lost anyway:
Morgan Whittaker:  I have enormous respect for what Wazzer did for us, but his treatment of MW is probably his worst moment.  For me, MW was the most naturally gifted on the 2019 youth team and his stats were phenomenal at that level.  But as we can probably all recall, when he got into the first team his languid style didn't endear him to everyone, so Rooney wasn't alone in underrating him.  To be fair, Whittaker didn't pull up any trees at Swansea or Lincoln.  As Angie has rightly said Plymouth would already be back in Division 3 if it wasn't for his goals and assists.  But his form does appear to have fallen off a cliff since Schumacher left and the Plymouth fans, or at least some of them, seem to be beginning to have their doubts: https://pasoti.co.uk/forums/plymouth-argyle-fans-forum.30/
Those that we almost certainly would have lost anyway:
Archie Brown: contrary to what is often said here about us letting him go, in fact he left of his own accord :
https://archive.ph/20211130171732/https://theathletic.com/2666370/2021/06/23/why-derbys-young-star-archie-brown-turned-down-a-new-deal-to-go-to-switzerland/
He has done brilliantly since leaving, but it's not a given that his progress would have been the same had he stayed with us.  He's had to get used to different football and different counties, so he's had a lot to cope with, all of which may have helped his progress (the reverse is also true of course).
Liam Delap and Kaide Gordon:  We never had them under professional contracts because of their age and we could not have stopped them leaving even if we were rolling in cash.  Any young player given the chance to move to Liverpool or Man City was always bound to go.  The same is likely to be the case with Festy - would he really have preferred to stay in Championship obscurity if he had the chance to go to Serie A?
As for the like of Kain Ryan and the three who went to Man U, moves at youth level and earlier happen all the time - after all Tom Huddlestone and Will Hughes were, I believe with the Red Dogs for a while.  Those lads may go on to be great players- but then again they might not.
 

I admire the enthusiasm, but shouldn’t we wait till Forests relegation is confirmed first?

No problem Alfie.
I'll pick you up at 5 past 2 fuckin million for fecks sake

I only picked the white horse as it's on the bus route.
Obviously, if we're all gonna have to drive, then yeah, Joiners is fine.  😁

The White Horse? Now that's not exactly a fitting venue, is it? We need to find somewhere more upmarket. I reckon the Joiners Arms would be far better.

YES!
As I said in the promotion celebrations thread
 
May Day weekend upon us, surely it would be a great idea. (players can't have booked holidays as the play-offs were still a vague possibility so should still be around)
1) Allow the fans to show their appreciation one more time
2) Allow the players and staff another chance to soak in their achievement and feel the love
3) boost the hospitality takings in town
What's not to like?
And yet over an Facebook you see people saying that an open-top bus celebration would be "an embarassment" because we "only came second". Yet we had a bus when we finished third in 2006/07 and went up via the play-offs...
 

I must say, that was a most enjoyable weekend.
What I enjoyed seeing was the effect upon the City. Our generally gloomy city streets were buzzing with activity, boozers packed, tills were ringing, and the mood was joyous. 
Let's get the open top bus booked and pack the streets once more.

Its been said already! But proper football fans sum up league 1 for me! 
 
Orient fans singing, "national league champions youll never sing that" followed by "league 2 champions, youll never sing that" was a moment ill remember! 
 
Love watching Derby and England but over the last few years the amount of money in football is really getting to me! Price of tickets, kits etc etc! Ill spare you the rant as you all know exactly what i mean! 
 
The games in danger of imploding and clubs in the lower and non leagues are getting screwed more and more! Its sad!!

The thing with Ed Dawes, is it's easy to forget there are much much worse commentators littering local radio coverage. He's genuinely not that bad, and imo much better for the absence of the rammage banter.
He cares, he does his best, he's frequently been on the end of fans venting frustrations far beyond not liking his commentary.
Graham Richards, Ross Fletcher, Colin Bloomfield (who was not a natural sports commentator and really had to work at it) Owen, Dom, Colin Gibson, Radio Derby genuinely do a really good job of covering DCFC and I'm pretty sure that's because they do love the club beyond doing the job.

We need to keep Cashin, Tommo and Sibley. They all fight for the shirt and bleed black and white.

100% we need a open top bus

I must say, that was a most enjoyable weekend.
What I enjoyed seeing was the effect upon the City. Our generally gloomy city streets were buzzing with activity, boozers packed, tills were ringing, and the mood was joyous. 
Let's get the open top bus booked and pack the streets once more.