Kernow

We warned Derbyshire Constabulary that the Chief Constable is a Forest fan before the game but they didn’t change him. Our patience has been tested multiple times. 

Derby County fans will now consider their options.

If Gayle has been training at all I’d be shocked if he wasn’t on the bench on Saturday.

If we’re 1-0 down with 10 minutes left and Bolton are 2 or 3 up, you chuck Gayle on and wait for him to get on the end of it.

49 minutes ago, angieram said:

How many will be sober enough to actually see the match? 😂

It's a pity we can't get a few more building the atmosphere inside the ground, rather than in local hostelries. I take it some people only know how to support the team when they are half cut? 

So did you want me to bring a bacon butty for you to the Neptune at 06:30 orrrr..?

Derby 2-0 Carlisle

Nelson

Ruben Zadkovich

13 minutes ago, Warren Blufitt said:

It’s 7 goals actually Tam not 4 and there’s no way Posh do that. Wanderers will probably now start with a strong side and see how it goes but even our “weakened” side would still be stronger than Posh if Evatt doesn’t want to risk things. I was just wondering though will the Paul Simpson factor play a part, given his history with you will he really want his team to deny you your promotion?

If Posh win by 4, then they’ll be third. The GD is 7, but obviously if Posh’s goes up, Bolton’s goes down.

Either way that isn’t going to happen. Hopefully Peterborough don’t set up in a way that’ll see them get hammered themselves, as I don’t see how going into the playoffs on the back of that is a positive.

If ultimately we end up 3rd on Saturday, I’ll only be angry at ourselves, however it would be nice for the nerves and the nails not to be going into added time level with Carlisle whilst Bolton are 4-0 up.

It’s going to be really interesting to see what Peterborough do in terms of team selection. I think Ferguson may have hoped they could rest players in the “easier” game and still get something from it.

His comments before suggested he would only go weaker v Cheltenham, as he said that was “his only chance to rest players.”

But now they’re pretty much 4th no matter what, why would they go stronger in a game that has even less riding on it for them?

They can’t exactly handpick who they play in the playoffs either, there’s 4 teams that can still finish 5th.

I understand they’ve had a tough run of games, I just can’t understand the thought process behind it all.

It should really make no difference to us, our task is simple. If we have to rely on others after losing at home to bottom of the league, then we wouldn’t deserve to go up after all.

2 hours ago, Dartmouth Ram said:

Harrison Burrows contract is up at Peterborough at the end of the season. Would take him in a heartbeat, superb LWB.

Think there’s rumours that he’s already off to Celtic, but even if that’s not true, I imagine there would be a lot of teams in for him that can/would pay more than us.

1 minute ago, angieram said:

Who is DCFC Lee? 

I personally don't think Clowes should win it. Just not appropriate,  this award is about ordinary fans.

Clowes deserves all the accolades for what he did (last season, actually) bit in a different arena to this one.

He’s a fan from South Korea, did a UK trip earlier this season, I saw him at Burton away and he was getting a lot of attention. He gets up at ungodly hours to watch games and often posts the goals/key highlights live on Twitter.

But for this season of all seasons, it has to be B4. I downloaded the FanHub app purely to nominate him.

Would the title of this thread be too long if I renamed it to this?

31 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Cheers @Kernow 

It was @Rampant who rekindled our appetites though. I've just copied him! 😋

Indeed, but you've shown the form where it matters. You're clearly made of sterner stuff.

1 hour ago, MACKWORTHRAM said:

Pretty sure they said at the recent Q&A that FanHub will be sponsoring the shirts next season

When was that? I know they announced the training wear sponsorship for next season too, but I haven't seen anything about the playing kit.

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/02/derby-county-links-up-with-fanhub-in-new-partnership#:~:text=FanHub have joined Derby's partnership,and the 2024%2F25 campaign.

Thanks for these threads over the last 5 or 6 games, @Comrade 86. Looking forward to reading the first one of next season against Championship opponents.

1 hour ago, Loftyhites said:

I really hope that we get promoted on Saturday but I’m not sure that I want to ever go back to the premier league. Never being able to properly celebrate a goal until all checks are complete is not what football is about (for me, anyway). 

