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    Aberdeenshire Rams

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    Aberdeenshire Rams had to cancel our holiday away to stay in the Echo lodges/pods at Loch Katrine Trossachs this weekend due to the Red Weather warnings, with 28 days of rain predicted to land in 3 days.

    Power down in many areas. Roads closed everywhere, no diversions, impassable roads, trees down everywhere, life’s lost, houses ruined.

    Here’s hoping Derby & Shrewsbury are OK.

    Derby v Shrewsbury (A) Match Thread

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    On 19/10/2023 at 00:30, DenmarkRam said:

    Flying over from Denmark go watch this and the Exeter game on tuesday. 

    Hoping for a nice weekend in Shrewsbury. 

    Last year we didnt score when I the two games i saw live.. this year can only get better 🙂

    Hi @DenmarkRam

    Do you have a Denmark Rams flag?

    It would be great to see you (& the flag if you have one) when we watch the action on RamsTV.

    Cheers 🍻 

    Inverurie Ram

    You might not realise it but Paul Warne's doing pretty well

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    On 05/10/2023 at 14:40, Guest said:

    After 12 months of Paul Warne's tenure, this forum is completely divided still as to his future as our head coach. While it’s noticeable that the threads about his position have slipped down the ranking on the forum this week, I am very aware that they may climb back up by the end of the month, depending on the results of the next few games.

    There should be no need to remind anyone about the club’s perilous position just 16 months ago, the 11th hour rescue which left us a month before last season started with just five contracted professional players and how ultimately we just missed out on a play-off place. The owner told us he wanted the club to become financially sustainable with the head coach being given time to take his squad forward at the same time the academy was being rebuilt. He also said this could take time and when he chose Paul Warne he said that immediate promotion was not a condition of his appointment. We all know that but many still pay lip service to it and would like to press the panic button now and change the head coach.

    I said at the time the club was fighting for it’s very existence that I had never seen the fans so united since the years of Clough & Taylor, Mackay & Anderson. In all of our successful periods over the years, the fans support was fundamental to driving our players on. The current players get that too as you often see when they wave their arms to encourage us to up the volume when Pride Park falls quiet. Our support is vital.

    What does Paul Warne make of what he is hearing now? I don’t know because he seems to not want to encourage the negativity by discussing it for fear that it might only make things worse. But he must be acutely aware of the mood because no-one can spend so much time here as he does without being aware.

    Some on here temper their criticism by ending with the rider but ‘he is a nice bloke.’ Maybe he is thinking it would be humble of some of those fans to return in kind some of his niceness and just stop carping about how we are doing on the pitch and stop demanding that he be put out of work at such an early stage of his contracted employment. Why would he think this?:

    Simply because for starters, as we all know, he has achieved three previous promotions from this division and that is why he was brought here in the first place. Secondly, and this may come as a surprise to some, after 10 games this season his team has made a better start than any of his three Rotherham promotion teams. The respective records after 10 games are:                                     

    Rotherham 2017-18:   P10  W5  D0  L5  GD +7  Pts 15

    Rotherham 2019 -20:  P10  W4  D3  L3  GD +4  Pts 15

    Rotherham 2021-18:   P10  W5  D2  L3   GD +5  Pts 17

    Derby Co.  2023-24:   P10  W5  D2  L3   GD +7  Pts 17

    Then compare where we are now with the promotion sides I have seen at Derby. The points tally after 10 games (with 3 points for a win) was:

    Clough & Taylor 1968-69  16 pts

    Cox 1985-86                      16 pts

    Cox 1986-87                      15 pts

    Smith 1995-96                  10 pts

    Davies 2006-07                12 pts

    So, not only is Warne at the moment ahead of his own previous promotion seasons at this stage but also ahead of the last five Derby County teams to be promoted.

    To achieve it, he has to turn around the current home form but that must be possible with a side that is doing so well away from home. We’ll see.

    I’m just waiting now for the volley of shots that will say but it’s not good to watch and he won’t keep us up. Let him get us up first and then we’ll have that debate. It just might be that he’ll have a much better budget if he gets us promoted than he ever had at Rotherham.

    I’ve realised a lot by looking at this and I’m sticking by him completely for now until things go completely awry, if they ever do. But I think his biggest critics should be thinking about taking a break for a while. A lot of us won’t miss the noise.

    COYR

    So many folk on here would have sacked Clough & Taylor early doors or still moaned when we lifted the equivalent of today’s Premier League title “but our football is so dire to watch” and they wouldn’t have enjoyed any trips in Europe or made any effort to go, stating something along the lines of “well that foreign food is rubbish, a bit like our football, so if your think I’m leaving my Shackleton’s arm chair to watch that rubbish, your absolutely deluded!“..

    Up Paul Warne.

