Derby4Me

Got sacked by Derby for a reason.

I suspect McClaren would follow his usual cycle by presiding over a sudden upturn in both performances and results followed by the usual downturn, lack of a plan B and the inevitable parting of the ways.
Time to move on.

'What would Mac do with this team'?
give them confidence and an identity. Play good football, score goals, probably concede some too but we seem to do that no matter who's in charge anyway. 

Can we delete this thread mr moderator I mean honestly .

Christ give this a bloody rest I mean jesus mac fing 3 , while were at it let's have clough mk 2 with money , phil brown mk2 , Clement mk2 . Get over it !!!!!!!!  And let him keep his damn brollies parked at newcastle and some of you remember that . Let's have Billy it should have been Preston mk2 . 
Good god move on to a new bloody chapter , some of you are like goldfish swimming round and around .............keep on swimming keep on swimming . 

As each day passes I think worsening things about Chris Martin. I am currently at ‘wishing him a career ending injury’ level. Can we please, please have some threads which do not include the need to mention bloody Chris Martin.

Not a lot 
we don’t have a physical presence that can make it stick
rooney isn’t fit enough for 45 minutes leading effectively by himself never mind 90 
and we have no quarter back who can ping it aka the Thorne roll, u could argue perhaps bielik but .. he ain’t no Thorne 
so that’s plan A out of the window 
I don’t remember him having a plan B 
 

Given a lot of people seem to be wanting Mac3, What would he do with the current team, and would it work?
This would be my prediction.

The main problem is obviously the absence of the icon Chris Martin. I think he'd try and get Rooney to play a similar role. He has the vision and passing ability to play there and his pace is probably similar to Martins. But no one can hold the ball up as good as CM. But as we saw last season, Martin was ineffective without players around him up top and Rooney would be the same.
The other main problem is the 3 midfielders. During Mac1, the midfield was so good it could dominate other teams midfield even if they were outnumbered.
I actually think we have better quality wingers now than under Mac and I think they'd flourish playing his style. 
 

Proof as if anyone doubted you:
 

Duncan scored one and Hutchinson got a brace

Mac3 is a terrible idea. It's not worked for us twice now, it would be mental to think it is currently our best option.

No thank you 

No no no. Good coach. Can't manage. Permanent signings were poor. Only succeeded temporarily 'cos he inherited Clough's signings. We'd have a good half a season then implode again. And he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with the Newcastle job debacle. Still can't believe we had him back after that.

Seriously, He would do so much better with these players.
At the very least he would show some passion.

Just wanted to celebrate this kid who has introduced himself in the  rams around the world section of this forum. Many will know of his super-quick goal clips provided on Twitter, this South Korean lad appeared recently on Rams Review Podcast (where he politely tolerated being called Lee the whole time, which is his surname/family name)
Somewhat bizzarely, he became a passionate Ram since the play-off final against QPR (must be drawn towards injustice and tragedy) and gets up at 3 or 4am to watch matches.
He also writes pieces promoting our club in South Korea.  I'm not on Twitter but I'm sure many have welcomed him already. Hopefully we can reach out and help him visit Pride Park one day. I think he will feature more on ramsreview pod so a relationship is developing there.  Hope the club are aware too and might assist.
 
 

This aged well
 

Over the coming months I'll be adding over 500 items so far that weve collected to preserve for generations to come. These items are at the hands of the Heratage trust and Derby County collection should they want to use them for future displays for fans to enjoy. Be nice to put them all in a club museum but unfortunately one doesnt exist at the moment. If anyone has any shirts please get in touch, we will be happy to purchase any items we haven't managed to pick up yet and preserve those in our collection as well. We have duplicates we are willing to trade with to fill our collection if a swap is more desirable. Thank you and hope everyone enjoys the photos ??

Suite and Sour?

The journey has nearly come to an end visiting the legends of our great club, I was never happy with how it had finished with Willie Carlin, so today I went back to see him but this time I took him one of the Ramtique limited edition medals that we had comisioned with the permission of the club and the football league to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Derby County winning the second division championship and the journey getting well and truly underway.
we decided to give Willie number eight out of a hundred as he wore the number eight shirt in that season.
willie had had his original medal stolen a number of years ago by some scum bags who robbed his house.
willie and his wife are very private people who understandably do not like strangers knocking on their door asking for photos or signatures so I made sure that I was brief and to the point.
They were really pleased with the gesture of the medal and both took a lot of time to make me very welcome in their home and Willie signed a few things for me.
they even gave me a limited edition plate.
A very lovely couple of people and one of the few real Derby County legends of 69.
Like with Jim Walker it was nice to be able to give something back.
up the Rams !

Is that @therams69 after spending all day long humping that 18kg flag  around town awaiting kick off and up and down them concrete stairs in the ground, and the flag gained weight, it became 30kgs due to all the rain we've been having! 
Glad the sun is out........looks like @therams69 is out also.........if your popping to the back of the stand son, get the beers in!
Up The Rams!