Brammie Steve Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/football_legends/11920.shtml Last I heard he had left the Nottingham Hospital after his chest infection. Keep mending big man! We 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':wub:' /> you Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 erm, can we talk about something that younger members can join in with, please? How does: Gregorsz Rasiak THE quite good striker, sound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 You can't seriously compare Dave Mackay and Rasiak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brammie Steve Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 erm, can we talk about something that younger members can join in with, please? How does: Gregorsz Rasiak THE quite good striker, sound? Belioeve me young 'un. THE Derby County of the present day would have been much the poorer were it not for men like those referred to by we old dinosaurs as legends. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':wub:' /> PS There's nothing to stop you starting a topic and seeing how it runs. How about Nat Tyson THE golden goalscorer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 erm, can we talk about something that younger members can join in with, please? How does: Gregorsz Rasiak THE quite good striker, sound? Off topic. Don't join in if you don't know who he is, and if you don't know, catch up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Even young derby fans should know and respect the great things this man has done for our club. Hope he gets better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hindge Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 You have to let him off, he is from Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I never saw him play I've never met him But my old man talked about him so much I researched him. A proper footballer And he still lives in Derby (wasn't he going t move back to Scotland after spurs until Brian and Peter introduced him to the joy of our city and county.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 You have to let him off, he is from Leicester. But he does support derby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmini Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Sometimes I think our younger supporters need a history lesson. Although its not there fault they missed the good times of the 70's. Dave Mackay had a tough act to follow, but he did it by winning the league. Always a legend in my eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hindge Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 But he does support derby. WHAT??!!?? Gods honest truth??? But this is Derby County forum??? From what Ive heard about Mackay, don't think we would of been the team we were without, heard lots of good stories of how Brian got him to sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Wiish i could have seen him play. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t'oldu Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 He has sat in the Directors box for years. An active supporter at all Home games. His shock of white hair is a give away..................... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIMBAUD Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 erm, can we talk about something that younger members can join in with, please? How does: Gregorsz Rasiak THE quite good striker, sound? ask someone who was at his first game and saw him run out for the rams how they felt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 The younger members can never understand the context of Dave Mackay joining Derby. At the time he was one of the top players in the country, same bracket as Best, Charlton, Greaves etc Today we'd be talking Gerrard, Rooney or Ya Ya Toure! Clough persuaded him to drop down to the 2nd Division, we won the league, got promoted and Mackay was voted joint footballer of the year. As Derby manager his record in the top tier was 3rd, 1st, 4th.......legend indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 And he still lives in Derby..... Burton Joyce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I didn't know he'd broke his leg twice. Sounds to me like he put some serious shifts in and had a totally different mindset towards his work than most of the footballers of today. What a guy, respect. [url=http://www.ynw62.dial.pipex.com/dmackay.htm]http://www.ynw62.dial.pipex.com/dmackay.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmini Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 He was one of the best players to ever pull on a Derby shirt and I was privileged to see him play for my club. I would go so far to say he was world class. As I said in a previous thread people need to remember in the early 70's we were bigger than Man U and players wanted to move to Derby 1st and those so called big clubs 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brammie Steve Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 Wiish i could have seen him play. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> You would have heard him too JW.! He directed proceedings for the whole 90 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 For anybody not familiar with Mr Macaky... Mackay was born in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh]Edinburgh, and began his playing career with the club he supported as a boy, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Midlothian_F.C.]Heart of Midlothian. He won all three Scottish domestic honours with the club. He captained the side in 1957–58 when the club broke the senior British league goalscoring record with 132 goals for, with only 29 conceded. He was signed by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C.]Tottenham Hotspur for £32,000 in March 1959. During the 1960s his fierce determination and skill contributed to the team which won [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_(association_football)]the Double in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960-61_in_English_football]1961, further [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup]FA Cup victories in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961-62_in_English_football]1962 and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966-67_in_English_football]1967, and the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Cup_Winners%27_Cup]Cup Winners Cup in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Cup_Winners%27_Cup_1962-63]1963. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clough]Brian Clough claimed in 2003 that Mackay was Tottenham Hotspur's greatest ever player.[size=2][[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed]citation needed][/size] In 1968 he was transferred to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_County_F.C.]Derby County for £5,000, after [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clough]Brian Clough and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taylor_(footballer_born_1928)]Peter Taylor persuaded him to sign. In his first season at the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Ground]Baseball Ground, in which the club gained [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_and_relegation]promotion to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_First_Division]First Division, he was chosen [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWA_Footballer_of_the_Year]FWA Footballer of the Year, jointly with [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_City_F.C.]Manchester City's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Book]Tony Book. When he was a player at Derby County, Clough made Mackay play in a sweeping role and used his influence on the team to encourage them to turn defence into attack through a passing game. In 1971 he was appointed [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player-manager]player-manager of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Town_F.C.]Swindon Town but left after just one season to take charge of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_Forest_F.C.]Nottingham Forest. He remained at the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Ground]City Ground until October 1973, when he returned to Derby as manager following Clough's resignation. In his first season Derby finished third in the table. In his second season in charge of Derby, he guided the team to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974-75_in_English_football]1975 league title. The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975-76_in_English_football]following season, he managed the club to a respectable fourth-place finish in the league, the semifinals of the FA Cup, and an unfortunate [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_time]extra time second-round exit to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Madrid_C.F.]Real Madrid in the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Cup_1975-76]1976 European Cup. At one stage the side had been in the running for the Double. Mackay was sacked in November 1976 after a poor start to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976-77_in_English_football]season. A newspaper headline reading "Mackay sacked" was used as a visual prop in the British television [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_comedy]situation comedy [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge_(TV_series)]Porridge, which featured a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_officer]prison officer named Mackay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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