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1-2 at HAlf Time. Cybulski restoring our lead.

The fans are too quick to jump on their back and dragging them down. The players never get a chance to settle. 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. We've had some of both at DCFC , and a bit of the "best of" wouldn't go amiss right now.
We got a glimpse of both aspects last night - after how things went at the end of last season, I am much happier with how we are trying to play this season than what we were doing last time out. And yet the way we are playing was a direct contributor to the result at Birmingham.
The first twenty minutes showed all that is good about the new pattern of play, and the difference between the to sides was almost embarrassing. There was only one team seemingly playing football. Unfortunately, much a I loath what he stands for, Lee Bowyer is a smart cookie and quickly realised how to deal with our style of play. All he had to do was start pressing our guys at the back, initially just a small amount, and our plans started to unravel. I know the mistake for the first goal came while we were still doing all right, but Birmingham had already moved a few yards up the field and were starting to move in on our defenders as they tried to play the ball around. And yes, Buchanan had time to play safely, but once the pressure starts to build up, it affects the mindset, and we were already prone to keep going backwards in order to be safe.
To be honest, we are a lot better at playing out from the back than were last year, and Davies does seem to be more comfortable with the ball at his feet. But what the pressure does is affect our mindset, and suddenly we were keeping the ball passing round at the back. The midfielders were not showing for the ball, and when it did reach them, instead of turning and playing the ball forwards, they would play safe, going back to the defenders. Whether Buchanan originally intended to play backwards I don't know, but he was signalled to by Curtis Davies, and then didn't play the ball well enough. Actually Davies did that to Williams in the match against Sheffield United, and his pass wasn't good enough. What we have got to do is shake off this "play it out from the back at all costs" mentality.
Knowing that we would have to come at them more having gone behind, Bowyer simply increased the press, and it was effectively game over. Some comments are that we couldn't find our way out of our half after that, but it isn't true, it was just that until Jason knight came on, we were too slow getting forwards that our attacking attempts were easy to deal with, all because our defenders were being put under pressure. 
Bowyer has shown that he can turn teams around, and some want him here, but I don't want him anywhere near our club, because of what he stands for. Morrison and Lawrence were booked for petulance, and both should be better at controlling their emotions. But they ere under sever provocation. Morrison let rip at the ref, gesturing with 4 fingers after the latest tri/pull back, none of which the ref had done anything about. Lawrence was also being poked and cajoled all match long, with the full blessing of the officials. However, he has less cause than Morrison for his silly behaviour, especially as the captaincy is supposed to mature him. He had got the players winding ours up all match long, and it is a standard tactic by those with insufficient scruples.
Because of recent responses I had intended commenting on the match officials with an "I couldn't possibly comment". But to hell with that. Yet again they were utter rubbish. In many ways they didn't cost us the match, because we did that ourselves with the aforementioned tactics and the resultant pressures we brought on ourselves, with the resultant mistakes. But they failed to wrest the "worst ref of the season" award from the bozo at the Forest match. How tow defenders sandwiching a forward without getting near the ball isn't a foul I have no idea, the same as with a huge number of fouls committed all match long. But as I mentioned earlier in this thread, there were a couple of possible chances he thwarted, and how many more might have been if our attacking threat wasn't nullified by the constant trips and pull backs? I will repeat my thoughts from then: it would have been nice to have had the chance. If Sibley had been able to shoot instead of there being a free-kick, who knows? Most likely he would have sent it way over the bar. He is capable. But we will never know.
The apparent leniency would seem to come from an EFL/FA instruction to "let the game flow", even though that doesn't seem to apply in the Premiership. DCFC cynics might se it as a smokescreen for loading the game against Derby. Match after match a torrent of fouls go unpunished, while Derby players get yellow cards, often for first offences. Last nights stats bore this out, with Birmingham committing way more fouls, and that ignores all the fouls which weren't given, while Derby get the most cards, a pattern which is all to familiar, and has been for a number of seasons.
Regardless of whether the match officials are affecting our fortunes or not, or is it just a misguided deflecting from the truth that the Rams aren't as good as we think they are, our fortunes are still in our hands. I am ok with the idea of playing the ball out from the back, even though we don't have Manchester City quality of players (yet?), but we must not insist on that being our only MO. We have to be prepared to "change it up a bit" as Rooney said as the need arises.
And finally, do the Sky Sports guys take their trousers and underwear off to avoid stains while they "wet" themselves about whichever team happens to be playing us? 

