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Actually said to my mate after the Charlton game that I haven't felt so disillusioned with Derby since Brown and the 3 amigos season The sight of Holdsworth coming on as a sub like your fat old mate on a sunday morning to ironic cheers was awful so we aren't there yet but lets be honest we are a poor team in a poor league

It's a habit, A ritual, A social outing, A love affair with something that's either been passed down by your parents or you just liked Derby County so supported them.
I've mates that still go, 55+ years and all ST holders, For them now...Win-lose or draw it's no big deal, They're back in the boozer 30mins after the game talk about what happened for an hour at PP...beer kicks in and all the jokes and stuff come out.
Their away days are off the menu, Cost, Travel and the "yoof" that follow DCFC are reasons they give, Interesting one or two are now looking at staying in the pub with the amount of fixtures that they think DCFC will be involved in next season, But I know they wont 😊the reason is GUILT! they'll feel awful if they bail out 😬 

Oh I don’t know……..reckon it’s got a bit of a way to go yet! 👍😁
 
 

When this elicits an angry response you have to wonder whether this forum is worth the effort.

Today felt like a promotion to me. We are going to do it, its not pretty but with the addition of Ebou in midfield we've got that bit of bite we needed.
We matched a very physical team who are well drilled in the dark arts, we battled and kept trying to play despite several of their players constantly in the refs ear and the fat controller giving it large to the 4th official all game. 
Tough game and a massive 3 points.
Fckn love Derby, Fckin love Derby..........Thought the South Stand got behind the lads today just as they needed it. That 10 minutes or so of noise kept the lads going and saw off any chance of them getting on top.
We can do this, us and the team i mean. The fans made a difference i thought, some great noise during that second half.
COYR.

I really believe today that the crowd got us over the line. All the players burned their reserves, the manager responded to leaks in the system but the whole ground lifted as the half progressed. The lads responded in kind, dug deep, kept trying - for themselves and us. It paid off. 
 
it wasn’t my choice of football style but circumstances dictate that sometimes and you just have to accept a poor hand. It’s was a grubby match but every player gave his all and Pride Park sensed it. 
 
Really pleased for Sibs, Adams is such an honest player, back 3 were all monumental. COYR.

f*** me give the kid a bit of respect
Stuck by the club when it was properly properly s***, could have done a Buchanon or a Byrne but didnt
Time for him to move on.. No problem with that, he's earned a move. Going to see out the season so that he doesn't leave the club in a tougher spot for the rest of the season and gives some money and time for Clowes to get him replaced, good on him. Best of luck and hope he gets a big pay rise! 

My period watching the 🐏 home and away. My favourite time as a Rams fan.

It was absolutely bonkers when we scored the first. The whole ground erupted, with just small pockets here and there that didn't move. The Forest fans to our left who had been giving it the big'un until then soon skulked away.

If you aren't going to matches every week and just checking the scores then yes results are all that matter.
For people with season tickets and/or regular away supporters it's bloody hard work watching this teams performances for the majority of games.
 

I appreciate Warne get's a lot of stick... and at times like this it's difficult to argue against... But there's a particular trait I like... have always liked... in a player.  And that's passion!
Not for the shirt, per sé.  Not for the badge specifically.  But for their craft.
There's a distinct lack of that right now, and it seemed to be massively magnified last night.
Masses of mistakes last night, and yet I don't recall one single hint of a player reacting in a frustrated "must do better" kind of way.  No kicking hoardings.  No thumping the ground.  No heavenwards screaming out in frustration.  No bollockings from team mates.  No fist pumping encouragement.
Even young Cashin was doing this a few weeks back... and it was truly wonderful to witness... but that seems to have gone now (And no, I'm not singling him out intentionally.  No effing way!)  
All we got last night was meek acknowledgements of apology.  Lots of stooped shoulders! A half-raised hand of patheticism. (*Looks like I just made that word up, but it's staying in!  Fuckem!) 
If I was the cynical sort (I'm not!), I'd be wondering if they actually cared!
 
Now... I hasten to add... My support of DCFC is currently going through a similar phase.  I can laugh it off.  I can shrug my shoulders.  I can slouch back in my NE Corner seat and not bother singing.  (I won't boo, but my silence alone should be deafening to the players!)  I can almost appear to those that don't know me as though I don't care.  That's not the case, but I certainly don't care as much nowadays as I have done in the past.  Of course I've lost SOME of my passion.  But that comes with age.  That comes with having "Been there before... numerous times".  In essence, I've "got an excuse".
These players don't have that excuse.  They are the now.  They are as close to being in their prime as they're likely to be.  They should care.  They ought to care.  They should be taking pride in their craft.  They should feel the passion.

