Farmy army

Being at Wembley was worse.....

Last September I was playing football with my grandson,and hurt my knee. I didn’t bother the doctors because the knee gradually returned to near normal, but still quite painful at times. It was such a time I winced, and my wife “advised “ me to see the doctor,which I duly attended, knee examination, all OK, I asked for a PSA (having seen the information at Pride Park) check which he duly gave me the paperwork. The test came back 7.1, I’m over 70 so 6.5 is regarded as normal. I was dispatched to the Derby Royal, had the anal examination, ( for the first time) small lump found. In five weeks I’ve had a MRI scan,my prostrate biopsy done, and a QT scan,and I’m now on a hormone treatment plan. It appears they’ve caught the tumour early, and the prognosis is good, they say it will be eliminated. You do lose your dignity at times, but not going through that door and having the exam you could lose a lot more.
A shout out to the doctors and nurses at the Derby Royal, they have been absolutely terrific, informative, and very understanding, and caring.
 

Bit gutted about this one, always spoke well about Derby because of his connection through his son. 

Never liked them since 1975. Lots of their fans left the game at Wembley early (as they were losing) to make their way to our end and ambush us after the game. I was there on my own with my 10 year old cousin, scary s***.

Lawrence off please.

That is total disrespect though sorry. Bury would be as important to all of their fans and its place in their lives as Derby is to us. That is what this is about. We must not forget that esp how their MP spoke so eloquently to help us yesterday

2022 could just be superb couldn't it..Derby do the impossible and stay up, New owners, a squad boost..Rooneys future secured..couldn't get any better than that..
Happy New Year from snowy Canada (in about 12 hours or so..)

2021 hasn't been easy for a lot of people, even tougher for us Derby County fans that have had to endure and will continue to do so the sleepless nights with the unthinkable, the threat of our club facing possible liquidation. 
I just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year, without you, this community would not be here, the community that has allowed fans from not just around the country, but the world to come together and help each other through these difficult times and I'm sure will continue to do so through next year and beyond.
For any players, management, staff, anyone connected to the club that may also be reading this, Happy New Year to you also, I can only speak for myself, but I'm sure many others will agree, you are all making us so proud to be a Ram, we cannot ask anymore from you.
Let's all go and smash 2022 ?
 

You must be new to this forum if you’re going to apply that criteria to all posts by the rest of us. ?

Let’s not forget that Hamilton‘s car was disqualified from qualifying in Brazil because the rear wing opened 0.2mm (i.e. a gnat’s testicle) more than it should have - the FIA quoted the regulations and there was no argument to be made against their punishment. Yet they’ve just rewritten far more far-reaching regulations on the fly in order to make the end of the race ‘exciting’. An absolute farce….
It doesn’t matter who is the best driver or who deserves to be Champion - the whole integrity of the sport has been destroyed in one idiotic act from a race director that has shown himself to be either out of his depth or corrupt in his determination to have a different driver win the title….

If he was the better driver over the season he wouldn't have been staring at Lewis's backside hoping the race director can conjure up a way to gift him the title advantage back. 
Definitely a great and exciting driver. But he just got an absolute gift there. 

When he walked in front of the SW Upper applauding, he definitely got a good, surprisingly loud rendition of the 'Keogh, Keogh' chant from those around me.

Anyone else notice Owen Bradley make reference to how vociferous the Derby faithful have been just as they were singing "Mel Morris, what a winker." 
Coincidental timing or solidarity to his colleagues that lost their jobs in the aftermath of this current situation? 

Be a lot quicker after the final whistle though...

