DavesaRam

Last nights referee was was one of the best we’ve seen all season. Consistent in the main, not afraid to book players and other than stopping play for a none head injury, got most things right; other decisions being less contentious.
Hope Rebecca Welsh overseas our games again.

Everyone sat near me all commented, firstly that the ref was a woman, and later how decent she was..i added, certainly a big improvement on the standard of referees we normally get this season!
She did get the 2 decisions wrong..a second yellow for handball, and the stopping the game when it wasn't a head injury..but apart from that, i thought she was very good.

That would be after giving Cheltenham the advantage while one of their players was down but stopping a Derby attack for the same injury. Maybe other “uprising” was the fact that she did actually make more contentious decisions than this thread would suggest. The opposition weren’t much good at football, but knew how to clog our key players. They had already clattered NML and Jason Knight in the opening few minutes before scything down White earned a yellow card. And the foul on Dobbin was so aggressive it could easily have been red. However, the protests our players did make were way less demonstrative than those on Saturday, so good on yer, lads!

1Wildsmith 6. Spilled a regulation free kick / cross otherwise puffed on a Cuban waiting for a shot on target which never came.
12Smith 6  Neat & tidy defence but poor on delivery of crosses.
3Forsyth 6.5 Effective & faster passes out.
6Cashin 6 One short pass opened us up but made amends with a steam train block.
15Roberts 6 Neat & tidy linkages.
23White 6 Tidy passing without the physical presence of Bird.
17 Sibley 6 Slotted in to midfield when the game was won.
4Hourihane 6.5 Kept the ball moving but didn’t find the killer pass.
11Mendez-Laing 6 Less involved after a bright start. 
22Springett 6.5 Injected energy when the game was won.
38Knight 7 The midfield machine & his perpetually pumping pistons patrolled the pitch.
26Thompson 7 Looked very bright & sharp in seeing the game out. 
18Dobbin 8 Probably his best game for Derby; smoked his fb several times & left pairs of defenders in his wake. A couple of wasted chances before stroking home McDick’s perfectly placed pass. 
7Barkhuizen 6 Brief run out. 
10McGoldrick 9 MotM A one-man footballing symphony; assisted the assist for his own goal by releasing Hourihane to cross before taking up the perfect position 15 yards out and pile-driving home; then the dink of dinks to breeze by the defender,  drew 3 opponents & put it on a silver salver for Dobbin to thump home. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Stop the dog from barking…Whatever happens this is McGoldrick’s season & the reference will not be 2022/23 but simply The McGoldrick. 
9Collins 6 Probably will just need to fold his kit and put it back in the drawer ready for Saturday; no need to wash it.
Derby had to win & they did. We can see just how good Bird is now he isn’t playing because we lack that grip & cohesive coherence that he gives us. It was scruffy but McGoldrick lit up the gloom with his cultured display. The first female ref to run a Rams game was very good and planets beyond many of the male numpties we’ve witnessed this year.

On the weight of how bad the officials are in this league, she was good. 

To quote Vulcan Ram, it was “job done”. The difference between the two teams was clear as day. For the first half Cheltenham were kids being kept indoors by their mum and dad, and occasionally being allowed a few minutes out in the yard to play! We had good control of the game, and their occasional runs out into our half produced nothing, and it took them 52 minutes to have an attempt at an attempt in goal. But it was a load of yards high and wide!
In reality we should have taken Cheltenham to the cleaners, but we got the win, which is the important thing. In part we were probably still smarting from the Barnsley result, but for me the reason we made hard work of the job is because we have reverted to Paul Warne’s preference for a more direct style of play - not hoofball, but definitely more plain and direct. And it has coincided with our drop in form. Funny, that! A further fact is something my son spotted - we benefit when Cashin brings the ball out of defence towards the halfway line and then picks his pass. But teams have started putting two or three players in front of him, forcing him to go long straight away, so perhaps we need to address that one.
the goals last night came when we played football instead of bootball, with great play in the build up to both of them.  McGoldrick’s superb touch to set Dobbin up was a beauty, and he hit his shot for his goal so powerfully that the defender trying to block it on the line ended up in the net. He’ll have a big red welt on his thigh this morning! When Sibley and Springett cane on we started to get the ball down and play proper football and we looked hugely better for it.
The ref did well, but let a lot of really aggressive challenges go, and may have forgotten to bring her red card for that foul on Dobbin, and maybe for an earlier foul as well. Which makes the yellow card for Sibley very harsh. He has cleaned his game up considerably, and has also improved his ability to hold on to the ball. She was also a bit out on her stopping the play for injuries, but on the whole her “no messing” approach was good.
So, on to the next one. And it’s “more football please, Paul” from me.

