MadAmster

I asked in the "gasroom" why we weren't getting the extra allocation. This was one of the replies...
 
SWFC only had 2572 at ours on Saturday. There were some untaken seats in the portion of our Family Stand allocated to them . The Family Stand is the lower tier of our biggest stand. There were Wycombe supporters with young children who moved to less appropriate parts of our ground or didn't come on Saturday. I am sure that you can understand it would be undesirable to split the upper tier and have opposition fans above our Family Stand whoever the opposition would be.
Our new owners have always been keen on the Match Day experience, and there are some seats in the ground for home supporters that it is necessary to walk 4 / 5 ths of the way round the ground to reach and leave those seats, if those stands have a split allocation. The queues for various facilities were greater than I have ever known on Saturday.
We were very close to selling out the remaining areas of our ground to our own fans. This despite the weather and the bad experiences of some of our fans on the first occasion against Ipswich when we split the two stands to sell additional seats to opposition supporters. We had more than 5700 Wycombe supporters in the ground for the game against SWFC and that number has been recently rising steadily. I can't think of any club in the country who would sell seats to opposition supporters and turn away their own supporters or even run the risk of turning away their own supporters. That is not a courtesy, that's rolling over to have your tummy tickled.
I reckon that we tried to increase the away allocation as an experiment, and from the point of view of our supporters it certainly wasn't an unalloyed success. It may well have been that if our home games against SWFC and DCFC had come in the reverse order, Derby fans would have been offered the additional seats and Sheffield Wednesday fans would not have been given the opportunity. I am sure that there is every chance that if we are play-off contenders towards the end of the season we won't be splitting our stands to increase the allocation for away supporters.
I think our club has acted sensibly and without prejudice in this matter.
I am sure that Derby will return to at least the Championship at some stage. As you say, whatever happens, enjoy your season.
 

It also seems that some families who usually use the Family Stand at a cost of £56 for man, wife and 2 kids were having to fork out around £90 in the other part of the stand. Many complaints received. 
Us not getting the extra is perfectly understandable under the circumstances.

I asked in the "gasroom" why we weren't getting the extra allocation. This was one of the replies...
 
SWFC only had 2572 at ours on Saturday. There were some untaken seats in the portion of our Family Stand allocated to them . The Family Stand is the lower tier of our biggest stand. There were Wycombe supporters with young children who moved to less appropriate parts of our ground or didn't come on Saturday. I am sure that you can understand it would be undesirable to split the upper tier and have opposition fans above our Family Stand whoever the opposition would be.
Our new owners have always been keen on the Match Day experience, and there are some seats in the ground for home supporters that it is necessary to walk 4 / 5 ths of the way round the ground to reach and leave those seats, if those stands have a split allocation. The queues for various facilities were greater than I have ever known on Saturday.
We were very close to selling out the remaining areas of our ground to our own fans. This despite the weather and the bad experiences of some of our fans on the first occasion against Ipswich when we split the two stands to sell additional seats to opposition supporters. We had more than 5700 Wycombe supporters in the ground for the game against SWFC and that number has been recently rising steadily. I can't think of any club in the country who would sell seats to opposition supporters and turn away their own supporters or even run the risk of turning away their own supporters. That is not a courtesy, that's rolling over to have your tummy tickled.
I reckon that we tried to increase the away allocation as an experiment, and from the point of view of our supporters it certainly wasn't an unalloyed success. It may well have been that if our home games against SWFC and DCFC had come in the reverse order, Derby fans would have been offered the additional seats and Sheffield Wednesday fans would not have been given the opportunity. I am sure that there is every chance that if we are play-off contenders towards the end of the season we won't be splitting our stands to increase the allocation for away supporters.
I think our club has acted sensibly and without prejudice in this matter.
I am sure that Derby will return to at least the Championship at some stage. As you say, whatever happens, enjoy your season.
 

If we go on the premise that all teams at the top will win any games in hand they have (ours is Cheltenham at PP) and that we beat Ipswich at PP and win away at Plymouth and Wendy, we'd be just the 1 point behind Ipswich and 5 behind Wendy and the Gargoyles. A lot of ifs but top 2 isn't necessarily as far away as it might appear. 
Can we bridge the gap? Yes. Will we? Hopefully but nobody knows which is why the game is so interesting.

Booo, your balanced and well informed post has made me feel bad for calling them a rude word now!
Seems it is a sensible step on their part, they have to look after their own fans and interests first as we would expect our club to do for us. 
I do like the idea of it being used as a motivator by Warne, I want to keep this momentum and if it coincides with us beating Wycombe comfortably at their home ground then that’s a bonus 

The kick off time has been moved to accommodate live TV. ESPN+ in the USA, Sport 2 Israel and V Sport 3 in Norway. Long live the firestick ?

Been doing very well at LB. Keeping Roberts on the bench. Best defence in L1 which is amazing when you consider the RB is a midfielder, the LB is an attacking MF whose best position may be at 10, one centre half started out his footballing life as a left winger, became a left half, then a LWB, then a LB and is now probably having the best stint of his career at CH (I wonder if Wildsmith is starting to get worried ?  ) The other CH is the only one of the back 4 who is playing in his "proper" position.

Been doing very well at LB. Keeping Roberts on the bench. Best defence in L1 which is amazing when you consider the RB is a midfielder, the LB is an attacking MF whose best position may be at 10, one centre half started out his footballing life as a left winger, became a left half, then a LWB, then a LB and is now probably having the best stint of his career at CH (I wonder if Wildsmith is starting to get worried ?  ) The other CH is the only one of the back 4 who is playing in his "proper" position.

