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1 hour ago, B4ev6is said:

Well radio derby confirmed this Well warn wants keep Robert's I see no reason why he wont stay at derby and plus he likes it here.

He might love it at home in Brighton as well - he will play somewhere next season and he has done decently here this season so it might be up to Brighton where he develops next season 

If it cheers some up or amazes some others the operating losses down the road for the championship season 21/22 were per week £981,000 yes per week ! - no doubt they won’t be worried about that 🙄

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

They've got 12 injured players it seems.  Only 5% of you squad being injured at this stage of the season is excellent work by their medical staff.

They are not injured they just don’t want to be on the team sheet every week 

33 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

You can say that again 

As well as the moments of genius he’s given us, he’s put in the hard yards time and time again. It’s extraordinary how many times - aged ?36 - he pops up deep in our own half and makes an important tackle. Hope we’ll see another season whichever div we play in 

If we had him last season and he was fully fit as this season I am convinced we would have stayed up even with the minus 21 points 

9 hours ago, GeneralRam said:

Great time to be playing them as they now have nothing to play for. A big win here will really set up flying for the remaining game(s)

Apart from playing in front of a full house at PP in front of 3,000 of their own fans - I suspect Portsmouth will fancy this game so we will need to be better.

30 minutes ago, ziggyram59 said:

I think results went well for us last night Bolton losing was great so hopefully might gives us a chance of finishing 5th, I can't see anyone stopping Plymouth and Ipswich from gaining automatic promotion and to be fair they have deserved over the season. Who would you rather play in play-off semi-finals Sheffield Wednesday or Barnsley? I would say Wednesday there form has been terrible of late. 

We are not in the play offs yet as we need an obvious win on Saturday which will be like the Burton game probably so let’s get there first and play anyone. I would always fancy us against anyone in the play offs.

On 23/04/2023 at 07:34, G STAR RAM said:

Not seen the highlights yet but my initial reaction was that it wasnt a penalty

I assume the referee had watched all the seasons videos of Derby County and assumed those were the decisions that had to be given as a penalty but hadn’t realised we were playing in White 

10 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Assuming we make the playoffs we can't play Bolton in the semi-final because 5th,place is the best they can get

It’s also the best we can get !

I would be happy with 5th or 6th not 7th 👍

Just now, Wignall12 said:

Forest might be selling one or two !! 🤣🤣

Not many buyers I suspect especially for the ones they purchased 

2 hours ago, Rich3478 said:

So they then do the same in the away leg? Great plan!

we gave them 2600 apparently and been given 2373 in return. It’s hardly unfair is it. And like someone mentioned I think we’d want to do the same in return if could get promotion. Would you rather extra derby fans there or some away fans?

I was overseas when we played Sheffield  Wednesday in our home game but out of interest why were they only given 2600 - was it police advise or something strange when we have had many more away fans attend like Oxford etc. There hasn’t t ever been any real bother with them.

43 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

You just highlighted my point. It’s all well and good beating the poor teams and Didzy filling his boots against the cannon fodder, but to get promoted we need to beat the better sides in the division.

Under Warne we just haven’t stepped up yet when it really matters.

We’ve been doing rather well with what we scrapped together imho 

44 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

I rather go up this season and perhaps get rid these stupid restrictions now.

The restrictions are in place because the football club didn’t pay the full amount owed by the club to survive - we have to be seen to not be spending recklessly. It’s nice not to see us wasting shed loads of money on useless players - even if a signing doesn’t work out currently it doesn’t cost us a fortune.

1 hour ago, B4ev6is said:

Well guys I personal think we going to make the play offs so teams currently in them.

Barnsley 

Bolton 

Derby 

Shiffield wednesday?

Ipwhich town ?

I personal would not mind eathier of them I think we stand a good chance of winning these sides of 2 legs and getting to Wembley and winning at wrembly going back to the champership.

What do you guys think.

Anyone - I don’t care but we are not there yet so let’s make it first 

1 minute ago, Rich3478 said:

Surprised at how many are left! Hoping for general sale but will be very few if any that make that.

It’s a strange one - if they need the game to win etc they will take the bottom tier as they have blocked out the front 3 rows of the top tier - if it means nothing to them then they will open up the front 3 rows to DCFC and maybe open the bottom tier as well I’m my opinion 

What can be said is that the view ( or non view from far to many seats) from the upper tier is one of the poorest around, again in my opinion 

14 minutes ago, Rich3478 said:

Doesn’t the exact same scenario apply to us and Wednesday?

hopefully we can win at home Saturday against a side with nothing to play for.  That leaves posh needing two wins which looks doubtful

barnsley away is just as tough as Wednesday away for us. Matching their result should be enough. Think we’d have all taken that a month ago.

