Aberdeenshire Rams

[Inverurie Ram]

Derby County v Bristol Rovers Sat 29th Oct 2022.

2 x Aberdeenshire Rams going to this.

In The Old Bell 51 Sadler Gate 11am ish.

 

[Inverurie Ram]

Derby County 4-2 Bristol Rovers Sat 29th Oct 2022. Attendance 27,841.

McGoldrick 3, Collins 1.

The eldest lad and I enjoyed our trip for this game. Sat in the South Stand Upper in H.

Fri 18:45 Aberdeen to Edinburgh Megabus
Fri 22:40 Edinburgh to Meadowhall Megabus
Sat 05:43 Meadowhall to Sheffield Train 
Sat 06:33 Sheffield to Derby Train

Arrived in Derby 07:00 and walked up to Pride Park in the dark and the light drizzle. Took a couple of photos and escaped the rain sitting down in Greggs. Made a move back into Derby but the heavy rain came down, so nipped into the Starbucks drive through and dried out. The lack of sleep on the overnight  megabus, caught up with my boy. Walked back into Derby and strolled around the shops, nipped into Waterstones with the intention of buying my mate the ‘Groundwork’ book, but nothing Derby related in the sport section, and with the Derby Book Festival on, pretty disappointing.

Met my mate in The Kitchen on Sadler Gate for Breakfast at 10am. Tried The Old Bell at 11am for beer but doesn’t open until 12, so popped to The Slug & Lettuce for drinks. Tried checking into the hotel at 1pm, but no joy, so enjoyed some more beer. Walked along the river about 2pm and was in Pride Park for about 2:15pm to hang the Aberdeenshire Rams flag up.

Enjoyed every second of the game and was really impressed especially with James Collins pressing and work rate and if every other player gives that commitment on a regular basis then we will get promoted.

Sun 09:00 Derby to Leicester National Express

Sun 10:55 Leicester to Luton Airport National Express

Sun 19:15 Luton to Aberdeen Airport easyJet

Sun 21:00 Aberdeen Airport to Inverurie Car.

Home 21:30 and time to catch up with all the Derby County footage on RamsTV.

Another great weekend like the one I had with 2 mates 23 years ago, this weekend, when we drove down to Derby from Westhill via the Glasgow Barrowlands on the Friday night to enjoy Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros before arriving in Derby bang on 3pm to watch the Rams beat Chelsea 3-1.

 

 

Edited October 31, 2022 by Inverurie Ram

[Reggie Greenwood]

10 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Derby County 4-2 Bristol Rovers Sat 29th Oct 2022. Attendance 27,841.

McGoldrick 3, Collins 1.

The eldest lad and I enjoyed our trip for this game. Sat in the South Stand Upper in H.

Fri 18:45 Aberdeen to Edinburgh Megabus
Fri 22:40 Edinburgh to Meadowhall Megabus
Sat 05:43 Meadowhall to Sheffield Train 
Sat 06:33 Sheffield to Derby Train

Arrived in Derby 07:00 and walked up to Pride Park in the dark and the light drizzle. Took a couple of photos and escaped the rain sitting down in Greggs. Made a move back into Derby but the heavy rain came down, so nipped into the Starbucks drive through and dried out. The lack of sleep on the overnight  megabus, caught up with my boy. Walked back into Derby and strolled around the shops, nipped into Waterstones with the intention of buying my mate the ‘Groundwork’ book, but nothing Derby related in the sport section, and with the Derby Book Festival on, pretty disappointing.

Met my mate in The Kitchen on Sadler Gate for Breakfast at 10am. Tried The Old Bell at 11am for beer but doesn’t open until 12, so popped to The Slug & Lettuce for drinks. Tried checking into the hotel at 1pm, but no joy, so enjoyed some more beer. Walked along the river about 2pm and was in Pride Park for about 2:15pm to hang the Aberdeenshire Rams flag up.

Enjoyed every second of the game and was really impressed especially with James Collins pressing and work rate and if every other player gives that commitment on a regular basis then we will get promoted.

Sun 09:00 Derby to Leicester National Express

Sun 10:55 Leicester to Luton Airport National Express

Sun 19:15 Luton to Aberdeen Airport easyJet

Sun 21:00 Aberdeen Airport to Inverurie Car.

Home 21:30 and time to catch up with all the Derby County footage on RamsTV.

Another great weekend like the one I had with 2 mates 23 years ago, this weekend, when we drove down to Derby from Westhill via the Glasgow Barrowlands on the Friday night to enjoy Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros before arriving in Derby bang on 3pm to watch the Rams beat Chelsea 3-1.

