MadAmster

18 hours ago, SILVERFOXTHERAMSFAN said:

Not true. That was the plan for the original Saturday fixture. Neppy bus departs 06.30 and returns after the match.

Thanks for the info. I hadn't seen the change of plan.

With regard to ST holders and away games, I agree they should fall into priority scale somewhere. I would also, and I might just be being selfish here, plight for expats, especially those who pay the £200 a year for RamsTV, to be included in there somewhere, possibly along with either the 5+ or 5- group. Games anywhere, home or away are mighty expensive. Visits home tend to be around family/friend related happenings and not always "I want to do Port Vale away". It's more of "I'm home for a week on that date, what games are there? Anybody flying back last November (apart from the Cup replay which probably wasn't planned when they booked) didn't have a home game to go to.

I am aware that there may well be other groups wanting to get into the priority scale. If they have good reasoning, maybe they should also be included?

Don't know if it's full but the Neppy is running one as well. Leaving around 8 or 9 I believe. Staying overnight and coming back the enxt day.... if anyone's interested.

2 hours ago, HorsforthRam said:

We were awfully predictable; Smith always looking for NML on one side, Roberts for Dobbin on the other and then an attempted cross. No out ball into midfield to create a triangle and move Lincoln about. As another poster said “rinse and repeat”.

After their man got sent off, we still persisted in similar tactics which was frustrating despite having one or two men free in the middle a lot of the time. Trying to quickly to find a “killer” ball which goes out of play ir straight to their keeper, queue break up of play. 
 

Warne constantly talks post match about players making an extra pass, not getting a cross in quick enough, not pulling the trigger, not moving the ball quickly etc. Sometimes it feels to me the way some players try to remedy that is by being frantic in their attempts to pass/cross the ball to each other leading to so many misplaced passes and poor ball control. Composure was missing last night, especially when they were down to 10. For large parts we did exactly what they wanted us to do. 

Most of the crossing attempts yesterday were, IMO, poor. I would also add that, again IMO, Sibley has been the best dead ball taker we have seen for us this season and, if on the park, should take free kicks and corners. 

Missed out on Barnsley tickets in the away end. Flights, hotel, train from Brum, matchday coach all paid for. Only one thing for it.... It's hospitality at Barnsley for the 4 of us. One place is almost as much as 3 adult and 1 senior ticket in the away end would have been but it'll be worth it. Weekend in Derby. Neppy tours to Barnsley. What more can a man ask for?  ?

Not a good day at the office. The 2 full backs had off days, so did Cash. The defence miskicked several attempted clearances straight up in the air or directly to an opponent. Cash's raking cross field passes to NML have been getting intercepted for a few games, it's been sussed. Collo didn't do much wrong but never got ball. IMO Didzy is trying to do too much and needs to get back to basics.

For much of the 1st half Lincoln were the better side. Their goal? Offside. I will admit I thought it was onside at first sight. Shodipo was in an offside position when the original shot was taken. However, that doesn't immediately mean he's offside. Had the ball been deliberately played by one of our players and it fell to him, then he's onside. The shot rebounded off Wildsmith, which is a "deliberate save" which makes it offside according to Law 11.  QUOTE  A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent.  UNQUOTE   Ergo, Shodipo was offside, absolutely.

Hourihane's goal? IMO offside. Look at the photo... marginal but he seems closer to the 6 yard line than the Lincoln player to the left of him in the photo.

Didzy's "goal". I've not seen a good angle of where he was when the cross was made to be able to pass an opinion.

We miss Bird. The changes will be rung against Charlton. I'd bring Sibs in at LB. MF 3 of Hourihane, Knight and White. Front 3 of Barks, Didzy and Dobbin.

11 hours ago, Jourdan said:

 

We still need 27 points to reach the 80 point mark. The equivalent of nine wins. That’s no small matter. It will require focus and application.

Stats don't really mean much but.... We have averaged 1.8275 points a game so far this season. Obviously doing better at home than away. Of the 17 remaining games we have 9 at home and 8 away. Keep up the average and we'll get 31 points, putting us on 84 at the end of the season.

Time will tell

There was a question posted on FB yesterday asking about any Roadrider to Plymouth. The coordinator of the International Branch of the Supporters Club replied that there won't be one.

3-1

Both their keeper and Collo got booked for that little incident. Early doors Collo got lucky not to be yellow carded when he went into their keeper with his arm.

On 10/02/2023 at 19:21, SKHunter said:

Didn't we take some record away fans to Barnsley?  I think perhaps about 2007ish and it was somewhere between 6 and 9,000?  A lot of beer has passed my lips since but am I right or am I wrong?  Anyone?  

7500 in that promotion season. The whole end plus a portion of the stand to the right.

