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2 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:

which is....

I haven't got a clue, but I've seen plenty of his critics say that's what we play.

26 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

point being they were a possession based side then changed and went to a counter attacking style. Fine.

We are neither, we have no identity

If we play Warne ball, surely that's our identity!

1 minute ago, Sparkle said:

Probably A should be warne will probably start another season 😉

That would make the choice too easy for some.

I'd be interested to see what option people would choose if these were the only options?

A - Get promoted = Warne for at least another season. 

B - Stay in league 1 = Warne sacked.

9 minutes ago, duncanjwitham said:

The bit in bold is the key though, because it won't be true in the Championship - the majority of teams will have better players than us.  Exeter created enough chances to think a half-decent Championship team would have scored at least one, and we probably don't score all of the goals we did against better defenders.

How do you know that the majority will have better players?

I know DC isn't going to throw money around, but we will be free of all restrictions for the first time in years and will be able to operate differently in the transfer market. 

16 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

have you seen who we're playing against every week?

The same teams as everyone else in League 1.

1 hour ago, HorsforthRam said:

Any views on how we were so overrun for that 20 min spell after halftime? (They really should have equalised with one chance in particular but otherwise the defence stood up but we couldn’t keep possession). How could we sort that?

We did sort it out, they didn't score and didn't dominate after the 20 minutes. 

Had a quick drive around Derby and haven't seen anyone with a rope round their neck swinging from a lamppost,  so lets get on with the football now. 

Glad to see everyone keeping calm.

1 hour ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

She's a mean pasty crimper, what with only having 1 remaining tooth....

Thought that was Juanita!

4 hours ago, Henrycav81 said:

He was commonly known as Walt, used to travel with him and some of his mates on the felix to away games. The felix used to pick us up at the wilmot in Chaddesden usually it already had a load on from Ilkeston we used to keep our heads down they were all nuts. I usually had mucker with me as he’s already divulged his fighting prowess earlier in the thread you’ll understand why we kept our heads down 

One hit Walt, still goes to games now and has got fists like sledge hammers.

3 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

a cutting from a website I looked after when the original owner was in a commercial battle with a competitor...security, He's since passed and I closed it down a few years later.

Big  John by any chance?

Happy to come away with the 3 points keep the pressure on the top 2.

I wonder how many people were cursing as they walked home and heard the the noise as the winner went in?

Had some fun and games in the past but was never a part of the DLF, although we did help out when they busy.

We were all Ossie park lads and did our own thing on matchdays, but we would venture into town early when we knew it was going to be lively and we travelled all over the country together. 

3 hours ago, DavesaRam said:

Skygo refused to work so Rams TV it was then - from Amsterdam. They mentioned the possibility of going third several times, but we put paid to that yet again. But at 3 - 1 with 2 minutes added time to go they said again, as if no-one had thought of it “Of we score another we’ll go third”!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄. What a stupid thing to come out with. Especially as we’d have gone third if we hadn’t ponced about for most of the second half.

Come on Paul, try getting us to keep on what has worked for most of the match instead of reigning us back because we are no good reigned back. We could already be firmly sat in the automatic places.

Maybe if the ref had done his job and gave us at least one of the penalties we should of had, you would be able to give Warne a break.

36 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:

The wish of the "Warne outers" was to stop losing to pub teams and start putting together a promotion push. That's happened now, but I'm still not sold that he's the man for us long term. His football is still limited in entertainment, but he's won enough lately for me to be happy for him to take a full crack til the end of the season.

People saying they want Derby to lose so Warne gets sacked are as dense as an elland road season ticket holder. It was the fact that we kept losing that was the problem.

This is the biggest problem with some of Warnes biggest critics. 

We have not lost to any pub teams and fans thinking that we are so massive and should be walking this league are a bigger problem than any of Warnes tactics in my opinion.  We're a league one team playing in league one.

I wonder how many other sets of fans have reacted to losing to little Stevenage like some of ours did?

3 more points in the bag, you'll do for me. 

8 hours ago, Gerry Daly said:

It’s the football. Simple as that. 

Yeah, why aren't league 1 Derby with their league 1 players playing like Arsenal or Man City?

8 hours ago, TINMANTED said:

nothing to do with expectations, it just does'nt feel like the disjointed football we are being served up is worthy of top 3

Defend well and outscore the opposition and you climb the table.

As much as I'd love to see free flowing football,  I don't expect to see it or care about it if we keep getting the points needed to get us up.

4 minutes ago, TINMANTED said:

good result,3rd in the league,most goals scored,alls good,so why dont i feel i am watching that team.

Expectations are too high for a league 1 side.

1 hour ago, Nuwtfly said:

This post of yours is on the first page of one of the other more popular threads currently going!

The point I'm trying to make with the other quote above is that I think we can all be guilty of this at times, or at least coming across like this. Maybe it's less about how wound up posters are getting and more about how what we're typing might be perceived?

If more people read what they have typed out on here and asked themselves "hmm I wonder how this is going to come across for the person I'm sending it to" before pressing the Submit Reply button, then the forum would probably be a less-argumentative place.

I have definitely noticed a ramping up of the intensity since probably COVID. Not sure why. The whole world seems to have gone the same way. 

As I said,  not all posts are serious,  that might not be easy to spot on a forum,  but I read most posts and think the poster is on drugs.

I have never understood why people get so wound up over words on a forum!

I sit and read some stuff and agree,  some I disagree with, some I'll post a reply to and most I don't bother replying to. But I don't ever remember using the ignore button if I do thing certain posters are prats.

I don't always expect my posts to be agreed with and a good percentage shouldn't be taken seriously or even read at all. 

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Why?

Why not?

1 hour ago, Chester40 said:

As someone who took on a fair amount of criticism for arguing we weren't playing that badly a few weeks ago...I thought we were pretty poor first half tbh.

We constantly gave the ball away and were probably the scrappier of the two teams.

One moment of magic out of nowhere gave us the lead. Orient missed a couple of good chances and so did Collins. 

So imo we were fairly fortunate to be in the lead. A stupid red card really put them in the cart and a sweeping move a minute into the 2nd half suddenly gave us a comfortable situation.

I didn't think we shut them out as well as we could and they alnost got back into it.  They eventually tired and over committed and we then could have scored 4 or 5.

So a strange game really. We could have won even more easily but at times we played quite averagely and all the big moments went our way.

Just as a few weeks ago I was saying we weren't that bad, I'm saying yesterday we weren't that amazing. Little moments are going our way more and we are moving into a great position with more in the tank. 

We can play much better than yesterday - and probably will do and not win, that's football. 

I'm not saying we played well and that we are the next Brazil,  but saying a score line flatters us just doesn't make sense to me.

We weren't at our best, but we did score 3 goals. That may well be because they were down to 10 men, but that's not down to luck, that's down to stupidly on their players behalf. 

If they don't score it's down to either poor finishing or our players doing their job and keeping them out. So we win 3-0 because we deserve to.

I haven't seen a replay of their goal that was ruled out, so that could be unfortunate for them and might have made the end of the game more interesting,  but the scoreline still doesn't flatter us.

Just now, CongletonRam said:

Yes, we 'could' have won by 5 or 6 and we 'could' have won by 1.

 

If you put the ball into the opposition net 3 times and the opposition don't score, it's impossible to win by 1.