Reggie Greenwood

Newcastle 0 Derby County 1, 13 September 1969.
Roy McFarland scored the winner to shut up the Geordies around us yelling about Jimmy Smith.
The significance of the game was that, for the first time in my lifetime, Derby County went top of Division 1 that day.
The following week, we thrashed Tottenham 5-0 at Derby in front of the biggest crowd ever at the Baseball Ground. Everyone of a certain age remembers that game, but the Newcastle one sticks in my mind just as much.

Think AA and backers are still about in the background. 

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

October 21 1961.  Derby 2 Liverpool 0.   Mick Hopkinson from 60 yards !! (well it seemed like it from the 'boys' enclosure !!) and Bill Curry. 27000+ at the BBG. Ron Yeats putting Bill Curry into the railings in frustration.
September 24th 1966.  Derby 4 Huddersfield 3  Kevin Hectors home debut. Boy was that some debut !! Despite having 4 opposition trying to mark him he still managed to score and created the space for Durban to score 3. Little did we know then what the next 10 years would hold !!
November 1st 1969.  Derby 4 Liverpool 0. Can still see Hector and O'Hare bearing down on Lawrence in goal at the Ossie End for the fourth goal. 40993 at the BBG.
January 23rd 1971.  Derby 2 Wolves 1.  FA Cup 4th round. 40000+ at the BBG. 6" of mud and John O'Hare chesting in, in the 90th minute !!
Need I go on. Oh those memories.
 

Ipswich win 2-1 at Coventry so only need a point on Saturday to get automatic and leave Leeds in the playoffs 😁

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

if you can have both , why not.

If we're looking on the basis of who we've lost since we started shipping water financially, rather than just administration, I don't think we we could realistically say that we'd have kept hold of all of them anyway, even without all our difficulties.  If we'd not had any major financial issues , I'd say we could have kept the following:
Jordan Brown: I always rated him and think he's probably one of our biggest losses.  He might have wanted to move on though anyway as he would have been struggling for a regular first team place given the competition that he would have faced.  The Orient fans seem to rate him highly.
Lee Buchanan: he might have got duff advice from his agent anyway, but I'd like to think LB probably wouldn't have acted as badly as he did.  Interestingly (or not), he seems to be one of the few members of BCFC team who their fans would like to keep when they meet their richly deserved fate and disappear into the abyss of the third division (the A38 derby will happily remain in place, just in a different direction....).  The same is not true of Bielek, by the way.
Jason Knight: would he really have gone to Bristol City if we'd not got relegated?  And for that matter, would Birdy have gone to join him?
Omari Kellyman: reputedly he didn't want to go at all, and I fear that he will be a big loss.
Dylan Williams: we would have been in a good position to reject Chelsea's offer and Dylan by now might have got 100 first team performances behind him.  As it is, I don't think that he's kicked a first-team ball for Chelsea, and I wonder whether he wonders if he did the right thing.  
Malcolm Ebiowe: we could have offered him a longer contract than we did.  The same is possible with Luke Plange.  But their subsequent stuttering progress suggests we have probably not lost as much as we thought (I hope they both prove me wrong by the way).
One that we probably would have lost anyway:
Morgan Whittaker:  I have enormous respect for what Wazzer did for us, but his treatment of MW is probably his worst moment.  For me, MW was the most naturally gifted on the 2019 youth team and his stats were phenomenal at that level.  But as we can probably all recall, when he got into the first team his languid style didn't endear him to everyone, so Rooney wasn't alone in underrating him.  To be fair, Whittaker didn't pull up any trees at Swansea or Lincoln.  As Angie has rightly said Plymouth would already be back in Division 3 if it wasn't for his goals and assists.  But his form does appear to have fallen off a cliff since Schumacher left and the Plymouth fans, or at least some of them, seem to be beginning to have their doubts: https://pasoti.co.uk/forums/plymouth-argyle-fans-forum.30/
Those that we almost certainly would have lost anyway:
Archie Brown: contrary to what is often said here about us letting him go, in fact he left of his own accord :
https://archive.ph/20211130171732/https://theathletic.com/2666370/2021/06/23/why-derbys-young-star-archie-brown-turned-down-a-new-deal-to-go-to-switzerland/
He has done brilliantly since leaving, but it's not a given that his progress would have been the same had he stayed with us.  He's had to get used to different football and different counties, so he's had a lot to cope with, all of which may have helped his progress (the reverse is also true of course).
Liam Delap and Kaide Gordon:  We never had them under professional contracts because of their age and we could not have stopped them leaving even if we were rolling in cash.  Any young player given the chance to move to Liverpool or Man City was always bound to go.  The same is likely to be the case with Festy - would he really have preferred to stay in Championship obscurity if he had the chance to go to Serie A?
As for the like of Kain Ryan and the three who went to Man U, moves at youth level and earlier happen all the time - after all Tom Huddlestone and Will Hughes were, I believe with the Red Dogs for a while.  Those lads may go on to be great players- but then again they might not.
 

