DenmarkRam

I was at the game and loved every minute from hitting the Neptune at 0930 and leaving the Brunny about 2030 en route to my hotel where I had another couple before hitting the hay, having been up since 0300.
I've just watched the full 90 plus all the shenanigans on the pitch afterwards. Congratulations, Owen. You didn't melt. You stayed very professional and did a sterling job. Your voice was so chock full of emotion, you could have been forgiven for having a meltdown but you soldiered on. Like a true Ram, fighting till the end. Thank you for your coverage, not just from last Saturday but also from the other 38 games where this expat watched and listened to #RamsTV just outside of Amsterdam. Already looking forward to next season's offerings and hoping I can, again, get over for around 8 of the games.
Ewe Rams!

I'd be amazed if Warne ever signed another contract at Derby. Even within his comfort zone of League One, he's looked extremely stressed & whilst expectations will be tempered upon our return to the Championship, the fanbase will be expecting top half finishes after a season of consolidation. I dont think he'd relish that at all.
Warne has 2 years & 5 months left of his contract which gives both sides ample time to work out if this managerial team has the ability to ultimately progress the club to a playoff push by Year 3. I wouldn't even be thinking of discussing a contract this time next year if we finished in midtable (which for me is the absolute best case scenario for us next term). Contracts are usually given to protect clubs from others poaching but I dont see that ever being an issue with Warne & as thibgs stand, his current contract feels like a bit of a millstone with high potential of a big early payout because things have gone wrong.

As much as Adams transformed us this season, I'm not convinced he's a star player in a top ten Championship team 

This made me 🤣  Sorry about the swear word 🤐
 

Add "bullied by a little brother/cousin as a child" to the list. 😀

And how long do you think said “young manager with new coaching ideas to TRY get us out this league” would have lasted before the mob would be calling for his head? How long would we put up with “well at least were playing attractive football”?

I am not sure I agree with this angle. We certainly have better players than many; but the best ? I think that is debatable. Look at the midfield. The arrival of Adams has made a huge difference but prior to that I reckon or midfield was average. Bird is wonderfully talented but in this league often got out muscled and his skill wasn’t always enough for him to win those battles … so better or just good  ? Hourihan 6 years ago, yes a better player, but our Hourihan ? The one who gets caught napping against athletic sides ? A good player but “better” than the rest ?
The only areas where I think we had demonstrably better players was defence and out wide. We Haven’t got the better strikers and we hadn’t (until Adams) got the best midfield. 
 
Warne had “better” wide players and made best use of them to support our  lack, for much of the season, of a dynamic striker. This leads to a form of football that by necessity involves getting the ball in to danger areas via the wings and making good use of set pieces. All to create the greater number of chances to address those areas where we didn’t have “the best” players.
 
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see one touch midfield interchanges crafting chances with slick passing ; but too many of our players didn’t demonstrate enough of those skills either due to ability, age, or the type of opponent / type of football played in this league. 

As National Front rallies go, there are some piss-poor salute efforts going on there.

Indeed. He also kicked one clearance up in the air and headed one backwards into his own box.
He can drive with the ball and shoots well with his left foot, just needs to work on other things.
 

Never thought we would have a topic on those on this forum, but here we are, we are here because you know what, with Joey Barton wildly posting misogynist content over on X, it's about time they had some praise rather than criticism.
And they deserve it.
https://news.sky.com/story/invincible-all-girl-football-team-goes-whole-season-unbeaten-in-boys-league-13119242
That is some achievement, fair play to them 👏

Rams TV in Tampere. Lovely springtime in Finland, woke this morning to this:
 

Long live Rams TV.
Seen all matches on matches on Rams TV this season - except Shrewsbury away and Exeter (Home) which were the live games this season. 
Today my little danish Rams fan groue will do the warmup two hours before kick off. Shopping done - lots of food and drinks. 
 
For a Ram fan abroad this season has been perfect with all the games on RamsTV.  A lot of bad passes and playing football on the sideline …. LIVE  😎

Long live Rams TV.
Seen all matches on matches on Rams TV this season - except Shrewsbury away and Exeter (Home) which were the live games this season. 
Today my little danish Rams fan groue will do the warmup two hours before kick off. Shopping done - lots of food and drinks. 
 
For a Ram fan abroad this season has been perfect with all the games on RamsTV.  A lot of bad passes and playing football on the sideline …. LIVE  😎

Stykkishólmur reporting in

That would be the ladies, obviously 🥸

Ideal for us then. 

Wasn't going to do it but was awake early, so I thought I would compile a list of the experts from yesterday...

Sure thing Bris, whatever you say 

Pompey fan here, back for a brief visit.. Well done today, a convincing win for you. 
Hopefully our draw at Bolton did you a massive favour. 
Good luck lads, see you all at fratton next season 

Well done on your win and putting things back in your own hands.  I thought we were fortunate at times today, for some reason our early goal seemed to send us in to our shell; Bolton have some decent footballers, who exploited that for the rest of the first half and we were lucky not to go in behind.  Second half a bit more even.
All the best for the run in - as I've said elsewhere I'm hoping we'll both end up in the automatic slots now; but I do think you're probably at the stage where you can't afford any slip ups in the last couple of games.
I've just poured a large glass of red. Enjoy your evenings, Rams.