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The Kulmbacher Eisbock is excellent.

What a coincidence!!!! we drank a bottle of this tonight and my wife Kristin reviewed it on the Beers Of Europe website. What a fantastic beer. Can also recommend the Kloster Scheyern Doppelbock which we had the other day

I shared a bottle of Kloster Andechs Doppelbock Dunkel with the Memsahib earlier today. Boy, what an absolutely fabulous beer. I was even inspired to review it (I write lots of reviews for Beers of Europe, and get a few free bottles off them)...
 

The spread between goals for and against is what you'd expect for a top 6 side - hence the comparison with Fulham's 4th place finish from last season. Essentially, we're consistently a little bit better than the opposition. The alternatives are being the best side in the league and getting 2.0 vs 1.0 per game, or being more inconsistent with 0.5 vs 0.9 in half your games and 2.1 vs 0.9 in the other half (the average is still 1.3 vs 0.9). As you should know by now, there isn't too much between teams in this league, so it's no surprise a lot of games are close.
For comparison, table topping Norwich averaged 1.7 vs 1.1 over the past 10 games (can't be bothered to check the whole season)... 0.7 vs 0.8, 1.6 vs 0.1, 0.9 vs 2.1, 1.5 vs 0.9, 3.0 vs 1.8, 1.4 vs 0.7, 1.3 vs 1.0, 0.7 vs 2.2, 2.2 vs 2.3, 1.6 vs 1.3

Cracking atmosphere with a packed out away end. We were rather fortunate to get through as Telford came back to 2.2, then hit the inside of the post before Bobby grabbed the winner. We played them again a couple of years later and it was slightly more comfortable (6.1). 

1 February 1984, Derby County 3 Telford United 2, Davison 3, FAC.

Always worth seeing those goals again.....
 

31 January 2020, Derby County 4 Stoke City 0, Waghorn, Martin, Rooney, Bogle.

I've just seen this thread and haven't looked at the other posts, but this is fantasy. We will need championship winning form between now and the end of the season, to creep into the play offs, with a paper thin squad, which has probably lost its best player for the rest of the season.
 
Let's hope for mid table and set our sights on building a team to challenge for next season.

I was in the Ossie End for the Leeds riot (truly terrifying, non stop fighting, seat throwing all game) and I think it was reopened after being a family seating area for the first time that day. Closed after for the rest of the season! Sat in the C-Stand against Chelsea and had a cracking view of their seat smashing tantrums. That little cup run and the subsequent great escape from relegation under Peter Taylor and Roy Mac felt like we were on the way back.. Only for it all to go massively pear shaped the following season ?

It was the biggest crowd I had been part of at the BBG (33,000). I was stood at the back of the Pop side level with Whiteside when he scored the winner. Crushing disappointment  as it was such an eagerly awaited match in an other wise crap season.  

Article in the Chelsea programme about the previous weeks trouble v Leeds which lead to the closure of the Ossie terrace, which meant no-one was brained by the hail of seats from above!

Remember it well after beating Forest in the previous round, defeating Chelsea and going out to a Norman Whiteside goal against Manchester United in Round 5.
We left the game a few minutes early as my dad could see trouble brewing in the Ossie end. Quite shocked to see how many seats Chelsea ripped out on the news later. If memory serves, I think Leeds did something similar the previous week.

I was just having a watch of this. My fb memories from 2010 mentioned feeling too tense and then there was a COYR at the final whistle ?
We were certainly a threat from set pieces that day!
P.s how good does that crowd noise sound? ?

Detectorists is fabulous. I really didn't want to say goodbye to them.
'It's the Holy Grail of metal detecting.'
'No, the Holy Grail is the Holy Grail of metal detecting.'

I'm a dab hand at pork pies now. I've made 4.

We must have been parked near  you that day. We couldn't get on the trains at Utch because they were full of mancs so we drove up.
There was 4 or 5 car loads of us parked on the streets near the top of Sinfin Lane/Normanton Barracks. We grabbed some chips and a can or two of beer before making our way back to the cars and bumped into a minibus of United fans parked nearby. They were a bit gobby and giving verbals to Derby fans. A brief altercation took place until they realised how many of us there was congregating and they soon disappeared. 
It was supposed to be more sensible than going on the train!
 

I must have been the same age and went with my brother and dad. Don't remember being able to see much of the game as it was so packed. The walk back to the car near the old barracks was miserable hearing the celebrating Man U fans who were still in the ground.

I must have been the same age and went with my brother and dad. Don't remember being able to see much of the game as it was so packed. The walk back to the car near the old barracks was miserable hearing the celebrating Man U fans who were still in the ground.

That game v United must have been the last time we had 30,000 + in the Baseball Ground?
Without checking I seem to recall a gate of 33,000, it was absolutely packed solid on the Vulcan St Popside.
I can’t remember us having that many in again before the ground changes reduced capacity.
 
just seen your update re the 33,000 !

It was the biggest crowd I had been part of at the BBG (33,000). I was stood at the back of the Pop side level with Whiteside when he scored the winner. Crushing disappointment  as it was such an eagerly awaited match in an other wise crap season.  

Was at the Manure game. My first visit to the BBG....convinced the goal was offside but it wasn’t......got teased a lot by some Manure fans on the way back on the train that were heading back south too ?

The following week we were at Chelsea in the league and I went with about 50 Hardy Rams. 
I think the atmosphere can best be described as brooding and tense..... 

Article in the Chelsea programme about the previous weeks trouble v Leeds which lead to the closure of the Ossie terrace, which meant no-one was brained by the hail of seats from above!