The club recorded an average attendance of 26,020, 3 down previous campaign but still the third highest in the Championship behind West Ham United and Southampton. With the club low on registered professionals, home grown youngsters were given a chance at first team level, with Lee Holmes (who became the youngest player in the club's history when he took the field against Grimsby aged 15 years and 268 days), Lee Grant, Pablo Mills, Izale McLeod and Lee Camp all handed debuts throughout the course of the season. [61][62] Derby finished seven points off the play-offs, with poor away form being another factor in missing out on the top, however they again showed decent home form, but the cup results were a disappointment, losing in the First Round of the League Cup and Fourth Round of the FA Cup. Other late signings, such as John Barton and John McAlle were also vital, and an ageing Kevin Hector was still contributing to the cause; he grabbed his 200th Derby goal in a 23 League Cup 2nd Round defeat by West Ham and made his final appearance for the club, his 589th (a club record), in a 32 victory over Watford on the final day of the season at the Baseball Ground and notched his 201st and final goal for the club with the opener, only Steve Bloomer having more goals for the club,. [36] Meanwhile, results on the pitch weren't improving, with another poor performance away to Aston Villa (02) being followed by a 50 home defeat against a West Ham side ravaged by injuries. With a 46-game league programme, a run to the FA Cup fifth round, which included a 61 win over Telford United, the League Cup 3rd Round and participation in the Associate Members' Cup's Southern Qualifying Group, Derby played 60 competitive matches between 17 August 1985 and 12 May 1986, a club record, with Steve Buckley, Ross McLaren and Gary Micklewhite taking part in 58 games each. Much of the cash from this 5.2m windfall went into paying off Robert Maxwell. Having just clinched promotion to Division One with an exciting Newcastle United side, Arthur Cox left St James' Park on a point of contract and Derby wasted no time in appointing him as manager in May 1984. Dale Derby is a former Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, representing District 74 from 2016 to 2018. The Derbyshire evening telegraph summed up the season as being one in which "with a few exceptions, (Derby) have competed in all the games and yet too often they have come out on the wrong end of the result having been the architects of their own downfall. Strupar in particular adapted well to English football after arriving from Genk, netting 5 goals in 13 starts including the first Premier League goal of the new 2000 millennium with a 3rd-minute strike in a 20 win over Watford. Maxwell was replaced first by Brian Fearn and then by Lionel Pickering, who made his fortune through the founding and running of a free newspaper, and brought majority shareholdings and invested 12m in the form of a loan. Alan Hinton finished the season as the club's top scorer with 15 goals, whilst Kevin Hector netted his 100th for the club in a 60 FA Cup Fourth Round win over Notts County and Alan Durban became the club's most capped international, overtaking Sammy Crooks, with his 27th and final appearance for Wales. Maxwell, who appeared to have vast wealth at his disposal, helped the directors raise the 220,000 necessary to lift the petitions and Derby survived off the pitch. But it is his club, his 100m-plus investment, and he will run it his way.". The club also had another notable League Cup run, reaching the quarter finals and beating top-flight Everton and Chelsea in successive rounds, before again being knocked out by the competition's eventual winners, falling 10 away to Swindon Town in a replay. Whilst several players, such as Malcolm Christie, bought from Nuneaton Borough for 50,000 and eventually registering 30 goals in 129 appearances for the club over 5 years, Richard Jackson and Paul Boertien (both of whom spent nearly a decade at the club), were successfully captured from lower league sides, Smith's previous golden touch in the transfer market had appeared to desert him, as players such as Bjorn Otto Bragstad, Con Blatsis, and Daniele Daino where bought and barely registered on the field, with safety only guaranteed on the penultimate day of the 200001 FA Premier League season; Malcolm Christie's goal the difference in a 10 win away to Manchester United. The County Chair is the leader of the local party in each county throughout the state. Although the club rallied under McFarland, securing 4 wins and a draw from these final nine fixtures, they were relegated to the now-national Third Division in 1984, their centenary year, in 20th place, 5 points from safety. Davies praised the players "great courage", emphasising the importance of scoring the first goal and making note of how organised and well-prepared his side had been, adding promotion was "a dream come true. Pride Park was something of a fortress in its first six months as, after the abandonment of its first game against Wimbledon due to floodlight failure, Stefano Eranio's penalty in a 10 win over Barnsley kicked off a 12 match unbeaten start at the stadium, which included a 30 win over Arsenal and a 40 victory against Southampton. [77] Rowett signed a contract until the end of the 201819 season. The 29-year-old signed for the Rams on a free transfer from Wycombe Wanderers last August on a one-year contract. They were bottom of the league going into the August international break, after a 20 defeat away to Barnsley left the club with a single point from the first four games of the season. With no money to spend, Burley played the markets and made two key free signings in Iigo Idiakez and Grzegorz Rasiak. Carlin, brought from Sheffield United for 60,000 as the final piece of Clough's jigsaw, made his debut in the fifth game of the season, a 22 home draw with Hull City and from there the club lost just three of its remaining 37 fixtures, including winning the final 9, a club record. Derby had built a side which seemed to be consistently achieving less than the sum of its parts, with Gary Charles, a