Gerry Daly

34 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

How can you be so sure?

The last time we had a prolonged run in the Premier League, in our 3rd season (1998-1999) out of our 19 home games we only got more than 30,000 on 7 occasions. It wasn't a season we struggled at the wrong end of the table. I don't know what the official capacity was that season but there were more than 32,000 on 4 occasions. Maybe the away end didn't sell out but, from what I can see, there were less than 30,000 for the visits of Leeds (of course they would have sold out 😀), Leicester, Sheffield Wednesday and Villa. I would have thought all of these would have either sold out or got very close.

I reckon, before there should be any thoughts of extending the stadium we'd need much than just 2 seasons in the PL and pretty much sell out every game. PP is obviously plenty big enough for league 1, is about right for the Championship and not far off for the PL. As others have said, it probably just needs a bit of cosmetic work. Safe standing in the South Stand would be much more of a priority than extending as far as I'm concerned.

We pretty much sell out PP in the third division. There aren't that many seats free for the bigger games and I think a lot of those are season ticket holders that can't make the game for whatever reason. In those previous seasons you mention those season ticket holders were counted as being present. I think there would be mileage in extending the South stand even if not anywhere else. My 15 year old son and his mates would love to go in there but its sold out. I reckon there are loads of younger fans who would be the same 

13 hours ago, VulcanRam said:

I really don't understand the point of this thread or even what it's trying to get at. 

That PP could do with a bit of an upgrade. I think its perfect for where we are at the moment

3 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

They’ve been given 1500 but they won’t sell them all.

Didn't look like they had more than 1500 home fans when we went there. I think the crowd will be about 27K today

4 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

He might but he's not as good now as Harry was when we loaned him. Tomori was Bambi with pace to burn. What does it seem White has?

Harry scored a lot of goals, that made him very much better than White who gets it and gives it from deep positions

28 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Agricultural football all over the place. 

Totally agree. I'm not happy with the football we are playing. I hope Cashin is sold in the summer so he can take his 70 yard balls somewhere else. I know that one lead to a goal but thats not the point 

We will have the answer to the enigma in the close season I think. If Sibley is still here or if he isn't and also who else comes and goes  

49 minutes ago, Barney1991 said:

If cashin goes and fozzys is let go and Davies and Chester we need 

3 cbs 

2 wingbacks 

2 midfielders and 2 strikers 

If we can get him I expect warne to go for ogbene from Rotherham but he will prob stay in championship and if he stays down the league I’d go for branagan from Oxford 

Just the 9 players then. Why on earth do we need to have 2 more midfielders if Bird, Knight, Hourihane, Sibley and Thompson are still here(they aren't on your list)? However I think that Knight and Bird will go. If I were Warne I'd be happy if somebody came in for Hourihane too. Then we would need 2 or 3 new midfielders  I think we will keep Cashin 

51 minutes ago, WystonRam said:

Not all available tickets are shown on line. Club stated, 29000 tickets had been “issued” yesterday. There will be plenty available for walk ups today. If we get over 30k it will be a good turnout

No business is going to make it more difficult for people to buy its product than it needs to be 

Yes. I’m sure they used to count season tickets as being there(certainly in the days of GSE and Tom Glick) but stopped doing that some time ago now

4 minutes ago, plymouthram said:

What about Derek Hales

Hales played at the top level for us and was a bad fit with our other players. We weren't a third division team then

I have total faith in Warne. He will get it right. Give him chance to bring in some players in the summer and a full pre-season

CKR was 10 times the player Collins is. And he was on a free so there will be better players available in the summer

Agreed but he must be being encouraged to play these long balls. If the management didn't like it they would have stopped him doing it

12 hours ago, Needlesh said:

I love his work ethic, I don't mind his grumpiness, but...in my opinion he's the worst centre forward we've ever had as our main man. His second touch is always a tackle.

Connor Sammon was miles better.

Theo Robinson was on a different planet.

Sorry Collo, but he's got to go.

You don't go back as far as I do given the players you have as examples to compare him with but you are still right. He's right up there with Bobby Campbell, Billy Caskey and Steve Biggins. He's a total donkey 

15 minutes ago, Jubbs said:

In my opinion you're completely wrong here.

Rosenior had the brains to see this team and the players we had available to sign can't play a pressing style of football and were more suited to a passing game, which is clear to see as the players look shattered at half time every game when we press, hence our shocking second half performances. Warne hasn't adapted to the squad he inherited and is trying too hard to play his pressing chaotic football but it doesn't work against the top sides and they can easily exploit it. Warne needs to adapt and have a Plan B, because his Plan A hasn't been working for months.

No, that's just the way the Rosenior believes the game should be played. He didn't adapt our style to suit the players

Anyone else not able to get Rams tv? 

I don’t understand why people seem to think only the loss to Barnsley counts in the who is better than who issue. What about the two previous games where we beat them, one of which where we played them off the park?

I’m happy to play as rubbish as loads of people seem to think on here and win 3-1 anytime

41 minutes ago, Old Spalding Ram said:

Just had a look, 8 pages on the Derby thread, nothing about the game!
 

8 pages of, can I sit where I want, can I stand where I want, allocated seats, fireworks, flares, drums, turning up late, blocking the aisles, fireworks again, police dogs, will I be able to see anything, sit down, stand up, Derbys a sh***ole I want to go home, stand up, sit down, you’re in my seat pal.
 

just a wild guess ………………but, I reckon it’s a big day out for them!

That's the trouble. A lot of these teams try that bit harder when they come to our place. You might say that Shef Wed and Ipswich face the same problem, but I don't think they do. This season we are the new, novelty big scalp  

43 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Give the lad a chance he was unlucky not to score but now he is back another opapion for first team.

We have given him him a chance and we have no opapion but to carry on giving him a chance because we have no other opapions

Could be a useful alternative option. He must surely be as good as Collins who I think is one of the worst strikers I have ever seen at Derby since watching them mid 1970’s. Seriously he is up there with Billy Caskey, Bobby Campbell and Steve Biggins. Maybe even as bad as Martin Waghorn!

14 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

Not seen much from him yet to make me think he would take Birds place in the team.

Think Bird has been a massive loss for us and its no coincidence we are not really controlling games since he has been injured.

Bird is a far better player than Harvey, certainly at the moment. They are both still young and it remains to be seen who develops furthest. There is absolutely zero chance of Bird not coming back into the team as soon as he is fit

She was great. I was very impressed

39 minutes ago, Monty said:

No Gabbiadini or Kitson in the Arthur teams??

Ahead of Goddard and Saunders? No way in a million years. I'd have sooner had Toomy Johnson than Kitson from the later teams 

After Whites pretty good game against Charlton some numpties were asking if Bird would get back into the side. Dear me