Fla Ram

Rams 2-0 frgs McGoldrick

I’m female and I’ve got a sense of humour about these things. We’re not allowed to have a bit of banter? 
I’m personally not a fan of shoe horning women into roles just because it’s expected not to discriminate. But she did well and deserved to be there. Can’t say the same for one or two linos I’ve seen, but I’ll leave that. 
I’m really not keen on women commentators either, or interviewers. The good ones are very few and too many aren’t there on merit. (I get that this is subjective and just my opinion). 
Don’t give anyone a job just to tick boxes, and I’m sticking to that. 

Rams 2-0 frgs McGoldrick

There’s some proper Mardyarses on here. 
Two very winnable home games to come. 
Get a grip people. 

Derby County 4-2 Bristol Rovers Sat 29th Oct 2022. Attendance 27,841.
McGoldrick 3, Collins 1.
The eldest lad and I enjoyed our trip for this game. Sat in the South Stand Upper in H.
Fri 18:45 Aberdeen to Edinburgh Megabus
Fri 22:40 Edinburgh to Meadowhall Megabus
Sat 05:43 Meadowhall to Sheffield Train 
Sat 06:33 Sheffield to Derby Train
Arrived in Derby 07:00 and walked up to Pride Park in the dark and the light drizzle. Took a couple of photos and escaped the rain sitting down in Greggs. Made a move back into Derby but the heavy rain came down, so nipped into the Starbucks drive through and dried out. The lack of sleep on the overnight  megabus, caught up with my boy. Walked back into Derby and strolled around the shops, nipped into Waterstones with the intention of buying my mate the ‘Groundwork’ book, but nothing Derby related in the sport section, and with the Derby Book Festival on, pretty disappointing.
Met my mate in The Kitchen on Sadler Gate for Breakfast at 10am. Tried The Old Bell at 11am for beer but doesn’t open until 12, so popped to The Slug & Lettuce for drinks. Tried checking into the hotel at 1pm, but no joy, so enjoyed some more beer. Walked along the river about 2pm and was in Pride Park for about 2:15pm to hang the Aberdeenshire Rams flag up.
Enjoyed every second of the game and was really impressed especially with James Collins pressing and work rate and if every other player gives that commitment on a regular basis then we will get promoted.
Sun 09:00 Derby to Leicester National Express
Sun 10:55 Leicester to Luton Airport National Express
Sun 19:15 Luton to Aberdeen Airport easyJet
Sun 21:00 Aberdeen Airport to Inverurie Car.
Home 21:30 and time to catch up with all the Derby County footage on RamsTV.
Another great weekend like the one I had with 2 mates 23 years ago, this weekend, when we drove down to Derby from Westhill via the Glasgow Barrowlands on the Friday night to enjoy Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros before arriving in Derby bang on 3pm to watch the Rams beat Chelsea 3-1.
 
 

Derby County v  Charlton Athletic
 
5pts
NONE
3pts
Addingham Ram    24
Alan Ramage 4 EVA    15
AndyB    49
angieram    30
Andrew1    10
Blondest Goat    35
BOB BIGGS    37
Brammie Steve    35
BucksRam    32
Carnero    43
Chris_Martin    33
DCFC Kicks    21
dcfc the 1 4me    30
Dean (hick) Saunders    21
Dordogne-Ram    29
Elgin_Ram    23
EssendonRam    19
Fla Ram    30
FlyBritishMidland    38
Foreveram    28
HedgeEnder    40
hintonsboots    29
hydraulic ram    27
jimtastic56    49
Kernow    24
LeedsCityRam    36
Miggins    33
OohMartWright    30
PrideParkhead    12
Rampant    24
SKHunter    17
Steve How Hard?    29
StrawHillRam    25
Ted McMinn Football Genius    30
TheHospitalier    30
timlondinium    35
WharfedaleRam    31
 
