sheeponacid

Can’t believe there were people out there today who were saying Joz was no good. He had a bad spell last half of 20/21 but today he looked excellent 
wish he’d stayed on 

Yep. Fully understand the sentiment of the thread but equally we’ve had our nose in front 4 times now, if we had kept a clean sheet in all those games, well the maths are easy on lost points.
You could just as easily say, scoring first is not a problem but managing a game out to keep a clean sheet is an issue.

Not with 9 points it wouldn’t. Smacks of EFL trying to save face and trying to get us to agree to something to move on. 

Approach him and say "I have noticed what your doing and I dont really care, however there is a street WhatsApp group and they are mentioning getting the police to watch you so just giving you the heads up"
Maybe go for the "nice one mate" approach rather than "come here again and I will phone the police"

People who complain on trip advisor etc even when they have been given everything possible to resolve their issues at the point of the problem. Why do that?  Mistakes happen, if every effort has been made to compensate and apologise why isn’t that enough? They still have to have that last underhand spiteful dig. 

Which was not much - no thanks let me see what our youngsters can do - we need centre forwards 

Rooney needs to be careful and learn from January. We had a really close knit group then as well, we then brought in a load of players on deadline day and the team spirit seemed to drop. 

while I would welcome an end to the embargo because that would probably mean the accounts and fop are ok, I do not want us to sign 8 players more players this window. If players leave it may be different, but if we keep all the players then no. Near in mind that if the embargo ends the Cashin etc also become available.

In other news today, Nottingham based ironmongers report a sudden and massive upsurge in pitchfork sales...

What a performance.
Didn't put a foot wrong all game. Calm on the ball, great positioning, great leadership, won every tackle, won every header, even when they outpaced him he just put his body in the way?.  Age is just a number!

A local bridge for local people.

Isn't it magnificent?

How terribly sad.

Come on lads you know you want to renew your season tickets the club needs our help more than ever ever before.

I don't go to games to be honest, living over a 100 miles away and with no-one around me to go with, plus work/family commitments, it's just not really doable. I do however fervently follow DCFC daily, through this forum, online and watch every televised game. I also catch some of the U23 games.  
I do have a Rams Lite membership, if not to at least give the club some coffers.  Have I lost interest?  Nah.  Have I lost confidence and feel beaten down by the club I've supported for 45 years. Yes.  Maybe COVID hasn't helped but every time I open this forum, Twitter, Face Book, NewsNow or anything else, I do so expecting yet another problem and generally aren't disappointed.  At the moment it's just one thing after another.  I was so pleased to see Stretton score the other day, thinking and hoping that, do you know what, 4 points in our first two games would be great.  But no.  This is Derby - we not only lose, but CKR is crocked for 3 months. And we then sign a CB who's almost as old as me, and a striker whose goal scoring record can be counted on the hands of a T-Rex. I guess it's a sign of where we're at as a club.
One day soon, I hope,  I'll only see positive news but right now, supporting this great club of ours is hard on my soul. Melodramatic maybe, but having faced so much personally over the past 20 months, I could really do with us getting a break!  However, I'll keep smiling {through gritted teeth} ?
 

I became disillusioned with the professional game almost 20 years ago now.  For me it was spoilt by greed and the increasing financial domination of the so-called big six.  I follow the Rams now out of habit more than anything else. The best example I can give you of why I became disillusioned is a recent one.  It can be defined by two words. 
Lionel Messi.
Cries crocodile tears at a press conference because his current club can't afford to pay him 50 squillion euros a year to add to his already vast fortune which must be bigger than a third world debt. He he really wanted to play then he could afford to do so for nothing for the rest of his career.
I had a DCFC season ticket from the early sixties in the days of Tim Ward up to 2006 when I retired.  I stopped buying a ST then and never had one since, being unable to justify the silly amount it now costs.
Other team - well I've watched Belper Town for a long time now and have a Concessionary Season Ticket for the princely sum of £65 a year, full price being is a bit more.  For that I get a friendly club where they seemingly know everyone by their first name, a really good standard of football, a pleasant social club and some of the best match food available anywhere at VERY cheap prices.
If Belper are playing too far away for me to travel, I go the Matlock Town, Alfreton Town, Heanor Town or Mickleover Sports.
I enjoy my football now far more then I ever did when I was watching the Rams, especially latterly.
 
Bill
 
 

Probably go and watch Belper or Matlock, decent pint and an excellent pie ! 

Belper Town. Walk there and good pubs

Professional football? Yes. Outside of Derby County I've largely lost interest anyway. Go watch Belper Town if I need a football fix.

Whilst miracles are nice, utilising what we’ve got will suffice.
I expect the squad to struggle, but I think there’s enough ability to avoid relegation. 

We are stuck with him. We can’t afford to get rid as the pay off would be huge. We can’t really afford to keep him as he has major flaws as a coach. I firmly believe he is blagging it now, I have no idea what style we have bar boring. I’m all for boring if we win but wtf.. Did someone say 8pts from 51 !!!
We are in a bad place right now.. I really can’t see any positives in any aspect of the club bar the fans at the moment. Hats off to those who went today, you did all you can do. That starting 11 should be winning games but there is a big gap to what we have on the bench. Any injuries are just going to kill us.. 
To be fair, we knew this was coming and we are going to take some big defeats this season I fear. No choice but to stick with the guys wearing the shirt.. I’m not going to weigh in Byrne and Joz, they made mistakes.. We will need them at various parts of the season and we need their experience to hopefully rub off onto the kids. Losing 1-2 at Peterborough is bad but hang onto your hats ladies and gents, it could well get worse before it gets better.

But it's worse than that, our problem is that he may not even be an average manager. In fact, he may well be quite bad at managing football clubs. The evidence seems to point in that direction.  And whatever else, he is certainly an inexperienced manager.  And that simply won't be enough for us. What we really need is a near miracle worker of a manager this season if we are going to survive.
However I agree entirely that there are more fundamental problems with the club that need to addressed, that much is clear. The discussion of whether manager should stay or walk is something of a distraction.  We clearly don't have the money to sack him, so whether he leaves or not is entirely at Rooney's discretion alone.  We have no reason to expect that he will...he has every right to continue in the job that he is contracted to do.  In a sense, he is now almost in a no lose situation, regarding his reputation. Get relegated, and everyone outside the club will just blame our shambolic off the field situation.  Somehow stay up and he earns a huge amount of credit.  There is no reason at all for him to walk. 

Apparently by Derby fans a homophobic slur at a Peterboro player and racist comments aimed at our own player Jozwiak.
Hopefully the brain dead morons are identified and banned for life.