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I just dreamt I watched us lose 1-0 in a travesty of a s***housing match against Wycombe. I was then watching a news report with Bolton fans being interviewed saying they were now favourites and didn't want the play offs.
It took me about 5mins of feeling miserable before I realised it had been a dream.
Come on Derby ....  win tomorrow,  thrash Orient at the weekend and Portsmouth to grab a draw and we are almost there. 
Really don't fancy the play offs.

Pretty much how I saw it. 
Billy Bob was great in particular.
Didn't enjoy the 4th series.
 

Grim strikeforce that. Waghorn is redundant, may as well play someone like Thompson just for his pressing over Waghorn.

Waghorn is strong as an ox. Other of our more skilful players are also able to mix it, NML, Wilson, Ward are all able to get stuck in.
Possibly only Bird, Hourihane are more 'technical' without that bite, which is why (Fornah and then) Adams were recruited, as eg Thompson, Smith just couldn't do it all. Shame we couldn't do that successfully earlier in the season.

You've seen his Wang???

I think having the likes of Collins, Adams and Nelson as the spine of the team is a bonus for games like this. They’ll set the tone for the rest and make sure we’re not bullied as easily as we have been in the past….i hope 🤞 

Regrettably, I can foresee this being wide awake. It’s this kind of game that has been our undoing a number of times in recent years. Time for a big performance from the boys. It doesn’t have to be pretty but we need 3 points from this game otherwise I can see a massive wobble being on the cards.

I just dreamt I watched us lose 1-0 in a travesty of a s***housing match against Wycombe. I was then watching a news report with Bolton fans being interviewed saying they were now favourites and didn't want the play offs.
It took me about 5mins of feeling miserable before I realised it had been a dream.
Come on Derby ....  win tomorrow,  thrash Orient at the weekend and Portsmouth to grab a draw and we are almost there. 
Really don't fancy the play offs.

It would offer people like myself more optimism if we controlled matches. Not going to go down the Paul Warne pile on because he’s got us to 2nd playing Warneball. But there hasn’t been many matches this season were I’ve watched us and gone this will be easy.
Just as you slip in to a version of comfortable we go and poo the bed like we did against Northampton. 
 
Of course I’d rather be in our shoes than Bolton/Posh’s but then again I’d rather be in Portsmouth’s shoes which is pretty much 1 win away from promotion.
I do think it will be a bad job if we can’t beat Wycombe with their cup final considered. But knowing Derby like we do, personally I can’t see us winning all 4 which does open the door. Which is were people’s worries like my own come in.

That’s a surprise

I think there is an awful lot of '20-20 hindsight' that even then you still aren't sure about.
Could also be argued that is what a manager does. He changes horses for courses, plays people who are in form and gives players the chance but doesn't just persist with them if they aren't doing it. If we finish 2nd he's been proved right on all counts in my opinion. 
It's also inevitable that if we don't go up the inquest will begin and everyone will do what you've done and say 'Hourihane and NML played too much', and various other players didn't play enough. Possibly that he didn't get the right striker in and signed too many injury-prone players and kept going to a back 5.
Whereas if we go up then everyone will say he did what was expected and move on.
Tis the way of the world. 
Having come so far now I'd probably give him next season regardless- obviously if be Xmas we are struggling in whatever league we are in, then he'll be gone.
 

I think there is an awful lot of '20-20 hindsight' that even then you still aren't sure about.
Could also be argued that is what a manager does. He changes horses for courses, plays people who are in form and gives players the chance but doesn't just persist with them if they aren't doing it. If we finish 2nd he's been proved right on all counts in my opinion. 
It's also inevitable that if we don't go up the inquest will begin and everyone will do what you've done and say 'Hourihane and NML played too much', and various other players didn't play enough. Possibly that he didn't get the right striker in and signed too many injury-prone players and kept going to a back 5.
Whereas if we go up then everyone will say he did what was expected and move on.
Tis the way of the world. 
Having come so far now I'd probably give him next season regardless- obviously if be Xmas we are struggling in whatever league we are in, then he'll be gone.
 

I think there is an awful lot of '20-20 hindsight' that even then you still aren't sure about.
Could also be argued that is what a manager does. He changes horses for courses, plays people who are in form and gives players the chance but doesn't just persist with them if they aren't doing it. If we finish 2nd he's been proved right on all counts in my opinion. 
It's also inevitable that if we don't go up the inquest will begin and everyone will do what you've done and say 'Hourihane and NML played too much', and various other players didn't play enough. Possibly that he didn't get the right striker in and signed too many injury-prone players and kept going to a back 5.
Whereas if we go up then everyone will say he did what was expected and move on.
Tis the way of the world. 
Having come so far now I'd probably give him next season regardless- obviously if be Xmas we are struggling in whatever league we are in, then he'll be gone.
 

That's excellent news, but if their Jambalaya was served with a floater, would they actually notice?
In fairness, one of them got it...

