TaahnRam

Mate, we also have more than our fair share of morons. Good luck in the playoffs. Think it'll be quite an open one this year with no teams really in great form. Of the 4,Bolton are the best team I've seen at PP this year. 

What's the fans take on Evatt, will he be under pressure if you miss out again? 

2 hours ago, NottsRammy said:

Keep  Nelson, cashin , nyambe, Adams, ward, Wilson 

Out ......Collins, Washington, hourihane, bird , forsyth, Bradley,  

Can go if they want .......elder, Sidley, wildsmith, vickers, gayle, Smith, Thomson, barks, mendez laing ( getting older ) , 

 

We NEED a brand new team !! . Major surgery needed . 

Someone's woke up with a hangover.... 😅. 

Seriously though, I agree there will be quite a lot of ins/outs but feel that Warne will want to keep the core of the team together.

Adams is a must buy.

Imo, I think that also means deals for Collo, Thommo, Sibs, Wildsmith and Smith, possibly even Fozzy if he's happy to play a bit part role. 

Can see Hourihane, Waggy, Barks leaving on frees with fornah and Washington on loans/nominal fees. Don't think we'll see TJJ or Gayle back although I would entertain Gayle if he proved fitness over the summer. 

Get Brown and Robinson out on L1/L2 loans

Great guy, haven't been totally convinced by his management at times but he's got the job done. Is he the right man the take us forward in the championship? Who knows. Quite frankly, at this moment I couldn't care less. Just enjoy everyone COYR. 

2 hours ago, seasider56 said:

Hope you good people make it back .✊

Cheers! A great point tonight could be big come the end of the season. Would love another Blackpool away trip in the near future too. 

How laughable are forests mitigating factors?

Take your points and go quietly. If they appeal and fail they should get battered with another 4 for a frivolous appeal

2 hours ago, Ramfan1958 said:

Shocking performance at home no shot on target in 85 mins .

As s*** as tonight was would it burst your bubble to say we scored with a shot on target in the first half 

1 hour ago, Tamworthram said:

Is his remit to get us promoted within 2 years? I doubt it.

I reckon his remit is aligned to DC’s ambitions - get us promoted and become an established Championship team within 5 years. I doubt there was any deadline on when promotion needs to be achieved but, if there was, I wouldn’t think it was the first two years given we would have restricted by the agreed business plan in all that time.

”Established Championship team” is open to interpretation but I think it probably means, at a minimum, avoid relegation or maybe avoid a serious battle against relegation. So, on that basis, if we were promoted after three seasons and were comfortable in the final season of Warne’s contract, he would have achieved DC’s short term objectives. 
 

Personally, I really don’t see it as black and white as no promotion = the sack. It depends entirely on the nature of our failure to go up this year. At one extreme, if we miss out on 2nd place on goal difference and narrowly lose the play off final then there is no way he would be sacked. Even if we finish as low as 6th and fail to make it through the play offs I wouldn’t be sacking him. 

Agree with the first part here, strong finish to the season but fail to go up and he stays. If we end up finishing 5th,6th that would represent a huge drop off in form which if it ends with the same result would need to lead to huge questions asked given last seasons capitulation too. 

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

The ticket office opens at 10 o’clock, presumably your ticket should still be there and should be able to pick them up.

Worth giving them a ring first though.

Cheers, got it. Needed to take the gamble and get on the train from chesterfield before they opened but paid off in the end. Teach me for refusing to pay £2 postage eh? 

Literally just going to bed and remembered that I forgot to collect my barnsley ticket last weekend. Does anyone know if away collections are possible from PP on an away Matchday? 

I found Collo a frustrating player last season but this year cannot fault either his goalscoring or his all round contribution. Yes he lacks quality at times but always gives absolutely everything which can't sometimes be said of others. Even after scoring the winner yesterday people still bitching about him really beggars belief 

I see this place is as cheerful as ever. Not a good performance against an out of form team, but we've come away with a point. We'd have lost that game last season. On to Reading and Cheltenham with a great chance of 6 points. 