They ain't clocking in at Royces at 07:40 every morning, to stare at the same old computerised CNC milling machine hour after hour.  They ain't driving the same old dirty bus around the same old dirty streets of Derby day in, day out.  They ain't staring at spreadsheets shift after shift.  Those guys and gals are (arguably) entitled to "plod on".
These guys are craftsmen.  They are entertainers.  They are professional athletes. They have either been gifted with a talent, or indeed they have worked bloody hard to hone themselves that talent. 
So where is their pride?  Where is their passion?  Why are they letting their peers down?  Why are they letting the supporters down?  Why are they LETTING THEMSELVES DOWN? WTF does it look like they don't care?
I just can't get my head around that.

All a matter of opinion. He had his faults (there aren’t many players that don’t) but I’m with @BramcoteRam84. On the whole he did a good job for us.

What are you on about - 3 at the back? Did you actually watch the game?

Those the day my friend , we took the ///////////end 

Crammed in behind the ossie goal, king kev scores and everyone is just pushed forward. Those were the days to be young.

That documentary of theirs were their wearing the surgical masks is a cracker.  On the coach to Bristol and one of them snarls that their ready for it as they 'hate Northerners'.

I think if you could take  anyone under the age of about 35 whose only experienced football in modern all seater  stadia back in time to a game at the baseball ground in the 70s, they would be awestruck. Firstly everything was sort of grey and run down, grim and very working class. The streets were narrow, the housing really grim street after street, all red brick. The closer you got to the ground the more windows were boarded to stop a brick or bottle growing though. It was the underlying feeling of menace that is hard to describe and you got to be able to spot the signs of when something would kick off. Even then there was far more trouble outside the ground than in and some matches it would flare up all the way back to the station as away supporters got separated from each other. I couldn’t count the times I’ve been close to it but only once got a bit of a kicking from West Ham on Shaftesbury street, saved by a police horse galloping up the street giving out a bit of stick to the cockneys. Even at home Derby  didn’t have the numbers compared to Leeds or Man U but the warren of streets meant there would often be opportunity for the numbers to even out. My first away match at Hillsborough in 1969 saw a sizeable set to in tne kop and you got the tell tale separation in the crowd and then fists and boots flying. Although it was sort of horrible at times I’m glad I’ve got the memories as the experience of football from the terraces is gone forever. 

Do we often talk about our successes in the Anglo Italian cup or the Texaco cup….No
Do we often talk our promotion successes….Yes. 
 
I didn’t mention the Watney cup as I have fond memories of that and it wasn’t played under normal football rules . 🐏🐏🐏😂

The really worrying thing to me is that we did supposedly strengthen in the last window… Bradley, Ward, Fornah… er….:😳
The two best signings- Nyambe and Wilson - seemed to fall into our laps almost by accident…

We walloped them 4-1 they finished with 8 men on the pitch and Mc Dermott was sent from the dugout too, think that's what riled the Newcastle fans so much. 

Yeah, I was at that game. 3 players sent off for Newcastle and I think we only won one-nil.
The time that sticks most in my mind was a game against Chelsea when all routes back to the bus station were closed off.
Ran a lot of miles that day. Still, I suppose it helped keep you fit.

Not that easy at the BBG. The route for home fans to the bus station was the same as the route for away fans to the railway station.
For a bona fide coward like myself, I expected to have to 'run away' as part of the matchday experience.

Your lucky ,,, most of us started out as scared little boys if we are brave enough to admit it🤷‍♂️

One of my favourite Rams shirts

Disappointing to concede two soft goals. Lack of concentration, especially from the corner which I felt took us by surprise when taken short and we weren’t set properly. 
I thought they were the better team but maybe a draw was a fair result. We just have to move on and go on another run. That’s what teams who get promoted do. You need 3 of these runs so two to go! 
Fleetwood and Burton become important matches now - both games we have to win and should win if we want to finish top two. 
Let’s get behind them. These players are in league 1 for a reason, even Boro’s excellent wide men missed sitters, and will make mistakes.
Football is a fickle mistress. From delight to despair and hopefully back again soon.
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