DavesaRam

And somehow Portsmouth have had 5 shots. I only saw one.

That had to be a card!

That’s two fouls not given.

Cashin has just snagged the ref for the foul he didn’t give

Watching on Skygo, ready for horrendous bias as always

Why? What are Radio Derby going to do to you?

So was I - I live in Allestree!

Oh! I got here early, then!

So he's from God's own suburb, then?

Oh no, I wasn't wishing for Smith at right back, I was saying that our good performances with 4 at the back wasn't necessarily because of Nyambe, but that 4 at the back works for us, the alternatives don't!

Although we didn't have Nyambe last season when playing a back four gave us a good run. IIRC we had Smith at right back during that period. It is quite possible that playing a back four bring us success because playing a back four is successful!

I’ve managed 22 grounds (including the old BBG!), so I am slightly better than plastic!

My concern is if we set up with a midfield two ….. again, because we will be over-run …. again. Especially if Hourihane starts, because then we will only have a midfield one and a half. It will also mean we have gone for “whack it wide and lob it into the box” …. again, so all Portsmouth will have to do is what Northampton did - put an extra man on each wing back. We need to go 3 in midfield, and we need to play our game and make Portsmouth worry about us, not the other way round. We can get at least a point from this match if we want to, and if we are allowed to.

Yet lots of people seemed horrified that Rams fans were angry at us throwing that opportunity away!

Or we take the Brian Clough approach of play to his strengths, ie give him the ball and let him do what he is good at, rather than him spend time doing what he is weaker at. It got the best out of Alan Hinton, and John McGovern - neither of whom were known for “Ebou Adams” like challenges. And no, this isn’t an attempt to compare Brian Clough and Paul Warne! Don’t even go there!

yes but he wasn’t under Warne’s coaching staff and methodology at Hull.

Probably because the ref didn’t give a free-kick every rime one if their players dived to the ground - just 95% of the time. One if their coaching staff got booked just before the final whistle, probably for a similar moan.

We got to the car park on the industrial estate when the heavens opened and would have made it dry to our car but for the bonzo in the car next to us pulling forwards by 2 yards blocking our path. By the tome we had walked round him we were totally drenched. And the cars didn’t move for another 10 minutes, so he could have let us get to our car dry. The wassock!

Possibly the best bit about today was Ebou Adams getting the Gorgeous George treatment: "Sign him up, sign him up, sign him up"!!!

Well we got the points, and Blackpool went away happy with a record medals haul for their second sport of Olympic Diving! Actually, with Blackpool coming to play it was quite a good match of football in the most part, and our whole squad played their part. I don't think anyone played badly, with Hourihane perhaps with the worst bit near the end when he made a typical Hourihane clearance which was a hoof over his shoulder vaguely in the direction of the Blackpool half, with height attained seemingly more important than the fact that it went straight to a group of 3 opposition players. But he did ok during his cameo appearance, so no bother! I thought Ward and Wilson worked together really well today, and the back 4 did a great job. And although people on here have talked about the Blackpool chances on the first half, I never felt that they threatened hardly at all. Apart from the Wildsmith save from free kick, they didn't actually threaten from open play until the 86th minute. ell done you Rams! They were handy with the ball, and maybe had mor possession, but actually did very little with it, while Derby did look threatening on a number of occasions. The holding off and not pressing was a tactical decision by Warne who told them to hold station because when they did press, Blackpool were able to "pick them off (Warne's words), and the tactics worked well. Good on you, coaches! Re the ref - some people say that he was quit good. I think it would be more accurate to acknowledge that he wasn't the worst we have had, and didn't make any match-changing gaffes, although it seemed that the linos were doing their best to balls things up. But the truth is that he gave an enormous number of soft decisions in Blackpool's favour, hence my opening hint at their falling to the floor so easily, with the ref falling for it most times, yet not punishing Blackpool players for a series of bad challenges. And we were all shouting for a penalty when Ebou hammered the ball home, because it was a blatant handball. He clearly didn't intend to give it, so well done Mr Adams! I was expecting the ref to rule the goal out and give the penalty after all, but thankfully he didn't. Which would have been a shame, because the goal was a cracker! And at last, it was satisfying to be at a match where we were trying to do football, and where we were relatively comfortable, and where I didn't feel worried or scared for the whole match long.

Only if you are old enough!

I am somewhat cynical at times, but we had seen Fatepu and Weston perform well in the cup matches and there were calls for them to be given more chances, and since Browne’s appearance we haven’t seen any kids being given a chance, despite our desperate position with injuries. The process is a standard management tool when people bring a challenge to “head them off at the pass”. He is known for being stubborn and determined, and for kids to come in and transform the team would show him up for his tactical naivety.

“Wasn't mentally ready for first team football” - the only sight we got of that was his only first team appearance where he was played in completely the wrong position effectively sharing the same role and space as Collins, who gave him nothing to feed off, and no opportunities, so the poor lad looked clueless. If he had been played alongside or off Collins it almost certainly would have been a different story. The cynic in me thinks that Warne set it up that way to prove his theory that Browne wasn’t ready and justify his refusal to use the youngsters. At the time fans were clamouring for the youngsters to be given a chance, and followed the promising debuts of Fatepu and Weston, so Browne’s engineered “flop” was a way of shutting us up - “I gave him his chance and he wasn’t up to it. I did tell you”! Warne hasn’t gone near the kids since then.

Maybe because Coors is all about lager, which thinks it is a beer but isn’t. I suspect that we donate the next match’s lager when we point Percy at the steel wall prior to the match and at half-time! 🤪

Is that a rumour?