hales300k

Hello! I’m new to the forum and posting - so please be patient with me! My grandpa Harry Brown was the editor of the match day program “The Ram” until he passed away in 1988, and I was brought up as an avid Derby fan living in Lancashire. Recently I’ve been at my parents house, and came across a box full of his belongings from his office that was cleared when he died. There are lots of photos and negatives from pictures that went in to the program, along with cuttings, programs, letters etc. I was wondering if there would be any interest if I posted pictures on here? Maybe people would recognise those in the photos? Adding a photo of car parking pass for 1988/89 season unused as an example. So much history ☺️
COYR!
Chloe

Does love to duck and dive that bloke. 
I thought DC would kept him in temporarily to go through the books, make sure there were no more nasty surprises in our way, then let Pearce go, thanks for your service etc.
I know there's many NDAs in place and we will never get to the bottom behind the truth of our downfall. I'm at peace with it now. Let's see if Pearce can redeem himself with the faith DC has put into him.

Grotty weather on the way down but the sun is out now we are here. And it is so mild! ☀️⚽️🐏

‘They docked us 21 points…..’ 🎵
maybe start him on something without the expletives 

Dont normally put stuff like this , but kinda feeling like im wasting my life. just seem to work , have my tea and go to sleep. Any ambition has gone out the window. quite tragic really. So iv started bodybuilding/weightlifting again after many years away and im taking up archery and gonna try and grow my own veg in garden to feel like iv actually accomplished something 

I’m sad about this one.
 
One of our young lads moving on. 

I think we are really not using him properly.

Also, if he’s been told to get it and pass it out wide after one touch so not using any of his real abilities.
Also play and run around next to Hourihane getting overran every game. 
Just think he’s undervalued and under appreciated by the manager who wants to play a different way. And many fans who only see goal or assist stats. 

Yes we offered him a new contract, but have shown him he won’t be playing the way he wants to play for at least the next 2 years so I’m not surprised he wants to go elsewhere. 
 
A sad day. 

My main BBG memory is B4 and I meeting Jimmy Greaves outside the ground. 

Is anyone on here going to this? Great player. #COYR

Nidge is one of those characters that you love and hate at the same time (maybe that's why they called it that because nothing else makes sense). H'e very charismatic in an unconventional kinda way.
I've never paid for ITVX before, but we started just to watch this and are happy to have done so. I thought, for reasons you will understand, Season 4 would drop off, but it really hasn't.

Might want to check out Cardbaord Gangsters if you've not seen it, Bob. I think it'd be right up your street. It's quite a harrowing watch, but it's one of the better depictions of the Dublin drug scene, though not terribly cheery! It's another film that is much better than it's IMDB rating IMO.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5156274/
 

The Academy is apparently ahead of schedule after the decimation of administration
What is the plan for developing these players into first team members & why were they so underused during the EFL Trophy campaign?

That's the guy that got shot by Hans Gruber after trying to negotiate with him in Die Hard.

For fans of season one of Kin, BBC have confirmed they have bagged season two and it will available soon. 

Good call by @hales300k with Love/Hate on ITVX, it's pretty good and I can see how it will get better.
Irish gangland stuff along the lines of Gomorrah, Top Boy etc.
It's interesting seeing Frank from Kin ten years younger but playing a very similar character.
Has anybody else seen this? It came out when we were in the US, so I'd never heard of it.

Didn’t realise I was in the reading vs the EFL thread 🤔
for anyone coming to the lovely city of Lincoln (I have to say that… I live here) who want a drink or five, the anchor pub on the way from the train station is a definite no and I wouldn’t advise the ritz Wetherspoons either.
every where else should be pretty accommodating, the square sail Wetherspoons on the brayford is a good one for cheap and cheerful. It’s 10 minutes in the opposite direction but I highly recommend the cardinals hat. 
 
if anyone has any questions for food/drink I’ll be happy to advise. 
 
Up the rams! 🐏

As long as there were no big surprises for DC after admin, presumably any Bielik payments etc were known about, surely these numbers are to be expected by the company and prob more importantly the EFL. Presumably they have seen them before publication and are happy in accordance with what they expected coming out of admin and our business plan or cant imagine we would have been able to sign someone on a fee yesterday. 
 
cements my total admiration for DC and his family as they have gone from running a successful development company on a low key basis and enjoying being normal rams fans (if actually we can ever be normal) to taking all of this 💩on to deal with. Can you imagine the stuff he's had to deal with?  And after all that you have fans moaning about us not signing people, going over snd over the words the poor bloke said on the budget for this year forensically, and how terrible last January's window was, etc.
the accounts wont tell half the story but to me there are no words to describe what David Clowes and his family did for all of us, the club and the City. I also dont think we know just how close we were to being gone. Also in strange way grateful to Kirchner as if DC had not already been involved with knowledge of what was going on when just buying the stadium, would he have been in a position to act so quickly to save us? 
 
