Wistaston Ram

Korey Smith helped him out to be fair ?

- Eiran Cashin. Well on the way to becoming a Derby County legend.
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Another memorable away day, getting off the train I remember thinking how good the acoustics were at Nottingham station as hundreds of Derby fans gathered in the concourse. Stood on the open terrace behind the goal, there was a feeling of promotion in the early spring air with many fans waving flags. It was great to witness all three goals going in at our end and I cannot remember an away game where we made up such a large proportion of the crowd, about 70%.

Another memorable away day, getting off the train I remember thinking how good the acoustics were at Nottingham station as hundreds of Derby fans gathered in the concourse. Stood on the open terrace behind the goal, there was a feeling of promotion in the early spring air with many fans waving flags. It was great to witness all three goals going in at our end and I cannot remember an away game where we made up such a large proportion of the crowd, about 70%.

Another memorable away day, getting off the train I remember thinking how good the acoustics were at Nottingham station as hundreds of Derby fans gathered in the concourse. Stood on the open terrace behind the goal, there was a feeling of promotion in the early spring air with many fans waving flags. It was great to witness all three goals going in at our end and I cannot remember an away game where we made up such a large proportion of the crowd, about 70%.

That 1911 video is great.  Bill McCracken's name can be see on the Newcastle team sheet for that game. He made his debut for Distillery in 1900 and he was still involved in the game in the modern era.  He was a manager for many years and then he was a scout. He found Pat Jennings for Watford. One link says he formally retired as a scout in 1971 but I have seen other references that suggest he was still scouting almost until his death in 1979. As a player he was so influential he was the reason they changed the offside law from three to two players.
 
 
 

In 1985/86 game 28 was a 3 - 0 away win at Notts County and according to the match report more than 9,000 of the 13,086 crowd were Derby fans
The win took us to 56 points, still 3 ahead of our current total. Also, we were in 4th position but had up to 6 games in hand on the teams above us
In 1984/85 game 28 was a midweek 3 - 0 away defeat at Bristol City keeping us on 40 points, 13 behind our current total

Second half - just wow
First half nothing just quite worked until that free kick. Like everyone was "where's Max?" Few gorgeous passes through by Collins though. Would love to hear PW's half time chat!!
great to see and hear the words of wisdom from ooooh Mark Wright. Suspect many too young to know the chant! 
But after the break just loved seeing us stream forward in waves. Didzy is pure class, just ridiculous. Think Dobbin thought "right they cant drag me back me now".  Knight just loving it too. 
So enjoying this season. Just what we needed. 

Mark Wright gave the lads a boost at half time .
Derby legend 

Let's hope so, but I never take anything for granted being a Derby fan. 

Let's hope so, but I never take anything for granted being a Derby fan. 

Let's hope so, but I never take anything for granted being a Derby fan. 

Their last five results:
5-1 win vs Bristol Rovers
4-0 loss vs Ipswich
2-1 win vs Cheltenham
5-0 win vs Burton
2-0 win vs Accrington
On the 'current form' league table they're 3rd, just below us and Wednesday.
It seems more comfortable when comparing Home/Away stats, but we certainly need to be sharp for this one.

Strange prediction.. I'll go for 2561 left in the home end

Grandkids unveiled their flag today... 
Ready for Charlton at home

Strange prediction.. I'll go for 2561 left in the home end

Jesus H Christ!  It was a New Year getaway... and a big birthday! 
Just stop with the constant digs, will yer!  

I said I was sorry!  
 
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Nice one ?  
 

One of my favourite away days.  Back in the days when you could just turn up on the day, remember an article in The DET encouraging Derby fans to travel to Bramall Lane and we certainly did in great numbers.  Absolutely packed in the terrace behind the goal and i recall hugging a random bloke when we scored,  the same level of joy as at PV the other night!

Strange prediction.. I'll go for 2561 left in the home end

Strange prediction.. I'll go for 2561 left in the home end

Strange prediction.. I'll go for 2561 left in the home end

Think you are about right.  So if we keep selling about 350 a day, we may yet get up to our average of 27k, but very much depends on how many ST no shows there are.

As many of us do, I thought I’d take a check on ticket sales.
It looks like there just over 3,200 still available. Morecambe seem to be bringing about 800 so, what are we looking at? In the region of 26,000?

Much better to be at the match, particularly following some of the commentator performances over the weekend.