Steve Buckley’s Dog

That’s good then. For a moment I was worried that they hadn’t received this richly deserved payment. 

I can’t understand why they don’t use Stearman in the u21s - an old head to guide and coach on the pitch instead of getting battered absolutely every single week. After all, he isn’t doing a lot else and you never know when you are going to need a squad player like him. However, the morale of the academy seems to be of little concern to our current management from what I am led to believe so perhaps this isn’t a surprise. Still seems logical to me. 

I can’t understand why they don’t use Stearman in the u21s - an old head to guide and coach on the pitch instead of getting battered absolutely every single week. After all, he isn’t doing a lot else and you never know when you are going to need a squad player like him. However, the morale of the academy seems to be of little concern to our current management from what I am led to believe so perhaps this isn’t a surprise. Still seems logical to me. 

If we ever take the lead again I would like to see all 10 of our players go down simultaneously. This seems fine with officials who are happy for this to happen. I would like to see a 5 minute goal celebration followed by one player taking an additional 2 minutes to walk back to our own half. Following this of course, two players could go down with cramp whilst 8 tie their shoe laces. This is proper football. I’m really impressed by the sheer effort being put into time wasting this season. It’s what football is all about and the stuff kids dream about doing. This afternoon on Alvaston Park I can’t wait to see children feign injury just like their heroes. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

If we ever take the lead again I would like to see all 10 of our players go down simultaneously. This seems fine with officials who are happy for this to happen. I would like to see a 5 minute goal celebration followed by one player taking an additional 2 minutes to walk back to our own half. Following this of course, two players could go down with cramp whilst 8 tie their shoe laces. This is proper football. I’m really impressed by the sheer effort being put into time wasting this season. It’s what football is all about and the stuff kids dream about doing. This afternoon on Alvaston Park I can’t wait to see children feign injury just like their heroes. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

If we ever take the lead again I would like to see all 10 of our players go down simultaneously. This seems fine with officials who are happy for this to happen. I would like to see a 5 minute goal celebration followed by one player taking an additional 2 minutes to walk back to our own half. Following this of course, two players could go down with cramp whilst 8 tie their shoe laces. This is proper football. I’m really impressed by the sheer effort being put into time wasting this season. It’s what football is all about and the stuff kids dream about doing. This afternoon on Alvaston Park I can’t wait to see children feign injury just like their heroes. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

That’s good then. For a moment I was worried that they hadn’t received this richly deserved payment. 

If we ever take the lead again I would like to see all 10 of our players go down simultaneously. This seems fine with officials who are happy for this to happen. I would like to see a 5 minute goal celebration followed by one player taking an additional 2 minutes to walk back to our own half. Following this of course, two players could go down with cramp whilst 8 tie their shoe laces. This is proper football. I’m really impressed by the sheer effort being put into time wasting this season. It’s what football is all about and the stuff kids dream about doing. This afternoon on Alvaston Park I can’t wait to see children feign injury just like their heroes. 

That’s good then. For a moment I was worried that they hadn’t received this richly deserved payment. 

That’s good then. For a moment I was worried that they hadn’t received this richly deserved payment. 

That’s good then. For a moment I was worried that they hadn’t received this richly deserved payment. 

If we ever take the lead again I would like to see all 10 of our players go down simultaneously. This seems fine with officials who are happy for this to happen. I would like to see a 5 minute goal celebration followed by one player taking an additional 2 minutes to walk back to our own half. Following this of course, two players could go down with cramp whilst 8 tie their shoe laces. This is proper football. I’m really impressed by the sheer effort being put into time wasting this season. It’s what football is all about and the stuff kids dream about doing. This afternoon on Alvaston Park I can’t wait to see children feign injury just like their heroes. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

We had a goal wrongly disallowed. We were in all likelihood beaten by the better team. But surely as true football fans we can offer our best wishes to their  players who simultaneously and coincidentally suffered such serious injuries that neither will likely play again. My best wishes go to their families during this difficult time. 

It''s not just the refs though, the tv pundits are as bad. Derby defender waves a leg without making contact and the comment is "he asked the question of the ref" when a penalty is given against us. Then when one of our players goes down under actual contact, they say "there's not enough contact for a penalty".

The challenge from Rooney was the end of a several-yards tussle for the ball with both doing their fair share of wrestling, and Rooney throwing the Ipswich guy off and to the floor. That's all. Possibly frustration on Rooney's part because by then Ipswich had been pulling, shoving and tripping and getting away with it, but with free-kicks given against Derby players at the first opportunity. McGoldrick's hefty challenge was actually a fair challenge and got the ball just after he had been simply charged into with no attempt to play the ball. Sadly the ref saw it as retaliation, and as ever couldn't wait to get the card out. Your two players going down like they had been shot by a sniper just as Derby were getting a hold on the game, and orchestrated by your keeper, was shameful. As was the player who got "injured" on the touchline (Woodhead I believe, so no surprise there), but rolled himself back onto the pitch to stop the game. All hell broke loose because it was blatantly obvious what your lot were up to, with Derby demanding the ref took action, and the ref not having the balls to actually do anything against Ipswich players. Maybe his bung was performance related? Or the aforementioned two players going down injured and should have gone off the pitch before being signalled back on by the ref, but who actually never left the pitch. And one of your players was about to be subbed and left the pitch behind the Derby goal, tearing off his tapes and tie-ups as he went, while signalling to the ref that he was being subbed. But when the subbing didn't happen, he simply came back onto the pitch, without being signalled to by the ref, which is a bookable offence. Did the ref waive a yellow card? Not a chance.
As I said in another response, I can't stand teams who get their success through skulduggery, especially when they good enough to get success by actually playing football. Shame on you.

If Warne picked Sibley as an attacking midfielder our goal threat would be consistently transformed. For once it's not rocket science.

If anything, I suspect there’s a degree of pressure to not be seen to be swayed by the home crowd into making decisions.  So marginal decisions where the crowd goes wild are more likely to go the other way just to demonstrate “neutrality”. And at this level, we’re probably getting a lot of referees who’ve barely ever refereed a game in an atmosphere like Pride Park.

4 at the back, 3 in midfield, 2 up front and Collins aimlessly grazing somewhere? 
COYR - might be his day today! 🐏

Well, we made a good job of it at the start of last season 😂

It’s more midweek matches that some season ticket holders find it hard to get to. I doubt here will be many unused season tickets today. I just wonder about the amount of segregation there is now compared to what there was.