OssieEnd

Definitely not a penalty

Like all the "Big" teams/clubs who find themselves in the third tier, we are a "target" . A target for opposition fans, players , clubs and , and , the officials. My observations on this league thus far are 
 
1. Cheating/simulation/diving , diving like you've been shot in the back by a German WWII sniper in Stalingrad at the merest brush of contact . This has genuinely surprised me. It is worse in this league than the championship.
 
2. Cheating in constantly moaning to the Ref , attempting to get opposition players booked and sent off. Again this has surprised me. You'd think the further you go down the football pyramid the less this would occur. 
 
3. The officials. They have been rotten. Sometimes ridiculously corrupt rotten. When I saw the ref for our Port Vale game at PP had written a letter of apology to PVFC for not awarding them a penalty in a previous fixture ( think it was v Sunderland) , I just knew it would be raining penalties for them . And guess what ? It did ! The refs have been unbelievably bad. So much so that it goes beyond trying to be rational with their decisions. They must also know they are reffing Derby . 
 
4. Opposition fans forums tend to be respectful of our size and stature , but also completely deluded into thinking we are spending loads of money . Not realising we are still under various EFL restraints ect...  consequently when we win we get no credit. But when we lose.. Oh my.. we put one over on Billy Big Boots ect.. Though I would say most of the opposition forums have a decent core bunch posting. 
 
5. At the start of this season I wanted us to follow or look at the Norwich/Leicester/Southampton models for when they dropped down here and pretty quickly gained promotion. But, we are indeed a special case. And where we are now compared to where we were half way thru last season is amazing . So I'm still feeling really positive. But in order to get out of this league we are going to have to be so much better in order to cancel out the garbage refs. 
 
6. As a club we are going through a revitalisation period and some of the new grounds we've visited have been a refreshing part of this. I've just added this as an after thought ! lol 
 
 

It's an interesting conundrum we face here.
Football is a game of fine margins, and if decisions like this seemingly go against us more often than not, then we're going to have to try to win games 3 or 4 nil to overcome this, that is nigh on impossible.
It's easy to extrapolate how this will lead on to further problems...
If we don't want to give away 'soft' penalties, then don't touch or attempt to touch any opposition player in the penalty area. But then, it gives them an advantage if we stand off, fearful of over zealous referees, and are too cautious in tackles.
All rather tricky.

The DARK ARTS and SIMULATION are endemic now . Gotta say one of the shocks for me in this tier is how bad it is ... the CHEATING ...  it's  worse in this league  ! That has surprised me . 
 
We as a club need to over come this. We are most other clubs CUP FINALS ... we need to over come this. We are the REFS  CUP FINALS too ... we need to over come this. 
 
 
We are DERBY COUNTY . In League One we are a target. We have to be better. Warne needs to drill this in  to the players. Opponents cup finals every week .

White made contact. Benefit of doubt to the attacker? 
It was a penalty.
 
 
 
So we will be having games ending 33 v 29  then on this take ??

Garbage. That was SIMULATION on an industrial scale !!

Garbage. That was SIMULATION on an industrial scale !!

Refs in this league are total garbage. 

Garbage. That was SIMULATION on an industrial scale !!

Garbage. That was SIMULATION on an industrial scale !!

I like Warne and respect what he has said. As a team we do lack STEEL on the pitch. He must be aware of this. The game on Satdee should have been put to bed and tonight we were cruising .... these players just MELT AWAY ... 

Heart goes out to ALL the Rams who journeyed down . Deserved better. This team lacks STEEL. 

Bang on the money . 
 
 
This team lacks that steel factor when the tide turns on the pitch ... the players who can  step up and fight the tide ... we have'nt got them
 
The Shrewsbury game was dead at HT but we draw it .. and this .. . I'm losing faith with this team to win games in a Play off situation... we are lacking a few kind of players who will stand up .

Heart goes out to ALL the Rams who journeyed down . Deserved better. This team lacks STEEL. 

It was simulation. The player knew what he was doing and the Ref was MUGGED. 

I like Warne and respect what he has said. As a team we do lack STEEL on the pitch. He must be aware of this. The game on Satdee should have been put to bed and tonight we were cruising .... these players just MELT AWAY ... 

But few games ago forum full of people saying "we'd have lost that under Liam or last season". Unfortunately small squad who look very tired now in second half of games. One of their players when interviewed mentioned their manager had said we concede a lot of goals after 60 minutes and they went for it. Our coaching team need to look at and address this as becoming game plan for other teams

White made contact. Benefit of doubt to the attacker? 
It was a penalty.
 
 
 
So we will be having games ending 33 v 29  then on this take ??

Garbage. That was SIMULATION on an industrial scale !!

Refs in this league are total garbage. 

Haha no just timing my post must have followed yours by milliseconds so wouldn't have known what you were writing.
I agree that the refs in this league are poor. Incompetent yes, corrupt that's a step too far. 

That word Simulation has no place in football - it’s cheating nothing else

White made contact. Benefit of doubt to the attacker? 
It was a penalty.
 
 
 
So we will be having games ending 33 v 29  then on this take ??

White made contact. Benefit of doubt to the attacker? 
It was a penalty.
 
 
 
So we will be having games ending 33 v 29  then on this take ??

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