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Geoff Norcott's at the Derby Theatre on Wednesday, on his basic bloke tour. Me and Mrs Sagan saw him in London, and it was a good night out.

A goal that was a huge moment in the race for promotion. The movement and anticipation for the goal, then the execution, are the highest level. Absolutely magnificent. Yet it's likely Sibley won't start next week, or if he does he'll probably be first to be hooked around half-time if we're not winning, or will simply be shunted to left back. I hope I'm wrong. I would *love* Warne to prove me wrong.

No, but thanks. This is from the corner flag - I was keen to see it from our cameras behind (or in) the goal.

It's the most extraordinary finish. I can't wait to see it from behind the goal to try to understand it better. Presuming it was deliberate, it looks like an incredible piece of skill by Sibley to divert it into the corner that way, given the pace the ball came to him at. But it is indeed vey hard to fathom - one moment we're on the attack and the next the ball is in the net, and it is hard to understand the process.

in his Radio Derby interview. Said we'd sent everything to the EFL on Friday, but we're having to wait because of the restrictions we're working under. (I think that's a quote.) And that we'd hopefully now find out on Monday if he's allowed to sign.

Amazed they found so many. You have to say that's a remarkable finish. Hardly a chance at all, but a quite brilliant goal.

Huge shout out to the fans today. Sounded amazing on the radio. And Warne commented it was the best he'd heard Pride Park.

Absolutely fantastic to gain 2 points on Bolton today. They play again on Tuesday, away at Cambridge. Obviously you'd expect them to win but, should they drop points we're properly second (based on points per game) for the first time this season. Currently it's: Portsmouth 2.12 ppg Bolton 2.03 ppg DERBY 2.00 ppg Barnsley 1.88 ppg It's a four-horse race. Win at Barnsley on Saturday and it's a three-horse race. Today's other results for the top 4. Portsmouth 4 Reading 1 Bolton 3 Charlton 3 Fleetwood 1 Barnsley 2

15 minutes for Brown today, with Gateshead winning 2-4 away at Wealdstone, all the goals before he came on.

Knee ligament damage, says Warne. At least not before mid-April. That's the very earliest.

For the Warne thread I suppose, but as I've said before, 90-95% of managers would have us in a better position. With no striker, Warne benches our most dangerous attacking midfielder? He got lucky.

Nine wins now needed from the remaining 13 matches. If one of those is away at Barnsley next Saturday, it effectively makes it impossible for them to catch us and cements this as a three-horse race for automatic promotion. Absolutely crucial victory.

Excellent. A vital 3 points. For me it's a win despite of rather than because of the manager, but at least we got over the line. Sibley should have been on the field 81 minutes earlier, but at least he was finally brought on with a whole 9 minutes to score the goal. Come on you Rams!

Absolutely we have to go for wins, even if it risks losing. How does no one understand this? A draw is as bad as a defeat, unless against Bolton or Portsmouth. If you want automatic promotion, you need 3 points from almost every game.

Over an hour for Warne to realize we didn't need five at the back and two holding midfielders. A tactical genius at the helm. Is this last last half-hour enough to win the match in? At least we've had a shot!

In fact Smith for Nyambe. Finally the dynamic exciting attacking substitution we were all hoping for.

Subs on their way. Sibley and Thompson warming up. Alas I suspect that means Sibley for Elder in defence and Thommo in midfield. We need Sibley in midfield.

Going well so far. How on earth can Warne not change this?

Surely we need to bring Sibley as an attacking midfielder?

We'll have to agree to disagree. In the heady days of Apollo and just after, people were planning for massive O'Neill orbiting colonies and Mars in the 1980s or 1990s. Yet Human spaceflight went backwards for decades. The occasional brilliant robotic systems fired off towards Mars or the outer solar system are like surviving off scraps - a tantalising glimpse of what might have been, had we progressed. By now we should have orbiters around every planet and swarms of robotic probes everywhere. The most impressive robotic probes are perhaps the Voyagers from the 1970s, still going strong despite having travelled so far they have crossed the heliosphere, where the influence of the Sun is overcome by that of the rest of the Galaxy. Voyager 1 is almost a light day away. I presumed by now that Human spaceships would long ago have overtaken it, but we cannot get beyond low Earth orbit!

This has to be the setup. Very surprised Elder starts over Sibley.

In the unlikely event this was Jonson Clark-Harris, it would simply have been naive to think MacAnthony ever had any intention of selling to us. So I hope it was someone else. If Collins is really out, then that's terrible news.

So @Highgate doesn't hold with the "short window" argument, but if I've got this right (apologies if not) neither does @TigerTedd. Yet before the perfect storm that was Elon, there seemed no hope whatsoever of Humans becoming multiplanetary. Here's the opening of the space chapter of a book I wrote a few years ago about the future: Look at that extraordinary progress in powered flight from 1903 to 1969. And then the regression so that we nowadays can't send anyone to the Moon - instead we can only go a thousandth of the way there to the ISS. You might think, "so space travel has stalled a bit - so what?" But then think about the intervening time. Think about technological progress which can be measured in many ways, but an easy marker is Moore's Law. By a conservative measure, computers are now more than a billion times faster than in 1969 - that puts the extraordinary regression in space capabilities into context. Other technology is a billion times better, yet spaceflight is worse? Doesn't that tell you something about the potential future of spaceflight? In 2000, we had the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, who dreamed of a human future in space, create his own rocket company Blue Origin. Twenty-four years on, it has proved so hard they are still yet to send a single gram of anything into orbit! In 2014, NASA gave experienced aerospace company Boeing $4.2 billion to build a small spacecraft to take Humans to the International Space Station. Have they succeeded? No! A decade on, even now they might give up on the project given the problems that have beset Starliner. It is only the combination of Musk's extraordinary visionary engineering and business mind, and his passion for the future, that sees us where we are today. If he were to go, that may very well still be the end. If he stays it will still be incredibly hard and needs vast resources. Just in the last couple of weeks he has moved the incorporation of SpaceX from Delaware (where most US companies are incorporated) to Texas, in order to protect it. The Delaware courts forbade him receiving his Tesla compensation package, which his court documents stated he would use to fund an interplanetary space program, so that money is currently not available. A vote of Tesla shareholders is now being held to see of he can move Tesla from Delaware to Texas. But this is why SpaceX is the most valuable privately held company in the world, because shareholders or bureaucrats would end its mission if given half the chance. I don't believe any other Human would have kept the business in that form, as it makes funding so incredibly difficult. These are some reasons the window is unlikely to remain open for long.

I'm frustrated we have had such appalling decisions against us all this season and last, yet we never try to put pressure on refs this way. It is part of the modern game and it's potentially a way of sowing doubt in the referee's mind and getting that extra 1% that might make the difference between promotion and not. Instead, when Warne does comment on decisions, it's "Sibley made a shocking challenge and it should have been a penalty". Meaning a ref can feel more able to give a decision against us because our own manager has claimed we've got lucky before.

I hope you're right, but I can't help thinking this is...