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Cooper to Leeds is what I’m hearing from a Red Gump. 

Cooper to Leeds is what I’m hearing from a Red Gump. 

Cooeee... @David...
 

 
 
 

Wednesday fan in peace. Tough times for us both, 2 great clubs who’s fans deserve better than what we are getting at the minute. Hope you guys join us in the top 2 come end of the season. On current form, there’s no doubt about it. Have great memories of the baseball ground. That epic 3-3 fa cup game in 1993 is the best away game I’ve been to. Up the owls & rams ?

Korey Smith helped him out to be fair ?

The difference being is that you spent money you didn’t have trying to get to the land of milk and honey, then rather than accept the consequences, fudged your books for years and tried every trick in the book to get off the hook. Even now, how much did your new owner pay HMRC? 25p in the pound? Many would suggest you got off extremely lightly. You’ll probably be back in the championship by next season. 
Meanwhile, we largely lived within ours means in the championship, selling academy players for enormous profits every year to balance the books (as observed earlier in this thread) before reaping the benefit of absolute managerial brilliance. A once in a lifetime season under  Steve Cooper. 
Weve only spent the money we have after getting to the PL. If that results in survival, it’ll be well worth it from the revenue we’ll bring in. 

Frank Stapleton put in a great shift when we took him on loan in 87/88 and helped us stay up.
IIRC, Mickey Thomas did likewise in 85/86 and Sid Cowans in 93/94.
Mick Coop, on the other hand, played like a lame dog and should have been put down to preserve his dignity.

1Wildsmith 5.5 Could’ve had a traffic cone in goal; did drop a routine catch 1st half which was cleared away. 
12Smith 7 Solid defensively and accurate & careful passing. Inadvertently cleared a goal-bound White shot late on. 
3Forsyth 8 Another masterful shift. Some lovely forays into oppo territory and an intricate pass to unlock their defence and provide Knight’s Irish jig of a goal. 
6Cashin 8 Heads, blocks and 45 yard tracer passes all afternoon. 
15Roberts 8 Played with a great intensity and increased offensively as the game wore on.
19 Sibley 7 Came on and slotted straight back in. Drove his way through 3 Morecambe players who could only halt him by foul means.
38Knight 8.5 Perpetual high energy constantly harassing and haranguing and still at high intensity when all others have flat-lined. Oh so fast feet to tuck away past a stranded keeper for goal #5. 
22 Springett 6 Came on with the rest of the boy band to play us out in style. 
4Hourihane 7.5 Directed the traffic with neat & angled passes and arced crosses into the mixing zone. 
16Thompson 6 Part of the Fab 3 late show with energetic ball possession. 
11Mendez-Laing 7.5 Relatively average by his own high standards but still an assist and a constant menace to Morecambe.
7Barkhuizen 6 Part of the late show and on when the game was already buried.
10McGoldrick 9.5 MotM A dispatched free-kick, a routine finish and a penalty all finished with gusto & aplomb. McG is like that Classic Merc that is advanced in years but still drives sweetly with a low hum.
23 White 7.5 Very impressive debut from the bench and quickly established himself as lead singer of the boy-band trio by demanding the ball and spraying direct & fizzing passes to all corners of PP to a man. Would’ve scored with a 20 yard piler but for Smith’s inadvertent intervention. Stylish, quick and cut through Morecambe’s depleted ranks with a razor-sharp edge. I’m excited to see this chap again - Will Hughesque. 
18Dobbin 9 Unplayable. 2nd half at full tilt powering through Morecambe at will at break-neck speed. Denied a goal by a vg save from their keeper. Best game in a Ram’s shirt.
9Collins 7. Carried the hod reliably. Superb save from their GK to deny his 2nd goal having rifled home from the spot earlier. 
 
Superb 2nd half show after a proficient first half. Warne-ball now firmly encoded into the Team’s DNA and don’t expect us to fear anybody from this point on. Was worried pre-match that Bird’s absence would tell but White looks like a young diamond. I am just so enjoying this evolution and growth of the Team. Watch out League 1. 

this boy gets better and better every game , would love to sign him permanently in the summer

McGoldrick is simply superb. So pleased that he is here for us. 

Morecambe have issued a press statement about yesterdays result:-

I've a little soft spot for Morecambe as I've been there more times than I care to remember, They're punching above their weight with crowds of 4k a week and a tiny budgie ?, Adams was being honest no sour grapes as he thought he was playing at Anfield with all the decisions that went against him...bookings, Penalties and a female linesperson who was overruled for an offside decision, I've now sent him all our home games to view and I hope he sees that we've had many Refs that have been crap and I mean CRAP!, It was nothing to do with us being well supported with a crowd of 26k...simply put yesterday we were at other ends of the stratosphere where football was concerned...he's lucky we didn't score 8.
A big shout to this Ref, He never thought the game was about him, Did what he needed to do and went about the game anonymous...except for the 2 Penalties ?    

Mark Wright gave the lads a boost at half time .
Derby legend 

Hat-tricks in first 525 games of his career - 0
Hat-tricks in the last 16 games of his career - 3.
Rolls Royce of a player.

3 goals in 5 minutes must be some kind of record for Rams . Just a pity he is not 25 and at the start of a 5 year contract.

TBF I said pretty much the same the night you beat Malmo. 

Hope Cash is OK for Saturday... 

 
 
 

Get him signed up!!!!

When his wife said “ You’ve got the Kirch “, can’t think of a more toe curling moment during the entire fiasco. 

FTFY 

Im sure this is sustainable. Nothing to worry about

At least the transfer window's shut so they can't sing any mor-
Oh, nevermind

I can’t believe they’ve £200 million yet rely on Sam Surridge as their main striker 

Haven’t seen him either for quite some time. 
As a lifelong Rams fan, Mel must sit somewhere