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My favourite game will always be my first live derby game, 3-0 against arsenal, Wanchope double and Sturridge. Ian Wright missed a penalty with Poooooooom in goal.

My arsenal supporting brother sat in the home fans whilst asrsenal lost their first game of the season (I think). Not an important game but reminds me of the high point of supporting debry, time with my dad and brother and some of my favourite derby players ever.

On 08/10/2023 at 19:53, Steve Bloomer's Washing said:

Hey everyone

We've recently released two sets of unique Derby County beer mats - and they're now available to buy on the SBW Etsy store.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SteveBloomersWashing

Hope you like them - let me know if you have any questions about them.

They're priced as:
£9.95 for one set
£14.95 for both sets.

Both prices include first class UK delivery.

Cheers!
Chris

 

 Are you thinking of offering 2 of the same set for £14.95? Not bothered on the photo ones but would def get 2 of the sets with Jim Smith's in if that was on offer.

Oxford as its a 15 min drive from my house to the Kassam.

Also weirdly excited about the PJ trophey. It's been 50 years since we have lifted something. If we somehow managed to win and get promoted, the good will/support for the club would rival this season.

Unsure if that makes me an incredibly sad individual given we were talking premier league 3 years ago but I'm happy be in division 1 and having fun knowing we still exist.

I remember losing to reading on the last day of the season despite only needing a point in 2015 and being so peed off and frustrated.

Now when we are likely to finish 15 places lower and relegated, I have so much more love for our team and manager.

Just on no players being bought in and 4k wage cap on freebies makes it remarkable with 4 games left that we aren't relegated. The 21 points deduction on top makes this an incredible season.

Comlmeted Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge earlier and had a few drinks on finish so know I'm rambling (apologies) . In short fook MM and the EFL. Every player, coach and staff memeber deserve the upmost respect and I hope they have the greatest career, outside of derby or not. On that note I'm gonna go pass out from exhaustion, UTR

4 minutes ago, TuffLuff said:

It was a bit similar to the end of Forest away there, refs completely sucked any momentum Derby had in those last few minutes, then blew before he shouldve done to boot.

But we weren’t great, too many suspensions/injuries/players we couldn’t renew, we are down to bare bones and that was clear tonight 

Last sentence is a good summary. Can't be too critical to any player/Rooney. 

Don't have the personnel to change much or rest players. Lacking in quality tonight but even though it's likely we will be relegated, I live the team at the moment. Roll on offers being formally submitted for the club.

Off the pace and over reliant on youngsters. It's going to happen ad we don't have many options to rest players.

Nothing much anyone can do, the players are trying it's just not working. Sadly this is where we are as a club, can't really blame anyone but happy seeing the subs early. Grab an early one and we might be in with a shout.

Worried Festy is off, hoping it's just a bit of a knock...

Just now, Carl Sagan said:

Am watching on RamsTV but my old man is doing his Sky red button thing, but can't get it to work. Any tips for him. Is it also on an obscure Sky channel number? Ta

Red button on the championship match

Very happy!

Maybe we can now stop caring about Boro and vice versa. Really not bothered if Gibson got paid off by MM,  they agreed to a winner takes all game of tiddlywinks or simply dropped trousers to finally settle who has a bigger one.

With Boro tomorrow, hopefully this will help deescalate the situation.

Can we dare dream a preferred bidder will be announced? 

3 hours ago, i-Ram said:

As you know David I am not a big fan of Mel Morris, but the points you make above are compelling. He has to be cut some slack, because he did blow at least £150m of his fortune to achieve the dream, the fan’s dream, of the Club being a potentially strong player in the upper reaches of the Premier League.

Where I think we diverge are his motives, and perhaps his decision making. I think he bought the Club to be ‘Mr Derby’, and that most of his decisions were short term and knee jerk to get to the promised land asap. He developed an unsustainable model that just ran out of control. Let’s not reflect on his player/manager choices, I am thinking more net-transfer and wages dealings. We were a financial train out of control in 2018 and I think he knew that, but still backed Lampard (or did he back himself?) that he could ultimately win big with his investment (or gambling as I would less charitably call it). He was taking tremendous risks with our Club in my opinioneven at that stage. When he realised in 2019 that he had a) either had enough, or b) had insufficient funds, he should have put his hand up then, and attempted to sell the club and stadium for a few pennies, rather than the c£100 which he was touted as wanting. In my opinion his ego, and his desire to claw back as much as he could, prevented that, but in hindsight he would have been far better off taking that damage limitation view.  COVID was unforeseen and again I have sympathy for him here; given the position he found himself in that was just rank bad luck. But again even at that time in my opinion he still didn’t want to be seen as a failure, and was still mooching around with chancers who might have paid him some proper money. It is because he kept holding out for a return on his investment that things got worse, because that is when with apparently no more funds he wanted to invest he turned to short term moneylenders and HMRC to fund his cash flow difficulties.

