Addingham Ram

Oh what a day.

Friends up for the weekend. A good walk, great pub lunch in the Yorkshire Dales, then back into Skipton for afternoon beers  watching the Leeds fans crying into their beers.

If Carlsberg made Play Off finals!

From a lifelong Ram exiled in Yorkshire, please please please let Southampton beat Leeds in the play off final tomorrow.

It would absolutely make my day.

2 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

I think Warne said something about six weeks in terms of signings. That was only ten days or so ago.

At the moment it seems to be about identifying targets.

 I am hoping for some exciting surprises rather than just a few from teams who didn’t quite make it up this year.

I’m trying to stay relaxed about it all but that will end when the first corner flag post drops 😊

 

I really hope we are not still identifying targets.

The club have been in the promotion hunt for weeks, so surely the recruitment department have spent the last few weeks discussing with Paul Warne what kind of players he thinks we will need for if we go up.

If we are still identifying targets, then what the hell have they been playing at?

9 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

Looking at some of the names in this article, who remembers the Aussie Pools at this time of year?

My patents used to collect pools coupons from Darley Abbey back in the day when I was a kid.

The pools round got smaller in the summer, when the coupon was full of Aussie games, but we still did a coupon every week.

Do you remember the Spot the Ball coupon?

Apologies if this has been brought up elsewhere, I haven't read every post.

If there are going to be a significant number of lunchtime kick offs (Saturday or Sunday), then why don't the club improve the matchplay experience at the ground and the surrounding areas.

Many posters on here bemoan the food and drink offer available on match days.

I go for a day to watch the Edgbaston test natch every year, and they always bring in some great mobile food offerings and mobile bars. You get the same at some Rugby League stadiums. Surely DCFC should be looking to somehow modernise and improve what is on offer. I bet there are loads of traders that would jump at the chance to trade at Pride Park on a lunchtime match day.

Compared to the Sky money, what the club must currently earn from their food and drink offer must be minimal, so shake it up Derby, try something new.

It might not be the whole answer, but surely worth the club looking into.

Derby 4 Carlisle 0

FRGS Collins

Cambridge 0 Derby 2

FRGS Sibbo

Derby 3 The Orient 0

FRGS Collins

Them 0 Super Derby 3

FRGS NML

56 minutes ago, Norman said:

What am I reading? I know we've all been through some right bottle jobs following Derby, but come on.

Barnsley ruled themselves out yesterday.

Peterborough have a horrifc run of games in 21 days and rely on a high energy game. 

Bolton really struggled to beat a poor Bristol Rovers team and haven't taken any more points than us over the last 5 games - and we've had to navigate Portsmouth, Blackpool, and Bolton themselves in that time.

Wycombe are playing a final this evening....beat them and it leaves 2 home games and Cambridge away. 

Honestly, I can see us winning the next 2, and Bolton drawing against Portsmouth, and it all being all being effectively over. Only 6 days to wait.

Wouldn't that be just lovely jubbly. A stress free final day of the season, not having to smash Simmo's Carlisle, and best of all, the final day fixture of Peterborough vs Bolton being a dead rubber.

Would it be too much to ask for to be able to then sit back and watch Leeds suffer play off heart ache again (remember the last time 😀😀😀) and Forest to be relegated - on the last day losing at Burnley?

8 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Sibley and Wildsmith in particular a bit shaky first half. Which way is the rain blowing? Perhaps may be a factor so the second half will be in our favour.

We're finding a lot of space behind their left back on the counters, so Wilson, Ward and Mendez-Laing will continue to have a lot of joy. Rafferty is also struggling to deal with Blackett-Taylor when he's running at him.

Expect Blackett-Taylor, Collins, Smith and Ward to be withdrawn for Thompson, Waghorn, Collins and Fornah between the 70th and 80th minutes

Collins replacing himself! Crikey. We'd have seen everything then 😀😀😀

Pompey 1 Derby 2 🤞

FRGS Collins.

Derby 3 Blackpool 1

FRGS NML

Northampton 0 Derby 3

FRGS Waggy

29 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

We were the English Champions and  Carlisle were relegated. 

 

Just in case some of the younger supporters might think the above contains a typo here is the important bit again "We were the English Champions"😂

 

Wow. I never realised that Manchester United weren't even in the top flight when we won the league that year!

They ultimately went on to become the biggest club in the world, and we......

Still, the DCFC sun is starting to rise again now.

Derby 3 Bolton 1

FRGS Gayle

COYR 

Derby 3 Reading 1

FRGS Barks

Rovers 1 Rams 3

FRGS Hourihane 

9 minutes ago, Srg said:

No one is ever beating 11 points, and I've long since made peace with that.

The rest of it is just whatever, but Sheffield United are truly horrific. That's 16 goals conceded in their last 3 home games (a record). 3 teams have scored more goals at Bramall Lane this year than they have.

Sheffield United are truly horrific, and their fans are a complete disgrace.

During THAT season I believe our fans were voted Player of the Season. Every game was a sell out, and bizarrely, the longer the season went on, and the more we fell behind the rest of the league, the better the support was at Pride Park. We took the piss out of ourselves, and every set of away fans that turned up. It seems some of our best times as fans have been when we face adversity. Strange bunch us Rams fans.

Last night Brammel Lane was half empty by half time. Tin pot club, with tin pot fans.

37 minutes ago, Srg said:

Think the rule these days is you can stay on the pitch after treatment if it’s resulting from a bookable challenge. 

but yeah, these rules need changing. Can’t use a feigned goalkeeper injury as a team talk time out. Stop players all going over to the sideline like that. 

I've long thought that perhaps the management team should be based away from the touchline, like you sometimes see in Rugby League (I think).

It would stop a lot of the current shenanigans involving managers and indeed the fourth official.

Surely a manager / head coach would also benefit from a decent view up in the stands somewhere.

Derby 3 Port Vale 0

FRGS NML

Derby 3 Charlton 1

FRGS NML

Barnsley 1 Derby 2

FRGS Sibbo.

Derby 3 Stevenage 0

FRGS NML

Exeter 1 Derby 2

FRGS Hourihane