To quote Vulcan Ram, it was “job done”. The difference between the two teams was clear as day. For the first half Cheltenham were kids being kept indoors by their mum and dad, and occasionally being allowed a few minutes out in the yard to play! We had good control of the game, and their occasional runs out into our half produced nothing, and it took them 52 minutes to have an attempt at an attempt in goal. But it was a load of yards high and wide!
In reality we should have taken Cheltenham to the cleaners, but we got the win, which is the important thing. In part we were probably still smarting from the Barnsley result, but for me the reason we made hard work of the job is because we have reverted to Paul Warne’s preference for a more direct style of play - not hoofball, but definitely more plain and direct. And it has coincided with our drop in form. Funny, that! A further fact is something my son spotted - we benefit when Cashin brings the ball out of defence towards the halfway line and then picks his pass. But teams have started putting two or three players in front of him, forcing him to go long straight away, so perhaps we need to address that one.
the goals last night came when we played football instead of bootball, with great play in the build up to both of them.  McGoldrick’s superb touch to set Dobbin up was a beauty, and he hit his shot for his goal so powerfully that the defender trying to block it on the line ended up in the net. He’ll have a big red welt on his thigh this morning! When Sibley and Springett cane on we started to get the ball down and play proper football and we looked hugely better for it.
The ref did well, but let a lot of really aggressive challenges go, and may have forgotten to bring her red card for that foul on Dobbin, and maybe for an earlier foul as well. Which makes the yellow card for Sibley very harsh. He has cleaned his game up considerably, and has also improved his ability to hold on to the ball. She was also a bit out on her stopping the play for injuries, but on the whole her “no messing” approach was good.
So, on to the next one. And it’s “more football please, Paul” from me.

To quote Vulcan Ram, it was “job done”. The difference between the two teams was clear as day. For the first half Cheltenham were kids being kept indoors by their mum and dad, and occasionally being allowed a few minutes out in the yard to play! We had good control of the game, and their occasional runs out into our half produced nothing, and it took them 52 minutes to have an attempt at an attempt in goal. But it was a load of yards high and wide!
In reality we should have taken Cheltenham to the cleaners, but we got the win, which is the important thing. In part we were probably still smarting from the Barnsley result, but for me the reason we made hard work of the job is because we have reverted to Paul Warne’s preference for a more direct style of play - not hoofball, but definitely more plain and direct. And it has coincided with our drop in form. Funny, that! A further fact is something my son spotted - we benefit when Cashin brings the ball out of defence towards the halfway line and then picks his pass. But teams have started putting two or three players in front of him, forcing him to go long straight away, so perhaps we need to address that one.
the goals last night came when we played football instead of bootball, with great play in the build up to both of them.  McGoldrick’s superb touch to set Dobbin up was a beauty, and he hit his shot for his goal so powerfully that the defender trying to block it on the line ended up in the net. He’ll have a big red welt on his thigh this morning! When Sibley and Springett cane on we started to get the ball down and play proper football and we looked hugely better for it.
The ref did well, but let a lot of really aggressive challenges go, and may have forgotten to bring her red card for that foul on Dobbin, and maybe for an earlier foul as well. Which makes the yellow card for Sibley very harsh. He has cleaned his game up considerably, and has also improved his ability to hold on to the ball. She was also a bit out on her stopping the play for injuries, but on the whole her “no messing” approach was good.
So, on to the next one. And it’s “more football please, Paul” from me.

