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5 minutes ago, Curtains said:

You need to play to your strengths and it isn’t bang average either .

PW did play to our strengths 2nd half 

Bang bang average

9 hours ago, Jourdan said:

Significantly worse?

In Rosenior’s last five league games, we picked up seven points from 15.

In Warne’s first five league games, we have picked up seven points from 15.

This talk of us going backwards in five league games is purely subjective and purely based on the kind of football you like to see.

Style is something that takes time to implement and there are many ways to play football and different styles can get results.

Perhaps it’s fairer to say that both styles have their flaws and that is what we’re witnessing?

 

Whoever is in charge, I will say again, this is a bang average squad. Mid table will be about right for this group. Not a stand out player amongst them

16 minutes ago, Magicman said:

Poor everywhere except Cashin & Smith.

Think it's time to replace davies he has been at fault often this season. 

Great pro, but not Peter Pan. Time waits for no man

17 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

Bournemouth have done amazing this season.

The PL is split into two really. You play a top six and then 13 other sides. The top six are bonus point games.

As a bottom 14 side, to avoid the drop you need to picking up at least 4 points from every 3 games (against fellow bottom 14 sides). That gives you 34-35 points and then maybe a few bonus points against the top 6 pushes you to 37-38 and safety.

Bournemouth so far have 12 points from 6 games (against fellow bottom 14).

In contrast:

Brentford 7pts from 7

Villa 7pts from 6

Saints 4pts from 5

Leeds 6pts from 6

Fulham 10pts from 5

Palace 5pts from 3

Wolves 6pts from 6

Leicester 4pts from 5

Forest 4pts from 6

A few takeaways. Fulham and Bournemouth are doing brilliantly. Palace are largely in a false position having played less games and the majority against top six sides. Villa aren’t doing too badly either. Forest are performing the worst. 

The next few weeks should see more bottom sides facing each other. 

Bottom again Red Dogs Down You Go

11 hours ago, chadlad said:

Well somebody needed to say it!

I was very underwhelmed by today’s performance. We scored a great goal on the break and then gave away a silly penalty. In the second half somehow managed to give away another penalty and had a player sent off.

Yes the referee was horrendous but we were very poor, ill disciplined and mostly played route one football.

Port Vale deserved to win, they were the better team and played the better football and enjoyed more possession.

Really not impressed with Warneball…

 

10 days!!!   unbelievable Jeff!!   People need to realise this season specially and perhaps next is a re build job when we can sign players properly. This is NOT a great squad

19 minutes ago, alram said:

Absolute rubbish

 

the dynamic of the season changed when clowes sacked LR, i think most were happy with the slower build but the pressure is on now. 

 

lets see how we look in a month but the season will become very long with a bad upcoming month.

Speak for yourself about the slow build up. There is slow and then the way we were playing  ssssssllooooooowwwwwwww

19 hours ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

Actually the right call by Forest to stick with him, will be better for them long term and he is their best bet to bounce back when they go down.

But if they lose a few more the owner will blow a gasket again and this time won’t be talked around. They make out they’re such a well run club, yet this week their owner nearly fired their Manager CEO and recruitment team because he was pissed off and was clearly talked around. 
 

Expect a huge outpouring of support and demonstration of how great we are from their fans before kick off only for a mass exodus midway through the second half when they’re getting beat. 

 

Oh i do hope so!!  Loving this leaking two-three goals at a time.  Live in Nottingham and a lot at the pub really did think they were going to finish top half, poor deluded souls

39 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I'd give Eddie Lewis a bit of a pass.  Not his fault we offered him premier league games at 30 after  a year in League 1 and he at least looked bothered.  Lets not forget all the crap like Fagan, McEverly and Teale we sent wads on a few months before.  We kept them and got rid of Jones and Oakley who could play. 

True and Jones did a job for years, could never understand that one

38 minutes ago, littleover ram said:

 

Robbie Savage based on his overall time with us... think that would be the only one! What a waste of PL money.

Average at best?  Defo past his best!  Couldnt ever fault commitment though

19 hours ago, littleover ram said:

His new contact must have a relegation break clause in it unless they want to splash more of that PL money on paying him off.

