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That’s a good point. With Sky now taking over the broadcasting rights in the UK across the EFL, maybe the red button will also cover L1 and L2 for midweek games?

And arguably worse than anything Mad Mel did. And that ended well.

I think there’s a lot of “frequency illusion” going on with Bradley. Some have formed a view and are looking for things to reinforce that view and focusing on that. Yes, he had a dodgy start and was, quite rightly, dropped. But since getting a regular place he’s not made glaring errors that have cost us points. His only misdemeanour was the sending off at Northampton.

I think that’s a bit harsh. We’re the only team to do the double them (I think) beating them 3-0 in both games. They’ve beaten Portsmouth 3-0 away, Bolton, Oxford and only lost 1-0 to Lincoln when they were scoring for fun.

The club have a retro shirt from the 2001-03 era on sale. It’s on display in the shop window. That was made by errea but it doesn’t have the manufactures logo on so maybe it’s self produced. It would be good if they did the sand for some of the old Puma kits.

And you could play with 2 Nr 10’s in a 3-4-3 formation. CBT plus NML with a target man up top and they make runs beyond.

A confident and comfortable performance yesterday. The only thing missing was a goal from open play but that doesn’t worry me. Both yesterday and at Wycombe, particularly 1st half, we created some really good ones. The defence never looked in trouble and I thought we controlled midfield. Smith had a really good game, he was comfortable on the ball and always available to receive it. Collins looked more like himself and put his usual shift in. Kane’s goal was right in front of me, definitely his. I might be in a minority but I don’t mind Bradley. Personally, I think he plays better when he’s captain, he seems to thrive on the responsibility. Yes, he made some mistakes early on but Warne acted on it. Pleased he got his goals and hope that gives him a lift for the last 2 games.

Injuries is interesting. This weeks episode of the Rams Daily podcast building up to the game is worth a listen. Injuries is discussed and Martin Fisher said it seems to be a problem in all the divisions this season. They discussed the stop start nature of the game now affecting muscles, etc and the length of injury time. The Orient chap they spoke too alluded to the same. Their manager has said the extra injury time at the end of matches has had an affect on his players fitness. Particularly at the start of the season when players were still building up their fitness and they haven’t recovered from this.

Derby 3 Orient 0 FRGS Collins

It’s agents fees. And includes signings, loans and contract renewals. From academy to 1st team. Basically everything.

Good point. And just like 10:00 on Wednesday night when the general assumption was that Bolton would win their game in hand, we must assume the same for Rotherham. Therefore, that would take to the, 4th or 5th, 3 points off automatics. It’s also more relevant to compare to the top than bottom because of the number teams between them. Getting in the top 6 relied on a couple of teams losing. Dropping to the bottom 3 relied on 13 teams winning. We’ve had posters saying Rotherham stayed up because Warne left, but forgetting their start and his far better ppg than his successor. This season they’re down with 23 points so far, worse than any season under Warne (40 in 18/19 and 42 in 20/21 when he was in permanent charge although it was 23 when in interim charge). It could be said that it’s more to do with the resources available to them than any particular manager.

Totally agree with everything you say. His strength is in building the right culture and environment. You only have to listen to Adams talk about how everyone has treated him, etc. Look at Hourihane when he hasn’t been playing, he’s cheering and encouraging from the sidelines. That’s all down to Warne and the culture and environment he’s built. That can’t be underestimated.

I half expected that and, I’m glad we didn’t lose. I was nowhere near as nervous through the game as I was against Pompey because while we didn’t look like winning, we didn’t look like losing either. That said the performance was not where it needs to be. Again, too many off days at the same time. Abject is probably a good description. If CBT’s chance goes in, we would probably have gone on to win comfortably but I think that affected not just him but the team too. And NML at least has to make the keeper make a save. I have some sympathy with Washington’s chance as the ball was bouncing and difficult to control. My glass half full position (and helped by sleeping on it) is this happens, even to Liverpool!! When we slipped up at Northampton, no-one else took advantage. I had this as a draw and Pompey as a defeat, so 1 point up. I think Pompey will beat Bolton win both promotion and the league, that’s come at a good time for us. Posh will slip up in the next 5 and away to Oxford on Saturday isn’t easy. 3 wins, and I believe we can do it 🐏.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really that fussed about this. I did listen to the Rams Daily podcast yesterday which is a shortened 45min version and I quite enjoyed it. Is the full version on BBC Sounds? If so, I might give it a go and skip through the bits I’m not so interested in. I used to know the kit man’s dad and have a pint with him before the game. He once arranged for Mrs FBM’s Rams shirt to be signed by the first team squad. I reckon that was around 2002/03.

Wycombe 1 Derby 2 FRGS CBT