To quote Vulcan Ram, it was “job done”. The difference between the two teams was clear as day. For the first half Cheltenham were kids being kept indoors by their mum and dad, and occasionally being allowed a few minutes out in the yard to play! We had good control of the game, and their occasional runs out into our half produced nothing, and it took them 52 minutes to have an attempt at an attempt in goal. But it was a load of yards high and wide!
In reality we should have taken Cheltenham to the cleaners, but we got the win, which is the important thing. In part we were probably still smarting from the Barnsley result, but for me the reason we made hard work of the job is because we have reverted to Paul Warne’s preference for a more direct style of play - not hoofball, but definitely more plain and direct. And it has coincided with our drop in form. Funny, that! A further fact is something my son spotted - we benefit when Cashin brings the ball out of defence towards the halfway line and then picks his pass. But teams have started putting two or three players in front of him, forcing him to go long straight away, so perhaps we need to address that one.
the goals last night came when we played football instead of bootball, with great play in the build up to both of them.  McGoldrick’s superb touch to set Dobbin up was a beauty, and he hit his shot for his goal so powerfully that the defender trying to block it on the line ended up in the net. He’ll have a big red welt on his thigh this morning! When Sibley and Springett cane on we started to get the ball down and play proper football and we looked hugely better for it.
The ref did well, but let a lot of really aggressive challenges go, and may have forgotten to bring her red card for that foul on Dobbin, and maybe for an earlier foul as well. Which makes the yellow card for Sibley very harsh. He has cleaned his game up considerably, and has also improved his ability to hold on to the ball. She was also a bit out on her stopping the play for injuries, but on the whole her “no messing” approach was good.
So, on to the next one. And it’s “more football please, Paul” from me.

Spot  on. There’s too many league one teams in this division

Job done, as people have said. An important win. But let's not pretend it was a decent performance. We need to get back to playing football again - since Wycombe we seem to have reverted to early Warne whack it anywhere. So wasteful in possession, particularly going forward. 
Thank goodness for David McGoldrick, head and shoulders the classiest player on the pitch. 

Offside my a*** . Parry to Lino flag up I repeat flag up.

Agree with the Sibley part but I guess he’s wanting to keep us tight at the back. Which is odd when we’re at home to Cheltenham.
 
My main point of contest would be that Springett appears unlucky not to start.

Love @Owen87ITKnod to Motty with the coat choice. Really class ?

Today would have been my late grandads birthday, he who introduced me to the beautiful game. It’s his plane on my avatar thingummy. I’ll be giving him a nod tonight, win or lose. Remembering the half time milky coffee out of a thermos and the post game bovril and wagon wheel. Crackling sports report on the car radio and some good days out. 

M5, M42, M1, A52, I would have thought.
Although I'd do M5, M42, A446, A38 myself! 

