Gee SCREAMER !!

9 minutes ago, DB83 said:

It’s quite incredible when you think about it that we have only won automatic promotion once in 37 years.

Arsenal haven't won automatic promotion ever and have played in the top flight for 105 years despite it.  Houdini bothering b*******. 

5 minutes ago, Shipley Ram said:

I can't believe they are trying s******** the broke city council out of a £750k rent rise to a reasonable market rate when they are paying so much out on crap players. The rent rise on only half a Harry Arter.

The council could just say no out you go then.  We'll build some riverside apartments to offset our deficit and you buy some new land off us at at 50 million quid plus building costs.  Enjoy ground sharing with Mansfield.

21 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

Incredible set of results. Pereborough and Barnsley both losing at home to 2 of worst teams in the league! Bolton game was always tougher, but still great they failed to win. Their form is poor too, whilst we've won 5 out of 6.

Hopefully Portsmouth aren't that up for it now on Tuesday as almost promoted.

Did the job today, albeit we gave them too much ball in the first 20 second half.  Blackett-Taylor showed some quick feet but needs to show for the ball rather than wait.  We also need a bit more movement in the box to support him when he does get away.  Hopefully Wycombe have a nice 2 hrs at Wembley running around after Peterbrough and lose next weekend to set them up nicely for midweek.  

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/portsmouth-fc-signing-yakubu-gave-pompey-goals-and-a-profit/

Remember this fella coming to Derby from Maccabi, then we couldn't get clearance.  Then he wound up at Portsmouth with Arry a few  weeks later.

31 minutes ago, Ram a lamb a ding dong said:

Just asking on behalf of the kids. 

What time should we be at the ground for to see the players arrive?

Desperate to get some of the players for photos/ signatures

TIA

Dave 

I think there is an open training day April 4th if you have no joy.  Think it was one signature from each player on a singular item after training. . 

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/03/derby-county-open-training-session-4th-april-2024

5 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said:

Come to Matlock Bath it’s a bit like Blackpool without the sea. You’ll have the added bonus if the weathers good of sitting in traffic for a few hours and no where to park. 

The joy of sitting at those traffic lights at the turn for Crich and Cromford  at weekends and even more so at bank holidays.  As you sit waiting you get surrounded by revving bikes full of 60yr old blokes who turn into Mad Max for the afternoon and screech off as soon as the light turns Green and leave you sat there as one car makes it through.  Lovely day out spending an hour travelling 1/2 mile. 

54 minutes ago, Bluebazooka said:

League one, what a s*** show of a league it is. It's a tough league to get out of. This is our 7th season in league one, and we spent the prior 4 seasons in league 2. 

Like yourselves we have been proper turned over by owners in the past. 

So it's 11yrs for us in the bottom two leagues. 

Not counting my chicken's, because 3 of the past 5 seasons we've been top of this league and blown it. 

You'll be hard pressed to find a pompey fan that thinks promotion is guaranteed this season. We're only two defeats away from blowing it. 

At least you got an FA cup win and a trip to AC Milan for your misery.  We got Richard Keogh and Tom Lawrence doing the Dukes of Hazard and Wazza looking like a weeble for 6 months..😂 I think we shared the same financial wizardry of Andronikou however. A real treat.

48 minutes ago, Bluebazooka said:

Evening lads. Looking forward to our match next Tuesday. 

Think we'd both be happy with a draw? 

I'm a moderator on a pompey forum and we'd love to read your views on the match. 

Were a friendly bunch, so if you want to exchange views with pompey fans please feel free to register and post on our forum. 

You'll be welcome. 

They'll be a match thread going up after tomorrow's games are done and dusted. 

We look forward to welcoming you. 

Good luck for your remaining games. 

Please register and post your views here 

https://www.thepompey.uk/

 

You should give us the points I think, you don't need em.

Is that bloke from Nottingham who scored against and fired his Robin Hood arrows at the crowd playing.  I think who ever is going should remind him he wasn't that keen to fire arrows when he was wearing a Derby shirt for 8 years.

7 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

I always like to visit the assembly rooms, the eagle centre, duckworth square and the pink coconut....

 

But then I don't think I've actually been out and about in Derby for about 25 years....😉

All in here i'd imagine, even if it's only the pink coconut sign from a distance .  Probably about the right time frame as well.

38 minutes ago, Ram-Alf said:

Not been in the Noah's for years, It was like a zoo in there a mix n match of Derby folk...rammed to the rafters too, The nearest to blood you got was the meat raffle on Friday teatime 😁  

6 minutes ago, ossieram said:

Been in loads of times, normally after a skinfull and because it's between the White Horse and Mcturks kebab house, but never had any trouble. 

I hate that little outdoor bit at the back.  The angriest people in the world are in it.  That being said I've only been in their 2 pints in .  Perhaps the ambiance is better when the terror isn't apparent. 😃

5 minutes ago, ossieram said:

If you like it a bit livelier than standing around discussing hops and real ale, pop into the White Horse opposite the bus station and enjoy the music. They usually have live bands on Friday,  Saturday and Sunday and it's usually aimed at the more mature folk that enjoy Ska or Northern soul.

