loweman2

6 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

I came that close to tagging you in to my query.  I feel a tad stupid for not doing.  I convinced myself you only had "Official/quality/replicas etc, and changed my mind, putting "Surely not" instead!  I should have known better!  😁

I'm still go gonna out on a limb and... despite my infamously lousy memory... suggest mine was yellow (🤷‍♂️), so that appears to also clear up my colour option query too!

Great work sir... as always!  🍻

 

Ooh... just realised... I'm still convinced mine said "We'll be back in '81"?  Or was that just the chant of the era?  🤷‍♂️

 

Another version, 

3 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

I came that close to tagging you in to my query.  I feel a tad stupid for not doing.  I convinced myself you only had "Official/quality/replicas etc, and changed my mind, putting "Surely not" instead!  I should have known better!  😁

I'm still go gonna out on a limb and... despite my infamously lousy memory... suggest mine was yellow (🤷‍♂️), so that appears to also clear up my colour option query too!

Great work sir... as always!  🍻

 

Ooh... just realised... I'm still convinced mine said "We'll be back in '81"?  Or was that just the chant of the era?  🤷‍♂️

 

To be honest I was given that, at the time I was 10 so wasn’t quite in the ful swing of it all, I know that there is a great shot on a documentary about 100 years of DCFC with the away end, I’m sure they are wearing them, will have ea look 👍🐏

On 18/02/2024 at 20:36, Kathcairns said:

His white boots didnt escape though😂

On 21/02/2024 at 11:06, Mucker1884 said:

Going back to earlier comments in another thread by @uttoxram75... if I may...

Thought it more appropriate to continue in here...

 

1/  Does anyone still have a "We'll be back in 81" Tee shirt stashed away somewhere?  Surely not?  🤷‍♂️
2/  I really miss mine!  I so wish I'd saved it for posterity... (Dare I say more so than any specific actual replica shirt I still have)...as low quality as they were... and as factually incorrect as they proved to be!  🤣
3/  Pretty certain mine was yellow.  Were they all the same, or was there options for different colours?  I honestly don't remember.
4/  I presume they were "unofficial merch"?  I'd guess they weren't stocked in The Ramtique?  Honestly don't recall where I got mine from! 🤷‍♂️  Someone must have made a killing, as they were damn popular, albeit short-lived!
4/  Also pretty certain they came out before the season's end (but already confirmed as relegated, obvs).  I'm damn sure I was wearing mine as we clambered up the vandal-greased cages into the rafters at Carrow Road, to hail our failed heroes long after the final whistle (until they sent in the dogs to clear us all out!).  #differentera!  #buthappytimesthough,yeah?

 

Memories, anyone?  

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hi chloe that all sounds very interesting and something that myself and the Rams Heritage trust would be interested in, i often look through the old programmes for research and it would be good to have items that belonged to Harry as the program was such an important part of the match day experience, i shall send you a message.

15 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

What? Arthur Cox and Paul Warne? Ha ha ha ha ha...

tell me you didnt read it without saying "i didnt read it " ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

Very sad news, always the biggest fan with the biggest heart !

this one is for him ! 🥲x

Rip B4

Here are Peter’s official Derby County club tie and blazer and his FA England tie and blazer.

entrusted to safe keeping by Peter daughter Wendy !

Rip.

RIP Franny !

one of the few who put our club on the world footballing map !

2 hours ago, Ellafella said:

I suspect @loweman2 has got a lot of it…😆

Yep still looking great !

8 minutes ago, angieram said:

Very impressive, Phil. You and Andy have done a great job on this.

I met the young woman who submitted this quote, she was so excited to see her name up there opposite the players' changing rooms. 

Everyone I chatted to loved it.

yes it seemed to go down well, good idea from the club to finally get round to using our history to our advantage, obviously due to the new ownership and where messrs Clowes & Pearce want to try and take the club with restoring our identity and getting us back to the top table, little things like this will help us to grow stronger, we the ones with one foot in the past are glad to help and encourage and its nice to be asked to be a part of it.

The display looked good, nice to see some familiar faces, still on for another hour or tomorrow as well before the match I believe.

putting our history into our future !😍

14 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

You’ll be the man with the answers I’m sure. I live a bit of corporate identity, and I get very annoyed when people use the wrong hexicode or Pantone shade on a carefully planned colour scheme. I love this colour scheme and the thought that’s gone into it.

so when it was announced before the kits, I naturally assumed that the home kit might have a bit of gold piping, and the away and third kits would also incorporate the colours.

So it was weird to see the home kit come out a few days later with red, which I’m not against, but it’s not part of our now established identity. And the leaked away kits, although being blue and green, aren’t our specific shades of blue and green.

we’re the kits decided before these colours, and we can expect to see them in the kits next year? Or are these colours meant to be entirely separate from the kits?

