Ram@Lincoln

Also referred to us as County in his very first post. Always a sign of someone with little knowledge of the Rams 

You obviously don't know anything about Derby County, though, if you think we'll be paying anybody £20,000 a week soon, Championship or not.

Well, I'm sure reading are furious.
Perhaps they should hire Mark Clattenberg to write an angry letter?

You had 15 of 20 posts on the previous page of this thread… that’s spamming. 

Goalkeeper calling for VAR amazing 😂😂😂

You've deffo taken Inverness Caledonian Thistle to the Champions League on champ manager haven't you.

Is this a "name a scottish player that i've never heard of" thread?

Derby County vs Reading
Tuesday 12th March
Pride Park   KO 1945
 
Opposition Bio: Reading have made more headlines off the field than on it in recent times as they find themselves in financial strife as a result of incompetency by their owner. Sound familiar? 
The EFL have seemingly cut them more slack than they did with ourselves but their patience must be wearing thin as deadlines to deposit sufficient funds regularly pass. The latest failure to pony up saw them docked further points and their season deduction now stands at six points in total. 
There was a further deduction of three points doled out, albeit suspended, after their understandably fed up supporters invaded the pitch and caused the early abandonment of their home match with Port Vale, the latters best result in recent months.
Where we had Mel Morris, Reading have Dai Yongge. This proves the old adage of being wary of baldies or fake Welshmen baring gifts.
Any sympathy we have for them should be tempered though by the thought that they are probably still laughing at us paying £3m for Nick Blackman.
Reading FC are known as the Royals, a distinctly naff nickname acquired after a young Prince Albert played a dozen games for the club before marrying Queen Victoria. Plus they hail from the royal county of Berkshire. They are also known as the Biscuitmen due to the town's association with the biscuit makers Huntley & Palmers. 
They are managed by Spaniard Ruben Selles and, having been relegated last season, will be looking to secure League 1 survival this season and kick on in 2024/25 under different ownership and without points deductions.
Reading are the proud holders of two notable records. In the 1985/86 season they recorded 13 straight victories at the start of the season in what is now this division and they also hold the record for the highest points total for their whopping 106 points in their 2005/06 Championship campaign. 
Opposition Form: Not too shabby in fairness. In the ten matches played since they beat us 1-0 at their place they have won a further four games with three draws and three defeats.
They arrive at Pride Park on the back of a 2-1 home defeat to Wycombe and in 18th place with a record of W12-D9-L16. It should be noted, however, that without their points deduction they would be in 14th position. 
Their away record is perhaps misleading as the bare stats of W3-D5-L10 needs to be looked at in the knowledge that they contrived to lose their first eight matches on the road. They all count obviously but their more recent form away since then reads W3-D5-L2. 
Their away wins have been at Wycombe (2-1), Stevenage (1-0) and Carlisle (3-1). They have also managed decent draws at Oxford and Peterborough.
In those 18 away games they have only failed to score on four occasions. Promisingly from a Rams perspective, they have only kept the one clean sheet on their travels.
Opposition Players: Going purely off the stats it would appear their chief dangermen are top marksman Harvey Knibbs (10 goals, 6 assists), Sam Smith (9 goals, 10 assists) and possibly Femi Azeez and Lewis Wing. They also have Robbie's son Charlie Savage, the experienced Harlee Dean and the wonderfully named youngster Jacob Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis who I hope gets a runout as I'd love to see if they put his triple-barrelled name on his shirt.
Rams vs Reading History: This will be the 48th league clash between Derby and Reading and the 54th in all competitions. The clubs' first meeting was a League Cup clash in October 1965 (1-1) but it wasn't until 22nd September 1984 that the Rams and the Royals met in a league fixture for the first time and the long wait proved barely worthwhile as we played out a goalless draw at their previous home, Elm Park. The return fixture would prove to be more memorable, for us at least, as Reading's first ever league visit to Derby in April 1985 saw the Rams win 4-1 with goals from Bobby Davison, Steve Buckley, Trevor Christie and Gary Micklewhite in front of a bumper crowd of 7,945 (really?).
That was not a taste of things to come in this fixture though as Reading have had by far the better of it. Our record on their turf is especially poor with just four wins in 24 visits. On Derby soil, though better as you'd expect, it is still deeply unimpressive. Our last victory at home to them was a 1-0 success in September 2021 but our overall home league record against Reading is W10-D3-L10. 
Expected Team: Same again one might think. Possibly a change in the middle to give more legs with Smith or Thompson in for Hourihane. 
Other Fixtures of Note: Something similar to Saturday would be nice. A Derby win and at least one of our rivals for automatic dropping points please. Their games midweek are:
Portsmouth vs Burton
Bolton vs Oxford
Carlisle vs Barnsley
Peterborough vs Stevenage (Weds)
COYR
 

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

It's not just Warne that's a divisive character, there's now a thread on the Barnsley forum wanting their manager sacked. Yesterday was shocking for them, but it's only their 4th defeat since September. 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/get-him-out-now.328815/

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

It's not just Warne that's a divisive character, there's now a thread on the Barnsley forum wanting their manager sacked. Yesterday was shocking for them, but it's only their 4th defeat since September. 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/get-him-out-now.328815/

He's the fitness coach that takes charge of the half time warmup/kick about. Obviously a popular guy amongst the players.

He's the fitness coach that takes charge of the half time warmup/kick about. Obviously a popular guy amongst the players.

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

It's not just Warne that's a divisive character, there's now a thread on the Barnsley forum wanting their manager sacked. Yesterday was shocking for them, but it's only their 4th defeat since September. 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/get-him-out-now.328815/

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

They also want the stadium announcer sacked! 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-stadium-announcer.328816/

It's not just Warne that's a divisive character, there's now a thread on the Barnsley forum wanting their manager sacked. Yesterday was shocking for them, but it's only their 4th defeat since September. 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/get-him-out-now.328815/

Pinched from elsewhere.
 
“Them dominating the game is the least they should expect. Hourihane is probably on as much as our entire team. “
 


 

It's not just Warne that's a divisive character, there's now a thread on the Barnsley forum wanting their manager sacked. Yesterday was shocking for them, but it's only their 4th defeat since September. 
https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/get-him-out-now.328815/

I don’t want to get ahead of myself or allow myself to be excited, but.. I feel like something has finally clicked.
Best performance we’ve ever had under Warne, in my opinion. We’ve fell on to a workable system, the main reason was the recruitment staff doing their job and finding a gem in Ebou Adams and very recently I think it’s not in any small part to having to change the dynamic with Gayle upfront. I believe these two signings in particular have changed our fortunes, similarly to how Nyambe did earlier in the season.
Sibley and Ward are excelling. The defence are well balanced, the cohesion between the midfield and defence is significantly better, gaps aren’t as freely available for the other team and we are now working well going forward. I think we actually look like a team now, which for the majority of the season has definitely been missing something. The last two performances, the dynamic of the team, I’m finally hopeful. 

We were right in front where the subs warmed up and noticed him at half time, and could see he is quite a character and popular.
The BR PA played dance type music at half time and he did his best to get the subs to groove along to it at the end of their warm up, that was quite funny and showed a certain positivity and team spirit.