PendineRam

I went to the quacks seven years ago for my regular BP check and it was unusually high (I have been on meds for 30 years for high BP), he sent me for blood tests which revealed that I had problems with my kidneys which was the source of the problem. Suspicious, he gave me a PSA test which was 153, yes one hundred and fifty three!! On receipt of the test result he rang me at 8am in the morning and told me to go straight to the Royal Derby. I asked him why and he said its a matter of life and death! They were already waiting for me on urology and immediately catheterised me to drain off excess urine I was retaining.  I was admitted and had all the tests, biopsies etc mentioned by others. 
To cut along story short I had high grade cancer which had spread to the lymph nodes, seminal vessels and elsewhere locally, I was given two to Six years if subsequent treatment worked. I had surgery,  38 sessions of RT and hormone treatment. Fortunately, it worked and I am still here some seven years later! I have regular check ups and am now 76.
I had no symptoms, so get checked! 

Ipswich 4 - 0 Derby

I remember that as -
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble, Dibble is his name, 
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name, 
On the beat all day, on the wife all night,
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name. 

....then run into the bloke in front of you! ?

I remember that as -
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble, Dibble is his name, 
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name, 
On the beat all day, on the wife all night,
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name. 

I remember that as -
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble, Dibble is his name, 
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name, 
On the beat all day, on the wife all night,
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dibble is his name. 

One-four,
Two-four,
Three-two-one-four,
Who for, 
We for, 
Who the duck are we for, 
D-E-R-B-Y 
DERBY. 
Followed by mass clapping! 
 
God, I must be getting old! 

One-four,
Two-four,
Three-two-one-four,
Who for, 
We for, 
Who the duck are we for, 
D-E-R-B-Y 
DERBY. 
Followed by mass clapping! 
 
God, I must be getting old! 

0 - 0 We continue to fire blanks away! 

0 - 0 We continue to fire blanks away! 

I hope CK gets his payment through because that’s the best way to keep Rooney, keep current players and to attract new players.
 

Least Yakubu might finally arrive 

Define 'forecast is good', this is Blackpool for f***s sake so I presume 40 mph Norwesterly gale! 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

Best wishes to you, as a fellow cancer sufferer your obvious bravery is inspiring. Enjoy the match. 

My friend has not long left of his life, He has terminal cancer and has maybe only weeks to live.  He had his first season ticket when he came out of the army in the mid fifties, and has had it every season since, and then when he married in 1963 his wife had one too, they never missed a home match, but then covid came along and they have not been again. We have a mutual friend who lives in the USA he is in the UK this week end and is taking my friend to what is likely to be his last match ever. I'm just hoping if there are any protests it wont affect the match. So please spare a thought or a prayer if your so minded on Saturday. I wont say his name as he hated social media as much as he loved the Rams. So UP THE RAMS  P will be thinking of you.  

If Nixon is correct, Quantuma are playing chicken against 4 parties that are armed with a rocket launcher, machine gun, samurai and pistol and Q are holding a paper plane. 
  
If none of the bids are good enough to get the deal through now I dare say that liquidation looks more and more likely. 
 
You can’t keep making deadlines and then not following through when nobody coughs up. You just look foolish.

What with everything that's been going on I think the lads have finally(inevitably) hit the buffers! 
1-3 lose. 

3-1 Blackburn. 
We just ain't good enough! 

Great to see those old newspaper articles, just reinforces old memories. I have every copy of the 'Green Un' for 68/69, they are well stored up in the loft!  I must get them out sometime!
As Brailsford says, whilst this thread relates to 71/72 what happened in the 60's in many ways provided the building blocks for what was to follow. After the gradual but pernicious slide into the obscurity of the 3rd Tier that followed the FA Cup win it was evident that the Club needed a strong hand on the tiller to turn it's fortunes around! 
Fortunately, it only took two years for us to get out of the old 3rd Division North and then some stability (both football wise and from a financial point of view) followed. With Harry Storer as Manager and Sam Longson in the Chair they were, in many ways, the ideal characters to achieve this stability but, as the 60's leapt into life, there was a feeling that we were still underachieving and that DCFC had more to offer. When Tim took up the baton from Storer the fans hoped that a more positive future lay ahead. Looking back, Tim did begin to revamp the club but there remained a feeling that he lacked the dynamism needed to really get the ball rolling. There is no doubt that there was pent up frustration amongst the fans that we needed a stronger character than Tim to achieve this even though it's fair to say that he raised the quality on the pitch with imports such as Durban and Hector as well as with the development of home grown players like Webster. When Sam wielded the axe most fans felt that the decision to dispense with Tim was the correct one even though he was well liked and 'one of us'. Who would Longson go for we asked, I don't think Cloughies name was bandied about and it was certainly a surprise appointment. For that decision we have to thank Jimmy Armfield, the former superb England Full Back, who urged Sam to go for BC.
What still amazes me is the excitement that that decision caused amongst Rams fans and, indeed, the wider Derby community! Brian Clough, why Brian Clough we asked?? But as soon as he walked through the door there was a whiff of excitement, as if that pent up frustration was suddenly being released! Talk about going through the club like a dose of salts there seemed to be a new story to read about every day in the DET! What followed over the next few years still seems more like a figment of someone's imagination than reality but history shows that actually it did happen!  
This thread is about the success of 71/72 but it's beyond dispute that the previous decade was the catalyst for that success! A decade that saw unbelievable change in every aspect of life, a decade that begat an unbelievable change in the story of a founder member of the Football League and in the lives of it's supporters and the community that it represented! Unforgettable, unbelievable, but whichever way you look at it bloody wonderful!