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My biggest take from that is that EFL costs to come to this decision is in excess of £300k.  I take it all the tea and biscuits came from a very decent farm shop, and not off the shelf at Morrisons!  😲
 

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order...
The Sweeney (Deffo No 1)
Cheers
Magic Roundabout
M.A.S.H.
Golden Girls
Mastermind
Open All Hours
Cuckoo Waltz
Likely Lads
Van Der Valk
Thunderbirds
Z cars
 
Oh... erm... any 5 o' them! 👀  



 

Hardly a big achievement then.  It's only a 30 minute bus ride from Nottingham, innit?  👀

I agree the current (Pompey) players will be keen to get the job done... and I think they will.  I also agree they will be nowhere near a beach this weekend.
But I wouldn't relate any of that to the previous 12 years that you mention.  They may be aware, of course.  Quite possibly due to comments by fans on that subject... who will indeed have the previous 12 years in their minds... but how many of today's pro footballers concern themselves with the club's history?  The back catalogue of their current employer?
How many players will be thinking... privately of course (going public won't look good!)... "Nowt to do wi' me!" or "Don't blame me, I've only been here 18 months"!
Gone are the days... generally speaking... of local boy/lifelong fan becoming an on-pitch hero. It would matter to him, but not the majority.
Any frustrations regarding "The past 12 years" will lay heavily but solely with Pompey fans, not players... imo.
 

Slept on it… now I feel even worse 😂🤣😂🤣 terrible 

Thanks, so the current memorial is roughly where the floodlight was at the end of Cambridge Street. 
Looking at aerial photos and maps, the Keeper's Green grassy area is a bit of the pitch towards the Normanton End and the grassy area to the right of the memorial (facing from Cambridge Street) is roughly where the Osmaston End goal/penalty area was. 
I wonder if the kids who play football on that grass now are aware of the history under their feet. 

That's a no football City to be fair! 
I would never, back then, have imagined that Derby County would be playing in the same division as Burton though. My non-league town might well have played fixture with them in those days. 

Hardly a big achievement then.  It's only a 30 minute bus ride from Nottingham, innit?  👀

RSPCA?  as in the Royal Society for the Procurement of Cake Association?
Go on then, seeing as it's you!  😉🤍
 
Done.  ✔️
Happy birthday for tomorrow, Dan.
xxx

Hello folks, 
A few weeks back, some of you kind people helped me get my bearings in Derby as I have started visiting regularly now my daughter has her first proper job there, after years of training in various places. She has moved to Derby and made it part of my life again. 
I say again because I have cousins in Derby and I used to be a regular visitor, often spending weeks of school holidays here, so I've been on some nostalgia trips remembering where I used to be as a child - which is where some of you helped, thank you. 
Anyway, I'm back tomorrow for another visit this weekend. This will include a trip to Pride Park for the Leyton Orient game. This is coincidental because on my school holiday visits, the end of the time would overlap with the first match of the football season. If it was a home match then we would go along. On 29th August 1981 we went along to the opening Div 2 fixture against Orient. 
Going to see Derby was a big deal then, as within recent memory they had won their second Div 1 league title under Dave Mackay. Now under Colin Addison, those big names like Franny Lee, Bruce Rioch, Colin Todd, Roy MacFarland and Archie Gemmill were all gone. Kevin Hector (who scored on that day) was back for his second spell. I lived in a no-football town so most of my league football was MotD and The Big Match ITV. 
Being the first day of the season, the Baseball Ground pitch hadn't become the famous mud pit, about 12500 were in attendance and we were in the cheapest standing up enclosure Pop Side and as one of the goal ends had lately been converted to seating we were quite packed in. I still have the match day program which was in a newspaper format rather than a magazine. 
I've been for a walkabout on the old BB ground site, which is hard to place among the houses now but at least there is a monument. I look forward to Saturday and hearing all your voices - especially as we are at the business end of the season now and there is much at stake for Rams. 
 

Only way this season ends is in promotion. It’s been vile at times. It’s got toxic but we’ll hobble over the line either 2nd or through shithousing the playoffs. 
 
It’ll be looked back on as another nervy finish - no more no less. 
 
 
*** I have to keep telling myself this. 

Daft as it sounds I’d rather be in our position than Boltons. Even if we both win on Saturday, they are still 2 points behind us… running out of games and they will know we have a great chance of picking up more points with our last two games… panic sets in and they all start fighting with their own fans, I can see it now.

Still makes me feel slightly tearful - and I never met him.

Apologies if this has been posted already - this is on Derby RSPCA website and in their latest newsletter (out today to supporters).  Nice tribute to B4.
https://www.rspcaderby.org.uk/news-events/memory-daniel-beavis

I might have known! 🙄
I should have put "... hinted towards a negative aspect to the result or ridiculously off-topic recliner-related puns like NML playing like a Laz-y-boy, or us needing a cushion before the Carlisle game.  Or even how have we got sofa up the table playing this rubbish, or Warne can go swivel, etc!"
To be fair, the latter would have been well worth having a catch up on here, and more preferable.  Sod it... lets do it anyway!  I'll try to think of some!    🤣🍻

Even I can see why he couldn’t find it.

I might have known! 🙄
I should have put "... hinted towards a negative aspect to the result or ridiculously off-topic recliner-related puns like NML playing like a Laz-y-boy, or us needing a cushion before the Carlisle game.  Or even how have we got sofa up the table playing this rubbish, or Warne can go swivel, etc!"
To be fair, the latter would have been well worth having a catch up on here, and more preferable.  Sod it... lets do it anyway!  I'll try to think of some!    🤣🍻

1.26 am just got home after numerous road closures and diversions.
It's hard work sometimes. 

It's 43 pages of the merits and contractual position of my shiny new DFS motorised recliner........
Wish now I'd got it on loan and could send it back. Sadly the returns window has closed.....

Just got back from a very long and emotional day... not bothering to catch up on the finer details on here, but a quick check of the page number alone kind of hinted towards a negative aspect to the result...  now confirmed after an equally quick check of the beeb results page.
I'm guessing it's been an equally long and emotional evening for you all.  
Fingers crossed for a positive Saturday to come... we simply need to "Go again".
🐏

Just got back from a very long and emotional day... not bothering to catch up on the finer details on here, but a quick check of the page number alone kind of hinted towards a negative aspect to the result...  now confirmed after an equally quick check of the beeb results page.
I'm guessing it's been an equally long and emotional evening for you all.  
Fingers crossed for a positive Saturday to come... we simply need to "Go again".
🐏

Just got back from a very long and emotional day... not bothering to catch up on the finer details on here, but a quick check of the page number alone kind of hinted towards a negative aspect to the result...  now confirmed after an equally quick check of the beeb results page.
I'm guessing it's been an equally long and emotional evening for you all.  
Fingers crossed for a positive Saturday to come... we simply need to "Go again".
🐏

My priority today is utterly aimed in Muckerette's direction, as we wave our last goodbyes to her dad this avvy, amidst the gloriously coloured scent of Spring (His favourite season! 😊), but rest assured, given the circumstances, I will have half an eye on matchday proceedings this evening.
Safe trip to all, and here's to an absolutely massive 3 points for the Mighty Rams.
May the Thunderbird gifs be a-plenty.
🐏

My priority today is utterly aimed in Muckerette's direction, as we wave our last goodbyes to her dad this avvy, amidst the gloriously coloured scent of Spring (His favourite season! 😊), but rest assured, given the circumstances, I will have half an eye on matchday proceedings this evening.
Safe trip to all, and here's to an absolutely massive 3 points for the Mighty Rams.
May the Thunderbird gifs be a-plenty.
🐏