Ramrob

Ed Dawes on Radio Derby said "I was forced to watch Forest on Sky last night" 
Jamie Ward straight back at him "I was forced to play for them!"
Once a Ram! 

That would be an ecumenical matter.

About this sea of black & white, @B4ev6is...
Don't you think it's a bit... erm... well... grey?
I think we need to go for a bit of colour.  Cheer the place up a bit.  It's well known that bright colours stimulate the mind, give out a positive vibe, and set the party mood.  And if things get a bit tense, there's nothing more calming than a pastel hue!
    
 
Let's do it buddy.  Me & you!  Watch the rest of the sheep follow!  By the time the last game comes around, PPS will be like one massive fruit bowl!  
What do you think?  You with me?  

Who’s the guy in the middle above the G in Anglian? Are you on the forum?
Think we met briefly at a Sunday league game in Suffolk the day of the Brum game. 
 
 

We were 20 points from safety. We are now 8 points from safety with 1 game in hand on Reading and 2 games in hand on Hull.
it’s not over til it’s over. COYR.

That’s a great attendance for a midweek game vs Millwall. Even in promotion campaigns we wouldn’t get that midweek. 
I do think the pricing has helped tremendously this month, tickets are a fair price. So often under Morris I’d buy midweek tickets at around £37-40 each. Which is very excessive when you have to pay for more than one ticket. 
£20-25 a ticket is spot on, and I do think it’s helping getting fans through the doors. I have often thought why don’t they drop the price to get more people in and buying things at the ground. 

You’ve looked through my last 15 posts on one thread? Well that’s balanced.
Because I choose to make informed, balanced comments based on my own opinion from watching the games, instead of using over inflated, over excited hyperbole to describe someone I’ve read about on Twitter or seen as a sub for 3 mins when we were 3-0 down?
Funnily enough I checked out your posts from the previous twenty pages of just your posts…..and it seems you have an opinion on everything from Covid, to admin, to TV to the weather. Granted you’ve contributed articulately and thoughtfully on all those, but the one topic I’ve barely seen you post an opinion on the actual football match or the footballer other than post match ratings where it’s acceptable to mark a player out of 10 without understanding or commenting  on any of the nuances that contribute to it.
You may not agree with my comments or indeed like them but all I’m doing is posting an opinion and while it’s sometimes harsh it’s never scathing, abusive or vindictive. But it is after all a football forum and honest opinions, even if unpopular, are what it is for. However none of my comments on young players are even close to some of what I’ve read on matchday threads when things are going badly including some aimed at one or two of the younger players.
You may not like them but my comments are anything but ignorant or ill informed. I’ve been inside pro football as a player and a coach. I’ve coached several current pros inc premier league players and been in youth development at a Category 1 academy. I could discuss the finer points all day long but in a forum it often comes across differently in short one line observations.
But fwiw, our predicament at the moment is in danger of harming as many players as it aids. Players fast tracked into 23s or 1st team football too soon often on the back of some promising performances at U18s level isn’t always good. Robinson for example may well end up a decent player but trust me when I say he’s finding U23s football hard and keeping his head above water by keeping the game simple and trying not to make mistakes isn’t good for him on the long run and in 2/3 years time when someone is criticising him for not having more tools on his toolbox of game skills and asking why he doesn’t play forwards more often, or break lines with his passing it’ll be because he was being asked to play at a level too high too soon and wasn’t able to take risks, try things out, spend time on the ball and make mistakes. He’s not the only one either.
This is the very reason why someone like Louie Watson isn’t being rushed into the first team where the pressure to retain possession and not ‘cost the team’ by taking a risk is much greater and as much as he may not like it right now, he’ll be a better player for being given a little more time where he is. I’ve seen the criticism of Max Bird…and it won’t be long before the same people say the same things about Liam Thompson. 
I’m happy to talk football all day. But don’t expect to like or agree with me, which is fine, but likewise don’t criticise me for how I express an opinion. 

He wasn’t very broad but looked a willing runner. Certainly not half baked.

Was it in Aldeburgh? 
 

I loved watching both the men's and women's curling finals, and cried with happiness watching the girls on the podium receiving their gold medals. I'm always proud when anyone wins for Great Britain. I'm happy for the Scottish girls, and the Great Britain Curling Team. I get great pleasure from watching team work, really work, everyone supporting one another to achieve great results and I'm so happy for all the families involved and the dedication everyone involved gives to enable those girls to win gold.
We currently have everyone working as a team at Derby County on and off the field and with a great mixture of people from different nations, different cultures all currently trying to achieve great results for the club we all love and we can all learn so much from sports teams,the teams can learn so much from other sport teams, regarding respect, control, and managing the game of sport and it's great to watch and learn.
Anyway I'm having a great weekend, 3 points for the Rams, a gold medal for Great Britain, the kids are going out sledging, the sun is shining and I might even see if some of my friends fancy a game of Curling during the week.
Brilliant.