I don’t think the guy a fraudster, or indeed anything too derogatory. He has however one way or another taken a well organised Club to the absolute brink of extinction, and no Derby fan should ever forgive him for that.

Probably the fairest summary I have seen and less emotional than anything I have posted!

For me 1 point would be great. Huddersfield are a good team, obviously 3 points would be amazing but I would take 1 point if offered right now.

The Peterborough game is the must win, I'll be back up for that one.

2 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

Was that 1997? 

Yup wanchope and sturridge... Arsenal supporting brother sat with us, awesome day.

On 20/01/2022 at 12:51, BathRam72 said:

Anyone going to this match with a view to wrecking the place should take a look at themselves. We all suspect the EFL have it for us and this would just fuel the fire and give them something else to drive a nail in our coffin. Also, if we do have a new owner, his first payout would be a massive fine. Welcome to Derby

Exactly this.

In our current situation it's hard to remember that 99% of football supporters are the same. If a team rocked up to Pride Park and trashed it we would understandably call them unts. 

Whilst we have sympathy over how Mel has fooked us, EFL have been incompetent and Gibson is a vindictive lil excrement, let's not throw it away by being unts. Admittedly we would lose out on being seeing hard as fook by breaking a plastic seat.....

I usually stay over but just coming up on the day. Where is the best place to park?

2 hours ago, WestLondonRam said:

Oxford 230 mile round trip.. see you all there. 

Ditto (well Abingdon and pick up from wallingford first)

2-0 Lawrence fgs Davies towering header in 74th minute

My first with my dad was a 3-0 win against Arsenal with Wright missing a penalty. He will never forget it!

Actually coming up for this one with my dad just in case it's our last game.

Ravel caught so many times in possession and now a red. Terrible performance by him. 

Some good positions just not able to get the shot off.

1 minute ago, StrawHillRam said:

Yes very 

I'd like to revise my confidence levels.... ffs

Is it weird to feel more confident at 0-0 at half time than if we were 1-0 up?

9 minutes ago, Gritstone Ram said:

I wouldn’t entertain the baalocks on their forum. I’m surprised some can put a sentence together.

Their fans are no different to us or any other fans. SG and MM are the children of women with negotiable virtues. 

Having read the boro forum which is pretty similar to every football forum in terms of characters I came across this.

Does anyone know if there is any truth in this? Would this go someway to explain SG's motivation? Would maybe partly explain despite the bad press why he won't relent as can kick MM one more time.

I think the key to this may be the debt to MSD Holdings, approx £20m, which carries a personal guarantee from Mel Morris. My understanding, as a layperson, is that liquidation would trigger that liability i.e. MSD can come after MM personally. MSD is, in practice, Michael Dell of Dell Computers, who is worth about $60 billion. This is the situation that MM wishes to avoid - personal liability to someone out of his weight division. He is therefore under pressure to reach an agreement with Boro and Wycombe to avoid liquidation and leave the liabilities with DCFC. Gibbo knows this and is keeping the pressure on.

1 minute ago, Ellafella said:

They don’t need to unless a legal challenge is brought which would take months- their rules leave them with discretion to judge a case on specific merit. 

Thanks for explaining to a simpleton! Struggling to understand the differences between the line of legal action/efl action. 

6 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Yes; Boro have them in a double-bind. Support us to sue Derby or we sue you for failing to act. It's a deal done by Boro weeks and weeks ago. That's why EFL simply won't budge. It's easier to screw Derby now than be called out for incompetence earlier. 

Do you know whether the EFL can legally not make a ruling on this? Surely they have to say categorically whether this is football debt or not?

Maybe I've misunderstood but  I can't find anywhere where the EFL have confirmed one way or another. Apologies if this has been asked/answered before.

Just now, Ken Tram said:

What is stopping the EFL from stating that Middlesbrough's claim is a non-football debt?

Are they scared of being sued by Middlesbrough?

I think they have as much admitted that. Boro threatened the EFL with action and the EFL pointed them to us.

The frustrating part is (someone correct me if I am wrong) is that the EFL won't say yes this is or no it isn't a football debt as either answer creates so many issues for them. It either sets a precedent that unproven claims are football debts which would be ridiculous as they are unproven in a court of law or they get sued by Boro and have to go to court. This would then highlight their mistakes in the public eye.