WestKentRam

We're had a major de-clutter following work on the house this year, and sadly my football programme collection is one of the things that must go in our new minimalist state.
Rather than condemn it to the great recycling centre in the sky, I'm offering it here in case anyone wants to relive the Mel Morris glory days, as well as other times past and present. Free to a good, or bad, home.
It consists of Derby home and away programmes to those games I've been to since 2014 up to last November when I realised my collecting days are over, including a full two season set of Rampage magazines.
There are also some older programmes of mainly other clubs, or Derby away, with a few stretching back to the 1970s but most in the 1980s/90s and onwards, featuring Arsenal, Charlton, Wimbledon and a smattering of other London clubs back in the days when I could just rock up to a Div 1 ground at 3pm on a Saturday and get a reasonably priced ticket watch the game. Also some ticket stubs for these games when I kept them. A bit of a hoarder...
I'd rather just off load them in one batch if anyone is interested. The photo shows they take up three smallish boxes.
I get to most home games in the car early locally in Derby from 11.30am-midday pre 3pm KO, so can drop off or arrange a rendezvous in Derby pre match.
If you're interested then send me a message. I'll post on here when they are spoken for. No time wasters, as I do enough of that myself.
 

We're had a major de-clutter following work on the house this year, and sadly my football programme collection is one of the things that must go in our new minimalist state.
Rather than condemn it to the great recycling centre in the sky, I'm offering it here in case anyone wants to relive the Mel Morris glory days, as well as other times past and present. Free to a good, or bad, home.
It consists of Derby home and away programmes to those games I've been to since 2014 up to last November when I realised my collecting days are over, including a full two season set of Rampage magazines.
There are also some older programmes of mainly other clubs, or Derby away, with a few stretching back to the 1970s but most in the 1980s/90s and onwards, featuring Arsenal, Charlton, Wimbledon and a smattering of other London clubs back in the days when I could just rock up to a Div 1 ground at 3pm on a Saturday and get a reasonably priced ticket watch the game. Also some ticket stubs for these games when I kept them. A bit of a hoarder...
I'd rather just off load them in one batch if anyone is interested. The photo shows they take up three smallish boxes.
I get to most home games in the car early locally in Derby from 11.30am-midday pre 3pm KO, so can drop off or arrange a rendezvous in Derby pre match.
If you're interested then send me a message. I'll post on here when they are spoken for. No time wasters, as I do enough of that myself.
 

Glad to see this and will be very interesting to see if it makes any difference in practice and referees enforce the rule changes. If so, this could be to our advantage this season as time wasting is used against the 'better' teams if the opposition can't win or draw by actually playing football.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/07/match-officials-to-adopt-new-approach-for-202324-season

It will be interesting to see how much gets added on and if it will cut out time wasting because that’s what is required.

Just what we need, 20 minutes of added time when driving back from an evening kickoff away match in February.😂

Glad to see this and will be very interesting to see if it makes any difference in practice and referees enforce the rule changes. If so, this could be to our advantage this season as time wasting is used against the 'better' teams if the opposition can't win or draw by actually playing football.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/07/match-officials-to-adopt-new-approach-for-202324-season

Glad to see this and will be very interesting to see if it makes any difference in practice and referees enforce the rule changes. If so, this could be to our advantage this season as time wasting is used against the 'better' teams if the opposition can't win or draw by actually playing football.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/07/match-officials-to-adopt-new-approach-for-202324-season

Glad to see this and will be very interesting to see if it makes any difference in practice and referees enforce the rule changes. If so, this could be to our advantage this season as time wasting is used against the 'better' teams if the opposition can't win or draw by actually playing football.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/07/match-officials-to-adopt-new-approach-for-202324-season

Wednesday so determined to win last week they look jaded and their fans that were relishing the prospect of playing Peterborough instead of us. I hated their gloating.
Especially as they only won by cheating.
It serves them bloody right.

I'm so fickle. Feel much better after yesterday with prospect of seeing how we do against southern-ish Reading, Orient, Northampton and Stevenage away next season. That, and Millwall's capitulation, has really helped my mood.

I'm so fickle. Feel much better after yesterday with prospect of seeing how we do against southern-ish Reading, Orient, Northampton and Stevenage away next season. That, and Millwall's capitulation, has really helped my mood.

Lifted according to Dom on Radio Derby.....will not be spending loads and still under buisness plan but we can now trade in the market  again. 
 
 
 

I'm so fickle. Feel much better after yesterday with prospect of seeing how we do against southern-ish Reading, Orient, Northampton and Stevenage away next season. That, and Millwall's capitulation, has really helped my mood.

Great close-up of Bennett looking dejected at the end of the match. #schadenfreude

I'm so fickle. Feel much better after yesterday with prospect of seeing how we do against southern-ish Reading, Orient, Northampton and Stevenage away next season. That, and Millwall's capitulation, has really helped my mood.

Players are out. Why's McGoldrick wearing a different top to the others? Does he feel the cold?
 

