VulcanRam

Pearson was sacked too early.
Clement was sacked too early.
McLaren was sacked too early. 
Cocu was sacked too late. 
I like Gary Rowett and his style of football was ok.
xG is a pile of w***.
The South Stand is good but not as good as everyone makes out. 
I like @RoyMac5's input.
Some people on here engage their fingers way earlier than they do their brains.
It's not against the law to change your mind on things like the manager/players etc.
The European Super League needs to happen, and now, if football in this country is to be competitive.
Parachute payments need to be scrapped, and now, if the Championship is to remain competitive. 

Pearson was sacked too early.
Clement was sacked too early.
McLaren was sacked too early. 
Cocu was sacked too late. 
I like Gary Rowett and his style of football was ok.
xG is a pile of w***.
The South Stand is good but not as good as everyone makes out. 
I like @RoyMac5's input.
Some people on here engage their fingers way earlier than they do their brains.
It's not against the law to change your mind on things like the manager/players etc.
The European Super League needs to happen, and now, if football in this country is to be competitive.
Parachute payments need to be scrapped, and now, if the Championship is to remain competitive. 

This forum has gone to the dogs.

This forum has gone to the dogs.

This forum has gone to the dogs.

This forum has gone to the dogs.

This is a great point, and perhaps why Saturday didn't feel nearly as exciting as the Championship play off games we've had in recent year, Leeds away especially. I expected us to get promoted so while I'm happy that we did and enjoyed the occasion on Saturday,  the whole thing feels to me like we are righting a wrong more than achieving anything extraordinary.  

This is a great point, and perhaps why Saturday didn't feel nearly as exciting as the Championship play off games we've had in recent year, Leeds away especially. I expected us to get promoted so while I'm happy that we did and enjoyed the occasion on Saturday,  the whole thing feels to me like we are righting a wrong more than achieving anything extraordinary.  

League One is a melting pot of smaller clubs who are relatively well run and then bigger clubs who are down there for a reason. It's an enjoyable league for the match-going fan and with 49 wins in two seasons there has been plenty of happy Saturdays, albeit those wins (a lot of the time) feel more like 'job done' than enjoyable and anything other than a win feels like we're playing well below ourselves. 
In two seasons we've probably been the underdog by the bookies in less than 10 of our 92 games which underpins the level of expectation. Expectation ultimately drains the joy out of football.
in hindsight, it's been an enjoyable experience (of sorts) but I'm in no rush to experience it again. 

Bang on the money.
As you say the away ends looked jolly good fun, but as i'm not an away follower i only ever found being in League 1 as some inconvenience i could do without. 
Sadly as much as i enjoyed Saturday i do feel that my contempt for the league stopped me from going OTT with emotion. Just glad to be back were we at the very least belong. Hopefully in 5 seasons time we can look at seriously pushing for promotion to the PL which i'm sure i would definitely go mad for.

Glad to see the back of it and hope to never return.
I can understand those regular away fans that were able to buy tickets and experience new grounds, was an adventure for you all. 
Not wanting to sound arrogant, a club of this size should not have been playing at these grounds outside of cup competitions and pre season. There is a reason why Derby last season was a big day out for most of the league. 
I'm glad we won't have to play Burton and Mansfield next season, I'm glad we won't have to feature on Welcome to Wrexham and we're back to one promotion away from being back in the top flight.
The Premier League has it's faults, VAR is terrible, we're never going to win the thing and it's all about the big 6, yet Brighton, Brentford, these are clubs we should replicating in some form and on the cusp of breaking into the European spots.
If League 1 was an adventure, imagine taking a couple of days off work midweek to fly out to Prague on the lash and watching Derby. 
I bet Leicester City fans never thought for a second they would achieve what they did.
I'm fully aware we are still miles away from that, our immediate focus has to be Championship survival, then stability before we can think about progressing to the next step of chasing promotion.
But we're closer now than we would have been had we lost on Saturday and Bolton won. 

