Hector was the best

Knight putting in a great shift.

Allsop needs to be quicker at releasing the ball. Several times over the past few games he's given it away cheaply in bad positions. Luckily the defense recovers quick enough to cover, but we will get punished sooner or later

You absolute beastly rotter...... 
Crushed my last remaining dreams..... ?

Sam Rush + players under the wasserman umbrella... No thanks.
Mel Morris was reckless for splashing the cash like a kid in a candy store. But it was Sam Rush alongside our dire recruitment team who actually signed the dross.
If Morris had splashed the cash with a system like Brentford's in place we'd be an established top 10 PL club now.
But instead we got Wasserman dross.
And the contracts were ridiculous. It's well documented how Darren Bent triggered a year extension in his own contract without Morris even knowing about it. Incompetence all round.

What has Allsopp done wrong to get dropped ??‍♂️

My work colleague is a Luton fan so we have booked hospitality for this one and are bringing some guests. Sadly, the Luton element will outnumber the Derby element by 7 to 3, but it is all good money in the club’s bank account. If we can take all three points, so much the better.

Yay, I’m going to this!! After a brain haemorrhage and then lockdown I thought I’d never get to PP again. However, I’ve recovered really well over the summer, especially worked hard to improve physically and my partner is letting my son take me to the match - he’s much more worried than I am!
So, Rams, I’d appreciate a good performance and a win - though whatever happens I’ll feel like a winner just getting there.

You cannot compare click and collect takeaways with the closure of a football stadium for 18 months. 
 
I have not said our case is watertight … only that it is 100% certain that COVID/lockdown are Force Majeure events per the EFl rules .
whether we win the case will depend on whether we can prove on balance of probabilities that COVID caused the administration .
The case is being brought on our behalf by a firm of insolvency practitioners. They, unlike keyboard warrior critics like Mr Plop and maguire)   are very well placed to say what caused the insolvency event , especially if Mel is a witness and supports their claim.
in Wigan’s case their former owner didn’t even want to give evidence to help them. And put them into admin days after taking over. So we should have much better chance than Wigan.

The government had no plans in place for a potential pandemic, even though a test exercise was run in 2016 - they completely ignored the recommendations. So any expectation that an EFL club would have done so is delusional. 
On a practical level, there are severe limitations to what DCFC could have done to prepare for the pandemic and, once it hit, their options were limited still further, particularly considering the lack of a strategic plan from the government. 
The first lockdown occurred between transfer windows - no opportunity to raise funds from sales, and once the transfer window opened the market for our players had largely disappeared. The club had the full cost of staging matches for a season and a quarter with severely reduced gate and commercial revenue. TV subscriptions barely scratched the surface of that loss, since most were given as an alternative to ST refunds. 
Of course, I expect the EFL to argue that if the club had been in a better financial position the Event wouldn't have had such a catastrophic effect, but they also have to bear in mind that the restrictions they imposed (which they could have relaxed if they'd been truly interested in helping the club stay out of Administration) probably pushed the club into further difficulties. 
I expect all of the above and more will be raised in our appeal. 

The EFLs stupidity should not be a problem. It appears prospective buyers will need to put in 45 million to take over the club. It is beyond sanity that someone would pay that much having seen the books and not have enough money to last out the season and lose the money that they have put into the club by buying it in the first place

Did no-one tell the EFL that the club is up for sale, and that the buyers will provide the funding? Isn't that the point of what the administrators are doing? And every prospective buyer has at least £5 million sitting in a bank account? What more do the EFL expect the administrators to do? 

I think he complained in 2018 and the EFL ignored him. Then suddenly in late 2019/ early 2020 the amortisation issue gets raised by the EFL again.. three years after the notes to the accounts of 2015/16 had explained it. Why did it take so long, and why did the EFL suddenly start listening to Maguire? 

So they're claiming the wage bill (including tax, NICS etc I assume) will be £13.5M until the end of the season? That's 9 months, which would mean the annual wage bill is now £18M - and they think THAT is "staggering" for a Championship club with a turnover in normal times of around £30M????
Have they looked at other teams wage bills? £18M p.a would put us comfortably in the bottom half, and 60% of turnover would probably put us in the bottom 6 for wages/turnover ratio.
What a load of tosh!