We lost/sold/released Ravas, Lowe, ABrown, Bogle, Bennett, Scanlon, Kaba, Sharpe, Gordon, Whittaker, Stretton in the 12 months or so prior to admin. Delap was 2 summers before admin.
Ryan, Buchanan, Ebosele, Williams, JBrown, Hutchinson, Watson, Kellyman, Eze, Ebiowei, Plange all left during or immediately after exiting administration.
Knight and Bird have left us since we exited admin.
 
I've highlighted the players I think are good enough to be at least Championship squad players.
JBrown, Hutchinson and Scanlon would be the types of players I would have in a L1 squad, with a view to the being good enough at Championship level in a season or 2.

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

I was at that Wolves game. It was blummin freezing. We had a crumbling terrace behind the goal and 2 whole sides of the ground were derelict. The most knackered ground I’ve been to. 

Of games that haven't been mentioned yet, I'll mention two : a 4-0 away win at a crumbling Molyneux just after Christmas 1985, when the team really clicked and warmed up a freezing cold afternoon in Cox's Division 3 promotion season; and the 2-1 win at Highbury the season Arsenal won the double and we completed the double over them - a beautiful day and we celebrated the night away in Covent Garden.

Winning 2-1 at Anfield and doing the double over them with a 3-2 at PP (1998/99).

3.0 at PP v Arsenal, goals from Wanchope x2 and a deft chip from Sturridge, the Old Trafford win when Christie scored with his left foot, the win at Norwich under Lampard, the win at Everton when Duncan Ferguson was sent off for elbowing Wanchope, any game v Leeds

First season at PPS, 4-0 v Southampton. It was the match that I knew I'm in for a real treat that year. Something just clicked and we evolved to a side that I felt had a chance (at home) of winning against anyone, for 11 minutes we were probably the best team in the country or at least it felt like it. I was SE corner (now the away end) those first seasons and after that match, the optimism and sheer joy that ran through us there was palpable.
I agree with the Southampton Play off semi, in the rain. Chants of "We're proud of you" we knew this was a team punching and we respected that. Sheer gratitude for effort, followed by elation, followed by walking in the rain in a daze. A match hidden behind a match that does get talked about and a following season that was "historic".
Hmm starting to think I have a "beating Southampton" fetish, am I closet Pompey fan?

My favourite game will always be my first live derby game, 3-0 against arsenal, Wanchope double and Sturridge. Ian Wright missed a penalty with Poooooooom in goal.
My arsenal supporting brother sat in the home fans whilst asrsenal lost their first game of the season (I think). Not an important game but reminds me of the high point of supporting debry, time with my dad and brother and some of my favourite derby players ever.

Love that game. 10,000 out of 18,000 for an away game was awesome. 
Then beating Leeds the week after to go up. 
My favourite season.

Fa cup at city ground being 2-0 down and winning 3-2. Gets eclipsed by other Derby games. Echo the soton semi; epic night of football that had everything.

As has already been mentioned.  My favourite ever game was against Chelsea in the League Cup in 1968.
The ground was rocking that night with the noise.

Derby 2 Birmingham 2 was a great game, just as we were on the brink of going under. 
 
I remember the atmosphere at Pride Park being immense. Was my son's first Derby game too.

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

Cup 1/4 Final in 1976 V Newcastle . 4-2 win one of my favourite games and 4 cracking goals 
 

Derby 3 Eusebio's Benfica 0
I remember someone, maybe Graham Richards or Gerald Mortimer, on the radio saying something like he saw Kevin Hector walking down the corridor, injured, in the afternoon and thought there's no way he could play in the game. But he did play, and he was brilliant 🐏