Studying the league table I can't help but look at our For and Against columns! I can't remember too many times in the past let's say 10 years we have finished the season with a + goals difference! Ok the promotion season was one but there cannot be many others.
We seem to be bubbling along nicely with a +5 GD not conceding too many goals and scoring a few to go with it. Myself included was gutted with the sale of Shackell and I'm pleased more than anybody that Nigel rammed it down my throat with his replacement, who I'm now going to say is a better player all round! Even though the thought of them both side by side one another draws breath !!
Take a look two places below and who do we see, ooooops. 21 goals scored compared to our 24! Man City of the midlands with mr Cox and the mighty billy sharp leading there attack. Then there's us with all of our non league players and manager lighting up the division, it's a funny old game football.
Go easy on them fellow sheepys....
Goals For and Against
posted on 7/11/12
"nothing short of breathtaking"
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Who says romance is dead
posted on 8/11/12
Your point being, 'Omar"?
posted on 8/11/12
Your rose tinted specs must be bottle bottoms. You would be hard pushed to find any other Rams fan that would go so far as to say that Nigels reign(what is it 4 years now?) has been breathtaking.
posted on 8/11/12
It's been breathtaking.
posted on 8/11/12
You might find some Rams who find it breathtaking that his reign has lasted four years, mind
I've had my doubts over tactics, and some of the signings, but I'm still in the pro-Clough camp.
posted on 8/11/12
Yep, the whole process, taking into account restrictions, penury and Paul Jewell has been breathtaking
posted on 8/11/12
It's been breathtaking.
If the alternative is two managers a season like the 'crash and burn' Forest and Leicester approaches of recent years, I'll settle for the 'slow and steady' approach employed by Nigel.
At least we know that we'll have a club in the future.
posted on 8/11/12
Billy took your struggling poor-average team up in 1 season,yet none of you have a kind word to say about him. He paid off the bulk of your debts,you should at least name the stadium after him.
OOE,We will still have a club in the future
posted on 8/11/12
It must be Clough, Clough, Clough
Da da-da
Where's Mostyn?
posted on 9/11/12
"We will still have a club in the future"
Cousin Omar - the point is, until the Fridge Salesmen came in, you didn't. Same with Leicester. Both clubs were perilously close to going under, as were we a few years ago.
Derby have been at death's door on more than one occasion in the past, Leicester went into administration and Welshed on their debts, thus precipitating a rule change and the points deductions to discourage others from going the same way, and Forest were £100m up the Swannee this time last season - until tragic circumstances actually turned out well for the club (I can't make that last bit sound right without it seeming ghoulish, but you know what I mean).
I never want to go through the immediate pre-Maxwell days with the high court brinkmanship over the winding-up order, the immediate post-Maxwell uncertainty, the Amigos days when we knew that we were being run by crooks and chancers but couldn't prove it for a couple of years.
The desperation of not knowing whether, the following season, our team would even be on the fixtures list, let alone what division they would be playing in. I've been there, done that and bought the tee shirt.
I'm actually rather impressed with how the Kuwaitis have started out at Forest. OK, they splashed a bit of cash around but without it, you were third division bound. I've no idea what the terms of their takeover were - favourable I would imagine because the Doughty family just wanted to see the back of the club - so I doubt whether Forest's debts are anything like they were. They may have even been completely expunged. Either way, you look as though you are in safe hands. Businessmen don't buy a club as a plaything.