Wistaston Ram

9 hours ago, Anon said:

Colid Todd

Last time I saw him when I watched Esbjerg play FC Copenhagen a couple of years, they were thrashed 5.1 and unfortunately don't think he lasted much longer after that.

Keep telling myself at least I have a club to watch and that it always takes two seasons to get out of this league, The team's tired. I'm tired, time for bed!

Portsmouth pull one back at Barnsley

9 hours ago, kevinhectoring said:

Think the ref may have forgotten about Didzie’s yellow and needed to be reminded. 

No complaints about the ‘penalty incidents’. Not enough in the push against Dobbin. And his touch was heavy, his run predictable. Don’t think even he complained. Rooney’s was a clear foul. We should stop whingeing about this stuff 

The ref was actually correct (for once) with McGoldrick's booking, following the foul, he played advantage for Shrewsbury and he could only book him once the ball went out of play which did not happen for several minutes. 

Decent crowd in the end, despite the ground looking very empty half an hour before kick off. Second biggest crowd of the night (25k Bristol City v City the best) and better than Leicester and Stoke (12k for a fifth round FAC tie against premiership opposition!). I drive back through Stoke, so was pleased to have a quiet run home.

58 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Could be the lowest home attendance of the season tonight, 4,000 tickets left.

Very likely, judging by the lack of activity around the ground.

56 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Another one who needs a responsible adult not understanding basic wage cap concept.  When we actual had players on 20 k a week we annihilated you annually like we were playing a pub team.

 

Got into a heated discussion with a Barnsley fan regarding how it was so unfair we were able to pay large wages for McGoldrick. They seemed quite surprised that we're under a wage cap. Most of their fans I met seemed OK but also quite a few bitter and ignorant types as well.

Back at the Black Horse in Brighouse to salvage our weekend and looking forward to a nice meal. Very enjoyable trip apart from the 90 minutes of the match, sat with some very vocal Barnsley fans. Highlight was meeting Madhamster, who was far more positive than I was!

This is very nice, a pound a pint

Enjoying Barnsley hospitality

29 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

The good folk of Yorkshire may want to cover their ears when the “Todger “songs come out.

I suppose they could counter with a 'Dickie Bird' song

The voices will be loud in my head as I sit on my hands in the home end.

55 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

If it was you who had said so on here, yes. We're in Patrick's Lounge. Which of the "suites" are you in?

We're in the corner stand, DX Club 64 suite, so probably nowhere near you. 

3 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

Our allocation was  4993. I know of a party of 2 and a party of 4 Rams fans in hospitality and they know we're Rams but didn't find it an issue.

I am assuming that the other party of 2 is us, making it at least 4,999 rams fans (there must be one more). Glad to know that there will be four others to back me up when I forget to restrain myself!

Rams 1 Imps 2 FRGS Collins

I thought the keeper should have got a second yellow for the gesticulating to the away fans on the final whistle, but of course the ref would not have seen it.  I noticed that a steward dragged him away as it was getting pretty heated and could have resulted in an idiot or two running on to the pitch to confront him.  He did not seem to be the brightest and more concerned at winding us up rather than celebrating the win.

Just ventured back onto the site so have not read much about peoples opinions on the game.  Just a few thoughts..

I was surprised at how soulless a place Adams Park was despite it's rural location (probably a lot nicer on a sunny day). The Wycombe fans I met were very friendly and helped me navigate my way back to my car which was parked in the nearby housing estate at the top of a very steep hill.

I enjoyed the red kites soaring above the ground, but what was the police helicopter all about?  Had a good view behind the goal until the stewards decided to have a meeting almost on the pitch for most of the second half - one of them tossed the ball away when we were chasing the game which caused a lot of anger - it was like all of their staff were instructed to time waste!

I was expecting a battle and we got one, They looked the stronger team physically and pressed us very well especially first half.  Mc Goldrick was not given a second on the ball and had little effect until he set up the equaliser.  At this point it was anyone's game with chances at both ends until we conceded disappointingly from a simple corner routine.  Once the third went in, there seemed to be a mass exodus from our end - what happened to fighting until the end? With PV in mind and after a 2.5 hour drive to get there, I was not giving up so easily and we so nearly rescued a point.  It is almost a year ago since we were beaten at Middlesboro, singing similar songs about their chairman - we never seemed to get those satisfying wins against the hated teams!  I am not too down about the loss and we move onto Lincoln, hoping for a good reaction and 3 important points.

