Rammy03

Kyle Walker at 34 is still one of the quickest players in the Prem. It's not the 90s anymore footballers are looking after themselves I think we'll start seeing the retirement age creeping even further up.

We're a big club in the sense that we're in the top 20 for the most successful sides in the country and always in and around the top 20 for average attendances even when playing in the damn 3rd division. Those two parameters make us a 'big' club by any definition. We're big we're just not 'the biggest'. 

@Rammy03  just to put some context, some perspective into the gates you posted...
Population: Derby 258K. Villareal 52K
Stadium capacity: Derby 33K. Villareal 23K 

Derby are a bigger club than Villarreal.

The atmosphere at PP in August will be electric it seems.
‘We all hate the Yellow Submarine!’
‘Stand up if you hate Villarreal!’
’If you don’t do the bounce, you’re yellow!’
‘Are you watching, are you watching, are you watching Mexico?’

I like being here. I’m a big Derby fan. I pay £20 to RamsTV every month. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.
Just because I don’t rate Warne, or I don’t think Derby are a big club, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be here.
I enjoy the forum, and I enjoy reading people’s opinions despite what may appear.
I’m not too fond on the personal jibes, ganging up and to some extent bullying tactics though. The forum doesn’t need all that.

So last season Luton were a bigger club that Derby?
Bigger global audience due to being a PL club frequently on TV, whilst we only had a few TV games.
They were certainly able to sign better players than we could.
No difference in the ability to challenge for major trophies.
What you refer to are more closely linked to financial power - the more you spend, the more you can attact players and challenge for trophies, whilst also increasing exposure to a wider audience.
Our ceiling isn't "midtable PL". Our ceiling is no different from the likes of Leicester who have shown how a reasonable sized club can still win the league, even if the stars do need to align for it to happen. It's mostly been that way since the 70s anyway, with only Blackburn, Leeds, Forest and Villa (to a lesser degree) being surprise winners since we last won it almost 50 years ago.

Spanish top flight vs 3rd tier of English football

Spanish top flight vs 3rd tier of English football

Has Chris Kirchner ever tried to buy them.

Promotions: 
Emery - 0
Warne - 4
It all adds up. 

You're confusing stadium size with club size. If Liverpool had a 100,000 stadium, they'd fill it quite regularly with mainly Liverpool fans. If West Ham had a 100,000 stadium they might fill it occasionally, but only if there was nothing else to do in London that weekend and the tickets were cheap.
As far as your later post is concerned, you were doing so well until you mistook the temporary with the permanent, the superficial with matters of substance. While Villareal are in La Liga and Derby are not in the PL, they'll beat us to a player every time, particularly if they're from a Spanish speaking country, assuming we'd both be interested in signing them, but mid-table Premier League as a destination most likeley trumps Villareal everytime, unless a player simply decides they prefer to live in the Villareal area. 

Probably very similar to a Chelsea forum this morning.

I now ignore historical achievements, matchday attendances, size of the wider fanbase and overall potential.
My true judgement on what constitutes a big club is whether Mexican Football Monthly magazine has mentioned the club in the last year or so.

Oh dear, that's a set-back. Do you reckon it could have anything to with the fact that they're in the Spanish top division, while we're in the English second-tier?

Since 2008/9 all non premier league seasons for all three clubs:
 

 

Poor Morgan Whittaker

Rooney, in the end, did a good job with Derby - albeit how much of it is attributed to Rosenior is anyone's guess.
One thing I can't fault him for is his work-rate an desire to get into management. He did really create a good atmosphere at the club when it could've easily been toxic and he started the season without know what players he could sign and had to lean on what, fortunately, turned out to be a very good academy. 
We could've had -9 or -12 point deduction and still stayed up that year and that's with a wage cap of £4k a week, wasn't it? In the Championship. Non-league teams pay more than that (sometimes). Admittedly, I've got no idea how this plays out at Plymouth and he needs good people around him but he will put everything into it and I wouldn't be surprised if he does a relatively good job, i.e. steady midtable finish. 

To be fair he did a great job in keeping Plymouth up this season 

What I will say about Rooney is that he is amazingly driven. He must really want to be a manager to keep stepping down like this.
It would have been much easier to do what Neville did after Valencia. Live off your reputation as a player and keep taking Sky's money.
But no, he is determined to pick himself up and try again and again. 
That, I can respect.

Word is that Plymouth have offered him all the Ginsters pasties he can eat. They shouldn't be writing cheques they can't cash.
I wanted him to fail at Birmingham because I didn't like the way he was parachuted in at the expense of a better manager. That isn't the case here, so I hope he does well. I'm really not sure about his job selection though. Plymouth have a relatively small budget. It's going to be tough. It would probably be better for Rooney if he took a league 1/2 job at a team with a more competitive squad and budget for that level.

PW with Rotherham in the SBC.
1st time, relegated playing crap football
2nd time, same again
3rd time he had put together a better side playing decent football (source Rotherham forums at the time we poached him). He had them 8th after 9 games. All the sides above then had played 10. Win that game in hand and they would have gone 5th. He came to us and Rotherham ended up 19th. Just maybe, the 1st 2 seasons were more down to RUFC's inability to attract the right players? Both the results and the style were better 3rd time around...
IMO, forget anything he did at Rotherham. Derby is a totally different kettle of fish. Let's see what he can put together over the summer.

My WHU  supporting mate would say they are a lot bigger now having a 62k seat stadium in fact bigger than most London clubs potentially in the near future. When they played at the Boleyn yes very much a similar size.