cannable

Meh, I am a petty enough man that I still boot his parking sign after every home game 

Meh, I am a petty enough man that I still boot his parking sign after every home game 

Meh, I am a petty enough man that I still boot his parking sign after every home game 

Meh, I am a petty enough man that I still boot his parking sign after every home game 

No soft drinks allowed on that bus.

Managed to get on The Neptune bus, thanks all!

@angieram?

See, and I don’t know if it’s because assists weren’t a thing back when we had him, Commons directly contributed to 24 goals in 49 games in his first season for us. This is in a piss-poor side. 

Great to see those old newspaper articles, just reinforces old memories. I have every copy of the 'Green Un' for 68/69, they are well stored up in the loft!  I must get them out sometime!
As Brailsford says, whilst this thread relates to 71/72 what happened in the 60's in many ways provided the building blocks for what was to follow. After the gradual but pernicious slide into the obscurity of the 3rd Tier that followed the FA Cup win it was evident that the Club needed a strong hand on the tiller to turn it's fortunes around! 
Fortunately, it only took two years for us to get out of the old 3rd Division North and then some stability (both football wise and from a financial point of view) followed. With Harry Storer as Manager and Sam Longson in the Chair they were, in many ways, the ideal characters to achieve this stability but, as the 60's leapt into life, there was a feeling that we were still underachieving and that DCFC had more to offer. When Tim took up the baton from Storer the fans hoped that a more positive future lay ahead. Looking back, Tim did begin to revamp the club but there remained a feeling that he lacked the dynamism needed to really get the ball rolling. There is no doubt that there was pent up frustration amongst the fans that we needed a stronger character than Tim to achieve this even though it's fair to say that he raised the quality on the pitch with imports such as Durban and Hector as well as with the development of home grown players like Webster. When Sam wielded the axe most fans felt that the decision to dispense with Tim was the correct one even though he was well liked and 'one of us'. Who would Longson go for we asked, I don't think Cloughies name was bandied about and it was certainly a surprise appointment. For that decision we have to thank Jimmy Armfield, the former superb England Full Back, who urged Sam to go for BC.
What still amazes me is the excitement that that decision caused amongst Rams fans and, indeed, the wider Derby community! Brian Clough, why Brian Clough we asked?? But as soon as he walked through the door there was a whiff of excitement, as if that pent up frustration was suddenly being released! Talk about going through the club like a dose of salts there seemed to be a new story to read about every day in the DET! What followed over the next few years still seems more like a figment of someone's imagination than reality but history shows that actually it did happen!  
This thread is about the success of 71/72 but it's beyond dispute that the previous decade was the catalyst for that success! A decade that saw unbelievable change in every aspect of life, a decade that begat an unbelievable change in the story of a founder member of the Football League and in the lives of it's supporters and the community that it represented! Unforgettable, unbelievable, but whichever way you look at it bloody wonderful! 

I always found him weird. I always thought he’d end up being a Grealish/Maddison/Cairney type (obviously Cairney isn’t on the former pair’s level but they were the three dominant #10s in 16/17).
I wondered if he was sometimes too intelligent for his own good. He’d play the role he was asked to. He’s a ridiculous dribbler but he never had the freedom to show it.
When he first broke through my dad was never that excited because he saw at the time he was too slow to go to the very top, which is something I’ve seen as to why he may have missed out on an England call up. 

Yay, I’m going to this!! After a brain haemorrhage and then lockdown I thought I’d never get to PP again. However, I’ve recovered really well over the summer, especially worked hard to improve physically and my partner is letting my son take me to the match - he’s much more worried than I am!
So, Rams, I’d appreciate a good performance and a win - though whatever happens I’ll feel like a winner just getting there.

We aren’t exactly in a position as a club to be picky…

It’s the influence their reintroduction can have on everybody else though. 
With Bielik back you can tweak the midfield and let him do all of Shinnie’s job and some of Bird’s (cropping people and progressing the ball). 
You can push whichever of the latter pair you decide to play ten/twenty yards further up the pitch and also have Ravel stay further up the pitch rather than dropping deep. 
Then with everybody further up the pitch you’d also have them playing off Kazim. 
 
 
You’d probably have to keep a full-back back though, I suppose, or even with Bielik sitting you’re gonna have the back two exposed.

It’s the influence their reintroduction can have on everybody else though. 
With Bielik back you can tweak the midfield and let him do all of Shinnie’s job and some of Bird’s (cropping people and progressing the ball). 
You can push whichever of the latter pair you decide to play ten/twenty yards further up the pitch and also have Ravel stay further up the pitch rather than dropping deep. 
Then with everybody further up the pitch you’d also have them playing off Kazim. 
 
 
You’d probably have to keep a full-back back though, I suppose, or even with Bielik sitting you’re gonna have the back two exposed.

It’s the influence their reintroduction can have on everybody else though. 
With Bielik back you can tweak the midfield and let him do all of Shinnie’s job and some of Bird’s (cropping people and progressing the ball). 
You can push whichever of the latter pair you decide to play ten/twenty yards further up the pitch and also have Ravel stay further up the pitch rather than dropping deep. 
Then with everybody further up the pitch you’d also have them playing off Kazim. 
 
 
You’d probably have to keep a full-back back though, I suppose, or even with Bielik sitting you’re gonna have the back two exposed.

It’s the influence their reintroduction can have on everybody else though. 
With Bielik back you can tweak the midfield and let him do all of Shinnie’s job and some of Bird’s (cropping people and progressing the ball). 
You can push whichever of the latter pair you decide to play ten/twenty yards further up the pitch and also have Ravel stay further up the pitch rather than dropping deep. 
Then with everybody further up the pitch you’d also have them playing off Kazim. 
 
 
You’d probably have to keep a full-back back though, I suppose, or even with Bielik sitting you’re gonna have the back two exposed.

Heard it was Martin that had a key role in pulling the dressing room back together. Don’t know any details, though.

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Owen Bradley would have been conducting that interview FOR Radio Derby…

Owen Bradley would have been conducting that interview FOR Radio Derby…