With only 4 draws this season Peterborough simply win or lose this season 

5 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Sheffield Wednesday tickets after first hour of sales, just over 200 sold, 1,605 left.

This one still has the potential of being a big game or the biggest dead rubber 

Needed 3 points we got 3 points 

I thought Sibley had a good game along with quite a few others - Burton didn’t come to play any kind of football that I like to watch but it is what it is 

Best moment of the game was Captain Davies yelling at Roberts to take the ball of Cashin who was about to take a throw in next to the Burton corner flag in the 85th minute - 1-0 in front needing the win and one of the centre half’s is lining up to take a throw in 🙄 well done Davies !

It’s no local Derby for me it’s just like playing Leicester - it’s a game against a side that’s not far away 

in fact I live in Mickleover and it’s easier to actually get to Burtons ground than Derby on a busy Saturday 

38 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

To be far, we only gave them 2,681 which is 500 less than we gave Ipswich. We'll also have to give them more if we get them in the playoffs. 

If and when we get to play the red dogs again I hope we only allow what they give us 2002 

Derby county 4-1 Burton Albion frgs mendiz Lang 

4 hours ago, TomTom92 said:

Fair play to Burton for their achievements, but personally it does irk me that so many small clubs are achieving these days. I know that's an arrogant statement to make but it is a sickener that the likes of Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton are clogging up the PL with Luton, Hull and co in the championship and then there's us and Wednesday in the dirt. 

It may be just me personally but would i'd rather watch Wednesday v Ipswich over Brentford v Bournemouth or Luton v Rotherham any time. 

Anyway i think Burton will annoyingly put a performance in (as they always do) but we'll have just enough this time to scrape a win. 

2-1 Derby.

 

Yes the premiership is absolutely wetting itself at the thought of keeping Bournemouth and getting Burnley back whilst losing the likes of Leicester (don’t care) Leeds (LOL) and Southampton (I hope they survive) - not mentioning the ones we all want to watch go pop

37 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Sam Smith would be a risky move. He's scored 5 in 5, but only 6 in the 36 league games before that. 15 league goals last season, but his previous best was only 7 and that was in League 2.

Josh Key is 23 which means compensation. Championship clubs are already interested, so no chance

Harsh to say that, unlikely maybe but players will decide where they want to play when they have a choice. Despite needing to pay a compensation fee we could always appeal that fee past our restrictions or even agree with the previous club when we could actually pay cash to them. We could even loan them a player to match up the cost of a deal who knows. What I am basically saying is that it is always possible to do a deal if the parties are willing.

3 hours ago, Rampant said:

What are the chances of Didzy staying?

Well he still lives in Nottingham and he will be 36 next season, so who is going to give him a game every week apart from us?

1 hour ago, David said:

As much as I dislike the way the EFL handled our case, credit where credit is due, they have finally realised the damage parachute payments are causing and highlighting it to the government.

The Premier League are only interested in the Premier League, that much is clear, they don’t give a toss about the rest of the football pyramid other than ensuring the gulf between the 2 leagues doesn’t get too big and encouraging clubs to go for it risking the future of the club with the golden pay day on relegation incentive.

Absolutely no way they can justify the payments, we can adjust rules to allow clubs to fall inline with FFP without handing out what, £30m a season or whatever it is now.

Sky Sports isn’t the worst thing to happen to football, the breakaway of the Premier League was.

Football needs one governing body that has an interest in sustainability from top to bottom. This will ruffle feathers at the very top as they claim to be unable to compete in Europe, yet Europe would follow I’m sure of it. Look at La Liga who are starting to apply pressure on Barca restricting what they can do. 

Premier League clubs are leading the way in spending and it will only get worse unless someone comes in and takes control, if that means losing 5 or 6 clubs to a closed shop Super League, so be it. We’re at the point where we can no longer let them dictate how the game is run and who gets what money. 

Yet again I say the EFL can introduce a handicap system for clubs accepting parachute payments - minus 16 points should be about fair - all they need to do is vote it in 

18 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

Based on current form we don’t “deserve” to be 7th. We would be much lower than that. At the end of the day though, we deserve to finish where actually finish based on the season as a whole (unless you believe the conspiracy theories of course in which case we deserve to finish as champions but have been cheated out of it. “duck the EFL duck the EFL duck the EFL” 😀).

With the officials not being so determined to constantly give extremely suspect decisions against us we would have easily been cemented into the play off positions and that’s avoiding us not scoring from a shedload of chances