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I’m not sure about this. Bielik is no longer on our books and there is no disposals. He could have been fully impaired during the year of course. But that would mean his valuation is less than the full year impairment, so a lot less than £3.3m. I am struggling to work out where the £3.3m has come from. The only players left seem to be Bird and Sibley. Both may have had a signing bonus which could have been capitalised. An alternative is that certain contracts were revalued during the acquisition and that didn’t include knight but did include Bird and Sibley. We could do with a little more detail tbh.

This might be true but given that there is no “disposals” in the year it might suggest that knight didn’t have a carrying value in the accounts. Hard to be sure without the details but perhaps knight had a £nil carrying value.

Does a long-throw count as a cross? If so Burton Albion will now be too after last night!

Is anyone else struggling with Hourihane? He has a lot going for him. From 16 yards out I would back him to score every time. He scored a great goal last night vs Burton and another one in December against Lincoln. He seems solid enough in our midfield and I’m sure he does the off the field stuff (whatever that is) really well. Other player speak well of him too. But as a fan, I can’t help but feel like he’s the friend that is making-do-with-you-until-something-better-comes-along. There are some players in the team that are bred through our academy at Derby and you know they want to play for us. There’s others that show that much commitment in games that you know they really want to play for the shirt … and then there’s Conor. I really want to like him and for him to be part of the team but I just have this nagging doubt that he’s not really one of us. It’s such a shame. Maybe his heart was at Villa all along. Sorry Conor. I feel bad, I’m just saying it as i see it.

We win this one 3/0. first scorer Collins.

Back to winning ways. Rams to win 2/0. First scorer collins.

3/2 win for the rams. First goal for us Fozzy (Forsyth).

Immediate thought is that these things often go to defenders Mendez has been very good for me, so my vote goes to him.

Lose this one 0/1.

We will score two. They might get one. So 2/1 to the rams. First scorer Collins.

Please can you check my prediction. I can’t see me on the list for Lincoln. Thank you.

Scrappy win. 2/1 to us. first scorer …. Hourihane.

Huh?

I recall a player called Calum ball. He scored once when I watched the rams at home to West Ham. In the charts at the time was the song “Cannon Ball” by Damien Rice. When he scored I wished momentarily for the crowd to sing “he floats like Calum Ball. I think he went on to score only two or three more times and sadly went on to a fairly mediocre career. The song never caught on. Ah well. Great song though.

We win. 4/0. first scorer Mendez-Laing.

Derby to win 1/3. First scorer for us Hourihane

If your statement is right then 0.7 is too low. 9/10 = 0.9 goals. Then you need to add however-many for the goal we actually scored. So, following your statement the expected goals is >0.9 and not 0.7. In conclusion either your statement is wrong and 9 out of 10 times Fornah’s deflected shot doesn’t actually go in or xG is incorrect. Take your pick.

We win 2/1 bird scores first.

I didn’t know B4. In fact I know very little about him. I just knew from his posts about his loyalty and his positivity towards the rams. Even when the chips were down he always posted something positive or even started positive threads. It made me smile. He might be almost a stranger to me, but I thought he was great. Given how up and down we have been this season, I just wonder if today’s result was “meant to be” as a tribute to B4. My condolences to his family.

1/1. mendez-Laing first scorer for the rams.

Is this a full list of players lost during admin? I’m thinking sure Delap was one and that guy that went to Liverpool, Kade Gordon was it?

I’m on 8.50. At 14:57

Derby win 2/0. first scorer bird

Derby 2 Stevenage 1 FRGS sibley

Lose 0/1. team booed off at HT and FT.