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Several lower league clubs have issued statements protesting this change.
The BBC has their article about it 24th down on their sports pages, below such riveting headlines as "Moyes issues frosty response at Press conference" and Liverpool players "under pressure" due to Klopp's departure.
Doesn't even feature on their main menu. Says it all, really.
We are irrelevant to the powers that be.

I’m surprised Liverpool and Man City aren’t allowed to join at the semi final stage.

Change the League Cup to teams that aren't playing in a European competition that season. You qualify for Europe by winning it, so will give more varied winners, more fans a chance to see their team win a trophy, fewer games for the big boys.
I think it's pretty poor that the EFL and all clubs were just ignored, why do the FA think that only PL clubs should decide how it's organised, especially in rounds where PL clubs don't even enter. If there was a vote for Derby to boycott it, I'd support it.

They haven't exactly rolled out a welcome mat have they 😄. That's the lesson that we learned quite quickly - the idea of the 'Football Family' is a load of horse****. A call for solidarity for the sake of the fans? Good luck with that. It happens very rarely and Blackpool/Derby was one of very few examples that I can think of. Not even 100% sure that would be repeated if it was all going off now.

Seems that even threats to the very existence of a club barely causes a ripple these days, so don't expect much sympathy from fans of other teams if you overspent and might go down a division, particularly if your fans were being arses last time the teams met.

Glad they had a Subbuteo goalkeeper 😁
Super day, erasing the memory of Wednesday.…..
and relax.

We could have had 7 or 8 today. Clinical from set pieces, but we squandered so many chances from open play too. Could have had 3 in a single 5 minute spell towards around the 75th minute mark.
Credit where it's due; Warne will have known he would be absolutely crucified for the Bradley led back 3 call, had we lost, or drawn, so I hope even his fiercest detractors will acknowledge his courage and game strategy today. No way I'd have played Bradley, though IIRC both @Ghost of Clough and @DCFC1388 I think called his selection more or less bang on.
The stats don't exactly scream it, but we've absolutely battered them today and on B4's birthday too!
COYR

Another great opening sequence and theme 
 
 

We have had multiple seasons of below moderate expectations ... even by the madness of the elite english  football world our recent history has been a dreadful downward spiral of a story .
Since the club was saved from the abyss we are making giant strides of progress behind the scenes with acadamy , corporate and communication being keystones . 
The disallusionment comes from the regular dire , just plain awful, performances of the first team .
Yes we are still 2nd 
Yes we can still get promotion via autos or playoffs 
With a squad so highly rated by many outside of the club , we ought to at least turn it on occasionally and take a comfortable victory .
Every game is on a knifeedge . 
The head coach will trot out how dangerous a team Leyton Orient / Cambridge and Carlisle are and that no team will come and get their bellies tickled . 
Ffs just thump them all 4.0 and hope posh and bolton dont match our results .   We need at least 1 big win as the precious goal difference advantage has almost vanished too.
How many times have we royally screwed up this seaaon when in a great position to really take an advantage ? 
Ad nauseum over the last quarter of a century ....
There is still time to get glory in 2024 .  
But that time is running out ..
 
From a fan who is teetering on the edge of losing the plot . 
 
 

Whatever Clowes has done, and we're eternally grateful for what that, the appointment of Warne felt strange but it's looking to be awful. While tonight was grim, it wasn't particularly out of character or surprising, it was utterly predictable. Promotion or not, he's not the future 

Bottlejobs. With a chance to almost seal autos this lot gives another gutless performance after a week off. No shots on target against a side that played itself out on Sunday. No leadership on or off the field, just some s*** dad jokes. 
 
The coaches take responsibility for zero learning after the Northampton game.

Genuinely quite fed up with this team now. They do decently well up to the point they actually find themselves in a good position and every time they just choke it and we got back to square one. 
Whether we squeak up or not, this team needs serious changes. 

If we don’t go up - given the position we were in before this match then we just don’t deserve it.
 
 
Honestly though this football has been absolutely horrible. 
 
Anyone who whinged about Mac not having a plan B hang your head in shame.
We don’t even have a plan A here. 

Absolute f****** disgrace,
even if we somehow get promoted I want that bobblehatted Bamford gone.

boooooo.  bottle job b*******.  Might get a goal if they have 10 days off.  I can take a defeat .  Can't stomach lack of effort and b******* twice in a month.  

