cannable

On 15/05/2024 at 23:57, Dave Mackay Ate My Hamster said:

Given that our ( believe what you will from various sources ) turnover will increase from aprox £20m to £28m in the leap from League 1 to the Championship, do you think there may be a potential £3m of that increased revenue to spend on transfer fees? - or do you think no transfer fees, just increased player wages that will swallow up that ( supposed ) increase in revenue?

I'd like to think we could afford 3 x " Barker fees " i.e. 3 x £1m transfer fees for a goalkeeper, midfield general and a striker, taking into account a few of our expensive oldies on £10-£12K a week will be released and the anticipated £8m increase in revenue will happen.

Probably fanciful, but you can but hope...

I'm channeling my inner B4.

Problem is, due to footballing inflation a Barker-type fee these days is more £3,000,000.

On 15/05/2024 at 16:15, Premier ram said:

A hardworking no nonsense lower league player if I ever saw one

Clough hung him out to dry. Signed him as a centre-half, had him covering RB where he looked solid… then we play him at LB where he gets ripped apart and he never plays again.

Relegation scrap in all likelihood.

Though I do have my ‘ride the promotion momentum and Euros fatigue to get going early’ theory 

The Brighton and Carlisle pitch invasions were both tinpot. Both games were won and both games finished early because invading the pitch had been fetishised. The Carlisle scenes, though good imagery, were a disgrace.

Southampton was fair enough as that was raw emotion.

Last game at the BBG was also fair enough.

Reading, Charlton and Cardiff were just weird. It was like some hangover from the Southampton pitch invasion that we were entitled to do it.

36 minutes ago, Allanthediver said:

What,actually, is the role of captain. What influence or power do they hold beyond the much vaunted

" senior members of the squad"

You get take the blame if a mid-week piss-up gets out of hand 😂

16 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

I predict a riot? Weird song choice. Guess they are thug scum.

They’re from Leeds… in fact, if you want some trivia, they’re called The Kaiser Chiefs because that’s where Leeds signed Lucas Radebe from. 

15 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Your basically saying, that he's a dangerous player in the attacking third rather than running back or trying to take the ball of the oppositions midfielder in the attacking third where he struggles as he's not defensive minded.

Basically my take the entire season and why I think he could be a useful  player for the countering team we'll have to be for a fair few games this season. 

But if we’re a counter-attacking team he’d had to stay further forward  He doesn’t have the legs to play on  the transition.

I suggested this earlier in the season and perhaps there’s a reason he’s never been tried there. Maybe he’d crap on the turn or something. 

Forgive the crude scribbles but his legs have gone to the extent that… he’s class, but only if you’re bossing the game and he has the ball in any of these areas. His creativity and threat from range is a joke… arguably the best left foot I’ve seen in a Derby shirt. Had shooting, delivery and a threaded ball inside.

Has to go though, at his best a joy to watch.

23 hours ago, SamUltraRam said:

Think our final average away following was 2,100 but of course, there were many games where we were heavily restricted due to the small away ends.

From memory, we sold out our allocation at all away games except Bolton (rail strike) & Reading (midweek), and a few short at Blackpool (midweek) & Wigan (Boxing Day)

Even Wigan’s a contentious one

We’d sold out so at late notice they opened up another block for pay on the day

On 05/05/2024 at 19:10, nottingram said:

Wasn’t the rumour at the time that Pearson sussed out who the problems were in the dressing room, and in a (very rare) moment of self awareness this caused Keogh to go running to Morris who promptly sacked Pearson thus proving his point?

His ten games or whatever it was were really, really bad, but I do wonder whether things would’ve got as bad as they subsequently did, if Pearson had just been allowed to get on with it. But never mind. 

The problem was that he was a builder of teams appointed to set an already good team back on the right path.

He should’ve been sacked after his first pre-season friendly or given two years minimum.

3 hours ago, DCFC Kicks said:

I can’t help but wonder where we would be though. Would we still be in the Prem? What on earth did Mel have up his sleeve with signings etc. 

God no, we’d have been going up without our best player, our player of the season, our top-scorer and our manager.

We’d have had to have done a Forest without a manager.

We were up s*** creek.

5 hours ago, Gabby'sThighs said:

Leicester are a much bigger club than Derby, even without the Premier League win.

Most football matches are boring to watch.

A 'funny' chant about the size of Mendez-Laing's p*nis is weird and makes me very uncomfortable.

Shaun Barker's dress-sense is amazing.

