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To Derby County fans of a certain age this man was God, he was our generations Kevin Hector, his name would reverberate around the Baseball Ground for many years, even long after he had left us, it was his goals that dragged us kicking and screaming up the football league, Peter Taylor’s last moment of genius to add to those many legends he had spotted years before with his mate Brian.
Bobby is a super proud man, he still doesn’t understand the cult hero status that he holds in Derby with the fans, I think that it is a sad reflection on football that he is now working as a baggage handler at Leeds airport.
He should be walking around in diamond encrusted shoes, driving his Aston Martin, he has tried numerous years to let back into the club as a coach with the youth team but that became impenetrable under a certain individual and also MM.
He worked at St George’s for the FA for a number of years.
In my eyes he is an absolute legend of Derby County, an absolute idol as a kid, when everybody else had the keegans, dalglshes and Linekers we had Bobby, we might have been in the third division but it didn’t matter !
he never missed those one on ones with the keeper, he got his head in where it hurt and he had that great 80s moustache.
so heres to you Bobby Davison, Derby loves you more than you will know !

Jason Knight ..Knight…knight, love this lad, never stops running, never gets the full plaudits he deserves, 155 games and still only 22, great shirt to add to the collection !

Derby 3-0 Fleetwood 
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Last September I was playing football with my grandson,and hurt my knee. I didn’t bother the doctors because the knee gradually returned to near normal, but still quite painful at times. It was such a time I winced, and my wife “advised “ me to see the doctor,which I duly attended, knee examination, all OK, I asked for a PSA (having seen the information at Pride Park) check which he duly gave me the paperwork. The test came back 7.1, I’m over 70 so 6.5 is regarded as normal. I was dispatched to the Derby Royal, had the anal examination, ( for the first time) small lump found. In five weeks I’ve had a MRI scan,my prostrate biopsy done, and a QT scan,and I’m now on a hormone treatment plan. It appears they’ve caught the tumour early, and the prognosis is good, they say it will be eliminated. You do lose your dignity at times, but not going through that door and having the exam you could lose a lot more.
A shout out to the doctors and nurses at the Derby Royal, they have been absolutely terrific, informative, and very understanding, and caring.
 

Will be driving down tomorrow morning, staying in Plymouth until Saturday.
Then stopping off at Oxford on the way home, well would be rude not to ?

How good has this lad been this season, a proper safe pair of hands! 

William Osula away shirt with Poppy arm band worn v Mk Dons to mark Remembrance Sunday also the first league game with the new NSPCC sponsorship gift, a great gesture from our club.

James Collins no 9 shirt from the Carabao cup tie at Anfield, also the black poppy armband worn by the players to show their respects for the glorious dead.
this was the first game that the shirts had the NSPCC charity logo in place of a sponsorship logo.
A great statement from the club away from the gambling and fast food logos of the previous regime.
this shows that we are a club at the centre of our community!

This Remembrance Day Derby County FC elected to show their respects to the fallen by wearing a black armband with a red poppy.

I got Toffs to make a one off for this shirt, links in the 1884-1895 Racecourse years shirts to the move to the BBG, this was the away shirt that was worn from 1895 to 1924 when the first badge was then applied, Steve Bloomer would have made many appearances and scored many goals in these colours and can be seen in the images below, they were also second division champions.

This pic of Henry Newton popped up today wearing the Argentina kit and he left us in 1977 so must have been somewhere in between but earlier than ‘78 ? 

Curtis Davies, captain ! 2022-23 away shirt

Wycombe 1-3 Derby 
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NML

We don’t win many of these so let’s enjoy it. 
November 1996. Jim Smith
November 2006. Billy Davies
January 2007  Billy Davies
December 2013. Steve McClaren
November 2016. Steve McClaren
October 2017. Gary Rowett
December 2017. Gary Rowett 
January 2023. Paul Warne

Wednesday fan in peace. Tough times for us both, 2 great clubs who’s fans deserve better than what we are getting at the minute. Hope you guys join us in the top 2 come end of the season. On current form, there’s no doubt about it. Have great memories of the baseball ground. That epic 3-3 fa cup game in 1993 is the best away game I’ve been to. Up the owls & rams ?

Derby 4-1 Morecambe 
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Knew we wouldnt win as soon as saw Didzy wasnt starting and it was all a bit meh. Not that disappointed with such a small squad. As soon as PW saw wasnt working subbed off key players for Saturday. 
Good points - dobbin not on fire so hopefully no recall tomorrow, unbeaten run broken against PL opposition not in league, none of youngsters really shone so hopefully no late bids
Bad points - Collins shouting at everyone else (just hate it - look at yourself first perhaps), Max (hope not too serious), most stupid away fans (you've only come to see us, being typical cockneys giving it the big I am when they beat a league 1 team of youngsters and oldies 2-0) 
Anyway bank the cash and move on. A year ago very nearly out of existence. Love my Derby ??

I totally agree but Forest Green couldn't play through our press.  West ham could.  That shouldn't surprise anyone.
Whatever you think of their performances this year west hams players are miles better than ours.   Better technically, fitter, faster, stronger.
The timing of the goals meant they were able to sit back and keep us at arm's length.   It didn't look great for us and we never looked like laying a glove on them but you can't just put that on our players.  The quality of the opponent comes into it too.

WHU squad value £472m
Lets just have a reality check.
Well done Rams tonight, gave them a game.

Nothing to complain about. The better team, with the better quality won. I thought we passed it around nicely, and worked hard. Fair play to all the youngsters on at the end. Great stuff.  Unfortunately Davies looked like a very old man, and Collins looked completely out of touch. 

Just got home, I'm hoarse, got sore knees from too much bouncing and ringing in my ears from the absolute bonkers noise in the away end.
It's nights like these that David Clowes has given us back when they were so nearly taken away from us.
As for arguing about budgets and squad values, tonight of all nights!  There's only one thing you need to know - the togetherness of owner, squad, fans - it is priceless. 
 

Another stat to make tonight's comeback more impressive. On SSN, at 0-0 they said that Port Vale have not lost a game this season when they've scored first. I can't be bothered to look at how many times they've actually scored first this season, however it clearly suggests they're a well-organised, resolute team.
To be 1-0 down after 87 minutes, away at a side like Port Vale and still come away with the 3 points is an impressive achievement.