Raich Carter

Theres a fair bit of rubbish being spoken at the moment. Lots of tactical geniuses around. 
I wonder if any of them had considered that 6 weeks on from being rescued by David Clowes and only 4 games in, we're actually doing quite well.
We were never going to hit the ground running and rip teams apart. We need a a foundation first, a very clear default position before we can even think about anything else.
This is very clearly being instilled at the moment. We can then expand our game as the 13 (THIRTEEN) new players get used to the system that LR wants to employ.
I would quite happily settle for 15 pts from the first 10 games and said so before a ball had been kicked. That's a decent base to build from. 
There are 126 points to play for. I expect we'll win more of those points than we'll miss out on. 
Common sense is needed whilst the system is being implemented.

Here are some interesting facts on shirt sponsorships:
In the previous 3 seasons 2019-2022, seventeen (17) from twenty-four (24) Championship clubs were sponsored by Bookmakers and the Gambling industry (70%). There was not one shirt sponsorship for any League 1 or 2 clubs from the Gambling Industry during the same period. For the 2022/23 season, the sponsorship deals for Premier clubs are:
Nine are Gambling ; four Financial Services ; two Airlines ; two E-Commerce / Car Dealers ; one Automotive ; one IT Software and one Telecommunications. Gambling takes up to 45% of the sponsorships in the Premier, and from the total, only five are UK located companies. There is also shirt sleeve sponsorships in the Premier League, which are:
Tourism (3) ; IT (5) ; Financial Services (4) ; Automotive (3) ; Beverage (1) ; Hospitality (1) ; Sports Retail (1) & Gambling (1).  As far as I can see, none of them are "local" companies or have HQ's close to the clubs or even in their cities. However, we have Mike Ashley's 'Sports Direct' - Frazier Group in Derbyshire, who I'm sure would like to have some UK & local coverage of his brands?

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remember when jim was announced as manager and the massive underwhelming feeling i had.
boy was i wrong. up there with Arthur cox for me as the best dcfc manager in my lifetime. good times. great football 

Ah, my apologies! 

£200 quid a week, top quality training, a chance which very few get, exposure of a good level of football and basically, a massively lucrative career. Yeah, short changed him didn't we...
The academy system is massively flawed because we're getting nothing like the return on investment for it to make sense. For every Delap, there's 30 x players we've never heard of that have gone through the system and not worked out that cost us $$$. It's not about the investment in the individual player, it's about getting a fair return on the infrastructure that produces these players and £400k / E300k or whatever, is laughable. If they want the player, they should be paying £1m+ or leave him with us as clearly he'd have played for us. 
If I was Mr Clowes, I'd be looking at all these young academy players going for 'nowt (Delap, Plange, Ebosele, Ebiowei, Kaide Gordon, etc there's almost certainly more) and be thinking if it's worth it. You hear about Boro players going for £20m (propping up there accounts) and we're just missing out - massively. Delap and Gordon have gone to top, top clubs for £1m each (or less) and if they'd have stayed with us and had a couple of seasons, perhaps they'd have been £20m+ players and our financial future then looks VERY different. 

£200 quid a week, top quality training, a chance which very few get, exposure of a good level of football and basically, a massively lucrative career. Yeah, short changed him didn't we...
The academy system is massively flawed because we're getting nothing like the return on investment for it to make sense. For every Delap, there's 30 x players we've never heard of that have gone through the system and not worked out that cost us $$$. It's not about the investment in the individual player, it's about getting a fair return on the infrastructure that produces these players and £400k / E300k or whatever, is laughable. If they want the player, they should be paying £1m+ or leave him with us as clearly he'd have played for us. 
If I was Mr Clowes, I'd be looking at all these young academy players going for 'nowt (Delap, Plange, Ebosele, Ebiowei, Kaide Gordon, etc there's almost certainly more) and be thinking if it's worth it. You hear about Boro players going for £20m (propping up there accounts) and we're just missing out - massively. Delap and Gordon have gone to top, top clubs for £1m each (or less) and if they'd have stayed with us and had a couple of seasons, perhaps they'd have been £20m+ players and our financial future then looks VERY different. 

I would normally agree. But when you see Lingard choosing a relegation battle at Forest over Top 6 and European football with West Ham. Nothing would surprise me.

Cue my Malcolm MacDonald stories:
I remember when Derby were linked with Malcolm MacDonald, an article by Neil Hallam in the Trader saying how great it would be to have a "Super Mac" at both ends of the pitch.
  Pub quiz around the time Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-1 (?) in the FA Cup final...
Q: what is taken to Wembley for the cup final every year and never used?
A: Malcolm MacDonald (actually it's the losers' ribbons)
  Vivid memory of him playing for Arsenal and someone in the Popside shouting out "Oi. MacDonald, put a mask on, there's kids here". OK, I've finished. Where were we?

Wasn’t impressed when we signed him, sort of signified the desperate situation we were in. He completely won me over with his leadership and attitude during really difficult times, plus a couple of decent moments on the pitch! 
It’s clear the club and squad is moving on now so a thank you and good bye makes sense, I wish him well for the future. 
 

So Mao Tse-tung, Stalin and Pol Pot et al were right all along? 
OK, carry on.

If stuff keeps getting banned, where is the most human of needs - freedom of choice.
I totally get that these are all very real issues but just banning them isn't the answer - education, support, leadership - are all far better ways of solving societal issues. Not easy to do but far less damaging to society as a whole than imposing the will of the few in such a controlling fashion.
If you take a step back, we're already controlled, persuaded, coerced and basically bullied in many, many ways. 
I'd be sponsored by LoveHoney which some may find distasteful but is it...? Get me?
As you were.

