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there is an international rams that is run by Bernadette and she has been great at helping with fans out side of GB top lady

Greetings from "Across the pond" in Detroit. It took me while to gather my thoughts on this topic and commit to posting them.  
My Derby fandom arrived much later in life, at 45 years of age.   I grew up in Detroit and have always supported Detroit sports teams, as well as Michigan State and Notre Dame University.  I grew up playing soccer, as did my father, who emigrated from Croatia, as well as two of my three boys.  My middle son and I started following the club in the 2013-14 season. We were interested in finding an English team to follow and knowing Andy Appleby as a fellow metro-Detroiter we started to follow Derby, originally only through the team's twitter feed and the occasional broadcast on BEIN network.  We watched them through the playoff victory against Brighton, then the calamity against QPR.  
An additional Detroit-Derby link is through Roger Faulkner, a Derby supporter who was one of the co-owners of Detroit's 1970s NASL team, the Express.  
As we are acclimated to unfortunate twists of fate with our Detroit-area teams,(ie the Detroit Lions NFL team)  the playoff final defeat cemented our support of Derby County.  In the years since, we are charter subscribers of RamsTV  and are now able to follow a number of games on ESPN Plus.  I also follow this forum on a daily basis and do admire the folks who frequent this Board, such as B4 and David.  Your deep, heartfelt support of the club, usually with a healthy dose of humor, is a joy to peruse through these cyber-pages.   
Other random observations from the Motor City:
 - Whether my son and I ever get to Pride Park remains to be seen, it is definitely on our bucket list.  If any forum goers are in the neighborhood, I would be delighted to treat you a Detroit City FC soccer game.  They are our local team and have a game atmosphere that supporters such as yourselves can appreciate. 
- While Mel Morris has his detractors these days, in my view he was spot-on with regard to EFL television rights. They are tremendously undervalued.  The Championship is the most entertaining overseas league to watch, in my view.  The Premier League top clubs are usually the in the same group of 4-6.  The Bundesliga, La Liga, League 1 and Serie A are all dominated by super clubs, with the remaining teams just trying to stay up. What fun is that? The Championship season is a rock-fight every year. Evenly matched teams with historic rivalries.  A crabs-in-the-bucket attempted escape through either the untold fortunes of promotion or the richest game in football.  Conversely,  the trap door of relegation immerses a club in financial quicksand, without parachute payments to assist out of the morass.  
-  In a way, the reduced expectations of this year may make for a more enjoyable season than chasing promotion.  If the club average one point a game, they will be in a position to stay up at the end, which is the goal of this year.  In any other recent season a home draw to Huddersfield would be met with concern from Derby supporters. This year, it feels like a win. 
- Thank you for your contributions to the forum, which I have enjoyed reading through the years. I hope to meet up with some of your some day either at Pride Park or the next time Derby launch a summer tour of the US. 
- COYR
 
 

Going via Manchester Airport ✈

Gives Tom a rest from it I suppose,  .
There is always a group who just like to sacrifice a player.
We a team in a effing mess with uncertain financial future, a team that has to be made up of young inexperienced players, unable to bring in players and all some want to do is find a scapegoat to vent they anger.
Yes joz has not created the same as he has with Poland but let's ffs get behind the team and be as 1 Derby County football club. 
It worked well under the lampard season
 

Gives Tom a rest from it I suppose,  .
There is always a group who just like to sacrifice a player.
We a team in a effing mess with uncertain financial future, a team that has to be made up of young inexperienced players, unable to bring in players and all some want to do is find a scapegoat to vent they anger.
Yes joz has not created the same as he has with Poland but let's ffs get behind the team and be as 1 Derby County football club. 
It worked well under the lampard season
 

The only ones who hate him are the ones who know nothing about football.  Those who think everyone should be an instant success,  those who believe he should score or assist every game but never see what he actually does. They should stick to what they know best, tiddlywinks or what ever

For 90 minutes I was 19 years old again instead of 59 glad I swap my seat.

if we did sell him it would be shocking.... because we already short of a team as it is. 

any one passing manchester airport , trains more expensive than flights ffs

Over here in Ireland I have met at least 100/120 different rams fans on flights over to games 

Because they haven't upset a certain curly haired chairman from a rival club. 

You've booked car park A for a stag doo? 
I hope your carry out and choice of nibbles is better than your venue!

Agree, I don't see the attraction of running on treadmill when weather is good out side. I go to the gym for weight and its good for mind as well for me. But mountain biking instead of biking in a gym looking at a wall any time 
Road running and running is mind numbing to me any way 

We're going down like BHS....
 

