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This place is full of extremely top qualified coaches that have won everything in the professional game of football and top quality professional football players that have won every division, every cup and every award.
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Super Derby. 🐏
Super Rams. 🐏
I agree with you. I enjoyed the game, we performed well, in a game, that was always going to be a battle and we won the 3 points. Another great week to be a Derby County supporter. 
 
Up The Rams 🐏

I remember when playing Wimbledon in the old First Division was also classed as tough, and often was exactly that, and they were no 'bigger' than Stevenage are now. It was losing to the likes of them regularly that made the idea of a European Super League so appealing to the "big" clubs in the first place.
Recognising that our status earns us no favours in this division isn't something to be ashamed of, it's facing up to the reality which ought to make everyone determined to get out it asap.
 

In the world of Derby Drama the vision is not limited by the laws of Physics or mere Rules 😁

Another tough match ahead, though I'm oddly confident. I think we know what we'll face this time around (yes, we probably should have known first time too!) and I think a midfield, replete with thug obliterator Ebou Adams, should enable us to do the business and do it well. Evans will look to mitigate Bird and Nate and will be content that his CBs will cope with Collo, should he be deemed fit to play. That means his tactics will revolve around getting his players to kick Max Bird a lot, with Nate getting kicked even more, often by multiple players at once.
With Ebou therefore having at least 6 or 7 deserving targets, I'd imagine the urge to throat punch a couple of them will be hard to resist and I'd certainly consider betting Ebou to collect his 4th card in 4 outings. That said, I reckon the ref hates Stevenage even more than I do, so we'll probably also get awarded 4 or 5 penalties to balance things out, with Sonny Bradley notching the last of them with a cheeky Panenka, thereby securing himself a hattrick, the MOTM award, gushing praise from the Rams faithful and a subsequent move to Real Madrid.
So, there you have it. A day that culminates in a comfortable 3 or 4-1 win for the lads and the SS singing songs about Sonny Bradley's c**k. Marvellous! 
COYR

Stupidly think we will win 2/3-0 tomorrow. NML Bird and Adams on fire all players look too good for the level and think if we match Stevenages fight and desire, which has upped recently. We should win.
No wonder NML is on fire just seen if he plays 6 more games for us we will be the club he’s represented the most in his career and needs just 4 goals to beat his record of 20 with Rochdale. 
 
Getting a player settled in can really see them flourish. 

Yeah, I've also heard that when he's good he's special. To be fair, one of the times I saw him was at Wembley Arena - I think you could see The Beatles supported by Jimi Hendrix (with Janis Joplin on backing vocals) there and it would still be underwhelming.

I was just a few weeks shy of 15. Got the train from Utch with about 25 others, flanges and scraves everywhere. It was glorious weather, absolute carnival atmosphere round the town and walking up to the ground. The match itself was dire due to Derby players being hungover (or still drunk) and Carlisle already relegated and not wanting to spoil the party.
On the pitch after for ages, singing and dancing, 2nd title in 3 seasons, best team in the land.......
 

My mum and granny both worked as cooks at the British Midland Hotel, where the team were ensconced under a strict night-time curfew in the days leading up to the final.
Reg Harrison and Jackie Stamps were friends of the family, so naturally the ladies showed them the way out of the kitchens in order for serious 'team building' to take place (probably in the Brunny).

I was born 9 months after my Dad went. Strange that.

As we near the business end of the season, with 14 games to go, the path to automatics is becoming more distinct:
win 11 and we're likely promoted; win 10 and it's very much in the balance; win 9 and it's the playoffs for us. Those 14 games are split 8 home and 6 away:
H Stevenage A Barnsley H Charlton H Port Vale A Bristol Rovers H Reading H Bolton A Northampton H Blackpool A Portsmouth A Wycombe H Orient A Cambridge H Carlisle We used up one life last Saturday by only drawing at home to Shrewsbury. If we want automatic promotion, in this mediocre division draws are effectively defeats unless playing Bolton or Portsmouth.
For this match we need to step it up in home, as we should be hoping/expecting to win 7 out of the 8 remaining home games, and then 4 out of the 6 remaining away games. It isn't quite "must-win" but it very nearly is. Let's hope the crowd gets behind the lads, and the lads give the crowd strong reason to get behind them. Come on you Rams!

He's going inter-railing?

3 massive well earned points, celebrations in the pub after the game well into the night, a full English breakfast and just setting out for the long trip back to Derby , well done to the players, management and every single one of our wonderful fans who made this trip and supported the lads , we all gave everything for our club and it is this level of support that makes away days so special , keep it up everyone , Derby County are on the way back

Some of our defending last night was very impressive and should be appreciated in the same way as good offensive moves. Sadly, it seldom is.

Just seen Boltons next 7 league games include 5 away fixtures. Travelling over 1,100 miles. 
 
Also that from now until after they play us on the 16th of March they’ve to play every Tuesday to catch up on missed games. 
 
They’ve already picked up injuries to their best Defender and best striker Santos and Charles. Could see them getting a bit of a burn out with them fixtures. 
Big few weeks to try build a gap over them. 

