[Football] Derby

Bozza · Feb 3, 2016

I used to like Derby...

- A proper football club with good heritage.
- A fantastic level of support that didn't really drop away when they were treading water in the Championship.
- A good stadium that's not like all the other identikit bowls built around the same time.
- An ethos for bringing through their own.
- Look to play decent football.

I was genuinely disappointed for them when they failed to go up after beating us in the playoffs and I took no delight in their implosion last season.

This season, however, I really don't like them at all. Implode away again, Derby please.

Bigtomfu · Feb 3, 2016

Think we dodged a bullet in missing out on Clement. Obviously we took our own howitzer to the face in Hyypia but what do ya know

Blue Valkyrie · Feb 3, 2016

I don't hate Derby, but long may their entertaining meltdown and implosion continue !

Boro5707 · Feb 3, 2016

Bozza said:
I used to like Derby...

- A proper football club with good heritage.
- A fantastic level of support that didn't really drop away when they were treading water in the Championship.
- A good stadium that's not like all the other identikit bowls built around the same time.
- An ethos for bringing through their own.
- Look to play decent football.

I was genuinely disappointed for them when they failed to go up after beating us in the playoffs and I took no delight in their implosion last season.

This season, however, I really don't like them at all. Implode away again, Derby please.

Derby is the exact same stadium as the riverside. Derby used the plans from the riverside to build their stadium. The only difference, we have around 800 more seats and they have a few more executive boxes.

Man of Harveys · Feb 3, 2016

A team of hammer throwers, from what I saw - very old-fashioned. And seemingly a CLASSIC set of overexpectant fans. I'm always quite happy to see them implode after Christmas, like a disused power station's cooling tower.

dazzer6666 · Feb 3, 2016

Boro5707 said:
Derby is the exact same stadium as the riverside. Derby used the plans from the riverside to build their stadium. The only difference, we have around 800 more seats and they have a few more executive boxes.

...and theirs appears to full of twats.

pishhead · Feb 3, 2016

The #dcfc and #dcfcfans # on twitter makes for interesting reading!

Stumpy Tim · Feb 3, 2016

This "implosion" seems a bit overstated to me. They're on a bad run, but so were we a couple of weeks ago. Boro will have a bad run too, and I'm sure Hull will slip up.

I couldn't care less about Derby, except for the fact they're one of our main challengers

Fungus · Feb 3, 2016

Boro5707 said:
Derby is the exact same stadium as the riverside. Derby used the plans from the riverside to build their stadium. The only difference, we have around 800 more seats and they have a few more executive boxes.

The Riverside is the only stadium my wife recognises on TV - she says "that's the one where all the seats are empty".

Megazone · Feb 3, 2016

Their ground couldn't be more identical to the rest.

Paint the Riverside seats black and you'd think it was Pride park.

Bozza · Feb 3, 2016

Stumpy Tim said:
This "implosion" seems a bit overstated to me. They're on a bad run, but so were we a couple of weeks ago. Boro will have a bad run too, and I'm sure Hull will slip up.

I couldn't care less about Derby, except for the fact they're one of our main challengers

I'm not suggesting they have, yet, this season. They did last year though and I would welcome a repeat should it happen.

Stumpy Tim · Feb 3, 2016

Bozza said:
I'm not suggesting they have, yet, this season. They did last year though and I would welcome a repeat should it happen.

Wasn't particularly aimed at you, but many people have claimed an implosion. To me an implosion would be what happened to them last season, but things haven't got that bad for them yet

Bombadier Botty · Feb 3, 2016

I might be wrong, but there seems to be a sense of entitlement about that club that makes me want them to go right down the shitter. Also a sense that the media love them too much at the expense of other promotion chasing clubs like Brighton and Hove Albion FC. I never bought into the whole 'good luck to them in the playoffs' nonsense after they dismantled us over two legs.

Boro5707 · Feb 3, 2016

Oxy McFloppie-Tish said:
The Riverside is the only stadium my wife recognises on TV - she says "that's the one where all the seats are empty".

Attendances are creeping up again, should be around 30k on sat. Your wife should have a new view next season and instead of looking at the east stand she will be able to view the main stand, the west.

Megazone · Feb 3, 2016

Boro5707 said:
Attendances are creeping up again, should be around 30k on sat. Your wife should have a new view next season and instead of looking at the east stand she will be able to view the main stand, the west.

What's your average attendance this season?

Curious Orange · Feb 3, 2016

Boro5707 said:
Derby is the exact same stadium as the riverside. Derby used the plans from the riverside to build their stadium. The only difference, we have around 800 more seats and they have a few more executive boxes.

I did not know that. Presumably the differences occurred due to how you filled in the two open corners at the Riverside? Derby filled one of theirs with executive boxes from the off, which is quite quirky.

saafend_seagull · Feb 3, 2016

Too many big name players. Anyway we have no chance of top 2 unless we can beat all of the top 5 teams when we play them.

Boro5707 · Feb 3, 2016

Megazone said:
What's your average attendance this season?

Around 24k, about a 1k less than you but we don't get any away fans. About 3 teams a season bring over 1000 fans to us.

Blue Valkyrie · Feb 3, 2016

Stumpy Tim said:
This "implosion" seems a bit overstated to me. They're on a bad run, but so were we a couple of weeks ago. Boro will have a bad run too, and I'm sure Hull will slip up.

I couldn't care less about Derby, except for the fact they're one of our main challengers

The 'implosion' impression has a lot to do with the Derby chairman totally losing it and storming into the dressing room shouting the odds a couple of games ago.

Bozza · Feb 3, 2016

Boro5707 said:
Around 24k, about a 1k less than you but we don't get any away fans. About 3 teams a season bring over 1000 fans to us.

Things seem to be on the up generally...

2010/11 - 16,769
2011/12 - 17.982
2012/13 - 17,106
2013/14 - 15,965
2014/15 - 19,771
2015/16 - 23,416 (over 1,500 behind us currently)

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