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If fans just went on the pitch for 5 minutes (without harassing the other team or the officials) and then returned to the stand in order to allow the players to come back out that would be OK but, something tells me it wouldn’t quite happen like that.
Maybe I’m one of the miserable b’stards you’d referring to but I don’t think so. I know I’m not some 12 year old that feels the need jump around on the pitch just because we’ve secured promotion to the Championship. 

I absolutely loath the Premier League and in particular the so called ‘big 6’. I would love for them to all just f*** off to a Euro Super League where they play each other 6 times a season for their target audience in Asia and leave the rest of us to enjoy English football as it once was. For a start, all money would be distributed fairly, there would be no ‘Premier League’; just Division’s 1 to 4, the FA Cup become the showpiece event played on the Saturday after the season finishes at 3pm at Wembley (no semi finals at Wembley) with replays. If the ‘big 6’ decided they wanted back in they would all have to start at the bottom of the pyramid and have restrictions on how much they could spend on players/wages. If they didn’t like it they could all f*** off again and play each other a 6 team mini league or something. I couldn’t care less about them or their fans. They have robbed football of its competitiveness and it’s money for too many years. 
As for the latest disgrace around the FA Cup replays I really hope that EFL clubs boycott next seasons competition en masse. A concerted boycott would ruin the FA’s finances and they’d back down in the face of it. Whether clubs have the balls to go for it is a different matter. 
 

For me, if your behaviour has a negative impact on others, that's where I have a problem.
If you want to stick a few lines of coke cut down with aerial non bio up your nose, risk a stadium ban, arrest and all the consequences that come with that, go for it, just don't be a knob to others whilst your ego has been artificially inflated for a brief period of time.
If you want to go punch someone after the game because they are from a different city and wear a different shirt, go for it, just find likeminded individuals and do it away from others where women and young fans are innocently just trying to get home after the football match.
Install big cages, load it with weapons and have fans sign waivers before entering, no use of medical services allowed and the coroner will come collect any bodies in the morning.
It's when that behaviour impacts others, reading situations from fans on this forum, especially older fans that have had dealings with other fans at away games really annoys me. 
Be it alcohol or drugs, if you can't control yourself then you should be in therapy, not a football stadium.

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I’ll be taking the last of the ewes who we managed to adopt orphan lambs onto, back up onto the tops….then just sitting up there looking at the view, thinking thank duck 2024s lambing’ is over, whilst trying to get a signal for updates from the matchday thread.

#physicallybatteredmenatallyshatteredbutunbroken
Flipping need some sleep….perhaps I’ll count the sheep.
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Just spoke to Cambridge fan. Apparently Derby fans "every bloody where" in Cambridge today 
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Just arrived in Cambridge , feeling very positive , let’s get this done COYR

Love it, thanks for posting.
I saw Colin going into the ground last Saturday, was aware he's been around a bit more this season but didn't realise he was living in Derby again. 
That's going to be handy next season for the 74-75 celebrations. 🍾

8min interview with Colin Todd from ITV Central last night, video in the link: https://www.itv.com/news/central/2024-04-19/colin-todd-no-split-loyalties-for-derby-county-legend-ahead-of-crucial-weekend
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8min interview with Colin Todd from ITV Central last night, video in the link: https://www.itv.com/news/central/2024-04-19/colin-todd-no-split-loyalties-for-derby-county-legend-ahead-of-crucial-weekend
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Dear Derby County.
Could you please advise whether there is a planned lap of honour by the club's players, management, and staff following the final whistle of the game v Carlisle.
It's just that, if this isn't planned, I can shoot off straight away, and be home for tea, before you can say "Meh, well that was a pleasant enough afternoon, I guess".
However, should this be planned... and executed unhindered... I would be more than happy to stay behind, with I guess 99% of the fans, and applaud all those involved in giving us a wonderful season to remember, showering them all with gratitude and congratulations in equal measure, before partying later in the evening.
If you could get back to me it would be most appreciated, as I'll need to know what time Muckerette needs to put the half-baked baguettes in the oven.
Yours sincerely,
Nobody important.
 

I have thought this morning a pitch invasion will probably deny Warne from starting the bounce which he said he will only do once we're promoted

So you’re not bothered about the majority of fans who choose not to (or aren’t able to) go on the pitch being able to show their appreciation one last time from the stands? You’re not bothered about the players showing their appreciation to the fans by parading around the pitch with their families? 
 
I don’t have a problem seeing other Derby fans celebrating but I’d quite like the opportunity to applaud the players, and receive their applause in return (yes, I’m convinced they’re aimed specifically at me 😀) one last time before I put my scarf away for the summer. Nothing sad about that. I fact I think it’s a bit sad that some folk don’t care about the majority of their fellow fans or what the players might want. 
 

The minority stumbling and cavorting around the pitch is ("Will be") an inconvenience to the majority.
If you want to go on the pitch fine, but it's sad if you spoil the fun for the majority, and spoil the plans currently being mooted by the club as a whole, the players, the staff, the club hierarchy, and their families.
By staying in the stands, you, me, and all of us will enjoy celebrating... together.  
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#Not holding my breath
#Practicing my booing as we speak
#save our Lap of Honour
#etc
 

And all the kids waiting in the stands to see their team to walk round the pitch, do they not count?

I don't recognise this from where I am in the east stand,warne is barely talked now,the discussions are about the opposition and individual players performances,not the gaffer.

8min interview with Colin Todd from ITV Central last night, video in the link: https://www.itv.com/news/central/2024-04-19/colin-todd-no-split-loyalties-for-derby-county-legend-ahead-of-crucial-weekend
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8min interview with Colin Todd from ITV Central last night, video in the link: https://www.itv.com/news/central/2024-04-19/colin-todd-no-split-loyalties-for-derby-county-legend-ahead-of-crucial-weekend
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Personally I think a pitch invasion for reclaiming our normal place in the Championship would be a bit tinpot.
Letting the players celebrate together and then having a lap of honour is a far classier move than invading the pitch and swarming the players, including opposition players who are left in a pretty vulnerable position in the majority of these over-glorified pitch invasions.

They are chanting warnes name AFTER games now , that’s not in game chants to raise the team , it’s praise for the job he is doing and well deserved it is too , he’s also not jumping in on the bounce to steal the players / fans joy , he is maintaining that line as the boss with a job to do , some on here may not like it but the majority of fans at games are giving Warne the respect and praise he deserves for what he is creating at derby ,
there’s an honesty and culture at the club now that’s been missing for a long time and I for one want to see where he can take it given time and a bit more to spend 

A bit like Rooney when he played for us!!

What it prevents is a 'lap of honour', which is the way the players show their appreciation.
When we lost at Hull, one of their 'fans' lamped Keogh, so I can understand the club being anti-pitch invasion.

I’d rather the players were allowed to come onto the pitch to celebrate but that’s never going to happen if everyone invades the pitch. 
so you run like an idiot onto the pitch. Then what? 

I'm the same 😂 I still have last year's confirmation email too!! 

Personally I think a pitch invasion for reclaiming our normal place in the Championship would be a bit tinpot.
Letting the players celebrate together and then having a lap of honour is a far classier move than invading the pitch and swarming the players, including opposition players who are left in a pretty vulnerable position in the majority of these over-glorified pitch invasions.