Hector was the best

Worst team selection since the Wembley PO final.

I was praying he would continue to do something daft as he'd been niggly and mardy and fouling their players all afternoon. But there apparently is no god and he stayed on.
I have NO idea what Warne is thinking leaving Collins on for anyone, I'd have happily played with a man who can score and another man who can score (Sibs & Didz) but instead we get Collins. I cannot imagine Warne's reasoning.

Their record coming into the game is irrelevant. It's still well done Fleetwood. Thoroughly deserved.

Derby County 0 Fleetwood Town 2
i never thought I’d see a score like that in my lifetime

Too many unnecessary changes in the starting line up today. If Didz and Knight are fit you play them every time. And you play two of Dobbin, Barks and NML. Not sure why Roberts doesn’t get more games. This is not the time of season to pick Springett and Davies just to give them a game. If anyone needs resting it’s Hourihane. Warne messed up today.

He’d be excellent on Its a knockout.

thank god thats over. well deserved fleetwood.

Charlton - wore my lucky socks - WON
Barnsley - didn’t wear my lucky socks - LOST
Cheltenham - wore my lucky socks - WON
Shrewsbury - didn’t wear my lucky socks - DREW
Plymouth - didn’t wear my lucky socks - LOST
Oxford - wore my lucky socks - WON
They’re in the wash ready for Fleetwood. 

Well we got away with one, today! It seems we have learned nothing from our previous few games in this poor run. We are still lumping the ball around hoping that on the odd occasion it will land near one of our own players. Oxford move the ball around very well, and in addition they are very good at ratting around, which we tend not to be, and that is the difference which gave them the bulk of the possession. They didn't give us a moment's breathing space, a situation we don't like and can't cope with on the whole. There are increasing cries for Derby to get the ball on the ground and play football with it, especially after the Plymouth game on Tuesday, and I would have thought that the expected reaction to that result would see us playing to our strengths. But no, hardly a sight of it, just kick it long and/or into the channels. Sadly Corey Smith was the worst culprit. We've been wanting him to be moved into midfield for weeks now, and he did bring a bit of defensive metal to the side, but virtually every time he got the ball, he simply hoofed it up into the air and 4 yards up the pitch. And straight to an Oxford player - I don't think he got the ball to a Derby player once! Very disappointing. And on the rare occasions we actually played football, we looked dangerous and scored.
Pick of the bunch were Wildsmith (despite flapping at the ball for the first goal), as he kept us in the match several times, and, of course, Sibley. He took his chances really well, with the first one being a typical Sibbers goal, as was the second!!! His contribution was strong for most of the match, and was playing with a bit of authority today. His time away at left back, and sadly on the bench has seen him return a much better footballer. And that's about it, although it was good to see Max Bird back out on the green stuff!
And I hardly noticed the ref today, which might mean we have had yet another good ref, which makes the grand total of 3 this season - an embarrassment of riches! He actually got a load wrong, but he certainly wasn't the absolute buffoon we normally get.
It seems crazy, we played so poorly but could have come away with 5 goals! WE dug in and held on, and showed some character, and sometimes, as may have said, the result is all that matters. So having shown that we've got some balls, lets now play some football.
COYR!

Watching the highlights, those are two exquisite goals from Sibley. Of a quality far above League One and this match. I would post this in the Sibley thread, but it's got such a cringeworthy title I'm posting here instead. Utterly brilliant from the young man.

I give him credit for that, but doesn’t mean he won the header. It was the only good thing he did today. We came away with three points today through pure luck. I’ve only never seen a derby team win a football game with a poorer performance than that. It’s not a good thing, as 99 times out of 100 we lost playing like that. 
Evens up some of the points we lost to teams robbing us earlier in the season granted, but to say there’s any positives to take from that apart from the 3 points is simply untrue. We were awful. 50% pass accuracy. 50%!

I would sooner Curtis Davies come on as the centre forward replacement substitute than Collins. Think he would win more headers and cause the opposition defence more problems. 

Might be time to add Cybulski to the bench maybe he can have a impact coming off it has Collins appears to not affect the game either starting or coming on.

Is contact not allowed in football?

Not heard the interviews post match, just the comments in here.
That's 2 games running we haven't reacted to a change at HT by opposition,  resulting in 2 goals each in next 20 minutes.
The management need to see the weaknesses being exploited and attempting to fix from the bench, yet again too late last night, we needed energy in midfield to try to slow down their attacks, Thompson should have been on for White to break up play, although I was concerned at the line up and subs before the game started, away from home against 2nd place and we chose to weaken the midfield by taking Smith out, and to not even have the option to put him back in mid game with Rooney not even on the bench (should have started) was a mistake before a ball was kicked. With Sibs and Dobbin on bench Springett should have missed out to get him in the squad, we seem to deliberately weaken the team for these big away games, that's 2 on trot away from home.
Starting to concern me the lack of response from the bench mid game, especially when we know Warne wants high intensity play, you need to be proactive with the subs.

Just got in at 03:35. Why do I bother?

