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2 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Proper ground that. Not knocking Pride Park - a very good stadium in its own right - and perhaps it’s simply an age thing too, but I used to love walking up to a match at the BBG. Haven’t really felt the same way since the 1990’s.

Great point, there was such a choice of pre match boozers, on a summers night it was amazing to walk up to the ground walking past the pubs, the smell of beer and fags, or cigarettes and alcohol as oasis said, the atmosphere around each pub, the chants, the banter, the pushing to the front of the bar and then as one every heading down Cambridge st, nothing what so ever like the walk to Pride Park, at the BBG the atmosphere was built up in those site streets and taken into the ground with you, it was impulsive not fabricated, you only have to watch some of the old 80s game to hear it, the football in the early 80s had gone long ago but the atmosphere was still there, maybe not so electric but none the less still there.

Time for another trip down memory lane, there is a lot of uncertainty around at the moment with the same old diatribe being repeated verbatim on all the social media sites so how about we post some of our favourite images of the old place, no need to wallow in glorification but we could do with a collection of photos, memories and pictures to remember those days gone by , Stevie Bloomer, FA Cup ties, penalty spots repainted, seats flying through the air like frisbees, big norm and Frannie Lee, juventus, Real Madrid, fans around the pitch v Fulham, Shaftesbury Ave, Cambridge St, The Baseball Hotel, Champions of England, Todd and McFarland, King Kev, Charlie, Wanchope, Clough and Taylor, Docherty, Arthur, The Bald Eagle, Van der Laan at the back post, Popside, Ossie End, C Stand, The Paddocks, Man United in the 79s man United in the 80s, Leeds, Chelsea, Dave Mackay, Champions of England again, bomb damage in the war

Embracing the past is not the same as being stuck in the past and at a time when the future is so uncertain what’s the harm !

For those of us that went to the BBG it’s not the sort of place you forget.

im thinking next year of recording some memories and uploading them to a virtual museum type website as pat of a Rams Heritage project, so thought would be good to test it out.

??He goes by the name of Wayne Rooney…Wayne Rooney..Wayne Rooney??

??He goes by the name of Wayne Rooney…Wayne Rooney..Wayne Rooney??

??He goes by the name of Wayne Rooney…Wayne Rooney..Wayne Rooney??

so now that Wayne has come out publicly and said that it is something that is part of the game plan surely all future managers will play to that, pushing forwards further forward when we have a goal kick, surely this would now be the time to actually punt it up to the half way line in the knowledge that the opposition is playing a very high line !! maybe using the speed of Ebosele to catch them flat footed on the break ? 

Ever noticed the subliminal message hidden there for us all to see that we are looked after from above ? 
any how talking of Christmas it’s time to start thinking about what you might get for that special someone, that person who has been with you through thick and thin, never gives up on you, never questions your love for the Rams that’s right … yourself, how about the latest version of the Colour of The Rams ?

joking aside most of you know how much time and effort we put into this book, I am biased but the latest version that we updated in September is the best, included lots of new content based around the Racecourse years, we honestly make very little money from it due to Amazons high costs but they do make it simple for us, it’s done for the love of it and because it had never been done before and I had the shirts and Andy & Jason the knowledge.

it’s a kind of bible for Rams fans, a great way of picking up on some of our history and heritage in a more interesting way.

you can get a copy here, some of the other lads are enjoying it.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1727616618

3 hours ago, David said:

Fast forward 11 years and we now have over 1.5m pageviews a month we have had to go on our own server which is currently £180pm. On top of that we have Google Workspace for emails, Amazon server to send notifications out, caching.

 

so if 38 of us on here set up a monthly DD for £5 that would cover the server costs ?

as a frequent user and contributor i will happily donate £10 per month.

What about spending the entire 90 minutes doing something a little more constructive like getting behind the team and Rooney ? They are innocent in this debacle like us the fans, ok they get paid and they are just doing a job but a lot of the younger lads are having their futures put into doubt, players like Bird and Knight are going to find it very hard to get international call ups in division 1, and the EFL are applying the rules that we were supposed to adhere to, the fault with this lies entirely at the door of MM wherever that is nowdays !

All of these stories of the shirt swaps and late changes are in this fantastic book based on some anoraks Derby County shirt collection, well worth a read !

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1727616618

48 minutes ago, Pearl Ram said:

Do you know, I find this thread a refreshing tonic from all the shenanigans the club finds itself in currently so thank you for your contributions. ?

Now, maybe rules wouldn’t allow in those days but wouldn’t it have been simpler for Millwall to use their away kit that day and us to play in our black and white ?

Also, didn’t a similar thing happen elsewhere where we had to use another team’s kit ? I’m wracking my brain here because I’m sure I’ve seen a photo of us in another kit but I just can’t think of the match.

Edit...I’m thinking Archie Gemmill photographed playing for us but in another club’s kit. ?

And again for completeness, February 1975 beaten 4-1 by QPR