Ramrob

We remember how your fans supported us through our darkest hours.
We now have our club back and we are on our way back, but your fans were brilliant at Bloomfield Road singing all the Oyston out songs with us. We had a mini riot during that game, a night match and later that season, we started boycotting games home and away. 
Word is, our fans are 100% behind you during this hopefully short term blip in your great clubs situation. 
Good luck from the Seasiders!
 
Bri.

The Middlesbrough claim is just so outrageous. I can’t believe the EFL are just staying silent on this. Surely they can see what the wide ranging implications of this are. 
The possibility of future claims and counter claims would cause chaos not to mention the very real possibility of this claim being the issue that puts off buyers and send us into liquidation, a situation that benefits no one not even Boro. I can say hand on heart that I would hate it if we were doing this even to Forest or Leeds. 

Half fans, should’ve been at the match instead of collecting an award ? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joking obviously ? ?????????????????????????

Great to see the Punjabi Rams awarded with the Fans for Diversity Award tonight at the FSA. ????
 

Whatever this season brings I can’t help but feel all warm and gooey inside every time we kick off. 
 
Bogle and Lowe have long gone but they were a good start. Now, when I see the long long list of youngsters who over the last 12/18 months got a baptism of fire and met it with commitment and skill; I am filled with hope and delight.
so many, even in this short time, have shown they aren’t lightweight kids thrown in to a desperate mincer. They have skill, fortitude and ability. They  have stepped up with ease.
Watson, Williams, Thompson, Knight, Bird, Ebesole, Buchanan, Cashin, Sibley, Stretton. Just look at that list ! 
Anyone of them can and will wear our shirt and give a good account of themselves. They have reached the mark at a young age. They are at the beginning. At this stage of their development they will only get better .. it’s a heck of a list from one club .. to produce virtually a full team from your own toy box in such a short stretch of time is magical. Manchester United make much of their youth development with 100 x our resources. Rooney, Daz Waz and even Mel must get a salute for being part of this. Then add in Curtis, Fozzy, Colin and Jags .. what great examples they are setting. .. These kids will win something, this year, next year or 5 years down the line. 
 
It may sound strange but I am enjoying this battle against the odds because I am seeing character, courage, growing skills, enthusiasm, pride and sport prowess of the highest order. It is hugely rewarding and just joyful to see it. 
 
We are Derby 

Should that be ‘now the damage has been Quantuma-ed’?

But he didnt sell the club did he Pete? He ran up significant losses, fell out with the EFL, put our club on the line, ducked over a number of small businesses, and left us with most likely third division football for (at least) a season. 

Great move by Brentford this, it’ll never happen but I’d like to think it’s the end of the annual kit. 
 
Keeping their kit for 22/23

And here’s the kicker, if the EFL even contemplate this they are opening a huge can of worms.
Any team that feels aggrieved by any decision or action could sue on the precedent of this decision.
Just off the top of my head we could hit Villa, QPR and maybe even Ipswich for damages. Other clubs could do the same across the leagues.
Where would it end?
If this goes ahead then we should fully advocate our new owners suing the above.

Well Sed

Long time reader,but felt the need to post and pay tribute to everyone who is showing such fighting spirit for the club..highlight last night were our fans singing “is this a library”. Priceless

He needs a chant…. To the tune of ferry across the Mersey….
Festy
Ebosele
The Fastest man you’ll see
Festy
Ebosele
Pride of DCFC 

There were a few rubbish chants started on Sunday but they seemed to be quickly drowned out by more positive ones, presumably from supporters nearby. 
I think we have a small minority of noisy fans who are disrespectful of everything and everyone - they are just thugs really and hide behind being at a game to do this stuff. If they're not chanting, they are threatening opposition or their own supporters or generally abusing staff at grounds.  
I wish we could weed them out but it appears very difficult. But I don't think they are representative of most Derby fans.
I love the positivity of the vast majority of our supporters and think the South Stand have been brilliant this season. 

