Does anyone remember League 1 Derby County? (STILL the worst team in history!)

Trents

John Robertson
Must be crushing for them knowing the worlds eyes are on us, including everybody in Derby. That's why our thread is so busy on their forum, and theirs on ours isn't - because it's actually quite boring and irrelevant to be a 3rd division football club.
They are all sitting there watching us with Jim Bowen's voice in their heads ringing with "Let's have a look at what you could have won"

They would have been buoyant after Newcastle, thinking every side would do the same to us. Must be crushing to see that we can actually compete and win matches, with an incomplete squad.

Fact is, we are on a different footballing planet to Derby now and for the foreseeable future. Deep down they know it.
 

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle

''The TikTok stars wages alone must put them close to the entire wage spend under Mels Tenure.''

Where to begin with this one...

1) That's complete rubbish. Derby's wage bill was huge. How much was Rooney on again?
2) Forest are a Premier League team and can afford to pay high wages.
3) Forest have complied with all FFP rules. Derby couldn't and can't.

Pure copium.
 

congo_red_49

Ale Ape

''The TikTok stars wages alone must put them close to the entire wage spend under Mels Tenure.''

Where to begin with this one...

1) That's complete rubbish. Derby's wage bill was huge. How much was Rooney on again?
2) Forest are a Premier League team and can afford to pay high wages.
3) Forest have complied with all FFP rules. Derby couldn't and can't.

Pure copium.
In fairness to them, maths has never been their strong point.
 

Rzar

Bob McKinlay

''The TikTok stars wages alone must put them close to the entire wage spend under Mels Tenure.''

Where to begin with this one...

1) That's complete rubbish. Derby's wage bill was huge. How much was Rooney on again?
2) Forest are a Premier League team and can afford to pay high wages.
3) Forest have complied with all FFP rules. Derby couldn't and can't.

Pure copium.
Hourihane will be earning more wages to revenue ratio at Derby
 

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
This made me laugh too...

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"Ambitious" conveniently seems to forget that the crowd was largely so low that season due to fans making a stand against the then owner and his operational methods. Something which actually prevented us from.....doing a Derby County :LOL:

30k can "Fight to The End" all they want when they're backing the wrong horses. All it does is drag the club down. And it's thanks to the Forest faithful who had the foresight and backbone to stand up to Fazza that we walked an entirely different, infinitely more successful path to the League 1-ers.

Although as for being a "footballing town" though, I will agree with him there. Nottingham has way more to it than just football. There's really no need for it to limit itself to one thing, unlike an inbred shithole like Derby.
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
The attendance argument makes me laugh. They love to cherry pick the odd decent attendances they get and ancient bad ones of ours, neglecting to mention the reasons why they get the odd inflated attendance (apparently did cheap tickets for the Barnsley game, for example) or the context behind ours.

We've all seen their attendances when they aren't doing well and aren't getting cheap/free tickets. Lets see what they bring in charging full price for a midtable clash against Forest Green Rovers on a Tuesday night.

They just come across as sad and desperate at this point.
 

HBB

Jack Burkitt
The attendance argument makes me laugh. They love to cherry pick the odd decent attendances they get and ancient bad ones of ours, neglecting to mention the reasons why they get the odd inflated attendance (apparently did cheap tickets for the Barnsley game, for example) or the context behind ours.

We've all seen their attendances when they aren't doing well and aren't getting cheap/free tickets. Lets see what they bring in charging full price for a midtable clash against Forest Green Rovers on a Tuesday night.

They just come across as sad and desperate at this point.
I see they have a thread citing how dead the atmosphere was on Saturday and the usual apologists say "oh the weather" etc, wheras at the sweltering hot WFCG .....
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
I see they have a thread citing how dead the atmosphere was on Saturday and the usual apologists say "oh the weather" etc, wheras at the sweltering hot WFCG .....
In fairness, its hard to get an atmosphere going when a lot of the fans around them probably only turn up when its cheap (thus probably don't know half the squad's names) and are probably not happy that they weren't 5-0 up against Barnsley.
 

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Is this the same Derby County that had a half empty stadium for nearly every game last season?

Remember Sheepies, the camera never lies even if the attendance figures do.
 

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
The attendance argument makes me laugh. They love to cherry pick the odd decent attendances they get and ancient bad ones of ours, neglecting to mention the reasons why they get the odd inflated attendance (apparently did cheap tickets for the Barnsley game, for example) or the context behind ours.

We've all seen their attendances when they aren't doing well and aren't getting cheap/free tickets. Lets see what they bring in charging full price for a midtable clash against Forest Green Rovers on a Tuesday night.

They just come across as sad and desperate at this point.
They also neglect the fact they are one of many clubs who had that new stadium boost / bounce just as football came out of the doldrums. They have had spells in the premier league more recently. So their boost has been had and they still need to give away tickets to get bigger crowds.

