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44 minutes ago, Mick Harford said:

On a similar note, I have a retro Umbro blue check shirt in adults medium that is far too small for me and has never been worn, as well as an old South Africa Puma kit, I cannot afford to post as on dole, but if anyone wants to pick up from Ilkeston then they are going.

Got a few other shirts as well if you know anyone that would like them.

Just message me on here.

Alas I’m a fat foooooking wookie the blue check retro is my favourite shirt

First things first this not a scam. Long time member - used to be a moderator - drifted away now slowly getting drawn back in.

In a story too long to tell I have a spare YL (youth Large?) away shirt (blue and black check)

Should fit an 8/9 year old.

anybody want it DM me - I should be at the game on Thursday if not I could arrange postage.

just thought there might be someone on here who could do with a little goodwill this time of year.

Rotherham fans (I live there) have been telling me we’ll have the fittest squad in the division by Christmas and we’ll keep going while others can’t.

patience and it will come good

1990 third round away at The Dell.

day off school

Home steward let us in early through home turnstiles (cheaper) and walked around to the best spot in the away end

Oh my god - what a ridiculous thread. We are in league one - a handful of wins from the top two and everywhere fans think it’s not good enough. We have fallen to the first round of the FA cup and tbh i don’t think any match is a given in this league. The bookies made us favourites to go up based on nothing. 
 

we are not entitled to win matches and that won’t change. We have to earn them. Investment isn’t going to come and I don’t want it. Investors want returns on their money. 

24 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

so you don't think that playing all his games against opposition he is almost always expected to beat will muddy the outcome somewhat?

It’s amazing when faced with stats people always spin to say why they don’t suit there argument. 
 

it’s all a game of yeah but no but yeah but. 

Just now, Andicis said:

Equally, would we be a stable club if fans stop attending pride park in their droves and the players stop playing for the manager?

 Neither of those have happened in my recent memory

1 minute ago, RoyMac5 said:

Whilst we all have a perspective on football, for some people it's very important indeed. It's not about entitlement it's about meaning. What do you get out of watching Derby play terrible football and not be very good?

I get hope that we might win, a day out with my family and generally a day away from my actual problems.

We are not playing terrible football every match - it’s just not as good as you feel you’re entitled to watch

This in top of what I’ve found out today makes me sick to death of football fans

there’s more to life than football and there’s plenty of young and old people on here and at matches that need a good shot of perspective and a load of entitlement removed

10 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

Can't just have a quiet few games being part of a team can he? Probably because we're going for promotion and the pressure is on everyone to perform at the very least at a 6-7 every game, so a run of 5s with an occasional 8 isn't accepted.

Every time he steps onto the pitch it's all eyes on Louie, I can't say I've known many players who's every touch is analysed to such a degree.

He really needs to find a move to a mid table team somewhere who are happy to be plodding along a bit. Perhaps someone in Scotland would be a good fit?

Hes hardly had any games that aren’t quiet.

it’s a derby tradition - jump on one or two good performances, hype up the player to be better than he is. A la Luke Plange - another awesome player who’s found his level at league one.

37 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Except for the lovely pass out wide to Barks (not the only pass to him from Sibs), which resulted in our disallowed goal?

One pass doesn’t make a star player. He runs into dead ends and most often fails to do anything with the ball

The original poster appears to have spelt “bad” wrong and accidentally pit the word good

Sibley just runs with the ball until tackled. He can’t or won’t look up while the ball is at his feet, and as a result he neither shoots nor passes

1 hour ago, oodledoodle said:

Warne said in his interview last night that he had let the players know that they and the coaching staff need to improve if they want success. Why's he allowed to say it but the fans aren't?

That’s his job and to let fans know he’s doing it

We’ll I I enjoyed that tonight

On 16/09/2023 at 18:47, The Last Post said:

The Warne out camp is getting bigger 😁

And they’ll be sharpening pitch forks and lighting torches soon

Hmm I never get many comments on my threads

oh yeah stick in a poll and sit back and watch the arguments

22 hours ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

FFS these poll threads quickly get tiring.