Even for kids, codgers etc?
Won't be much budget headroom for decent players on that kind of revenue.

Sack the fans

The fans!

They scored from a couple of mistakes, a poor back pass and an unlucky deflection into a players path. They didn't even make their own luck.

Guess what....We're not the World's greatest team either. Despite what the fans sing.
 
Whodda thought it!

I tried that but no success.
 
I've got it saved in the notes app anyway which I use for similar situations where i have a mobile ticket but no option for the wallet.

He's a generous bloke, £1.2m for a robotic surgeon to Derby Hospital that helps the city, saved lives and pumped millions into the football club.
People can dissect his running of the club and they will, but honestly having talked to him on many occasions, he's a decent guy that does care.
I would receive calls just to check up how I was doing during my bad days with anxiety. Was hard to read that he was going through his own health issues.
I'll get hammered for this post but I'm gutted for the guy with how this is ending. Always will.
Won't ever feel comfortable reading people laying into him as a man, but accept that others haven't been as lucky I have to have been able to see that side of him.

I know it doesn't help with any conspiracy theory, but we're not the only club that's closed their ticket office, not saying it justifies the decision, just thought it was worth mentioning thats all. Reminds me of the away kit release, again we wasn't the only club not to release their away kit before the season starts, but you would assume it was just in Derby looking at social media. 
Anyway, Spurs have closed their ticket office, not open at all, Swansea only open on match days, sure I have seen others online, feel free to look and verify. 
With everything moving online to e tickets, ticket offices will be a thing of the past in a few years, not just football clubs but cinema, train stations, airports. Might only be a minimum wage job, but it's money saved where computers can takeover.
The pandemic has probably sped things up a little, businesses exploring cost cutting measures, exploring online only options as well as going cashless now. 
People will moan but online systems will be improved and be easier to use as feedback is gathered, your mobile phone will carry tickets, driving licences (America just approved), medical passports the lot, not sure it should even be called a phone at this point.
I have been helping the in laws adapt, they now have iPhones, every time I go round I'll ask them to either show me their covid passport or send me an email. They even order repeat prescriptions now on an app rather than ringing the doctors. All us reading this now are lucky, we're growing up with this technology so will be easier to age without being frustrated about not being able to buy a football ticket.
 

And an established academy  along with 5 years of hope filled busting a gut to lift us up. It didn’t work, big mistakes have been made, his cash ran out. 
 
If Mel come to my house, I’d offer him a brew and a rueful shrug of the shoulders. .
. Maxwell or the Amigos ? Door slammed in face 

It happened to Lionel Pickering too. 
A bit of empathy doesn't hurt. 

It’s the FA, not the EFL

Signed for Como in Serie B. 

How blinkered are our fans that people are even questioning it. He's stamped on the man's c**k, it's a blatant red! ?
Incidentally it's also the best thing he's ever done in a Derby shirt. 

But that’s not an appearance fee. It’s a sell on clause. None of us are 100% sure on the ins and outs of the contract, but Marshall has made 33 appearances for us (according to Wikipedia). What sort of number do we think the supposed appearance fee kicks in at? 34? 35? 40? All a bit odd as a number to slap into a contract and his 50th appearance is far enough away to have him on the bench if needed.

If they sell a player they’re allowed to Replace them. 

Should have had it won in the first half. For all their improvement in the second, Forest didn’t do much. 
forest are the worst side I’ve seen this season. 
morrison  played well up until he got within 20 yards of their goal and he chose the wrong option or tried to fancy about with the ball too often

It wasn’ta mistake by Roos, but he’ll be disappointed it went in. 

Should have had it won in the first half. For all their improvement in the second, Forest didn’t do much. 
forest are the worst side I’ve seen this season. 
morrison  played well up until he got within 20 yards of their goal and he chose the wrong option or tried to fancy about with the ball too often

It wasn’ta mistake by Roos, but he’ll be disappointed it went in. 

It wasn’ta mistake by Roos, but he’ll be disappointed it went in. 

It wasn’ta mistake by Roos, but he’ll be disappointed it went in. 

Shortage of plastic bottles.