Abu Derby

National League Player of the Month. Great showing young un.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/04/out-on-loan-brown-wins-national-league-player-of-the-month-award

Joe Ward the latest - could be out for the season. 

You were lucky!
Mine ended up as "D R Y  C UN Y"
Thank God that T fell off, and not the Y!  😲
Phew!  

Hope you've scored in them!

This is not a step forward at all, it stifles competition and turns it into a closed shop for the benefit of Sky. Shame on the EFL for signing such a deal. and shame on the clubs for agreeing to it also.
I will continue to subscribe to Rams TV, my overseas trips currently cost me £5 per month 🙂 Will sky be showing all matches live like Rams TV does? I doubt it! I won't give my money to Sky TV on principle.
All fans should boycott Sky TV, they are destroying football in my opinion.

FFS
I hate Sky.

Just as an aside, I watched the match on the Wycombe channel last night as Rams TV was buffering. 
They had 2 commentators who sounded like 2 guys from the pub.
They kept saying how impressed they were with Conor Washington 😵‍💫
They also said how much we have improved since they saw us earlier in the season.
Absolutely astounded by both comments.

NML, CBT, Collins were all poor, Washington looks like he won a competition to be a footballer.
If Washington won, CBT must've come 2nd.

I was there last night and my god it was a hard watch. The constant Wildsmith to Nelson, Nelson to Wilson followed by the ball being lumped up the line invariably to a Wycombe player made my eyes bleed. A lot of people on here blaming CBT for the early miss but Washington was clean through and should have buried that himself. On the extremely rare occasions where we kept the ball on the deck we cut through them but of course that’s not the Warne way so it was back to lumping it. Not one player looked on it last night just like at Northampton. 
It is just so dispiriting to see us floundering in a match like that at such a crucial stage of the season. 

Not sure how adding Bradley helps in any logical way.
Our problems are in attack. We have a selection of forwards who either aren’t fully fit or otherwise just aren’t good enough.
Smith and Adams battled manfully in midfield but they desperately need a third player they can rely upon. Ward provided that briefly. Bird’s return would help massively.
We have the version of James Collins who runs around a lot without being creative and Washington who gets behind defences and then….nothing.
NML looks cursed. I have never seen a player kick the ball into touch as often.
We know CBT can be good, but does he?
What surprised me last night was our willingness to pump the ball in the air again, letting Wildsmith take long free kicks when creativity was needed. I hope that they will practice in training the slick first time passing which can produce the three wins we need.
 
 

1.26 am just got home after numerous road closures and diversions.
It's hard work sometimes. 

If we don’t go up it will be because we aren’t good enough.

If we don’t go up it will be because we aren’t good enough.

If we don’t go up it will be because we aren’t good enough.

If we don’t go up it will be because we aren’t good enough.

Absolute f****** disgrace,
even if we somehow get promoted I want that bobblehatted Bamford gone.

Have we seriously had 0 shots on target?!

What have they been doing all week? Everyone's on completely different pages, you'd think with 4 games to go and a full week to prepare we'd have some sort of plan.

Northampton MkII

Whilst it’s not worth going back and listening to a whole day worth of audio, it was a very impressive stint from Radio Derby and I really enjoyed it as something different. Lots of interesting bits with Eric Steele with the kit man etc, but also a pretty interesting kind of round table with Colin Gibson, Tom Loakes and Ed Dawes about the media side of things (including having to hide Marriott in the back of Gibbo’s car when he signed). Owen Bradley spoke well about RamsTV, a few interviews on the academy etc etc. It was just good radio tbh, and I hope people didn’t purposefully miss out because they talked themselves into thinking it was a distraction or whatever they were whinging about beforehand. I do find it quite funny that there were 9 pages on here before Monday and just after a page since it was broadcast.
FWIW, the most important thing to come out of it is that it’s sured up the club’s relationship with Radio Derby. I might be wrong but I did sense it was all quite frosty under Mel’s tenure and there has probably been a bit of hangover in the 2-3 years since. I’m sure it’s not that any bridge mending was needed, but things like Warne doing a couple of interviews with presenters away from Dom and Ed are good because it brings a different perspective to Warne. Hopefully it means there will be more stuff like this was in the future.
Great job by everyone involved!

Can’t recommend listening to it enough- I particularly enjoyed the Ian Skye section. Eric Steele was with him.
you just get snippets into the life of the club. The kitman has been at the club 40 years, started as an apprentice and was a player, I could have listened to him all day. 
 
another employee’s grandad was the driver of the club bus in Cloughie’s tenure.
used to take the bus home sometimes and park in a nearby pub car park so he could give the bus a good clean before its next journey 
 
Things you’d never usually hear 

We’ve got a preseason friendly at home versus a team beginning with R. I’m thinking Real Madrid. 

For those of us who trudged out of Hillsborough, on the last day , last season . For those of us that have been through the last 4 , failed play
-off campaigns - I want to see the players “Run through brick walls”. 

Beat Wycombe and Orient and I’m cancelling Wembley hotel.