Kathcairns

Great character being shown by each of the players. All I ask from any Derby player is 100% commitment. The current crop are going above and beyond this. 
 
Last season we would have definitely lost the West Brom game and not beaten Stoke or won the game tonight. 
 
My only hope this season was a siege mentality and Rooney seems to have got this. We will lose games but I’m enjoying being a Rams fan again. 
 
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Anyway .. moaning about the ref never helped anyone.
What a cracking game of football. Reading played some great stuff, mobile, lots of first touch .. their number 14 and 21 worked as a duo, pass and move, 47 and 10 were handfuls with good skills, the big lad that came on later caused problems .. but our lads snuffed them out with some skill of their own and above all and brilliant display of team play and tenacity. All of them, to a man digging in, biting ankles, saving throw ins, great goal keeping. I couldn’t help but chuckle in the second half when Curtiss Davis was playing a sublime defence splitting pass. I am enjoying watching this team play football … a lot !

That was what I'd call "A convincing 1-0 win".  Nothing scrappy about that.  Not even nervous in the last 5 mins+ added time.
Extremely proud of everyone connected with the club right now.  Time for us all to keep the faith.  ?
 

Just got home and can’t wait for Saturday ( long, long time since I’ve felt this way). Great effort, great support, great spirit and atmosphere. The quality wasn’t too shabby either. Which corner of the ground shall we put the Rooney statue in?? 

I’m one who has to say that he has surprised me , I just couldn’t see him getting us playing the way he has this season , all credit to Rooney he is doing a very good job and we look very decent , full of pressing and energy , passing and moving well and well organised , if we had a touch more up top we would be very dangerous 

In our circumstances pre-season I wouldn't have given Curtis a contract as I didn't feel we could risk him after the injury. But he is proving himself a star defender. Makes me wonder what might have been had we built the defence around him a few years ago. I think that was his 100th start for us tonight. According to the stats guys I've spoken with, a clean sheet averages out as worth 2.5 points. I just wish we had a bit more threat up top, but Rooney is doing well with the terrible hand he's been dealt. With such a solid defence we are always in the game and we can finally hold onto a lead.
My hope is we can now accrue enough points to stay positive when the EFL hit us again. The target for this team is to show they'd have made the playoffs if it weren't for the ongoing issues. Which would be miraculous.

Twice under Lawrence’s feet on the edge of the box, interfered with a late break.
10 pretty innocuous fouls by each side and somehow that becomes 
4 yellows to Derby 0 yellows to Reading 
And the penno ? 
And what happened whenRavell was crunched in the D ? .. I was too far away .. but nothing ! 
 
Furious .. sometimes moaning about refs is about hard cheese, luck of the bounce 50/50 and fan bias but this guy ! 
 

It's the major reason why I'm more supportive and willing to cut Rooney more slack when things don't go our way. We are going out to try to win games by trying to play a good passing game and impose that on the opposition as opposed to react to what they are doing. Does it always work ? No but the intent is correct and I think we are on the whole improving in terms of performance.

Are you watching mel Morris ,,,,,, THIS is the Derby way , fans ,players , manager who fill you with pride , a manager by the way who is staying and giving his all to Derby county even though you couldn’t even tell him you a supposed one of our own super fans was bailing out and we were going into admin and left it to sky sports ,
god knows how this season ends and even if it’s the end for Derby county but we are standing and fighting , I’m one proud lifelong Derby fan

That's where I come down on. It was honestly surreal at times watching him;  2 similar challenges a couple minutes apart and one wouldnt be a foul and one would get a yellow.
Inconsistent is what I'd say if I was feeling cool headed and generous. Incompetent feels more accurate though.
Personally I'd like to have a had a neutral opinion on him because it felt like we certainly an unfair amount go against us but I don't know how much of that is my own bias.

It'll be 9/10 - the assessor's probably an EFL stooge too.

No … because he was wildly inconsistent. The type of fouls committed by both sides Vs those that warranted cards .. it was a disgrace. The card count us V them ? No way were they dealt consistently. Terrible performance. I’d love to see the assessors report .. It won’t be good. 
 
 

I think folk are wondering how we got to 4 mins in the first place buddy. Also, the game finished in the 96th minute and only 30 seconds ought be added for for the sub.
As it is, we've won the game irrespective and won it well. I guess we should focus on that and leave the officials to cringe over their ineptitude should they be professional enough to even bother reviewing their key calls.

That was a crossed wire from EFL head-office telling the ref how much time to add.

Rooney appears to have created a siege mentality within the team.  i applaud it, it is the only way we can pull off the near impossible, staying in the division.

I saw him look at his watch at 94:35 when Reading had the ball in a safe area. And he still didn't blow. Just carried right on. 
He tried, bless him. 

Well played Derby - good performance that against a decent opponent.
Nice mix of game management tonight. First 25 mins played some great stuff, pinging the ball around & they struggled to squeeze the space - Forsyth particularly prominent & fitting that he got the goal. Thereafter Reading had a good spell as they did for 15 mins around the hour mark but we dug in, were well organised & defended well. Really pleased for Allsop too - couple of shaky performances in the League Cup but he was excellent tonight. Two fantastic saves (one in each half), some routine saves & good with the ball at his feet also.
Elsewhere, thought Knight right side was a lot better than I thought he'd be - he & Byrne combined well particularly first half & his running into space was a feature of our counter attacks - just disappointed he didn't put Stretton in just before he came off. Shout out for Stearman also who was very solid deputising for Jagielka.
Obviously they had a lot of late pressure but thought we looked reasonably comfortable & wasn't too concerned we'd throw it away. Important psychologically now that we've got back into positive points - if we can follow this up with another victory v Swansea on Saturday (who have just chased Fulham around the park all night) then we can start to think about reeling in Hull. All small steps.
Last word for the fans - magnificent all night & looked like a decent turnout in the end from the tellybox. I had a ticket for tonight but unfortunately tested positive for Covid on Monday so couldn't go - don't think I've ever been as disappointed to miss a match, really wanted to be there to roar on the lads. The team will have fed off that support tonight though & there were plenty of compliments on Sky about the backing we got. 
COYR

Come away from the ground bursting with pride. Son came all the way from Reading with a few mates, he’s staying over a night so we can have a beer and boy will we celebrate and toast Wayne Rooney.
Rooney is the best thing for us right now, he’s pulling us together and everyone is going the extra mile. So ducking proud we are fighting and not going down with a whimper feeling sorry for ourselves.
Up the Rams ? 

Absolutely love this football club. Slowly but surely we will become great again. 

Wayne ducking Rooney and all the players, take a bow lads. It's times like this when boys become men and men stand up and are counted. Against all odds, we're showing huge pride in the shirt and a steely will to win and doing it with a certain amount of style and panache too. 
So ducking proud of them all tonight, each and every one.
COYR

Subject to additional deductions ? 
(Which will be applied next season if we don't look like making up the gap)

Great credit due to Stearman and Allsop.
Well played ?

I think those boys at the EFL might have to up their game. That ref was decent opposition but I think they could send better
The poor guy at their HQ that has to explain what went wrong to Gibson. Oof

The ref was superb ....
 
As a defensive mid breaking up our counter right at the end..