    Up The Rams 🐏 

    Derby v Cheltenham (A) Match Thread

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

    This place is fun tonight! 
    If Derby win it makes me happier. When we don’t it doesn’t. 

    There have been the usual discussions about how no one can criticise anything because we are  ‘lucky to have a club’ or words to that effect. We are at the same stage after administration as we were under Arthur Cox. I can tell you for a fact we came closer to going out of business then than we did a couple of years ago but he managed to do OK didn’t he.
     

    Paul Warne is out manager now. I don’t think he’s very good. For a comparison, Ipswich hired Paul Cook with an excellent record at this level. I thought it was a great appointment but despite spending money it didn’t work out. Ipswich didn’t wait 4 years, they made the decision and two years later look at them. Sacking a manger isn’t always a negative thing. Sometimes sticking with a manger is a good thing, look at Notts Forest last year. We all have our opinions, who knows who is right. Opinions are valid.
     

    We all want to be happy. We all have opinions.Can’t we just air them, respectfully, on both sides of the argument, without being a knob though. Maybe not but I am tired of reading the same post over and over again. 

     

    Your post is a bit “samey” I’m sure I’ve read the same sort of post over and over again on here!!!! 

    ……Oh why do you catch my eye then turn away……..

    Up The Rams 🐏 
     

    Derby v Blackpool (A) Match Thread

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, Tombo said:

    He's just said on the radio two absolutely astounding things.

     

    "We only have two or three players at the club with electric pace [...] who can play counter attacking football"

     

    "If we played like that at Pride Park we'd get booed off at half time"

     

    Why does he have to ruin every good moment he manages to create?

    The players get clapped off the pitch at full time every single game at Pride Park. Half time, there would not have been booing if we had played that first half where we kept it tight and then created some good chances.

    Why does he treat the fans of this club with such utter disdain and contempt every time he speaks?

    He doesn’t…….just some people choose to look for it, and only quote the negative stuff instead of looking for all the positive stuff that he says also and more often.

     

    Aberdeenshire Rams

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    50 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

     I didn't read any further, as I was becoming a little agitated, with hints of trauma-induced fear at the thoughts of what might come next! 😲


    I can only hope and pray that, given the length of the remaining post, all ended well, and everyone... be that those directly involved and/or those on the periphery of the scene...  made it through the day without getting killed!  

     

    👀

     

     

      

    @Mucker1884 for not reading further we have your number…….we know where you are…………………👀

     

     

    Derby v Cambridge Match Thread

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted · Edited by Inverurie Ram

    On 27/09/2023 at 18:41, angieram said:

    I'm a bit surprised there are no comments on Cash's interview. I thought he spoke really well about their support for Josh Vickers.

    That's a lot of responsibility on a young player to come out and articulate how difficult it has been for the players.

    He is future captain material,  without a doubt.

    I’m not surprised. Great interview.
    And I agree with everything about your post @angieram. 

    Far too many on here (sheep not rams) wallowing in their own misery, posting miserable posts in their miserable efforts to get some miserable enjoyment when the football team they proclaim to support miserably fails by loosing a game, yes I repeat a game, yes I’ll repeat a game of sport called football that should be enjoyed, as the team we all support tries it’s hardest to win as many games possible to achieve everyone’s goals and hope.

    Whilst one of our fellow players is currently suffering and feeling real miserable pain through the loss of life to a special loved one in life.

    Whereas a lot of us on here love Derby County Football Club and choose to support it, whatever division it plays in, whatever managers and coaches lead and coach it, whatever financial, whatever recruitment, whatever staff, whatever groundsman, whatever players play for it, and even whatever fans support it.

    Up The Rams 🐏 

    Aberdeenshire Rams

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted · Edited by Inverurie Ram

     

    Carlisle United 0-2 Derby County

    Saturday 23rd September 2023

    Collins 18,84

    Attendance 11,186

     

    2 x Aberdeenshire Rams awoke at 03:45am. 04:00am Quick showers, black tea and outside in to darkness. 

    Drive into Aberdeen, window broken in the car, car heater not clearing the windscreen, scary drive into Aberdeen looking through the smallest cleared circle, but arriving into Aberdeen avoiding the latest hazards, the new bus gates, so still a mile walk to the bus station for my boy and I avoiding the drunken nightclubbing lads arguing amongst themselves on their way homes, and not getting in their ways, causing any unwanted trouble. 

    At the bus station with 20 mins to spare to embrace the morning chill, and the cackle of the Aberdeen Seagulls swooping around the station. We are on the megabus at 04:50am and away ready for an away day following Derby County reaching Glasgow on time at 08:20am. Time to kill in Glasgow so we walk from Buchannan Street up to the McDonalds on Sauchihall Street for breakfast. I walk back to Buchannan Street saving my coffee to enjoy in the bus station, but a young homeless guy near the Sainsbury’s outside the bus station sitting in the cold morning dampness looked more worthy than I to enjoy the coffee, which he did, along with the 4 white chocolate chip biscuits I bought for him, whilst stocking up on snacks for our National Express journey.

