Fla Ram

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

Dobbin now on 7 assists for the season to go with his 3 goals. Only McGoldrick and Mendez-Laing have more direct goal contributions this season. 

Brilliant Lewis Dobbin twice.. 

1-3 Rams frgs McGoldrick

I don’t think he’s on the bench on merit.
More likely they don’t want to rush him back after a nasty injury.
He is without doubt our best young player 

Mr Clowes has made bold, head over heart decisions since the start, ironically since making a heart over head decision to buy us in the first place.
He’s made clear decisions he thinks will benefit us as a Club on and off the pitch, so replacing Pearce would’ve been a fairly favourable decision for him to make, all things considered.
He was an easy target along with the administrators as we rightfully looked for someone to vent our anger at when Morris vanished off the face of the Earth for a while. The fact he’s trusted enough to be a key part of our rebuild is good enough for me. For now, anyway.

Fair post. Looking forward to tomorrow hoping for a good contest with some goals and a good atmosphere. I view Bolton as a very similar club to Derby, proud history strong fan base, fallen on hard times but deserving of better. Of course tomorrow only a Derby victory will suffice but from then on I hope that both clubs get promoted. I am also happy seeing ex Ram Evatt doing well. If I remember correctly a Bolton fan came to support us during last seasons game against Birmingham posted an excellent video of the day?. A proper football club.

One of my criticisms at the beginning when Warne came in is we all knew his style was direct and get the ball into the other half as fast as we can and try and win second balls and play from there. I think the team originally struggled with what that meant and how to execute it.
One of the key differences for me in this run is that Warne is allowing his defensive players to actually work the ball and pass it between us. It’s not as frequent as the LR style but it’s a definite shift from early Warne days.
We are constantly now in the 50-60% possession stat. Wildsmith gives a lot more short goal kicks and we definitely allow CF and EC more freedoms on the ball. 

I for one am really enjoying it now because it isn’t hoofball for 90 minutes. A lot of our better goals come from the passing passages of play - Hourihane header today for instance was a nice move with the EC diagonal after some passing in the defence. If you look back over the recent goals since December a lot more are worked plays. Hourihane against Accrington, McGoldrick first goal against Forest Green. All were excellent team moves.
I feel that Warne now trusts them and he’s striking the correct balance between ball retention, long balls, direct balls into Collins and playing the triangles of play to create space. There is a decent mix in there so we are not too one dimensional.
Well done Warne and his team. This is starting to get fun.

Clearly offside for the 2nd.

Pinched from the Cheltenham forum.
A word for the Derby fans, both in the away end and home end. I thought they were fantastic today, they sang the whole game - even for the 5 mins they were a goal behind - and the ones I spoke to in the pubs afterwards were very gracious in victory. They were the ones telling us that if we continue to play like that we'll be completely fine this season. What I will say though is that we need to play like that against the teams around us and not just against the big teams with huge followings.
 
……………….well done to all who travelled. ?

Should have been out of sight before they’re second , the response to going 1 down was superb, that said I thought they looked a better side than we’ve faced for a while and they troubled us ,
good win and we stay unbeaten , no disrespect to liam but I honestly don’t think we would be doing as well under him , we have decent skilled players and there is so much to be said for decent players who are trained to be the fittest they can be and coached to have top work rate during games for 90 mins and be in a good club environment 

I think Cooper and Forest deserve some credit actually.
When you think back to where they were in October, they were rock bottom and had lost 7 in 10. They looked dead certs to go down, if we’re being honest. They could have easily spiralled.
Since then, they have lost just two league games in nine and picked up 15 points, including four against Chelsea and Liverpool.
They’ve given themselves a fighting chance of staying up.
But Europe still looks a long way off, so I guess they’re underachieving! ?

0-2 frgs Collins

this Sunday the 8th January it will be forty years to the day since we did this in the FA cup !!
The Baseball Ground was shaken to its very foundations !!
 

What a place to be in. Couldn't go today, and only listened to RD for the 2nd half. Curiously my non-footballing wife has put FA Cup football on 3 times this weekend, and I have just watched Manchester City v Chelsea. City have been really good, and lead 3 - 0 at half-time, but I said to Veronica "You can watch whatever you want". "What about the football?" she asked. "It doesn't matter" , I replied. IT DOESN'T MATTER!IT isn't Derby County, and it is a world where money, power and privilege count for all. Skill, ability, etc are irrelevant. If we get into that realm, then it will matter because it is Derby County, but right now, I don't care one thing about it.
BUT: the half-tie punditry includes Alan Shearer, who slammed Chelsea, describing them as embarrassing. Regardless of the score, he said "You need to put a shift in. They (Chelsea) haven't". Then I think back to Paul Warne telling us he wanted our player to "gas out" on the pitch, and that is an important factor to what is going on at Pride Park. It has taken a while but we are seeing the results. Our fitness has now reached the right levels, so giving it our all is now well within our capacity. Along with that, Paul's people skills is building a togetherness we haven't seen, possible since the days of Nigel Clough!
Paul has changed us from being a bunch of kids and dads who nobody wanted, into a team nobody wants to play! Brilliant!

I'm liking that draw very much. Let's get a sold-out Pride Park rocking! 

Hope Wolves win the replay. 

Two joke offside decisions. Wolves robbed of a win

On Radio Derby... Paul Warne says that the team is eager to take on information. He's getting through to them and getting a big response. The players are buying into it. All players helping each other.
Something is definitely working .
 

What a great watch! (Kudos to the ref too. Didn’t notice him at all)

2-0 Barkhuizen

2-0 Barkhuizen