CapeTownRams

2 hours ago, Ramarena said:

Glad Fozzy got to see a promotion with us. 

Not the one we wanted, out of the Championship. But he’s been a great servant to the club and glad he’s got to enjoy some success!

Surely he’s gotta stay on the coaching staff when he stops playing for us !? I still think he’s got one good season in the Champo left in him. Top man 👍🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

Birdy drinking a beer . 😂 Well done lad. Forever a Ram.

Happy and glad Burton survived 👍👋

Adams still 100% in the 90th minute. Gotta love that guy 👍🐏🐏🐏

Hourihane misses a glorious opportunity 

We need to stay on it for another 15. Rather pedestrian now almost inviting them to nick one.

Come on guys, let’s not spoil the party

🐏🐏🐏

Amazing Posh - Bolton game 

Ref seeing some bizarre ‘freekicks’

1 minute ago, Hoppo said:

Adams goal disallowed for offside. Very close call, looked like the defenders foot kept him on from the replay.

 

Nah/ he was off (unfortunately)

We giving too many opportunities for them to put the ball into our box from freekicks:

Bradley never seems really comfortable on the ball…

11 minutes ago, Charliegeorge1962 said:

irrelevant

Not if Carlisle score and nerves set in…

we need that second 

We need that second whilst we are on top to really calm things down

Posh doing everything to screw us up

U beauty !! 👏👏👏🐏🐏🐏

FFS Bolton score so soon !!!? Nightmare 

35 minutes ago, Geriatram said:

Sadly this will be my last match today. My first was in 1956 as a 13year old, My dad used to take me before that but he stopped going when we went down to the third division north. My mate and I would catch the 12 oclock bus from Melbourne and be the first in the ground. We stood in the Normanton end pigeon loft, I think it was 3 shilling. To this day I remember that team. We were champions in 1957 and I ran onto the pitch after the last match against Southport, Ray Straw scored 37 goals that season, The next ten years saw me start work, get married and have two children, I had moved to Derby, and after my family, the Rams were the most important thing in my life I never missed a home game in those ten years even though we were only an average second division side. And then in 1966 after England won the world cup my mate and I decided to have a season ticket, Little did we know what would happen that season, I was at work one day and a Rams supporting work mate told me we had signed a player from Bradford Park Avenue, his name was Kevin Hector I'd never heard of him but he was without doubt the most wonderful footballer to grace the Baseball Ground I had ever seen, and because of this we wanted to see more players like him which led to Tim Ward getting the sack and BC becoming Manager, what followed was ten years of unbelievable success and enjoyment. And then things started to go wrong off and on the pitch and I stopped being a season ticket holder during Peter Taylors time as manager, i still loved The Rams of course and when I turned 65 and retired my old mate from Melbourne and I bought season tickets again. But sadly covid left my best friend of 80 years with a dementia problem and he know no longer knows me. For the last two seasons I have been going alone to the match but its just not the same for me. Therefore I am calling it a day, as I write this I am welling up as I will do this afternoon. Thank you Derby County for every thing I will love you till I die.     

Fantastic and heart warming.

Derby County thanks you for your life-long loyalty. All the very best 

🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

Come on you Rams !🐏 

Let’s do this. No complacency.

🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

(Nervous as hell 😳)

Remember:

WE ARE DERBY 

🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

28 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

Nelson has been solid in tier 3 but got relegated, last time in the Championship . Showing what a big step up it is . Gayle was the desperation signing - his hamstrings have shot it . We have to get quality in , this Summer to give Warne a fighting chance . NML brings no guarantees in the Champ . 

No - Nelson didn’t personally get relegated- his team did. One man cannot save a team.

20 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

As we approach the Carlisle game, I wonder what Warne will say to the players? I'm reminded of this fantastic pre-match speech to his Rotherham team. This is the best of Paul Warne. Expect we'll see it on Saturday:

 

I was expecting ‘we will fight them on the beaches…’

Crikes .😳😎

That’s a good question actually- (without tempting fate at all) , who would we prefer to go up in third if we got the auto second spot….??

Me…. I would like Lincoln to do it…. Failing that Posh cos i love how they play football and always go for it.

BW play nice football but there’s an element of ‘arrogance’ with them that I don’t warm to and Evatt’s whining about a threadbare squad and forward line (when they were able to go out and buy Collins in Jan) has just got on my t*ts.

Bottom line- if we go up this season he’s done his job and congrats and thanks are due.

He will be given at least one full season in the Champo . Bottom line first season is to stay up.

Let’s just get on with it. 

Gonna be interesting on the pitch at the end of the game (irrespective of the  result) as there will be many ‘goodbyes’ to the crowd…. Max leaving, Ebou last game (and possibly no return), lot’s of out of contract players who will know they won’t be offered new deals (Hourihane, Waggy, Smith etc).

Emotional times.

51 minutes ago, TuffLuff said:

Dom Dietrich made a good point some weeks ago about seeing the league outside of a Derby bubble. In that, it becomes very easy to catastrophise everything and put more pressure on situations than what’s needed, it’s fairs to say we’ve been guilty of that in recent seasons.

Like now, we think Bolton could go for it on Saturday but realistically can they afford to do it over 90 minutes risking injury to players? If they need 2-3 goals they can’t see what’s happening in our game and try and manage from that perspective either.

Weirdly Ferguson has put Evatt in a more awkward situation than if they tried to win last night in my opinion too.

It will depend what’s happening in our game I guess. If Carlisle grab a first half goal and lead then it’s gonna get very nervous because Bolton have it in them to beat Posh by three goals if they (Bolton) are ‘on it’ and they know we are losing.

Yes, sure, we should manage not to lose, but this ignores the fact that Carlisle have beaten Bolton and Posh this season. Plus they will really be giving it a go in front of their massive (for them) 2,000 traveling fans.

Not liking all this talk/inference that the job is already effectively done.

Our players have, to my mind, (borne out about interview comments by PW, Waggy etc) switched off in a couple of games recently when the opposition was rated as weak and we thought we could just turn up and win. We cannot afford any complacency at the weekend.

Brannagan from Oxford if they don’t go up 👍👍