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Said it before and will say it again, you’re taking us through to the end of the season, unbeaten!! And in true b4 style.

Very decent win tonight. Thought Lincoln were decent at times. Moved the ball well, tough game but also one that played into our hands as Lincoln weren’t spoiling the game (unlike Wycombe). Professional performance result never really in doubt after Wilson goal. Keep thinking Hourihane should be dropped but he’s one of the few (possibly the only) player in league 1 who could score that goal, he’s not had many chances like that, technically outstanding. Like his leadership but with Tommo now coming back then he’s potentially droppable - if Fornah is performing which he didn’t necessarily tonight. Foz I’ve been critical recently but no issues tonight although pleased Elder is back to keep him honest. Ward cannot play in a back 4, he can’t defend - it wasn’t a pen last week although it was poor defending, this week it was a stonewall. His crossing was straight to the keeper. Wilson made a huge difference when he came on. Wasn’t Mendez’s night tonight but thought Barkhuizen was a threat. Collo did little tonight and was really quiet, until brilliance from Kane found him and he scored with an excellent finish. Delighted for him, so many times he’s run his heart out for little reward. The centre halves were excellent once again, Cash outstanding defending to prevent a goal, Curtis Nelson is a league one Igor!! Class! Big result tonight with tricky games over Christmas, the acid test for us ahead of the January window.

Derby 2 Lincoln 0 Mendez-Laing FRGS

If anyone still subscribes to The Athletic and they want any negative gossip (the truth) about the red dogs suggest they read the article their resident award winning journo has done. I haven’t read it but seen snippets on Twitter and various Twitter comments. Makes for interesting reading. Maranakis’ cash has helped get them promoted, his chaotic running of the club (which we know has been the case for years) will destroy everything.

Forest following a similar trend to Leeds here (only Leeds played better football). They twisted and got rid of Bielsa, probably wrong decision. Forest will be fine this season, but next season will be tougher with the three coming up. Personally I hope this is the return of the Maranakis revolving door for Managers. Nuno to the end of the season, Glasner until October, Jesse Marsch until March by which time they’re adrift of Safety which means the inevitable call to Big Sam who then everyone realises is a busted flush, relegation, Big Sam sacked with 2 games to go, before Sabri Lamouchi is welcomed back like an old friend for the rebuild.

I’ve had a season ticket since pride park opened in 1997 (apart from a 4 year stint when I was at uni). I genuinely had no idea we even had a clock!! You learn something new every day! 🤣

Not based on most of the decisions/non decisions we’ve seen this season and not as bad as the two Wycombe ones that went unpunished, he was stretching due to a bad touch but didn’t go into the tackle with any real velocity, letter of the law yellow but common sense not to give it in first 15 mins of the game. It wasn’t as bad as the Hourihane one (although I don’t think that was a red contrary to what some are saying). Even allowing NML she didn’t need to give the Sibs Collo and Leahy ones, if that first half hour had been NML Bird Hourihane in the book plus the two bad Wycombe ones she didn’t punish the ref would’ve been about right. Your point was she reffed the game well, fair enough that’s your opinion. I thought the ref was poor setting the tone with the ridiculous Sibley yellow, ending with bottling a Vokes sending off (which the ref created giving him the same nonsensical yellow as Sibs) and the extremely soft penalty. If this ref is the best then we’re doomed. The ref along with Wycombe antics spoiled the game,we weren’t good enough yesterday to try and overcome it, type of game you try and just get out of with a 1-0 which unfortunately we couldn’t quite manage. Hopefully we can be back on it for Lincoln

This isn’t good. Coupled with the fact they’ve shut the c*** pitt multi-storey car park losing 800 spaces, makes parking around canal st Siddals rd impossible especially with Christmas shoppers, having to park in Darwin Place now which is further away.

