WestStandStartTheBounce

Taking out the goal on Saturday I actually thought it was his best game for Derby on Saturday( That wasn't hard though). Having McGoldrick along side him would have obviously helped.

From what I have seen of him so far though I'm far from convinced. Aside from the not scoring I don't think he really adds much to the team. I think Saturday was the first time i saw him win a header. Generally he gets little involvement in the game and the opposition defenders seem to have him in their pocket all game. On current form I can't see him scoring more than 10 goals over the season. I guess the question comes do you stick with him or bench him. That's a tough call. I think give him a couple more games to see if he can show something. If not I think you start giving Osula a chance.

In the west stand it is pretty loud. I noticed it was breaking up a bit on the first game so maybe needs some maintenance. I also notice a few of the square on the video screen have gone faulty. 

Fully agree with sufferingfool that playing music up until kick off doesn't help the south stand build the atmosphere.

For me it is a pointless trophy, even for the teams lower down. It's insulting to have to play under 21 teams. 

Why don't they scrap the EFL trophy and the EFL cup (Premier league teams don't really give a toss about this one). Make one tournament that only the championship and below play and include the national league teams.

On 02/09/2022 at 15:03, Grumpy Git said:

That's like when you take your new car back when it goes wrong, only for the service manager to say 'It's the first time we've had that problem'. A quick Google search then shows everyone else with a FoGMVW MkIII Fiestra has the same problem.

It is so annoying when a customer service person says something like that. it implies that somehow you are the problem and not the fact that it has gone wrong. More often than not its because other people just put up with it and don't complain. 

11 minutes ago, curb said:

What was he doing getting in your car?
Bloody hooligan.

Trust me it was no laughing matter. It was just crazy

59 minutes ago, Vienna said:

Thought the Plymouth fans, or at least the 9 or so that I has the displeasure of meeting in the South Car Park were a total disgrace - first set of fans for many years that have wanted to kick off against a mid 50's guy, wife, daughter and son who simply want to go and watch a football match. Let's stop calling fans who travel in large numbers "good supporters" - certainly wasn't the case yesterday.

As for policing, virtually non-existent!! How difficult is it to work out the need for a police presence at the back of the South stand towards the velodrome?

Maybe it was you I heard getting in my car. I could hear someone shouting for the police to get up there. Not nice. My son was still going on about it this morning.

Maybe it's just the south car park where it flares up. I would say it's pretty regular these days. I think the club either needs to provide more stewards or re-route the away fans. There was a time when you did have stewards all along the the car park against the fence but not now. 

I know all clubs have some idiots but having fans from the south stand crossing the away fans seems a bad idea.

In future games I'll probably hang back in the stadium a bit longer.

Was a bit shocked at all the aggro at the game yesterday. Probably the worst I’ve seen around the ground. It was kicking off before the game and lots of incidents after the game.

I park in the south car park A. Plymouth fans coming up to the cars etc They’re seemed to be no security or police about.

it seems to have got worse in the last year. Birmingham was another game things were pretty unsavoury in the car park,

the club needs to have a serious think about how they route away fans after the game.  The way it is set up just sets up fans against each other. Maybe direct away fans up behind the arena.

my kids were pretty scared yesterday with he car getting surrounded and people peering in and making offensive gestures and swearing.

Hope we can get our message across from the march. EFL have been shocking in their accountability for the situation we're in. They're shirking their responsibility to Derby. 

9 minutes ago, ColonelBlimp said:

11.30 is a bit early isn't it, hanging around PP for an hour before the game in the freezing cold?

Fair play to the organisers for a magnificent job though.

I was going to get a bite to eat at the ground and want to get to my seat early. 

Amazin effort rams fans. I am so up for this game.

Sold out

Is there a map of the route the march is taking? I will park up at the stadium and walk the opposite way until I meet the march then join in 

Qué Sera, Sera, 

What ever will be, will be

We're Derby Count-tee, f c

Qué Sera, Sera.

24 now, ha. I am assuming these are seats associated with the club that are being returned. Players etc.

Now back up to 17 ?

4

I make it 55 left now

Given the size of the crowd and the symbolic importance of the game on Sunday can the club adjust the pre match build up. Instead of having the pa blare out music why not stop the music five minutes before kick off and let the fans take control. The sound of the crowd would be far more inspiring and impactful on the players than the music. Let them feel the atmosphere before they come out the tunnel.

What I don't get with the ticketing is how there are individual seats. When I have tried to book tickets in the past it won't let you book if it leaves a seat on its own.

Current summary . Which stand will finish first.

Northstand 136 tickets left. Making a very strong finish after an appaling start.

East stand 23 tickets left. looked destined to finish first but seems to have pulled up.

West stand 94 tickets left. A strong contender.

North east corner 285 tickets left. An outsider looking destined to finish last.

North West corner 69 tickets left(who actually chooses to sit here when there are still spaces in other parts of the ground). Could this be a surprise contender.

Less than 800 left now. If you want a ticket and don't have one then you need to be quick.

I think this may well sell out. East stand doesn't have much left now. Let's get those last couple of thousand tickets shifted. Should be an amazing atmosphere before and during the game.

17 hours ago, Wistaston Ram said:

I'm not sure it is as low as 31.5k capacity - Just a few unoccupied seats for Sky I would imagine.  I noticed very little segregation between away/home fans v Sheff Utd.

When I did a stadium tour about 5 years ago it was explained that the seats in the south west corner lower are never sold. Not sure why they said something about a red hot chilli concert or something. That knocks 500 off. Then when the away fans moved from behind the goal to the corner it reduced capacity further, meaning about 1000 seats were lost to segregation. So I think the real capacity is just under 32K

Just over 3.5K left now. Majority of which is in the north and north east corner. If it's not a sell out it's going to be close.