Steve Buckley’s Dog

140-3 at halfway. Came and Reece did well again and Haider Ali is going well. No idea what a par score would be. 

3 hours ago, Eoghan1884 said:

Looks like they’re signing Norwood from Barnsley 

Thank God financial fair play is in place. Disney FC. 

11 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Nope. I really can’t put up with more than 60 seconds of his chippy humour. I will also restrict my considered comments to what is delivered on the pitch. Warne failed last season, his words as much as mine, hopefully he doesn’t fail this one. I actually don’t think he will, but I know I will always be a long way from sharing his vision as to how football is played. Up the Rams!

I think you are cutting your nose off to spite your face; there is a very good chance he might get his guitar out to accompany his pithy one liners. 

6 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

Have seen many fans of other clubs having meltdowns about recruitment and heard radio discussions about the tough market this year. Also just saw tweet below from Blades fan. Its tough out there

https://twitter.com/p51mys/status/1685675623002312704?s=46&t=sk42RYQEb_Tm-nCLhuvi0w

I am presuming they’ll be outbidding us for Waghorn then. 

At least the rule changes have been made clear in time for Lincoln to work on it in pre-season training. Does it mention anything about telling goalkeepers to fall over so you can have an impromptu team meeting? Is that still allowed? Are players still allowed to simultaneously have cramp? Is that still allowed? Is the rule about two players being allowed to have pretend injuries at the same time still allowed? What about players holding their head pretending they are on the verge of unconsciousness to only receive treatment on their ankle? Is that still allowed?
 

Nothing will change until these cheats get red cards - another minute of extra time won’t change anything, unless it’s us of course, in which case we will be letting goals in in the 100th minute on a regular basis 😂

7 hours ago, angieram said:

It actually sounds quite positive in terms of playing a wider variety of opposition and a knockout tournament if you qualify.

I'm sure it's the bigger clubs who want it so they can play younger players without fear of the ignominity of relegation. Their correct age group players are usually all out on loan! 

But it will help us as we rebuild, although it's difficult to finish any worse than bottom. 

Well, being Derby County I am sure we could give it a good go! 😂

This thread has descended into the worst eleven as far as I can tell. I will certainly nominate warren barton for being a useless p**** with the passion and desire of an impotent monk. My memory of him idly walking after John oster as the latter raced through to slot home for Grimsby, on what my failing memory tells me was a Boxing Day match, epitomised everything. Took the money and never gave a toss. p****.

Well, I know who I’m voting for!

 Clever PR from the club. Judging the mood of pessimism after signing Washington, the club have come up with an even worse name to make us think that Washington isn’t so bad after all. Clever.

Thomson out

Shame. Du Plooy out. This is a great effort though. Up to this partnership now 

It’s a shame when it doesn’t work out for a player and he drops down to a smaller club but I wish him all the best. 

Come on, let’s face it, he’s crap. We all know he’s crap. 

However we, and  the whole league, are crap so he might end up being alright. That’s how I will end up viewing it . Welcome to Derby! 

10 hours ago, Foreveram said:

Came across this, we sold over 23,000 in 2015/16, who said Leeds would have sold more.

Apparently someone in Derby bought a phone so all season tickets were free that season, or so I am led to believe.

Too many extras. Take away the no balls and the sixes off the free hits and there wouldn’t have been anything in it it disappointing. Like my beer getting blown over when I went to the toilet. Hugely disappointing! 

Lucas Joao and Ladapo would be the ones I would go for but I have no idea about availability, contract situation, affordability and fitness issues. Those two with a young wildcard should do us but who knows what the situation is.

Superb hitting. If anything guarantees torrential rain, an earthquake and a surprise volcano eruption then it’s that total. Great stuff! 

31 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

100 for du Plooy, doesn't get much better 😀

I was wondering what the weather was going to be like in the next two days. Having just seen Derbyshire’s position, I think we can safely say that it is going to rain! 😂

Anuj Dal on fire. 4 wickets for him now. 189-6 at tea. Good effort by Derbyshire. 

Another great win. Du Plooy in great form. Shout out to the Northants commentary team - I thought they were knowledgeable, fair and complimentary 👍

Classic Derbyshire this performance…except in reverse!! Great stuff. I can’t recall us ever hitting over 30 off an over. Great hitting and great bowling too so far. 

It’s a shame our batting line up is full of our second eleven…

Another 250 would make it interesting. 

Are Yorkshire batting on a different wicket?

3 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Why would they, their average attendance last season was over 20,000 so about the same number of empty seats that we had.

Well, it was meant to be a joke but never mind. However, a quick google check shows a top league crowd of 24k so I think we can assume that a stand or tier, as  Leeds Utd did, could comfortably be closed, and our average attendance was closer to capacity than theirs which it really shouldn’t be.