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11 hours ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

Derbyshire beat Northants that day to win the NatWest trophy. I remember watching the climax on tv after getting back from Shrewsbury. Not entirely sure how but I definitely remember doing that.

I was at Lords that day. Drank far to much Red Stripe, and spent ages taking the piss out of Geoff Boycott, who was wearing a jacket that looked like his mother had made it from deckchair material.

I think the main guy that came from Southampton is still with us, it was one of his team that left. 

15 minutes ago, Kernow said:

My thoughts are that it feels like proper football. I’m becoming increasingly alienated by modern, elite football. I watch it less and less now, and when I do watch it, the enjoyment is sucked out by the way it’s organised and run.

There’s real supporters who support less glamorous clubs because they love them. Not because they win anything or because it’s a tourist attraction. 1700 fans travelled from little Carlisle, just to watch their team that were relegated weeks ago. That’s proper football.

There’s obviously far less money, the facilities are nowhere near as good, the players can’t quite play the same kind of football, but it’s strangely enjoyable.

From scoring to in added time at Port Vale, to Wilson’s header against Bolton, to watching Collins’ penalty at Forest Green from a grass verge outside the ground because the one single turnstile wasn’t working quick enough, it’s been great.

Although saying that, I’m hoping we don’t have to return any time soon!

Carlisle is not so little. In geographical area it is the largest city in great britain.

Two things I noticed. When the team were having a photo taken with their kids, Wildsmith was holding up Thompson like a kid. And Robert Lindsay doing his Citizen Smith salute in the director's box.

Living not far from Carlisle I signed up for an account on their site. Just for a laugh I just went in and found I can get 2 tickets for the game in the away end.
 

People whining on about how Taylor at Lincoln had a good game against Cashin. So what? I saw Ray Crawford for Ipswich absolutely take McFarland apart in a 4-0 defeat at Portman Road. Roy looked like someone pulled off the street to make up the numbers. Every player has bad games, even the so called superstars of the Premier League.

12 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

One thing for sure is that there is going to need to be a massive rebuild for next season whatever league we are in based on the contracts expiring and the complete flops we have signed this season.

The main thing for me is why on earth did we keep picking the likes of Collins and NML for games in the the rubbish pizza cup when we could have given real game time to Brown Weston etc to see how they did which could have saved some serious money in the future.

If we weren’t forced to play the likes of all the kids we wouldn’t have survived as a club and start to look at what they are being transferred for Whittaker nearly went to Lazio for £12 million A Brown went for £3.5 million knight for £2 million Bird for £? Ebosele £500,000 Plange £1 million to mention a few of them - Warne won’t play them whilst Rooney had to and wanted to play them

To be fair, we had Palace's pants down with Pkange. Absolute crap.

1 minute ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Because he prefers Pearsons style of football over Warnes?

Pearson??????

38 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

 

How about, now I know this comes out of left field, how about instead of slagging the club off we get behind them? Now I know it's a bit of a radical idea for Rams fans, but let's give the management team the benefit of the doubt for once and see how that goes? However, if we aren't 4-0 up by half time on Saturday we can give them dog's abuse. Sound fair?

2 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

No. We put our business plan to the EFL and they agreed with our wishes.

I think it's more like we had to give the EFL a business they would let us have.

9 minutes ago, scout's dad said:

At this rate we may never. This is like Ian Storey - Moore for the Millennials 🤣

Nah, that was due to the red scum deciding to not sign the paperwork.

44 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

This is from Sunday morning. Have we asked CBT to dump his agent?

 

Not 100% sure, but I think that's his mate not his agent. I could be talking total b******* though.

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Any of the oldun's on here go to QPR September 67? That was a nightmare. They were flying top of the 2nd division and had Rodney Marsh playing a blinder every week. We rocked up and played them off the park, winning with a goal from the King. Anyway, the coaches had been parked right outside Loftus Road and when we got back to them there was a battle going on. Bricks, bottles, anything to hand was raining down on the coaches. Managed to dodge across the road and board a coach, ( wrong one but by this time no one gave a crap. Eventually plod arrived an managed to get some kind of order when two big b****** QPR fans got on dripping with blood demanding to know who threw bricks at them. We pointed out that the coach had no opening windows and that their own fans had done it. Our coach made it home but two or three others didn't. I was 15 and just about s******* myself, but it was fun, sort of. 

