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Florist in 17th place in the league, if they hadn’t been deducted 4 points they’d be, er … 17th.

44 minutes ago, B4’s Sister said:

@Archied Forum regulars will know that for some of us there is more riding on Saturday than securing the points for promotion. It feels very much a tribute to those who aren’t here who have stuck with DCFC through thick and thin. 

I’m really excited as I haven’t seen a DCFC promotion. When I last held a season ticket Derby were in the Premier League. I can’t imagine just how excited Daniel would be right now, but I bet he would be saying “I told you they would do it”

I’ll be thinking of you and your dad on Saturday ❤️🐏

I bet he told you they would do it every year though.😂

6 hours ago, maydrakin said:

Anybody under the age of 27/28 has never witnessed an automatic promotion for Derby County.

Quite a sobering thought, really.

One of the few advantages of being old then 👴🏻

10 hours ago, B4’s Sister said:

I can’t see any food pairing guidance on the website but I imagine this is would be the guidance for cider:

White lightening - serve warm with a couple of roll ups, alfresco park bench dining optional

Dark fruits - serve cool but slightly watered down in crowded establishments with soggy chips and a luke warm burger with one piece of lettuce 

Asquith - served in a glass filled with unnecessary ice. Accompanied by a scotch egg with a perfectly cooked yolk, or a warm sausage roll. 

After walking to two pubs that were both shut, Wrestlers and the corner house I gave up and decided on alfresco dining courtesy of Aldi and a very good burger van. I think B4 would have approved.

Cambridge 0 Derby 3 frgs Collins.

29 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Is that the congestion they’re warning about?

I’ll take a punt on no.🥹

32 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

They should have given us a bigger allocation really.

In fairness to them they have at least virtually sold out this time.

Last season they reduced the allocation but only sold a handful of tickets in the area they took from us.

3 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:

I know this isn't *precisely* what colourblind people see, and it varies depending on the type of colourblindness, but these pictures do provide a window into what some people so afflicted see.

Must be horrendous when you can barely pick out the difference between the Derby and Blackpool players at a glance.

It’s what referees do all the time.🙄

As of this morning Cambridge only had 360 tickets left, all in the South Habbin stand next to us.

Obviously don’t want to be out sung.😀

44 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

Rule 9 clearly printed on the notice entitled Official Notice Ground Regulations which was displayed around the BBG states

With the exception of authorised press representatives holding official passes, the taking of of photographs or cine photography inside the ground in prohibited. In addition no recording , whether for radio or television or for private use purposes and whether for transmission or otherwise save with a special authorisation in writing by the Club.

The sign is 2 feet tall by 15 inches wide, I was given it shortly after the last match at the BBG, the sign was clearly written before the mobile phone which allows everyone to carry a camera😂 There are 29 regulations on the sign,  all of which I have seen broken in my many years attending the BBG🤣    

There is a difference between carrying a phone and using the camera part of it though.It is still part of the ground rules though but like most of the ground rules it’s completely ignored. 😂

I was incidentally stood next to the away entrance last week watching an overzealous steward checking the entire contents of peoples bags and pulling out a camera.

He proceeded to pass it to the head steward along with another steward who scrutinised it for a few seconds and then declared, yeah, that’ll be alright 😂

23 minutes ago, Oldben said:

I think I might consider Jonson Clarke-Harris, who's 29 years old and a free agent this summer.

He’ll be 30 before the start of the season.

18 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Can we choose ‘fluid’ as our gender now?

18 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Can we choose ‘fluid’ as our gender now?

You can if you’re name’s River😉

3 minutes ago, CBX1985 said:

Play Man City at home: full house.

Play Morecambe at home: 6,000.  

All the same to the Saga massive 😂

20 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

Big news- F.A.Cup replays have been scrapped, so we won’t be on the BBC live . However , the crowd numbers this season proved we aren’t interested in cup games .

Some of us are 🙄

I had Cortisone injections in both knees yesterday so should be available if called upon to start the bounce.🙂

1 hour ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

As we sold out weeks ago, are we now going to have to start counting how many tickets are left in the away end instead? 

Just for you😂

1,120.

9 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

              ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

 

😁

1,207 of them.

14 hours ago, Eddie said:

Bolton's average home attendance this season is down by about 100.

Incidentally, so is ours - although a full house against Carlisle will raise it to above last season's average.

A couple of points about attendances - 

Derby head the list for the highest average away attendance in League 1 this season - this is surprising because we don't have the 'advantage' in that statistic of an away game at Pride Park.

Derby are bottom of the list for 'highest away attendance' for precisely the same reason. Every other club's highest away attendance has been when they come to Pride Park.

The only reason our attendances are slightly down is less away fans this season.

Lots of fans would have ticked us off as their first visit last season, Oxford and Bristol Rovers for example virtually halving their numbers from last season.

Also the fact that we lost big away followings from the 3 promoted clubs.

A crowd of 30,586 against Carlisle will equal last seasons total which is almost a certainty.

This will then be the highest average attendance since the 16/17 season.

40 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

From what I can make out, all this article tell us is if you run a random set of numbers many times you’re much more likely to get the spread of results you’d expect than if you only ran it once. That’s pretty obvious stuff in the same way that if you tossed a coin 6 times, the chances are that you wouldn’t get a 50:50 split between heads and tails. If you tossed a coin 10,000 times though, you would get much closer to half heads and half tails.

The author claims to have taken into account the fact all teams don’t start the league equal and has allowed for some being stronger than others when arriving at the random number that generate the results for each individual game. However, as far as I can see, he hasn’t explained what weighting he has applied nor how he has applied it. If the weighting is only marginal then you’d expect fairly similar variation to the completely random results.

I don’t think anyone is denying that the larger the sample size the more likely the results are to reflect expectation. But what I think we are saying is that, over the course of a full season, whilst there still be a few random results where a “weaker” team will beat a “stronger” team, the impact of these unexpected results will be dissipated to an extent that the league table, by and large, reflects the relative strengths of the teams competing.

and breath………

In short, like I said, it’s b******* 😂

21 minutes ago, De22Ram said:

I did mine last month but i always worry this time of year that it hasnt gone through or somethings gone wrong and i loose my seat lol! 

No problem, at the first home game take an adjustable spanner with you 😉

1 hour ago, ap04 said:

If you -or anyone else- think so I strongly suggest you read something like this (not dismiss it, try and understand it)

I’ve read it, I understand it, it’s b*******.

34 minutes ago, Old Spalding Ram said:

………..you ain’t seen me right  👍🥸

 

500 left in the South Habbin stand, the one that they wouldn’t sell to us last year and left empty.

9 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said:

They’ve sold out their 1500 allocation and now have been given another 800. 

Their initial allocation was 1,778, they sold 1,137 of these and then requested another 800.

They have currently sold 1,458, so have another 1,120 left.

7 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Give it up with your poultry attempts at humour!

Calm down Duck.

10 minutes ago, jimbobram said:

Any idea how many season tickets we've sold to this point ?

Existing season ticket holders still have just over a week to claim their seats so it’s not known whether they will or not, but around 600 new seats have been sold.