Lets set one up to demand the sacking of the next manager after Warne.

this is why polls exist - click bait and maybe a little bit of “I can’t be the only one”

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

We currently rank 15th for key passes per game, 17th from open play.

17th for total shots, 22nd for shots on target, 21st for shots in open play!

Prior to yesterday, we ranked 14th for expected goals in open play (7th with set pieces - 3 expected).

Aren't the alarm bells ringing yet?

Yet we are 7th for chance completion. Yep chances are being made and we will. Get results

2 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

....yes, and on another day they did go in, which (kind of) made them less likely to go in on this day.

We beat Peterborough essentially because every chance that fell Waghorn's way, he took. That was an anomaly, and as was stated at the time, not something we can rely on happening again.  This followed games against Oxford and Fleetwood where he had also been more clinical than usual.

Normality has since resumed.

We've not got prolific strikers on the books; typically Waghorn, Washington, Collins will need 3-5 'good' (if not more) chances to score 1 goal. Waghorn & Collins missed 'headed sitters' in yesterday's game... but each was their ONLY chance of the match, so what is anyone expecting?

It's almost like we need our strikers to have an 80-100% conversion rate to get anywhere with Warne. Those strikers don't exist in League One. Even McGoldrick missed a few easy headers last season.

If we're only creating 3-4 good chances in a month's worth of football, with known-to-be patchy strikers getting on the end of them, you can't just turn around and say "on another day those chances go in" as an excuse for dropped points - we need to create more chances in the first place!

We create a lot more than 3-4 chances in every game we play. A lot more. 

14 hours ago, RAM1966 said:

Before you slate me, Clough had a talented team, he was too negative, Stevie Mac turned us into an attacking outfit overnight!!!!  That's not the issue with Warne as we were camped in their half for large spells of the game, that said I was bored stiff today, just like Cloughs football. 

I felt like going home at HT, I stayed obviously, the footie got worse not better, we just can not seem to brake teams down that come for a draw!

Stevie Mac part 3 anyone?  The football was never boring, it had us on the edge of our seats............ 

we broke them down just the touches to put in the box weren’t there today.

we beat full backs regularly, got crosses in regularly

3 minutes ago, DRBee said:

Whatever camp you might be in  to say just couldn’t score when we had pressure on  is delusional , there is far more wrong than that.

Not with the chances created that we missed. Chances that on another day would go in.

Sorry but we played decent stuff just couldn’t score when we had pressure on. Get grip, put your big boy pants on and realise that we have no divine right to promotion because we’re Derby County - big club who shouldn’t be in League 1.

I’d wiped Stubbs from my memory

4 minutes ago, Red_ram said:

Honestly don’t think it’ll ever get beaten; it was the perfect storm. But there was immense gallows humour along the way; pretending we scored a goal and just being past the point of caring/worrying and just having a nice day out. Working in leicester,  was explaining the pretending to score thing to a load of leicester fans who I don’t think actually believed me that eventually we’d get most the ground up on their feet pretending we’d scored a goal. Mental. 
 

My hazy memory says it could have been all different if it wasn’t for a great Jo hart save denying us a deserved equaliser at Man City early doors in the season.

Or the disallowed onside goal that would have put us 1-1 against chelsea

4 hours ago, Gaspode said:

Agree entirely - massive piss-take from Red Bull - there may not be a rule that prevents it, but there should be! Completely against the spirit of the competition.....

There should be a rule that teams have to declare when a car is retired and/or any penalty given by stewards after a car is reversed into a garage is served in the next race.

this will also stop extra “tests” where cars are sent out with different set ups to farm data

1 hour ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I could see (and would love to see) them getting race wins but i fear McLaren are in the group of teams who are going to pin hopes on getting the rule changes in 2026 right to mount a title challenge (I think Aston Martin and possibly Alpine, but I'm less convinced about Alpine, are in that group. Then there's the case of Suaber becoming Audi in 2026, with only Ferrari and Mercedes likely to keep up major development in 24 and 25). Actually, i just mainly fear RB are going to dominate until the 2026 rule changes.

 

I think RB may well dominate until adrian retires