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To make a somewhat semi serious point though, the stupidity of all this is that on Sunday and yesterday Coventry deserved all the plaudits for the game they made of it at Wembley. Also Leeds vs Boro was another very good game of football last night and deserves credit (with a bit of damnation over both sides defending as well)!
But what are the top of football discussions at the minute? Antony celebrations, VAR decisions, pep moaning of fixture congestion’s and Forest losing the plot. If you want to know what is wrong with the premier league, it’s that they all live in a microcosm where they think we should all care about all these little things that shouldn’t matter over actual games of football.

Seen this proudly heralded on here and rightly so, but it does still seem to have gone under the radar a little, unless yours truly has simply missed it. Thirteen away wins in a single season is bonkers and in these lower divisions, it feels like it's even harder, with some teams pulling out all the stops to ensure their pitches don't encourage actual football. And that's before we mention the 'special attention' ritually handed out to any player with attacking ability.
Thinking about this a little, it wasn't that long ago that we couldn't buy an away win and even more recently, our home form was shocking with only our away day prowess keeping our noses in it. On reflection, I'm quite proud at how we've ridden the bumps, worked hard and have improved all the way to the line. Going into the last game we've a 14 to 13 split for home and away victories, so our home form in the second half of the season has actually been very good too.
Having a quick tot up as I read the article, a great stat emerged, no xG, I promise!; in winning the 13 away games, we outscored our respective opponents by a staggering 31 goals to 6 which yields an effective rate of over 5 goals scored for every one conceded. See! I told you it was a doozy! 
Have a read of the article linked below if you fancy a quick bask in the reflected glory. Handy way to distract yourself from how slowly this pesky working week is going.
Whadddya mean it's only Monday!?! It must be at least Wednesday by now!!! 😡
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/04/in-focus-the-away-wins-that-set-a-new-derby-county-club-record

FA and the PL are both now investigating - it’s not going to end well for the tinpot  whingers..

Yes but there’s professional s paid eye watering sums on the other team paid to stop them 🤷🏻‍♂️

Paul Warne said you can’t play league one football in the championship and you’ll not get anywhere playing championship football in league one. 
why do some people think he’s stupid?

If you've only been entertained by 2 out of 22 home games, I think your expectations might have been a little too high, and if you're only attending Derby games in order to be entertained, then I can understand why you're not renewing. But for many fans, the entertainment factor is only one of many aspects that draw them to Pride Park. For a payment of what is effectively only £8/week, I get an awful lot more than entertainment out of it.

New footage emerges of Stuart Atwell in the VAR official's studio moments after he's rejected the 3rd penalty appeal :

They ought to wait until they've had a goalkeeper sent off for chesting the ball outside the penalty area and had a match winning penalty given against them for a foul that took place outside of the area in the same game before deciding that the world is corrupt.

Paul Warne said you can’t play league one football in the championship and you’ll not get anywhere playing championship football in league one. 
why do some people think he’s stupid?

Paul Warne said you can’t play league one football in the championship and you’ll not get anywhere playing championship football in league one. 
why do some people think he’s stupid?

Never mentioned ‘good’ football, just how you play the game. 
whatever, I’m absolutely certain PW knows a lot more about it than me 

If I worked at Forest I’d be up, showered, dressed and out the door already. The office is going to provide unrivalled drama. One of those where you stare at your screen, pretending you’re not listening, but loving every minute of the sideshow 

Take no notice Bob , anybody our age will surely understand that though you might not get to games regularly at any stage of life for various or any reasons , when big games / days like this or Wembley come along there’s a real urge to want to be there , it’s not like your screaming you deserve a ticket but you are simply saying you would absolutely love to be there and would do what it takes to get a chance of a ticket 🤷🏻‍♂️,
im lucky enough to have season tickets at the moment but it doesn’t make me anymore of a fan than you ,,, I hope you get a ticket mate👍

Ahem...
 

Forest are only playing PL football because of biased officiating in their playoff final against Huddersfield. Their stance is unbelievable.

Rivalry aside, this lot are a disgrace to football!!! Lost again and once again not their fault. They’ve brought in clattenburg for one reason and one reason only to undermine officials. Forget FFP (where they also broke the rules and admitted to breaking the rules) they should be deducted points for this. 
 
They deserve to go down and there will be a lot of football fans without black and white blinkers that now hope they do. 

They should be charged with bringing the game into disrepute after that tweet - another couple of points should just about cover it....#tinpot

@Red_Dawn never knew you were the Notts Forest social media admin mate?
 

David Clowes rescued our club and appointed a manager who he believed would get us promoted back to the Championship.
It looks like that bit has been done barring a ridiculous turn of events.
 
What happens next? Lets leave it to David Clowes to continue to make good decisions, He's doing ok so far.
 
 

It might surprise you to know that most of us know we have certain aging players in the autumn of their careers. You don’t need to be a genius to realise that going up a league will mean we need reinforcements and replacements. Are you after another medal for stating the obvious. ?

Your posts seem to have particular themes .. this is one of them : State the obvious like it is some revelation that the rest of us have never even considered. So condescending. Pssst quite a few of us have been around a while, played the game and watched it at many levels over a lifetime
Alex Ferguson once said .. The first rule of intelligence is to remember the other guy isn’t stupid. 
 

I must admit I like Paul Warne and I hope he can do a good job for us in the championship next season 🤞

They are chanting warnes name AFTER games now , that’s not in game chants to raise the team , it’s praise for the job he is doing and well deserved it is too , he’s also not jumping in on the bounce to steal the players / fans joy , he is maintaining that line as the boss with a job to do , some on here may not like it but the majority of fans at games are giving Warne the respect and praise he deserves for what he is creating at derby ,
there’s an honesty and culture at the club now that’s been missing for a long time and I for one want to see where he can take it given time and a bit more to spend 

The job Warne has done, since Stevenage away, has been exemplary.
You cannot play one touch 50 pass moves with league 1 players. Not feasible. If we blow it, and have to face up to another season down here, Warne is definitely the man to rebuild us and go again.
If we go up, he will have earnt the right to build a Championship squad and have a go at keeping us up, as per his original brief.
I know he's marmite, with his off-beat personality profile, but he's clearly an honest and genuine man and it's hard to see a nice guy cop for abuse.

Last 10 games it's W7 D2 L1 (one draw and the one defeat causing fan meltdowns of course) scored 16, conceded 4. Incredible consistency at the crunch time of the season.