At the start of the season, and especially after how we trailed out of the previous one, we were expecting an absolutely gruelling few months giving our all while watching a bunch of players barely able to string two passes together. The reality is the we are good to watch. I don't know what Wayne Rooney has done, but he has got the team playing some lovely, quick-passing, with great interplay, and players changing roles and places. The improvement is remarkable. We certainly don't look like a bottom of the table team.
As ever we struggled to turn our play into goals, but we ended up with a lorry load of shots, with 5 (although I thought more than that) on target. YEs, some were from long range, but not so long ago the players were trying to walk the ball over the line at every opportunity. We are creating chances and are not afraid to shoot. 3 great saves by the keeper, another one by the crossbar  and another disgraceful penalty ignored. Incidentally Ebosele's penalty shout had some meat to it, because as he was battling his way into the area, the defender had hooked his arm around Ebosele's to the point of it being inter-twined, which is clear evidence that the defender was fouling him.
I actually thought the ref was reasonably ok early on, bar his having lost his yellow card. Preston were able to break up a high proportion of our attacking breaks with cynical fouls, and there should have been at least 3 or 4 more cards shown. At least Derby didn't get the most yellow cards this time, so no doubt the ref is in for a bollocking tonight!
Preston upped their game for the second half and tightened up in their challenges, so the high pressing actually began to hold us up. They also stepped forwards a coupe of yards and it changed the game. We still created far more threat than they did until the last 10 or 15 minutes. I am right proud of what the players achieved today.
Once again I don't think I can single anyone out who had a poor game, with only Sibley not having the effect everyone wants him to have. But as ever he virtually never, ever gets played in his best, most natural position. He should be played in the number 10 role, either playing off the main striker (a bit hard, we haven't had one for a while), or playing in the hole behind a front two. He is instead tuck out on the wing, where he can produce the goods on occasion, but today he had no chance. He is not a lone striker. Tom can play that role better, so why not put him there, and Sibbers in Tom's place? One day he will end up going elsewhere, get played to his strengths and end up bagging a load of goals. We did it with Weimmann, who plays off a target man. We stuck him out on the wing, or as lone striker, or as bench warmer and he hardly scored for us, but he moved to Bristol and started cracking them in.
Jagielka and Davies were excellent yet again. I am assuming Jagielka's presence has been key, because we now have Davies looking like a player who can cope with the ball at his feet, where as last season he looked like he might trip over it when it got to his feet! And the improvement in Shinnie this season is really good. His reading of the game, and his ability to spot and make a pass were all questionable but he is now looking a complete footballer. And one attacking move he was involved in down the left wing had him playing a one-two the swerving and drifting past a coupe of defenders before getting into the box and crossing the ball. Brilliant!
It was a match we could easily have lost last season, but we stood up to a lot of rough stuff and outplayed Preston until right near the end of the match. We are going through one heck of a transformation. and are not being bullied off the ball anywhere near as much as we were, and we are tough enough to be able to stick to our game plan. 
We can't score for toffee, we seem to have the entire football establishment against us, and yet I am really excited about our future. It won't take much for us to start finding the net and then away we'll go. 
Se you on Tuesday!

opportunity missed really we should have won..Shinnie and Davies standouts for me..again we ended quite poorly and were hanging on at times..
again no luck at all - hit the bar, clear nailed on penalty not given (yet again)
We really need to beat Luton in midweek

Not really enough though is it? Especially when Preston were there for the taking.

2 points dropped.
should have won. 

Shinnie MOM

Could see that Sibley sub coming a mile off. Offered next to nothing in a game we’ve dominated the ball. Think the ball bouncing off his shin a minute before was the final straw for Rooney

sibley off...to be fair did very little and makes the most sense..

Sibley showing why he is not first choice

shinnie superb again..

All Preston chances come from us messing about at the back

We should be winning this.
As well as we're passing it around, I'd like to see us mix it up a bit going forward... Draw them on then hit the odd long pass for Sibbo to chase; he'll have their centre-backs for pace all day!
And what a run that was by Festy!

Sibley , Knight, Lawrence need to take more responsibility for giving us a cutting edge.