If you like a bit of Northern Soul, it's a busy weekend in Derby with at least 3 different events taking place.

I'll be at the 102 club on Friargate on Saturday night, £5 entry 7:30 till midnight, but there is also one at the Bluenote on Saddlergate that is free and runs from 4 pm till 10pm and another on Sunday at The Venue that runs from 3pm till 1:30 am and has a all female DJ line up and costs £7.

Please don't stray as far as The Noahs Ark next door though.  I've been in hundreds of different pubs round the UK and in terms of being close to someone ready to jam a pot glass in your face for no reason, it's in my Top 1. 

11 hours ago, Crewton said:

 

Sorry to correct @Gee SCREAMER !! but Pugin designed loads of churches, both in Britain and in Ireland, but he's right to point out St Mary's as a fine example.

It would be remiss not to mention the Joseph Wright of Derby paintings which have a room to themselves at Derby Museum on the Wardwick, as he was one of England's greatest painters and is particularly associated with the Lunar Society and the English Enlightenment. It's also a short walk from there to the Old Bell Hotel, another of Derby's "oldest pub" contestants.

Probably confused.  I think it may have been first gothic revival building

1 hour ago, Blackpoolmad said:

I've been to Derby a few times (non football) and yes, the oldest pub in Derby, I've been in there. Is it also the most haunted pub in Derby too? As for the result, we are the most unpredictable team in the division. We still have an outside chance, but we will have a great time regardless win or lose.

A lot of grave resurrection and dissection went on their as the surgeons used to undertake training in Amen Alley just next door a few hundred years back.  Runs by the side of the Cathedral.  Jorrocks down the road at the bottom of Irongate is very haunted.  They had a skull behind the bar for years that was dug up in the cellar.  It was a regular for the Jacobites just before it went tits up as they headed out of Derby and I believe someone broke their standard just outside in a bit of drunken revelry which was deemed a bad omen.  Most definitely a Derby pub however, so probably not the best choice before or after match.

Cathedral is actually quite nice and is the second largest church tower in England, but not quite York Minster.  Bess of Hardwicks tomb is in there.  St Marys church just up the road was Pugin designed, the only church he ever designed  and it does actually look like the Houses of Parliament. 

1 hour ago, Rampant said:

Oh great. Poland through to stink the place out again in the finals.

My manager has advised that I won't get on the subs bench for Poland at the Euros playing for Birmingham in the championship.  I now have to leave for 6 months rolling into an entire calendar and go and play for Sheff Utd.  I've always given my best though and it is out of my hands and not because I think I'm good enough for Real Madrid . In a years time I'll be struck down by a problem unknown to mankind since the dawn of time but not till you take me on full time or suffer relegation.  

Love and best Wishes Krystian

7 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I understand their annoyance with Forest : Bristol have often had to sell key players to keep within FFP limits and have never tried to use the mitigation that Forest have blatantly used. They don't, however, acknowledge that overspending before you've got the money to balance the books is itself a reckless policy. Their desire though to see teams who lost at the same game they've been playing punished for all eternity is quite nauseating.

The biggest joke of Forest's appeal though is that they're now claiming that not receiving parachute payments put them at a disadvantage. Join the club, nobheads.

They seem to be coming to the conclusion that the promotion bonus situation for a squad they kept adding loans to has really struck the match on this situation.  Mentioned this a while ago that the bonuses were 500k a player back in 2007, so this would have immediately cost 20-25 million at least now based on the amount of players used and on loan to others who still get it.  No attention paid as this was just small fry when spending nearly all your entire budget for the previous 60 years in one season.  

Do you think they'll notice their good friend from Bristol is demanding the Premier League give them another -4 points and is rabidly hoping for their relegation.

8 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Bristol Fan In Peace ain't happy:

I assume he thinks the Sheff Wed aspects were wrong as we stayed up.  Strange individual.  He's become more vocal again the more we stay in second.  There's one on their forum who wants both us and Bolton to stay down as we've 'not been punished enough'.  No mention of Portsmouth so perhaps they're due release.  In the meantime their chairman will sell debt to himself that he owes in share distribution form and fiddle covid losses as they would deffo have sold 30 million quids worth of players in a year to remain compliant. 

2 minutes ago, admira said:

50.

Place of birth: Orebro

Signed for Derby: 1997

First club: BK Forward

Last club: IFK Goteborg

Position: Forward

Full caps: 4

Fun fact: Once had his car window smashed due to a clearance in a Rams reserve game.

Marino Rahmberg

16 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Northampton had two players booked for fouls. They didn't have a single player booked for timewasting. 10 minutes of added time. No bookings for persistent timewasting. Nada 

No wonder Jon Brady was laughing.

The fella sat down on the halfway line chewing gum and grinning for over 2 mins was my favourite.  That being said, I'd love a midfielder to show, pick up the ball quickly from the goalie, and move .  At the minute Wildsmith gets it, does the weird calm down thing with his hand for 5 seconds, then hoofs it straight through or passes it to Cashin who sends it down the wing.  We welcome congestion on tight pitches by doing this over and over.

