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Equally laughable is that you're saying that a keeper should then be able to save every shot. There must be some top keepers out there that have never conceded goal, unless they made a mistake. I think that you need to look at a few goal of the month or season clips, they're full of shots that no keeper could save.

I see that Barnsley gained points with yet another late controversial goal. A strongly disputed penalty gave them an extra 2 points, added to a further 3 points gained a late challenge on a time wasting keeper resulting in a winning goal and a late equaliser from a cross when the ball had gone out by about 2 foot. Let's hope that their luck runs out soon.

Statistics can be used to say many different things, these show a quite even match slightly in favour of the home team, but what were the stats at ht? We were 4-1 up then, with the game 'won', naturally we go a bit more cautious, unlike against Burton, this drastically reduces our attacking stats in the second half and probably allows a few distance shots from the desperate home team. The stats don't reveal how many of those attempts in the second half really troubled our keeper. Here's 2 interesting but seemingly contradicting stats, Derby have scored more goals than anyone else after the 75 minute mark, this would suggest that we finish more strongly than anyone else. On the other hand, if the final whistle had been blown dead on 90 minutes for every game this season, Derby would be 3 points clear at the top and 5 points clear of 'pompy'. This would suggest that Derby don't finish as strongly as 'Pompy' and Bolton, at least.

Are yes, because of the infamous Germany v Austria fixed result, we ended up playing Germany in the second round group games. Because of this match, all following world cup tournaments had final group games played at the same time. I saw this game live on tv in Crete whilst England's final game was on over here. I walked out of the tv lounge in disgust after about 30 minutes, telling the German tourists that they were a bunch of cheating bar tenders. A low scoring win for Germany was required, for both teams to qualify and after they scored in 10 minutes, neither team went any where near the other's penalty area. I'm still bitter about it, just in case you hadn't noticed.

Unsavable, probably not the correct term, but I've seen world class goalies let in easier chances, frequently. It's easy to criticise a goalkeeper's actions after a goal, but quite often the different actions would have resulted in a different goal. I know from personal experience, whenever I let a goal in, I'm forever asking myself 'if I'd done this or that, they wouldn't have scored', but then the following week when I did do this or that, they scored anyway, just in a different manner. That's a great big goal to protect and if a striker does his job properly, there are occasions when it can't be stopped by the goalkeeper alone. There are obvious goalkeeper errors then there's the ones where you think what if? Those what if ones could have probably resulted in a goal scored in a different way. The 3 goals that Vickers has conceded have all been amongst the most difficult attempts that needed saving this season. He hasn't been given the chance to show whether he is up to Wildsmith's shot stopping ability yet.

Yes...................................................if you could guarantee that Seddon played like that most weeks, but sadly, it seems that it was a bit of a one off performance from him (he's ranked at 219 on whoscored,com stats at a very average 6.57, even below our much maligned Korey Smith). It's a bit unfair to call time on Elder, after all, he was only making his third start in an injury ravaged season, but then we love to slag off some our own players at the drop of a hat.

It may have failed to catch your attention that the installation, problems and first prosecutions and lying in courts happened under the Blair/Brown governments. It's well documented that they knew about it, but didn't want to upset the 'applecart'. Unfortunately, rarely do we have box to tick, whereby we get a politician who looks after us first and foremost.

Not a chance this month, but should he stay at Notts and we got promotion, I could see it happening then.

Even non-league players command a fee, if they're under contract or under 24. We even had to pay non-league Worcester City about 15k for Roger Davies in the 70s, something that could not have done over the last few years. The only players that we have been able to sign are frees. This means that they're out of contract and over 24 years old. Generally speaking players whose contract has run down, are not sufficiently wanted by their club to have been offered a decent contract early enough.

I think that this is why Warne wants to play 3 at the back. Ideally, we need 2 strikers, a wide player on both wings and 3 in the middle. Unfortunately, that only leaves 3 players at the back. This calls for a special type of player to play in the wing back positions. You can end up with players who don't do enough as a winger or a fullback in this situation or are stronger in one of the positions.

Not surprised by this, their away numbers last night must have been well over half the number that go to the home games. They probably only turn up for home games against big opposition in the cups or Derby. All credit to the club though, for being able to compete with the likes Derby on crowds of 3,000.