I’d quite like to hear the Leicester thing expanded upon 

Mel Morris and Lionel Pickering had startlingly similar spells at Derby, one just got lucky on the pitch. One is lauded and one is hated.

On 11/05/2024 at 06:34, 8Leeds said:

Sat in the south east corner when it was the noisy part of the ground. We were playing Cardiff and there was one away fan that stood out in a bright pink polo shirt. The chant of “the only gay in the village, gay in the village” was hilarious.

Am I right in thinking that same game we sang “who’s the slapper, who’s the slapper, who’s the slapper in the pink?”

And she proceeded to mimic fellatio 😂

As s*** as this game was  I think this was one of the games that saw us over the line. Bradford was another.

Everyone else had condensed fixture lists because of this international break. We pretty much had a clean run at it.

Genuinely a question, not a statement.

As individual achievements… winning the DFB Pokal’s a good season 

The Europa League would be an amazing season 

The Bundesliga for the first time is the best season in their history 

They’ve already achieved the latter and are in the finals of the former two competitions 

They’ve just broken the European competition included unbeaten record (Celtic went 65 unbeaten over 100 years ago so no European football)

Would this be the greatest season of all time if they remain unbeaten in the league and win both finals? The only argument as to why it isn’t is that it’s the Europa League and not the Champions League that’s made up their potential treble

On 08/05/2024 at 12:14, Day said:

There are ways, like everything these days.

On Apple devices, open link in reader mode.

Used to work on the Telegraph as well but they’ve blocked it now.

BUT if you stop the page fully loading on The Telegraph 👀

Preston away in 15/16, picking out one of their fans and singing “you’re coats from Matalan”. He got that wound up he was kicked out by stewards, he was with his son too 😂

1 hour ago, Ian Buxton's Bat said:

100% agree.

Roger Milford. Last game of his career.

Nailed on first place......all other dodgy decisions are playing for the runner up spot.

Still irks 30 years on. Probably the worst day of my life from a footballing perspective.

Remember after Zamora my dad saying “still not as bad as Leicester” and I still can’t fathom how that’s possible 😂

On 01/09/2023 at 11:08, Animal is a Ram said:

I thought Butland was good for us.

Unbelievable shot-stopper and excellent command of his area and yet… you realised how good Grant’s distribution was when we had Butland 

On 06/05/2024 at 07:34, Crewton said:

That's a great way to lose any compensation we'd be due, though you aren't the first poster who's proposed the club should throw money away just to "get rid" of a player they don't rate.

When did I say I don’t rate him?

To ensure compensation wouldn’t we have to match his current contract?

All I’m saying is, if we gave him a daft contract when he first broke through at the time and his current role would be to compete at left-back… 

Just for a bit of perspective… the fundraiser’s to pay for her family to come over.

50 minutes ago, OoooMarkWright said:

Atwell v Forest. Addison’s header. Awful decision.

Agree about Martin at Burnley too. Should’ve had a penalty but was booked for diving. Sent off later for 2 bookings. Pure rage as the ref walked past Derby fans at half time. Bobby Madley had a shocker.

I know I’ve said this on here before… but it’s mad what you can remember because you associate it with football.

I had my driving test the following week so was listening to that game on Radio Derby whilst I had a practise drive around Belper with my dad.

Im crap at street names but I could take you to the exact bend I was on when that incident occurred.

And to top it off, Radio Derby never mentioned that Jeff had scored from the resultant loose ball so I was pissed off again that night when I watched The Football League show! 

Wolves at home in 12/13 and Boro at home in 15/16. On both occasions we had a free-kick on the edge of the D centrally and the wall’s been ahead of the penalty spot.

Like, the impact on the game is negligible but FOR CHRIST SAKE, THERE ARE LITERAL MARKING’S ON THE PITCH

1 hour ago, Eoghan1884 said:

Being a newly promoted side with the type of player we have trying to play possession based football would be a thankless task. Our squad has been constructed to defend, set pressing traps and move forward at pace. It can actually be quite fun to watch when executed with the correct personnel. For example watching Luton in the premier league (I know they’ll be relegated) or Coventry who aren’t a possession based side and also set up with 5 at the back. 

I think if Warne had his way and everything fell into place, we’d be the Leicester title winning sides if 13/14 and 15/16

They weren’t a counter-attacking side, they would just overwhelm you with pace and energy

It’s a bit of false truth that they won the Premier League in 15/16 by playing on the break, they blew teams away for the first half of the season. It was only after the New Year Ranieri realised ‘s***, we can actually do this’ and made them a bit more rigid.