9 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

I was on from 09:30 in the hope they'd go on sale early. Chose seats, 5 of them, got the "not on sale yet" message. Chose again, same again, for half an hour clicking on every 3 or so seconds. 10:00 comes and the message changes to "seat not available". Looked at the blocks and there were about 20 left, spread all over the place. Next hour the sold out message kept changing to BUY, go to the block where someone had just released tickets from their basket.... click, "not available". As expats we booked flights to Donington, hotels etc back in December to save money..... then the £150 return flights we'd booked nosedived because Flybe went bust. Hopefully get the cash back from the Credit Card but that's not guaranteed. Rebooked on KLM to Brum at £300 each. Still coming over. Got ourselves on the "returns list" with the ticket office. Looking at whether Barnsley allow visiting fans to do hospitality. If both avenues (returns/hospitality) fail,  we'll do hospitality at Burton v Accrington.

I enquired about hospitality a few weeks back as a back up plan and was told it was sold out apart from a few spaces in the corner stand. They were happy to sell us two places knowing we're Derby fans. Not sure if there are any places left.

1 hour ago, admira said:

We don’t win many of these so let’s enjoy it. 

November 1996. Jim Smith

November 2006. Billy Davies

January 2007  Billy Davies

December 2013. Steve McClaren

November 2016. Steve McClaren

October 2017. Gary Rowett

December 2017. Gary Rowett 

January 2023. Paul Warne

Interesting to see we only ever seem to win it in the winter months (Oct-Jan) and that we never won it between 1996 and 2006 when we had such a good team in the late 90s.

23 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Whoscored's League 1 keeper of the season so far

No surprise that the Morecambe keeper is 4th, played a blinder on Saturday despite conceding 5 goals

On 05/02/2023 at 10:16, SamUltraRam said:

In 1985/86 game 28 was a 3 - 0 away win at Notts County and according to the match report more than 9,000 of the 13,086 crowd were Derby fans

The win took us to 56 points, still 3 ahead of our current total. Also, we were in 4th position but had up to 6 games in hand on the teams above us

In 1984/85 game 28 was a midweek 3 - 0 away defeat at Bristol City keeping us on 40 points, 13 behind our current total

Another memorable away day, getting off the train I remember thinking how good the acoustics were at Nottingham station as hundreds of Derby fans gathered in the concourse. Stood on the open terrace behind the goal, there was a feeling of promotion in the early spring air with many fans waving flags. It was great to witness all three goals going in at our end and I cannot remember an away game where we made up such a large proportion of the crowd, about 70%.

6 minutes ago, Gerry Daly said:

We will crush them. They have had some good results but only against the minnow clubs. When they came up against an equivalent side to ourselves they got tonked. We have improved since we played them. Nobody except the top 3 sides has anything like an even chance at Pride Park

Let's hope so, but I never take anything for granted being a Derby fan. 

4 minutes ago, Redshaw_Ram said:

Their last five results:

5-1 win vs Bristol Rovers

4-0 loss vs Ipswich

2-1 win vs Cheltenham

5-0 win vs Burton

2-0 win vs Accrington

On the 'current form' league table they're 3rd, just below us and Wednesday.

It seems more comfortable when comparing Home/Away stats, but we certainly need to be sharp for this one.

Agreed, they gave us a good game at their place helped by our penalty taking skills! On past form there should be goals, hopefully at the right end.

59,700 at the Newcastle match apparently plus a few on the rooves of the adjacent houses!

15 hours ago, Baffled said:

There are some more Derby clips on the BFI site.  This one - https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-fourth-round-english-cup-newcastle-united-v-derby-county-march-11-1911-1911-online - shows the Rams being led out by what looks like the great man  himself, Steve Bloomer, so for once we can say we were watching him rather than the other way round.  

Unfortunately, we lost the game 4- 0 and Derby fans were no doubt ruing the fact that Steve was picked ahead of Chris Martin.... 

Fascinating to see football from that era and and also the great man himself. Again like the 1939 game, many of the crowd crammed into St James Park would die in the war to end all wars a couple of years later.  Must have been hard to see much in those days over the big flat caps and enormous Edwardian hats the woman wore. I wonder what is the earliest footage of Derby?