IslandExile

Or wisteria for short....

Or wisteria for short....

You’ve spelt champions league wrong.

Yeah, we just need another James Collins.
Oh, wait...

I am very sorry to see McGoldrick go in some ways. It was an honour to watch his play, he had a great season (his most productive ever) and we fans loved him.
I have to respect his decision to return to his boyhood club and I hope he does as well for them as he did for us.
There was no guarantee that he would repeat his scoring exploits if he had stayed here, and I'd hate if he'd had a poor season by comparison and our fans started to turn on him. I think it's his general ability to read the game we'll find the hardest to replace.
However, there were also times last season when we were a little too reliant on McGoldrick for my liking. Not his fault, but players would pass to him when others might have been better placed. Now they've got to come up with alternative solutions,  like stepping up and scoring more themselves. It's a challenge, but I think we'll rise to it.
 

I genuinely don't understand why I've just seen "League two is a bigger pull than Warne"
It's not league two. It's Notts County. It's his club. He wants to retire there. Fair play. Could have stayed here for more money. He's literally just said himself that no other club he would have gone for. 
Internally they would have known about this for ages. I would imagine that Mcgoldrick has said "Look if Notts go up there's a chance I could go back there and I'd want to"
I wish him nothing but the best. Was unbelievable for us last season and without him we'd have been nowhere.
But that was the season of his life and we cannot be relying on him to do that again. We need 3-4 strikers chipping in with 8-15 goals each. We need wide players chipping in with 5-10. 
It's not just about replacing Mcgoldricks goals with an individual it needs to be spread. 
Other than Hourihane and NML. Goals from other areas of the team were pitiful.
But fans using this as a stick to beat Warne or the club with are a joke.

Quote from the article; 
McGoldrick said: “It has been a difficult decision for me to leave Derby County, but it has been a huge ambition of mine to play for Notts County again before the end of my career.
“I’ve been honest and open with both Paul Warne and the club about it in recent weeks and they’ve been supportive and understanding.
“If it wasn’t for the fact that I had the chance to return to Notts, it would have been a no-brainer to stay at Derby - regardless of interest from any other club. I really enjoyed working under the gaffer and his staff, playing alongside the lads and, of course, performing in front of the brilliant fans at Pride Park. I want to thank everyone for making me feel so welcome in the last year.
“I had a wonderful season with Derby and to score 25 goals and three hat-tricks made it such an enjoyable time, the best in terms of goals for me personally in the season, and actually made the decision such a difficult one. 
“I’ve had many conversations with the gaffer over the last few weeks and he really did do everything he could to keep me at Derby but, in the end, I have decided to go with my heart and return to Notts.”
He added: “I wish the club the very best of luck moving forward and I’ll be willing Derby on next season. They’re in good hands both on the pitch with the gaffer, Richie Barker, Matt Hamshaw and Andy Warrington, as well as off it too.”

I’ve seen a lot more bees this week 👍🏻 

In the hole. Fist pump.

Centre forward who hugs the left touchline and hardly ever scores, so not a lot of thought given to goal celebrations.
I would like to think I'd go with Bobby Charlton handshakes on the way back to the halfway line.

Derby are massive !!
End of....

And the season after that we’ll be in the Premier League and then we can spend spend spend yoo hoo …. Sorry 🥺

With the new E F L rules about not using items to dry the balls for throw in’s . Could we get round this by having a shirt made from Terry towelling. This could give us the edge in close games.

Imagine speaking to Nigel Pearson and thinking "yeah, y'know what? I fancy a bit of that."

I have used Arsenal as a great example and told David that we have an open invite from the club to go back down, they have set up a fantastic timeline of where the club came from and followed the history through to modern day, great use of lighting and sound adds to the experience, story boards as you walk through, it’s not about trophies it’s a celebration of the heritage, we can include our engineering links with the railways and the aero industry and make it about the people of Derby and how the club has been integral to their lives for the past 140 years, lots of photos and media, we had three screens running over the display on a loop which people just stood and watched, then importantly we will change the exhibits on a regular basis to keep it interesting and include themes such as eras or cup competitions through the season, it can be tied in with the ticket office, the yard and the club shop and of course ground tours, money can be made by the club, the good thing is that we are now up and running, lots of hard work over the years is now coming together, keep watching this space 👍🐏❤️

My fear of losing McGoldrick will be that subtlety of skill will be replaced by eleven athletes.
Yeah, eleven, even the keeper will have to complete 10km per match, running around his area.

My fear of losing McGoldrick will be that subtlety of skill will be replaced by eleven athletes.
Yeah, eleven, even the keeper will have to complete 10km per match, running around his area.

or 'TFONWFOTAFTNTIaFCDCFCFCIITNATTTASC' for short 😂

There sorted! I wish.
Nice few minutes break from work spoiled by yet another self-important idiot who thinks we care what he or she thinks squatting on our fans forum and rubbing our noses in where we find ourselves due to one narcissistic owner. It wont work but I feel better 

Well that lends a weight of authenticity to it.

We didn't 'pay extra for something to be nice' though, did we? We did exactly what some are moaning about and gouged the hell out of them on player values.
I think in cases where the 'seller' is in admin, a tribunal should set a fair market value to ensure that clubs (like Derby) who are already suffering, are not getting dry-humped into oblivion.

I'm relieved to hear it.
Something has to be done to redistribute the pyramid of wealth.... Oh and in football aswell.

We had this lad drop him, made him an honorary lifetime member of the Rams Heritage Trust.
Our saviour !
he loved it and we are going places ❤️