I’ve always liked it when clubs have established home and away colours. We always seem to have away kits that sometimes pay homage to old kits, but are generally quite random. That maroon, for example, although it’s now part of our history, at the time it was quite random. Or the Argentina kit, a classic now, but again, was quite a random choice at the time.

im looking forward to us having an established colour palette for away and third kits. 

but then I’m quite ocd and always liked to stick rigidly to the paint by colours instructions. I don’t have much of an imagination for colours. 

morning Ted.

the kits are sorted believe it or not around this time of the year for the season after next so the kits we are seeing now were agreed upon this time last year, and the designs for next years kits are now being finalised, bearing in mind aswell that it will be 50 years since the 74/75 championship season.

the other thing that i have found out is that the club only really get a say in the home and away kit, the third kit is at the discretion of the supplier who thing that something may sell well to the more casual fan.

to be honest i love the red in the kits and we wore red and white before we wore balck and white, stevie bloomer scored many a goal for the rams in red and white, no away kits in those days just the one set of colours.

hope that explains a few things, if it was left to me i would maybe have had the 1888 colours in there but its good to see the club recognising our rich history and giving us our identity back !!! 

11 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Really love this whole thing @loweman2 and that Mr Clowes is buying in to the history which is so so important to a Club of our stature. Will do my mostest to get along to see on Friday - work willing. 

 

  

its great isnt it, something that you and i have been keen on for a while, always important to remember where we came from, a few who dont understand and think its something new but its just a little bit of history repeating itself !!

As part of the launch of Derby County’s recently-launched Identity project, unveiled in line with the one-year takeover of the club by Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd in July myself within @RamsHeritage trust have the task of providing the six kits for the display.
Come on down to Pride Park on Friday and you’ll learn more about Derby County Football Club’s Identity colour palette, based on kits take from key eras of its history, along with seeing the brand new tunnel area at Pride Park Stadium.
#dcfcfans @dcfcofficial

hete is Alan waving the letter that he had hand written and the rest of the team had signed, minus Alan Durban who had left a few weeks previously.

history in the making !

On 14/06/2023 at 14:38, loweman2 said:

 

Red has always been part of our heritage, we were wearing red and white as our main kit when Steve Bloomer made his debut, red and white were our colours for five seasons then, long before we ever wore black and white, Hector scored plenty of his goals in the red of Derby, Dave Mackay even lead us out as second division champions to play against Millwall in 1969 wearing the red of Millwall, we borrowed QPRs away shirts for a game !

good news is heritage colours are coming back so keep an eye out for a splash of colour !

come on you Redddds

😂😂👍🐏

 

@David

50 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

Tha what I particularly like about this identity. It’s about the past, present and future. And the things that are always consistent. 

ie I don’t like Barnsley’s identity. Barnsley is winning. You can’t be winning all the time. We know, better than most, that there are investable ups and downs on the pitch over time. 

But there are certain things off the pitch that stay constant throughout.

derby county’s history will never go away.  No one can take away our founding status, our two league titles, our 100+ years of memories and moments. Even if we’re loosing, no one can take away the clubs connection with the community. The future may not be success in Europe, who can say, it’s certainly not something we should build an identity around. The future is the youth system, the women’s team, and the community surrounding the club. The pink embodies that.

it’s daft to build your identity on something as fickle as results, or a playing style. Like building a house on sand. But these 6 colours represent 6 pillars that we can build a strong club on and always maintain our identity.

the colours aren’t that important, it’s the identity they embody that matters. 

everyone talks about the Derby way, like the Stoke way, or the Man Utd way, etc. and thinks it’s a playing style. But playing styles depend on your manager and playing staff. They change with time. These pillars of identity are timeless. 

Exactly the message ! 👍

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

To be honest, I like Black and White.  It's our colours and should always be front and foremost.  Loads of colours all over the place dilutes identity at home. Away kits are for fun not for life. 

nothing to do with away kits, nor what you like, or i like its the clubs identity, black and white came later, and its not our colours it came about because we couldnt be bothered to update our colours which were at the time red and white and had been for the previous five seasons, there was no such thing as away colours, you had one kit and that was it, if the team visiting you had a colour clash then you as the home team wore a plain white shirt, thats where our white shirts came from !!!

14 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I'm confused here. Are they asking people to wear the old shirts,  making replicas to flog or just doing a presentation on shirts. ??.  Our club will always be Black and White or Blue on rare occasions. Away shirts are just a giggle aren't they from Pink to Orange.  

its to get away from the black and white that surrounds the entire club, everywhere you look, doesnt have to be that way so the club are looking to introduce more colour into the ground, the training centre, the shop, the ticket office, the function suites, so rather than just use random colours they have recreated past identities taken from home coloured kits and away kits. nothing to do with selling anything nor to get involved by wearing anything, you do not have to do a thing, its happening around you.

11 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

It was on rams tv with people like me and they said they hated pink kit and he said me too unless he was joking with them.

I cant tell from face expressions.

He told me it was his favourite when he gave me this, said that he wished it was more red though like his man United shirts 🤷‍♂️

5 hours ago, David said:

Community Pink.

The community pink is to tie in with the great work of the Derby County Community Trust and the pink represents the the support of breast cancer.

I am proud to say that i have been working with the club on these identity colours, there is going to be a lot more coming, the heritage of our club is something to celebrate, we are not just boring black and white and it is now coming back to the fore 😍🐏