Dordogne-Ram

Thanks as always mozza. 4th in PL for me this season, so I'll take that.
Well done to leroyoftherovers, Dordogne-Ram & RadioactiveWaste 👏 

You have been warned!

My dad loves this pic 🤩

It has - but only because it’s given an insight into how great the group of players are. Celebrating with the fans from the final whistle all the way through pubs in town. Genuinely nice blokes happy for themselves, the club and the city. 
 
Compare with other stuff I saw this week with Leicester players celebrating going up by gathering in the safety of one of their mansions and having a few drinks around the kitchen island. Soulless and removed from the fans. 
 
Really shows what Warne has built and hopefully he can keep the spirit even through squad changes over summer. 

Listening to the interview @SamUltraRam put up, can’t believe nobody would not want Collins in the squad. He talks well, you can tell how committed he is, absolute must he stays even if he is back up.
Agree with the other 2, Fozzy for his versatility as much as experience, even if he doesn’t regularly feature.

I genuinely don't understand why people wouldn't give Fozzy a year based on his performances over the last 2 seasons.   Yes at his age you can't look long term  but he's versatile, played well and played quite a few games.    

Fozzy played v Bolton and was the best player on the pitch!

Forsyth, Adams and Collins are the types of player you want in your squad as they set standards for the rest of the squad - professionalism off the pitch as well as effort and determination on it.
All three are good enough to be at least Championship squad players, so as long as they're happy with wages to match their role, then we should be trying to keep them around.

Huddersfield. I read today that they’ve played the eventual champions in the first fixture for the last 4 seasons. 

I did once suggest QPR name one of their stands the R's end... they never replied 😉

Good job Colin Bell wasn’t one of our iconic players ! 

This is why I love rtv , match commo by people who are invested in the club rather than sky with a commo team that struggle to even get the simplest of facts about the club, players , form ect right ,
you do a great job Owen , thank you 🐏👍

1973.  Benfica away....0-0.  Fantastic day in the pubs of Lisbon in the sun.  The game was memorable because the floodlights went out and I was hoping it would get called off so I could come back again the following week lol

To Northumberland?
How are you going to explain that one to the wife?
Doubt you'll get away with saying you popped out to get some milk.

B4 is ours, and we will always hold him close to our hearts.
But when you see the sheer numbers of names on the Rams remembered tribute at Pride Park twice a season, you see the scope of Derby County fans who die each season.
They are each and every one of them someone else's B4. 

After finishing joint sixth in the Premier League I feel there are now too many entrants in the competition and feel that it should be limited to those finishing in the top twenty.
It’s for the good of everyone.
Yours sincerely etc.

Many thanks @mozza for running this completion again, in view of the long commitment   requirements involved. I may be wrong, but this season must have had close to a record number of participants as well.
Congratulations to @leroyoftheroverson his victory with an impressive winning margin - no mean feat.
As for myself, I (modestly!) have now achieved the full set of podium finishes, and also a sixth place, in the nine seasons since winning in 2015/2016.
Enjoy the summer everyone and look forward to resuming “combat “ next season.
Be moreB4 !!

Newcastle 0 Derby County 1, 13 September 1969.
Roy McFarland scored the winner to shut up the Geordies around us yelling about Jimmy Smith.
The significance of the game was that, for the first time in my lifetime, Derby County went top of Division 1 that day.
The following week, we thrashed Tottenham 5-0 at Derby in front of the biggest crowd ever at the Baseball Ground. Everyone of a certain age remembers that game, but the Newcastle one sticks in my mind just as much.

October 21 1961.  Derby 2 Liverpool 0.   Mick Hopkinson from 60 yards !! (well it seemed like it from the 'boys' enclosure !!) and Bill Curry. 27000+ at the BBG. Ron Yeats putting Bill Curry into the railings in frustration.
September 24th 1966.  Derby 4 Huddersfield 3  Kevin Hectors home debut. Boy was that some debut !! Despite having 4 opposition trying to mark him he still managed to score and created the space for Durban to score 3. Little did we know then what the next 10 years would hold !!
November 1st 1969.  Derby 4 Liverpool 0. Can still see Hector and O'Hare bearing down on Lawrence in goal at the Ossie End for the fourth goal. 40993 at the BBG.
January 23rd 1971.  Derby 2 Wolves 1.  FA Cup 4th round. 40000+ at the BBG. 6" of mud and John O'Hare chesting in, in the 90th minute !!
Need I go on. Oh those memories.
 

As has already been mentioned.  My favourite ever game was against Chelsea in the League Cup in 1968.
The ground was rocking that night with the noise.

Derby 3 Eusebio's Benfica 0
I remember someone, maybe Graham Richards or Gerald Mortimer, on the radio saying something like he saw Kevin Hector walking down the corridor, injured, in the afternoon and thought there's no way he could play in the game. But he did play, and he was brilliant 🐏

1968 chelsea cup match.Who could forget  night matches at the Baseball ground, smoke swirling round from Leys. It was my first match, we won., loved the rams eversince.

1-0 Sheff U away 1987, Phil Gee nutmegging John Burridge 10000 Derby fans rammed in the away end.