Respect always
 

Profits??? 😂
In the 2 years prior to promotion, they made losses of £61m and that was after £18m profits on player sales and a £5m loan write off!
Dont forget this was against the backdrop of a limit of £39m allowable losses over a 3 year period (magically adjusted for everyone for DCFC for Covid years).
£200m to £250m spent on players. Even if all on 4 year contracts thats another £50m to £60m per year on their costs, on top of the additional wage bill.
Dont think it takes a genius to work out they will be relying on some creative accounting to be within P&S limits.
All that aside, I'll take very little pleasure in seeing them sanctioned in a league where their competitors are allowed to do what they like for years and years unsanctioned.
Obviously if they charges had arisen in the division where they should have I may feel a little different.

If you liked Kin , check out Love/Hate on ITVX , it`s a Dublin set drama about the same world , but a lot grittier , starts slow but just gets better and better , a bit like our performance at Oxford !

FFP..... Forest Fiddled Profits ? 

If you liked Kin , check out Love/Hate on ITVX , it`s a Dublin set drama about the same world , but a lot grittier , starts slow but just gets better and better , a bit like our performance at Oxford !

Dear All,
Thank you for the kind comments about our very active West Country Supporters Branch under the thread ‘Hereford Rams’ recently! In our 30th Anniversary Year we are trying to re-connect with many of the fans who have used the West Country Branch over the years and who we have lost touch with. Our members cover, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Somerset, Glos,Herefordshire, Worcs, Oxfordshire and parts of the West Midlands.

We are already well known by many of you on here. I have been a Season a ticket holder since 1980/1 and set up dcscwcb in 1994 also taking on the role of the first independent Chair of the Derby County National Supporters Clubs in November 1995 for 1 year. 
Currently dcscwcb organises subsidised (we have a long running lottery which supppirts this) travel for Rams fans for every 1st Team League match at Pride Park as well as producing a newsletter ‘West Country Ram’. Anyone interested in full details please pm me! 
Re Coaches: 
Depart: The Crown, Wychbold WR9 7PF 10.45 am (5.00 pm midweek )
Depart: The Plough, Stratford Road, Solihull B90 4EP 11.15 pm (5.30 pm midweek)
Depart: Clock Warehouse, Shardlow 1.50 pm (6.20-6.30 pm midweek)
For Saturday home games we stop at the Clock Warehouse, Shardlow and also pick up from there and drop back after the game.
We arrive and depart by Pride Park by the other Branch/independent coaches.
Prices:
Wychbold: £22.50 Adult /£12.50 U16 or Student
Solihull: £19.50 Adult / £11.00 U16 or Student
Clock Warehouse, Shardlow  £4.50/£2.50
We are a family orientated Group with a strict no alcohol on coach policy, but have a great day out with fans across the West Country/South West using us on a results basis or just occasionally to break the monotony of long distance trips to Pride Park. We recognise that our Group and the format of our trip (with stopping en route and encouraging family groups) is not for everyone but it has worked well for us over the years. 
We ask that fans using the coach more than once sign up to Branch Memebership which costs from as little as £10.00.
Although we have around 250 active members across the Region we do not organise away coaches but wherever possible arrange ‘meet ups’ before Away games- the next one being Exeter City on Tuesday 13 February which already has great support from fans in and around Devon. 
Get in touch by pm or email derbycountytravel@gmail.com and I will send you full details. 
Finally, we often get asked if we will arrange travel from further South. If numbers justified it, we would certainly consider running from Cheltenham/Gloucester. Please let any Rams fans in the West Country/South West know about us!
Happy New Year to all DCFCFANS! COYR!
 
Justin Ratcliffe
Founder & Secretary - DCSCWCB
derbycountytravel@gmail.com 
https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/derbycountywestcountrysupportersclub/news/
 
 
 
 

It would be good to meet up and possibly travel up for a match together.  I lost my wife earlier this year, and although not a football fan herself, she still made the odd journey with me to keep me company. For that reasons, I would really like to meet up and have some company when i come up. Travelling alone is not all that its made out to be. I watch and hope. COYR

Thank you and luckily I have an away membership.

London based fans will be interested to know that the Rams Supporters London branch will be meeting at the Redwood Bar in London Bridge station to watch the match. Games against Fleetwood and Burton should be back at the usual venue the Stage Door near Waterloo