 

 

Waterstones have a copy of Groundwork in their Window display . Not that’s any good to you now ?

[Inverurie Ram]

2 hours ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Waterstones have a copy of Groundwork in their Window display . Not that’s any good to you now ?

Brilliant……..I just walked in, went straight to the Sport section and saw absolutely nothing on DCFC and walked straight back out.

I reckon you’ve just put it in the window 2 hours ago! ?

 

[Inverurie Ram]

Derby County 4-2 Bristol Rovers Sat 29th Oct 2022. Attendance 27,841.

McGoldrick 3, Collins 1.

Can just make out the Aberdeenshire Rams flag after McGoldrick completes his hat-trick.

[Inverurie Ram]

Meet the Chuff Chuffs Inverurie Loco’s Super Fans………..

 

[Inverurie Ram]

 

[2tups]

On 27/11/2022 at 22:51, Inverurie Ram said:

 

Can’t beat a character. Hope Santa will bring some new drumsticks.

[Inverurie Ram]

We Are Derby Scotland,Fraserburgh, Elgin,Edinburgh & Glasgow Rams Calling…………

Any Dundee, Inverness, Rams etc?Anyone else from Scotland out there etc.

I received a lovely e-mail from Aimee at Writing East Midlands CIC as below, and I’m asking my fellow Scottish Rams if they would fancy a trip to Pride Park soon? On a Saturday before a game, where we could be involved in a “We Are Derby” session, in the morning, which we could share our stories about being Derby County fans, living in Scotland etc.

HI Rich, 

Thank so much for your email and it is brilliant to hear how you all support DCFC all the way from Aberdeenshire.  We could absolutely look at running a session for the We.Are.Derby project for you before  a match on a Saturday if you let me know a date when you’re planning on coming to Derby?  Alternatively, we could also run an online session for you with Jamie Thrasivoulou who is the lead writer on the project and famous for his We Are Derby poem, would this be of interest to you, and if so, when would work?  We’d absolutely love to hear more and feature you in the project, and also connect with other fans Fraserburgh, Elgin, Edinburgh & Glasgow etc.  

Many thanks again  for getting in touch, and I hope you all have a wonderful festive break,

Very best 

Aimee

Head of Artistic Development

Writing East Midlands CIC

@RadioactiveWaste @Elgin_Ram @Edinburgh ram @Glasgow-ram @CWC1983 @Ramadonna9 @2tups

[Inverurie Ram]

Bolton Wanderers v Derby County 

Tue 27th Dec 2022

Sky Sports 3pm Kick Off. 

(meet up 2pm onwards)

Any takers for a Xmas beer and a catch up at Aberdeen McGinty’s Meal an’ Ale pub on Tue 27th Dec 2022?

https://www.mcgintysmealanale.co.uk/

McGinty's Meal An' Ale. 

504 Union Street 

Aberdeen AB10 1TT 

Trains travelling along in Aberdeenshire as per normal and the match is not going to clash with any others, so stand by me and enjoy DCFC.

 

[SKRam]

Do I win the ‘Tenuous link’ of the year award? Conor Sammon just scored for Alloa. Alloa-Inverness close enough?
seriously wondering what sort of money he’d be earning there. Just curious! Anyone know? ?

[Premier ram]

54 minutes ago, SKRam said:

Do I win the ‘Tenuous link’ of the year award? Conor Sammon just scored for Alloa. Alloa-Inverness close enough?
seriously wondering what sort of money he’d be earning there. Just curious! Anyone know? ?

 

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[Inverurie Ram]

Barnsley v Derby County

Sat 25th Feb 2023.

2 x Aberdeenshire Rams going to this.

I managed to buy tickets for this game on the internet whilst holidaying in Los Cristianos,Tenerife with the family. 

Our 400+ miles journey starts off again on Thursday night with the overnight megabus for my eldest lad and me. Eldest lad has to miss the Friday off school to attend. I’ve booked the hotel in Derby this time also for the Thursday night so when we arrive in Derby on Friday morning about 7am, we can go to bed for a few hours.

We are then off to The New Zealand Arms Pub at about 11am for the Derby County memorabilia and to meet up with Derby friends.

Unfortunately in the afternoon we will be attending my friends funeral. RIP.

On Saturday it’s off to Barnsley on the train and hopefully a wonderful day for all Rams fans.

Hopefully @Owen87ITK & RamsTV  capture the Aberdeenshire Rams Flag when the Derby County Team bus arrives at Oakwell and in the away stand during the game. 

When does the bus usually arrive at away fixtures?