I was born in Hull in 1970 and lived in Cottingham, just outside Hull and cried on my 13th birthday when the family moved to Aberdeen because of my dad's new job in 1983.
I was brought up watching Hull City at Boothferry Park and watching Hull Kingston Rovers at Craven Park. My dad still cheers on for the Tigers and the Robins and the rest of the family all have a soft spot for both teams. Watching Hull City as a very young boy actually prepared me for being a Derby County fan, because incredibly they were worse than us in the late 70's, and 80's etc when supporting Derby made us stronger for the current times.
I picked Derby County out of the paper with my eyes closed, when my older brother persuaded me not to support Liverpool who I'd just got into, I remember my Grandad Chick had given me a black and white photo of the Liverpool team, and I enjoyed watching them play, when I stayed up late on a Saturday night watching Match of The Day and awaiting my parents to come home from The National pub in Hull, usually with food from the Chinese Take Away for everyone's supper, so yeah I was encouraged by my big brother to avoid supporting the so called big teams being supported by others, at school at the time, mainly Man Utd, Liverpool and a lot of Leeds Utd, around Hull at the time, so around 1976, I blindfolded picked out Derby County, and I've followed probably more downs than ups ever since, unfortunately with the blind fold off!
My older brother is a Chelsea fan and my younger brother is a Wolves fan and we all love our football.
A few Aberdeenshire Rams, well mainly 1 in @2tupspost on here, I think @Ramadonna9 reads now and again, as does @Rampianand @campavanram and @Elgin_Ram is in the Clan, and @CWC1983probably remembers me from the Westhill Inn, when I grew up in Westhill, Abedeenshire. Their are Rams fans up here in Stonehaven, nearby in Montrose, in Fraserborogh, in Elgin etc and we have many others up here in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh etc.
I now stay out in Inverurie and I take my two boys to watch Derby County when I can, well the eldest one has been inside Pride Park, the youngest one only outside Pride Park, but both who at the moment have opted to support Liverpool, and the eldest went to Wembley with me to the Aston Villa game, well I still have plenty of time on my hands, hopefully, for my two boys to see sence!
I hate to read on here when Derby fans are falling out with one another and calling one another names, and I hate to read on here when Derby fans are calling their own players, managers, coaches, staff etc all sorts of names also. Get behind them, not against them.
Hope Not Hate.
D.C.F.C. Love, Life & Unity.
The Day I Die.......I'm still D.C.F.C......forever and beyond.
 
 

Be honest - you wear that weight belt and fingerless gloves while using those (2!) bicep curl bars - don't you?
Where's your mirror?

We are the DFL ?
Derby Foreign Legion 
?

We are the DFL ?
Derby Foreign Legion 
?

I remember Southampton away in the cup and the penalties.. up walks Lawrence and nearly everyone looked at each other thinking 'ffs Tom don't miss this' we know what reaction of some would be... then keogh followed him.... fair play to both taking them considering their popularity with the boo boys 

Born in South Wales and no links to Derby except Derby COUNTY FC. 
began supporting Derby it 1970 when lads front Ripley worked with my dad,  they talked about this new manger Brian Clough and brought down scarves etc and the old Ram newspaper . From then on it was Derby Derby Derby... when able to drive and affordable my wife son and myself was season tickets for 15 yes at BBG. 
Now I live in Ireland and travel over min 20 games season 
So in short I'm a Welsh man living in Ireland supporting the greatest team in the world DCFC
COYR
 
 

Born in South Wales and no links to Derby except Derby COUNTY FC. 
began supporting Derby it 1970 when lads front Ripley worked with my dad,  they talked about this new manger Brian Clough and brought down scarves etc and the old Ram newspaper . From then on it was Derby Derby Derby... when able to drive and affordable my wife son and myself was season tickets for 15 yes at BBG. 
Now I live in Ireland and travel over min 20 games season 
So in short I'm a Welsh man living in Ireland supporting the greatest team in the world DCFC
COYR
 
 

Lockdown alcohol obviously ?

Born and bred in the Swansea Valley. Fell for the Rams when watching highlights v. Spurs 69-70 season where one of my countrymen Alan Durban scored 2 goals and my namesake Kevin Hector scored 1 in a 5 - 0 win. At the time had not heard of the likes of Clough and Taylor or Dave Mackay or what was to come in later seasons. Only travelled a couple of times to the Baseball Ground but lost count how many times been to Pride Park. The last visit being in 2019 v my home club Swansea City. Always get to see Rams play at Liberty Stadium but always having to sit in home section. 
 

Over here in Ireland I have met at least 100/120 different rams fans on flights over to games