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All going enjoy, and get behind the team, they need us every game now, if we turn up play our game, we will win,  I wil be watching this on Rams tv, as I could not get a ticket, think our wide players will be key in this one. Once A Ram Always A Ram. 

Can't believe it's ten years! 

I was thinking about this earlier.  With no midweek games I’d like to think we can get pretty close to a sellout.  The Blackpool game might be tricky as it’s Good Friday and quite a few might be away on holiday.  It would be great if we can get 29k - 30k for the 3.
It was spine tingling yesterday, a brilliant atmosphere throughout. Let’s make every game now a “Black n White” game.  The crowd can be so important in helping us win these last 3 home games that might make the difference between autos and play-offs 🐏.

Loved the atmosphere yesterday. Managed to blag myself a flag/flange by telling the person giving them out I was only five 😂 Most enjoyable match of the season for me 

I hope the powers that be noticed the markedly improved atmosphere in the east stand yesterday.
It’s a real shame they chose to shut down the atmosphere in there by restricting ticket sales and being extremely heavy handed with the residents in those blocks. the atmosphere in that area grew organically over a few years yet was decimated at the beginning of the season due to a few complaints. IMO it can only help having multiple noisy sections in the ground to bounce off each other, no doubt itl be back to normal in a few weeks time.

You’ve just alienated 75% of this forum 😂

There's no perfect system but when we've been to wembley I've known plenty of people who've been once or twice over the course of not just the season but previous seasons who've gotten tickets and those who have been to 10+ games that season miss out. It's clearly not a fair system just to give season ticket holders a seat and then make it a free for all. If you've bought tickets to multiple games that season (I'd have a system of 15+, 10+ and 5+) then you should have some form of priority over others who haven't done that.

I am going to need to know the precise measurements of his tackle before I can unleash the creative juices on a song for him🤷🏻‍♂️

Bring your scraves and flanges !

Morning all
Been a while since anything like this has been attempted and with a sell out expected its now time to turn it on and do our part. 
Its been on the socials so spreading the word on here. 
So bring your scarves and your flags. Lets make it a sea of black and white come Saturday. There will be some new flags being surfed in the South Stand and the plan is to get some of the bigger flags on poles in there as well.
Really is over to us now to make a difference so voices required from all stands as well in what is a huge game.

I got two tickets for Bristol off the waiting list today - thanks if it was anyone on here that returned them, I hope it wasn't because of anything too serious 🤞

I'll be there. Heading over to my son's for lunch and a 45-minute walk from there to the ground. No chance of away tickets, so I'll be standing amongst the Pirates on the side terrace.
Hoping for plenty of rams goals for me to practice my non celebration!
COYR

Poor formation for an away day breakfast plate imho; sausage should be between the defensive beans and rotated to prevent the midfield scrambled egg being encumbered with defensive duties. Egg should be deployed further forward and ahead of the hash-browns, with the mushrooms out wide but given license to cut in and play as a number 10. Really don’t believe the combination of fried & scrambled eggs ever works; they’re just too similar. At least one of the slices of toast should’ve been given a starting position to give added structure to the team, supporting the bacon which appears somewhat isolated and awkwardly placed in the way of the hashbrowns. Bizarrely part of the beans seem to currently be deployed as a wing-back…I can’t see that working at all. I’m liking the look of the fresh orange on the bench but not sure it’s got enough in the tank to last the whole 90 minutes. Just don’t think that line-up is going to cut the mustard today. Really need the lad Brown on there too, just to spice it up a bit. 

Looking forward to the trip. It was at this match last year that I found myself sitting next to B4 for the first time, although I was too shy to tell him I knew who he was! Ultimately it was because of him that I started posting after years of reading, as I wanted to pay my respects. So here's to B4, thanks for getting me involved, and if you can, three points would go down nicely. 

Bristol Rovers vs Derby County
Saturday 9th March KO 3pm
Memorial Stadium (BS7 0BF)
 
