I got two minutes in and had to turn it off. Boo hoo. Maybe if you got 27000 at home you might have a bigger budget. It’s like us bleating on that Man Utd have got more money than us. Apart from the 5 goals and 26 shots created by the referee who didn’t book any of our players for not committing a foul it was pretty much even.
Ain't it Brill being a Ram? And we have laid one of our biggest bogies to bed as well!
people were pointing to Morecombe's run of form, others were pointing out that nearly all of their points in that run were at home, while lurking in the background is our habit of entertaining teams at Pride Park who haven't won away in decades, and giving them all the points! And this time, we didn't!
And first half they held on well and gave us a bit of a game. But only a bit - just two attempts on goal. My son wondered what had happened to Warne's high press, loads of energy type of game. But what a time to break the deadlock! Not so much as a boost for us, but a bitter blow for them. They had almost held out to half time, which is always a good target, especially for a team towards the bottom of the division. And the free kick was really clever - waited while Morecombe set their wall, dropping a hint that Diddzy was going to have a pop, then Collins just shifted the ball a couple of feet sideways to negate all the setting up of the wall! Brilliant!
Warne's "speed it up" call brought instant dividends with the second goal, and Morecombe's heads were gone, obvious by how they trudged back to the halfway line while we were whooping it up! The first penalty was a pretty soft one. Looking from the South Stand it looked possibly like Collins made a bit of a meal of it, but actually the defender kicked his foot quite hard, so it was a peno. The second peno was just stupid defending, and the "to you, to me" between Collins and McGoldrick was lovely! And yes, Knight's drag back to make an ocean of space for the shot was superb.
After a few semi no-shows, Collins had a really good game, and was unlucky several times, and if those pesky team mates didn't keep scoring goals, Dobbin would have been man of the match. He tore Morecombe a new one today, and his overall play is getting better and better. Hint: shooting either side of the goalkeeper might help, young lad, but well done today. You were brilliant! But stand out today was White! I know he only came on after Morecombe were already beaten, but boy doesn't he look good? He was in the middle of loads of good play, was immediately taking charge, taking free kicks and corners. His debut instantly reminded me of Gorgeous George's first match - I have the proud claim to have started the "Sign him up, sign him up" chant all those years ago. We can't sing that this time, but I have got high hopes for him. Hopefully we need to try and get him on loan for next season as well, and then sign him up!
In the end, despite playing a quite attacking game, Morecombe's first aim was to nick a point. They cam to stifle and block us, and were pretty handy with subtle pushes and shoves, but after 20 minutes of getting away with most of it, started to get a bit more blatant. But Derby don't get "roughed up" anymore, we just carry on doing what we do. So once the first goal went in, their game plan was in tatters. And whatever plan they had got for the second half got blown out of the water within ten minutes of the restart. And oooo look! The teams above us keep moving back towards us. Things are looking good! Oh and the ref. Mustn't forget him. The boy done OK in my humble opinion, only missing one card, and generally getting most things right. Oh, and my son put a tenner on a McGoldrick hat-trick, so he done good too!
Well today we played best football I seen in very very long time spacil in the 2nd half they were outstanding and alright yes the first half we had to hang in there and credit to morecambe they match our game plan but like first half we created a number of chances. But I had one little lad behind only a couple seats away he sang with me and tried his best to match me on loudness. I am slowly creating a sing section. And at the end of the game I gave a little lad a fist pump as mark of respect. I dont think she like people getting behind the team. But back on topic I think one on one with the keeping and he was brought down by morecambe player brought the player down. I said to the people near he should have pulled the ball back let fly with a shot. But mins later macgoldick took beaty of free kick pull the ball back and hit it hard and low to far corner and said that what should done first time. And so pleased james collions to score that pently maybe now get firing again score more goals.
Can we catch Plymouth and wednesday hell yes we can and title fight is on.
Come on you rams.
Biley66 got a reaction from Premier ram in I am feeling fed up
Biley66 reacted to Steve Buckley’s Dog in Morecambe (H) Sat 4th Feb