former England international, Craig Short, Paul Williams, Mark Pembridge, Paul Kitson and Tommy Johnson all keen to test themselves at a higher level. Although there were two Derby players, Mark Wright and Peter Shilton (who became Derby's most capped player that campaign) in the England team that reached the 1990 World Cup semi-finals the club could only manage a 16th-place finish in 198990 and endured an even worse campaign the following year. Steve Powell also became Derby's youngest ever player, a record he held for almost 30 years, when he made his debut in a Texaco Cup tie against Stoke City aged just 16 years and 30 days. October and November were disappointing with Derby picking up only 1 win and 5 points out of a possible 30 as Derby fell to 15th place in the league, with a 40 defeat at rivals Leicester City at the start of the month, starting the slump in form. The form soon dipped again and, after a run of just 2 wins in 11 matches which left the club 18th in the table, Jewell quit as manager on 28 December 2008 after just over a year in the job. A club record 40 players represented the club, with only 6 players making 30 or more league starts. With no money for players, and the need to slash the club's wage bill, big names such as Fabrizio Ravanelli, Georgi Kinkladze and Craig Burley left the club with the gaps of their departure shored up by free signings; Candido Costa was taken on a season long loan whilst seven others including Mathias Svensson and Leon Osman were recruited on short-term loans, as Derby used a club record 36 different players in the course of the season. The season itself started in unconvincing fashion with two draws and two defeats. Derby County's former chairman expressed his frustration with Brian Clough in the unseen letter. The history of Derby County Football Club from 1967 to the present covers the major events in the history of the club from Brian Clough assuming control in 1967 up until the 201718 season. [3] Derby's European adventure came at the expense of their league campaign, with a run of just 3 wins in 11 towards the end of the season contributing to a disappointing seventh-placed finish in the club's first ever title defence, as they finished the 197273 First Division, 14 points behind eventual winners Liverpool. During this period the Rams did secure their biggest ever victory, with a 120 home demolition of Finn Harps on 15 September 1976, with Kevin Hector grabbing 5 and Leighton James, a club record 310,000 capture from Burnley, and Charlie George each grabbing hat-tricks (Rioch scored the other). Derby County chairman Sam Longson with Brian Clough in 1967 Controversy surrounding Brian Clough's departure from Derby County has rankled with fans for decades. In the 1970s, it twice won the First Division and competed in European competitions, reaching the European Cup semi-finals. Candidates seeking office for County or Precinct Chair must file an application (PDF) to have their name placed on the ballot for the primary election.. Filing Period. The season was notable for a run to the League Cup semi finals, the club's first ever notable run in the competition, where they lost 42 on aggregate to eventual winners Leeds United. Derby County Football Club is a club steeped in great tradition within the English game. Although Stimac's debut ended in a heavy defeat, 51 to Tranmere Rovers with Stimac scoring, Smith's jigsaw was complete and Derby's season turned on its head. Despite taking the lead through Tommy Johnson, Derby lost 21 after a double from Steve Walsh and missed out on promotion yet again. His remit was simple: avoid relegation. The first two seasons at The Pride Park Stadium were the peak of Jim Smith's time at Derby County. Although they rarely swept away the opposition, instead building on the foundations of a strong defence as record signing defender Colin Todd claimed the club's Player of the Year, there were some memorable performances; 40 humblings of rivals Nottingham Forest and Stoke City at the Baseball Ground and away to Sheffield United. Nothing specific was ever offered and the next board had to pay Gregory a seven figure settlement. Fixture congestion meant that Leeds and Liverpool both played their final matches of their season after the 1972 FA Cup Final, in which Leeds had beaten Arsenal, with Leeds needing a draw and Liverpool a win to overtake Derby. The eight match of this run was a 03 defeat by Nottingham Forest and Gregory was suspended the next day, the club alleging serious misconduct. He was the club's 9th manager in less than 11 years, a damning statistic, but Cox was a huge success at Derby and became their longest serving manager since George Jobey, with Roy McFarland stepping back into the position of Assistant Manager. [8] On 2 November 2009 it was announced by Hull that Pearson would be returning as chairman with immediate effect. A hard-running midfielder with perceptive passing ability, Gemmill joined Derby in September 1970 from Preston North End for a bargain 60,000. Derby ( Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District. Barry Manilow Concerts 1970s View source . Of the players at the club when Cox arrive, the key man was Peter Taylor signing Bobby Davison, who became the first Derby player to hit 20 league goals in a single campaign since Kevin Hector in 196768 when he hit 24 goals in 46 matches to finish as the club's leading scorer for the third consecutive season. Bobby Davison (who finished top league scorer for the fifth season on a row, with 19 strikes, taking his league tally to 82 in 5 years) and Phil Gee grabbed 32 goals between them, half of Derby's total, and Cox's team set a club record with 11 away league victories to secure a return to top-flight football after a traumatic seven years away. Derby's first second tier fixture for 11 years saw them crash 30 at Cambridge United but 4 wins in their next 5 matches boded well. Derby had budgeted for a fourth bottom finish (i.e. A rise back to the top followed towards the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s before a spell of flitting between top flight and second-tier football followed over the next 20 years.