YorkshireRam Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Not many people have had such an influence on DCFC as a whole, than Dave Mackay has. Will be sorely missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal is a Ram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Amazing. Mackay had retired from football in total the year I really started following Derby - yet his loss still saddens me. Dad will be gutted, he grew up watching the team he played in, and worshipped the team he managed to a title.DCFC have announced a minute applause both tonight and Saturday, players will wear black armbands, and the programme will have a memorial cover for Saturday. Flag is at half mast at the iPro, too.Would be something special - and there's a few tweets to this effect flying round - if the South Stand were to be named in his honour, although there is already the Dave Mackay Suite.Dave Mackay 12-0 Finn Harps.Hope Cloughie's looking after you up there big man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brammie Steve Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 If you believe what Sky Sports are spouting he only played for Tottenham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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froggg Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Rest easy fella..... thanks for the memories which will last a lifetime for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I remember him flattening Bobby Gould , at the Ossie end once , Bobby was being a tad rambunctious , and after one Coventry attack the ball and most of the players cleared off to the Normanton end , except for Gould who was spark out in the area , and Dave who was casually strolling towards the half way line as if nothing untoward had occurred , brilliant memories . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Ram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Great player, great manager, true Derby legend, will forever be remembered.We honoured Clough and Taylor with a statue, the club must do the right thing and find a fitting way to honour Mackay also.Thoughts are with his family at this sad timeRIP the late great Dave Mackay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor1946 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 R.I.P Dave Mackay A true Derby county LEGEND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUSCram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 http://I was 11 when Mackay was signed and watching him play over the next three seasons was a privilege. Probably the best player I've ever seen in our shirt, certainly the most inspirational one. It's such players that build a club's history and a reason why today's kids become Derby fans. Nuts to a minute's applause on Saturday. It demands a minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUSCram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I meant to finish that off with "minute's silence." Hope the club has enough sense to make it so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scarlet Pimpernel Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-County-legend-Dave-Mackay-team-mates-said/story-26108271-detail/story.htmlThe link above shows Dave holding up the second division championship trophy. Could there be anything more inspiring for the current team to do than to look what Dave MacKay did for Derby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scarlet Pimpernel Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Lovely interview with Roy Mac on the official site. Basically saying Dave MacKay was his teacher and that the most fitting tribute to him would be if the current players and management could get the club back in the top division 40 years after Dave led the team to the top division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 The fact that seven players went to visit him last week shows the enduring depth of affection for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Short but nice by official Derby Youtube page: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Sad day today. A big part of the clubs history.R.I.P. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocFox Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I'm old enough to remember when Clough signed him. I'd seen him play a few times for Spurs (including when they beat City to win the double in 1961) and I thought he was on the long slow fall down the leagues until he would end up running a boozer somewhere. Mind you, I thought Clough was going nowhere with Derby as well. Yeah, right.Mackay was, quite simply, one of the greatest footballers of his day - or any other day come to that. If he'd been English, he'd have walked into England's World Cup side, and he might even have ended up managing England.There were a few self-consciously "hard" players around in his era (Norman Hunter, Ron Harris, etc) but unlike them, Mackay was a genuinely good footballer. I doubt we'll ever see his like again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 The legend will live on. RIP Dave Mackay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocFox Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 If you believe what Sky Sports are spouting he only played for Tottenham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 RIP Daveoung MacKay.He was my first Derby Manager, was to young to remember BC, dam I feel sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Spalding Ram Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 For me the significance of Dave Mackays legendary status at Derby County can be summed up in one match. The Rams had made an excellent start to the 69/70 season in the First Division after being promoted the previous season, 9 matches played, 5 wins, 4 draws, and next up the biggest test yet, away to Fairs Cup winners Newcastle United. Roy McFarland had smashed one in at the Gallowgate End and with the pressure mounting the fist clenching, finger pointing, back slapping, influence of Mackay was immeasurable and after 90 minutes my team yes my team Derby County Football Club were top of the league, Mackays performance was colossal! Did we see the best of Mackay at Derby, probably not, but his influence on the greatest defender I ever saw in a Derby shirt, Roy McFarland, is well documented and monumental. Today is a sad day for supporters who lived through the greatest era in our history. I for one will never forget those magnificent memories and thank you David Craig Mackay, a footballing great and a true Derby County legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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