Wistaston Ram

As a seven year old I fell in love with this beautiful shirt complete with red number.  My uncle took me to see Derby for the first time at Villa Park (he was a Villa fan) and I just remember how great we looked!   Lost 4.0 and the rest is history
I was also into collecting Panini football stickers at school.

As a seven year old I fell in love with this beautiful shirt complete with red number.  My uncle took me to see Derby for the first time at Villa Park (he was a Villa fan) and I just remember how great we looked!   Lost 4.0 and the rest is history
I was also into collecting Panini football stickers at school.

Photograph of the season.........so far.

Photograph of the season.........so far.

Fairly sure the block to the left with about 200 seats hasn’t gone on sale yet at Ipswich.

https://www.skysports.com/football/cambridge-united-vs-derby-county/report/469064

Well that was fun and first away match of season.
Happiest for Max Bird - great to see him back thriving. Collins was excellent everywhere not just the goals and have not been huge fan to date but he was busy today. Knight the midfield terrier where we need him. Osula really unsettled them and stronger than expecting. So funny how ropey his song was at first and felt bad for few players who still dont have a song!  Any else have tequila on on way home? 
Saw a Cambridge fan we knew outside after and he said "god we were loud today!" ??‍♀️?So bragging rights for my son at school Monday.
And finally lovely to meet @angieram. Assume you enjoyed that!?
 

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
jingle all the way,
oh what fun it is to see
Derby win away!
 

Every where we go, people want to know who we are, where we come from
Shall we tell them who we are, where we come from
We are the the Derby, the mighty mighty Derby
Derby clap clap clap Derby etc

Every where we go, people want to know who we are, where we come from
Shall we tell them who we are, where we come from
We are the the Derby, the mighty mighty Derby
Derby clap clap clap Derby etc

Every where we go, people want to know who we are, where we come from
Shall we tell them who we are, where we come from
We are the the Derby, the mighty mighty Derby
Derby clap clap clap Derby etc

Still showing 41 standing tickets available 

Yeah it's odd how the terrace tickets keep getting released in dribs and drabs. I was going to stand at this one, but got a seat because I assumed the terrace was sold out, but glad to be sorted for Ipswich and Accy now.

Fair enough
But chances are still be standing up anyways.

I just want to say how lucky you are to have Paul Warne as manager. I've supported the millers for 69 years. Obviously, I've seen managers come and go during that period. As far as I'm concerned, and many other fans Warne is the best manager we've had.
Like Derby fans we went through some dark times. Administration points deducted, lost our ground, forced to play in Sheffield in an athletic stadium. No atmosphere, 4 years in the 4th division.
Paul has many qualities. Excellent staff management, a workaholic. He's articulate, honest and will live and breathe Derby County.
I thank him for all the memories, 3 Wembley wins 3 promotions and I wish him well and as a consequence wish the Rams well. I've never had a second team, but for the first time Derby County will be my second team. I look forward to seeing Paul succeed. 
Hopefully Derby will be promoted and we survive in the championship and look forward to see you at the New York stadium.
All the best.
 
 

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. ?
 
 
 
 
 

We are doing the same, waiting to get two seats together as my wife is not an away member so I think 1,000+ is possible. 

What time train will you be on? I'd better tell the lads not to brick that one as it pulls into Utch station!

He is a Norwich fan apparently. 

I will also be on the crewe train! 

It does feel like we have been unlucky with opposition keepers making some great saves, however given some of the clear cut chances we have had, the keeper shouldn't have been given a chance to save. There have also been some horrendous misses, Knight/ Stearman headers at Charlton and Salop spring to mind. Imagine if we had a striker like Bobby Davison or Phil Gee, we wouldn't be talking about luck.

Be good to have a comparison with 84-85 as well, our first season back in Division 3. Hopefully this season follows the pattern of 85-86 and not the previous season!

Be good to have a comparison with 84-85 as well, our first season back in Division 3. Hopefully this season follows the pattern of 85-86 and not the previous season!

Thought about it but it was quite a boring season really, we finished 7th but only after a strong finish to the season - & we got knocked out in Round 1 of the FA Cup to Hartlepool
1985/86 was much better including a great FA Cup run & us having to play catch up towards the end of the season due to both the FA Cup run and a bad winter

Wonderful player and shirt. He created one of my favourite memories that season grabbing the winner at Sheffield United in the FAC.