Watched the game two hours behind, and have just read through the thread. My thoughts for anyone that cares.
We played really well first half. Deserved to go in one up.
There manager changed it up, twice, early in the second half, and the momentum swing was noticeable in terms of attacking intent. Warne did nothing, when a couple of substitutions would of clearly helped. We were 1 nil up and just about holding on and he was warming up Dobbin for a like for like swap! We needed more in midfield. Thompson or Springett should have come on for one of our forward players. Or he could have moved Smith into midfield and asked NML or Knight to play RB. As good as NML was first half he might as well not been on the pitch second half.
White is getting pelters, which he doesn’t really deserve. He played ok. He’s a young lad learning his trade not bloody Pirlo. He was unlucky how the ball ran for him on the first goal, and it is difficult to blame him for the penalty, although on balance I can see why it was given. As much as virtually everyone is having a go at the ref, he had a split second to decide, and for what worth I think there was some contact. We would have been screaming for a penalty in the exact same circumstances I am sure. The TV EXPERTS were broadly of the view that contact was made, and I doubt VAR would have overturned it.
The side were poor second half, compounded by baffling substitutions by Warne which didn’t ever look like improving the situation. I fully accept though he is hindered by not having any great forward replacement options - hence when we were one up he should have been shoring the midfield up to help our defence.
Some saying Matete was a horrible player. Perhaps, but we could have done with a Matete in this match.
Overall, they did deserve to win on balance. Not disappointed as I expected to lose tonight. Hopefully the Wendies and Plymouth go up as we wouldn’t want to play either in the playoffs.
We should still get into the playoffs, especially with Bird back and hopefully a fit Chester too.
We can beat any of the other 3 teams in the top 6 in the playoffs. Time though for Warne to start showing he is the League 1 Guardiola, and to start making quicker and more effective and INFLUENTIAL substitution decisions during tight, important matches.

I agree with this and whilst I know Warne has limited options from the bench he could have brought on players who know how to retain the ball and calmed things down.
Plymouth went to three at the back but again Warne didn't react until we were chasing the game.
And then he brings on a random assortment of mis-matched subs who don't appear to know what position they're playing. I've never seen such a waste of Sibley's talents. And don't get me started on Collins - I would rather see Cybulski getting the odd sub runout than him. At least Bart knows how to hold up the ball and lay it off without giving away a foul every time! 
I would like to see Warne take some responsibility in his post-match interviews, rather than just calling out his players. Although I have a certain sympathy where Hourihane is concerned! 
On the penalty, it should be an automatic three match ban for players who cheat. Until then, players will continue to get away with this shocking play-acting.
Small consolations. I take no pride (but 5 points) in getting tonight's prediction spot-on. And I'm enjoying a cold beer back at my hotel rather than dodging motorway roadworks and a 4 am return to Derby. I might regret it tomorrow if it snows hard overnight! 

I like Warne and respect what he has said. As a team we do lack STEEL on the pitch. He must be aware of this. The game on Satdee should have been put to bed and tonight we were cruising .... these players just MELT AWAY ... 

I think it was a bad decision and we've had a couple this year. I don't think it's our biggest problem and it's not what I'd personally choose to focus on. It doesn't explain why we are where we are, why we can't close games out, and why when other teams step up the tempo we tend to collapse. 
Last year, when the EFL apparently hated us and wanted us out of existence, we conceded three penalties. Three. All season. 
My issue with blaming the refs is that it is just a way of avoiding the fact there are plenty of other more pertinent factors that much better explain why we are where we are. 
Edit: having watched Warne's interview, I'm basically agreeing with him. Good teams rise to adversity. We tend to collapse. It might be tiredness and a small squad. It might be that we aren't yet as good as we need to be, and other teams are simply better. Either way that's the thing we need to face and address. 

Yes the penalty was a poor decision but we can’t control what the ref sees and what decisions he makes. What we can control is the game when leading 1-0. 
 
first half we looked good, chances created, goal scored and solid. 2nd half we looked the complete opposite. We didn’t look competent on the ball and simple passes were not completed. We goofed the ball up top hopefully and lost 90% of our battles. We didn’t get to the 2nd balls and break up attacks well enough. We also showed nothing going forward, not at 0-1, not at 1-1 and not at 2-1. We didn’t even seem able to put an attach together. Zero quality. 
 
a few stats in the 2nd half….
- We only had 40% possession. 
- We had 1 shot on target and 1 shot off target in 50 mins.                                                    
- We had 2 corners                                                   
- We Attempted 143 passes but only completed 83
Those stats above aren’t good enough when trying to control a game when leading and then trying to get something from the game when losing & drawing.
As Warne said we need to do much more and not just play for 45mins. Otherwise we won’t even be in the Playoffs….
 
 
 

Good interview from Warne. Finally calling the players out, they deserve rinsing after the last few performances. Piss poor

Heart goes out to ALL the Rams who journeyed down . Deserved better. This team lacks STEEL. 

I don't agree. I think there are a few teams better than us, more solid than us, in this division and the table is about right. The 'EFL hates us' thing is getting boring now and bordering on conspiracy theory. We aren't quite good enough or sharp enough for top two and we need to dig in for the playoffs. I'm much more worried about the fact we look leggy and sloppy at times than I am about the Great Conspiracy Against Derby. 

Bang on the money . 
 
 
This team lacks that steel factor when the tide turns on the pitch ... the players who can  step up and fight the tide ... we have'nt got them
 
The Shrewsbury game was dead at HT but we draw it .. and this .. . I'm losing faith with this team to win games in a Play off situation... we are lacking a few kind of players who will stand up .