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We had this lad drop him, made him an honorary lifetime member of the Rams Heritage Trust.
Our saviour !
he loved it and we are going places ❤️

Great support guys, very much appreciated and the feedback, we can only go from strength to strength, the goal is to get a permanent location set up in a professional layout but today was a great start to what can be achieved, history doesn’t have to be boring and their is nothing wrong in celebrating your past, great to see so many faces and put those faces to names ! 
 
yes open tomorrow 11-3 come via the Ascot Drive entrance to Pride Park due to Ramathon road closures.

Enjoyed my visit down this morning. Well worth an hour of your time as posted above. Thanks for putting it on 👍

Sorry to start another thread but we have been down at Pride Park all day at Harrison’s Hub setting up for our display over the next two days of all things Derby County and I wanted to share the results.
it’s free entry and I promise you it will stir the grey matter and maybe tug at the heart strings! There is something for everybody from 1884 to David Mcgoldricks shirt from this season, The Racecourse to PridePark not forgetting the little old BBG.
great to see young @sagehe couldn’t wait for the weekend and had been queuing up all night so we let him in to help !
park in the main car park and have a pop in, we want a museum at the ground where all of the clubs history can be shared, we’ve got the gear we just need a space.
10.15 till 3 Saturday and 11.15 ish till 3 on Sunday due to the Ramathon, Ascot drive entrance to pride park will be open earlier than the others.

I’m pretty relaxed over it all, end of the day, he’s not a player we should be relying on to play week in week out going into next season. We was extremely lucky to get what we got out of him last season, you can’t expect that again out of his legs.
Of course I would love him to stay, play a role, however I wouldn’t be devastated if he chose to end his career at the club he supports and where it all started, that’s something which money can’t buy. 
In the same position, I’d probably join Notts County if I was him.

And a few more !

Great news, the club are kindly allowing us to put on an event at Pride Park on the 3rd & 4th of June.
it’s the Rams Heritage Trust, it’s a chance to allow us to put on a display in a secure location over a couple of days, there will be a time line of the history and heritage of our club from 1884 to present day.
it will be open from 10.30 till 3 on Saturday and 11.15 until 3.30 on Sunday due to the Ramathon and road closures.
this will hopefully be a pre cursor to having a more permanent feature at the club.
there is so much for people to see, kits, photos, boots, balls, medals, programmes, scarves, flags, Baseball Ground seats, floodlight fixtures, flags, Alan Hintons white boots, our life size replica of the FA cup and League Championship trophy to have your photo with.
Special guests will be popping in.
come on down, give us the support we need and hopefully come and learn something about our club.

I downloaded Wyscout for a trial run to see if it’s something that I would find of interest so did a little bit of a deep dive on the players we have been linked with so far. 
Anyone that knows the Wyscout platform will already be aware it’s an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking tool for scouting players and teams. 
The most notable data point I came away with was that Ruben Rodrigues made the most ‘smart passes’ in the country last season with 131. A smart pass is defined as: A creative and penetrative pass that attempts to break the opposition's defensive lines to gain a significant advantage in attack.
To give you a reference point of just how high that is, not a single player in League Two had more than 40. Chaplin and Bannan ran away with it in League One with 58 each, third had 39. Mendez-Laing had 16 as our best midfielder in that regard, Knight second with just 12. The app also clips videos of several different indicators for each match - 40 minutes dedicated to just Ruben Rodrigues touches, 175 videos. He’s a talented football, a little bit of a grafter and based on what I’ve seen I would be surprised if he didn’t make the step up comfortably. The only reference point that I felt fell short was his impact on the counter attack, but he’s definitely got a bit of physicality. I think with a full, professional pre-season then he genuinely could be a diamond at this level. 

i would rather play for the rams than man utd 

I'd have him back all day long. Good young pro. Can play wingback. Improving. Come home Hayden, you know we love you.

