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Exactly the reason us locals want them at home! (And the risk of covid, @Foreveram) 😉

Doncaster or Bradford, please, preferably at home.

He's entertaining, isn't he? Every time he gets the ball, you can hear the buzz from the crowd, same with Mendez-Laing. Every club needs these sort of players, and they thrive on the encouragement.

No, camera on the West Stand where it usually is so there was nothing our side to pick up the atmosphere. I knew there would be people on here moaning about it from the comfort of their armchairs and I was right. But having read the rest of the matchday thread I couldn't even be bothered to add any thoughts on the game, which I was at and enjoyed. It's getting harder to make any effort to post given the relentless chugging away of some. It's like feeding trolls.

If you do, there's probably about 1,000 of us would qualify!

Rams 3 - 2 Fleetwood FRGS Waghorn

Mmm, there's been a couple of our players I'd like the manager to have mislaid a few times over the years but Cashin definitely isn't one of them!

The thing that irks me about this is you could understand it if he was poor and couldn't afford parking charges but why on earth would he do it? Idle? Thick? Because he thinks he can? Reminds me of that girl who's just been fined a shedload of money for fare dodging on East Midlands trains and then filming herself in tiktok videos telling others how to do it. Just why?

I remember talking to Cashin and his family about this when he had recently broke through to the first team - and was playing very well at the time - but he still didn't quite feel he belonged there yet. He is a natural leader yet the doubts remained. They are all young lads, and even the gnarled older professionals guiding them are little more than kids themselves! 😉

We still get that at away games. It seems sexism isn't on the list of unacceptable behaviours yet.

I recall swearing on the terraces and a lot of aggressive behaviour towards opposition fans but none of the chants I recall contained references to players' anatomies! It all seems to have gone a bit puerile and I most dislike the aggressive behaviour of Derby fans to other Derby fans. Of course, there was racist and homophobic chanting back then, too. Nowadays these are rightly totally unacceptable but there are less ways to challenge the other unacceptable behaviour as it is happening. A clip round the ear, your arm up your back, being dragged out by your collar and a night in the cells maybe taught a few swift sharp lessons to those who went too far. Nowadays the stewards stand back an film you and you might just hear something weeks later if they can work out who you are!

Pinched this one off Facebook for you, @Inverurie Ram!

I don't mind if people don't want to attend this competition but I wish they'd respect the feelings of those of us that do a bit more.

I was trying to work out who was missing. Thanks, GOC.

If they are selfish, they do that now! Can't see that ever changing.

We were there! As soon as the covers came off the pitch was freezing solid. A bit foggy and minus 4 degrees. Right decision, a bit late.

Are they now? The SCG met with Liverpool before our game last year and they told us that although the rails were all in place, that the licence hadn't yet been granted so technically they were still a seated stadium. That was a whole season ago, though, so it could have come through since.

What a plonker!

I'd like them to do the whole of the South Stand eventually - it happens abroad, create a real wall of sound. There are plenty of other great views available all around Pride Park for those who want to sit.

Yep, rang the ticket office. They issue paper tickets (I collect mine but they'd probably post for the usual charge.) Thinking about it, I did get charged for the telephone call to the ticket office but it was worth every penny!

Well, luckily I am only temporarily not fit (I hope!) but it's been a bit of an eye-opener about what our disabled supporters have to put up with at away games. I can't fault Derby County. They have let us move down to front section seats on a temporary basis, whilst retaining our right to reclaim our own seats up 87 steps whenever I'm ready. They print off the tickets on a match by match basis and for all this they charge the princely sum of...... ......nothing. Impressive.

I know, I know! Because I am still on crutches I struggled to see anything from Row 7 on Tuesday, so a steward kindly said we could SIT in the spare seats right on the very front row, at which point I was berated by a woman sitting on the row behind me, as she said she was disabled and had paid to sit on the front row and didn't want anyone SITTING in front of her. So I asked two other women nearby and they said fine, no problem, and we had a nice chat during the game and I was careful not to get in their way. I was just relieved to sit down. The other woman was still pretty angry and CLIMBED over the back of the seat to sit on the row beside me. Made me chuckle because I couldn't have climbed over the seat, so who had the greatest need? The stewards came to talk to her because she had just reported finding a bloke in the disabled portaloo, who wasn't disabled. Bearing in mind we had 3 men's portaloos in our section for about 600 supporters I thought that was a bit cruel. Ironically, we women had 4 proper toilets, we were all laughing as it was the first time ever the queue for the ladies was shorter than the gents! The moral of this story is some people just like to moan.