Hi folks, I’ve been a long time lurker on the forum and thought I’d add my thoughts for once. I appreciate Lawrence will never be universally liked by everyone, my own opinion is that I like him, he’s a capable and occasionally frustrating player in a Rams shirt.
His Goals and Assists this season have directly helped us to a win against Bournemouth and draws against Millwall, Luton and Forest, 6 points in total. He also set up the goal against Barnsley, maybe the less said about that game the better…. I suppose my point is he is playing his part, if he carries on doing so and doesn’t leave in Jan it’s already looking like his most productive output, some will no doubt say it’s cause he’s trying to earn a move etc, for now I appreciate his effort and contribution to the team ? 

Hi
Bournemouth supporter here and congratulations on the win yesterday. Should have been a draw but that's not what I came on here for.
In 2008-09 we were on zero points after 19 games - having started on -17. We were also under a transfer embargo, were struggling to pay players and had a  team with several on-league and out-of-contract recruits. For us the rest is History as Eddie Howe stepped up from youth team coach on 1st  January, lost his first 2 games but we stayed up on 46 points. 
OK! OK! I know it was League 2, and you don't want a Bournemouth history lesson. My point simply is - it can be done. Your home support may just help -it was pretty impressive yesterday.
Hope you manage it.
Good luck.

Yeah but Jesus plays in goal (apparently, Jesus saves. Bit unnerved by crosses though).
Oldie but goldie.

Ahead of Jesus? Must be some player.

Take a bow son. 
 
50% of the starting 10 outfield players today from the academy. 
 
Somebody said earlier this week that we should scrap the academy - I’m not so sure. 
 
My mates lad plays in the academy and said to me recently how well all the staff have handled the situation and it’s as if nothing has happened since we went into administration. That only comes from great leadership. 

Already posted in the match thread, but the lad deserves the recognition of having a DCFC Fans Forum topic in his name, and for positive reasons.
Like a new signing for us whilst under embargo. Frustrating he's had to wait so long to be eligible to play.
When the dark clouds pass, if we can make it through without losing our young talent, the future is clearly bright. 
 

Ahead of Jesus? Must be some player.

Ahead of Jesus? Must be some player.

Body language and price tags are so important in peoples' perception of players but it can often lead to false impressions. The best way to judge a player's ability is on appearances, whether multiple managers play them, who is interested in them when they might leave, and what other players say about them. Tom is generally first choice under God knows how many managers he has played under and there is a lot of clubs sniffing around him now. Making him captain seemingly makes little sense, yet the spirit of the team has been the best I've seen it for several years. Now this may be a coincidence, but if Davies/Shinnie/Jagielka were captain we would be lauding their leadership skills.
Steve McManaman had terrible body language and was widely disliked when playing for England yet he is one of few British players that were very successful abroad in the past 30 years. Probably our second best export in that time behind Gareth Bale.  

How do we know when a moment goes in our favour though? 
Pearson scores and we get promoted. Seems like a good moment. Had he missed, and we had another year to build in the championship, would we have fairer better in the premier league the next season? Would we be building a statue to Billy now?
QPR beat us in the final, but they’ve been pretty mediocre ever since. 
Portsmouth win the FA Cup, seems like the best thing, but end up in the lower leagues. Leicester go into admin, seems like the end of the world, but a few years later they’re winning the prem. draw a long enough timeline and you can trace any good or bad event back to any other good or bad event. 
our time will come, maybe in 5 years, maybe in 50 years. But everything that happened will have happened to get us to that point. Right now we’re in a bad place, so it seems that every event leading uk to this has been bad, and it’s hard to see past that. But when we’re back in a good place, the same events will have had a good conclusion. 
to put it another way:
“it’ll all be alright in the end… and if it’s not alright, it’s not the end”
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode 

Despite the appalling (and inexcusable) lack of reassuring emojis, I'm gonna take that as 100% WUM banter.  For that reason alone, I have responded with a laughing reaction.
Don't make me have to go back and change it!   ? ?

I feel incredibly sad that @Davidfeels he has to post evidence to try and stop the critics and nastiness. I really hope there will be more support than criticism, he does an amazing job and often a thankless one too.