Mostyn6 Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 30 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said: Jake clearing that ball in to row Z instead of treading on it and then Zamora.... You seriously pretending there wasn’t a step/chance in between those two steps? ??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 23 minutes ago, Xlor said: I'll always remember, I was in ibiza and had to read 3 day old papers. Couldn't believe it. Mind you, it was the sun which also had Shaun Ryder down as dead until we saw him stumbling out of a shady back street club. I believe I've read bits about baggio in jim smiths autobiography too. It was in his autobiography. He was in his villa and the agent asked for a million signing on fee. He rang Pickering who agreed it. Smith pulled out in case it limited his other transfer options. I was in Ibiza working when we signed Eranio. Remember the out of date newspapers, the good old days when you could fart without a video going online. One of them ran a story about an altercation between Dean Gaffney from Eastenders and his brother for reasons unknown. I knew the reason and it involved some blokes from Ripley upsetting him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Paul71 said: Had someone put a load of laxitive in Jonathan Douglas' tea on the morning of the last game of the season in 2016. Filthy player, Thorne was his third broken leg victim in the same season. Or perhaps inform Wassall 'there really is no need to put out your strongest 11 in this one'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlor Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 47 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said: It was in his autobiography. He was in his villa and the agent asked for a million signing on fee. He rang Pickering who agreed it. Smith pulled out in case it limited his other transfer options. I was in Ibiza working when we signed Eranio. Remember the out of date newspapers, the good old days when you could fart without a video going online. One of them ran a story about an altercation between Dean Gaffney from Eastenders and his brother for reasons unknown. I knew the reason and it involved some blokes from Ripley upsetting him. I saw dean Gaffney in ibiza that year. I asked him where wellard was?. Bet he was really traumatised being surrounded by 10 fit blondes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hintonsboots Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 I’m sure Maxwell would have travelled back and upgraded the Jewson handrail on his boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 6 hours ago, Longeatonram2020 said: Wrap George Thorne in cotton wool for the whole duration of his Derby career. Huge shame in the end as I don’t think we’ve had a more talented midfielder on the books over the last decade. Just simply nobble the player who nobbled him, in that preseason friendly, before he could nobble him. Sliding doors moment, if he’d made it through that friendly, he’d have been fit all season and we’d have walked the league... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB BIGGS Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 My 50 year plus Derby County experience would have been much happier if Tommy Docherty and Sam Rush had taken their undoubted expertise elsewhere ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannable Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 36 minutes ago, ramsbottom said: Just simply nobble the player who nobbled him, in that preseason friendly, before he could nobble him. Sliding doors moment, if he’d made it through that friendly, he’d have been fit all season and we’d have walked the league... It was a contactless ACL wasn’t it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottingram Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 7 hours ago, Millenniumram said: Money certainly could have been spent better, but I still think that was the best squad in the division. We somehow managed to simultaneously have a shocking manager and a shocking recruitment team. It didn’t exactly start well for Mel. Hang on a minute... I know you like to be relentlessly negative but how can we have had the best squad in the division and a shocking recruitment team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 17 minutes ago, nottingram said: Hang on a minute... I know you like to be relentlessly negative but how can we have had the best squad in the division and a shocking recruitment team? Because with the money we spent, we still should have had an even better team. The division was weak that season, so best squad in the league wasn’t as much of an achievement as it has been in other seasons. And, more importantly, we should have built a more long term team. Signing ageing players like Shackell and Johnson on pretty long contracts has hurt us financially even up until now, even if they were decent players over short periods of time. The strategy hurt us that summer, not just the individuals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 10 hours ago, cannable said: It was a contactless ACL wasn’t it? From what I remember it was a 50/50, but I’m sure more invested folk will dive into the archives to prove me wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeedsCityRam Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 22 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said: Mentioned that the other day. We were a Wise, Crook and Townsend from a probable title tilt, who we were in for- till Maxwell decided to lend Spurs a million quid to buy Lineker. An effort to butter up the purchase of the club he ultimately never got. We would probably have had to stay lucky with injuries and Liverpool still had a very good team then imo. But it was definitely there for the taking. Would have been a better story than the Leicester one from where we came from over 5 years. Absolutely. The confusing thing here was that we had Pickering waiting in the wings, who genuinely wanted to pump money into the club. By the time he got his hands on it, we were second tier & he spent big on Kitson, Johnson, Short etc & achieved nowt. Not sure what the crack with Maxwell selling up to him was. Its the most frustrating near miss in my lifetime as not only could we have won something but also would have been box office around the time of SKY getting their hands on the top division & moving the perception of football (and its most successful clubs) into another stratosphere. Think our profile as a club would've been very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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