Been doing very well at LB. Keeping Roberts on the bench. Best defence in L1 which is amazing when you consider the RB is a midfielder, the LB is an attacking MF whose best position may be at 10, one centre half started out his footballing life as a left winger, became a left half, then a LWB, then a LB and is now probably having the best stint of his career at CH (I wonder if Wildsmith is starting to get worried ?  ) The other CH is the only one of the back 4 who is playing in his "proper" position.

Any special reason Fozzy doesn't even make the bench?  Or for the change of formation? 

Been doing very well at LB. Keeping Roberts on the bench. Best defence in L1 which is amazing when you consider the RB is a midfielder, the LB is an attacking MF whose best position may be at 10, one centre half started out his footballing life as a left winger, became a left half, then a LWB, then a LB and is now probably having the best stint of his career at CH (I wonder if Wildsmith is starting to get worried ?  ) The other CH is the only one of the back 4 who is playing in his "proper" position.

Been doing very well at LB. Keeping Roberts on the bench. Best defence in L1 which is amazing when you consider the RB is a midfielder, the LB is an attacking MF whose best position may be at 10, one centre half started out his footballing life as a left winger, became a left half, then a LWB, then a LB and is now probably having the best stint of his career at CH (I wonder if Wildsmith is starting to get worried ?  ) The other CH is the only one of the back 4 who is playing in his "proper" position.

Both this season and next, we can't pay transfer, loan or agent's fees which rather reduces the size of the pond we can fish in and the size of fish we can attract. There is a small possibility that, if we are "good boys" this season, some of the restrictions in the business plan, written by DCFC and approved by the EFL, might be eased (probably not lifted) next season. For instance, a player swap might be on as long as we don't pay any money to the other club involved in the deal. Bielik for one or more players from a Championship or a PL side, for instance, might be on the cards as long as the new players don't want more than the wages cap allows. Might the wages cap be increased, especially if we go up this season? All ifs, buts and maybes, I know but not impossible.
 

IMO he's a young lad with bags of potential and, to reach that, he needs to make good progress over the rest of this and next season. If he doesn't make that progress he'll be a L1 or lower player.
Personally, I like the lad and think he can make the grade as a good Championship player but he isn't going to do that if he's forever in and out of the team and playing God knows where next game. Left back, left or right wing back, left or right wing, DM, #10.... striker? How can he be expected to develop?
 

Last night there were still 3324 home tickets available. Currently 3259 left.
1115 North Stand
895 in the NE Family Corner 
516 in the East Stand
733 in the West Stand

NOOOOO!
Not the sea of black & white!  ?
I was gonna wear these little beauties...
 

We did. However, we know he told the players he wanted the ball played quicker, they be more adventurous and to take risks going forward. He said so in several interviews and Sibs and other players have confirmed that in interviews. So, whose fault was it? 

Grant and Camp made decent careers for themselves and we may well have benefitted from keeping one of them. The one I'd most liked to have kept, especially seeing he did pretty well after he left was Chris Riggott.

Grant and Camp made decent careers for themselves and we may well have benefitted from keeping one of them. The one I'd most liked to have kept, especially seeing he did pretty well after he left was Chris Riggott.

Picking XI is guesswork at the moment. We don't know which system he'll go for. Will he have just the one? One for home games and another away? Will he change things to nullify the opposition. Here's some thoughts.
Someone said he's said he likes Osula so will he start?
He has said he wants lots of crosses into the opposition box so will that put Fozzy ahead of Roberts?
My guess, barring injury, is 
Wildsmith
Chester Davies Cashin
Bird
NML Sibley Hourihane Knight
Osula Collins

So, it's Warne. Personally my choice was, especially looking at the last 60 minutes against Wycombe, Liam. For the first time this season we finally saw the players going forward with urgency, with purpose, with speed, being adventurous, taking risks. This led to 26 shots in that hour. That play was exactly what Liam had said in several interviews he wanted the team to do. That he'd been saying that all season to the players has been confirmed by Sibley and others in interviews. Just as he gets what he wanted from the players, he's moved aside. I feel for him.
Like any incoming, be that a player, coach or manager, it's a gamble. Liam put together, in next to no time, a squad designed to play the "Rosenior Way". It remains to be seen if they can quickly get used to the variations Warne wants them to play. It might be that they can't. We have to wait and see.
I hope it works and that we go on a run of unbeaten games ending up with promotion in May.
As ever, I support DCFC, David Clowes and Warne, in that order. Happy that Liam will still be part of the coaching staff, if he wants to stay. If he decides to go, I would understand perfectly. 
Basically, the King is dead, long live the King.

6 League games in, seen all 6 live via RamsTV here in the Netherlands. I must admit I've enjoyed all 6. Long may the enjoyment continue
 

6 League games in, seen all 6 live via RamsTV here in the Netherlands. I must admit I've enjoyed all 6. Long may the enjoyment continue
 

6 League games in, seen all 6 live via RamsTV here in the Netherlands. I must admit I've enjoyed all 6. Long may the enjoyment continue
 

Absolutely. He puts in an awful lot of very good work, much of which doesn't get seen because fans are following the ball. he'll run wide, taking one or two defenders with him leaving space for others to take advantage of. First goal against Grimsby, good pass from Tommo, Collo to Dobbin (Collo then ran wide knowing NML was already central in the box), Dobbin to NML, defender just beats him to it and the ball rebounds of another defender onto the post and NML taps it itno the empty net. Collo had come out of the box and asked for the ball, Tommo obliged.
Might that just be the "problem"? He does so much work, going wide coming back deep etc..... shouldn't he spend more time in the box, round about where NML was for the first?