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Very sad news for Josh and his family, the support from his colleagues will be needed at a difficult time like this, sometimes there’s more to life than football. 😔 
Perhaps something could be arranged by fans to show support at the home game? Applause at the 31st min or something?
 

I'm a bit surprised there are no comments on Cash's interview. I thought he spoke really well about their support for Josh Vickers.
That's a lot of responsibility on a young player to come out and articulate how difficult it has been for the players.
He is future captain material,  without a doubt.

Unfortunately, I can't.

A big thank to the Rams fans who took time to fill in Oxfordshire County Council's survey into the public's attitudes to our proposed new stadium. Many fans from all over the country helped out with the survey which we won comfortably. This week the Council's cabinet voted to lease the land to the football club. Now we move on to the planning permission stage with Cherwell District Council before Christmas and we wait for detailed plans to be published.

The 11 point record doesn't bother me. Any football fan you chat to will want to talk about it and listen to stories about it.
One fan I met couldn't believe that I had a season ticket and went to every game. He said after about 10 games he would have stopped going and probably never gone back the next season either.
Its a badge of honour for me among friends who support massive clubs and have seen them play maybe once or twice in the flesh that I kept going and still do.
Worst team in history? Yeah we were. The fans showed they were anything but and we should be eternally proud of that and own it as a club and a fan base.

What the blooming Nora am I reading on here? For one, compared to some games thus season, I thought we carried more pace and threat. 
We also won. Got a clean sheet. Nyambe looks a player. Sibbers was back. Our centre forward got four goals this week. Fornah showed a bit more. Nat had a few blistering runs. 
I've been critical of Warne at times, but for gawds sake let's look at what actually happens with an open mind, rather than decide first and look to find evidence to support our preconceptions.
We won. Florist lost. Get a pint down yer.

I really enjoyed today, so I am coming to the conclusion that the result is everything! 
Can't put my finger on why, but the sun shone, the locals were lovely,  James Collins worked so hard and therefore deserved his two goals.
Saw lots of folks I knew, and also the players get off the bus and get back on the bus, they were honest and friendly. Whatever has happened for Vickers seems to have brought them together. I hope he's okay.
Good to see players improving their match fitness and I was pleased Carlisle had a good go at us because to come out of that with a clean sheet can only help with the defence's confidence. They all played well, particularly Nelson and Nyambe.  One smart Alec asked Joe after the match about the one that went through him and hit the bar and his response was "well, I saved it!"
Our fans were great and seemed to sing louder to keep the team going until Warne put some legs on to tip the game our way (you could have done it a bit earlier, though, Paul!) 
Shout out of the day to the fan who came up the road after the game, grinning at us in our Derby shirts. I thought it strange as he had a Carlisle top on, but he lifted it up to reveal a Derby shirt underneath, saying it was the only way he could get it to the game! I do hope he posts on here because it was genius! 
 

All I can think of is Paul Warne must have been visited by the Ghosts of Derby's past last night after watching that

Players delivering in their natural positions.

Mac2 was skewered by Mel wanting Rowett.

He looks like a good footballer who is a yard or two off the pace of the game. A little like Hourihane. However, one would hope that regular games would improve that. I thought he ran the game from 60 mins to 85 mins.  

I thought he looked like he could be class. Has a trait that seems to be rare in our midfielders and that's dropping deep and showing for the ball. Capable passer with both feet and set pieces looked decent too. To say he was thrown into a chaotic system on Saturday that was showing very few signs of cohesion, I thought he showed some real glimpses of talent. 

Not everything we want given that isn't given is a mistake. The handball claim from the shot in the second half hit his shoulder. Someone on here has a still which proves he wasn't offside.
She is one of the better refs. 
 
 

One positive today was the referee. Thought she was the best we’ve had since being in League One. 

I suppose you could factor in that not all Derby fans are travelling from Derby. I know it’s not going to be a massive amount, and the majority are travelling from Derby to home and away games.
But it is always worth factoring in the minority in all these scenarios like the football club does, because we are a football club that has fans that travel from all parts of the UK and from all parts of the world.
So people might be able to make away games instead of home games because they might be nearer to their home of residence eg Carlisle away for myself, keeping travel costs down etc.
Even though I’m in a minority, we are still an important minority, and the fact we all follow Derby over land and sea, and some of us are just a minority, we are Derby County and we are fkn massive!!!!

Death by passing to our own guys beats death by passing to their guys.
LR wasn't amazing but you could see what they were trying to be and they weren't that bad at being it, and LR gets credit for putting the squad together after the admin as well as sticking with the club through the admin and it was his first gig as the head coach (OK interim audition period, but he was doing the job until he wasn't).
 

Another great performance by this ref at pride park.
Not being sarcastic.
I moan about refs often enough so credit where due

I thought she was good. If their goal was offside, then she was let down by the assistant ref.

I thought she was good. If their goal was offside, then she was let down by the assistant ref.

The matchday thread makes me laugh… 
we score and its ei ei ei ei o , thunderbirds are go etc 
we concede and its warne out, mel out , tits out
Zero middle ground
did someone say pompy are 17 unbeaten?
we played crap and should have taken the 3 points 
the playing crap is obviously a concern as is ball retention 

Fornah surely has to come off or he'll be sent off pretty quickly in the second half.
Which gives us a chance to change it up. Bring Sibley on and change it around (maybe 4 at the back, Nelson moving to right back and Smith as the lone defensive midfielder).

Match seat for me today…If your hammock don’t swing in the Med’, you’re a Red 😲

I’m in Sicily for this one. Any refereeing like that we saw at Bolton and I may be ordering some horses’ heads from my local friends, carpiche? 

At last football is back, can not wait, Merlin at 12, a few pints and a bite to eat, get to the ground around 2.30PM, head up to my seat in the east stand, and watch a Derby victory, then my weekend would be complete, got a good feeling for tomorr, Pompey to lose there first game of the season. 

Looking forward to this after a pretty crap week. Was in two minds about attending following a family bereavement, but hoping to be distracted in a good way for a couple of hours. UTRs.