dabber

Roos 7

Byrne 4

Buchanan 6

Jagielka 5

Davies 6

Shinnie 4

Bird 6

Morrison 6

Sibley 6

Lawrence 6

Baldock 5

Stretton 6

Alright so we lost, but at least we were the ones trying to play football and for a couple of spells in the game we almost got the goal we needed. I couldn't stand watching that horrible brand of "football" that Bowyer puts out there week after week, it might be effective but fook me I would rather watch one of the wife's shows than that!!

Brum 2 - 0 Rams

No FRGS

Roos 7

Byrne 6

Forsyth 7

Davies 6

Jagielka 6

Bird 7

Shinnie 6

Morrison 6

Sibley 6

Jozwiak 7

Lawrence 6

Stretton 6

Buchanan (optional) 7

Rams 3 - 1 Them

Sibley FRGS

6 hours ago, Saul said:

23rd August 1975

Rams 1 QPR 5.

My 1st ever game as a glory hunting 7 year old, sat in the Normanton upper.

Still came back for more punishment though.

I've been trying to get hold of The Ram for a while now, for some reason it was missing from my Dad's collection.

Thanks for posting that Saul. It was my first ever game too and I glad that the subsequent 46 years of failure are not all down to me!!

15 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Or he'd like a full strength squad with competition for places. These are 'the 23' before Jags and Baldock:

Goalkeepers
Roos
Allsop
Marshall

Defenders
Davies
Stearman
JBrown
Byrne
Ebosele
McDonald
Buchanan
Forsyth

Midfielders
Bielik
Shinnie
Bird
Knight
Sibley
Ravel
Watson
Hutchinson

Forwards
Kazim
Lawrence
Jozwiak
Stretton

So is 33 (23 + J + B + 8 ) players a typical squad size in the Championship?

5 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

 

If he really wants to bring in 8 more that would be 13 new faces! Can't have much faith in the incumbents if that is his "honest" appraisal!!

2 hours ago, sage said:

I said Sibley should play on the right last season and got laughed at. I was wearing a green dress at the time though. 

"But not a real green dress, that's cruel"

I think fitting Tom back in the 11 creates a major problem. We certainly wont have all the space Hull gave us, that was a bit of an oddity. Keep the ball on the ground and in control and our star players will continue to look very different

Roos 7

Byrne 6

Buchanan 7

Davies 8

Jagielka 8

Bird 8

Shinnie 7

Morrison 7

Sibley 7

Jozwiak 8

Baldock 7

Forsyth 6

Stretton 6

Stearman 7

Tigers 2 - 0 Rams

No FRGS

Did we prefer Stearman to Jags a couple of weeks ago? Did Jags refuse our offer then and accept it now?

Roos  7

Byrne   4

Forsyth   5

Stearman    6

Davies    7

Bird   6

Shinnie   6

Morrison    7

Ebosele    5

Lawrence    6

Kazim      4

Stretton   6

Sibley 6

Posh 2 - 0 Rams

No FRGS

0-0

24 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

Glad to see the number of lunatics in Derby was down on the previous year.

The DLF poached some of them in anticipation of a footy season!

1 hour ago, BucksRam said:

Or Henley's golf ball stuck in a tree

Hughes not Henley

14 minutes ago, Oldben said:

Id like to see Derby keep wisdom.

Few of our players came out of last season with much credit, but he did well.

He may not offer the aerial presence of Matt Clarke but he reads the game really well – as his average of 1 interception, 3.2 clearances, and 0.4 blocks per game illustrate (Whoscored).

He offers quality and confidence in possession – having averaged 41.7 passes per game at a success rate of 82.2% last term (Whoscored).

Sadly Derby need to have wisdom to consider keeping Wisdom, and going by last season's debacle I don't see any hope that Wayne's last couple of neurons will be firing anytime soon

2 hours ago, Rev said:

Not convinced he's all that, so I'd duck this one.

Eidern't know for sure, but I think you are quacking up the wrong tree with that one Rev?

16 hours ago, David said:

Think we’re past the date they can apply deductions now, @rynnywill know, he has the date saved in his dairy 

I'll be cheesed off if they apply any deductions now!

Felicity Kendal, it was a good life back then!

None of that Mickey Mouse Test cricket, this is the pure form of the game!!

Me neither, got a bit too much of Jamie Tartt about him

1 hour ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Don’t think Mike was bad , had good intentions but didn’t realise how bad our position was as the time and his pockets were not deep enough to resolve it. 

I agree we would be snookered if we got someone like him