I think Cooper's a good manager for what it's worth, but it was going to be a struggle to integrate so many new players.

Think our recruitment during 'that' season was probably worse though ?

Who was Zadkovich?! don't even remember him 

Jeez what a load of dross. I know we were crap, but forgot some of the utter utter crap we signed.  Not one decent signing amongst any of them

On 03/10/2022 at 16:06, Ratpackram said:

My dad was an orphan and during the 2nd world war was evacuated to chesterfield .... He got treated badly and kept running away and said he always ended up in Derby before he got caught and taken back to the orphanage..... He told me this when I was about 6 years old and I decided to be a Derby fan cos that was where my dad was happiest when growing up ..... Imagine if he has lived chesterfield ...I would have been double f***** 

Nowt up with  Th 'Town' Used to alternate with Derby and Spirites, have seen the great Arthur manage both ( best team Chesterfield ever had)

2 hours ago, Oldben said:

It appears crazy to me, that forest spend 150 million on 22 new players and can't get them to work as a team under Steve Cooper.

That they appear to be in greater disarray for once than we are.

While clowes has saved our club and brought a winning team under Warne, and for given us a period a of enjoyable football.

Forest who insulted us multiple times as we almost ceased to exist as team right upto when clowes took over in the summer, and now there are those who would call for us to offer peace flag to forest and respect to Steve Cooper.

I think there are far too many forest fans who hoped for Derby to cease to exist as a team.

I think its a bit cheeky to ask that of Derby fans at present.

Agreed.   Lets stop pretending its a nicey nicey rivalry, it isn't end of.  I want Forest to lose EVERY week, always have.

11 hours ago, David said:

 

Ahhh the fat waiter

Forest are crap. . . . FACT

Most of fans are inbred. . . . FACT

Brian Clough true heart was in Derby. . . . FACT

1 minute ago, Srg said:

Peered over the fence on LTLF briefly earlier... filled with suggestions of bringing in Pearce or O'Neill to help. Something something living in the past.

Pearce would be great. . . . . clueless

Just now, G STAR RAM said:

Do as you please, not sure why you're telling other people to ignore him though when they've had decent banter with him for years

Just now, G STAR RAM said:

Do as you please, not sure why you're telling other people to ignore him though when they've had decent banter with him for years

Jeez give it a rest

3 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

But he doesn't have to abide by dcfcfans rules on other forums

If its alright by you i'll just ignore him

1 hour ago, G STAR RAM said:

If he was a knob that just turned up when Forest were doing well then I'd agree, but he has been on this forum for as long as I can remember and has always been respectful. 

A bit of banter with the local rivals is a good thing.

Yes and I suppose we should congratulate him for Stevie Cooper only taking two months and over 100  million to  finally gettig a team his face deserves.

Mind you he isn't so respectful on the Forest Forum about the Rams or our Forum

1 hour ago, Red_Dawn said:

They had to though Bris. No team had ever got promoted to the PL as ill-prepared as we were, bar maybe Blackpool all those years ago. 

They needed to make signings and lots of them. Some will be hits some will fail. I honestly think it’s too early to judge really as we’ve not had enough time to judge them yet. 

I’d imagine someone like Sean Dyche will be waiting in the wings though 2BH. Ex Forest knows the club.. 

 

Wish people would ignore this fella, brags on forest board how he comes on here for bites, ignore the poor soul

On 30/09/2022 at 00:17, uttoxram75 said:

Cambridge United (Away)

The first time we ever played them was 16th August 1980 in League Division Two (The Championship in old money).

It was the first game of the season after relegation from Division One at the end of the previous season.

Thousands of Derby fans travelled to Cambridge, I think officially it was 3,000 but it seemed as if many more made the journey. Maybe not all of them got into the Abbey Stadium...

My personal journey and one of my most vivid memories went something like this.

7 of us left Uttoxeter at 7am in a Ford Anglia van driven by a bloke who was a builder and became my best man at my wedding three years later. By the time we were on the A50 going toward Sudbury the first cans and bottles were open, cigarettes (mostly Players No.6) were being smoked, and that was just the driver.