With the officials not being so determined to constantly give extremely suspect decisions against us we would have easily been cemented into the play off positions and that’s avoiding us not scoring from a shedload of chances 

Don't forget, it all evens itself out in the end. I'm not sure the end of what though.
The game? The season? A new manager? A new owner? A three yearly cycle like the EFL's Profit and Sustainability rules? The decade?
I often read that we didn't deserve to win this game or that, so serves us right for losing points due to refereeing decisions. Makes me think that football games should be decided on stats other than goals scored as this is too open to bias.
I can't decide on whether it should be % possession, shots on target, xG, best player haircut, or a Bake Off scenario where judges rule on the tastiest pie served up at the ground. Seems a lot fairer than what is going on week in and week out at present.

Wildsmith admitted in his post match interview he did it to waste time. Beginners mistake. Never admit to nuffink 🤦

On the park and ride bus post match today I was amused to overhear two FGR fans bemoaning Derby's time wasting, but they suppose it is part of the modern game... Strangely I didn't notice it for some reason 🤔

As this is happening on a now almost match by match basis at this key stage of the season, I'll do a copy and paste job below of a comment I made last month.
After several seasons of feeling that key decisions go against us, and this affects our overall position in the league and it doesn't 'even itself out at the end of the season', that in 20/21 I kept a very nerdy spreadsheet of controversial decisions in our games, both for and against. We came out with -8 or -9 points due to these.
It's all very well taking each game one at a time and saying well, ok, that decision went against us and cost us the draw or win, but we didn't deserve the points so it doesn't matter. Football results aren't decided on performance or merit, but the scores on the doors at the end of the match. At present it feels like we need to create ourselves a goal buffer to allow for poor decisions.
Again, as football is a game of fine margins, if our 'goal' today against Ipswich had been allowed to stand the outcome of the game and appearance of the league table tonight might very well be different, and even more so given similar issues with decisions v Plymouth and Peterborough.
I'm not frothing at the mouth insisting that there is an EFL conspiracy behind closed doors that decides on the result of games before they are played, but as with many things in life, many factors come into play. An example is match officials taking selfies at their big day out at the stadium and what this indicates about their approach to the game.
I believe we are all entitled to our own opinions and my view is that we are hard done by with regard to decisions against us and this does materially affect our position in the league table. I would be very interested if anyone has any any evidence that over the course of a season this is not the case.

As this is happening on a now almost match by match basis at this key stage of the season, I'll do a copy and paste job below of a comment I made last month.
After several seasons of feeling that key decisions go against us, and this affects our overall position in the league and it doesn't 'even itself out at the end of the season', that in 20/21 I kept a very nerdy spreadsheet of controversial decisions in our games, both for and against. We came out with -8 or -9 points due to these.
It's all very well taking each game one at a time and saying well, ok, that decision went against us and cost us the draw or win, but we didn't deserve the points so it doesn't matter. Football results aren't decided on performance or merit, but the scores on the doors at the end of the match. At present it feels like we need to create ourselves a goal buffer to allow for poor decisions.
Again, as football is a game of fine margins, if our 'goal' today against Ipswich had been allowed to stand the outcome of the game and appearance of the league table tonight might very well be different, and even more so given similar issues with decisions v Plymouth and Peterborough.
I'm not frothing at the mouth insisting that there is an EFL conspiracy behind closed doors that decides on the result of games before they are played, but as with many things in life, many factors come into play. An example is match officials taking selfies at their big day out at the stadium and what this indicates about their approach to the game.
I believe we are all entitled to our own opinions and my view is that we are hard done by with regard to decisions against us and this does materially affect our position in the league table. I would be very interested if anyone has any any evidence that over the course of a season this is not the case.

As this is happening on a now almost match by match basis at this key stage of the season, I'll do a copy and paste job below of a comment I made last month.
After several seasons of feeling that key decisions go against us, and this affects our overall position in the league and it doesn't 'even itself out at the end of the season', that in 20/21 I kept a very nerdy spreadsheet of controversial decisions in our games, both for and against. We came out with -8 or -9 points due to these.
It's all very well taking each game one at a time and saying well, ok, that decision went against us and cost us the draw or win, but we didn't deserve the points so it doesn't matter. Football results aren't decided on performance or merit, but the scores on the doors at the end of the match. At present it feels like we need to create ourselves a goal buffer to allow for poor decisions.
Again, as football is a game of fine margins, if our 'goal' today against Ipswich had been allowed to stand the outcome of the game and appearance of the league table tonight might very well be different, and even more so given similar issues with decisions v Plymouth and Peterborough.
I'm not frothing at the mouth insisting that there is an EFL conspiracy behind closed doors that decides on the result of games before they are played, but as with many things in life, many factors come into play. An example is match officials taking selfies at their big day out at the stadium and what this indicates about their approach to the game.
I believe we are all entitled to our own opinions and my view is that we are hard done by with regard to decisions against us and this does materially affect our position in the league table. I would be very interested if anyone has any any evidence that over the course of a season this is not the case.

I wonder if it is a matter of timing. The accounts are up to 30th June 2022.
David Clowes bought the club on 1st July 2022. Rob Couhig is on record as saying that the money for the compensation to WW came through two days after this.
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-wycombe-rob-couhig-7512397