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12 hours ago, jono said:

a more prosaic note, I ate at the yard once before a youth match, really enjoyed it but what’s it like on match days .. is it a scrum and how long do you have to book in advance ?

No pre booking on a match day, first come, first served. 

It's not as busy as you'd think, sometimes held at the door for a few minutes, but not often.

Elvana on Sat night was great fun. 

Next up is Springsteen in Cardiff, which is turning into one bloomin  expensive night out. 

I could've had a week abroad for the same outlay.

9 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

I totally misread that.

Too much edgy comedy?

2 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

All in here i'd imagine, even if it's only the pink coconut sign from a distance .  Probably about the right time frame as well.

 

My mates and I used to buy Fun Snaps from Alfs joke shop, round the corner from Duckworth Square. 

Then we'd lean over the car park level wall, and throw them down at people on the ground floor below, hoping to hit them on the head and duck back down. 

Hours of fun, until I hit a skinhead full on the bonce, and he and his mates immediately pelted for the stairs up. 

We had to take the stairs down, just beating them to the exit, then they proceeded to chase us halfway back to Spondon before they eventually gave up.

Easily in our top 3 chases, alongside the fuzz chasing us through Stoney Cross for lighting a fire under the ropeswing and swinging through it, and the mad bugger who lived in the flats, and would ask us to wait while he put his trainers to chase us for door knocking.

5 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Put this precise song up on here a week or two back, but it didn't seem to gain much traction.

Sorry for the plagiarism, didn't see it!

It's the good ones that get ignored!

Deserves more than a round of boos, like a song!

Love us or leave us, make your choice but believe us

We love you

Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou

We can't conceal it, don't you see, can't you feel it?

Don't you too?

Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou

So come on, now and join us, We love you, hear our chorus

'Cause it's true

Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou, Ebou.

His performances since joining us deserve more appreciation, specifically in the form of a terrace chant.

Having suggested countless original songs throughout the years, I've realised what Derby fans really want is a lazy adaptation of an existing song used by another team, such as Allez Allez, Since I was young, On our way etc etc.

Since I can't beat em, I've joined them with this effort, shamelessly ripped off the Virgil Van Dyke song, to the tune of Dirty Old Town.

He's our centre half, Number 35,

Watch him defend, and you feel alive.

He's always there, when the ball is won,

Curtis Nel-son, Curtis Nel-son.

My missus has had a text, I wondered if anyone else on here had heard this?

The woman who's made the complaint against Horner also happens to be Jos Verstappens current girlfriend.

It would be too funny to be true, surely.

1 hour ago, Archied said:

Ok here goes ,, surprise surprise, I have a bit of a gripe/ concern today even after a win which I’m really pleased with but my issue is not this I don’t like warne style football or I much prefer liam style stuff , I’ve already said today that if I saw a flaw and fair stick to beat the manager with it’s the home results and yes I know we won today but I really was surprised we went in at 2-0 half time because I really thought here we go again after we went 1-0 up and I thought we were poor first half , ive not really been able to pin down where or why it’s been going wrong at home but it came to me very simply during that first half that warne and the staff really need to put a rocket up these players backsides at time and my concern is whether he is too nice a bloke to tear them a new one when needed , I realise I may be miles off the mark and it’s just guess work or gut feel on my part 🤷🏻‍♂️,

there’s so much anti warne that I’ve taken a look at what it was I liked about his sides when he first came and all the games I’ve really enjoyed where some just don’t like any ,, well here it is , when it’s right the gas’s out idea of warne and being super fit covering the ground is was all about pressing the poo out of teams , not giving them a second to breath on the ball and when we get the ball back and or get in front going for the opponents throat for 90 mins , we hunted in packs and by hell I really enjoyed that , for some reason we have lost or gone away from that , even the simple thing of our throw ins shows it clear as day , no bugger is moving ,demanding the ball and the thrower is left standing like a lemon and all too often launches a long 50/50 throw up the line ,

get back to the game style you like mr warne because plenty of us fans enjoy that , it’s gets us off our seats and right behind the team , for me game management is not about slowing it down and trying to play tika taka keep ball that just invites teams on to us and we start panicking and hitting loose passes , has warne lost his way a bit under criticism of not playing pretty pretty football? If so I hope he goes back to type for the rest of the season because if he does and gets the players fired up and back on it this squad will be top two 

I don't think he's changed his style, so much as circumstances have made it necessary. 

