Gee SCREAMER !!

Haydon Roberts not doing much at Bristol City. 3 starts in first 3 games.  2 appearances since.  Old news or worth a return?

Embarrassed to be in the crowd of the club you believe is the most embarrassing in the history of football.
Your a bit of a masochist mate .  I should stay at home and self flagellate with Kenny burns pants .  Cheaper and warmer.

By new keeper, I mean new keeper in the starting line up. 

Reading seem to have woke up slightly since we were supposed to play them.  That will be a tricky one.  Burton will play like a team possessed as every trip to Pride Park is like a sugar coated dream for them, so that will be another tricky one. 

Looked worth every penny at one point.

Looked worth every penny at one point.

This refs enciting an issue with allowing their challenges to go unpunished.   Could get a serious injury in this one.

this refs fookin blind

Remember when that team of George Osbornes mates, sorry experts in their field, made their accounting error on it's privatisation of a mere 750 million that they revalued a day later.  Good job they corrected it so promptly, or those shares they bought in  droves on their original valuation wouldn't have pocketed them a few million when they were immediately sold the following day.

'That dead footballer' happens to be our record goalscorer. And I don't think it was just that remark that has aroused suspicion - you seem to hate everything about the Derby fan experience whilst making up some irrelevant nonsense about a club down the road. When they were rotting in League One, they certainly weren't booming out anything - in fact, a lot of them abandoned the club & the place was like a morgue. Their support is an embarrassment & so are your comments.

I must admit, I never met the guy, never saw him play, and have never knowingly met any of his descendants.  We do however share the same birthday... which is nice!
Anyway, the following comments relate to the aforementioned... and titular... Mr Steve Bloomer...
 
He played 525 times for Derby...  And scored a clear record 332 goals for The Rams.
After Jimmy Greaves, he is the second-highest all-time goalscorer in the top-flight of English football. 
While at Derby he was top scorer in the First Division on five occasions in 1896, 1897, 1899, 1901 and 1904. In 1896, together with John Campbell of Aston Villa. He was also the leading "Rams" scorer for 14 consecutive seasons and scored 17 hat-tricks in the league. One of his best seasons came in 1896–97 when he scored 31 goals, including five hat-tricks, in 33 League and FA Cup games. Between 14 November 1896 and 5 April 1897 he scored 21 goals in 20 games. He also scored six goals for the club in a game against Sheffield Wednesday in January 1899.
He helped Derby to win the Second Division title in 1911–12, and to finish second in the First Division in 1895–96; he also played on the losing side in four FA Cup semi-finals and three FA Cup finals (1898, 1899 and 1903).
After four years at Middlesbrough he returned to the Rams in 1910 and helped them win the Second Division title in 1912. 
He missed seven games of the 1893–94 season after Leicester Fosse half-back Peggy Lord broke his collarbone on 10 February. Bloomer recovered and claimed 19 goals from 27 appearances during the campaign.
Bloomer's goals helped Derby finish runners-up in the First Division in 1896 and helped them reach three FA Cup finals in 1898, 1899 and 1903. He scored in the 1898 final, a 3–1 defeat to Nottingham Forest. On 3 September 1900 Bloomer scored the first-ever goal at The Hawthorns, the 1–1 draw against West Bromwich Albion being the first match played at the ground.
He also had two spells as Rams Manager.
He also scored 28 goals in 23 appearances for England...
Bloomer made his England debut on 9 March 1895, scoring twice in a 9–0 win against Ireland, which helped England win the British Home Championship.
He scored in all of his first 10 international appearances, which remains a record for number of consecutive scoring appearances. He netted 19 times during these games, including 5 goals against Wales on 16 March 1896, winning three British Home Championships.
He became England's all-time top goalscorer on 2 April 1898, when he surpassed Tinsley Lindley's total of 14 with two goals against Scotland. On 18 March 1901, he scored four goals against Wales, becoming the first player to score two hat-tricks for England and also the first to score four goals for England twice, as England once again won the British Home Championship.
At the end of 1901, his goal tally stood at 25 in just 14 games.
He captained England once; against Scotland on 3 May 1902.
He finished his international career in 1907 as England's longest serving player and England's all-time top goalscorer with 28 goals. He held the record until his tally was overhauled by Vivian Woodward in 1911.
A plaque commemorating Bloomer's by-then demolished birthplace in Bridge Street, Cradley, was unveiled in 2000 by former Wolverhampton Wanderers and Derby player Jimmy Dunn and Bloomer's grandson Steve Richards.[53]
On 17 January 2009, after a long and sustained period of campaigning, a bust of Bloomer was finally unveiled inside Pride Park, Derby. Bloomer's two grandsons, Steve Richards and Alan Quantrill, unveiled the bust in the presence of Bloomer's family and relations, the sculptor Andy Edwards and thousands of Derby County fans. On 17 January 2009, a bust of Bloomer was unveiled next to the home dugout at Pride Park Stadium.
He remains a legend at Derby County
He also had to put up with quite a bit of s*** in Germany, during The Great War... including being interned at Ruhleben, a civilian detention camp in the Spandau district of Berlin, in 1914.
 
In January 2024, he was described by someone on the internet, claiming to be a Derby County fan, as "some dead footballer who no one really knows".
Allow me to repeat that, to avoid any doubt... "some dead footballer who no one really knows".
The above comment was further accompanied with "who the hell is Steve Bloomer....and I really don't care if he is watching or not."
 
This is the one time I am genuinely embarrassed to be in the presence of a fellow Derby County fan.
 

Good news is they've invested heavily over the last 2 yrs to get Cat 1 status. If it goes Pete Tong, they'll bring the wonderkids in .  Oh actually...https://www.dcfc.co.uk/fixtures/results/2023/12/23/nottingham-forest-v-u18

It's really not.  It their obsession

I believe Goddard had an agreement that he would be allowed to move back to London if a certain fee was paid.  A favour he was granted as a thanks for turning down Liverpool and coming to Derby.

I believe Goddard had an agreement that he would be allowed to move back to London if a certain fee was paid.  A favour he was granted as a thanks for turning down Liverpool and coming to Derby.

I believe Goddard had an agreement that he would be allowed to move back to London if a certain fee was paid.  A favour he was granted as a thanks for turning down Liverpool and coming to Derby.

Anyone for Mills and Griffin

Good old Seth.  They also had to pay him 25 k a week wages whilst he bullied us too promotion.
 

I believe Goddard had an agreement that he would be allowed to move back to London if a certain fee was paid.  A favour he was granted as a thanks for turning down Liverpool and coming to Derby.

On a side note, didn't Jonjo Shelvey's Confused Exit do a live session for John Peel?

Haydon Roberts not doing much at Bristol City. 3 starts in first 3 games.  2 appearances since.  Old news or worth a return?

In the summer, maybe. Had a bit of everything. Not a priority right now. Shame its not worked out so far for him.

Good shout. I liked the lad. Shame we couldn't secure a deal for him in the close season. 

Good news is they've invested heavily over the last 2 yrs to get Cat 1 status. If it goes Pete Tong, they'll bring the wonderkids in .  Oh actually...https://www.dcfc.co.uk/fixtures/results/2023/12/23/nottingham-forest-v-u18