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Never in doubt

 

 

Hopefully not third… Be interesting to know how often the team placing 3rd end up going up via the play offs (and countering the anguish of missing out on autos). 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Thing I liked most about that is none of the players looked phased by the occasion or atmosphere. Tough ground to go to and we come away with a point. Take that to Wycombe. 

Collo has put in a hell of a shift tonight. 👏 

Got B4’s ashes with me (and a can of dark fruits). Husband is getting worried about the potential clean up 😂 There’s no way B4 would be missing this match 

Any less than 8 mins added will be a crime. 

They’re stronger and hungrier than us. With nothing to play for. Stinker 

They’re stronger and hungrier than us. With nothing to play for. Stinker 

They’re stronger and hungrier than us. With nothing to play for. Stinker 

Bit in paper. 

Bit in paper. 

That could have been a real banana skin game, but Derby navigated that brilliantly. Two great halves of football, lots of chances created and on another day that could have been comfortable. Still we did enough and deserved to win.
Props to Barkhuizen, I have criticised him in the past but he worked himself into the ground. My man of the match.
Gayle is such a clever striker. Great addition. 
Finally, Adams' calm in midfield was huge for us at key moments, another top performance from him. 

I get that, but just makes no sense on all parties. He’s been getting hammered by fans for about two months now on-and-off, this is just going to exacerbate things. It’s as obvious as the sun rising in the morning. 
Bristol City fans are already tired of Liam Manning so by the time he gets there he may not even be manager. He could do with him in the team now. 
If we were a properly run club with a half-competent recruitment strategy we would’ve already highlighted his replacements and know where to turn once the money hits the account. We can then move on. 
Bird sticking around for the remainder of the season, I don’t know, I’m just not a fan of it. We’ve bemoaned the lack of balance midfield for the entire season, we get the opportunity to do something about it and we bring back one of the sources of the problem? Daft.

That’s the bravery we’ve been crying out for and Warne has been talking about. Why not drive forward and create chaos in their box or shoot? The issue is it needs to be brave early on to take the game by the scruff of the next and show initiative. I’ve lost count of the amount of passive first halves we’ve had where we just don’t do the brave, aggressive and more risky work to set the tone with lots of game time left (E.g not after 70 when we’ve conceded). 

Can’t moan in the slightest, haven’t lay a glove. 

Get in.
To be frank, I couldn't actually care less that we didn't win by 2 goals to go into 2nd. There's 20 games left, the only thing separating us and Peterborough are the fact that they've scored 2 goals more than us. Whether we won 3-2 or 4-2, nothing is decided tonight. We haven't ended a matchday in 2nd place since February 2018 under Rowett, and we still ended up finishing 6th that year.
The most important thing is that we won, I don't care how. That game had a hell of a lot of "you can just see it going wrong" things on the list, I think @Srg listed a fair few before kick-off. Local game, new manager, ex-players, bringing on a striker making his league debut (and scoring 3 minutes in), contentious referee decisions, or lack of them, coming back to bite us. There was the potential for things to go very wrong. And if you watched on Sky, they did their typical thing of putting up stats that completely jinx the game, such as how few goals Burton have scored.
These are the kind of games where we've messed up in the past and it's cost us in the past. From the minute it went to 2-1, we were poor, there's no excuses being made for that, it was a tough watch. But I'd much rather show that we still need a bit of work in January when that work is possible, and still winning at the same time means there's very little damage.
Take the points and carry on, we're a point off top with a game in hand, no matter how we performed tonight that's an excellent place to be. Three games in a week coming up, two of which are away and in the away table we are 1st, so there's a lot to be positive about.
Hopefully CBT can join the ranks before Lincoln, and maybe one or two more before the end of the window and then we'll be well on our way to getting out of this league.
Onwards and upwards, and thank God for Conor Hourihane's left foot.

Ref’s got a Burton tattoo. 

Don Goodman holding back the tears that were winning 

You make some good points, he ticks a lot of boxes for the kind of player we should be signing. I guess there is concern about getting involved in a bidding war and making him a top earner. He will have resale value but that really depends on a Championship club wanting to pay for him, L1 clubs don't pay transfer fees these days.
CBT looks good though, and I assume signing him would mean Barkhuizen leaving and cutting his wage. I like Barks, and he's done a job, but he's inconsistent, over 30, and most of the time looks like he's just woken up in the back of his own car.