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Proper 6 pointer to start with 

Derby County v Huddersfield Town
Saturday 7th August
3pm Kick Off
Available on RamsTV (outside the UK)
Go on then, I'll get the season started. 
With just over a week to go, several departures from a thin squad and 0 arrivals, it obviously hasn't be the most ideal pre seasons. 
Thankfully the players that we're looking to sign have been involved in pre season and bonding with the squad, we're not just looking at dragging players in with a week to train before playing.
"Unprecedented times" will hopefully no longer be heard and we are able to get through the season without seeing any new restrictions coming in, the club desperately needs the uninterrupted match day revenue back running through the tills.
Team for Huddersfield? Difficult to say until we see what trialists are given contracts and the EFL approve, seems wild that the game as I say is just over a week away and we couldn't even guess a starting 11, but he we are.
Buckle up boys and girls, this season will be a battle. ?

Tom Lawrence opening game goal is a cert. Bookmark it.

Cheeky beggar I do have some friends you know ?

Just remember to stay safe everyone today.
Maintain social distancing from any natives of Nottingham and sanitize religiously whilst you are there, wash properly on your return and consider inceneration of all articles of clothing that may have become contaminated.
More of a Nottingham thing than a covid thing at this point, but good disease control measures are still applicable.

Pre match drinks The Embankment

I was born and bred in East Ham, East London. I should be a West Ham fan, like most of my mates and, indeed, I grew up watching the ‘ammers at the Boleyn ground.
However, my grandad had other ideas for me.
Hailing from Burton and from a family of Derby fans, he was old school, had the Derby tie, Derby tea cup, he grew my roots in the Rams and when they came to West Ham, I knew where my loyalties lay.
So, other than a dozen or so visits to the ground, I know nothing about Derby as a city; I grew up in London, migrated to Sydney and then moved back to the U.K., where in now live in Torbados, Devon.
So, I’m not from Derby, but I bleed Derby! ?

Born and raised on the West Sussex coast, but my Grandparents were, from Codnor Loscoe, my Grandad walked to the Kent coalfields in the 1930s to find work, and never went back! He used to talk about Derbyshire and let me read a magazine he used to get which I think was called 'ey up me duck', was a Rams fan from about 1976 first saw them at the Goldstone ground, approx 1979! Maybe it's my fault, they've done duck all since I've been a fan!!! Sorry! ??

I agree with Roy Mac, judge Wazza by his results on the pitch….

What Lawrence did had a huge impact on the Club from a playing point of view. Rooneys' stupid and naieve actions haven't. 

Not sure I can get too sanctimonious about Rooney's so-called behaviour, given that at least one of the female participants seems to have deliberately targeted him, in order to further her "career" as an Instagram influencer. 
I just think he's a bit silly to be relaxing in public after a long hard day at work. Probably been up since 5 am, had little to eat and a drink too many. Not entirely sure what else he has done wrong, tbh. As for those girls, as @David said "Ugh"!
 

Steve McClaren had a 3 month affair whilst he was married, Chris Martin banned from 68 pubs, I mean we haven’t always had squeaky clean men at the club.
Still not exactly sure what he has meant to have done wrong this time. 
Out with mates, have a few drinks, invite some women to his table, are his mates single unknown to paparazzi men where Rooney used his status to get the women to the table? What a naughty boy.
All go to a hotel room, Rooney fully dressed falls asleep on the chair. Is that the crime here, falling asleep? 
Pictures of his mates not posted on social media as they have no headline grabbing status.
I mean if he’s stripped naked, wearing makeup, with the women snorting coke off his arse cheeks has he takes a hit from a bong I could maybe understand it.
I haven’t seen headlines of Colleen leaves family home, spotted not wearing her wedding ring as we’ve seen previously, so if his wife has presumably forgiven him, why are we creating page after page on the internet laying into him.
I just don’t get it Kash, forgive me if I’m wrong but it all feels like an overblown situation by those that don’t want Rooney as manager. Probably best we agree to disagree on this.

I find it a little bizarre that you can forgive someone that could have killed himself, his teammates and innocent people on the road whilst being angered by the manager falling asleep in a hotel room drunk with 2 mates and some women. 
I mean the 2 are not even on the same scale.

So if that was your boss you wouldn’t work as hard, respect him and accept being disciplined by him, true?
It’s not making excuses for him, it’s just not judging another man to a higher standard because he so happens to be a football manager. 
Manager of Tesco or Derby County, they should be judged on the job they do, not their private life  unless it’s illegal and impacts the job they are paid to do.
If any fan doesn’t want Rooney as manager that’s fine, no problem, but use results, performances on the pitch to judge him by, don’t use this incident to strengthen the case to get rid, just no need. 
It’s chip paper now, nothing more.

Hows about putting energy into slagging forest, Leeds, Leicester etc off instead…..???  

Is it to much to ask fans to pull together a bit more at the moment the club needs us most? Some comments at the moment are pretty awful tbh. 

Read the tweets again. There's news on all that stuff.

Goal and assist bonuses couldn’t have cost us much money last season 

No need to worry about goals and assist bonuses this season 

I’m fairly certain that goals and assists are some of the most simple extras…they can get as ridiculous as an ‘unused substitute’ bonus but I’d imagine that’s limited to the big boys as a way to make sure they play if fit. 

Yes, there is. 
Hopefully this answer is not illegal.

Try telling that to my uncle!

I dont think there's anything illegal about asking a question 

The clean sheet bonus was introduced as an incentive to some of our players to stop them soiling the hotel bedding on away trips.

I'd love to see Watson and Sibley start this one, Dillon on again in 2nd half