strawhillram

Rooney has some nerve telling a player he has to do more - if it wasn’t for Bielik being in the side for a few games we’d be in the bottom three playing this managers negative poo football. 

Loved Baiano and Eranio, two top class players, lucky to have seen them in Rams colours.

Great memories of Idiakez. Would love him in today’s team

Lovely striker partnership. A pleasure to have seen them in rams  shirts

Damn!  Missed it!
... 2 days ago...
 
2nd March 1946
A 3-4 win at Villa Park in the FA Cup QF First Leg. 
In front of 76,588, which remains their attendance record to this day... 75 years later!  (Maybe they had high hopes of winning T'Cup that year?)
Each goal scored by legends still oft remembered today... Sammy Crooks, Raich Carter, and 2 for Peter Doherty.
Just a home draw next week in the second leg, and... whisper it... we'll be in the semi final!
We couldn't... COULD WE?   
#daretodream ?
?
 

Written and composed by Dolly Mucker. He works from 9 to 5 past.

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I sincerely hope you are referring to my little ditty!
 
Oh... erm... 

How very dare you!
That took me a full 7 minutes to perfect!  ?

Written and composed by Dolly Mucker. He works from 9 to 5 past.

Written and composed by Dolly Mucker. He works from 9 to 5 past.

With handsomeness beyond compare
His tight-knit locks of sable hair
With tattooed skin and eyes with joyous sheen
His smile is like a breath of spring
His whoop does screech like stormy rain
And we cannot compete with him
Colin.
He scores against you in his sleep
And there's nothing we can do to keep
From smilin' when Wayne calls his name
Colin
And we can easily understand
How you could easily take our man
But you don't know what he means to us
Colin
Colin, Colin, Colin, Coleeeee-in
I'm begging of you please don't take our man
Colin, Colin, Colin, Coleeeee-in
Please don't take him just because you can
 
... Whoop!  
 

I think he is a better footballer than you are giving him credit for. His highlight reel from his Brazil and Mexico period show that he is a well rounded centre forward with good strength and solid control. He also managed to fire in a few thunderbolts in his time in those leagues.
Now I'm not saying that competitively all the opponents he played against were at a good level, but there are some outstanding clubs over that way and he had to adapt his game to the style of those leagues. He's come back to the UK a totally different player to the one a lot of people are trying to remember from his younger days.
He doesn't need pace with his positioning, but he isn't particularly slow anyway, he tends to use his energy wisely over 90 minutes.
His heading has been alright so far. With more service from wide areas I'm sure we'd see more of this.
I think the thing holding him back more at the moment is his team mates not getting closer to him when he is used to hold up the ball. He has linked up well with Gregory and his through ball for Waggy shows his eye for a forward pass.
I'm sure we might being in "better" next season, but I'm confident we can get more from Colin and that he will give more to the team until he can't any more.

I disagree @Anag Ram. Some of his work on the football field reminds me of the great Charlie George. Passes with the outside of his foot, rocket-shots, headed goals, movement, work, assists, the harrying of defenders. I would say he isn't at all "limited" in the way you describe. 

Looks delish 

It is interesting that we only really threatened Forest for the last 10 minutes or so, i.e. after Sibley had come on, and, curiously, after Waghorn had gone off. One wonders if we had started the match the way we finished it what scoreline we could have achieved? For me, there has been a lot of talk about there not being room in this team for Sibley. Well actually, there is. It is the place occupied by Waghorn. ? And no, we shouldn't be keeping Waggy in for his free kicks, because they have been poor for several matches. And his last corner hit the side netting at a height of about 2 feet. Time to make way for the Sibbers!

That is a wonderful idea. I was lucky enough to have experienced it
 Beating all the top sides easily
 quality football
 cracking players who gave 100% every game
 Packed  BBG
 Brian Clough and Peter Taylor

Even family members of mine with next to no interest in football still talk about that period, it must have been unreal to be a part of as a fan.
Obviously the football was different class but just as interested in the matchday experience as that season went on. Where folk stood, memories of opposition fans, matchday rituals, media reaction at the time, amusing chants/songs, anything however (seemingly) trivial. Be great to read from you all when it gets up & running ?

That is a wonderful idea. I was lucky enough to have experienced it
 Beating all the top sides easily
 quality football
 cracking players who gave 100% every game
 Packed  BBG
 Brian Clough and Peter Taylor

We used to beat (and thrash) every team in those days

Lovely striker partnership. A pleasure to have seen them in rams  shirts

Walloping a side like that 6-0 on aggregrate over 2 League matches that season ?
Later this year we'll be celebrating 50 years since our first League title winning season & it'd be great to have a dedicated thread with the matches as they happened exactly 50 years previously. Sure I can dig out the old DET match reports but even better to overlay with memories from the lucky sods on here who were there to witness it ?

We used to beat (and thrash) every team in those days

Stevie Powell - boy wonder a total ram 

Toddy was a class act in every single game he played for us

Lovely striker partnership. A pleasure to have seen them in rams  shirts