This chap seems most offended, though looking at him, I'm a bit worried that if he doesn't calm down he might give himself an aneurysm.

He commented: You also have the disadvantage of having neanderthal knuckle-draggers as supporters, such as this poster on the DCFC forum. 🤣
Well Bargepole, my old mucker, since you took time to visit our forum, firstly, can I wholeheartedly welcome you and thank you unreservedly for your kind words. I would like to point out though that the post was satirical, but I fear the notion would be lost on you. Did you come snooping imagining we'd be singing your praises? Really? 
Also, I'm a tad affronted by the knuckle dragging thing, but I put that down to you having a couple of things dragging along the floor yourself, though likely not your knuckles.  
Much love,
86 x

Who’s the Derby fan on there sucking up to them all? 😂

I think someone will scotch this rumour.

I second all this.
Plus lots of other comments.
You won't know for sure what the right decisions are, as we don't know the future or what would have happened if you had taken another path.
All you can do is think carefully, be honest in your reasoning and then stick to it together,  enjoy the positives and not spend your life wondering what might have been.
Don't feel you have to keep updating everyone but do know that if you do want to ..people want to hear what you're saying and care, and have everything crossed it works out eventually. 

I'm not sure I want the modern phenomenon of everyone being upset about every little thing and using it as an excuse to be offended is a spirit I subscribe to!
@Bris Vegasknew what he was doing, is a serial offender who is well able to take any reaction - and possibly welcomes it.
It's a oft repeated opinion of his that was delivered at that moment that was always going to p*** on a few people's chips. 
Anyway....!
Interesting debate if we had stood off them less 2nd half, would we have won.  We will never know but it does shred the nerves watching us put no pressure on the ball and just sitting in with no one really giving us any outlet.
The defence looked solid apart from Wildsmith who looked a bit unsure all game. Wilson in particular looked good.
Adams and Smith both worked their socks off. NML the only disappointment- seems to have lost the afterburner that make him such a threat. CBT looked really good going forward but lazy defensively.
Collins never stopped working and his touch was improved.
Great point and keeps Portsmouth honest at least for the Bolton game.
8 days to get everyone fit and then go again.
 

I second all this.
Plus lots of other comments.
You won't know for sure what the right decisions are, as we don't know the future or what would have happened if you had taken another path.
All you can do is think carefully, be honest in your reasoning and then stick to it together,  enjoy the positives and not spend your life wondering what might have been.
Don't feel you have to keep updating everyone but do know that if you do want to ..people want to hear what you're saying and care, and have everything crossed it works out eventually. 

I think it’s only a red card if the player (including the keeper outside of the penalty area) deliberately handles the ball and it prevents an obvious goal scoring opportunity. I guess on this occasion it wasn’t deemed an obvious goal scoring opportunity. I don’t really think Wildsmith can really blame the conditions and I think he was lucky not to get a yellow card.

I'm not sure I want the modern phenomenon of everyone being upset about every little thing and using it as an excuse to be offended is a spirit I subscribe to!
@Bris Vegasknew what he was doing, is a serial offender who is well able to take any reaction - and possibly welcomes it.
It's a oft repeated opinion of his that was delivered at that moment that was always going to p*** on a few people's chips. 
Anyway....!
Interesting debate if we had stood off them less 2nd half, would we have won.  We will never know but it does shred the nerves watching us put no pressure on the ball and just sitting in with no one really giving us any outlet.
The defence looked solid apart from Wildsmith who looked a bit unsure all game. Wilson in particular looked good.
Adams and Smith both worked their socks off. NML the only disappointment- seems to have lost the afterburner that make him such a threat. CBT looked really good going forward but lazy defensively.
Collins never stopped working and his touch was improved.
Great point and keeps Portsmouth honest at least for the Bolton game.
8 days to get everyone fit and then go again.
 

Only thing I’d add to this is that NML gives the ball away in dangerous positions when he isn’t on the wing. He can’t hold the ball when running back to our goal to receive it. His touch often lets him down.  He also runs square across the pitch and telegraphs passes leaving us on the back foot if the ball is intercepted. Safest place for him and the team is on the wing. Even if that means 30 mins against a tired defence 

Quite a few people are frustrated that we seemed to play too defensively in the second half.
But, when I asked the other day if we want Bolton to beat Pompey, to increase our chances of winning the league - or Pompey to beat Bolton, to increase our chances of finishing second - everyone seemed to want Pompey to beat Bolton.
Therefore, as fans, we are taking a defensive position - but at the same time, lots seem to be criticising Warne for taking a defensive position.

Its very simple .... football matches are scored by goals.   This post coming after your Bolton posts shows your real motivation.  You could surely have gone to the trouble of including some dodgy stats in your response. You are getting lazy.

I'm not. Maybe in the minority but as we aren't in North Korea I'll still give my opinion