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13 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Came back at the request of Smith.  Got injured before he kicked a ball. Left 3 months later when Smith was let go as he didn't want to play under Todd. 

I have no memory of this at all! Good knowledge!

6 minutes ago, David said:

Nelson, Bradley, Cashin you would assume are the nailed in back 3, which leaves Forsyth and Rooney as back up, Rooney being CB 5 if you like.

Also gives us the added cover in a defensive midfield role where needed so no, can't see him going out on loan straight away.

January, if he's had limited game time, might see him go out.

At the time or writing I'd say this is spot on. Realistic target should be come the end of the season be CB 4 and pushing for a starting role within the next 2 seasons.

I rate him and like the pace of which he is developing. 

7 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

 

100% agree that looks mint.

I actually really like the new kit but that simple change would have made it even better!

14 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Saint David Clowes bringing back the good times?!

 

🤤

The first one is my favourite kit of all time, I love it. Brings back happy memories.

it was during the second season (our first in the prem/last at baseball ground) that we had the maroon kit and an interesting observation I've just made for the first time ever is our home and away kits would have had different badges that season.

Probably a boring observation now I've typed it out!

Now obviously this is not a Derby County Kit, and it's obviously not an Umbro kit either so I'm not saying I think this will be what our away kit will be like.

But, I do think it helps us visualise what a  simple black kit with our new suite of colours could look, and I like the idea of that for an away or third kit

No matter what happens, whether it's black and white, navy and white, black numbers, red numbers, pink numbers (sorry @B4ev6is), we'll have zero chance of having the worst kit in league one this season thanks to this monstrosity from Barnsley! 

11 hours ago, Dambuster said:

The Kit Eranio is wearing had white socks. Obviously they were wearing black socks when that particular photo was taken (probably to avoid a clash).

I quite like us in black socks, but I voted white because that's what we've worn for the vast majority of the past 50 years (follow the link @IslandExile posted below to see how few black sock kits we've actually had)

4 hours ago, Seaside Ram said:

Absolutely NO WAY !

DCFC = White, Black and Black socks always !!!!! 

You'll be wanting all white next 😡

We’ve barely had black socks since the late 60s.

My guess is 3 or 4 kits in the past 50 years have had black socks. I’d bet my house it’s no more than 5

second one too much red according to some 👀

23 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Not being able to spend much is an improvement on not being able to spend anything in my view. 
How we spend the budget we’ve got is key, if the revised plan allows us to spend some on fees as well as wages then things have improved.
Last season allegedly we had a weekly wage cap of £12k, so we could sign someone on a free whose yearly salary would be £624k, but we weren’t allowed to sign a promising younger player for £300k and pay them £6k a week, same budgetary outlay but the restrictions dictated how we spent it, we in theory have more flexibility now. 

£5,552 cheaper even! 

3 hours ago, CBRammette said:

We were explaining to my teenage son where the phrase bunny-boiler came from at weekend. Funny how phrases come into normal speech such that eventually noone knows why eventually

I never knew the origin until googling on the back of this comment!

54 minutes ago, Srg said:

The only solution in my mind would be to go down an appeal route - just like cricket, tennis, NFL and others. You get 1 a half, captain/manager can use it, get it wrong and you lose it.

In the NFL, all scoring plays are reviewed by default. The challenge flag that coaches use is outside of that.

If we adopted the same system, we'd end up where everything stays pretty much as it is today (offsides being checked, build up play, etc) but managers being able to challenge things like "you've given them a throwin but it should be ours".

Can't compare football to Cricket, NFL, tennis because those games all have actual stopages between plays. Football doesn't really, unless you want 30 second play clocks introduced everytime the ball goes out of play.

Born in Derby, all my family are Derby fans, still live in Derby, always probably will live in Derby, just bloody love Derby!

I did the survey @Conor_Student21 and didn't feel the need to moan about it! 

Good luck in your studies

You could argue there's more important things than literally everything apart from the most important thing in the world.

Therefore, should we only talk about the single most important thing? and if so what is it?

Or, here's a crazy idea, perhaps we could have different pages for different topics and if you aren't interested in any given topic, just don't comment.

I'm with @SparxTheRam !

Talking about something as trivial as what our kit might look like is a nice little escape from the endless torment that the takeover has been for what seems like forever

17 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

So your the one.  I bet your the one that eats dark chocolate bounty as well.

I love dark chocolate bounty! One of my favourites.

I genuinely believed that the majority of football fans were loyal to one club since childhood.

There were a couple lads I went to school with who were massive Man U fans but now in their 30s I see them at Derby games and vocal on Facebook and probably on here - I always thought they were the minority. 

I've been naive my whole life!

11 hours ago, WestStandStartTheBounce said:

My first post ever but desperate times lead to desperate measures ?.

Sunday 30th January Derby County Football club could be playing the last game of football they will ever play, 138 years of history.

Let us make this a game something no one forgets. 

We're live on Sky and have national attention. Let's sell out pride park and make it the best atmosphere since Brighton in the playoffs. Everyone bring banners, flags, inflatable items (of all shapes and sizes?) etc. Lets not stop singing before, during and at the end of the match.

If it will be our last game lets go out with a bang and something that will be remembered, in front of the Sky cameras. 

Everyone who went to Wembley, every fan who can only get along to a few games make this a game you can't miss. The reality is you may never be able to see Derby County again.

 

 

It’s my birthday. I’m gonna pretend the party is for me

12 hours ago, loweman2 said:

the two pictures taken from the Normanton end are so close to where our season ticket seats were. Lovely to see from that specific angle and bringing back memories.

On 03/10/2021 at 08:34, loweman2 said:

He’s one of our own ! Young Jack O’Connell paid us a visit yesterday, he was sat just in front of me and was with his mum, he was loving the atmosphere from the South Stand and it was great to see him, I had a chat with him and asked if he had a spare £60 million. Good to see him maintaining his roots ! Top lad !

for the Stoke Game he sat a couple seats from me (second half only). Wasn't up in the fancy seats though ?

1 minute ago, 1967RAMS said:

Did Steve Maclaren’s accent raise a semi? 

I did nothing for me mate

That is ridiculous. The Telegraph are a joke

3 hours ago, TexasRam said:

If I’d be Manager it’s be reality. 2 years with Spondon Rovers and 4 years with Alvaston Cavaliers, I’m a fountain of football knowledge from that upbringing 

When was you Rovers manager?…… gonna see if I can figure out who you are or not ?

11 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

Appalling enough thinking of Derby City...It should always be Derby county. AFC Derby County etc. No idea how I would feel about a phoenix club. Might back it, might just lose interest in football for a while. But yeh, groundshare with Mickleover? Nah. Awful

A phoenix club in the same colours same badge and retain our honours I'd be fine with. I wouldn't even see it as a new club. Just the same one

Much like AFC Wimbledon

I have friends who were suspicious of Mel whilst I was supporting him. They would argue their point and I'd dismiss it. I thought we had a local multimillionaire who was making the EFL look stupid ?

I started to turn slightly when Rooney signed... not because of Rooney (I was delighted) but the fact that Mel was in the photos. How many other owners are we familiar with their appearance? All the ones I can think of are Ashley, Abramovic and Delia Smith! I wouldn't even recognise the bloke at Man City and haven't got a clue what the Glaziers look like. 

That is when I began to be open to this being a vanity project. Since then it's gone from bad to worse as we all know and I'm now embarrassed to have ever considered him "one of our own".

I'm too young to remember Maxwell given I was born whilst we were in the third division but of all the owners that have come and gone since, Mel is by far the worst and I can not wait for him to be gone.