IslandExile

Ex-Navy here. Me too - I haven’t worn a poppy in years and the current climate in which Remembrance Day is used to evoke some sense of blind nationalism, whilst our government aids the bombing of civilians in other countries, has reinforced my commitment to never wear one again.
That said - if you do, fair enough. Displays like this always feel fairly crass to me but I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t have been allowed to go ahead. 
 
Hope Rammie will be wearing his poppy to make up for it. #respect.

I'm a big poppy fan myself... but never been keen on forcing it on folk.
As it stands, the whole on-pitch Last Post, uniformed Ram Mascot, Ranked soldiers, silent reflection etc can be ignored by those who don't agree. 
Not so easy to ignore if one of those poppy petals are on your seat... and a dead cert to be booed (or worse) if you don't hold it aloft!  It's unfair to force this on folk in these seats, as disappointing as it is for me to write that! 
Yeah, I'd have loved to have seen it, and much respect to those that tried to organise it, but it wasn't the wisest move by the club/SLO to have agreed to it in the first place.
Those of us that do like to display the poppy will already be doing so.  That in itself should be enough.

xxx
 

This stopped me wearing one for a while (always still chucked a couple of quid in the donation tin but never took the poppy). Sick of seeing tw4ts like Tommy Robinson and his thick followers hiJack something beautiful for their own means. 
 
… but then I went and visited the battlefields in France and Belgium. The cemeteries, the monuments and heard from survivors. Made me realise we need to wrestle back the poppy from the likes of Robinson and those EDL mugs. 
 
Don’t agree with forcing it on the whole crowd though. Imagine being a derby fan who flies in from Derry each match to find you’re smack bang in the middle of a poppy. Particularly if you’re old enough to remember the early 70s. 

Isn't our greatest ever No5 a scouser?

"Wimbledon hope to collect a fee even higher than the £1.2m they received when selling Ayoub Assal to Qatari side Al-Wakrah in January."

Freddo bars have gone up in price???!!!
Oh that's the final straw. Warne out and now!

Freddo bars have gone up in price???!!!
Oh that's the final straw. Warne out and now!

Was the first goal a left foot or right foot tap in? 
 
can’t even score a true hatrick .. the thick f… 

"Get ya head on it Sonny"...

Bradders and Cashy to get a brace apiece.
This front 4 excites me tremendously.
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Wednesday 8th November  
 Pride Park Stadium  - Kick Off 19:00
Opponents    Wolverhampton Wanderers U21
 
Current Group Standings 
                                      P   W   D   L    GD   PTS
1 Derby County            2   2     0   0    3       6
2 Lincoln City               2   1     0    1    0       3
3 Wolves                      2    1    0     1    -1      3
4 Notts County            2    0   0    2     -2     0
 
So after a close FA Cup 1st round battle at Crewe we move onto the EFL Trophy against Wolves U21 at Pride Park.
 I never quite know what to make of these sort of games but for me just reminds me of the level we are currently at ( we really do need to get out of this division !!) I have to admit i have not taken much interest in this competition so far this season but we look like we will progress in the tournament .
This game will no doubt give Paul Warne a chance to try a few players out with the main priority being the big game on saturday at home to Barnsley.
So i expect quite a few changes including Vickers in goal and maybe starts for Sibley,Fornah and a few others who have not played as much recently.
I think this game has probably come to early to give Thommo and JJ a run out although Warne has said they are both back running on the grass.
Hopefully for continuity it would be nice to stay on our unbeaten run and go into the game on saturday in a positive way.
Apologies for lack of stats on Wolves U21 but I will be back on form for the Barnsley yardstick tester on saturday after we win this game 
 
COYR

All the candidate teams are showing more fight than our lot did so I think the record is ours to keep. Sadly.

Mentioned this game before, but where it all began for me. My first ever Derby game was a cup tie v Preston
January 1959. 2 - 2 on the snowy BBG.
The picture below is Jack Parry scoring and hangs in a corridor at Pride Park.

1976 Quarter Final 4-2 versus Newcastle United
Four of the best goals you will ever see.
But yeah, I also loved the 2-0 versus them from down the road.

2 all, you beauty Warne! Great management does it again. 2 super goals by Warne.

Always rated Hourihane and his surging runs in to the box. 

Under his thumb it says "warne"

Did it have an outboard motor?
Why do people tell - potentially - great stories then leave out essential details?

1976 Quarter Final 4-2 versus Newcastle United
Four of the best goals you will ever see.
But yeah, I also loved the 2-0 versus them from down the road.

1976 Quarter Final 4-2 versus Newcastle United
Four of the best goals you will ever see.
But yeah, I also loved the 2-0 versus them from down the road.

And Sky experts say it was an awful decision for VAR not to overrule it because the guy clearly kicked the ground.

I had a terrible case of the Brad Pitts after eating a dog burger outside Loftus Road.
The runs came on that evening when I went to a party thrown by a girl who owned a groovy flat in East London. When I rushed to the loo, I found out that one of the groovy things about the flat was that the bathroom didn't have a door, just a bead curtain. And there was a queue of girls outside the bead curtain.
So I ran downstairs and outside to find somewhere, anywhere. The car park in front of the block of flats was small and well lit. The only thing in it was a speedboat on a trailer.
And so I found my relief squatting in the small patch of darkness behind a speedboat, beside the Whitechapel Road.
It was a memorable evening.

Good question. At that stage of proceedings I was not picking up all the details of my surroundings.

Toasted Grasshoppers, anyone?

 
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