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Just now, Boycie said:

Is that southern Portugal? I recognise that tree.

Spot on So which villa am I in.?? 

Top of Tag 'I'll in Aynor

1 hour ago, cosmic said:

It is now.

I'll set em up, you knock em in. 

8 minutes ago, Jayram said:

Those of you having a dig at RamsTrust are playing into Morris’ hands. He doesn’t want to answer difficult questions so if he suspects the fan base are divided he’ll keep fobbing us off indefinitely and leave us bickering amongst ourselves. I’m not a member of the trust but I’m glad they are giving this a go - the radio silence from the club is an insult to us fans and needs to be tackled head on. 

Problem is Jayram, the Fanbase is divided. 

11 hours ago, minesahartington said:

 

Joy, division, depends on the reader..

Always has to be a Means to an end though. 

2 hours ago, CBRammette said:

And when has anyone on here been able to control the direction a thread takes? How many times do you go into a key topic hoping for an update and find 20 pages of puns. Isnt that randomness the joy of this forum? 

Is it?

On 01/09/2021 at 21:37, Shipley Ram said:

The opposition keeper I always remember is Paul Reece for Oxford. He made it a very frustrating game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5DFfBqhui4

 

Langley Mill lad and I believe a Derby fan as well. Definitely started out in the youth team

8 minutes ago, Archie said:

Thought it was Micklewhite. Don't remember a pen that year. 

Yes me getting senile again ,twas Micklewhite and Goddard on that day at OT, the game where Saunders scored a pen was at home. 

Was also getting mixed up with 2-1 the season after!!

Cheers

14 minutes ago, DavesaRam said:

I was at the same Old Trafford match as Forever Ram and JJs dms - assuming  that was on the Hillsborough disaster day. Tickets for the match were hard to come by, but a mate said his brother lives in Manchester and he would sort the tickets out. We didn't think things through, and ended up not so much in the home end as in an upper stand full of Manure. So we decided we would sit on our hands for the duration, even though there were 3 car loads of us. We managed it until Dean Saunders scored our first, when to a man we sort of hovered about 8 inches above our seats, had a quick look round and settled down again. Then the second went in and some of us put our hands in the air, and suddenly there were several hundred of us all hands up, then leaping up and down like mad. Safety in numbers would be a relevant expression!

Goddard scored the first that day after Saunders had hit the bar, then Deano converted a penalty after Goddard was brought down Sorry to be pedantic!!! Never had such a mixed day at a game The euphoria of winning at Old Trafford then the down of learning of the events at Hillsborough.

23 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Altho a neutral ground Wembley 1975 Charity Shield, On a very hot August day 50 of us from Chadd clamboured on the bus in good heart to play WHU, On the way down on the M1 meeting shedloads of Derby fans, We park up at the stadium and head for the Greyhound pub at the back of Wembley, Just our lot at 1st, Then it slowly started to fill up with WHU, Don't know to this day how it kicked off but it did, We got busted and rescued by the Police yet again.

After the game we could see the hammers fans leaving from the other side, A 2-0 win then we see the presentation and leave in good voice, Until just getting out of the ground the greeting of 100s of lads waiting for us, We had one lad K O'Rielly one of the toughest men I knew stood on the steps taking them on, A man on his own he was screaming at us to charge, Well it was a case of getting clumped by the hammers or get a beating in town by KO, Slowly but surely more and more Derby were coming out of the ground a little like a cork from a bottle of champaigne, It looked to be numbers in our favour, Clouds of dust and lads going "hammer and toe" the police were shocked at the leval of violence lads at each other with whatever came to hand, Derby had the day with WHU lads mooching off.

It wasn't until a little later we found that our ranks were filled with some of Derbyshires finest coal miners, Who waded in with scafolding poles and planks that were left from building works at Wembley.

I'm told that in Bill Gardners book (a nutter of a WHU fan) that he admitted through gritted teath that Derby won the day, And his "mile end boys" took a beating...crazy days the 70s.

Stood behind him on the way out that day (KO) that is and can clearly remember him goading on the whole East End as we came down the steps. Our escapade came to an abrupt end when my best mate took one in the shoulder with a broken bottle and had to rush him to the St John's to be sorted out.

Happy Days.

4 hours ago, Gerry Daly said:

It would be nice if we could have the club badges of the time rather than the modern ones. 

And blue shorts, Wait for the incoming

43 minutes ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Matchday 7 – Saturday 4th September 1971 & a trip to Goodison to face 1969/70 Champions Everton

The Rams got back to winning ways here with a 2-0 win in front of 41,024 – goals from Kevin Hector (18 mins) & Frank Wignall (72 mins) securing the points. Just on Frank Wignall, this was his 4th goal of the season after only 7 games but he only played 3 league games thereafter this season.

 

 

Programme of the day a pretty modern looking effort from Everton – generous too with our team photo on the main cover

 

The win moved us into second place but still 3 points behind fellow unbeaten side Sheffield Utd;

On Frank, he was a very good footballer, and had the misfortune of the way Clough set Derby up. Also the two in that system were the best at the time. 

6 hours ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

48 Hours oh that's Wednesday 

5 hours ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Prutton is ex-Forest & ex-Leeds, I wouldn't expect anything less. 