I don't think anything will come of it, but, we'll see. I just filled in British Transport Police's online complaint form:
I went to catch the train from Barnsley Interchange, following the Barnsley-Derby County football match, intending to travel back to Sheffield.
I wasn't allowed through the doors of the station, for a while, in the first instance. I posed the question: what? You won't permit me onto the platform, even though I've got a valid travel document? The answer was no - you're going to have to wait. Eventually, I was allowed onto the platform, just as the train was coming in.
As I expected, I was squashed up against the train door. I ended up standing next to two Derby fans, a husband and wife, with some other Derby fans in front of me, and then two members of the British Transport Police against the other set of train doors.
The British Transport Police officers let a few more fans on, and, at that point, it was hardly possible to move. Still, they continued to admit passengers, to the point where the volume of people meant that I ended up being pushed into the lady Derby supporter. I think this was preceded by one of the British Transport Police officers pushing someone, because they wouldn't (or could not, due to the lack of space), move down the train.
Understandably, her husband complained loudly, about the fact that his wife had almost been pushed over. Fortunately, she was unhurt.
My concerns arise from the way that the British Transport Police officers dealt with her husband. To contextualise - I am a Barnsley fan, and I was surrounded by supporters of the other club. The Derby supporters were loud, singing their songs, and many of them had alcohol. Their team had just lost, too. In my experience, a combination of those last two things can be a recipe for threats, aggression, and general unpleasantness. At no point, though, did I feel intimidated by any Derby fans - I was happily talking to a couple of them. For a busy train, after a football match, it was as peaceable as it gets. 
The fan whose wife had been pushed over was addressing, from memory, British Transport Police officer Smith, who normally works out of Leeds, and has been with the police, since 1981. If that doesn't identify him, I took some surreptitious video footage with my smartphone, which you can have, if you like.
It isn't verbatim, but parts of the conversation went like this, with 'F', being the fan whose wife had been pushed over, and 'O', being officer Smith.
F - why did you push my wife over?
O - I can push whoever I want. They (I think 'they', meant the yellow-jacketed stewards, who had been outside the train station) cannot, but we can, and we will, if we have to.
F - what? You're not even going to apologise?
O - carry on with your mouth, and I'll arrest you, when we pull into Sheffield.
I also had a conversation with officer Smith, just as we were arriving into Sheffield. He said he would have had no problem 'pulling me by [my] scarf', through the solid mass of humanity in front of me, and into the passageway which connects the carriages, if he had been required to do so. When I asked what the consequences for my health would have been from such a decision, he was unconcerned. There was not much in the way of a response to my comment that, if you treat people like animals, you shouldn't be surprised if they behave liked animals.
Officer Smith, when prompted by a different Derby fan, also expounded upon the subject of police intelligence, and how the police decide whether someone 'can be a risk.' Essentially, this came down to attire. Two of the brands mentioned by officer Smith, were Stone Island, and CP. I wanted to ask officer Smith whether this was the same mentality which sees Black citizens targeted, as a consequence of police intelligence, but, as he had already told me 'not to get excited', I thought better of it. 
Officer Smith confirmed that he had been filming, so you may wish to view said footage.
My own comments are as follows: it was only this morning when I read that one per cent of police officers, are under investigation, for alleged criminal activity of their own. It isn't even two years since Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer. In more recent times, there's been David Carrick, too. Now, obviously - obviously - I am not comparing a rude police officer, whose every action I disagreed with, with the murderer of Sarah Everard.
But, if public confidence in the police is as low as it's ever been because of the above events, my experience on the train is not going to restore that confidence. Nobody I saw deserved to be treated with the rudeness, and contempt, which officer Smith displayed. An apology, and an acceptance that he'd made the wrong decision, in letting more people onto the train, would have gone a long way to defusing the situation. I make mistakes in my job, and, when I do, I apologise. And, this man has been one of the public faces of your organisation, for more than four decades!
I'm appalled. I've never done a thing wrong in my life, and yet one of the upholders of the law, thinks there is nothing wrong with telling me he'd pull me around by my scarf, through a line of other human beings, on an already jampacked train. I've been all over the country with Barnsley, and only the police in South Yorkshire, behave in such a high-handed, intimidating way. 
Thanks for your attention.

I am beginning to feel like the guy who said “My wife’s just left me because I am so insecure …………….. oh, no, she’s just been and made me a cup of tea”,  because it looks like I should get back after all, but only just! ???

I am beginning to feel like the guy who said “My wife’s just left me because I am so insecure …………….. oh, no, she’s just been and made me a cup of tea”,  because it looks like I should get back after all, but only just! ???

Might struggle to het back in time for this one. I am delivering to Lancaster, but trouble with the hgv meant I was 3 hours late setting off. Will try my best! ?

Might struggle to het back in time for this one. I am delivering to Lancaster, but trouble with the hgv meant I was 3 hours late setting off. Will try my best! ?

I am beginning to feel like the guy who said “My wife’s just left me because I am so insecure …………….. oh, no, she’s just been and made me a cup of tea”,  because it looks like I should get back after all, but only just! ???

Might struggle to het back in time for this one. I am delivering to Lancaster, but trouble with the hgv meant I was 3 hours late setting off. Will try my best! ?

Might struggle to het back in time for this one. I am delivering to Lancaster, but trouble with the hgv meant I was 3 hours late setting off. Will try my best! ?

I've said it before and I'll probably say it again.. there's no problem with VAR. The is, however, a huge issue with how it's been implemented. According to FIFA, it's allowed in 4 areas of the game, namely, goals and the violations that precede them, red cards, penalties, and mistaken identity when awarding a card. It's designed to correct CLEAR AND OBVIOUS errors. Taking 4 minutes to come to the conclusion that the striker's little toe is 3 mm offside isn't a clear and obvious mistake. IMO, if it takes more than 30 seconds, then any error on the part of the officials is neither clear nor obvious and the original decision should stand. Do that and, again IMO, the issues people see with VAR would be greatly reduced.