Phoenix

Disappointment for me is that all the negative vibes in forums, twatter and Facebook is seeping into the grd which in turn will affect the performances.
Already the atmosphere is noticeably poor, South stand struggle to get going for more than a couple of minutes at a time then it's replaced with an uneasy murmuring.
I honestly can't believe how anyone,  irrespective of manager, thought we would be playing well with cast offs and a few youngsters that to their credit are still here. I wrote this season off the second David Clowes had the good grace to save us, for goodness sake, we nearly went out of business and have a level of restriction imposed on us that means we have an imbalanced squad with little wiggle room to change, just count your blessings you still have a club to support, and that's key, instead of bitching and crying at the injustice, get to the grd and support them

I hope we hardly ever hear from him in the press.  I think we’ve had enough from an owner talking to the media.  I’d rather he just went about his business in private and delivers a long-term sustainable plan.
As fans, we won’t like every decision, as we’re seeing with the manager debates.  That’s no different to working for a company.  But we’re all emotionally invested in a football club from when we were kids, which makes us want answers, even though we may never get them.
I think DC alluded to an answer for LR leaving at the last forum.  @angieram will know better than me - I find most people do - but he said something along the lines of they owed LR a duty of care to protect his managerial career.  An interesting statement and not one you hear when a manager leaves a club.  Maybe they felt that LR had been affected by the last couple of years, and who wouldn’t be?  Maybe they felt a fresh start might do him good in the long-term?  We’ll never know, but I’m sure it wasn’t a decision taken likely and, in DC’s view, the best for the long-term.

Both Cloughs might have been sacked using the same criteria - certainly, no-one was convinced by Nigel at the end of his first half-season, though iirc with his Dad the fans could see that something was building, particularly after a 4-0 victory over top of the table QPR towards the end of the season. 
We've had so many managers, eventually successful, whose initial impact seemed "meh" at best, but now they're instantly compared to Nigel Pearson, and not, say, George Burley or even Arthur Cox, who both had to resurrect the club from virtual bankruptcy. As a fanbase, we seem to have gone from immensely relieved and grateful to survive to entitled and hyper-critical in record time. We're "so over" Administration and teetering on the edge of liquidation, aren't we?! 

So much real potential coming through the Derbyshire production-line, with both bat and ball. Exciting times ahead, hopefully.

I don't think he's the next Nigel Pearson, for the following reason.
Pearson was bought in to be a Sargent Major to an under performing squad, crack the whip and get everything shipshape in double quick time, by a owner who was looking for success at any price.
Paul Warne has been bought in imo, to properly reset the club from top to bottom. 
To not only manage the first team, but to set the lead from the top.
Rosenior did a fine job at holding the fort, getting players in the door, and started off the season in reasonable fashion, especially at home. If our away results had matched our away performances he'd still be in post.
They didn't however, and I think DC saw an opportunity to cut all ties to the past, and bring in his own man to mould the clubs medium term future and strategy. 
It's the culture Warne creates that DC is looking to tap into, as much as the results. For that reason, I think he'll get a far longer period to prove himself than some others think, we've been hollowed out by administration and subsequent events, on the staffing side as well as the playing side.
I think our new owner sees Warne as the man to launch a rebuild, and sees a manager who's vision aligns with his own in PW.

Not being picky, but there's only 7 there

Not being picky, but there's only 7 there

I believe some of my staff from below stairs frequent such establishments from time to time.

Gamesmanship/cheating has been here as long as the football a was made out of a pigs bladder, The Hunter Vs Lee incident has been mentioned on here a couple of times, All started when Lee tripped himself up when running alongside Hunter to win a penalty, Lee was very cleaver at this, We loved it but it was cheating ?
Dean Sturridge did the same when winning a penalty against Southampton under Jim Smith, If it's your team most will say..."so what it's in the game and they all do it" when it's against us we complain, It was a clear dive for their 1st pen, The linesman gave the penalty he was right in line as the video shows, Incompetent is what this shower were. 
It'll change when the people who run football FIFA instruct all FAs to review all games, Then retrospectively give a ban on the player for cheating, Then penalise the offending team 1 point...it will then stop.
But it aint going to happen is it? 

Knight was out of sorts yesterday I thought, but he wasn't the only one. Perhaps they're feeling the effects of additional fitness training? Just speculation on my part, but they must be doing extra work to get to where Warne requires them to be. 

Mind you, it was QUITE a half-season - just a pity that his country called and those enlightened and inclusive folk at Yaaaaaarksheeeeer turned his 'ead wit' brass. At least it should be safe for him to go there now.

And about f******* time!

Can we stop insulting Steve Cooper please. He is a very good manager who did amazing last season. Just because he manages our rivals is no reason to despise him. Can't remember him saying or doing anything anti-Derby, so let's just be slightly jealous that Forest appointed a manager that has done so well for them.

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.

Round the world twice.

Forest are running a ticket exchange programme, I’ve heard you can get a balloon or a goldfish.

I hope they both go down ?

Very difficult to recover from. They need quite a lot of recovery time as I discovered to my cost. Tendency is to run through the pain with the result that you tear the muscle. I did distance running and was out for 2 years.

Where's the ? (wow) reaction when you want it? Hilarious to read, glad I wasn't there! ?⚽️?

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. ?
 
 
 
 
 

Have we gone from Rosie to Rosey!

And about f******* time!

And about f******* time!

And about f******* time!

Good to see him getting the recognition he deserves ?