I thought that last night's game was almost the perfect away performance. For all those complimenting Exeter on how well they played the ball around, I ask "is that because we let them do so in not dangerous areas?"
For all their possession and 'attractive' football. how many proper saves did Wildsmith have to make, a big fat zero! On the other hand their keeper had to make a few decent saves, in addition to the 3 goals we scored.
Could you imagine the 'moaners' on here had the teams been reversed last night, it would have been a total melt down. Comments like knocking it around with no penetration, got caught 3 times and could have easily been 5.

I've not read your views of the game, but as an Exeter fan I was pleased with the way we played last night. I thought we took the game to you, we looked confident, passed the ball well and carved out some good opportunities to potentially score, without really looking like scoring very often (a few shots on target, hit the post once, but you defended really well and I don't think we 'deserved' to score many).
Overall, it looked to me like a good tactical game between two defensively strong sides who had set up well, just that one side scored 3 goals, pretty much against the run of play (certainly against the run of possession). In other words, it was a very clear 0-0 game if you exclude your goals 😉
I know a load of Derby fans and they've all been saying that you've been flattering to deceive this season, even when you've been winning. But I didn't see a team like that last night, I saw a solid team, great shape when out of possession and players who can hurt teams on the break (which you did). Despite all the stats, I thought you deserved your win. You made it very difficult for us to score and then delivered the goods when you had the chance, albeit your first goal was a good shot but also a bit of a fluke with the bounce it took, taking it over the keeper who had it covered. Oh well, them's the breaks, you make your own luck in football, if you don't buy a ticket you won't win the raffle, etc.
I thought your fans were quieter than last season when there weren't as many of you. Saw you bouncing occasionally and heard you after you scored, but strangely quiet in the second half even though you were 3-0 up, maybe it was the dominance of our possession that strangled your voices? We were quiet too, which is how I know you were quiet 😉
Also weird that you sold 1,350 tickets (I think) but only 1,100 of you turned up - what's that about?
Anyway, I took a small video clip of you lot from our bank opposite your end, but your website wouldn't let me load it up, said the file was too big. Good luck for the rest of the season, I hope you go up in the autos, this season's league is the poorest for a while, if you don't go up this year you'll regret it when you see who is coming down / up from the leagues above / below. 

Listen to Barkers post match interview, We had a plan, Even talking in the hotel leading up to the game, What is this master plan...to let them have the ball and we press, Would we have let a more streetwise team "run us ragged"?...over to you coach.

Great win and nice to be able to relax a bit at the end 👍😎
The talk of Cash coming off for cramp is also great news- but u have to be careful playing again so soon afterwards with cramp as it can easily lead to a hamstring pull or tear. But still good news.
Shout out to Collo- a real trooper.
CBT useless and worrying if indeed it’s down to a tight hamstring. We can’t afford passengers and just so much more annoying with him being our supposed marquee signing…
Adams immense again but three bookings in three games is worrying. We all know that they tend to come with his style of play but he’s gonna have to balance things a bit otherwise he’s gonna quickly get suspended and we really can’t afford that.
Overall a great night. And a big shout for the fans - well done guys 👏👏🐏🐏🐏

For the past twenty years, I've received a Valentine's card from the same secret admirer. So, I was pretty upset when I didn't get one this year.
First my granny dies, now this?

Maybe not 100% accurate if Wiki is to believed:
A story circulated as the basis for the song holds that Marr and Morrissey were listening to BBC Radio 1 when a news report announced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Straight afterwards, BBC disc jockey Steve Wright played the song "I'm Your Man" by pop duo Wham![6] "I remember actually saying, 'What the f*** has this got to do with people's lives?'" Marr recalled. "We hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, we're expected to jump around to 'I'm Your Man'". While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that it was a likely influence on Morrissey's lyrics.[2] The band later commissioned a T-shirt featuring Wright's portrait and the phrase "Hang the DJ!"[7]
"The anecdote might well be true," writes Tony Fletcher in A Light That Never Goes Out, his biography of the Smiths, but he states that "I'm Your Man" had been off the UK pop charts for several months by the time of the Chernobyl disaster and that "Morrissey hardly needed further provocation to attack Wright, whose highly ranked afternoon show treated all popular music as secondary to his madcap party format". (The antagonism was apparently mutual; former Smiths manager Scott Piering says that at a 1985 meeting, Wright and his producer both made clear that they disliked the band's music.)[8] Moreover, the song itself makes no mention of the radio

Sign him up in the summer. Just pay the money.

To win 0-3 with 30% possession shows a ruthless side and that quality outweighs quantity

Little material change at the very top, save for our further improved GD. In any case, it was nice to see us score some goals tonight and while the way we set up did not quite yield the fireworks I was hoping for, I thought we were clinical and for the most part, quite controlled.
What does seem significant, with the top 3 all winning, is that the gap to those below is slowly growing and perhaps we're seeing the league pared down to just 3 real autos candidates. Folk will continue to pour scorn, but I still reckon we can do this though the next 3 games will IMO prove critical.

Tonights attendance 7754 (1163 from Derby)
 
……….well done to one and all. 👍🐏

Happy with that. Makes the 2 points dropped on Saturday a bit easier to swallow. Let's hope for a decent showing on Saturday.