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17 minutes ago, Topram said:

Properly get pelters for this as 80% seem to have made their mind up over Warne, but anyone else just had enough with the constant negativity towards the players and staff? It’s relentless.

Even after last nights win I’m seeing people try and twist it negatively, overall last night we played faster tempo had chances and won end off, so why the negativity?

Warnes come out and said last night about blocking outside noise out, really think knocking them will help? It’ll only make it worse, 5 in 11 for Collins decent return, what’s booing him and giving him stick going to do? Why can’t we get behind them? We’re in league 1 we won’t have world beaters that will do everything so perfectly. 
 

1 defeat in 10 due to some terrible refereeing it’s not anywhere near as bad as people are making out, it’s as if we’ve won 1 in 10.

I can be as negative as anyone and as annoyed as anyone when we drop points etc but it’s the bigger picture move on we go again, It’s not an easy league like people expect, Sunderland sheff united Ipswich Bolton etc all got stuck for time, and probably only Bolton started in a worse rebuild situation as us… 

it’s absolutely draining all the constant ‘get him gone’ ‘whose next’ ‘he’s just a P.E teacher’ I’ve missed 1 away game and 1 home and it’s honestly making me not want to go, Blackpool people singing ‘warne your football is sh*t’ then 5 minutes later singing his name, honestly think if people stop over reacting and seemingly wanting Warne to fail we could get out of this league this year. Rant over roll on the draining stick that’ll come…

Fans at games should get behind the team. But we are allowed to have an opinion and mine is that Warne should not be the Derby manager. 

Sibley a good finisher. Starting is his problem.

5 hours ago, Ellafella said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/10/prize-money-and-player-development-why-the-efl-trophy-is-on-the-rise?CMP=share_btn_link

 

Clubs like it because the prize money, in addition to a £20,000 participation fee, brings £10,000 per victory and £5,000 per draw in the group stage, with the figures for a win rising through the rounds to £100,000 for winning the final.Bradford City see the benefits of the competition. “We struggle in the early rounds but the crowds have been higher in recent years,” their chief executive, Ryan Sparks, says. “We have been clear that we will name better teams and take the competition seriously but they are still low four figures.

Wow! Big bucks. Not. 

11 hours ago, Eaststander7 said:

Amazing then we can demand he’s sacked if he doesn’t win his first 10 games 5-0 playing champagne football.  We could then have another round of polls??? 
I’m so excited I can’t sleep!! 

He didn’t even get us into the playoffs last season. We have 5 pints out of 15 at home. The international break is a good time to make the change. 

1 hour ago, richinspain said:

It's Clement.

It is now, except in Scotland where it is inclement. 

2 minutes ago, Marriot Ram99 said:

I remember when we used to call him Useless Eustace in 2009 haha, wonder how many games he will have to lose fot him to get his old nickname back 🤔

Better than worn out. 

Bring John Eustace in. 

3 hours ago, Yoxoram said:

We've got a manager and much to the disappointment of some, he's going nowhere.

He is certainly taking us nowhere. 

On 05/10/2023 at 22:26, Eddie said:

Barely watchable telly:

Wilderness (Amazon Prime Video).

If you took six very average things (the episodes) and averaged them out, this is what you'd get. Cliched, hackneyed drama.

Stefan Schnoor / 10. Leffe Blond.

Gave up after one episode. As you say so cliched. 

5 minutes ago, Ramzabac said:

Nope..slept on it and I am still furious about yesterday’s match. I rarely comment on this forum, but I enjoy the comments and banter. Living just outside Cheltenham, this game is a bit special for us, with some of us living within walking distance of Whaddon Road and rarely being able to get tickets for away games. So we had 6 seats in the Cheltenham fans. 

Furious, because for the first 20 minutes of the second half Max Bird ran the game from central midfield and we had Cheltenham on the ropes. Then inexplicably Bird gets moved forward to the number 10 role to accommodate the ineffective Hourihane. After that we should still have won it against such poor opposition, but to move Bird was tactically inept and made us less effective.

It's not as if we had anyone else who could have played in the No 10 role. Sonny Bradley might have perhaps and could maybe have scored from a corner. 

