DesertRam

“La la la, la la, la” ?

COS WE ARE DERBY COUNTY,
mumble mumble mumble.
 

My kid's 23, I'm not that offended.

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I believe the place won s*** est town in the UK five years on the trot.  
 
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Significant stereotyping but I have travelled (and stayed at) the length and bredth of the UK; Peterborough is one of the scummiest places hands down I have visited. And being run down or economically worse off than other parts is not something I tend to score a place down for, there are some wonderful communities where the areas are depressed. I have stayed over a handful of times in hotels on overnights and, as is customory, ventured out in the evening for a meal and pint... to the very few establishements they seem to have. Typically wished I hadn't. Agree with your assessment, it is a place that doesn't seem to have any redeeming features.

Madness really but that’s football. As I walked away from the game with my 9 year old lad ( both of us in our rams shirts) a posh fan made a point of saying ‘Cheating Derby barstools’ I turned round and said something along the lines of grow up my kids with me to get a response of ‘What you want a go’. Really couldn’t believe it and maybe 10 years ago my response would have been very different. We all get frustrated by the game which is why we love it so much but come on. There’s plenty out there who they’d get a response out of, me without my lad prob being one. Suck it up, be a big boy and take the loss. 
 
Onto the game. The less the said the better. As well as McGoldrick and Fozzy did it was Smith for me who was the difference. Constantly trying to play forward and be progressive. I love Bird but at times he could do with sitting down and watching a George Thorne reel. He is too fond of just being the pivot between the CB’s. He is more than capable of receiving the ball on the halft turn and playing forward. He could quite easily have got Stears sent off today. He is technically so good but needs to be more progressive with his passing. But 3 points is a good return and we move onto the next. 
 
COYR ??

just got home, Strange game for me where we had the lions share of the ball, Doing all the things LR is asking but some things we shouldn't...like giving them the ball when a easier ball was on, Sucker punch for their goal, Cross comes in and player ghosts in at the back post...0-1 against 10 men...we've been there before ?
Then we started to revert to type, Playing balls that a simple ball was the better ball, I couldn't see us getting back in the game, Another corner with the same outcome...No, Knight rises like a Salmon that's been stung by an underwater wasp...boom 1-1, Crowd is now up for it, This resonates to the players, I'm happy with a point, The players aint, Ball comes in, And an old head is there...enter Mr McGoldrick, A side foot into the net...and PP explodes, At my age I was whooping it up...thought I was 20 again, The noise from all 4 sides was electric, I even sang which is very unusual for me.
A deserved 3 points, Won by a little craft and an attitude of not giving up, The supporters WERE the 12th man...Boom!  

That might change now we've bagged another couple. When you simply can't get the ball over the line, you will try to hard, so when an opportunity comes your way you are likely to snatch at the shot, so it goes over the bar, wide, or bobbles along the floor to the keeper. We were doing it today, but that monkey may well be off our back now!

Back from the stadium. My brief thoughts.
Bit of a messy game, could have been 2-2 at half time and when they went down to ten men we just totally switched off until the 80th minute. Lots to work for Rosenior to do still.
Having said all that, there is no feeling quite like scoring two very late goals to win a football match. If you could bottle that feeling and sell it you'd be richer than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos combined.
 

Since Covid I’ve only been today and to the Oxford game. It’s remarkable how much better the atmosphere is and I absolutely love it. Long may it continue.

I am a bit worried about Rosenior 's post match interview. Praising Knight .. sounded a bit like a farewell tribute, I hope not. 

Overall we were average at best today but its a sign of a top team to win when not playing well. Coming from behind to win is also a good sign.
Right call from LR to take Collins & Bird off. Previous games Collins has played well overall but today he was off it, ive been pretty disappointed with Bird so far this season, I really thought he would dictate more of the play than he has. Smith played a big part in changing the game.
Without NML it showed we lack options on the bench in attacking areas, we could do with another 2 attacking players in before the transfer window shuts imo.
3 out of 3 wins at home, first time in 25yrs we have done that at the start of the season. Not bad for a new team who is yet to hit its stride. 6 unbeaten overall too.

