Jayram

I absolutely loath the Premier League and in particular the so called ‘big 6’. I would love for them to all just f*** off to a Euro Super League where they play each other 6 times a season for their target audience in Asia and leave the rest of us to enjoy English football as it once was. For a start, all money would be distributed fairly, there would be no ‘Premier League’; just Division’s 1 to 4, the FA Cup become the showpiece event played on the Saturday after the season finishes at 3pm at Wembley (no semi finals at Wembley) with replays. If the ‘big 6’ decided they wanted back in they would all have to start at the bottom of the pyramid and have restrictions on how much they could spend on players/wages. If they didn’t like it they could all f*** off again and play each other a 6 team mini league or something. I couldn’t care less about them or their fans. They have robbed football of its competitiveness and it’s money for too many years. As for the latest disgrace around the FA Cup replays I really hope that EFL clubs boycott next seasons competition en masse. A concerted boycott would ruin the FA’s finances and they’d back down in the face of it. Whether clubs have the balls to go for it is a different matter.

I thought Thommo in midfield made all the difference but it was very much a good team performance generally. Orient never got a moment to settle when they were on the ball and we won more second balls than I've seen for a long time. Play this way for the next two and we're up, simple as that!

He should have stroked it across the box, not fizzed it at 90mph. Washington bottled it, like he did the chance he had against Blackpool the other week.

I was there last night and my god it was a hard watch. The constant Wildsmith to Nelson, Nelson to Wilson followed by the ball being lumped up the line invariably to a Wycombe player made my eyes bleed. A lot of people on here blaming CBT for the early miss but Washington was clean through and should have buried that himself. On the extremely rare occasions where we kept the ball on the deck we cut through them but of course that’s not the Warne way so it was back to lumping it. Not one player looked on it last night just like at Northampton. It is just so dispiriting to see us floundering in a match like that at such a crucial stage of the season.

There's no point relying on nothing clubs like Bristol Rovers at this stage of the season. Bolton won't beat Pompey so we have to go to Wycombe and smash them; this time next week we could be 6 or 7 points clear with 2 to go. Keep the faith. COYR!

By any metric that was a good point away against the top team in this division. We didn’t look outclassed and it took a wonderstrike for them to get level. Yes we played well within ourselves second half and perhaps could have been a bit more attack minded but not many other teams have gone there and taken points recently so I’m happy. It’s in our hands now. Bolton/Peterboro/Barnsley are going to drop points before the end of the season so keep the faith.

If good Derby turn up - 0-0 or 0-1 Rams If bad Derby turn up - 2-0 Pompey But I think the former will show up tonight. COYR.

I'm not that worried about Bolton TBH; they are powderpuff away from home cant see them picking up more than a point from their last 2 away games. I also think they'll get done at home by Pompey. As long as we get something tomorrow night I think we'll keep them at bay.

Looking forward to this one. I’ve got a lot of time for Pompey, a proper football club with great support. You’ve been by far the most consistent team in the league so deserve promotion. As for the game the result will depend on which version of our team turns up; if we play like we did at Bristol a few weeks back I fancy us to get a point at least. If it’s the one that didn’t turn up last week at Northampton you’ll batter us. Just hope we can get something that helps us consolidate second place. It’s going to be a cracking game.

Quite enjoyed the game yesterday, although doing hospitality probably helped! We did what we had to do and as others have said all that matters now are results. Got a sneaky feeling we’ll get something at Pompey and then I might really start to believe…COYR

Sorry mate not for your lot it doesn’t; you’re as much bottlejobs as we are and I can see you getting done at Stevenage next Friday. The only team I think have any momentum is Peterborough at the moment, who incidentally were best team I’ve seen at Pride Park this season. I don’t know how our season is going to pan out now; I have had the stuffing knocked out of me by todays result and wouldn’t be surprised if we end up falling out of the top two and getting done in the playoffs, because I honestly don’t know which Derby team is going to turn up, game after game.

Think you’re being generous. No way we get a point at Wycombe and can easily see a draw at Cambridge if we play like we did today. No more than 86 points I think.

On the way back from that shambles today. Not one Derby player played well, most of them 1/10 but a special mention to Hourihane; absolute garbage from start to finish yet stayed on for the full 90 for some reason. Northampton outmuscled us all game, won second balls consistently and marked our wing backs out of the game. The system should have been changed to counter it but wasn’t so there you go. The sad thing is it will give the teams below us new impetus and piles pressure on the team going into the Easter fixtures.

I was there! Sat in the West Stand luxuriating in the humiliation of the Red Dogs. Great great day watching one of my favourite ever Derby teams.

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If we play like we did last weekend we’ll blow these away. Bolton are decent but have a soft underbelly so we should be going for it. If we go defensive and show them too much respect they’ll do us, simple as that. Can’t wait to get up there today, the atmosphere is going to incredible. COYR.

That's fair enough. I support Derby too (ST holder and 15+ away member), but for someone like me who has a 230 mile round trip every home game £537 to watch a style of football that I can't stand its just not worth it. I'll always follow the club, but unless we're in the Championship next season or Warne is gone in the summer I'm not renewing.

Is this the same manager who currently has his Hull team in the top 6 of arguably the most competitive league in Europe? Yeah, s*** manager, give me Warne any day.

It would be pointless to get shot of him now even if the owner was thinking of going down that road, which he isn't. The problem is if we are still in League One and Warne is still in charge at the end of the season I can see the club hemorrhaging ST holders and the attendances collapsing. Personally I'm not going to renew for £537 to watch more of this next season.

Personally I like Ed’s passion and Eric’s analysis. I’d rather have a Rams supporter commentating than some bog standard BBC employee and in Eric you get someone with an unrivalled knowledge of the game and our club. It seems to me that some on here just want uncritical, DCFC-can-do-no-wrong coverage on RD rather than actual opinion. If that’s what you want get a Rams TV pass and you can have that every game.

Why oh why can we never take the game to teams like this, why are we always so on the back foot? We are second in the league; we should have gone to Oakwell full of confidence and swagger. Barnsley are the sum total of f*** all and yet we gave them too much respect. Its the Derby way every season, bottling the crunch games.

Think this is where I'm at too.

Absolutely loved his interview. Sounded to me like he’d make a great captain in the future if we can get him in permanently.

The thing is, PW knew how Shrewsbury would play, he talked about it pre match and yet he still got the tactics wrong. The lack of nous is soul destroying at times, it really is. We barely won any second balls, kept playing head tennis and the number of risky passes at the back was terrifying. We were playing a team in the bottom six who have been beaten by every one of our promotion rivals this season and yet they have taken 4 points out of 6 off us. Why does this stuff keep happening?

Were you there last night? I was and I can tell you that Reading did not ‘get in our faces’. We had the freedom of the pitch for most of the first half but we played like we were trying to throw the game. Last nights result was nothing to do with how Reading played; they were garbage until they got the goal. At half time my friend and I were laughing about how poor we had been but thought that Warne would see that and change things. Imagine our surprise when he sent the same 11 back out with no change in tactics. The mark of a decent coach is that they can identify the issues and changes things accordingly; that we didn’t speaks volumes about Warne and his abilities.