They sucked us into their game plan and we let them. That wasn't football it was head tennis for long periods.

Time wasting after they got the first. Ball boys taking 30 seconds to get the ball to the player for the throw in. The player then taking another 30 seconds before taking the throw 10 to 15 yards too far forward. Then we get a throw, nick 2 yards and get pushed back 5.

The ref was consistent in his inconsistency. How Collo got away with his arm into their keeper early doors is a mystery. Foul on Conor not given and, 2 seconds later, one given against Foz for something far less of a foul. A Foz push in the back not given. All of that in the opening minutes. All of that fades into nothing when you look at the dropped ball incident. One of theirs goes down just inside our half. TV didn't show what happened. We attack, they move the ball forward, we get it back. The last 2 touches were by Derby players. He then stops play to allow the player to get treatment. Then came the inevitable dropped ball. What happened next was mind boggling. He instructed Derby players NOT to take part in the dropped ball. That would indicate that, although he should have given it to us, he was intending them to give us the ball. The ball was dropped and they passed the ball to the right winger to initiate an attack. Poor refereeing. I don't think he was biased either way, just poor.

They had one more shot than us, 1 more on target. The game was tight and they edged it. No complaints. The next run starts on Tuesday.

Charlton? Yes, we lost there but, IMO, deserved a draw. Lincoln? Deservedly won the game at theirs but they are not doing well of late and we aren't the team we were at that stage of the season.

Ainsworth has said we're too big for League 1. He may be right. He's missing his 3 first choice CB's and one of his better attacking players plus Mehmeti has gone to Bristol City.

1-3.

I was on from 09:30 in the hope they'd go on sale early. Chose seats, 5 of them, got the "not on sale yet" message. Chose again, same again, for half an hour clicking on every 3 or so seconds. 10:00 comes and the message changes to "seat not available". Looked at the blocks and there were about 20 left, spread all over the place. Next hour the sold out message kept changing to BUY, go to the block where someone had just released tickets from their basket.... click, "not available". As expats we booked flights to Donington, hotels etc back in December to save money..... then the £150 return flights we'd booked nosedived because Flybe went bust. Hopefully get the cash back from the Credit Card but that's not guaranteed. Rebooked on KLM to Brum at £300 each. Still coming over. Got ourselves on the "returns list" with the ticket office. Looking at whether Barnsley allow visiting fans to do hospitality. If both avenues (returns/hospitality) fail,  we'll do hospitality at Burton v Accrington.

1 minute ago, ColonelBlimp said:

Win for Ipswich and win for us would close things up nicely surely?

Closer to Wendy, yes, but still 2 points behind the Tractors with a game in hand. A Wendy win and a Rams win would see us a point ahead of the Tractors and still having that game in hand.... I too am looking more at the Tractors and the Gargoyles...

7 hours ago, Srg said:

The business plan does get reviewed after this season, so it's reasonable to expect there could be some tweaks to allow a bit more movement - probably things like using fees instead of full wages, maybe offering 3 year contracts etc

One would hope so Srg, however, I won't be holding my breath.

15 hours ago, Sparkle said:

We can’t change the rules that we agreed but there might be a way of delaying the fee owed - who knows 

We wrote the 2 year business plan. The EFL agreed to it.

Said in an interview that he feels like a Derby player, not a loanee...

No idea if it's relevant or not but... in a recent interview, Roberts said he didn't feel like a loanee, he feels like a Derby player.

I'd be more than happy to see him here next season.

General sale is guaranteed. Convinced there''ll be more wanting tickets than there are tickets available. I only want 4 ?

One for Fozzy....

He was left wing

Became wing half

then from left back

to centre half

Simply being a wonderful Craig Forsyth

43 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Got mine for me, my son and grandson, my grandson has yet to see us lose an away game in 90 minutes with trips to Blackpool, Mansfield twice and Liverpool.

The last "block" of away members were allowed to buy from 10:00 this morning. Hardly surprising 1000 have gone in quick time.

3 minutes ago, Scott129 said:

Wycombe pre-match thread: https://gasroom.org/discussion/7960/derby-h-build-up-thread

Much like Ipswich taking umbrage with 'The EFL Need to Promote Us', these lot have noticed our 'No Stopping Us Now' thread ?

And, apparently, they don't have any CBs available. So I'd go 2 up top - Collins and McG - and have a go at them.

One of the supposed injured CBs is Mawson. That would be a bonus if he is out.

1 hour ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

That would be really swede 

Yep, they will indeed have had their chips.

On 05/02/2023 at 16:06, oldtimeram said:

I seem to recall they put new floodlights up in about 1970

Unfortunately, neither of the videos in this thread open. Even switched VPN to UK and nothing.... 

BeneluxRams flag.