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Remember going there in 1985 and we beat the Rams 2-1 - love to know the scorers that day if anyone has that sort of info?

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We made a terrible start to the 85/86 season and the feel good factor from the previous season had well and truly gone, I don't think we were playing badly it was just getting a feel of the new league and a higher level of ability. I didn't go to Derby but remember being staggered when the result came over the radio, it certainly got us up and running,didn't we comfortably beat Swanses the game after?.
We even threatened a promotion challenge at one point but maybe a lack of depth in the squad curtailed it. I know for a time Eamon O'Keefe was on fire.
 
Went in 1968, the penultimate game of season and we needed a win to match QPR.
We were under the cosh for majority of second half as Brian Clough promised a grand stand last home game.
Suddick broke away late in the game and placed a beauty into top corner of net . 3-1 and on to Huddersfield.
 
Alfie Conn said:
We made a terrible start to the 85/86 season and the feel good factor from the previous season had well and truly gone, I don't think we were playing badly it was just getting a feel of the new league and a higher level of ability. I didn't go to Derby but remember being staggered when the result came over the radio, it certainly got us up and running,didn't we comfortably beat Swanses the game after?.
We even threatened a promotion challenge at one point but maybe a lack of depth in the squad curtailed it. I know for a time Eamon O'Keefe was on fire.
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O' Keefe broke his leg in a 2-1 win at Chesterfield in October and although we carried on winning for a while, it tailed off from when Wolves beat us 2-1 at Molyneux in November. At that point we were second in the league.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Went in 1968, the penultimate game of season and we needed a win to match QPR.
We were under the cosh for majority of second half as Brian Clough promised a grand stand last home game.
Suddick broke away late in the game and placed a beauty into top corner of net . 3-1 and on to Huddersfield.
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Remember it like it was yesterday. Went on a Standerwicks coach. Must have been about 25 of them in convoy.
 
aquaduck said:
O' Keefe broke his leg in a 2-1 win at Chesterfield in October and although we carried on winning for a while, it tailed off from when Wolves beat us 2-1 at Molyneux in November. At that point we were second in the league.
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I went to the Wolves game,Nov.5th 1985 sat in the Jack Ireland stand? miles away from the pitch and two other stands condemned. Massive kop behind one end.
 
I went to this game. Think we had a midweek match before it and recall being in a nightclub after that midweek game and some of the Blackpool team were in there. Got talking to them and we asked about the Derby game. They said we had no chance of winning!
 
69skin said:
Remember it like it was yesterday. Went on a Standerwicks coach. Must have been about 25 of them in convoy.
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OMG remember that game. We went on Standerwicks from on Chapel Street. Used them for any away game we travelled too as only 14 at the time, including the next one at Huddersfield 😭
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Went in 1968, the penultimate game of season and we needed a win to match QPR.
We were under the cosh for majority of second half as Brian Clough promised a grand stand last home game.
Suddick broke away late in the game and placed a beauty into top corner of net . 3-1 and on to Huddersfield.
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Yes I was there too, I remembered it as being more comfortable. Didn’t we play them the first away match of the 68/69 season too and get a 1–1?
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Went in 1968, the penultimate game of season and we needed a win to match QPR.
We were under the cosh for majority of second half as Brian Clough promised a grand stand last home game.
Suddick broke away late in the game and placed a beauty into top corner of net . 3-1 and on to Huddersfield.
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This has been talked about many times before. I was on the same "school trip" as @20togo
 
Yarmouth Seasider said:
5th September, 1985, O'Keefe got both goals, one of them a penalty, as you say. I remember it well, we were expected to get nothing and had to make a hasty retreat back to the car at full time, the locals were not impressed!
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Remember going with a few others in cars and had to beat the same hasty retreat. All their lot were waiting for us on the playing field behind the away end pretending that they were playing football so the police wouldn’t move them on
 
Worked in Derby for a while and it's now a dull housing estate but does have a nice statue where the ground was. Worth hunting out if you are there on Friday. Derby DE23 8HJ
 
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