Reggie Greenwood

Like it or not he is currently one of our best players. In matches where chances are at a premium and we aren't creating much he is one of the only players we have that can conjure something out of nothing. 
Is he as consistent as we would like? No. But if he was consistently as good as he can be there is a 0% chance he'd be playing for Derby.
In terms of the Joiners Arms incident, he was grieving for his mother. That's doesn't excuse his behaviour, but I certainly understand it having been to a similar place myself.
I hope this is the making of him, he's been a good player for us despite what some folk on here say. Just because he isn't raking in 30 yarders every week doesn't mean he's rubbish.
Good luck, captain.

Well I just dont like throught something scaring him and not wanting to go back.
I will always remember against Charlton away a little boy about 4 years old at the time. He was loving standing up cheering and shouting lads on until one man in disabled bit saying all selfish drunk idout all sit down and people starting have a go at him and stewards making him start crying saying daddy I want to go home and I bent down to him Is it people and shouting scaring you he nodded saying yes I said it going to be okay and I will not let anyone hurt you.

Its a chance for him to step up. Let's get behind this one. Wouldn't be most peoples first choice but can't keep punishing him forever for the joiners. Hope he steps up and matures into the role  

Excellent choice. It’s a massive season for Tom, he needs to play himself back into the Wales team, and the only way to do that, is by putting some stand out performances in for the Rams.
I think the responsibility will bring the best out of him and he still has bridges to rebuild with some of the fan base.

That’s the spirit. 
 

Hope he proves the neigh sayers wrong.
I actually think this could work out great. He played some of his best football when he was the main man at Ipswich. Perhaps goving him the armband is Rooney’s way of giving him that ego boost to get the best out of him. We certainly need his best next season.

He’s got my full support. Time to step up, lad!

All the best Tom ?

Exactly this, I went for my first game at around 6 or 7.
Make sure you buy him chips at HT and he'll always want to come back. Slowly he'll watch more and more and before you know it he will be hooked.
Even now I'm still demanding those chips at HT while going to watch my team ❤ (much to my dad's displeasure, I'm 27, he tells me I can buy my own damn chips now if I want them ?)

Of course they have the right to do it. I don’t think booing the knee in and of itself means they are racist but I think it is pretty clear that some who do boo, are doing so because they are racist. Priti Patel obviously does not need to condemn this but she had the chance to and instead condemned the knee as “gesture politics.”
The question then is whether not condemning it, and therefore not condemning the racist element of that, leads to a situation where the racists in our society feel empowered to abuse the England players, which is the very reason they are kneeling. Tyrone Mings clearly feels this is the case. 
Personally, I feel Priti Patel did not need to condemn the boos but perhaps could have used the opportunity to plead with those who do so to please listen to the players as to why they are doing it. She instead said it was gesture politics and “stoked” the situation, as Mings says. The players were then racially abused. Did she directly cause that? No, clearly not. Could she have taken steps to help reduce or prevent it? Yes, I think she could.
I imagine she has faced racism in her life, and that is a disgrace. In an ideal world, it would have been good for that to allow her to empathise with why England players feel taking the knee is important to them. 

Is he a Leeds fan?

Thanks very much for the excellent responses and great advice. He loves kicking his football about but I suppose it's more about the awe inspiring sight and sounds of a football match that will grab him. 
This friendly with a small but upbeat crowd seems ideal to blood the lad.
I think I'll go for it. Hopefully there'll be some pairs of tickets left tomorrow and as I can't buy him one today.
 
 

Just tell him that it’s his team (Derby county) and he has to support them through thick and thin and he has to make sure his Grandad gets to every Derby county fixture in the future and it will be his responsibility until he passes it on to his Grandson 

If he likes/loves football then it’s fine age to start.
If he is not particularly interested then it could be hard work (based on my experience) but still worth a try.
Recommend getting quite close to the pitch.

I took my son at 5 and I think for him it was too soon. He’s 8 now and loves it. My advice would be take him but take plenty of sweets, treats and other bits to keep him occupied. 
 