2pts
Ramant62    14
Wolfie    32
 
1pt
Amberram    23
archram    33
BarrowRam    19
BramcoteRam84    21
BriggRam    19
dabber    33
86 Hair Islands    18
harwich ram    27
ilsonram12    31
Jase116    25
Johnnyoj    15
jono    25
Jourdan    34
Kenavo    30
leroyoftherovers    40
MidWalesRam    19
Mucker1884    10
RadioactiveWaste    15
rammieib    28
Ramsamwidge    21
richinspain    17
RodleyRam    17
sheeponacid    32
Simmo's left foot    18
Sparkle    31
TF Ram    31
True Ram    32
Van der MoodHoover    18
Wolfie20    39
Woodley Ram    22
Yani P    25
 
 Derby County 2 Charlton Athletic 0, McGoldrick = FRGS
 

very impressed with White today

Dear EFL,
Please can you explain how he passed your fit and proper owners test?
Ta
SaffyRam ?

We were always bound to have an off day at some point.
This squad has been stretched to its absolute limits and has put together an excellent run despite having to contend with so much.
This should be a good lesson for Warne and the players and should be a great opportunity to refocus and show what we are made of.
My feeling is we’ll bounce back very quickly. 4 of our next 5 games are at home and we have a great chance of going on another winning run.

We don’t win many of these so let’s enjoy it. 
November 1996. Jim Smith
November 2006. Billy Davies
January 2007  Billy Davies
December 2013. Steve McClaren
November 2016. Steve McClaren
October 2017. Gary Rowett
December 2017. Gary Rowett 
January 2023. Paul Warne

An additional benefit of such a big win is that our goal difference which was worse than the 3 teams above us is now better than Plymouth's and only one behind Ipswich's. With it being such a tight season, it could well come down to goal difference in the end so this is another huge positive. 

Played a key role in the winner by working hard to keep the ball in play when it would have been much easier to let in roll out. About 3 seconds later the ball was in their net.

Two things, one from each goal, that sum up the effort and commitment on a heavy, large, bobbly pitch after a hard work out at the weekend.  In the first, Korey Smith winning the ball back that then leads to the pass that frees Dobbin - a right back high up the pitch on the left hand side after 86 minutes; and in the second goal just look how far Springett runs before he slides to keep the ball in - he's offering Fozzy a pass in the left wing back position, well in his own half, before Fozzy blasts it forward, and seconds later he's sliding to keep the ball in, well into their half, to pass it to Dobbin who sets up NML.  

Just got home, I'm hoarse, got sore knees from too much bouncing and ringing in my ears from the absolute bonkers noise in the away end.
It's nights like these that David Clowes has given us back when they were so nearly taken away from us.
As for arguing about budgets and squad values, tonight of all nights!  There's only one thing you need to know - the togetherness of owner, squad, fans - it is priceless. 
 

The signs are good when in an away match we are having 16 shots, 8 of which were on target, and our fans think it was poor!

Also worth mentioning how well Springett did in the build up to our winner. He sprinted to keep the ball alive that looked like it was gone and that built our attack. Great to see the desire from him to win it. 

He can also be a 19 year old kid on loan at a big but ailing club, with all the pressure that brings, who gets endless stick, way more than any other member of the squad and yet tries his f****** heart out every game, creating as many scoring chances for others as anyone on the roster.
This s***'s easy! ?

How good was that from Knight at the end by the way? Got the ball, muscled past their defender and ran the whole length of the pitch to protect it in the corner. Incredible for him to still have so much energy at that point of the game. 

When Dobb, Dobb, Dobb, comes bobb, bobb, bobbing along...

Just seen the replay it was class. Springetts efforts to keep the ball in play as well before he knocked it to Dobbin. The whole move was 100% effort from all of them.

Lewis Dobbin, take a bow. Absolutely transformed us tonight. Quick, direct and positive on the ball. A shame for him he didn't get the goal his performance deserved, but he was phenomenal. 

Re: Dobbin. People have to be realistic (I know - ridiculous). If he were some kind of superstar wonder kid and/or ‘the finished article’ he wouldn’t have been sent to League 1. What he lacks in finishing he more than makes up for in overall contribution.  He’s doing well. He’s developing. Give the kid a break (I know, another ridiculous comment).

It was not a sitter.

Nice thing is he can work on the finishing, the mentality is harder to coach