DavesaRam

Brilliant. We were nearly as good as our fans tonight!
At least Sibley didn’t get either of the harsh cards as well!

You mean Bird poo

? sing when you’re swimmin’ you only sing when you…

Get the fork in! Very professional display. Full of Jagielka poise. Florist lose.. Mind the gap! Hitting the tikeela in Newcastle now! Oway the Rams! ? 

At least we’ve got enough points now for the EFL to clawback.

Much much better ?????????????????

If there was ever a Derby fan response to a very bright first half , this is it….’we’ll regret those untaken chances’ 
 
come on Derby, prove us doubters wrong. 

Can we please retire the Collymore song forever? I was in nappies when he played for Forest and barely in school when during his short-lived Leicester career, and I can't imagine many of the fans there even really know who he is.
I promise you, nobody cares about Collymore in 2021. Please drop it

To an extent you maybe right but I feel Lawrence is part of the problem why it is slower. We need the Tom from the last 9 games last season 

The Rams look like a team that can play a bit. Should have had one or two penalties imo.

Large telescope ??

Is Stretton going to be the new Sibley? Always bringing to the team what we having been crying out for, but then benched or dropped.

Line up looks good but harsh on Stretton. When goals are such an issue for us he deserved to keep the shirt having scored at the weekend. I do think it's the wrong message, and especially when Baldock never looked like scoring all preseason. Even when he was one-on-one with the keeper he turned round and tried (and failed) to pass.
But the balance looks better overall. I hope this is the start of a long run for Sibbo in the team, and the ref doesn't victimize him as two have already this season.  Both Byrne and Joz owe us strong performances. Let's see what they're made of.
Huddlestone on the bench for them.
Come on you Rams!

Let’s hope Sibbo is played to his strengths instead of isolated on the wing while we lump it long ball up to Baldock.

Let’s hope Sibbo is played to his strengths instead of isolated on the wing while we lump it long ball up to Baldock.

Free’s a good price too!

Perhaps that's how Festy hurt his knee?.....

Sibley finally gets a start! And it only took every other attacker at the club getting injured to make it happen!

Glad to see Buchanan back. Sibley deserved his start.

Even though it was a foul. And having the ball belted at you twice from close range is enough to make you ask the ref what he is faffing about at.

Talking nonsense there. 
Roos was brought in because Carson seemed incapable commanding his area in the first half of the season. Roos came in and commanded his area caught crossed played out from the back and made some really good saves. As a matter of fact without him Leeds would have been in the final. 
The final mistake IMO haunted him in the Cocu seasons and he needed a sustained period out of the squad. 
Hopefully he can put that to bed now and go back to the goalkeeper he was for that period under Lamps 

.......... which is probably the EFL's plan.

6 days is the new 48hrs

If you remember we had a number of injury problems, with none of our strikers deemed capable of 90 minutes. We had Waghorn and Marriott, who at the time were banging the goals in, and we had Nugent and Bennett, who weren't.
Frank chose to start with Nugent and Bennett, with the only reason being using Bennett's strength to batter their central defenders. We played all right, keeping Grealish very quiet, but were behind to a couple of really lucky goals. It was crying out for him to bring our goal threat on because, as expected, Nugent and Bennett hadn't provided much up front. Sadly the substitutions came way too late. We actually scored within minutes of them coming on, and Villa were considering changing their shorts form brown ones, but it was too late. 
I cannot see any sense in starting a match in a way that may leave you trying to rescue it later on, but that is exactly what we did. Neither is there any sense in going for the rescue when it is way to late to complete the task. But that is exactly what Frank did. Seeing how scared Villa were when Waggy and Jack came on, Just what would have happened if we had actually started with our goal scorers, and left the duffers to see the match out? I think the game would have been over before half-time in our favour.
Even bringing the goal getters on just after half-time would have been enough, but he delayed it toooooo late.
WHY?

Nugent? If Frank had started him I'd agree with the crackpot theory that he intentionally set us up to lose. Thankfully Nugent wasn't even on the bench.
Bennett didn't provide much, but he was very isolated. The players who would normally be expected to get up to support him were too busy trying to contain Villa. I don't think Villa's first was lucky. It was deserved after they'd dominated us for the first half. It was always going to be a massive call starting Bennett on his own. Lampard was rightly worried about Villa's attacking strength, but his plan didn't work. We know all too well what's become of Marriott since, but I'll never understand not starting him after the Leeds 2nd leg. The guy was on fire.