Sparkle

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 

1 hour ago, TuffLuff said:

Ok you can give it McGoldrick

After the play off final 😉

On 17/04/2023 at 11:23, Gerry Daly said:

I think I agree with you up to a point. I don't think the gulf is as great as you say. We were in the championship last season and would have comfortably survived but for the points deduction. I think it could be argued that we have a better squad this season, if not better then as good. But be that as it may I tend to agree that it won't hurt for us to stay down another season and build. Also to do so while the final year of the business plan restrictions we are under expire so that if we are promoted at the end of next season we will be able to pay fees and compete properly   

Do you really think we have a better squad this season ? - I don’t - we could have done with McGoldrick last season ! 

Excellent win tonight and 4 points from two very difficult fixtures away in the south west - tonight’s win better after our misfortune late on at Bristol 

18 minutes ago, enachops said:

I thought the referee had a really good game tonight, makes a change! 

After his disastrous match in the championship on Saturday 🤷‍♂️ 

1 minute ago, InstaRam said:

Can't afford more penalties given away, ref's seem to dislike him for some reason...

Factually cost us more points than he’s won us - even if he did nothing wrong with both the penalties at Plymouth and Bristol rovers 

15 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:

McGoldrick in this division is a cheat code. 

Refs in this league are a cheat code every other week 

13 minutes ago, OwdGladysHinton said:

Bristol Rovers 1-2 Wendies

Bristol rovers have actually played Wednesday off the park if that helps 

Just now, OwdGladysHinton said:

wendies having no trouble at Bristol so far..shows how sh*te we are!!

Half the season Sheffield Wednesday have played the team we previously played it seems like which can’t be right can it? 

1 minute ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Collins on to shin in the winner some time in the second half…. 🤞🍀 

It will need to be a big ricochet 

1 hour ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

I’ve heard Harry Arter and Lyle Taylor might be back in contention for them this weekend. What a life those two lead, no doubt on more money than any of our players this season. Although not as much as star player jlingz admittedly.

Lyle Taylor is probably refusing to play in case it affects his next contract/move 

1 minute ago, LincsRam said:

Anyway good news is we always play better in the second half .... oh hang on ...

We are due though aren’t we 

24 minutes ago, Rich3478 said:

Do you mean rwb?

As a collective 

1 minute ago, RedSox said:

Ed Dawes seems confident that Knight is playing LWB and NML up front with Didzy.  🤞  

What can be said is that Warne is trying very hard to find some kind of system that’s gets a decent tune out of players we have available 

3 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

Mendez Laing playing wing back again. Why?

Let’s wait and see shall we 

1 minute ago, duncanjwitham said:

I'm sure 45 minutes of Roberts crossing in for him to head it, and Cashin lumping big diagonals up to him will more than convince Warne to keep him on...

Which means Bird and Hourihane need to get the ball from the defenders and turn round and face the opposition instead of their first pass being a back pass to the defence 

For what it’s worth I wouldn’t have been keeping Davies out of the side as he is our best defender what was his last start - West Ham in the cup? He needs to play regularly not in fits and starts appearances - I have no idea if he will be more vulnerable with 3 at the back.

                      Wildsmith

Rooney.  Davies.   Forsyth. Roberts 

Mendiz.   Smith.    Knight     Barkhauzen    

                 McGoldrick Collins 

you could swap collins for any of Dobbin Sibley if you like