Sorry it's so long.

37 minutes ago, Ram-Alf said:

Yep the 70s were "Madder than Jack Mad McMad" No knives(unless you were a "Bin Dipper" Scouser...just Head, Fists, Feet and Teeth with the odd Elbow and knee thrown in and that was just the police 😁

Your Dad knows what's what, If there was no football then you fought those from Spondon, Alvaston, Allenton and Mackworth...I was from Chadd a more salubrious area of Derby ☺️

That feeling as you're walking to the ground,(home or away) and you hear chanting from a large mob down another side street, but you can't quite make out what they're saying. Then relief, or oh s***, as they exit the street in front of you. Certainly got the adrenalin flowing.

35 minutes ago, Sweetness34 said:

These stories are mad! I've always thoughht my dad embellished his stories but the 70s really were crazy! 

You had to be there, it was ridiculous. 

7 minutes ago, Ram-Alf said:

I would say they both were, Freddie Howard had little dots tattooed on both hands, Yes "gobby" but very handy to have on your side in a battle in the mid to late 70s, Then disappeared around the time the DLF were formed around 1981...a new football hooligan was born.

Clarke had 2 brothers that I know of, One went into the army who was the older Brother and the younger one who's now a pub landlord.  

I know Howard spent some time "at Her Majesties Pleasure" so that might be one reason he disappeared.

On 10/01/2024 at 10:51, Ram-Alf said:

My 1st "escape" came against Spurs as a 15 year old, I'd stand where the floodlights were at the Vulcan St End right next to the Normanton Stand...a great view of the game and also the shenanigans along the Popside, At the end of the game I was intrigued(nosey)to see where all the fighting was after the game, Derby's main lad in those days was a guy called "Fagin" a guy that always wore a long coat and was a double for Jesus Christ, We got to Harrington St just off Shaftsbury St when we heard the noise from Spurs fans, Fagin held the line then Spurs ran down Harrington St, I was on my toes 😁I never stopped running until I got to TC Harrisons in Normanton🏃‍♂️😁

Fagin disappeared around a year or so later, He was thrown in the River Trent by Trent Bridge by the red dogs, To be replaced by Kev O'Reilly, Phil Clarke, Billy Parker, Freddie Howard, Herbie, Ossie Owen, Acca, Geordie, Larry Lightning, Phil Millward, A few years later I progressed to the back of the Popside...singing "you'll never take the Popside" a few tried...but never did 👍

  

Just wondering if this Phil Clarke and Freddie Howard are the same guys I was at Nightingale Juniors with. If it was, Howard was a gobby little s**** back then but I believe he is dead now. 

Christ. If players can't handle working with Warne how would they have coped with Clough,(senior), Revie, Shanklin etc al?

1 hour ago, jono said:

Love this. Names, stories and derivations. I knew a bloke in Sheffield, surname Havenhand. His great grandparents were Dutch emigres and opened a Butchers Shop: “R. Van Hand.” Changed it at the outbreak of WW1 as anything faintly Germanic wasn’t popular. Shops name sounded the same in proper Yorkshire speak. 

There was a guy called Keith Havenhand who played mainly for Derby reserves in the 60's.

1 hour ago, Srg said:

Yeah, fleeced them for him but they stole Ebiowei who was much better. 

Watched him a few times for Carlisle and we are well rid.

I've seen a few fans of other clubs mentioning the state of their pitches. Pissing down for days on end does not help at all.

Cashin seems to be more Dave Mackay light than Todd.

The EFL need to get every video of Pierluigi Collina officiating and make all the British referees watch them, and then make them practice "the stare" 5 hours a day. 

Red Rider-Lunatic Fringe?

11 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Mainly because we surrendered possession to Carlisle, in another game we decided the best tactics was to not pass it to our own players. That's history now... hopefully the recent improvement continues.

I see JBrown and Guy both started again. Brown scored a very good goal last week, and it's great to see he's settled in to league football so we'll.

Carlisle had all the possession today but did four fiths of f**kall with it.