It was nice being a big fish in a small pond for a bit, but lets be honest League One is absolutely honking and the idea that Derby should have been happy to take it slow and rebuild down there was nonsense. I am delighted that we got out relatively quickly given the circumstances that saw us down there, let's never go back again.

He was offered a contract at Derby and chose not to sign it. He could have stayed if he wanted to but wanted to try elsewhere, which is his right. Let's not rewrite history here or pretend he was doing it for the good of the club.  
Good goal yesterday and hopefully for him he does well at Bristol. He's been a good player for us but I'd agree with him that it's time to move on for a fresh challenge.

I think youth and agility will be the way forward now we can afford it.

I had a lovely fullsome pot of grass from the BBG post Palace in 96.
Then a couple of years later workmen came to replace the fence panels and inadvertently chucked it. 
Heartbroken. 

With respect I'll be saving all this for when, or if, we ever get promoted to the Premier League. Or win the FA Cup. Something that really signifies over-achievement or something truly special. I don't think this is it.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be delighted come 5pm when we're out of this lousy league but we're only going back to where we should always have been except with a poorer squad and - from what I've seen this season of the Championship - a higher standard of football generally than when we were last in it.
We should never have been docked 21 points imo, and never have been relegated. But we were, and massive well done to Paul Warne and the players for getting us out after two seasons. With the squad we have we should be challenging at the top of the table. I went to the end of season awards last night and it was great to have such a positive vibe in the room.
But, in my humble opinion, it's not worth some of the overly emotive stuff I've read on this forum in the last few days. 

With respect I'll be saving all this for when, or if, we ever get promoted to the Premier League. Or win the FA Cup. Something that really signifies over-achievement or something truly special. I don't think this is it.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be delighted come 5pm when we're out of this lousy league but we're only going back to where we should always have been except with a poorer squad and - from what I've seen this season of the Championship - a higher standard of football generally than when we were last in it.
We should never have been docked 21 points imo, and never have been relegated. But we were, and massive well done to Paul Warne and the players for getting us out after two seasons. With the squad we have we should be challenging at the top of the table. I went to the end of season awards last night and it was great to have such a positive vibe in the room.
But, in my humble opinion, it's not worth some of the overly emotive stuff I've read on this forum in the last few days. 

Yeah but that's most Saturdays isn't it?!

Yeah but that's most Saturdays isn't it?!

It'll be bittersweet for me come Saturday.
My lads decided to make a new life for himself, literally on the other side of the earth.
So we'll hopefully be celebrating, but in my mind I'll be thinking it may be the last time we ever stand together at Pride Park, at least for the foreseeable. 
Still, we've had a good run, what better way to sign off than a promotion?

Speak for yourself. I’ll be smashing jaegerbombs as if my life depends on it.

I’m with you on not going up even if you win the Championship. It would probably price me out of attending and there is no chance of a Club like Derby winning the Prem (I know Leicester did, somehow the stars aligned for them). If the Prem League broke away I’d gladly say good riddance. Any supporter of clubs like Sheff Utd, Forest even Leeds I’ve spoken to enjoy the Championship much more.
Anyway I’m really up for Saturday can’t wait and I’ll be celebrating like mad because Derby are back!

Mate, so will I, and to be fair to @Carl Sagan I probably picked on the wrong post. But some of the "tear in my eye" and "spirit of 75" stuff is a tad over the top imo. I guess @Premier ram has me banged to rights. Bah humbug!

Fair point, and I'm with you and @Mucker1884 on that. It was probably just to illustrate the point. I always felt when we were at the top of the Championship it was the best place to be - I always felt to win it and not go up (but get some cash) would be ideal. But I suppose that's a stupid point of view because it kind of defeats the objective. 

I had a lovely fullsome pot of grass from the BBG post Palace in 96.
Then a couple of years later workmen came to replace the fence panels and inadvertently chucked it. 
Heartbroken.