Old Spalding Ram

……………brown sauce?👍😁

Midday ………what’s left. 😁 17 seats available for Non Season Ticket holders. 36 seats available for Season Ticket holders.

Pinched from footballwebpages. Anyway, they’ve got the following. Home fixtures, win 4, draw 1. Away fixtures, win 1, draw 4. So, they’re predicting unbeaten for the rest of the season! It’s going to be blooming tight. ……………………..don’t phone it’s just for fun!

Only 300 tickets will be available for the event and, due to the expected high demand, most of the tickets will be allocated to 2023/24 Full and Half Season Ticket Holders, with a small number allocated to Non-Season Ticket Holders with a Fan ID. Entry is FREE and tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis from 10am on Tuesday 5th March via: dcfc.co.uk/toptix/en-gb/categories/home. Apologies if posted elsewhere 🤔 https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/03/derby-county-fans-forum-march-2024

Sinfin Lane training ground. No running water, old railway carriage to store the nets, corner flags, line paint etc, grass cut by the council, Ford Transit mini bus down from the Baseball Ground and then pile back in for a shower back at the BG. No jumpers for goalposts tho……..the players uprooted the real thing and hid em behind the carriage! 👍😁

If as most think on here that it is a three up front where does this leave Blackett-Taylor? Seems our January window “number one target” (according to Pearce) can’t get into this line up. Some reckon his body language ain’t great…………….no bloody wonder! 🤔

Blackett-Taylor must start tomorrow for me. Pearce said during his interview with Radio Derby that Blackett-Taylor and I quote was “ our number one target” during the January transfer window. We spend time chasing and signing an out and out winger with a good reputation at this level and throughout the league when starting in a front three. If ever he needed a bit of a confidence booster then starting against, on current form, the worst team in this league is a must. Mendez-Lang, Gayle, Blackett-Taylor up front, couple of full backs bombing on, advanced midfielders getting into the box, Adam’s in front of Nelson and Cashin and a sprinkling of attacking intent is all I ask for! 👍🐏

I do like to get a feel of how away fans forums see up and coming matches against Derby. There’s currently nine pages of doom and gloom regards Saturdays fixture on onevalefan. …………………………..Ouch! 😁 Let’s pull no punches. We are crap. Our options are severely limited. Our confidence is shot. If we concede, we generally fold like a pack of cards. The fans are separated from the club. We are coming off the back of playing one of the worst clubs in the league, who we happened to let them have 20 shots at our goal. We can’t defend. We have a striker who, quite frankly, needs a change of a career, because a footballer he most certainly isn’t. We’re relying on kids and loanees to get us out of this. Our subs are absolute gamechangers. Sadly they change the game for the opposition. And we are about to go up against a raucous 25,000 crowd, in their back yard, going for promotion. I mean, honestly, what could go wrong?!!

……there’s no vote pal.😃

Derby County Women reached the FA Women’s National League Plate Final last weekend with a 4-2 success at Exeter City and, to celebrate reaching the Final against Cambridge United in April, RamsTV has collated the best of the Ewes’ goals from their run in the competition. https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/02/women-feature-the-road-to-the-national-league-plate-final

He must be ………I read it on the clubs tinternet thingy! “The 27-year-old, who can play at right full-back or on the wing, joins the Rams having spent a successful five-and-a-half seasons with the Posh.”

Wildsmith Ward Nelson Cashin Sibley Adams. Bird Hourihane Mendez-Laing Gayle Blackett-Taylor

Let’s put this fixture into some kind of perspective before the clubs pre match press conference. League 1 form guide………last four matches. League 1 form guide………last six matches. League 1 form guide……….last eight matches. League 1 form guide……….last ten matches. Currently the worst performing club in League 1. As for predicting the starting 11………………I’ve given up on that one! 👍😁

All archived on the Beeb, used to work years ago, not anymore. 👍😁 https://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/rams/derby_county_interviews.shtml

I’ve a feeling the meerkats will be restless tonight! 👍😁

Here’s an insightful tactical appraisal of the first 45 minutes pinched from the Charlton forum! 👍😁 “Their brand of shyte is marginally more creative than our brand of shyte. Utter shyte nonetheless. This league is just, well, utter shyte.”

Hopefully.🐏👍 Wildsmith Nyambe Nelson Bradley Cashin Smith Adams Wilson. Bird. NML Gayle

Wildsmith Nyambe Nelson Cashin Elder Adams. Hourihane Mendez-Laing Bird. Blackett-Taylor Gayle

An absolute thing of beauty. 😍 Around here you ask for a pea mix and they look at ya gone out!

“pick that one out of the net Mark Crossley” I always enjoyed Richards impartiality during commentaries! 👍😁 ……………..welcome back Ed

Apparently it was Blackburns Harry Leonard who was all lined up on transfer day to boost our forward options along with Collins. Anyway, pinched yesterday from elsewhere. Harry Leonard has missed the last two matches through injury which was described as a 'knock' by Eustace at the weekend. However, the striker took to Instagram to suggest he would be out for an extended period of time. He wrote: "Gutted to hear I'm going to be out for a while. I'll do everything to come back stronger." Eustace revealed that the young striker has suffered back injury but he's hopeful it won't be too serious. Leonard is still set for a number of weeks on the sidelines, though. ……….funny old game football.👍🐏

Saturday match, my house at 10.45, bus to Spalding, 11.23 to Derby ( change at P/boro & Leicester) arriving at Derby 13.27. ….17.50 from Derby to Spalding (change at Nottingham & Sleaford) arriving at 20.27 and all for just £33, then home for a chippy supper at 9 o’clock. Midweek, no chance……….A16/A52 👍😁 A Football Supporters Association poll morphing into a political point scoring thread. ………………Who’d a thought it.

Expecting around 13,000 home fans. 👍🐏

Posted my expected starting line up for Saturday earlier on today, then realised that we’d have an outfield bench of Ward, Wilson, Sibley, Hourihane, Blacket-Taylor and Gayle. We’re never going to have a better chance over the next 13 games of getting out of this dire league! 👍🐏

Reckon we’ll set up for a massive 0-0 boring draw……and I’d be happy with that. I’ve completely given up on let’s play thro midfield, wing backs bombing on, three up front and using a couple of out and out wingers. We’re now at the Buisness end of the season, blood, sweat and taking one for the team is what it’s all about…..and a swarm of subs around the 70 minute mark! Wildsmith Nyambe Bradley Nelson Cashin Elder Adams Smith Bird NML Barkhuizen