Probably one of the most iconic symbols of a football ground, the turn stile, they all have them and they last for years, mainly until clubs move ground, then they are tossed to one side, so it was a privilege to become the custodian of this original Ellison surge control turnstile dating back to the start of the last century, when you think of the hundreds of thousands of Rams fans that will have passed through it, myself, my dad and my grandad being three it makes you stop and think.
it was there through everything, Bloomer, the FA Cup paraded around the ground, Clough and Taylor, Jim Smith etc, it’s a real snapshot of our clubs history and heritage.
Anyhow, it’s now fully restored in working order with brass keep plate and counter and looks resplendent,
it belongs in an official club museum so I’m going to keep on endeavouring to get one.
we have a massive Rams Heritage display at Pride Park on the 3rd and 4th June so come along.

We’ve lost a lot of talented potential over the last couple of years due to our situation. We’ve not been able to see how they could have flourished if they’d have stayed and gained first team experience.
On the subject in hand, Wassall has done a good job and stepped in wherever we’ve needed him.
The dogs abuse he got when he replaced Mac was completely uncalled for.
He’s seen the academy through good and bad times and always done a good job. 
 
Shame to see him go and good luck to him!

I’m still in favour of the Brentford b team model I think it’s more about scrapping it and therefore no longer needed. With a B team you buy players likely to make the progress both teams learn the same approach tactics and formation then easier transition 

Great news folks, the Rams Heritage Trust will be doing a two day display at Pride Park in the Harrison’s Hub, this will hopefully be a pre cursor to a museum so the more interest that we get the better.
It promises to be a huge display with a lot of rare and interesting items, not just shirts but there will of course be plenty of them.
it’s the Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June.
come along and have a look and maybe learn a thing or two.
 

1986-87 promotion season John Gregory yellow away shirt, an absolute beauty of a shirt in this colour and nice to add another one of the midfield maestro’s shirts from those halcyon back to back  promotion seasons to the collection, nice touch that Osca added the blue brown and amber cuffs and neck, good times ! 
Thanks to @lukeyb07 for sorting this one.

I spoke to Curtis on wembley way before our play off final against Villa
A real gentleman and took time to talk to people and thank them for there support and seemed a top top bloke
His last game where you can see him clearly say " No Way! " and astonishment expression will stay with me as his last moments in a Ram shirt and I feel sad that it ended that way, but in no way do those final moments diminish what a man and a true leader he has been for Derby County.
I wish him all the best for whatever he does next and hope to see him back one day at PP  where us fans can let him know how appreciated his efforts for the club were,  thankyou Curtis and good luck .

on reflection,i think not making the play offs has done us a favour.if we had gone up to the championship a bigger rebuild would have been needed,and i am absolutely convinced the efl would not of lifted the embargo and let us be competitive, as it is another season in league 1 is obviously seen as fitting punishment and we are now able to build for the future

Funny how Im over the playoff disappointment already and quite excited about the next few weeks and next season.
If we had sneaked the playoffs I would now be feeling anxious about the risk of another Wembley disappointment.. Excited also I might add.
Maybe as I’m am middle aged I’m just happy when things aren’t going wrong. It feels a bit like things going right.

It’ll clearly be a busy summer for us, main focus needs to be defenders and attackers. Whilst I don’t think our midfield has been brilliant this season, I think we’ve been hindered by a lack of real balance/depth in other areas. Maybe one more midfielder to add more energy wouldn’t go amiss.
From some of the good suggestions on this thread, and the expiring contracts list I think if we could attract some of the following then we’d have a good chance next year.
GK - Expect McGee will sign as a back-up and Loach as experienced third choice. That would be this area sorted.
LWB - Ryan Manning, Callum Elder
RWB - Sam Byram, Danny McNamara, Matthew Olosunde
CB - Sonny Bradley, Haydon Roberts, Tomas Kalas, Joel Latibeaudiere
CM - Lewis Wing, Josh Onomah, Ben Osborn, Ben Wiles
CF - Think this is the hardest area to recruit for free, everyone wants a striker. Think we may need to dip into the loan market or “modest fee” area to strengthen here.

Both a warrior & a gentlemen - l wish him nothing but the best for the future 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ-zyoT0qv0

Thank you Curtis.