Ramos

2 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

I know the North stand is completely closed for this but it seems like loads of blocks all around the ground are closed also. Just a few blocks available. Very sad.

Even when support was up these types of games were lucky to get past 8k. Can see it being a 3 or 4K tomorrow. Me and 3 others who couldn’t make Huddersfield are going and we have the voices of 2000 men so expect some atmosphere. 

3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

13:59 STEVE NICHOLSON

Liam Thompson and Eiran Cashin

Both youngsters will go out of the squad for the Salford game.

No Thompson? Wanted to see him play but guess it’s cause of the GODDAM RULES. 

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2021/08/middlesbrough-and-forest-ticket-information-plus-season-ticket-update

4 hours ago, WystonRam said:

Yes it was, 16249. Stoke had 9000 odd i believe, Sheff Utd 29000 

Even when we got 11 points we came down to 32,000 or so almost week in week out the season after. Both clubs are in contrasting positions at the moment! So no suprise in the difference 

7 hours ago, ollycutts1982 said:

Unpopular opinion but Bird offers absolutely nothing to our team. Receives the ball too square never on the half turn so his only option is ever backwards. Could do with a day watching Thorne’s highlights. Not a battler nor a passer or progressive player. I despise the fact that we get a free kick and the takers first instinct is to look behind him. 
 

Morrison may well be able to pick a forward pass. We can only hope. Decent result today but Huddersfield will be down there with us. 2 points lost for us and a point gained for them.  

I’ll keep saying this for the next 2 years. But I honestly think Liam Thompson will overtake bird in that two. Just needs to take his chance if and when he gets it. 

1 hour ago, StrawHillRam said:

Congrats. Hope it lasts

Lol thankfully not mine or I wouldn’t have been able to check in!!!!

At a wedding - how we doing guys? 

1 minute ago, dcfcreece1601 said:

Not the best is it 

I actually think considering all that’s happening to Derby that’s putting people off, the economic impact of the pandemic on some people, the fact some people won’t want to be in big crowds, and people like myself who are away cause it’s august (I myself know 5 others who would be going today but are on holiday or elsewhere) …. Considering all that, I think over 20k is good going. 

27 minutes ago, Coneheadjohn said:

Backed us at 4/1,fancy us as underdogs.

I’ve backed us too. Surely following all that’s happened this summer to us something good has to happen…. (But it is Derby county) Would love like a 3-0 win today to shut all the other clubs’ fans up online. 

Ok now we know our squad I’m going 

4 2 3 1

roos 

byrnne 

Davies 

cashin 

buchannan 

shinnie 

Thompson 

jozwiak 

lawrence 

watson 

colin 

give youth a go I say!! 

7 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

I don't see the point in protesting agree with you there, but i do see the point in letting him know exactly what we think of this tbh. I don't think letting him know how we feel in person is the same as a protest which as you say is pointless seen as he wants out. 

O yeah to be clear I completely get why people are in that mindset and what to air their opinion, so not criticising that at all  - just personally don’t see the point in doing it outside the ground as an organised protest. I’d say just do it before kick off, half time and after kick off in the ground. It’s just never ending this is isn’t it ??. 

13 minutes ago, BuckoBeast said:

Livid. Rams fans it’s time to protest 

Tbh I’m not sure why everyone keeps saying protest - Mel has made it clear he’s trying to leave and has been for two years. I’d get a protest if we had a Chairman who wasn’t  budging but he’s clearly trying to get out - so what will a protest actually achieve? 

I have all my angry gifs lined up for midday. If I don’t get to use them because we sign players,  I have another set of angry gifs to use!!! 

2 hours ago, Ruud Aralliss said:

 

Apparently if the players are married two count for one in the EFLs very progressive eyes, which is why Rooney is performing several shotgun weddings on the training ground today. Still means the ugliest of the 9 won’t sign.  

Derby 3 - 1 Huddersfield 

FRGS Lawrence 

12 minutes ago, TexasRam said:

Listening to Radio Derby, still none the wiser about what was said last night other than Mels trying to sell and please don’t protest. Seems more and more last night was just Mel trying to tell everyone how bad it is for him. I hope others have more info the this Jim bloke 

Yeah I wouldn’t say I know anything knew to what I new on Tuesday. I’m not really sure what I expected mel to say anyway in all honesty. I guess just some positive news about signings would have been nice! 

Radio Derby speaking with rams writer too to get other perspective on the meeting. I recommend everyone sticks radio Derby on now if they can. 
 

o he wasn’t even there lol ignore me then. 

16 minutes ago, 1967Ram said:

I love pineapple on pizza!

I’m with you - don’t let the vocal anti piners bring you down!! 

27 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Can anyone remember during the Mac years when we had a ‘What the opposition are saying’ thread and it was full of opposition fans gushing over our team and the way we had built the 2013-14, 2014-15 sides?

I wonder what those same fans are thinking now. 

Incredible how we went from that to this. Only one man responsible for it all. 

 

Was literally thinking about the view from the outside thread earlier and what it would be like now. It’s depressing to think where we thought the club and that team was heading after that play off final defeat. 

I’d be there and at the next game but at a wedding this weekend and stag doo for boro - forest (well Salford) will be my first game!! 

1 hour ago, The_Sheriff said:

So what the F is Mel winging about not bringing enough through :S

I think again this is why the club should of released minutes. The way Punjab rams on Twitter reported the academy comment and the way the rams trust talked about it this morning on radio Derby came across completely different. Punjab rams made it sound like mel was unhappy with the amount that have come through - whereas on radio Derby he talked about it like Mel was just talking still about the importance of bringing through youth and how that’s been a plan over the last few years. Rather than him stating the amount through hasn’t been good enough.  

5 minutes ago, Betty Swollocks said:

So as things stand the team could look something like this on saturday??

                      Marshall

Ebolsele    Cashin    Forsyth    Byrne

           Bird                    Shinnie

Jozwiak        Sibley        Lawrence

                       CKR

I’d actually put Thompson in alongside shinnie and see how he does. 

17 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

I'd agree with this and say Mel is wrong too. If his analysis was correct no-one ever would have bought Sunderland, Newcastle, Leeds or us in the past... Pretty sure most ownership groups are aware that keeping the fans onside is an important part of managing the club. Maybe this is just his way of saying he doesn't want to hear it in the ground as the fan base seems to have lost all patience and tensions are running high. I think the bigger danger is the gates becoming so low we become a less attractive proposition for potential buyers. 

Agree with all of this - but I do again think on the last part the same logic can be applied. Any investor who has done their research can see in the last 20 years when Derby ‘does well’ the attendances shoot up and you can fill the stadium or near to if the fans have a club to be proud of (and the prices aren’t too ridiculously high). I think any new investors core aims would of course to be successful on the pitch but to get those fans back in (the two largely go hand in hand) I remember it was something stevie Mac said when he first arrived, that he wanted to get the stadium full again because he knew the support is there. Any takeover should give renewed optimism and you’d imagine the attendances would bounce back up a little. Then it’s up to the team to get the rest back in - because no one likes to see a half full pride park. 

11 minutes ago, cosmic said:

Cant verify if this email is real, but not liking the threat by Morris that if fans protest he may just walk away and leave us in the poo.

 

 

In the interview on radio Derby he didn’t mention Mel walking away, he said it might put off potential investors. Personally, protests against football boards are nothing new and in many cases most takeovers have gone through anyway - I mean the new investors would be seen as the heroes so as long as they run the club correctly they have nothing to fear. Think Mel is wrong on the impact of protests. 

You can use the spots reserved for the players, there’s at least 14 available.