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Sigh, yet another wait.  I have to believe it's a save face move by the EFL but also one that finally resolves matters such we can move on at last.  I also hope that if this is the case Rooney has been told the position and is lining up those valuable last minute transfers. Maybe. 

I don't go to games to be honest, living over a 100 miles away and with no-one around me to go with, plus work/family commitments, it's just not really doable. I do however fervently follow DCFC daily, through this forum, online and watch every televised game. I also catch some of the U23 games.  
I do have a Rams Lite membership, if not to at least give the club some coffers.  Have I lost interest?  Nah.  Have I lost confidence and feel beaten down by the club I've supported for 45 years. Yes.  Maybe COVID hasn't helped but every time I open this forum, Twitter, Face Book, NewsNow or anything else, I do so expecting yet another problem and generally aren't disappointed.  At the moment it's just one thing after another.  I was so pleased to see Stretton score the other day, thinking and hoping that, do you know what, 4 points in our first two games would be great.  But no.  This is Derby - we not only lose, but CKR is crocked for 3 months. And we then sign a CB who's almost as old as me, and a striker whose goal scoring record can be counted on the hands of a T-Rex. I guess it's a sign of where we're at as a club.
One day soon, I hope,  I'll only see positive news but right now, supporting this great club of ours is hard on my soul. Melodramatic maybe, but having faced so much personally over the past 20 months, I could really do with us getting a break!  However, I'll keep smiling {through gritted teeth} ?
 

Sigh, yet another wait.  I have to believe it's a save face move by the EFL but also one that finally resolves matters such we can move on at last.  I also hope that if this is the case Rooney has been told the position and is lining up those valuable last minute transfers. Maybe. 

I don't go to games to be honest, living over a 100 miles away and with no-one around me to go with, plus work/family commitments, it's just not really doable. I do however fervently follow DCFC daily, through this forum, online and watch every televised game. I also catch some of the U23 games.  
I do have a Rams Lite membership, if not to at least give the club some coffers.  Have I lost interest?  Nah.  Have I lost confidence and feel beaten down by the club I've supported for 45 years. Yes.  Maybe COVID hasn't helped but every time I open this forum, Twitter, Face Book, NewsNow or anything else, I do so expecting yet another problem and generally aren't disappointed.  At the moment it's just one thing after another.  I was so pleased to see Stretton score the other day, thinking and hoping that, do you know what, 4 points in our first two games would be great.  But no.  This is Derby - we not only lose, but CKR is crocked for 3 months. And we then sign a CB who's almost as old as me, and a striker whose goal scoring record can be counted on the hands of a T-Rex. I guess it's a sign of where we're at as a club.
One day soon, I hope,  I'll only see positive news but right now, supporting this great club of ours is hard on my soul. Melodramatic maybe, but having faced so much personally over the past 20 months, I could really do with us getting a break!  However, I'll keep smiling {through gritted teeth} ?
 

I don't go to games to be honest, living over a 100 miles away and with no-one around me to go with, plus work/family commitments, it's just not really doable. I do however fervently follow DCFC daily, through this forum, online and watch every televised game. I also catch some of the U23 games.  
I do have a Rams Lite membership, if not to at least give the club some coffers.  Have I lost interest?  Nah.  Have I lost confidence and feel beaten down by the club I've supported for 45 years. Yes.  Maybe COVID hasn't helped but every time I open this forum, Twitter, Face Book, NewsNow or anything else, I do so expecting yet another problem and generally aren't disappointed.  At the moment it's just one thing after another.  I was so pleased to see Stretton score the other day, thinking and hoping that, do you know what, 4 points in our first two games would be great.  But no.  This is Derby - we not only lose, but CKR is crocked for 3 months. And we then sign a CB who's almost as old as me, and a striker whose goal scoring record can be counted on the hands of a T-Rex. I guess it's a sign of where we're at as a club.
One day soon, I hope,  I'll only see positive news but right now, supporting this great club of ours is hard on my soul. Melodramatic maybe, but having faced so much personally over the past 20 months, I could really do with us getting a break!  However, I'll keep smiling {through gritted teeth} ?
 

I don't go to games to be honest, living over a 100 miles away and with no-one around me to go with, plus work/family commitments, it's just not really doable. I do however fervently follow DCFC daily, through this forum, online and watch every televised game. I also catch some of the U23 games.  
I do have a Rams Lite membership, if not to at least give the club some coffers.  Have I lost interest?  Nah.  Have I lost confidence and feel beaten down by the club I've supported for 45 years. Yes.  Maybe COVID hasn't helped but every time I open this forum, Twitter, Face Book, NewsNow or anything else, I do so expecting yet another problem and generally aren't disappointed.  At the moment it's just one thing after another.  I was so pleased to see Stretton score the other day, thinking and hoping that, do you know what, 4 points in our first two games would be great.  But no.  This is Derby - we not only lose, but CKR is crocked for 3 months. And we then sign a CB who's almost as old as me, and a striker whose goal scoring record can be counted on the hands of a T-Rex. I guess it's a sign of where we're at as a club.
One day soon, I hope,  I'll only see positive news but right now, supporting this great club of ours is hard on my soul. Melodramatic maybe, but having faced so much personally over the past 20 months, I could really do with us getting a break!  However, I'll keep smiling {through gritted teeth} ?
 

Not sure how I turned McDonald into Simpson, bit of a leap!

Having lost my 19 year old cat a few months ago, I gave in and agreed we could get another one. Unfortunately one turned into three! And they're famous too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57156565
Scooby (freshly snipped) and his sisters Callie & Meg (all renamed since we adopted them)
 

I think he has had a really positive impact on us, we benefit from his drive with the ball.

