kevinhectoring

Surviving relegation after winning some crucial, high pressure games, could really give us some momentum going into next season.
I'm not sure how that works though if you end the season with about 7 defeats on the row, but stay up cos Rotherham failed to get more than 6 points from their 18 games in hand.

If Rotherham were playing Norwich of course we’d want R to lose. But a draw today keeps us in touch w Brum who we have yet to play. 

We’ll see. It is in the lap of the Gods whether or not R go on a charge. Out of our hands. But if they do, it’s still quite possible that, say, Cov will lose 3 of their last 4 games. The more routes out of jail we have, the better 

Talk about over-exaggerated optimism on here. Perhaps we should rest a few players against PNE, Birmingham and Swansea so they are good and ready for the Owls if need be. 
 
Should be fine being as our remaining opponents are planning, for various reasons, to give us a free pass.
 
 

At the moment we are Andy Dufresne eyeball deep in the sewage pipe.

We’ll see. It is in the lap of the Gods whether or not R go on a charge. Out of our hands. But if they do, it’s still quite possible that, say, Cov will lose 3 of their last 4 games. The more routes out of jail we have, the better 

We could do with a win against PNE and that also helps pile the pressure on Rotherham. It’s all about who can hold their nerve as well as a nice slice of luck/ good fortune from other fixtures between now and the end of the season. 🤞🏻We can pull the rabbit out of the bag 🤞🏻🤞🏻
 

Rotherham could play a game every day from now til the end of season, morning, noon and night if they want, and they still won't catch us. We are staying up.

Massive result for us, 1 more game down with the difference remaining 4pts.
We need to beat Preston on Tues, make the gap to 7pts & put all the pressure on a tired Rotherham team.
Also, if Bham play like that against us I would fancy us to win.

A late, soul destroying, kick in the swingers for Rotherham there.
Just what the doctor ordered.

That is what to say if it's actually a draw. In the meantime let's hope Birmingham score

We differ with our opinions in what’s best for us but that bunch players can put it right by winning their own games. Show us some grit and balls. I believe they can. I think we have some very talented footballers. Have to find a way 

Yes. This group of players should not be going down. Still don’t think they will but a win for R today will give them v dangerous momentum. High noon 

Yes. This group of players should not be going down. Still don’t think they will but a win for R today will give them v dangerous momentum. High noon 

I'm convinced you're not a Derby fan. Convinced. 

It's the hope that kills you mate! 😄 I think that every season the relegation battles mostly last until the final game and have some twists and turns. So I think we will pick up more points and that other teams will battle it out with Rotherham who have a massive task to catch up. #COYR

I don't think any of the subs had a part to play in conceding a corner and not defending a corner for Blackburn's first goal or falling on their backsides to give Blackburn the ball to create their second goal either. 
We went 1-0 up in a game, and the usual suspects that started the game had a massive part to play in conceding the goals that lost the game also.

No, sorry, I was saying the opposite. You'll remember the decisions that go against us as its a form of confirmation bias. You'll not see so evidently the decisions that go in our favour, or you'll gloss over them as warranted, justified or not so controversial as the ones against us. 
Over 46 games it has to be negligible in its impact. 

C’mon, Bird had a very good game against Blackburn. Ok, he was under less pressure than usual in possession and he was given more space. But I thought he used the ball well, consistently,  and he showed some excellent skill at times. The problem is this was well above his usual performance 

C’mon, Bird had a very good game against Blackburn. Ok, he was under less pressure than usual in possession and he was given more space. But I thought he used the ball well, consistently,  and he showed some excellent skill at times. The problem is this was well above his usual performance 

I was more thinking that - unusually - we were doing ok and the substitutions did little but halt our fluency. (As has been said on other threads) 

Hard to know, there are some managers who can galvanize a squad and get them performing way beyond the sum of their parts. Barnsley, Luton and Millwall (good old snakey) are prime examples this season. 
 
 

I thought we built a stable team at the start of Rooney's tenure.
Marshall, Byrne, Wisdom, Clarke, Buchanan, Bielik, Shinnie, Knight, Jozwiak, Waghorn, Kazim Richards.
We went on that good run and picked up results. It all seemed to go tits up when we moved away from that team and started making lots of changes. The 4-0 at Cardiff possibly being the turning point. We went away from the group of players that got us out of the relegation zone and started complicating things. 

Time                   %chance of relegation
friday 6pm.                25
friday 8pm.                32.5
sat 3pm (riphrh).       36.25
 

Very true it will give them a big lift. We had the opportunity to put one nail in their coffin last night.
Im still backing the blues to win tomorrow though.