We got somewhere near Leicester and had to stop for petrol, the driver got dogs abuse because we'd paid up front whilst in the pub the night before. He protested that he had filled up but we didn't believe him. We had to stop again somewhere near Thrapston on the A14, this time we had a look and the petrol tank was leaking!

We stopped at a road side pub soon after that was full of Derby fans, we got our beers and sat outside with loads of others. We saw a large van in the car park and witnessed some lads lifting one of the beer garden bench tables into the van. These lads explained there was 15 of them and no seats in the back, seemed reasonable at the time. A couple of them tried to put the swing from the kids play area in as well but they were thwarted in their endeavours by the others.

As we drove away from the pub we passed a large gentleman riding one of those bikes with a shopping basket on the front through this quiet village waving a Derby scarf above his head singing "we'll be back in "81".

On arrival at Cambridge, the car park was a field next to the ground. People were saying the pubs were full or not letting Derby fans in so we settled down on the grass, luckily we had more beer than petrol, the sun was out so a couple went off to a shop for sandwiches and pasties while we enjoyed the atmosphere. 

The van we saw earlier turned up and the lads unloaded the pub table, complete with umbrella and the bloke on the bike, still singing "we'll be back in 81".

It was surreal but absolutely hilarious, the whole field was in great humour. As kick off time approached, people were packing up preparing to enter the ground when someone thought it would be good craic to open a gate adjacent to the field and let 30 odd cows stroll into the car park. Derby fans were laughing and trying to herd them onto the road, one lad even tried to lead one toward the ground but the cow was having none of it.

The police and stewards didn't know what to do, they were trying to control the cows while Derby fans were bunking into the stadium. Total chaos.

The away end was as full as an egg, spilling over onto the touchline at times, we lost 3-0, welcome to relegation.

We had a drink with a minibus full of Ilson lads somewhere on the way back, when we left the pub a couple of them were taking the one arm bandit apart for the cash while the rest were lined up at the bar shielding the activity. Bad lads from Ilson back then!

On the drive back we had to fill up the Anglia van twice more due to the petrol leak before arriving on the outskirts of Nottingham.

We all needed the toilet and a drink so we pulled into a place called, I think,  the Nottingham Knight. It was a hotel bar, quite posh for the time until us lot piled in, we sat in this lobby type space with our beers when someone noticed a glass display cabinet with photos of the gumps European Cup team in it. A Doc Marten went straight through the cabinet followed by outrage from the locals and no effs given by us. A bit of a brawl ensued in the car park before our battered, leaking, tired Anglia van somehow got us away and back home without us getting a good kicking or arrested.

 

I hope everyone going to Cambridge on Saturday has an equally memorable day out. ?

 

 

 

 

 

Bit cramped in the old Anglia!!

We used to go in an old tranny mark1  again, a builder. All his crap still in it, mind you we didn't pass off as 'casuals' way us lot dressed. Usually straight from work to match, and some of the boozers on the way, we looked well dressed compared to the locals

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

I’m in the Duke of Cambridge with a nice speckled hen.

Jealous!

Anyone remember going to Cambridge first match after relegation, all wearing our we'll be back in '81 T shirts. . . . . . . didnt quite go to plan

Sung a few times after boxing day match v Florist, never really took off though. To Bonnie and Clyde

Derby boys, they had a reputation for smashing up the stations on the Midlands line

Derby boys began there evil doing, one boxing day morning at the City ground

Now one forest fan he tried to take them alone. . .   FOREST CNUT  (shouted loudly!)

They left him lying in a pool of blood and laughed about it all the way home na na na na  da da da da da 

Just now, popside ossie end popside said:

Usually a few chants from different areas, followed by Knees up Mother Brown

Followed by Whos up Mary brown. . . . . . . . .  Tommy Doc

On 19/09/2022 at 15:25, Reggie Greenwood said:

I remember at the BBG in the 70’s when they would shout Heanor , Heanor and the pop side would respond Sharples Sharples. For the more “mature “ supporters ?

Usually a few chants from different areas, followed by Knees up Mother Brown

13 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

Historically, fixtures were set so teams played their closest rivals on Boxing Day so yes, they did used to scrap quite a bit!

The year before was unbelievable outside. Forest just come up thrashed us 3-0, could have been 6. Think there was approaching 150 arrested that day