8 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

In my professional environment I behave very differently from what I do on this forum as you might expect. This after all, is an ultimately anonymous social setting where we can be combative. We are not acting in a professional capacity representing the club or arguably fighting for our job. If the manager can't give an adequate explanation as to why he's not playing one of our best attacking players that is a cause for concern. If he can't field a simple tactical question without his back getting up that also makes me wonder is he like this if his players disagree? If so, how does that make them feel? I would say when Warne gets questions asking about tactics and selections he gets more prickly than a lot of other managers we've had tbh in their post-match pressers from what I remember. 

I haven't heard his Radio Derby interview. But even with his The Rams TV interviews, where as you would expect the questions are a lot softer, his answers worry me. Happy with the performance but not with the result? He seems completely disconnected from the fans.. almost all of whom are not happy either with performances or results. 

5 minutes ago, strawhillram said:

Warne couldn’t motivate a P1ss up in a brothel 

I think you are mixing up your vices there. But maybe you are right knowing Warne he would be trying to score in a brewery and arrange a P1ss up in a brothel. 

8 minutes ago, deanoakaram4life said:

Not good enough today! Barnsley, Oxford, Portsmouth, and Peterborough all win! We are falling behind the pack!

We actually gained a point on the play off places though with Bolton losing. look on the bright side. 

On 05/10/2023 at 13:26, Owen87ITK said:

For the last few weeks, Derby have played a back five out of possession. That was evident on Tuesday at Blackpool - Kane Wilson was dropping in to RWB, while Nyambe shifted across to play on the right of the three central defenders.

Wilson isn’t good enough defensively to play a proper RB. Mind you he wasn’t so hot  upfield when he missed those chances. 
 

Having 3 CDs as slow as Bradley ( the other one), Nelson and Cashin just didn’t work. 

Second. 

Just now, Anag Ram said:

Ivy Cheltenham for brunch then on to the game.

Marvellous

 

Both will be fully booked. 

23 hours ago, angieram said:

Odd, isn't it? 

We an go to PPS anytime. getting a ticket to an away game is like winning the lottery , especially as we only  seem to win away. 

15 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

If anyone is interested - these are the mentions of Derby in the "Network North" prospectus

Not really sure what this means. I can't count more than 20 stations between Cheltenham and Derby currently so it will be impressive if they somehow open 30 more...

 

Again - not sure what improvements they mean - feels like there has already been a ton of work on the routes they mention (and isn't Magna Park near Coventry?). 

Some big numbers there, but not seeing any of that actually happening. A rapid bus to East Mids Parkway when you can already get there quicker by train - and then it's another bus to the airport anyway - versus massive investment in extended Nottingham's trams and train lines? That just feels like a recipe for prolonged arguments leading to inaction 

I thought was in plan anyway

 

The Ivanhoe Line is planned to go as far as Coalville, hopefully it will be extended now to Leicester. Why don't they extend it the other way, from Burton to the new HS2/ West Coast interchange at Lichfield? Just a thought. 

11 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

Since when were bookies independent 

They are independent of any Derby bias I would think unlike some Rams fans who might think we should walk this League.   

6 hours ago, ossieram said:

Minimum for who?

We were the bookies favourites for promotion before season started. So anything less than top 2 is a failure, based on that independent view.  

Top six was minimum last year. Top two is minimum this year. 

10 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

Interesting map of all the existing and planned high speed rail lines in Europe.

Embarassing

so has HS2 to Birmingham been scrapped too? . I must have missed that bit. And HS1 seems to end up in the Isle of Sheppey. 

1 hour ago, Grumpy Git said:

That is Hansacre junction, where HS2 will connect to the legacy WCML (West Coast Main Line) to Crewe

And still will so that bit will not be wasted. 

1 hour ago, Ellafella said:

Far more appropriate that it’s a minute’s applause with the image of him jigging with the League trophy on the big screen. 

Or biffing Norman. (Also RIP) That would get extra applause. 

39 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

I wonder what would have happened if they had started to build HS2 from Manchester to London instead of the other way around

Would they have cancelled it before it reached London ???

Never mind we will have the Midlands Hub instead. Which won’t help Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Peterborough, Northampton or anywhere in the East Midlands at all. So not much of a hub or the Midlands is it?