    On the National Express at 09:15am and as my boy carried on sleeping, I read the dcfcfans forum and added a couple of road signs into the Carlisle match day thread.

    In Carlisle on time at 11:20am and 30 mins to kill, so a lovely wander around the streets, spotting some real old pubs and looking for a cash line and noticing a number of people meeting up in the main square ready to go on a Carlisle Gay Pride march.

    Headed for the train station to await the train coming in from Crewe. I stood in front of the RAF stall in the station bumping into CK awaiting MD, and stood next to the local coppers awaiting the Derby fans. The train arrived and we could hear from Platform 3 the bellow’s of “Derby, We Are Derby, Super Rams” as a few hundred lads crossed the bridges, beer cans in hands with a mix of young and old, and a mix of Derby colours with the Stone Island youth all tight together.

    We met our first contact, a very nice man and enjoyed a leisurely stroll around English Street and various streets off it, enjoying some of the Roman remains that welcome tourists into Carlisle, we admired the old buildings, plaques of USA presidents residence, statues and the courthouse, in search of a coffeehouse, we ended back tracking to the Costa outside the train station. We had a quick DCFC chat, enjoying coffee before heading out, for my boy and with the local constabulary’s confirmation point is in the right direction of Brunton Park.

    Our first contact went off to meet fellow DCFC fans, Punjabi Rams, but we headed off to the pub, The Fat Gadgie, which looked great on the website https://www.thefatgadgie.co.uk/ which was showing as open last week, but when we arrived at the place, it had been closed down, and as now shows on the website as permanently closed.

    So we went into the Paradiso bar and lounge, cocktail bar opposite, that had a real non existent Wi-Fi signal as I tried to message our second contact regarding meeting up.

    So I wandered outside leaving my boy to admire my pint, trying to get a signal no joy, so I returned into the bar and opted to down the pint in a one’s. We strolled outside and I spotted 2 guys checking out the closed Fat Gadgie pub and heading across to me. I recognised our second contact from watching Derby for the previous 45 years, and his face being very familiar from all my trips to BBG, Pride Park and travelling over land and sea to follow DCFC.

    So we met another great man and chatted, and trips to Estonia and Finland, and others were discussed, then pennies dropped. 

    Walked up to the Carlisle Rugby Club and enjoyed a couple more pints, whilst I scurried around on my phone dropping messages to a new contact, we made contact and arranged to meet outside the club shop near the statue at 2:30pm. Carried on drinking for 30 mins, chatting, bumping into the Glasgow Rams in the back bar and Swindon Rams on route back outside, to enjoy pre-match drinks. Saw the Chad Rams singing “Chad Rams are massive everywhere we go” behind their St George Flag.

    We met our 3rd contact, said a quick hello and walked around Brunton Park enjoying The Farm’s All Together Now blasting out the club’s tannoy system before finding our way into the Visiting Supporters stand.

    I quickly hung up the Aberdeenshire Rams flag next to the very reliable Swindon Rams flag. Most fans standing, so my boy and I stood above Exit 3 to enjoy the live atmosphere and a game of football between two very capable football teams. We enjoyed the game, the 3 points and the passion from the players celebrating in front of our loyal fans. We knew something was effecting Josh Vickers, but at this stage unsure of what was to sadly unfold to one of our players.

    The 90 mins and 4 mins extra time wizzed past and we were soon taking down the flag and heading back into Carlisle recognising other Derby fans along the way including Cockney Jimmy.

    Then we awaited the 06:30pm National Express coach back to Glasgow, which was 30 mins late coming from London. A couple from Glasgow gave up on it, I did try to tell them it's coming all the way from London, a little bit of patience, so they opted to pay top dollar chasing the next train, and as soon as they left, 3 mins later, the bus arrived.

    Arrived back in Glasgow, the coach caught the time up, so back for 08:00pm, before heading to the Glasgow Central Hotel, a belated birthday gift from a family member.

    I then had to get up at 04:45am Sunday morning to get my boy on another megabus at 05:40am so he could get back into Aberdeen at 08:55am in advance of the 10:20am train back to Inverurie in time to play for his local football club, Colony Park.

    Whereas I went back to bed, before a stroll around the Barras Market, Merchant City, Fopp Records and walk along the Clyde River in advance of enjoying The National play at the OVO Hydro and if you watch Mr November. At the 3 minute mark I’m pointing at you all on the big screen!!!

    My boy and I had a great day out, great weekend and loved meeting at least 3 special people that make you proud to be Derby County supporters.

    PS Aberdeenshire Rams flag on at HT in this wonderful vlog.

    Up The Rams 🐏 

     

     

     

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