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Pride Park - the place to be!!!
I had a tooth out yesterday, and felt rough since. I really shouldn't have gone, but had to be there. I felt rough throughout the match, but was really happy to be there.
The first 5 minutes were a bit hairy, especially as we set them up with a couple of sitters. But from then on we were in the ascendency. It was a great match to watch, and Peterborough have an air of wanting the ball, matched with an aggressive approach, along with being rather crude and dirty at times.
At the ned of the first half I knew we could have been 2 or 3 goals up. Peterborough had their chances too, mostly because we set them up, but I was well satisfied with what we had done, bar scoring.
As expected Peterborough came out and kicked on, but I am not so sure that we did our usual lethargic start to the half. The game was fairly even, but we were still the ones creating the opportunities. We went behind to a sloppy goal, and it does seem that a lot of the goals we concede are sloppy, rather than us being carved open by the opposition's gameplay.
But that last 10 minutes were something else! I don't have any idea how Jason Knight climbed so high to head the equalizer, and by then we were all over Peterborough, so the winner was an absolute delight, but no surprise.
Jason Knight was head and shoulders above every one else with a stupendous performance, Dobbin is very exciting, and Sibley played well, as you would expect when played in his best position. The ref appeared to be reasonable, especially booking a player for kicking the ball away - when does that ever happen in the modern game?, but was still more than willing to give Peterborough free-kicks for simply falling over, and on numerous occasions nothing to Derby for players being cleaned out.  Fozzy's headed goal was rightly ruled out because of a tiny little nudge on the defender, but huge pushes and shoves on Derby players went unpunished. As was a complete body check on McGoldrick on the left wing touchline late on the game. If there is no agenda against us this season then there is terrible inconsistency.
Finally - it is brilliant to see virtually the whole stadium acting as one - the anti-EFL song and "Who are you" after we went ahead. Keep it up you Rammies!
Bring n the next match!

Wildsmith one dreadful pass to Peterborough and some hesitation on coming for crosses but we won
knight - MoM scored and could have had 3 headed goals this season 
Stearman - ok
Cashin - he had a poor pass to Peterborough as well but decent overall 
Roberts - did nothing wrong but he has got to be very good to start over Forsyth 
Bird - not great 
hourihane - did well in the last 10 mins but not the previous 80 
Sibley - doing well early on but faded as the game wore on 
Dobbin - I thought he used the ball poorly until he actually got the ball to McGoldrick late on 
Barkhauzen - used the ball very well especially in the first half 
Collins - needs to start Tuesday needs a goal and I can’t remember him getting a shot today as he was coming too deep looking for the ball 
subs - Forsyth- it’s obvious but he gives us an out ball and can and will try to cross to our players he also had a goal disallowed and hit the bar - 
Smith - played well last Tuesday and again today driving us forward late on 
McGoldrick - obviously can’t spend his day running around everywhere but in the right place when it mattered 

Just got back. First ten minutes thought we should have had at least one goal. Knocking it around nicely. Then squeeky bum time with Wildsmith but they didn't take their chances until early second half. Collins desperately needs to score. Confidence will come through scoring. Once he starts he will bag a load. Their goalie had his lucky pants on which saved an almost certain goal. Last ten minutes absolute mental. Bird then McGoldrick = scenes. Noise at end was phenomenal.  Fair play to Peterborough fans who provided good support. Voice gone and am in process of lubricating vocal chords which may take a time! Onwards and upwards. UTR!

He got there because the Posh player was in a heap. He would have struggled to get back otherwise.
I thought JCH and Marriott gave our defenders a hard time today.
Some of our defending was last ditch rather than assured.
Anyway, doesn’t matter now - we won ?

Could’ve easily have gotten dragged into an altercation first half too. Got up, got their man booked. Maturity showing. 

To be fair, their goalie made some very good and sometimes lucky saves and blocks 

Great game and great result. No better way to win a game than late on! We could have been out of sight much earlier, but equally they could have scored from one of those chances that we kept making for them. Rosenoir's substitutes all excellent - sign of a good manager.
 

Must say, unless my eyes were deceiving me, Sibbers was on fire at the start.  He "could" have had a hat trick in the opening 5 mins!... I say "could", and not "should", as he did nowt wrong, from what I saw.  Was just scuppered by jobsworth defending and a little bad luck.
Glad to see him get a full 90 under his belt.
He's maturing nicely, in my book.  

You've got to love Stearman ?