Injuries, and heavy pitches this time of year have led to a more cautious approach. 

Bradley summed up the approach in his post match interview, knock it around the back, invite the press, play it to the wingback and hit the channels is the prescription, and the players pretty much followed that to the letter today.

3 hours ago, Srg said:

Seems to be some craic in the Guthrie upper last couple of games. Don’t know what’s started it but it’s helping. 

There's a gang of new kids in the back row. I don't know where they've come from, but they don't let up from kick off onwards. 

They drag everyone up there along with them, myself included.

39 minutes ago, LazloW said:

Nobody need worry today. I’m not going to be there as feeling poorly. But that will definitely mean the performance of the season and a 6-0 tanking of poor Port Vale. It will be a case of PW’s teamtalk being something along the lines of “Hear Lazlo (not his real name) isn’t coming today, so we can take a break from making him miserable and revert to all out total football! Do you hear me, you can pass it through the middle and everything!”

As I refuse to listen to Radio Derby, particularly as it would make me feel even more ill, I shall be relying on you good people to provide me with your normal upbeat, informative and not at all knee jerk reactions to what is going on. Sure I’ll feel better in no time 😘

So it's Lazlo W?

I've always read it as Laz, Isle of Wight, and silently saluted your long distance support!

Feeling under the weather?

Perhaps you're on a club record equalling amount of games without a win?

Apprehensive about taking on one of the top two, away from home, who've also wrenched one of your better players away from you recently?

Give Dr Derby a call, and all will be right in the morning.

5 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

Was he delivered in kit form 😂

I'll be honest, I didn't see that as a possible response. 

I suppose once the words are out there, I have to lego of what I meant.

21 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Didn’t think Ella Fitzgerald was w****** material.

She made Louis Armstrong.

1 hour ago, Anag Ram said:

I still miss getting up to switch over 😊

You call your butler "Up"?

No thanks needed! 

Wise men say

Only fools rush in

But I can't help, falling in love

Eee Booo.

I said on Saturday I'd become apathetic. 

Performances like tonight, where we were in control pretty much throughout, are a welcome jolt to the system.

Whenever people say everything is rosy because we're second, I console myself by looking at the table on the OS, which has us fourth!

I've reached the apathy stage. 

When my lad came downstairs this morning, and said he didn't feel well enough to go, I was kind of relieved. 

I just don't find the disruption to the day worth the time and cost invested, sadly. 

It's the same old performance at home, match after match, against teams who always seem to be 16th-19th in the league when we play them!

56 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

You should meet my 94 year old dad. He’s become more argumentative than ever and will pretty much argue about anything. 😀

My dad's gone the same way.

I'd never really heard him express any strong political opinions until recently, now he's banging on about immigration, scroungers and such like.  

It like he's forgotten he's married to an immigrant, in fact he married the same one twice ffs!

Make the blue card like a power play in Cricket. 

A team gets a blue card, they must keep at least 4 players in the opponents half until the punishment is over, the remaining players can't cross halfway.

Dwight Gayle checks each teams transfer thread, to see where he'd be most welcome.

Sees the Derby forum is like visiting Grandad in the care home, a load of confused oldies chuntering about half remembered TV plays of the 70's, and is overcome by the smell of boiled cabbage and piss.

Decides Aberdeen, the baltic temperatures and the sudocream man are no deterrent, and signs for the Dons.

Occasionally, teams make a single signing that transforms the team. 

Virgil van Dyke at Liverpool, Kante at Leicester are good examples off the top of my head.

I think Warne has found a player in Adams who can have a similar positive effect. 

Fitted almost seamlessly into that midfield, and just made everyone around him that little bit more effective.

Keep him fit, and he'll make a massive difference come the end of the season.

Good pick up in the Jan window, and brave to slot him straight in, good call Paul.

37 minutes ago, dcfcjj said:

Deadline day has been that draining it’s to the point people can’t count.

32 minutes ago, Ewe Ram said:

Which 2 of those 3?

Fell into the trap! 

Kazim-Richards is hyphenated, so all one word.

There's only one word for that.

Magic Darts. 

Two words people.

Colin Kazim Richards.