dellboypete

Hi Pete ... how they hangin!! Summer has just arrived 45c !! Park n Rob has been reprieved and won't be knocked down hooray !! Hi eric, Glad you're keeping you're cool over the takeover! and I hope the AC working out there! Only 45 - so much for global warming. Have cool speckled on me!!

I lived in Umm Sequiem for 5 years - an old mate of Erics! Park n shop! Kids went to JC!

Phil, Have they started digging the canal through your neighbourhood yet? That's when I would start getting worried!

I met him shortly after he left us for Huddersfield (about 2000 I guess) - my son was at leeds Uni and did his criciate ligament in. He had it reconstructed at a specialist clinic in Keighley - what d'ya know, Kenny was there at the same time for a different knee op. That effectively finished his career, apart from falling out with steve bruce. For me he was a legend and a great guy - we could do with him right now.

Key dates for the 2009-10 season are on the Football League's site. http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html Wed June 17th - fixtures released Sat Aug 8th - start of season w/c Aug 10th - Lge Cup R1 w/c Aug 24th - Lge Cup R2 w/c Aug 31st - JPT R1 w/c Sep 21st - Lge Cup R3 w/c Oct 5th - JPT R2 w/c Oct 26th - Lge Cup R4 w/c Nov 9th - JPT Area QFs w/c Nov 30th - Lge Cup R5 w/c Dec 14th - JPT Area SFs w/c Jan 4th - Lge Cup SFL1 w/c Jan 18th - Lge Cup SFL2 w/c Jan 18th - JPT Area Final L1 w/c Feb 15th - JPT Area Final L2 Sun 28 Feb - Lge Cup Final (Wembley) Sun 28 Mar - JPT Final (Wembley) Sun 2 May - last day of Championship Sat 8 May - last day of Lge1 & Lge 2 Sat 22 May - Championship Playoff Final (Wembley) Sat 29 May - Lge1 Playoff Final (Wembley) Sun 30 May - Lge2 Playoff Final (Wembley) As usual, the season starts the Saturday after the GBBF. FA Cup dates not confirmed yet

Here are the dates we've all been waiting for (assuming we have a club that is): Key dates for the 2009-10 season are on the Football League's site. http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html then scroll down. Wed June 17th - fixtures released Sat Aug 8th - start of season w/c Aug 10th - Lge Cup R1 w/c Aug 24th - Lge Cup R2 w/c Aug 31st - JPT R1 w/c Sep 21st - Lge Cup R3 w/c Oct 5th - JPT R2 w/c Oct 26th - Lge Cup R4 w/c Nov 9th - JPT Area QFs w/c Nov 30th - Lge Cup R5 w/c Dec 14th - JPT Area SFs w/c Jan 4th - Lge Cup SFL1 w/c Jan 18th - Lge Cup SFL2 w/c Jan 18th - JPT Area Final L1 w/c Feb 15th - JPT Area Final L2 Sun 28 Feb - Lge Cup Final (Wembley) Sun 28 Mar - JPT Final (Wembley) Sun 2 May - last day of Championship Sat 8 May - last day of Lge1 & Lge 2 Sat 22 May - Championship Playoff Final (Wembley) Sat 29 May - Lge1 Playoff Final (Wembley) Sun 30 May - Lge2 Playoff Final (Wembley

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5228159,00.html just been updated with a summary of the league report

There's been quite a few that I’ve been to this season, but it had to be last weekend in Sheffield because this really brought it home how bad the situation is for us. Both on and off the pitch. It's not that I haven't realised our position, but for most supporters we go off to matches in hope and with the expectation that we can really do a lot better than has been realistically possible, especially since the New Year. I went to the Fat Cat brew pub before hand and apart from testing all the beers on tap, and meeting some very sympathetic Shrewsbury fans, I met some London Saints and a few saints from Salisbury. It so happened that one of these guys, whose name I forget, went to his first game at the Dell on exactly the same day as me – Man City, August 1966 – our first ever game in the old 1st Division. Chatting with these fellow life long supporters brought it home how far we have fallen. We’ve had our ups and downs in the past, but nothing as critical as this. The crap served up on the pitch just compounded how depressed I felt. It won’t stop me going to the Burnley and Forest games though. I just hope that the latter won’t turn out to be the worst this season. And what ever happens, I’ll still be going next season, week in week out and I'm sure I'll be seeing some of the familiar faces in pubs around the country.

So it's not an April Fool's joke then?

Hi Eric, "on the beach" here (quick change of name as I'm no longer on...) Can't make it to the match unfortunately - really p*ssed off about that. I've been in the Brunswick half a dozen times over the last couple of months and can confirm that the range of home brews and guest ales is as big and good as ever. (if any one is into railway memorabilia this is the Pub for you - the original Midland railway was founded just up the road and this was part of the railway mens ccottages - worth going out the back door to have a look. The Midland Hotal next to derby station was the worlds first hotel built for a railway) Right next door is the Alexandra, which has always been a real ale mecca (handy for you Eric before Ramadan!!). Both are opposite the foot tunnel under the railway to Pride Park (not even 10 mins). If any one is in Derby town centre and is really really into real ales, and the above two haven't satified you, probably the best weatherspoons in the country (for beer anyway) is the babbington Arms, in Babbington lane about 10mins from the station and the above mentioned Brunswick and Alexandra. I was in there a couple of months ago and, I kid you not, they had 16 real ales on tap - heaven. The actually pub isn't anything to write home about though.. Might be out in Dubai later in the year Cheers pete