Sibley done v well since he came on.

Focus focus focus lads.

See enough over the first 2 games to think we've got this one
P'Borough 0 - 2 Derby  FRGS  CKR

Patrick doing his Winston Churchill impression! 

Having lost my 19 year old cat a few months ago, I gave in and agreed we could get another one. Unfortunately one turned into three! And they're famous too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57156565
Scooby (freshly snipped) and his sisters Callie & Meg (all renamed since we adopted them)
 

Having lost my 19 year old cat a few months ago, I gave in and agreed we could get another one. Unfortunately one turned into three! And they're famous too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57156565
Scooby (freshly snipped) and his sisters Callie & Meg (all renamed since we adopted them)
 

Loving this thread - fascinating to hear people's stories and great so see Rams fans spread far and wide especially those of us that have no direct connection with Derby (that includes me being Bucks born and bred) yet have chosen to follow and support this club through thick and thin. 

Had a message today from my brother who lives in Thailand (been there for over 25 years).  Huge issue with the roll out and administration of vaccines there (Google "asiasentinel" and "class division" for an interesting article*).  But he's finally getting his first jab tomorrow (AstraZeneca) which is mad considering he's 51. We don't appreciate how far ahead we are in this country. 
*let's just say he wasn't confident to provide me a direct link in case it's monitored from his end, so didn't want to replicate here albeit it's a public domain news article ?

Loving this thread - fascinating to hear people's stories and great so see Rams fans spread far and wide especially those of us that have no direct connection with Derby (that includes me being Bucks born and bred) yet have chosen to follow and support this club through thick and thin. 

Having lost my 19 year old cat a few months ago, I gave in and agreed we could get another one. Unfortunately one turned into three! And they're famous too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57156565
Scooby (freshly snipped) and his sisters Callie & Meg (all renamed since we adopted them)
 

Great post and analogies, Crab-in-the bucket escape, financial quicksand etc...You should write a match report sometimes, that would be good. 
PS. At the moment it feels more like black hole than quicksand btw ?

Greetings from "Across the pond" in Detroit. It took me while to gather my thoughts on this topic and commit to posting them.  
My Derby fandom arrived much later in life, at 45 years of age.   I grew up in Detroit and have always supported Detroit sports teams, as well as Michigan State and Notre Dame University.  I grew up playing soccer, as did my father, who emigrated from Croatia, as well as two of my three boys.  My middle son and I started following the club in the 2013-14 season. We were interested in finding an English team to follow and knowing Andy Appleby as a fellow metro-Detroiter we started to follow Derby, originally only through the team's twitter feed and the occasional broadcast on BEIN network.  We watched them through the playoff victory against Brighton, then the calamity against QPR.  
An additional Detroit-Derby link is through Roger Faulkner, a Derby supporter who was one of the co-owners of Detroit's 1970s NASL team, the Express.  
As we are acclimated to unfortunate twists of fate with our Detroit-area teams,(ie the Detroit Lions NFL team)  the playoff final defeat cemented our support of Derby County.  In the years since, we are charter subscribers of RamsTV  and are now able to follow a number of games on ESPN Plus.  I also follow this forum on a daily basis and do admire the folks who frequent this Board, such as B4 and David.  Your deep, heartfelt support of the club, usually with a healthy dose of humor, is a joy to peruse through these cyber-pages.   
Other random observations from the Motor City:
 - Whether my son and I ever get to Pride Park remains to be seen, it is definitely on our bucket list.  If any forum goers are in the neighborhood, I would be delighted to treat you a Detroit City FC soccer game.  They are our local team and have a game atmosphere that supporters such as yourselves can appreciate. 
- While Mel Morris has his detractors these days, in my view he was spot-on with regard to EFL television rights. They are tremendously undervalued.  The Championship is the most entertaining overseas league to watch, in my view.  The Premier League top clubs are usually the in the same group of 4-6.  The Bundesliga, La Liga, League 1 and Serie A are all dominated by super clubs, with the remaining teams just trying to stay up. What fun is that? The Championship season is a rock-fight every year. Evenly matched teams with historic rivalries.  A crabs-in-the-bucket attempted escape through either the untold fortunes of promotion or the richest game in football.  Conversely,  the trap door of relegation immerses a club in financial quicksand, without parachute payments to assist out of the morass.  
-  In a way, the reduced expectations of this year may make for a more enjoyable season than chasing promotion.  If the club average one point a game, they will be in a position to stay up at the end, which is the goal of this year.  In any other recent season a home draw to Huddersfield would be met with concern from Derby supporters. This year, it feels like a win. 
- Thank you for your contributions to the forum, which I have enjoyed reading through the years. I hope to meet up with some of your some day either at Pride Park or the next time Derby launch a summer tour of the US. 
- COYR
 
 

Having lost my 19 year old cat a few months ago, I gave in and agreed we could get another one. Unfortunately one turned into three! And they're famous too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57156565
Scooby (freshly snipped) and his sisters Callie & Meg (all renamed since we adopted them)
 

Thinking of you Pearl.  They're so much more than pets.  I smile at the antics of the 3 new kittens we have (4 mths old now) but I still miss my old boy of 19 years who sadly left me a few months ago.  He won't be replaced. 

Shouldn't this thread be merged with the "Respect Waz" thread?

I know we're thin on the ground and have plenty of young'uns but when you look at the team on paper, we look kind of alright don't we.