Category Archives: Transfers

Three into two won’t go

Posted on May 6, 2013 by lazerock

The final whistle may only have been blown on Saturday afternoon, but Derby’s recruitment plans for next season are clearly already well advanced.  They probably would have been even more so, had mathematical safety not taken so long to achieve … Continue reading →

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Will Hughes – a conspiracy theory

Posted on March 14, 2013 by lazerock

Will has been out for a while now and our results have suffered without him.  Nigel Clough has recently taken to using his absence, along with the injuries to three more of our best players (Ward, Brayford, Bryson) as a … Continue reading →

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The ones that got away – Derby County’s attacking transfer targets who went elsewhere

Posted on March 4, 2013 by lazerock

The other day, I was emailing back and forth with Joe Burns, who runs the techie side of the website from his home in Chicago.  Somewhere along the line, inbetween emailing Andy Appleby and betting on the horses (he’ll be … Continue reading →

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Five years on, how far have we come? (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on January 30, 2013 by lazerock

This is the second half of what became an epic blog post marking the fifth anniversary of GSE’s takeover of Derby County from Peter Gadsby’s ‘League of Gentlemen’.  (First half is here) Sam Rush told the recent Fans Forum that … Continue reading →

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Five years on, how far have we come? (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on January 28, 2013 by lazerock

“Derby under Nigel Clough: 18th, 14th, 19th, 12th.  Currently 13th #specialone” – Mark Douglas, chief sports writer at The Journal It was an off-hand tweet from a North East-based journalist who admitted, when I challenged him on it, that he … Continue reading →

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