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44 minutes ago, CapeTownRams said:

But they have bucket loads of cash now ..🤷

But not the League 1 Guardiola 😂😂😂

4 minutes ago, CapeTownRams said:

Sorry is such an ugly word in these circumstances 😂

Sorry simply because Bolton went through similar issues to ourselves. 

10 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

Are you sure?

I hear the best team failed to make the autos, and have now blown the play-offs too!  👀

I think the 2-0 score might vindicate who was the best team today 😂😂

Im happy for Oxford but also sorry for Bolton.🤷‍♂️

The best team won 

5 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

This is how we played against Villa for 75 minutes.

And I had just stopped having those bad dreams.

Leicester, QPR and Villa 😱😱😱😱

😂

4 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

watching the game at Bellend road just makes me realise how much I dislike these lot.

That lot are 2-0 up 😩

28 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Not arguing with any of that but it still doesn’t mean we can or should spend up to “our overdraft limit” not that I expect the limit to be particularly high for a club reborn after administration.

I agree with you, we should only spend within our budget and on what is necessary. 

1 hour ago, Tamworthram said:

I'd say there's DEFINITELY a difference between just spending money and spending money wisely but any such approach still comes with enormous risks if you're trying to compete financially with clubs receiving parachute payments. Plus, it's easy for us to say spend up to our overdraft limit when it's not our name of any company guarantees that may be in place. 

Under Mel we wasted a lot of money and we cant afford to do that again, we need value for money with each and everyone of our signing. Other clubs do it but I expect it takes time, under Mel he had the money and wanted to get into the Premiership ASAP, this time our budget is "limited" but so we need to use time and hard work to ensure we sign the best players to form our team.

Under Mel I think that we signed players without any regard to how they fitted into our team or our style of play!!!!!!  

4 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Haven't we tried that before Mel? 😀

There’s probably a big difference between spending money and spending money wisely, we need to make every penny count👍👍👍

We should change the name Pride Park to the Mikkel Beck stadium 

We did amalgamate/merge with Derby Midland FC and they were formed earlier than the Rams  perhaps we should claim their formation date, after all we do play in Derby Midland colours 😂

https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/derbyshire/22632413.rise-fall-derby-midland-football-club/
 

23 minutes ago, simmoram1995 said:

Genuine question, when we went into administration and Saint David saved us are we on paper a new club to the one prior to admin? E.g. Rangers on paper are essentially a new club.

The "legal trading entity" name may have changed but the club never lost its league status, despite the best efforts of the EFL, so Derby County formed 1884 it is. 

1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said:

More "Club Legend" than "Another Old Boy"... although technically he had old boy knees when he was still playing, I suppose!  😉

Lovely to see that!  🐏🤍

What a player Paul McGrath  was, yes he had bad knees but he didn't need to run as his reading of the game and his anticipation were so good. 

I can now watch the playoffs with benign indifference👍

11 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

1/  Has the whistle gone yet?  Do we have to go back to finish it off?  🤷‍♂️
2/  The "Stand up for David Clowes" had me welling up... as did his double lift of the trophy.  ("Once more for the cameras please David"!)
3/  "Ok... erm... well... how about you agree to stay off the pitch until after the final whistle then?  Deal?".  That has to win the safety announcement of the year award!  🤣
4/  Visually, the scenes (on the pitch) afterwards looked stunning.  But the atmosphere was lacking.  Lots milling around wondering "What the heck do we do now"!  Very little in the joyous celebration department was evident from the stands.  Just a couple of ripples.  Nowt special.  I repeat... visually stunning. 
5/  Disappointed with the lack of a lap of honour (No surprise there!), but so glad I hung back to the end, and watched (on the big screen) Mr Clowes lift that trophy.  What. A. Hero.  🐏
6/  Yeah.  After 49 years, it's up there.  It's still means summat.  I still feel it... which is nice!

Now... where's that bottle of Emva Cream... Cheers, fellow Rams.  🍻

Forget the Emva cream, Phyllosan fortifies the over 40s

The championship worrying starts tomorrow 🐏

4 hours ago, Geriatram said:

Sadly this will be my last match today. My first was in 1956 as a 13year old, My dad used to take me before that but he stopped going when we went down to the third division north. My mate and I would catch the 12 oclock bus from Melbourne and be the first in the ground. We stood in the Normanton end pigeon loft, I think it was 3 shilling. To this day I remember that team. We were champions in 1957 and I ran onto the pitch after the last match against Southport, Ray Straw scored 37 goals that season, The next ten years saw me start work, get married and have two children, I had moved to Derby, and after my family, the Rams were the most important thing in my life I never missed a home game in those ten years even though we were only an average second division side. And then in 1966 after England won the world cup my mate and I decided to have a season ticket, Little did we know what would happen that season, I was at work one day and a Rams supporting work mate told me we had signed a player from Bradford Park Avenue, his name was Kevin Hector I'd never heard of him but he was without doubt the most wonderful footballer to grace the Baseball Ground I had ever seen, and because of this we wanted to see more players like him which led to Tim Ward getting the sack and BC becoming Manager, what followed was ten years of unbelievable success and enjoyment. And then things started to go wrong off and on the pitch and I stopped being a season ticket holder during Peter Taylors time as manager, i still loved The Rams of course and when I turned 65 and retired my old mate from Melbourne and I bought season tickets again. But sadly covid left my best friend of 80 years with a dementia problem and he know no longer knows me. For the last two seasons I have been going alone to the match but its just not the same for me. Therefore I am calling it a day, as I write this I am welling up as I will do this afternoon. Thank you Derby County for every thing I will love you till I die.     

I gave up about 4 season ago, you may not be going to any more games but you’re still a Ram for life.

I’ve been sitting here watching the game with my black and white scarf on, the tea and pies are better at home but I do miss the ritual and atmosphere of the match. 🐏🐏

9 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Say no more 🐏 

Looking back at the final league our promotion looks easier than it really was. 🐏🐏🐏

1 minute ago, CapeTownRams said:

Happy and glad Burton survived 👍👋

A bit disappointed for Lincoln the playoffs would have been a great end to an incredible season 

Just now, SKRam said:

SCENES SCENES SCENES 

 

Great scenes 👍

Just now, ariotofmyown said:

Season over. No Wembley trip this year.

Good 😂🐏🐏

A promotion for B4 😂

Just now, Ramarena said:

Bolton losing l!

3-2

Will Ian Evatt be preparing for the playoffs now, not that I care ether way 🐏

If the result remains as it is I’m not really worried about the performance 🐏🐏