Hopefully we can have our first boost since the new era of football (I class this as 1996 onwards) and we can build the stadium up with the new demand and really kick on with building our club up to the potential we have. We have spent so many years poorly run.
 

HBB

Jack Burkitt
Isn't it about time that this thread was locked and consigned to the archives as a place of interest for football Historians?
We are Premiership now.
They are an irrelevance.
Let them rest in peace.


Have they paid any of the outstanding tax debt yet?
Agreed - they have for several years now been little more than the stone in our show, an annoyance which we can dispense with.
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
They also neglect the fact they are one of many clubs who had that new stadium boost / bounce just as football came out of the doldrums. They have had spells in the premier league more recently. So their boost has been had and they still need to give away tickets to get bigger crowds.

Hopefully we can have our first boost since the new era of football (I class this as 1996 onwards) and we can build the stadium up with the new demand and really kick on with building our club up to the potential we have. We have spent so many years poorly run.
It says a lot about Derby that we've been shambolic for the best part of a quarter of a century yet they still haven't overtaken us, despite the advantages you mention.

I think the reason they are so bitter about Forest is that they knew that they'll never get a better chance to establish themselves as a better club than what they have had over the last 23 years.

If they couldn't establish themselves as a bigger and better club during the last quarter of a century when the club was ran poorly and spent most of the time in the bottom half of the Championship or League One, then how are they going to compare to a well run Nottingham Forest with a bigger ground and Premier League football?

Deep down they know this. Their chance has been and gone.
 

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
It says a lot about Derby that we've been shambolic for the best part of a quarter of a century yet they still haven't overtaken us, despite the advantages you mention.

I think the reason they are so bitter about Forest is that they knew that they'll never get a better chance to establish themselves as a better club than what they have had over the last 23 years.

If they couldn't establish themselves as a bigger and better club during the last quarter of a century when the club was ran poorly and spent most of the time in the bottom half of the Championship or League One, then how are they going to compare to a well run Nottingham Forest with a bigger ground and Premier League football?

Deep down they know this. Their chance has been and gone.

Pretty much. Not only that, but we had the most genuinely unfortunate blow dealt to us when ND passed away, and Fawaz came along like a gallon of piss that we had to drink to avoid dehydrating to death in the desert. It's a one in a million situation that no-one could have seen coming, and which left us in an incredibly weakened position.

For Derby to have missed the opportunity to capitalize on all that, and after spending so much too, must really stick in their throat.

And to ram it home (pun intended) without a moment's hesitation, we've taken the first opportunity to move light-years ahead of them, and pretty much cemented ourselves as the superior East mids team for a long, long time to come.

It's to be expected that they'll find any comfort in any fantasy they can. All that lays for wait for them in reality is pain and misery.
 

Ashley

Steve Chettle
Pretty much. Not only that, but we had the most genuinely unfortunate blow dealt to us when ND passed away, and Fawaz came along like a gallon of piss that we had to drink to avoid dehydrating to death in the desert. It's a one in a million situation that no-one could have seen coming, and which left us in an incredibly weakened position.

For Derby to have missed the opportunity to capitalize on all that, and after spending so much too, must really stick in their throat.

And to ram it home (pun intended) without a moment's hesitation, we've taken the first opportunity to move light-years ahead of them, and pretty much cemented ourselves as the superior East mids team for a long, long time to come.

It's to be expected that they'll find any comfort in any fantasy they can. All that lays for wait for them in reality is pain and misery.
Good point about the Doughty/Fawaz situation. To go from tragedy (Doughty passing away) to disaster (Fawaz, which was enough to test anyone's patience) was an double blow that lead to an awful and quite frankly depressing period for the club.

Ever since Fawaz left, the club has been on the up, both on and off the pitch (besides the Hughton season) whilst they were worshipping Mel Morris and giving it the big 'un until karma caught up with them.

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.
 

forestzoe

Jack Burkitt
This made me laugh too...

JrJ7U9Z.png


"Ambitious" conveniently seems to forget that the crowd was largely so low that season due to fans making a stand against the then owner and his operational methods. Something which actually prevented us from.....doing a Derby County

30k can "Fight to The End" all they want when they're backing the wrong horses. All it does is drag the club down. And it's thanks to the Forest faithful who had the foresight and backbone to stand up to Fazza that we walked an entirely different, infinitely more successful path to the League 1-ers.

Although as for being a "footballing town" though, I will agree with him there. Nottingham has way more to it than just football. There's really no need for it to limit itself to one thing, unlike an inbred shithole like Derby.
Nottingham isn't a footballing town due to the fact its a City

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REDDERS78

Grenville Morris
Poll needed

a) Close thread and treat with the insignificance they deserve.
b) Keep open to laugh at them.

Someone gerrit sorted. Im for closing, we might never even play them again to be honest.
 
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