5 minutes ago, WestKentRam said:

It’s taken me almost two seasons of us being in League One, and ruminating over the last couple of days on what happened in the Northampton game and others we have lost, to finally twig what being in L1 means. Before this I was baffled when people spoke of different types of football being played in different leagues, thinking it shouldn’t matter what style of football you play, whatever league you’re in, as the ‘better’ team will mostly win. Just play your own game and good will conquer evil, as such, but this doesn't seem to always be the case.

In ‘The Numbers Game’ book by Anderson and Sally, a passage about Tony Pullis stuck with me, concerning his tactics as manager of Stoke. In the PL in 10/11 the ball was in play an average of 62.39 minutes. For Stoke, this figure was 58.52 minutes. For Man U, it was 66.58 minutes. So, Stoke had the ball in play for 8 fewer minutes per match than Man U.

Pullis knew Stoke only really had possession when the opposition put the ball out of play, so he maximised this time and worked on set pieces.

Long throws by one Rory Delap were an extension of this, with the time taken to retrieve the ball, gather it in his hands, dry it with a towel, then throw it long, the clock ticking down the whole time.

Of course there are new laws of the game to try to limit such time wasting, with multiball use, the ban on towels, 30 secs off the pitch if a physio used for treatment, more added time used etc.

However, what we have seen in L1 is an attempt to circumnavigate this, with players going down as if seriously injured, the ref stops play, the clock ticks away. As the laws have changed, the feigning of injury seems to be the new time wasting tactic. I recall that in the first 3 minutes of the second half on Saturday, they had players down requiring a stoppage 3 times, and this set the tone for the half.

Then the mascot fiasco at Northampton. Using a mascot to delay giving the ball to our player, then to try and wind them up, just shows what their tactics were. They weren’t to play football, but to waste time and aggravate our players, that worked a treat and culminated with the sending off on Bradley. Job done.

The mascot activity was reported by the media as being hilarious, but I do wonder if in a key game for us at home Rammie kept the ball from being retrieved by the opposition whether the referee and EFL would find it so funny. Should L1 really be such a pantomime?

These things didn’t happen spontaneously or by accident, they were a concerted effort to stop us playing football and to use anti-football to win, and they worked.

Not that I necessarily consider us to be the Man City of L1, but it feels like the cliché of when teams try to play football against MC they come unstuck, however deploying other tactics rather than playing MC at their own game can work.

So… the point of all these ramblings… how can we beat teams who know they can’t beat us playing football, but can beat us by employing the ‘dark arts’?

My suggestions are:

1) There should be a DCFC member of staff specifically tasked during a game with timing how long during a half has been lost to time wasting tactics such as players going down either requiring treatment or not, that seems to be the de facto new method of running the clock down as is employed in particular in the second half of games. This info should be relayed to PW, who, if we are chasing a game, could then put pressure on the 4th official to liaise with the referee so at least a semblance of this decent amount of time is added on before the board is put up.

2) The players need desensitising to being aggravated by opposition wind up and time wasting activities, and leave it to the management staff to deal with this as above. The more they argue with the referee, the more the clock ticks down and they aren’t playing football.

Unless we learn how to deal with such tactics by the ‘lesser’ teams in L1, I feel we are always going to struggle against them as it causes our play to become disjointed and haphazard. It feels like the marginal gains scenario often quoted in sport, and is an aspect we don’t obviously seem to be addressing.

Hopefully this isn’t news to PW and some consideration is being given how to handle these games that aren’t necessarily being won on pure footballing terms.

No. If it was in either league above, the t*** would be sacked.  We should lodge a complaint.

On 27/02/2024 at 21:52, MickD said:

Started with a back 4. Cash at left back  Went to 3 after Nyambe went off. 

You've missed a full stop here.

20 minutes ago, MickD said:

theirs?

Sorry. ?

12 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

Not sure that's likely, or even possible.

Isn't there a deadline, inclusive of appeals, effectively a few days after the season ends (End of May?), to sort it once and for all? 

The final day table may just be asterisked with "Subject to confirmation", with the potential for relegation/survival hanging in the air!

🤷‍♂️

There's always those that got relegated to sue.  I suspect fear of that's behind the appeal.  Less the better. Leicester can use it pay their legal fees.  What a cluster

Can't believe they've appealed.  

If nothing else those points get carried over into a far stronger league next season.  

Clueless

53 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Fornah, Wilson and Washington were 'undisclosed'. Further details revealed nothing was paid upfront, but fees will be due upon certain clauses (promotion, sell-on, etc...)
John-Jules will have cost a loan fee in the form of a wage contribution. This is the same for all loans, although you typically get charged a lump fee on top at Championship level.

Not according to my very close source.  Don't know about Wilson.

My source could not believe we paid Rotherham a fee.

Any information I put on here re ITK is limited but always accurate.  I get to hear all manor of stuff but as soon as you put it on here someone wants to get involved which I can't particularly be arsed with.  Hence I don't bother as a rule.   Take it as you wish.