Hector was the best

My goodness we look a very poor side

We haven’t done passing in training yet. Scheduled for December.

Flaming hell wer’re a hard watch .. good job I have no life 

Shrewsbury Town put a couple of messages on X an hour ago. One was just the usual match day release and another was about the entrance to the local park and ride car park. So, I’d be surprised if it’s called off now.
I’ll be setting off quite a bit earlier than previously planned due to the likelyhood of standing water in places that is bound to slow traffic down. Looking at the AA site, it also looks like there is a bit of an issue on one of the roundabouts on the A5 that may cause a delay (having said that, my SatNav that has live traffic updates is still saying just less than an hour from Tamworth).
Drive safely everyone.

Sorry No flag 🙂
Just arrived to shrewsbury
Had to take a taxi from Birmingham... no trains because of flooding 
Enjoy the game on my friend.... RamsTV. 🙂
I have not seen the Rams win live for couple of years ... this year my luck will change..
Come on you Rams
 
 
 

Waiting for the next Lodge meeting?

Enough players back from injury now for that to not be an excuse. Results have been decent even if the performances have been largely rubbish. 
Time for Warne and the squad to kick on and start asserting themselves on this weak division.
If, now players are returning from injury, Warne reverts back to a back three I am going to scream.

Hi @DenmarkRam
Do you have a Denmark Rams flag?
It would be great to see you (& the flag if you have one) when we watch the action on RamsTV.
Cheers 🍻 
Inverurie Ram

... And those annoying gits who are constantly destroying thread after thread with bloody puns can shove their keyboard right up their Jambalaya!   👀

Warne said in his interview last night that he had let the players know that they and the coaching staff need to improve if they want success. Why's he allowed to say it but the fans aren't?

Anyone else had enough of anyone criticising our performance being criticised for being told they aren't allowed to criticise, without a sense of irony.
 

Exactly this. 
 
But beating Notts County’s second team was more important than the academy and trying to reward the players that are showing potential. 
 
Let’s give Collins another 90 minutes against Wolves U21s just to see if he can find his shooting boots 🤣🤣

This was a good result, still some frustrations though, namely not finishing chances. Could/should have been three or four up at half time and left the door wide open for Notts to get back into the game.
Sibley adds some clinical finishing & attacking ability, good to see him stake a claim for a starting place.
Bird, Barkhuizen, Hourihane, Kane Wilson all played well I thought. Carried the ball well, positive passing, looked a threat in attack.
Sonny Bradley - he looked pretty solid, probably his best performance so far. Long may it continue.
Collins - sweet baby Jesus, I want to like him but he's so frustrating. He could have had a hat-trick and blew his lines every time. I know he runs and works hard but surely giving someone else 5 games in his position is worth a try. Sibley? Washington? Brown?

Why put them on the bench then? I’m sorry but these games are a little step up from academy games, which is why a load of U21s teams are playing in it. 
 
The only things we got out the game are confirming as a team we’re crap at finishing and that Sibley is our main goal threat and PW should have played him more when fit. 

I'm confused. We generally, and particularly first half yesterday, played out from the back. Lovely to see much better football. Now, generally during our league games we don't do that we get long kicks from the keeper and long balls from particularly Cashin and Forsyth which nine times out of ten give the ball to the opposition. Anyone know why? I don't get it. 

We played some nice stuff in the first half against weak opposition, as we did at times against Cheltenham.
However, the midfield disappeared and the forward line got sloppy. Our defence had to hold on and we had to rely on luck to get us through. If we replicate that in the league, a hammering awaits.
Fornah has had a couple of poor games but is a good player. Hourihane can’t play more than a half these days. 
I think we need to play Bird, Smith and Fornah as a three where we have three different skill sets.
I hope the players enjoyed their win and that Warne can take the panic out of their finishing. That debacle with Barkhuisen and Collins showed how low their confidence has fallen with regard to scoring a goal.
 
 

If only we had a decent centre forward, a goalscorer rather than a donkey!

There’s not many times I’ve agreed with your posts in recent times but on this one I couldn’t agree more!!! 👌🏻

This is what happens at nearby away games when we have a big capacity. Encourages all the scum bags who aren’t proper fans to go there looking for a fight.
Always find it’s a much different experience at the smaller grounds. None of those nobheads travelled to Carlisle for instance, and the atmosphere was much better. Lots of moaning about the s*** performance of course, but no coked up idiots shouting abuse. 

I think we have to accept that we have a few nasty people supporting this club. Hopefully police and stewards will find them and remove them.

Will have one final whinge about the amount of just vitriol from the stands.
 
Teenagers still of school age just F’ing every other word. Bloke behind me wouldn’t stop calling the ball boys lazy C words. 
 
Collins constantly referred to as a lazy txxt- I mean he misses chances but the last thing he can be described as is lazy! 
 
It made a match I was looking forward to quite an unenjoyable experience. 
 
‘you F’ing D*ck McGoldrick - someone kill him’ was another pearl of wisdom. 
 
I know this is probably just me getting old but when I went to away games with my mates at that age it wasn’t like that. You’d give some of the old wrist shakin and middle fingers to the home support and sneak a beer in but it wasn’t a competition for how many times the C word could be used in a match. 

Collins appears to have far less an intellect than Sibley and I don’t think it’s  Effort Sibley lacks. 
I see in him the exact player that we need to support the forward players therefore I interpret his actions very differently from you. 
 
No one questioned his effort when he played left back/lwb so abely last season 
I believe when we play football he plays well in the 10 role and when we don’t and play this scrappy rush it up front aimlessly then he doesn’t. 
 
I loved Collins at Luton and was excited when he came here. His non stop fouling and his tendency to not be in the box when we sometimes need him there are far more infuriating to me from a seasoned pro rather than someone who hasn’t played so regularly and is towards the earlier part of their career. 
His ball to Barks tonight when they were through was poor. 
 

Our squad is easily as good as the top 2 - how it is used is more pertinent. The composition seems very short term I agree. But when Warne makes comments about spending on JCH not  being the way to go and then you look at his choice of signings you have to wonder 🤔 His squad has players he wanted to sign for Rotherham and players he has signed for us. He has turned down the opportunity to pay fees, spending instead on wages. 
If he chooses to ignore younger lower league players I'd say I'm not surprised, see how he treats our own young players. So while he was chasing Wilson last season - who is 23 - he looks nothing like the finished article. But Tommo had to go out on loan last season to get game time. Warne suggested it was to do with how he trained and not being ready, for me I see Wilson could be viewed in the same way yet he gets chosen. So finally Warne plays Tommo in he preferred role and he starts to look a player. Bird on Saturday, what on earth happened there! 
There's lots of examples of Warne's ineptitude, it's not the squad however they are composed.

It's all well and good comparing our points totals this season to previous seasons in both Derby and Warne's history. The problem is that come the end of the season the points total will be compared to the other teams in the division and we are already 9/10 points off the pace.

"You might not realise it but Paul Warne's doing pretty well"