[Chellaston Ram]

Enjoy your day on Saturday, but don’t expect to get a seat on the train ?

[Inverurie Ram]

12 hours ago, Chellaston Ram said:

Enjoy your day on Saturday, but don’t expect to get a seat on the train ?

I love standing on a train and having a sing song anyway! Choo choo!

[Inverurie Ram]

Barnsley 4-1 Derby County Sat 25th Feb 2023. Attendance: 26,123

McGoldrick

The eldest lad and I enjoyed our trip for this game. Sat in the away end North Stand NS5 Row I.

Thu 19:25 Aberdeen to Edinburgh Megabus
Thu 22:40 Edinburgh to Meadowhall Megabus
Fri 05:43 Meadowhall to Sheffield Train 
Fri 06:03 Sheffield to Derby Train

Arrived in Derby 06:33am and walked up to the Premier Inn to the sound of the early birds tweeting. Checked in and straight to bed for 4 hours sleep, before waking up, shower and straight to The New Zealand Arms for The Rams Heritage Memorabilia of Derby County Football Club.

Met Jamie Thrasivoulou and Paul and some great people that support these wonderful events.

Attended my friend Bill’s funeral at the Markeaton Crematorium on Friday 24th February at 2.30pm. Steve Bloomers Watching played alongside the Derby County Ram visual on the wall. Wake at the Mundy Arms ✝️ ?

Carried on drinking in The Silk Mill telling stories of the good times with Bill and Derby County.

Saturday caught the 10:10 train to Sheffield via the Sheffield Tap. Arrived in Barnsley had a stroll around the centre recommending various pubs to my eldest lad for some lunch, ended up in Morrisons (kids eat free!)

Walked up to the Oakwell Stadium and it poured down, as we were doing a lap of the stadium, so my lad could see it all, including the fanzone, when it chucked it down, so we popped into the club shop to keep dry before spitting the Derby County Team Bus arrive. Jogged after it, but it was straight into the ground, before fans were let in etc.

Spotted Adam that does the great Derby County Vlogs on You Tube, so said hello and told him his videos were great and to keep up the great work.

Went into the ground and found our seats and enjoyed the team warming up. I ooohed and arghed about putting my flag up, as it was pretty windy, but eventually did. Then watched a game where we gave goals away very easily and we’re always going to be out muscled unfortunately, even though I expected a tighter game. Was spotted by a friend at half time, about meeting up after the game, I explained we were in no rush to leave so I could get our flag being sat only a few rows up from the far right corner.
 

We ended up getting out of the ground straight away as their was an exit beside all the police and stewards, that took us straight down steps and out round the back of the stand, whilst thousands of Rams fans followed each other like sheep aiming for the same exit.

We then broke through the police line aiming Derby County fans back to the station after I’d informed the lad, that we’d soon be surrounded with the Barnsley fans walking back into town. So we got to endure the Barnsley fans calling out “Scabs” and saw the Derby fans being escorted and deprecated by a couple of police on horses etc.

We found the little craft pub we were looking for in the arcade the Jolly Tap in Barnsley which was great. https://m.facebook.com/JollyTapArcade/

We had a couple of lovely pints of porter whist letting the crowds at the station disappear keeping our chat of the Rams quiet whilst still surrounded by Barnsley fans.

Grabbed a train about 7pm back to Sheffield, enjoying a final pint in the Sheffield Tap as my eldest lad could only stay in it until 8pm. Left the rest of the lads in there and headed back to Derby and an early night chilling in the Hotel.

Sunday enjoyed a lie in before breakfast in the Derbion and then on a National Express Coach at 11:15am to Leicester before another National Express Coach 13:10pm to Luton Airport arriving at 15:00pm time to watch Man Utd 2-0 Newcastle Caraboa Cup Final before boarding on a flight at 19:15pm that was 10 mins late leaving.
 

Which meant when we landed we ended up running off the flight, straight into a cab, for a quick 6 minute drive to Dyce Train Station, only to see, passengers walking into the car park and the train bang on time for a change, had just left .
 

We waited another 45 mins for the next train, again bang on time, so we were back into Inverurie Sunday evening, just before 10:00pm before the 20 minute walk home in the cold and dark night seeing a rabbit scurry across the frosty road.

Edited March 3, 2023 by Inverurie Ram

[Inverurie Ram]

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Edited March 3, 2023 by Inverurie Ram

[OssieEnd]

You  are amazing ! 

 

I've yet to see the vid above but I know this thread ! Your commitment to DCFC is amazing.  

 

 

[Inverurie Ram]