Malty

10 hours ago, EastAnglianRam said:

This is the home game Malty so we are off to Pride Park. We can look to make a stop at Cambridge if you’d like to get involved?

I’m prob going to leave it for a bit, just being ultra safe re covid. But I’m deffo interested In the future especially if it’s an away trip. One more question though, would this be suitable for my son too? I’m thinking football fans on a bus … might be lots of swearing and perhaps a lot of drinking. Might not suitable for my son (he’s 11) … but he’s “collecting” grounds so it would be a shame to miss out on an opportunity to an away trip to one of the less distant but not local teams we might play in the next few seasons, say, Barnsley!!

I would love to do this if it were a bit further afield. However Peterborough is just up the road for me. So I’d just drive up there if I wanted tbh. 
 

I’m Cambridge (I live about 2 miles from the A14) so if you go anywhere north I’m on the way.

Cambridgeshire 

Cambridge united

My step dad was a fan. As my brother said … It was pretty much a decision of supporting Derby or becoming homeless.

This one’s a draw. 1/1.

kazim with Derby’s goal.

Derby lose 3-0.

If it goes ahead, we lose this one

1/2 to them. 

our scorer … Jason knight.

We lose this one 2/0.

The all important question … when was the last time that Rooney picked a squad that where one of the players didn’t have a first name beginning with Loo?

(I’m thinking of ..ie Watson, …is sibley and ..ke plange)

1/1 draw.

lawrence again for Derby.

11 minutes ago, Black ('n' White) Sheep said:

                     Roos
Byrne  Jagielka  Davies  Forsyth
     Thompson  Bird  Shinnie
           Knight  Morrison
                 Lawrence

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree etc. etc. ? COYR ?

You don’t think ravel will be the false 9 with Lawrence on the wing?

I am really keen to meet up with fellow Derby fans. I have never lived near Derby and, I know that this probably sounds really pathetic, but I would love to have some “friends” to chat to and meet up with before a game.

Having said that I think £150 to join up with 9 strangers and spend the day with them is probably a bit extravagant.

I would suggest, personally, that a better option is to meet in a quiet-ish pub before the match (and/or after) and get to know a few people, then maybe a future match we can go the exec box route.

Of course, I’m only one of many, so feel free to ignore me!!

Derbs to win 2/1. First scorer knight again.

We lose 0/2.

Just now, Yani P said:

5

Minutes of extra time?

Well let’s give this Kelleyman a chance. Evidently got some talent scoring goals in the international break. I don’t really care what politics are involved. Hope the young guy does well!

Who is Kellyman??

2 minutes ago, Rev said:

I'd love to be as low paid as him, frankly.

Yes. I did think that. I was careful not to say sympathy. His wages are good. But remember. He’s a footballer: his career is limited to somewhere mid 30s and then he has to find something else completely to pay the bills. He has to earn heavily now to compensate for that potential fall in salary. He’s earning pretty poorly for a footballer of his ability. I don’t have sympathy, but if I were him I’d be playing my heart out now, proving I can see out a season and on the lookout for a bigger salary and a longer contract at the end of the season….…. and if he can do that at Derby  or elsewhere then good luck to him … and great for Derby if he can play to his obvious standard for the time being.

Ravel Morrison had now played 15 games this season. That’s more than he’s played for 7 of the last 8 seasons. He’s also now regularly playing for Jamaica. He’s paid more than likely a fraction of what he used to earn and he’s playing for a national team that has no fans and not a huge chance of qualifying for the World Cup…
 

… and yet he’s playing and trying and showing a positive attitude. 
 

I think we probably don’t give this guy enough credit. Sure it can be frustrating when he goes backwards when he should go forwards. But frankly, in my view at least he’s the classiest player we have and I for one really hope he gets a few goals and continues to prove the doubters wrong.

Plus a tip fo the hat for Rooney who so far has proved he can manage him.

Come on ravel! Get a goal or two for us on Sunday!!

We lose 0/1.

hard fought match, they get a winner at the end. No doubt we’ll have a penalty shout turned down and kazim will hit the post again!!

25 minutes ago, MuespachRam said:

And don’t forget that It rained in Derby before the Blackburn game…that has to be something to do with the EFL too and  I am also convinced the EFL are the ones that are picking the side not Rooney. 

It rained DURING the Blackburn game and was finished before it ended.

Are you telling me that it wasn’t a coincidence? Come on.

Plus no chips or program at the match (have I mentioned that). Also must be  down to the EFL. 

What is frustrating is that with the embargo and the time it’s taking to sort this our our club continues to have an uncertain future and that in itself is a punishment.

For me, stretching this out further, intentional or otherwise in itself is a vindictive act. If there’s anything that supporters groups should call out it’s this. 

I’d like to be involved in this in the new year if at all possible. My son is a big Derby fan like me, but he doesn’t have any Derby friends. It would be great if there was a forum kids meet up!

Where’s Ravel?

Millwall will win.

2/0. 

I have got so many wrong so far. It’s inevitable I’ll get this one right, sadly.

Tactically he seems to have got it wrong in recent weeks. We were too deep against Blackburn, had no out ball and sibley and jozwiak weren’t at the races.

Sibley is out of position, he’s not getting the best out of jozwiak. He also inexplicably dropped Buchanan who he been very good in the previous two matches. At half time he made two changes and still didn’t really use kazim as an out ball. 

Morrison also played too deep and wasn’t used. Shinnie and Lawrence were lucky not to be sent off and now Rooney is asking for more aggression. It’s confused and it’s directionless.

Last night we went back to being direct, but had no wingers. The players were flat seemingly in both games, meanwhile Lawrence seems completely silent off the pitch and far from a captain. 
 

I honestly think a bit of tactical nous and support and we’d have scrambled something out of both games. 
 

We are now in a similar situation to exactly the same time last season, Rooney seems clueless as to how to shake the team out of a poor run of form.

For me, though Rooney needs support. When cocu left he took two other coaches with him, they’ve not been replaced and we have sadly lost Shane nicholson. A bit more intelligence supporting Rooney and maybe a couple of different ideas in the coaching room. That’s what I think he needs. Sadly he won’t get it and we will continue to struggle and see some strange team selections and tactics.

Oh well.