Phoenix

I spent yesterday afternoon & evening rehearsing and playing in a very stirring performance of Mozart's Requiem.
This morning, I'm thinking 'How appropriate'.
A sad loss, and so young.
RIP

I spent yesterday afternoon & evening rehearsing and playing in a very stirring performance of Mozart's Requiem.
This morning, I'm thinking 'How appropriate'.
A sad loss, and so young.
RIP

I spent yesterday afternoon & evening rehearsing and playing in a very stirring performance of Mozart's Requiem.
This morning, I'm thinking 'How appropriate'.
A sad loss, and so young.
RIP

So sad. So young.

I have seen thousands of ice hockey games and I have spend thousands of hours on ice myself. I can say that was an accident. Petgrave tried to tackle a player who managed to slip away from it which caused Petgrave go airborne. You can't control yourself in that situation.
It happens so quick. When you watch it on tv in slow motion again and again it looks so different.
RIP Adam Johnson.

Get your tin hat on mate! This forum isn't ready for sensible and level-headed posts at the minute!

Shame to see so-called fans labelling our own player as 'dogshit' and other choice terms. By all means call him out on the game, but is the abuse really necessary? He's a Derby player after all. Some on here might like to consider how they'd feel if they were being assessed in such charming terms for their efforts at their place of work. Whatever you think of his ability, he's still a Rams player and entitled to a modicum of respect from us fans as such. He's also 5 from 13 in the league this season, which is far from the horror story some of the drama queens on here portray. Hard to imagine, other spitting on the badge or flat out throwing it in, what would actually warrant terms like 'dogshit', but missing an easy square pass certainly isn't one of them. And this after we've won the game too!
Likewise Exeter - without fail, every time we win, we get a chorus of "well (insert club name) were by far the worst team we've faced all millennium" type comments. So f****** tedious. Last night, Oxford were beaten by a team languishing in the bottom 3 and Portsmouth could not muster a goal in 95 minutes against the mighty Cambridge, which more sensible heads might think tells you all you need to know about this league. The fact is, we're a league 1 team (as was evidenced by our failure to secure promotion last season) and right now we're playing like one, as often as not. The very same people who sagely pontificated on how hard it would be to get out of this league, are some the chippiest ***** on here now we're struggling. Get in the bin!
As for the game, the result was never in doubt. I thought we looked comfortable, pretty much throughout and were more than good value for the 2-0. They tried to play football, which was a pleasant surprise, but we were very good without the ball last night, harrying and pressing well and you could see their last vestiges of hope evaporate with the second goal. On the rare occasions they enjoyed a little possession, we kept our shape brilliantly and never really gave them too much hope. I think we look as good as any team I've seen in the league defensively speaking and we have a decent quality midfield if we can somehow keep Max healthy of mind and body and in good form. Still short of that explosive goal threat, though if we play like we did last night, we've enough to trouble most sides.
As for the result, it could and maybe should have been 4-0 and without the interventions of the myopic linesman, it might well have been. Surely that is worthy of more than begrudging praise, if any. Let's be honest here, there's no such thing as a 'routine win' for a side with our current home record! With 'routine' help from the officials, more often than not we conspire to turns 3 points into 1, or none at all, so let's not pretend otherwise, eh! 
Moving forwards, I hope that this is not another false dawn and that the attacking line-up is deployed against all but the best teams in the league, where a more circumspect approach is perhaps understandable. While I think we're a long way off Championship quality right now, we do have a strongish squad for L1 and we really need to be ensconcing ourselves firmly in the top 6 sooner, rather than later. Meet that milestone and we can then set about trying to reel in Oxford and / or Pompey which is a far from impossible feat if we can just add some consistency to our game.
COYR

There is one improvement, and we will  see it continue every single week, because he has take us one match closer to the ned of his contract. 

I am delighted he left as well, to be honest. 

Well, I did work on the canned Taurus 3-day rolling settlement project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAURUS

Of course. Similar situation as George - leaving Derbyshire for pastures new, then the ECB feel that it's safe to call him up on the grounds that he must be OK after all.

It's quite an unpleasant forum on here sometimes isn't it.
The blokes doing his job,has some time off for unknown reasons and gets personally slagged off by fellow derby supporters whilst he does so.
 
 
 
 

Penalty for us, this was never ever in doubt URAMS

They sacked Cloughie after44 days.
Players’ revolt over his disciplinarian style of management.
This crime against football was in January 1978.
Within two years Sir Brian had won two European Cup finals!
And some folk still wonder why Dirty and Leeds are synonymous.
ALSO….
If the fans had been penned in like at Leppings Lane, Hillsborough 11 years later!!?
Makes one shudder eh?

I'm sure they're eager to return to the good old days.
 

Well, that's a very sporting declaration. How gracious of them.

I thought we’d already blamed Mel?
I’m under the impression he’s already aware we all hate him?
Does blaming him again get him to right his wrongs?  Is that even possible?  I doubt it!
Strikes me we are better off just trying to move on?  🤷‍♂️
 
Agree about the Clowes/Hero thing though. 🐏

If God wanted us to play football in the sky, he'd have put grass up there 

At least I can go back to saying Warne out.
It was a little difficult after a win at Peterborough, I knew it was a momentary blip.
 

Came across Bits and bobs in the 80's.  I bet Warneys got a few on his nightstand.  Can picture him as a gamekeeper with a fancy hat.  

Fans puce with rage because someone they imagined we were signing, didn't sign, because we’re so usless and it makes us a laughing stock!

Good to see he has recovered from the serious head injury he suffered. 😀

Will be 30 in a couple of weeks so not old enough  😁

'Posh' seems a rather unfortunate soubriquet from the sound of things.