I was so eager to take my lad but think taking him too soon put him off a bit. All kids are different though. 

Loads of people do. I took my own son from a young age and he still goes today. He will love mate and it’s cheap enough as a test to see if he does enjoy it 

Proper kit that one. Had that as my first replica kit at 10 years old ( knock off one knowing my old man ?) 

I always think about this when it gets mentioned on the news or whatever.
I'm so glad I got out of retail a couple of years back. I was threatened/abused enough as it was, and I can only imagine some of the possible situations where a staff member tells someone to put a mask on.

Typical though, leave it to the 'customer service staff' to have to deal with enforcing any company policy. 

People get confused mate it happens to everyone at some point.

Derby County are lucky to have such a passionate supporter in yourself, keep doing you kid.

I dont always agree with you but i hope you know my comments regarding the kit from last season in a certain colour you didnt like are tongue in cheek and i think you're ace! ? 

This is true that its not mandatory...but I will be not ditching the mask just yet

The concept of national anthems in general is outdated and pointless. Just bin them off entirely.

I think you're thinking of Trevor Wymark? He played I think 2 games for us before taking ill with (I think) glandular fever.

Exactly, that's how national support makes me feel - alienated! I'm not asking others to agree with me or criticising people who do care and have expressed their delight, it's just a personal thing that requires a little rant sometimes! Maybe some others can relate though, so it's always worth posting.
My post was intentionally heightening reality, of course, not to be taken completely at face value.
I am alien to the world of supporting a national team just because it happens to be where you're born - while we're talking hypocrisy I know saying that and supporting Derby seems at odds, but it's about scale! Being a Derby supporter you're one of maybe 50,000 in a country of 56 million and although I don't necessarily see eye to eye with them all, they are still 'we', and we have something in common that goes against the norm.
Being an England supporter? Well you're just one of the masses in their millions, you're just 'the general public' really, no individuality. You're mainstream, you're basic. The years and years behind me of hating what the mainstream are supposed to like whilst it's forced down our throats has taken it's toll, but it's one of the reasons I can't get behind the national team! It may seem or be weird, but it is what it is.
I don't see people who were born in other countries as the enemy or feel any desire for 'us' to beat them. I'd genuinely rather someone see a smaller nation defy the odds and beat England than England stroll to another comfortable victory, because I know that England will always get another chance at the top table and the smaller nation might not. I don't even get upset when Derby lose to a lower league team in one of the cups tbh!
I can't start supporting a bunch of (mostly) Premier League players with scant connection to Derby (although I was very pleased for Mount & Powell) who I wouldn't otherwise give a toss about when wearing their club colours just because they're in an England shirt.  I don't all of a sudden start supporting Man Utd/Chelsea/Liverpool etc if they're in a Champions league game against a European team so for me it's exactly the same principle I apply to England.
Back to the topic of hypocrisy, I always find the sneering and condescending attitude towards Scotland/Wales/Ireland fans celebrating England's demise or when they overhype their own achievements massively hypocritical. Those teams are relative minnows, they're not really supposed to be competing with England. As if those no fan of a lesser club has ever laughed at Man Utd losing to Southampton and blaming it on a grey kit, or anything similar to that.
Anyway, that's probably as much as anyone needs to read on my thoughts for one major tournament! I'll shut up now and try to enjoy England's impending victory - I might just have to turn the TV off as soon as the final whistle goes and leave it off for 6 months.

While I will support England as a team I revile England fans - they never fail to show everything that is bad about our country, remain tainted in right wing bias and overly 'Brexity' patriotism. Very little endearing about them, booing the national anthems being a good case in point. Remember standing outside a pub in London in the 80s (we were playing Brazil) and watching a group of England fans lobbing pint pots onto anyone black who walked through the underpass below. Sorry, but much of that way of thinking is still present in 'the' England fan and it is why nothing could convince me to actually go watch them live ever again.