1977 Ram Raider

48 hours.

Feste would be a beast at this level. He’d bully the bullies defensively or attacking. Won’t happen but I know both those players loved us and we loved them. Their body language and enthusiasm was special. Those difficult games under Rooney and the EFL cosh were so much brighter when they were on the pitch. It was like Stingray “anything can happen in the next half hour” 🤣

Bless you.

14:1 for them to go through last night.

I would sign Andy Todd, Eddie Lewis, Robert Earnshaw and Claude Davis and then go off on my holidays happy in the knowledge that I had done everything I possibly could and that absolutely nothing could go wrong. 

I've heard we're after Ferrie Bodde from Swansea...

I think, to be more accurate, we have a lot of IKFAs on here at the moment....

I watch this regularly especially when we lose, just to remind me of the good times. Special game. 

I watch this regularly especially when we lose, just to remind me of the good times. Special game. 

Yes it’s that bloody game!
Yes there is a lot we can look at and dissect, how the players celebrated, how Jody Morris celebrated it, Lampard’s 11 in the play off final, Lampard’s failure in not getting that squad promoted, Morris’ spending gamble, the comparisons of then to now etc etc etc
But I can promise any Derby or other clubs fans reading this, I don’t think I’d trade you anything for the jubilation and emotions I felt that night. It didn’t mean anything in the end no, but it’s a game like this that watching football is all about. It’s not just an achievement feeling, it’s about doing the impossible

Were you watching 'Allo 'Allo when you typed the first part of the first sentence?

I feel sorry for all the Owls fans who went down to Peterborough 4 nothing.

If only they didn’t put out such a strong team selection against us when they had absolutely nothing to play for. Oh happy days. 

Serves them right reducing our tickets and then cheating get davies sent off and then a pen that never ever ever was.

I think I’ve found him 
 

Looks like Mel is back on the forum. 😀

Without parroting the "we only had 5 players just before the season started" mantra over and over again, the truth is at least 5 teams in our league, were at a far more advanced stage of team development than us - and it showed.

We got off to a slow start because of it, we had a squad relatively thin in numbers, which told on occasions - and that, ultimately was the difference between a play-off spot, or better - and not.

We could argue PW wasn't good enough, terrible key refereeing decisions in games, but ultimately lack of consistency cost us.

I'd argue, at the start of the season, the average expectation of our final position would be somewhere between 10th and 4th - and we pretty much performed as expected. Yes, we had a few star recruits like McGoldrick and Hourihane, in their twilight years, but you need strength throughout.

Recruiting late, and basically being stuck with those players with little or no wiggle room throughout the season, was no substitute for teams that were better planned and more organised than us.

You don't get out this division quickly, unless you are relegated from the Championship with a heavyweight squad that you can afford to maintain whilst you're down here.

Like most teams in League 1, we have to learn the "long division" route is the only sustainable route back up. We didn't have it, others did.

Close but no cigar. But realistically not that surprising. 'Twas always thus in this division. Having 30,000+ crowds doesn't guarantee anything unless you get the basics right. We didn't have the time to nail all those basics.

I'm as gutted as everybody else we missed out today, but foundations need to be built to progress upwards.

DTID.

A brilliant game once again ruined by awful officiating 

I'm trying to fathom just how empty, sad, and pathetic someone's life must be for them to watch their team win a game of football on a sunny may day and proceed to go to that team's forum and behave like a complete t***. I actually feel sorry for you at this point.

Btw your 'famous atmosphere' sounded closer to a morgue than a football stadium. 

Taking a guess at the missing letters, it’s a shame you can’t be gracious in victory. You’ve posted some reasonable comments previously so it’s a shame you’ve let yourself down on this occasion. 

A brilliant game once again ruined by awful officiating 

A brilliant game once again ruined by awful officiating 

A brilliant game once again ruined by awful officiating 

This thread is pants.

Looks more like Simon Cowell.
It's a No from me I'm afraid.