I am writing this, largely out of frustration, but I feel I need to get it off my chest.
My dad was a season ticket holder for 50-odd years and he died of cancer in September. (I joined him as a season ticket holder from 1987)
He had renewed his ticket for the 2020-21 season before the pandemic hit which was carried over into this season.
In April, when he knew he was too poorly to go again, he wrote to the ticket office advising as such and would therefore prefer a refund to the ticket for 2021-22.
He received a response saying that the club could not provide a refund as the deadline had since passed.
As a result, I wrote to the club in July to see if an amicable solution could be found to transfer his ticket to my friend who would pay the difference from a 65+ ticket to a standard adult one, then paying my dad for the rest of the ticket.
I heard nothing.  I chased again twice and still heard nothing.
In an attempt to try and sort it out before the season ticket deadline (after my dad had recently died and after Derby had gone into administration), I went to the ticket office and was advised the process would be that my friend would have to buy the ticket in full and my dad could get a refund on his seat, due to his death.
I therefore paid for my friend’s seat (which was my dad’s seat) in full for my friend and gave details with regards to getting a refund.
This week, the SLO contacted me to say that it would be possible to upgrade his seat to my friend and to contact the ticket office accordingly, in response to my email sent in July.
When I explained what I had already been told by the ticket office, I received another email advising that due to the administration events, no refund could be given at all.
So, Derby County have taken my dad’s money and my friend’s money for the same seat, have given me conflicting information and are now reneging on returning my Dad’s refund (which would have obviously gone to my mother).
I have requested that I get his season ticket back but for a different seat, as I can either bring someone else, or sell it on to recover some of the cash, but have had no response so far.
I can’t express how poorly I have felt Derby have handled this, (effectively costing me over £300) and it shows how much they valued my dad as a “customer”, when their lack of providing the correct information or acting in a timely manner could have seen this resolved.
Overall, I’m really saddened that this becomes my Dad’s final legacy with the club that he loved.

This thread is depressing. It started off as a congratulations to the attending fans and the great atmosphere which is helping the team no end, but descended into the usual ‘I’m a better fan than you’ rubbish. 
Truthfully I wasn’t sure whether to bother this season as the incessant moaning around me gets me down, which is not the reason we go to football. But I’m really glad I have bothered as those who have made previous matches miserable aren’t there so far and I don’t miss them. 
Take that as you will, it’s the plain fact. 

VAR isnt the problem despite my dislike for it, its those using it.
If a decision takes minutes to arrive at its clearly being used wrong, no problem with it being used for offside, but have it so you only call it offside if you can tell visually, no stupid lines being drawn that still dont give you 100% confidence.
I think a time limit should apply for when the ref views the screen, 30 seconds, if its not obvious in that space of time then leave it.

The face of football Gary Lineker has always trumpeted its merits and he’s not about to change his mind!
I personally don’t like it, and it would stop me going to games.

The face of football Gary Lineker has always trumpeted its merits and he’s not about to change his mind!
I personally don’t like it, and it would stop me going to games.

Nick Hornby's book Fever Pitch gives a great description of why people love (or loved) football. Paraphrasing, he states that you can go from complete despair to utter joy with one kick of the ball - VAR has taken that away - one kick of the ball, utter joy, the 1-2 (or longer) delay and then back to despair.
Tielemans scores a worldy, but we all have to wait to see if there might have been the vaguest of handballs in the run up to the goal - Chilwell scores against the team he played for (and their pathetic fans that booed him throughout) and his goal is ruled out because in the frame that's chosen to review (with a 5-6 inch margin of error) his knee-cap was offside....football is dying in front of our eyes - may as well stage Playstation tournaments than watch this shallow imitation of the game we loved....

The FA Cup final today was the most high profile instance on VAR ruining football in my opinion. 
It doesn't matter if the decision is right or not. Putting the ball in the net, celebrating and knowing it's a goal all in the same moment is the best part of football. VAR puts an element of doubt behind every "goal" and ruins the moment. Every time I see a goal in a VAR game the first thing I think is "is this going to be VAR'd?" Yes? No?... and then the moment is gone and it's just boring, whether it went to VAR or not. 
I actually watch less Premier League games now because of it. 
Even though VAR would have ruled out 2 of Wednesday's goals last week I still don't want it in the Championship, The Wednesday game last week was brilliant entertainment and if VAR was involved it would have ruined it. 

This man the best defender i have ever witnessed in 60 years:
 

Serious question, how old are you? For those of us of a certain age, although football is very important, it's just a game. It makes us happy. It makes us sad. It makes us bloody depressed. With Derby County the emotions just keep jumping from one extreme to the other. I am not happy with how the season has gone. However we will be playing next season in the championship. We are at the moment joint first in the league. Hopefully we'll be there on our own in 46 games time. I'm celebrating (very subdued, without a drink and with no one close to me who gives a flying duck) being in that position. As @uttoxram75 said, we were celebrating a very similar situation all those years back. It got even worse the next year, so have a drink and a nice big smile on your face. There's plenty other things to worry about.

Try telling that to the thousands who invaded the pitch v Fulham in 1983......enjoy the emotion of the day and worry about the future tomorrow ??????

Don’t think Leeds or Forest have a good word to say about us. Why? I have no idea.