Funnily enough I think he still lives in Leeds & I saw him and what I presumed was his daughter on Kirkgate last Wednesday. Recognised him & wanted to tell him how much of a bellsniff I thought he was but realised a) he was with his child & b) he was at most 5 foot 5 & it was like bullying the fat kid at school.

A tedious smear of nothing. 

Lives in Harrogate, but i'm sure he is a lot taller, Son in Law is 6'2" and he seemed about the same height when he was at the gumps.

He's still an end bell mind. (Prutton that is not my SIL)

2 hours ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Matchday 3 – Saturday 21st August 1971 & our first away trip of the season, down the road to newly promoted upstarts Leicester City.

35,640 crammed into Filbert Street to see the mighty Rams win 2-0 with second half goals from Alan Hinton (penalty) & Kevin Hector. Couple of names of interest in the Leicester team – 22 year old Peter Shilton in net & David Nish, who joined Derby the following August for a British transfer record fee.

 

Programme of the day not really a patch on ‘The Ram’ but here you go…

And early League table after the game – Derby in second place behind surprise leaders Sheffield Utd (they finished 10th in the end)

9 years old and my old man took us with a Foxes supporting friend supplying the tickets, spent the game behind the advertising boards on the pitch side in the Leicester Fans. Derby Fans were all along the opposite touchline circa 8000'ish All the noise from the Lad's on a local day out. Second only to Championship day in 1975

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

No it looks okay. Unless you wanted Radio Derby audio and then that is an option. I don't think I can bare Ed Dawes even for the occasional game!

So am still undecided between Full and Lite memberships.

Does anyone know if the number of tickets that can be booked for away games is one per member or does it depend in the game and it might be two?

In the past it has been one per member so i can't see it changing.

Martin Taylor? 

15 hours ago, Sport Billy said:

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/Derby-county-transfer-embargo-signings-5629779

I might have missed something here, but i didn't think players under 21 counted in the squad figures?

https://www.efl.com/clubs-and-competitions/sky-bet-championship/championship-squad-list/

11 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Well, now I know I am right. Hope all good with you Angie x.  Max Bird will be some player over the next few years. Handled correctly he could be just as good as Michael Carrick, or players of similar ilk. Not sure he will ever be a Nivea poster boy though.

If Milner can?

1 hour ago, kevinhectoring said:

Well EFl still not wanting to do Mel any favours so I think unfortunately they will appeal, unless potential new owners have got involved. Their appeal will involve their lawyers crawling through the DC decision, then explaining to the LAP why the DC was too lenient. So I think it could be up to 6 weeks from delivery of the DC decision before the LAP hands down the final decision on sanction. But as others point out the accounts can be filed very soon after the dC decision is published which if I understand it is what we need quickly for embargo reasons 

Internet been down, heavy long sesh?

1 hour ago, nottingram said:

Unless that advantage was being one of the top 3 spenders on wages in each of the seasons being looked at we haven’t pished it anywhere.

We’ve ran an (unsustainable) wage bill that has probably ranged from top 4 to top 10 in the division and have more often than not been a top 6 team in that time period. Few unlucky defeats in play off games to teams that have spent more than us / have gamed the system to a greater extent than we have (delete as appropriate) has meant we haven’t gone up, so be it. When football comes down to one off games it can at times be luck based and that’s why we all love it. We’ve now tightened that wage bill, understandably, but I get the feeling that won’t or indeed hasn’t stopped you moaning that we will be less competitive in the league now.

Don’t think we are “victims” as such but it is curious that just winning one of those set of play offs would see our strategy highlighted as a great success story and have fans of other clubs saying “wow look how well Derby are run” like you see from some on here re. Leeds, Villa, Wolves, Bournemouth and so on.

Unfortunately by not going up due to these fine margins we have found ourselves in the cross hairs of the EFL who’s rules are so clear that they are now seeking to change or clarify the rules that supposedly found us guilty. We are not victims of other teams cheating, in my opinion, but we have been victim of the EFL going on a crusade after the football club and creating a narrative that we are the villains of football with their vindictive, unclear statements and obvious leaks to the press.

Yesterday’s news should have been celebrated across football, that no precedent was set to retrospectively relegate a team for off field matters that were signed off for three years by an organisation that didn’t understand their own rules. I get the feeling it wasn’t though, because a narrative has been created that if you push spending limits and do not get promoted, you are worse than those who push limits and do.

THE post of the year. right here.

4 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Edit... He's apparently the over 65s European taekwando champion. 

So unfortunately I feel we can attach little weight to his legal opinion on the EFL actions. 

Nice to hear from you though Mike. Great muttons ?

Loved Pejic when he was playing My type of footballer He would be suspended for half the season nowadays. 

7 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

Fun fact

She once spilt her coffee over me in a service station by accident as neither of us were looking where we were going. She was absolutely lovely and offered to have it dry cleaned for me,which as it was work uniform I wasn't bothered about. Really nice lady in that brief encounter I had with her

Did you get her number just asking for my friend Wayne 

1 hour ago, Jayram said:

Blame Mel Morris, not the EFL. If he hadn’t tried to game the system we wouldn’t be in this position.

You are Steve Gibson and i claim my £5.

7 minutes ago, Eddie said:

It can be earned back again - all they need to do is elevate the entire city on four piles of bricks. Hey presto, installation art.

I mis read the word bricks then and wondered how it got past the swear filter.