If stuff keeps getting banned, where is the most human of needs - freedom of choice.
I totally get that these are all very real issues but just banning them isn't the answer - education, support, leadership - are all far better ways of solving societal issues. Not easy to do but far less damaging to society as a whole than imposing the will of the few in such a controlling fashion.
If you take a step back, we're already controlled, persuaded, coerced and basically bullied in many, many ways. 
I'd be sponsored by LoveHoney which some may find distasteful but is it...? Get me?
As you were.

The blue away kit from 14/15 with JustEat on, I managed to peel it off.
Great kit s*** logo.
My favourite shirt/ sponsor ever is 1984 Bass kit

There are so many decent players available on a free I'd only sign him on a basic low wage with bonus for playing - I imagine that's the offer. Let's face it, at that age he's always a few seconds away from a career-ending injury.
However, would definitely like him to stay if we can get the terms right. I suspect our new regime will be ultra-cautious. We're a BIG draw for a lot of players apart from anything else, if I was a player in my twilight years (and having earned good money previously) I'd rather play for Derby than Rotherham even if we pay less money. For a player like Hourihane, it's less 'embarrassing' to step down to Derby in League 1 than, say, Blackpool in the Championship (with all due respect).

Steve Gibson's not happy that McGoldrick signed for Derby and not Boro...

branko strupar say no more can't be any slower

It's very disappointing that an ex-Derby player and a product of the academy act like this but not surprising.
When I spoke to Bobby Davison many years ago, he was involved in the Baiano transfer and was absolutely not interested in helping Derby - he was bragging about how much he made out of the deal and basically had no feelings for Derby (he didn't know I'm a Derby fan - I'd told him I wasn't interested in football) - said Halifax and Leeds were his clubs. Perhaps Marco is more of a Mackem than a Ram...?
Anyway, it's a shame we'll have the distraction and costs of a legal battle when I'm sure this could have been sorted out properly.

You’re going to be gutted this morning, and rightly so.
But it ain’t all bad.
When we dropped out of the old 2nd division into the 3rd in 1984 things were in many ways, worse.
We didn’t (quite) have the financial issues, but we had a horrible team and the entire season was utterly depressing and devoid of hope in a way this season hasn’t been.
My personal highlight of an utterly depressing season was meeting Dave Watson in a Little Chef on the A1 after we spanked Cambridge away 3-0 in the FA Cup. That was pretty much it for ducks sake.
AND we had not just relegation, but the ignominy of losing to Plymouth in the FA Cup quarter-final to contend with after we had dragged them back to the BBG.
We all thought that we’d bounce right back when we did get relegated and the arrival of Arthur Cox just emboldened that belief.
An opening day away loss to Bournemouth, when Bournemouth then were more like the equivalent of Exeter now, didn’t dissuade us.
Of course, we didn’t bounce back and ended up outside the top 6.
But we had some BRILLIANT away days that season, Hull, Lincoln, and the last game of the season at Newport spring to mind.
It was a whole lot more fun than the previous season because we were, for the most part, competing and you could see what Arthur was trying to do.
There’s something fun about going to smaller clubs and taking the place over. Those of you who travel to away games know that the camaraderie is special.
In fact, the adversity that we have faced this season has developed that camaraderie, only it’s done it at home.
I work online and use social media a lot and the admiration for Derby’s support, especially those of you who travel away is a delight to read. I’ve even read genuine Forest and Leeds fans say they’re impressed.
And what’s not to be impressed about?
Forget the trolls who are loving this, the REAL football supporters appreciate and understand what Rooney has dragged the club through and the guy is universally respected, exponentially more so than when he was merely an excellent player.
He’s now an excellent ex-player and an excellent human being. Time will tell if he can become an excellent manager, but the signs are promising.
The second year under Arthur we did come up and that season was even better for road trips..
I’ve seen Derby beat Benfica, Real Madrid, every top English club multiple times and Forest many times. But if I were to list the best 5 games I’ve ever attended, Derby at home to Rotherham in the old 3rd Division on a Friday night would be up there.
That game with that penalty that took us back up to what would now be the Championship was a raucous, intense and then delirious atmosphere ending in an effing celebration comparable with any I have witnessed - although to be fair, my memory is a tad blurry because we did hit the pub hard.
I doubt there was a Liverpool fan that got anything like the joy from beating Man City in the cup semi or will get more if they win the thing, than we Derby fans got from squeaking past Rotherham that night.
The fact is, winning is just fun, no matter what division you are in. And beating adversity is fun too. So much more satisfying and enjoyable than just delivering on what’s expected.
Somebody posted that they hope we're not that team that thinks they will bounce back up.
I don't really care if fans think that. It's totally irrelevant.
What is relevant is what WR thinks and what he allows his staff and players to think.
And I have no doubt whatsoever that he'll not allow that entitled type of mindset to creep in.
The good news is we have renewed hope for a stable club, a very promising manager in place, an Academy that is flourishing even if it is being pillaged and some wins to look forward to.
We are where we are, so we may as well embrace it and have fun. And you will have some fun, I promise.

Expression of interest on Monday
Preferred bidder on Tuesday
Withdraw on twitter by Wednesday
Pulled out on Thursday and Friday and Saturday
Liquidated on Sunday
And of course their other hit: Quantuma all over you *boink*

Feels like when I have patiently waited in A&E for 4 hours...having been told the wait is 2hours, and then finally seen somebody who takes my name and asks me what the problem is before asking me to sit in another waiting room to see the specialist.

We were ahead of our times though utilising our own patented 'Reverse Moneyball' Method..

Anyone got footage of Mikkel Beck’s 2 yard screamer v Southampton? The one where he scored a worldie off the back of his neck without even knowing where the ball was? 

The second leg against Southampton was an incredible game.. The despair of Rasiak's goal and the elation at idiakez's penalty miss really sticking in my mind. Not that they were strictly of derbys doing.