Looking back, I don't think that Peter Shilton, would have stopped those 3 goals and he can't make any saves if the other teams don't give him savable attempts to stop.

Perhaps, Warne felt that our back up keeper needed a bit more match practice, in case he's needed later in the season? After a couple of less than perfect games for Wildsmith and to bring him in against 'lesser' opposition might be deemed a good decision. It would be better for him to have some experience with the other first teamers rather being thrown in at the deep end because of a Wildsmith injury/suspension before the Bolton or Barnsley type games. Him and Wildsmith bring different things to the table, I liked his quicker distribution, especially throwing out to the wide players. However, he's not as confident as Wildsmith in dealing with crosses. I don't blame him for either goal last night, they were both right in the corner.

There's been a lot of comments regarding the poor substitutions, but with the advantage of hindsight, would the 'correct' substitutions have resulted in a win, as well? We'll never know, we may well be second in the table now, but I'll take the result and the euphoria of the injury time winner for now.

It wasn't 1 on 1 though, Elder was on his own waiting to pick up a clearance. At the moment they headed the ball clear, their goalscorer was the most forward player, just outside his own area. Our closest player was CH and didn't/couldn't keep up with him. Credit where credit is due, the Burton players executed the perfect break from defence. Elder could have been a bit closer, but the striker was running full tilt at him and on to a prefect pass in front of him.

I can't see how Burton deserved anything out of the game, other than the two goals given to them by two individual errors, I can't remember one decent chance for them, they didn't have any other chance on goal. Whereas, NML could have done better when clean through twice, Collins could have done better with his golden opportunity and Barks shot was well blocked by their no3.

I've just remembered a thought that I had going into injury time tonight, I looked up into that inky black sky and said "come on B4 give us a hand", you didn't let us down, mate.🐏

We could have had the same conversation before Fozzy's testimonial, about Waggy. It's a pity he hasn't been able to stay fit. Having said that, should we read more into the fact that CM didn't play in Fozzy's testimonial, despite them both playing together for a number of years and CM looking for a club at the time?

Question; We're at the end of the window and haven't managed to get anyone in, CM is still available, would you take him? I would, but then again, I'd take almost anyone in for back up.

Birmingham's problems are largely down to their own making, fortunately for me, I live just over the border in Solihull. There have been 2 big financial disasters for Birmingham council, first they lost a £760m equal pay case TWELVE YEARS ago, but have ignored it and taken no action until they have been forced to address the situation. Then during this time they have installed an IT system which should have cost £19m, but ended up costing £100m. The incompetence of the council has been bordering criminal, especially when you take into consideration all of the usual reckless spending that goes on with most councils.

But didn't they let our failed bidders pass the fit owners test, the fake sheik and Kirchner?

If that happens, a few of us should become red dogs and invade the pitch for a few of their games to be called off. It's a dangerous precedent, closure or partial closure of the ground would be quite effective.

I think that if the club have your view on things, we'll never be able to sign anyone. Less than 5k a week for a top player in lg1 at a big club, that's pure fantasy, I'm afraid. According to Salary Sport, the average of the top 100 lg1 players is over 360k, you would argue that CBT is a keynote signing at this level and will be quite high up in that top 100. Also bear in mind that those figures are for current contracts, CBT's contract will be based on the next 3 years and not the last 3. Also, we know that CH is on 600k and I would think that NML's new contract will be in excess of 500k, don't you think that CBT's agent will be pushing to match those figures?

If we are in for CBT, it's all about 2 clubs meeting somewhere in the middle. Our negotiating strategy will be to point out that Charlton get a small fee now rather than nothing in the summer whilst paying an unsettled player's wages for 6 months. Also, any lingering hopes of making the play offs are disappearing and could be finally extinguished before the end of the month. Charlton will rely on Derby needing CBT to be a crucial signing in order to achieve promotion. CBT can't help but wanting to sort his future out asap and go to the best club offering the best package available to him, the uncertainty can't be good for him atm.

I disagree, at the very worst, he could be a 'Bielik, Flo Jo or Anya', costing us 500k transfer fee and around 500k per year wages for a player constantly injured or who doesn't perform. But then, that's no different to any other player, we should know by now, that there is no guarantee with any player that you'll get a return on him or even break even.