richinspain

Hopefully in the 50th minute against Orient. I wouldn't like to have to wait until the 89th minute against Carlisle!

And there was me thinking that it was because last year we were rubbish and that this year we aren't.

Hopefully the Rams can give you some feel good factor this month. Look after yourself.

In 2007/8 didn't we have 3 different goal scorers? 🥷

I loved (don't tell @Archied 😉) the BBG, but if I'm honest I think that those that are too young to have savoured it would find it rather disappointing. Having 20000 (ok, slight exaggeration) crammed onto the Popside, everyone moving in unison (because if one person moved the whole bloody lot of us had to move), and I won't even mention the bogs (definitely the right name because they resembled a bog much more than a toilet). I think that as a one off experience they would love it, but having to go through that whole cow herd experience every week I don't think would appeal. God I miss the old place 😔. I miss the smell of the place, especially at night. Football for me has that smell, but of the few memories that I seem to have retained at my age I can still smell and taste the BBG. Football for me now is too sterile, especially with the "big" clubs demanding everything for themselves leaving not even scraps for the rest. Brian Clough would hate today's football, and nobody would have to shop him to the police because he'd be on the TV every day screaming it at the top of his voice.

I read that as pride park and the county ground. Christ, I thought, he's been going for more than 100 years and saw them at the county ground but never went to the BBG!

Posted this in the away tickets thread. Good luck mate.

@sage, please note the lengths that full fans will go to for their club!

Good luck Fruity. You're one of the genuine fans with a genuine reason for not having a ticket. Sorry to hear that you're going home for the wrong reasons (I presume "wrong" is not actually the right word, but you know what I mean). I only know @DarkFruitsRam7 from forum Skype reunions, but would ask anyone who can help to please do so. He's a very deserving case (even if he does have some bad habits 😉)

Ebou Adams smashing his shot through the Blackpool defence

Half fan

I'd definitely prefer him to this guy

How inconsiderate of her. Doesn't she know that the Rams need everyone behind them?

£147m in wages! Holy ****.

Plus a pork pie while you're at it. You'll think that you've found heaven on earth.

Willie Carlin

The Athletic Bilbao manager in 1987 was Howard Kendal, and I do seem to remember that they were doing very well under him. I've just looked it up. In 86/7 they finished mid table, but in 87/8 they finished 4th.

So you're saying then that in this £4m a year the wages of all players 21 or under are included? Obviously that means that the average wage of the first team squad is higher, but it really does make more sense to keep the category one status.

So Knight, Sibley etc don't count as first team players because they came through the academy system? In which case the cost of running the academy is peanuts if you take their wages out of that running cost. Or am I missing something?

I managed to miss the first half as I hadn't realised that it was an early kickoff. You can imagine my surprise (good and bad at the same time) when I started looking for one of @RadioactiveWaste's watercourses and saw the score.

Can someone please explain this to me. "Fans" leave their seats before the final whistle to go and stand in the concourse to watch the final minutes on the TV? I fully understand people who actually leave the ground to avoid the rush, catch trains etc, but to just watch on a tiny TV screen when a few feet away you can watch live? Now that's just plain weird.

Surely you can add another nought to those prices if they are prepared to move to Greece?