VAR will be in the Championship before long, too. Football just seems to get less enjoyable as seasons go on, I don't know if I would want to be in the PL either.

If you don't spend enough, you get battered, if you spend too much, you get punished. Oh and the only way to avoid punishment is to sell your best players to the top 6 to avoid more sanctions. Every season finishing 17th is a positive.

I'd much rather the big clubs f***** off to the Super League, take their VAR with them, let football go back to how it used to be.

@Red_Dawn never knew you were the Notts Forest social media admin mate?

I really hope that the VAR assistant (who happens to be a Luton fan), doesn't also own a bakery.

The whole set of decisions is odd. If Gateshead can't play, why not replace them with Aldershot? Why do Solihull (5th) get a bye just because they were meant to play Gateshead? Surely Altrincham in 4th should get the advantage of the bye and restructure the semis?

I don't get why Peterborough aren't just going to try and win by as many as possible in midweek, then see what they have to do? If they're 5 or 6 goals behind, then they should be going for it. If any team knows that a 4-goal advantage isn't a given, then it's them.

Do we reckon the fixtures against Forest next season will be away in Aug/Sept, home in January/Feb like they normally are?

22 minutes ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Completed London Marathon in 3h41mins

At least Birmingham fans will have something positive to look back on when they go down.

7 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

Are you sure nobody supported Plymouth simply because they were really really s*** in the 90s?!

That’s also an option, although I didn’t have that excuse for Derby so why should they!

10 hours ago, ThePrisoner said:

In honour of our favourite dearly departed B4... "just tell her you lost your passport and dont go to the airport"

B4 would be more adventurous than that. He’d want that Icelandic dust cloud to halt all air traffic in Europe again.

3 hours ago, maydrakin said:

Anybody under the age of 27/28 has never witnessed an automatic promotion for Derby County.

Quite a sobering thought, really.

That’s the position I am in. I was ‘around’ for the promotion in 96 but too young to remember or appreciate it. And although I’ve technically been to the BBG, too young to appreciate it again.

For those who witnessed previous successes, I have nothing but jealousy. But for people like me, my entire experience of Derby County has been misery, disappointment and heartbreak. Where I grew up, it was all Premier League clubs, nobody even supported the ‘nearest’ professional team because Plymouth was still too far away. I’d go into school on sports days in my Derby County shirt, and get laughed at by those wearing United, Liverpool or Arsenal shirts.

To experience success, an outpouring of joy and probably relief,  at Pride Park, is going to be special.

I’m sure lots of people here have other interests outside of football and Derby County, I don’t really. I’m not really into other sports, for me football & this club is everything. Since Covid really, it’s been hard. From not being able to go to watch, to then being plunged into administration & feeling like we were kind of Death Row waiting for the inevitable was very, very hard.

We’re going to do the job on Saturday and I can’t even begin to imagine how good that’s going to feel. 

Carlisle have been relegated for about 3 weeks. They are bottom of the overall table, bottom of the home table, bottom of the away table. Their form over the last 6 games has them 22nd, so maybe a *slight* improvement.

They’ve conceded 5 more than any other side, although 4 sides have scored fewer than them so perhaps they can be considered sharp shooters.

Peterborough being level with Bolton on the final day would be preferred, although unless they win in midweek by 5 or 6 they’re not really going to have any chance so the impetus is on Bolton.

Away from home against the rest of the top 8 (teams that can still get promoted this season), they’ve scored 4.  They’ve only won one of those games, which against Lincoln before they signed Joe Taylor and hit form. Funnily enough, Carlisle have actually scored more away to promotion hopefuls than Bolton have.

A lot of things that haven’t happened all season are going to have to coincide for us to finish outside the top 2, and if that does happen it’ll be nothing short of the biggest capitulation we’ve ever been involved in.

Over the last 10 games, we’ve won 7 so have proven that we can get things done when we need to and I don’t see it being any different on Saturday, I just have more confidence in this Derby team to have the right mental strength than I have before.