Steve Buckley’s Dog

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

That’s great. Can you get me these thousands of tickets please it will save me a fortune! Seeming as I work In a school with friends working at Toyota who haven’t been offered a single ticket you clearly have your finger right on the pulse. To be fair we only have 3 fans, two of which are B4, whereas forest fans are great because they went to a match in the play offs and got their team over the line. If only we could be like you, Cloughie always thought it! ?

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

Snatch your hands off for a draw at home to Shrewsbury? I think your ambition might be called in to question a little here! 

He’ll certainly be hoping we take the lead.

That’s great. Can you get me these thousands of tickets please it will save me a fortune! Seeming as I work In a school with friends working at Toyota who haven’t been offered a single ticket you clearly have your finger right on the pulse. To be fair we only have 3 fans, two of which are B4, whereas forest fans are great because they went to a match in the play offs and got their team over the line. If only we could be like you, Cloughie always thought it! ?

Fozzy has been an exceptional servant for our club, no more so than this year when he has been a rock playing in an unusual position for him. He has the occasional slip up but so does everyone, we tend to pick up on the odd misplaced pass from a defender far more than we do a forward who blazes over the bar! There are lots of reasons I want us to go back up this year but one of them would be a fitting reward for this unassuming stalwart of our club. To have the guts and dedication to come back from so many operations and still be willing to put his body on the line he has my complete admiration.

I’m still laughing at the Aberdeenshire Leeds fans that gave me and my eldest lad a mouth full when we we were boarding a flight to London for the Play Off Final against Aston Villa seeing me in my Aberdeenshire Rams shirt.
The mouthy bloke with his rather quiet and embarrassed mate said “we’ll see you next year ……….blah blah blah” whilst I just smiled at him and thought we are not the silly s0ds that are still going to London today, because you booked your flight and hotel etc, after winning the first leg 0-1 you sad muppet, hope you enjoy your ride on the London Eye, ya sad trucker!!!!

Aberdeenshire Leeds would have brought more though. 

Aberdeenshire Leeds would have brought more though. 

Aberdeenshire Leeds would have brought more though. 

Barnsley 4-1 Derby County Sat 25th Feb 2023. Attendance: 26,123
McGoldrick
The eldest lad and I enjoyed our trip for this game. Sat in the away end North Stand NS5 Row I.
Thu 19:25 Aberdeen to Edinburgh Megabus
Thu 22:40 Edinburgh to Meadowhall Megabus
Fri 05:43 Meadowhall to Sheffield Train 
Fri 06:03 Sheffield to Derby Train
Arrived in Derby 06:33am and walked up to the Premier Inn to the sound of the early birds tweeting. Checked in and straight to bed for 4 hours sleep, before waking up, shower and straight to The New Zealand Arms for The Rams Heritage Memorabilia of Derby County Football Club.
Met Jamie Thrasivoulou and Paul and some great people that support these wonderful events.
Attended my friend Bill’s funeral at the Markeaton Crematorium on Friday 24th February at 2.30pm. Steve Bloomers Watching played alongside the Derby County Ram visual on the wall. Wake at the Mundy Arms ✝️ ?
Carried on drinking in The Silk Mill telling stories of the good times with Bill and Derby County.
Saturday caught the 10:10 train to Sheffield via the Sheffield Tap. Arrived in Barnsley had a stroll around the centre recommending various pubs to my eldest lad for some lunch, ended up in Morrisons (kids eat free!)
Walked up to the Oakwell Stadium and it poured down, as we were doing a lap of the stadium, so my lad could see it all, including the fanzone, when it chucked it down, so we popped into the club shop to keep dry before spitting the Derby County Team Bus arrive. Jogged after it, but it was straight into the ground, before fans were let in etc.
Spotted Adam that does the great Derby County Vlogs on You Tube, so said hello and told him his videos were great and to keep up the great work.
Went into the ground and found our seats and enjoyed the team warming up. I ooohed and arghed about putting my flag up, as it was pretty windy, but eventually did. Then watched a game where we gave goals away very easily and we’re always going to be out muscled unfortunately, even though I expected a tighter game. Was spotted by a friend at half time, about meeting up after the game, I explained we were in no rush to leave so I could get our flag being sat only a few rows up from the far right corner.
 
We ended up getting out of the ground straight away as their was an exit beside all the police and stewards, that took us straight down steps and out round the back of the stand, whilst thousands of Rams fans followed each other like sheep aiming for the same exit.
We then broke through the police line aiming Derby County fans back to the station after I’d informed the lad, that we’d soon be surrounded with the Barnsley fans walking back into town. So we got to endure the Barnsley fans calling out “Scabs” and saw the Derby fans being escorted and deprecated by a couple of police on horses etc.
We found the little craft pub we were looking for in the arcade the Jolly Tap in Barnsley which was great. https://m.facebook.com/JollyTapArcade/
We had a couple of lovely pints of porter whist letting the crowds at the station disappear keeping our chat of the Rams quiet whilst still surrounded by Barnsley fans.
Grabbed a train about 7pm back to Sheffield, enjoying a final pint in the Sheffield Tap as my eldest lad could only stay in it until 8pm. Left the rest of the lads in there and headed back to Derby and an early night chilling in the Hotel.
Sunday enjoyed a lie in before breakfast in the Derbion and then on a National Express Coach at 11:15am to Leicester before another National Express Coach 13:10pm to Luton Airport arriving at 15:00pm time to watch Man Utd 2-0 Newcastle Caraboa Cup Final before boarding on a flight at 19:15pm that was 10 mins late leaving.
 
Which meant when we landed we ended up running off the flight, straight into a cab, for a quick 6 minute drive to Dyce Train Station, only to see, passengers walking into the car park and the train bang on time for a change, had just left .
 
We waited another 45 mins for the next train, again bang on time, so we were back into Inverurie Sunday evening, just before 10:00pm before the 20 minute walk home in the cold and dark night seeing a rabbit scurry across the frosty road.

Which WC should she use? The men’s?  I agree with the two decisions she got wrong other than that she was fine. Better than a lot of dross we have had this season but it was an easy game to referee.

Which WC should she use? The men’s?  I agree with the two decisions she got wrong other than that she was fine. Better than a lot of dross we have had this season but it was an easy game to referee.

Which WC should she use? The men’s?  I agree with the two decisions she got wrong other than that she was fine. Better than a lot of dross we have had this season but it was an easy game to referee.

I think you’ve got to be pretty stupid to name your child after a Derby player. I was talking about this to my three daughters, Aljosa, Igor and Deano, and they all agree. 

Yes, moving to the posh end of the Bab would have sorted it. ?

I think you’ve got to be pretty stupid to name your child after a Derby player. I was talking about this to my three daughters, Aljosa, Igor and Deano, and they all agree. 

I think you’ve got to be pretty stupid to name your child after a Derby player. I was talking about this to my three daughters, Aljosa, Igor and Deano, and they all agree. 

He's clearly got the authorities on strings so I'm not too worried.

To be fair Marinakis has only been charged with verbal abuse of a referee, match fixing, involvement with criminal gangs and drug trafficking. He hasn’t, as far as I know, been involved in state sponsored genocide so needs to up his game if he wants to fit in with his premier league pals.