He might have been really good, but the comparisons with Todd are too early.
People need to put some respect on Andy Todd's name.

That will be Wayne ?

Agree with a lot of your points but I'm a lot more optimistic about the club's potential for growth.
Firstly, our catchment area is the county really not just the city so can factor in Derbyshire's 1m residents & added to our pockets of support in Staffordshire, Notts, NW Leicestershire gives us the equivalent of a big city population from which to draw support. In terms of clubs either side, I'd argue they have more limitations than we do...Forest share their city with Notts County (and ice hockey ?), Leicester share their city with Tigers & Stoke share theirs with Port Vale.
The one club city fact is a big unique identity & the obvious passion from our fans (particularly this season) willl draw fans in. After all, it was the passion/songs/culture created by Liverpool fans, Man United fans & Newcastle fans at various times historically as well as successful sides that attracted support for them outside their city borders. People want to be associated with an identity & Derby's is getting stronger with our fight this season.
To your point about a global reach, yes it seems very unlikely from where we are currently but we have one of the best badges in world football (so strong it doesnt even need name of the club) & a very strong identity as 'Rams'. Many countries associate sports teams with nicknames not places (Australia, Far East, US in particular) and thats where Derby would have a real advantage over other similarly sized clubs. Also potential for tie ins with similarly named clubs (including current SuperBowl Champions LA Rams). I do accept that success/minimum top division status would also be needed though before those kind of conversations.

#COYR ?

as you can see - spreading the points deduction over the entire season game by game we are on 27 points right now.

We're playing Millwall
When? Wednesday 23rd February 
What time? 7.45pm
Can I watch on RamsTV? Yes you can, anywhere in the world including the UK. 
Is it on the red button? Don't know, don't care, buy your RamsTV pass and support the club, you get more camera angles and substitutions sponsored by Ron Brooks Toyota.
Duck Sky Sports.
Who likes us? Nobody likes us (in Nottingham, Leeds, Middlesbrough), we don't care.

Pissed up just fet like saying......I duckin love Derby County

I will never, ever understand why anyone would leave a game early when its all to play for.
When we were kids, dad used to make us stay in the BBG for ages after the whistle before making our way back to Leys car park.
Losing 3-0 away maybe justification but drawing 0-0 against a team next to us is just bonkers.

Yesterday there were several times come on Derby rolled round from the NE corner along the North stand. I usually go to diff parts of the ground and I don’t think those in the south stand realise how much singing is going on elsewhere it is fantastic at the moment. 
 
As for people leaving early far fewer at the moment thank goodness. Against B’ham there was some loudmouth behind me who veered from criticism to moaning constantly and left with his entourage on 85 minutes ?. Yesterday a few left early but not many. My Grandson said are we ever going to score and I told him to keep believing as most goals are scored in the final seconds and injury time….cue pandemonium what a season what a season ?

Who cares?

I think what defines us is that we're the biggest small club in the world.
We don't have a massive conurbation to draw support from. We don't have a prime London or coastal location to attract players. We don't have decades of European football that have brought us fame and fortune. 
We're from an unfashionable, small city in a beautiful, if a little neglected, mid-sized county. Go a few miles East, West or South and you find other similar sized clubs - meaning we're hemmed in to Derbyshire. All this limits our growth as a club. We are, and always have been a team for locals (including newly arrived locals) - or the descendents of locals.
The uniqueness of Derby County is the reach within the city and county. I would happily bet that a higher percentage of Derbyshire's population have a Rams allegiance than any other comparable county and club. The most remarkable thing about this city, is that for such an unremarkable place, it has a huge football club, which is vibrant heart of both city and county.
I  think the reason we are such a roller-coaster of a club is that on paper we're as big as a mid-table Premier League club, but our reach is only ever going to be local. Owners come in wanting to make us global. The problem is that although we're enormous in Ripley and Alvaston, we struggle to even dominate in Long Eaton, and we're non-existant in Ashby - so selling shirts in China or packing stadiums on a US tour is never going to happen. 

This.
I left Derby 30 odd years ago, but wherever I go, and whoever I meet, as soon as they find out I'm a Derby fan, they want to talk football. Not of the Premier League, the Champions League, or the faceless millionaires that play for the big clubs, but of the old days at the BBG, of Brian Clough, THAT season in the Premier League, THAT play off match vs Leeds, Wayne Rooney as a Manager, and why 30k turn up to a relegation fight against Peterborough!
People like us because we are unfashionable, we aren't glamorous, we just love our team, and our city.