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Fans & players together.

I respect your opinion @sage you always seem well informed and insightful but on this occasion I’m inclined to disagree; he’s not a star indeed but I do believe he’ll be just as effective in the Championship as he was in L1. I also believe he’ll get better and he’s got more goals in his locker. 😲

Mr Clowes is a pragmatic businessman as well as a Derby County fan. How he reconciles these 2 positions I don’t know - I couldn’t. So, having achieved target 1 {promotion} there won’t be any new deal yet. I suspect that a date will have been set when Mr Clowes, Mr Pearce and Team Warney will sit down. Mr Pearce will set out the “war chest” & Team Warney wil say, we need Player X, Player Y, and Player Z along with Player A, B, & C*. Mr Clowes will say, you can’t have Player C, he’s too expensive. Team Warney will say ok but without all those players, we won’t achieve top 10. Mr Clowes, whose been playing 4-D chess ♟️ all along, will say “Ok, Warney, you can have Player C, but you must achieve a top 10 finish”; Warney will say “You’re a lovely human Mr Clowes” they’ll shake hands then hug, then Mr Clowes will say we’ll review it in 3 months time. Classic Plan-Do-Review on an iterative loop. If we achieve top 10 finish next season, Team Warne will be offered a new deal. That’s how Mr Clowes will run it. *Player names have been concealed for reasons of commercial confidentiality.

So I’m sat at the beach bar in Hikkaduwa, drinking a beer & watching & re-watching the videos of the celebrations on my phone when a guy walks up, orders a beer and sits down next to me. I then notice his shorts..

I’ve spent this morning looking at all the celebrations of yesterday on the net and have to say am proud of the Rams Family and how you have exuded joy and jubilation. Also the support I’ve been part of at away games this year; it’s been exceptional. Thank you for being great fans.

A brilliant picture thanks @Srg

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/27/max-bird-james-collins-derby-carlisle-league-one-football

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Well spotted Sir!

Enjoy the game…

I’m in Sri Lanka { I know!}…watching from 5,000 miles away and imagining the excitement. We are 4.5 hours ahead so kick-off for me is 5pm. As I type, it’s 6:46 and so something like 2-15am in Derby. I had a strange dream that I was chatting to Paul Warne, he asked to borrow my laptop, which I was happy to give him, then he disappeared and so I panicked because I couldn’t watch the game; then, I heard the game was delayed due to a strange package that had been left outside Pride Park…then when I saw the pictures on the news, the package was my laptop! Work that one out 🤷‍♂️

Powell, S, Powell, B. Periplotkins, …

Love this; underpass is part of my route to Pride Park. Hope it doesn’t get vandalised. We need more of this sort of street art.

As we kick-off I shall be travelling from Nuwara Eliya to Elle in Sri Lanka so Now TV day pass on my iPhone for me.