Opponents Form: Decent recently with three wins in their last four matches including their last two. They currently sit 11th in the table albeit with no realistic playoff aspirations or relegation concerns. Whilst their home record in L1 this season is a reasonable W7-D5-L5 it should be noted that they have lost four of their most recent six matches on their own patch with wins over Carlisle (2-1) and Oxford (3-1) dampened by defeats to Blackpool (1-2), Exeter (0-1), Fleetwood (0-2) and Burton (1-2).
Opponents Bio: Rovers are managed by Matt Taylor who is in his third managerial role. After an impressive four years at Exeter he was the man chosen by Rotherham to take over the reins after the departure of our own Paul Warne to Pride Park. Taylor's spell there lasted 13 months before he parted company with the Yorkshire club in November 2023 as the Millers were struggling in 22nd place. Within three weeks, however, he found himself in the Bristol Rovers hotseat replacing the ever-delightful Joseph Barton. 
The club have played their home matches at the 11,000 capacity (3,000 seated) Memorial Stadium since 1996 after leaving their previous home in Eastville. They are officially known as the 'Pirates', reflecting Bristol's maritime history. Or because they just arrrr. Or maybe because their form is historically patchy. They are of course also known as the 'Gas', a nickname which was given them by opposition fans originally but was cheerfully adopted by the Rovers' followers who refer to themselves as 'Gasheads'. The name came about apparently due to their former stadium being sited next to a gasworks which produced a distinct aroma which would waft over the ground. Anybody who sits near a few of our more dedicated drinkers at Pride Park will no doubt relate to that.
Opponents Player Watch: Only one place to start here as the Rams go up against our former beau, Christopher Hugh Martin. The Wardrobe has scored 15 goals this season and is joint fifth in the top scorers chart for the division. Second top scorer after CM9 is Anthony Evans with half a dozen goals. Other notable players are ex-Rams youngster Luke Thomas, experienced former Swansea, Celtic and Preston man Scott Sinclair and Chelsea loanee Harvey Vale who I think we were linked with during the summer. I'm not sure if he's their number one or not but they also have a goalkeeper called Jed Ward who you can only sympathise with.
Rams Record vs Opponents: There have been three FA Cup ties between the two clubs but we'll focus on the 27 league matches there have been between Bristol Rovers and Derby County. The first meeting was on 29th August 1953 at Bristol so hats off to any Ram or Rover who remembers that match over 70 years ago. During the early years of the fixture it was Bristol Rovers who held sway with the Pirates winning the first three encounters, four of the first five and six of the first nine overall. Since then though it is the Rams who have had much the better of it. The overall league record for Derby against Saturday's opponents is as follows:
P27: W12-D7-L8
Away at Bristol Rovers our record  is: P13: W3-D4-L6   Whilst that isn't impressive it should be pointed out that we lost on our first five visits and since then we've gone W3-D3-L1 on their turf and are unbeaten in our last four visits.
Since our relegation to L1 for the 2022/23 season the Rams have recorded home wins against Rovers in both fixtures at Pride Park (4-2 and 2-1) whilst last season we conceded a debateable late penalty in a 1-1 draw at their place.
Other Saturday Fixtures Of Note: We will either be second or third going into the match depending on the outcome of Barnsley vs Bolton on Tuesday night. Peterborough are at home to Northampton on the same evening. On Saturday our priority is of course to earn three points in the south-west but we will be hoping for favourable results in at least one of the following games:
Blackpool vs Portsmouth
Exeter vs Bolton
Barnsley vs Lincoln
Burton vs Peterborough
Expected Team: My guess is that Derby will be unchanged from the 3-0 win against a desperately struggling Port Vale. With fit full-back options rarer than a salad in the City Ground boardroom I suspect it'll be a back three plus the two wing-backs who played well yesterday. 
 
Safe journey to those who make the trip and COYR.

For anyone hoping to get to any or all of our last three home matches I have had a look at our likely allocations.
Away fans sites are not always ( never) up to date so looking at our allocations last season plus what other clubs have had this season this is my conclusion.
Portsmouth 2,000.
Recent improvement to the stand has resulted in a larger allocation than last season, Reading recently had a full allocation of 2,000.
Wycombe 1,850. 
This was our allocation last season plus Oxford recently had an away attendance of 1,752.
They do however have a very nice car park.
Cambridge 1,473.
This was our allocation last season and Peterborough recently had an away following of 1,473.
There was a lot of discussion last season that they could have given us more instead of leaving a large area of their stand empty, whether that changes this season who knows, maybe they don’t need the money.
Obviously this is just my conclusion and is not set in stone.
 

Like most other things, hotels, the longer you leave it to book the more expensive it gets or the hotel is full, I don’t use the trains but the same probably applies.
Noboby has bought a ticket yet but plenty of people have made plans which have been altered significantly by moving the game to a night match.
Look at it another way if sky had not moved the day but still showed the match then everyone would be happy.

It’s about time SKY paid to charter trains and bus travel to compensate away fans for their stupid o’clock ko times.
 

Yes... Me!
That's why I've gone for it on day one, so I don't change my mind!  🤣

I genuinely don’t get why people are seemingly looking to downplay a 3-0 away win with comments along the lines of “based on chances we didn’t deserve to win”
Factually we won 3-0 away from home on a Tuesday night in February, why not just enjoy it instead of trying to disprove it?

We've arrived at Exeter, enjoying our first beers.
COYR 

Grotty weather on the way down but the sun is out now we are here. And it is so mild! ☀️⚽️🐏

So jealous of everyone who's gone down there for a few days. Hope you're all having a good time. Absolutely fantastic cider down there, especially the stuff you buy in petrol stations in plastic bottles.
I'll be watching on Rams TV while I'm meant to be working. Got a good feeling about this one. A win and 4 points from the last two would be good going.

We've arrived at Exeter, enjoying our first beers.
COYR 

We've arrived at Exeter, enjoying our first beers.
COYR