richgee1976

True story!

Left on 85. Had to get to work. Didn't realise we'd won (never mind equalised) until I got home...???

Left on 85. Had to get to work. Didn't realise we'd won (never mind equalised) until I got home...???

Left on 85. Had to get to work. Didn't realise we'd won (never mind equalised) until I got home...???

Great track. I hate to compare up and coming bands to other bands...but reminds me a lot of Artic Monkeys ??

Just listened to the rest of the tracks on Spotify. Excellent, well worth a listen...

some people are quick to judge we have just had the club saved now were saying that some signings are not good enough. even though we cannot pay for players. a lot of people and posters need to look in the mirror .

Can assure you lots is going on. We’ll start to see loans coming in soon as PL clubs start cutting back their squads and loaning out the ‘better’ youngsters

Strangely, now we've been saved by St. David of Clowes, I'm really pleased, in the bigger picture, that we are now in Division 1.
Back to old school football. Back to being a big fish in a small pond. 
We tried, under Mel to turn up at the casino that was the Championship with a big F off stack of chips to intimidate other players at the table. Spent fast and loose - and lost.
We needed a total reset and we got one. I can't lie, it's hurt. Being threatened with extinction was a very real prospect.
Now we've cleared the football cache and cookies, we're back to a fresh start.
I'm still haunted by the memory of all that money we wazzed up the wall. Even the least of the excesses was Anya. £4m and and £20k a week over 4 years, ergo £8m over 4 years. There were 4 or 5 others that cost £10m+ in transfer fees and salaries over 4 year contracts.
£60m minimum wazzed up the wall on 5 or 6 players, not to mention our merry go round of managers that resulted in the amount of debt that threatened our very existence. Covid didn't help, but the aforementioned was the real problem.
Certain individuals that had Mel's ear and were administrators at our club were also abusing their parallel self-interests as agents to sell us pup after pup.
Now we're back to football reality. It's amazing what team we've managed to piece together on frees and modest wages.
Loving our new reality. We can attract decent players at this level, where if we spend within our means, which is significantly above most of our competitors, we can perform well at this level. 
If we continue in this manner, we can grow organically.
What's not to love? A fantastic academy that should finance our rebirth. 30,000+ crowds, that again should finance our rebirth and perversely the EFL reining us back to a financial plan that we absolutely NEEDED. Didn't want, but definitely needed.
Oh and being rescued by the 'quiet man of football' - DC.
What a time to be alive! I'm falling back in love with football again.
The only way is up...

He's our most talented player, but obviously his injuries are holding his career back. You'd expect a player like Bielik to attract much better sides than Birmingham, I'd guess not many others were willing to cover his wages for the higher risk of having him unavailable.
I think this works out pretty well, as long as the 4 new players that Rosenior alluded to are now possible without Bielik's wages on the books. Our squad still lacks depth, 4 players for the same cost as one luxury player is a no-brainer for a club in our current position. There's no guarantee the quality of the team will be any better, but I'd bet that we'll have a far stronger squad than if we just kept Bielik.

Last season the atmosphere and togetherness was phenomenal. Rams in big numbers home and away inspired the team to keep fighting. The Club had its future hanging by a thread & Fans responded & inspired. The result is that high calibre players have signed because they want to play in that atmosphere. But can Rams fans keep that support going now the context has changed? The learning points for us:
1.  Support in big numbers home and away: the cost of living crisis will impact here but Derby is a football city so expect the big numbers to continue. In any case, often the atmosphere was better when PP had 25k than when 30k.
2. Inspiring songs like we fight to the end, Allez Allez, Since I was young…are more likely to insure and raise the Teeam’s energy than Collymore’s a winker and other negative chanting. 
 
There’s a total change of context; we are no longer United in the face of extinction. We will be the big fish, the prime scalp. Teams will play in “Cup Finals” against us and raise their performance 20%. At times Derby will struggle. It’s at these points that we need to stay positive and stay classy and try to raise our new team to higher levels. Generate positive energy which will translate to the Team. Do this and we will move upwards and forwards. 
Can’t wait for next Saturday. ? 

Great with Rasiak but must be in his 40's now.  Probably a better option than McDonald though.

Cashin.
Whilst it’s great to have Curtis resigning for another year, Cashin has shown great potential, it’s rare to see a centre back break through from the academy at such a young age and stick his name on the team sheet as he did last season.
Really think we have a player on our hands here which we need to get tied down to a long term contract as soon as we can.
i still rank this signing above any of the players that have come in.

Best new signing is Hourihane because I never expected him to actually sign. There was Championship interest and he's still more than good enough to be playing above League One.
Best re-signing I'd go with Cashin. There's a big argument for Davies, but to have a promising young player decide to stay is really important when so many have decided to walk, or even worm their way out of their contracts. Cashin is the kind of player who could really thrive this season, and his importance to us in 9 months time could be a hell of a lot more than it is now.

Most important part of that statement is - 
“As with every aspect of the club, David Clowes and his team are taking their time to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the football side, and to consider all structural options” 
to me that reads, we don’t want to commit to giving an untested manager a 2 year contract etc when finances are the most critical they’ve ever been. If he smashes it, we’ll reconsider, if he falters then we may look to bring in a DOF / someone more experienced to help him out or just replace him. I.e continually review the structure to ensure optimal results. 
I think it’s very clever and sensible  
 

You missed the entire point of why this could be extremely relevant to our club.
Derby could make a vehement public stand that they won't accept alcohol or betting sponsorship because they care about the physical and mental wellbeing of their supporters.
Do you think that has precious little to do with the people in this group? Most of whom will have been harmed, or know somebody harmed by alcohol or gambling?
Derby could stimulate a wave of support from people outside of our usual support base. A bit like Forest Green with being organic and carbon neutral (I think) did, but on a MUCH bigger level.
That would create crapload of national publicity that could possibly bring in a bigger sponsor who wants to be associated with that ground swell of feeling and support.
Radical change is often preceded by radical actions that only after the event look like common sense. At the time they look like commercial suicide.
My comments have got everything to do with Derby and our future success. I know plenty of marketing groups I can go and post in if that is my objective. 

Fozzy is an absolute warrior and as staunch as they come. Three ACLs, three knee reconstructions, thousands of hours of gruelling and unpleasant physio and around a year and a half training away from the lads doing solo work. His form is up and down in recent times, but to me he's a fookin hero and I hope he stays at Derby until he hangs up his boots. 

We’ve signed a 26, 28 and 30 year old. Hourihane is 31. Hardly knocking on retirements door ffs ?
The one person almost everyone wants to re-sign is 37 year old Curtis Davies who played every minute last season in the championship. 

He’s a winger.
You’d want him to stick to the white line.

Absolutely amazing, I love it.
We have just nearly gone out of business, all of our squad is gone, we are linked to players and here we are saying "not for me".
Beautiful to see, this is what football forums should be for.

Hilarious how fans rubbish players without probably never have seen them play, or at least not often enough.
Anyone who saw Allsops' first couple of games would gladly have shown him the door yet he turned out to be more than decent.

But Allsop wasn’t good enough for Wycombe remember……

Yes yes yes yes yes
We have won the freaking war

David Clowes, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. This will never be forgotten.