Like others I'm not going to lose any sleep if we get knocked out. However, I think we've got the squad to cope with an extra 3 potential games after this so I don't get the "play the u21s" thing. Mix up the first teamers for sure - Sibley, Fornah, Thommo, Elder etc but no need to make wholesale changes. We played 57 games last season and ran out of steam. If we make the final, by my reckoning that's 55 games this year. Positive noises about Cash and Bird staying hopefully so with a couple of additions I think we'll be much stronger comparatively heading into the 2nd half of the season. 

All over the place defensively, back three doesn't suit any of our CBs or Fozzy at LWB. Shouldn't be changing our style to go to bottom of the league. May well improve but average so far. 

31 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

Not sure where all this crap is coming from the EFL won't let us buy players. I haven't heard that from either the club or the EFL. Only a week or two ago Warne was saying he could use his current budget to pay a £250k fee for a player, but that would limit how many he could bring in from 3 to 2. If Bird or Cashin go, then I suspect it is within Clowes discretion how much might be allocated to Warne, or set aside for other expense related items that keep the club sustainable.

I think in the same interview Warne stated that the business plan figures had been pre-agreed and didn't take into account any additional income received from transfers. So whilst we may now be able to pay fees that we couldn't before we can't reinvest funds from transfers in addition to the agreed budget so we're still looking at frees/nominal fees only. Not ITK but just my understanding of what's been said in public. 

Derby 2 0 Wigan

FGS Collins

Think this team pretty much picks itself given our lack of numbers, only real question mark is over the LWB position for me. Interesting to see whether he plays Thommo who I think has been decent in preseason playing out of position. Personally I'd start with Wilson for the energy, replace with Fozzy if he runs out of steam.

                    Wildsmith

         Nelson   Bradley   Cashin

Ward      Smith.    Hourihane.   Wilson

                          Bird

               NML.        Collins 

Slow start to pre season but think we've looked decent in the last two games. Looking a bit more solid and whilst we're still lacking flair and creativity I'll go Derby 2 - 0.

On a side note re attendance, there are 4 blocks on the east stand (2 lower and 2 upper nearest away fans) which aren't blacked out the same as other areas marked as sold out. Almost like they're unavailable. Seems a bit odd as assume there are sths in those areas. Any one have tickets in there? If so could be a near home sell out by Saturday. 

1st sight of him today, played 45 mins at wing back v Stoke. Looked a bit short of match fitness which isn't surprising given he's been injured. Hopeful he'll be a decent addition. Made a couple of surges forward but wasn't really tested defensively given stoke were shocking. 

20 minutes ago, eddy779h34 said:

Really ?   how many shots did we have apart from the goals  , The wing back helped us get forward a bit but centre midfield  ...no bite  A typical case of the score clouds your thoughts . I am Derby through and through but we looked really good in defence in in the centre of midfield we struggled to control the game in any shape of form 

 

We were 3 nil up and stoke obviously got a rocket at HT, of course the midfield sat deep. Last 15 mins we had 2 retired players and another (waggy) who won't have trained with the team. Are we the finished article? Of course not but this was a big step up from the games so far

1 hour ago, chezzyram said:

Chesterfield won 9-0 at Matlock tonight which should raise expectations for Saturday a bit

Just got back from that one. Chesterfield look a good footballing team albeit Matlock did field some u21 and u19s. Think chesterfield away will be a decent game

Signed a two year deal with Northampton

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5 hours ago, Alan Ramage 4 EVA said:

Mucky duck former White Swan

Recall drinking bottles of Holsten Pils for £1 in there back in the day

17 hours ago, 1of4 said:

I'm going to the Chesterfield game. Due to how the tickets for the league away games are allocated, it will probably be the only away game I get to see this season.

It's been a few years since my last visit to Chesterfield, so decided to make a day of it. Catching the mid-morning train, arriving in plenty of time for lunch. So any suggestions on where to go for a good pub lunch.

The pig & pump. Good food and decent real ale, opposite the crooked spire. 

Harsh equaliser on chesterfield at the death. 

1) Take my money!!