Yes agree

Yes she was really poor, as poor as the usual tripe we get. Way below the standards she set when she’s previously reffed us. Been on here saying she was the best ref we had last season. She dished out 6 yellow cards in the first half hour!! And it wasn’t a dirty game! There’s no going back from that. The Sibley one was a joke. The NML wasn’t a yellow in my view,strikers tackle if you give one like that you give it later in the game not so early. She didn’t need to give the yellows to leahy and Collo, she didn’t give yellows twice in first half to Wycombe players when she should’ve done for bad tackles, once when she played advantage (rightly despite the boos) and should’ve gone back to book the Wycombe player. Bird Hourihane decisions spot on, penalty is a debatable one, soft decision but down to interpretation so some blame there but not much, and then what about where she accidentally blocked the Derby attack and gave Wycombe the f****** ball on the restart!! 🤬 The really big calls she might have got just about right but her management of the game was hopeless!!

Very angry and frustrated tonight!! Genuinely thought we’d done it with a scrappy 1-0 when not at our best playing a team of anti-footballers, then the penalty, right in front of me, absolutely no way in my view, she looked at the Lino who didn’t give then pointed to the spot anyway. I agree with those saying it’s a 2023 penalty but I’d also say it’s one that VAR would give one week then not give it the next. It was extremely soft but then poor defending from Ward and not for the first time today. As for Rebecca Welch, this is the third time she’s reffed us. She was excellent the first time, good the second, horrendous today. Managed the game really poorly making a rod for her own back with those early nonsensical yellow cards for Sibley and Mendez-Laing. The Collins Leahy (who is a proper Bamford by the way) handbags could’ve avoided 2 bookings easily, there were two challenges after then on Derby players which were stonewall yellow cards not given, ironically when the crowd shouted you don’t know what you’re doing after the Bird yellow, that decision was spot on, it was the poor decisions prior that contributed to ruining the game. The only time she was consistent was booking vokes for the same offence as Sibley, which then left her a problem when he booted a Derby player in the face, she could’ve easily sent Vokes off for two bookings but that would’ve been a bad call IMO. Genuinely thought she was a class act but take it all back after today, she’s as useless as the usual rabble of officials we get week in week out at this level. Definitely no worse, we’ve had worse refs this season. Thought we tried to play today but the players weren’t quite at it. Wildsmith Cashin Ward Hourihane Sibley all below par. Ward I thought really struggled and I’m surprised he stayed on. Still unbeaten in 6, we were never going to win 10-12 in a row which we would need to do to get the results we want over Christmas and New Year where maximum points will be really useful to us. A win on Thursday sets us up nicely for some tricky Christmas fixtures.

Forest following a similar trend to Leeds here (only Leeds played better football). They twisted and got rid of Bielsa, probably wrong decision. Forest will be fine this season, but then unless they improve significantly next season will be vulnerable. Would fancy Leicester or even Ipswich to beat this lot right now

Derby 3 Wycombe 0 - FRGS Sibley

Because we’ve spent the first few months of the season bedding in new players and dealing with injuries obviously 🙄😜. We usually time our good run this time of year, need to avoid the February decline which given we have more options this year and we’re going to strengthen in January gives us a great chance. It’s not where you are now it’s the end of the season that counts.

We know how Bolton play, lots of passing from the back building through the thirds. I think Pompey play a very similar style to us. A bit more direct and lots of pressing and energy. Very even game although that is miss of the season from Dion Charles

Getting stabbed might have had something to do with it. Never the same player after that. Dread to think the impact that episode would’ve had on his mental health.

Always remember journey back after the playoff final. The Villa fans were decent, good banter before the game also. Much prefer them to the bluenoses.

Some pace being set right now. Based on PPG extrapolated over 46 games Pompey - 102 Bolton - 100 Peterborough 87 Derby - 87 Oxford - 87 Stevenage - 85 Barnsley - 82 It won’t stay quite like this but can definitely see high number of points being needed for top 6. Top 7 are way better than the rest, can see Blackpool joining the party maybe Stevenage falling away but who knows. Wigan could still come from the pack but they’re giving themselves a lot to do. Going to be wide open and we have as good a chance as anyone.