Just don’t get it, put in a great shift in the pouring rain away at Portsmouth, have time to rest and work with 8 days in between, then turn in such a lacklustre showing.
Warne and his staff not done enough, players let themselves and all of us down tonight, it’s still possible for us to get autos but it’s a massive dropped b0ll0ck tonight 😞 

We can all talk the talk...but walking the walk is a difficult tightrope when you're Birmingham City 👎
I get a perverted sense of joy when seeing the 2nd city club in the relegation zone, Hindsight is a wonderful thing...who was the expert that decided Eustace wasn't the man to carry on his good work?, Who was the man who decided Rooney was the man to lead the charge to the promised land?
WR(i still like the fella)was a figurehead a known "soccer" personality that will give the blue noses the impetus to move forward, Nope, After his walk out from DCFC and his utter failure in the USA soccer grounds shows what they did not know.
The snake is now in charge, He's got the job until seasons end which makes my joy even more euphoric if the blue noses get relegated, I'm a vengeful bas***d where those who wish our club to die, I'm a vengeful bas***d when those who were our manager jump ship for 5 pieces of silver.
Yes what goes around has the ability to come around and bite ya on the bum...happy days ☺️ 

A good few clubs sang that song, but the vitriol of the Brum mob really left an impression on me. I'd love to see them suffer what we did, not that it'll happen. I know I should not be so small-minded but I feckin loathe them.

Nice and annoying to be proved right. At least one of your goals was result of LB going awol.
Told you! I also said one of main strengths was character.....not giving up. Few would have
predicted Moxon would smash ball in from 25 yards...not sure who was most surprised..him,
his team mates or the crowd. A long range shot into Fratton End goal is always cause for mad
partying..as long as it's Pompey who score.
Impressed with Derby generally and your support was great. 2-2 was fair although you guys were
probably annoyed at dropping 2 points.....was fine with us...another game ticked off list.
Good luck Rams...hope we go up together and.....one more message:
Hello Richard Haines.....Derby fan and dad...also my son. Love ya.

Today is the first day I started to believe promotion might be possible, so I have given myself a good slap and come up with many scenarios by which we can blow it. We can already see from todays results how good Cambridge and Carlisle are, for example, so we will surely lose our last two games. Not to mention very tricky games at Portsmouth and Wycombe. I have now successfully re-convinced myself that we have no chance.

When you use the term "Thereabouts" when referring to a difference of £13m, it shows just what a shiteshow football has become.
It's almost like... "£13 million?  Pfft!" 🙄
I'm struggling to fall out of love with Derby County FC, but I feckin' detest football!  

No idea why so many people are constantly miserable about England. It must be something in the national psyche.
Regardless, this thread will be better off if people who don't give a toss about the national team keep those thoughts to themselves.

I think some people think that if England beat them, they are not good teams.
On no account should we give England any credit.

I'm neither. I don't expect success. But I don't want turgid football either. I'd rather play well and achieve nothing (as we have for the last 20 years or so, give or take) than play awful and achieve nothing.
The best we can hope for as Derby fans is the odd blip of success, the odd sniff of the premier league every few years, maybe even a few seasons there every now and then. Hope is that key word. It's like only fools and horses, "this time next year lads, we'll be in the prem"....
I'm not sure if it's the manager, the players, league one, administration, some combination of all of the above, but that little flicker of hope in me has gone. I don't see us as a temporarily embarrassed premier league team any more. Games like Saturday have absolutely ground that kind of thinking out of me.
I don't honestly care if we go up or not this season, or if we win lose or draw etc. I just want something to look forward to next time I watch the match, and that's pretty much gone for me at the moment.
Sorry for the essay.

As I see it, the main issue is that PW has far too many off days, particularly against opposition that we should be beating. It is obvious tactically. Analyse the match, the pitch was narrow but we set with 5 at the back and a midfielder that should’ve been in the middle playing totally out of position. We have a ball playing midfielder on the bench, when it is obvious to see that CH was playing badly and has no strength in defence longer, the two legged jump, the standard procedure to frighten the opposition, being totally ineffective and not scary in the least.
Then we have the so called most able attacking player in this division, sat on the bench.  Instead of subbing early, we bring 5 on after 65. 
as I have stated in my other posts it’s the inconsistency, one match good, another like a rabbit in headlights. I don’t expect every ball to go in the net at this level but I do expect us to limit the opposition by understanding their setup and doing things in mitigation and this should be done quite early in the game, thus our chances should go further. However, I simply cannot see it game after game and it is this that really concerns me.
on a weekly basis we see managers of lesser teams making these changes more consistently and effectively and that has been my charge all the time. Lack of obviously learning from mistakes, making a good decision one week and repeating an old one the following week.
I hope that for the last few weeks, we do not have to continue this Groundhog Day. I just want success.