Villa have gone from strength to strength with their ownership and some luck (Sheff United game on Covid restart), we would’ve most likely been relegated with Mel at the helm. Let’s get it right, Villa are a massive club, they belong at the top table. Makes me laugh that the red dogs think they are equivalent. They are not even close.

Honestly to hear their self entitled b******* today. Wetting themselves about Friday night at their (self proclaimed) world famous city ground with Mull of Kintyre played at the right time. They drew with Wolves, their expensive summer signings all benched or not in the squad, including that Sangare who was supposedly the player who was going to take them to the next level. Toffolo coming out and saying how today proves the whole club is United from the owner down - the biggest load b******* I’ve ever heard. They are a f****** mess. But they’ll probably survive and cooper genuinely is probably their best chance.

Strange game today. Thought we were poor at times, careless on the ball careless in attacking areas wasting good situations. Collins should’ve had 2 before half time. Sibley’s goal was exceptional and he was the bright spark for me in the first half. The red card changed it and in the end we won comfortably but there were times in the second half where we lacked control and made it difficult. Orient are not bad, try to play photos stuff and caused us problems but exactly as their podcast guy said on RD, not ruthless in both boxes, that was the main difference. All our goals were good and we got a 3-0 without playing especially well. It feels like something is building. The turnaround since Stevenage has been amazing and full credit must go to Warne and his staff. We now have two very winnable home games before potentially some season defining Christmas games. Even if it doesn’t go our way we will enter January in the promotion mix which gives us a great chance to strengthen. Looking forward to Thommo coming back and sounds like the manager is as well, think he’ll really improve us in midfield. B4’s sister is taking us all the way to the end of the season on the match threads!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🐏🐏🐏🐏

Sure we’re not going to be able to splash the cash but look at Luton. They’ve done it with a clear strategy and everyone in the club aligned to the goal. The best Derby side of the last 20 years had one of the lowest wage bills in the championship, Nigel Clough built it over 5 years supplemented by academy players. Looks like we’ve got some serious talent coming through again. The key will be that one or two season window we have an opportunity we have to take it, we didn’t in 2014 and it cost us dearly. The target needs to be putting ourselves in the frame for a premier league promotion push within the next 3-5 years

Leyton Orient 0 Derby 2 - Mendez-Laing FRGS

Maranakis and cooper (and Jon Moss) are the reason they are in the premier league. Maranakis is equally capable of dismantling everything they’ve done. They’ve got there through splashing the cash, getting a good manager and a few enormous slices of luck. They didn’t do it by having a strategy and being well run for all their PR. Had they not got up players would’ve been sold for FFP, and Maranakis was rumoured to have been getting frustrated at the financial restrictions in the EFL and considering selling the club. It is impossible for a club ran so chaotically to have sustained success. But look at Olympiakos, yes - lots of success but they’ve always been one of the biggest clubs in Greece and now they’re not doing so well. I still think they’ll survive this season (to go down this season with the money they’ve spent and Everton’s points deduction would be truly shambolic) but i hope this is the start of revolving door of foreign managers with more poor signings and their demise back to the championship in the next 2 years.

The bits of the match I watched, my god they were dog s***!!! They’ve been banging on about that sangare who they spunked about £30m on who is the player that will take them to the next level, he looked terrible. That Murillo however will be playing champions league next season - what a player the big clubs have missed a trick there and the red dogs will make a tidy profit. Rumour is chairman wants top 10 this season 🤣🤣. I’m hoping this is where Maranakis blows it all up with his unrealistic ambitions. Sticking with cooper is probably best thing they can do right now they’ll get better and finish about 12th, 13th. They could change manager and either finish in the same position or end up in a relegation battle they should be nowhere near this season.