Ram Logan Josh

Phew ! It's OK, I think I've managed to rescue it. The holiday police will never know 😉

We should be looking for a speedy midfielder too, good at preventing opposition attacks. A Jensen Interceptor perhaps.

I think, with Massive Wang and Macgoldick up front, we have the tools to finish the job 

I'd hope for an unchanged formation. Perhaps experiment with Smith in the middle instead of Hourihane and either push him further up as part of the three, dropping sibbo into left mid at the expense of roberts or leave him on the bench entirely. I think we really need to win this one, as i don't fancy our odds against Sheffield Wednesday if they have anything to play for on the final day. 

Looks like it'll be a full house with Portsmouth bringing a full allocation as well so should make for a cracking atmosphere. Ironic this is our final home game of the league 1 season, doesn't seem so long ago this was the first game of our ill-fated season back in the big time. 

FTFY

A semi defeat? I count getting a semi as a small victory! 

Totally agree. I despise this when it’s done to us, and I don’t want us doing it. The fact that the penalty decision was a complete joke is not relevant as we gave them the time to come up with their own dark arts. 

100% agree. Wildsmith has been doing this all season, it’s not a recent thing. I am not sure he is intelligent enough to understand the possible consequences of his actions. After how many minutes of added time did Bristol Rovers score on Saturday? Mainly because of his antics, there were so many minutes added on. He riles everyone, the crowd, their players, a good section of his own fans according to this website and more importantly the referee. The Ref should be totally impartial, but no one like the piss being taken out of them - not saying the penalty was directly given because of the time wasting but maybe we weren’t exactly in his good books.
don’t want to see it in my team, rather they just tried to pass it around. I want Derby to be squeaky clean after the last 2 or 3 years. Know it will be an old fashioned view in these modern times of doing anything to get 3 points!

I'm not sure why being good makes it acceptable to cheat?

Sorry but you don't speak for me here, I certainly didn't enjoy it.
As a football fan I pay to be entertained at matches, not watching time wasting and grown men rolling around pretending to be hurt.
Its really beginning to spoil my enjoyment of matches.
I know there's the argument of 'everyone else is doing it so why shouldn't we', that's how it started when foreigners introduced diving into our game too and look how bad that has got.
We've regularly called out players for cheating this season so it would be hypocritical not to do the same when its our players doing it.

I found Wildsmith's feigned injuries and timewasting a total embarrassment.  And the diving on the ball after every save.  The sort of behaviour you expect when you're 5 minutes away from causing a cup upset, not just trying to defend a lead in League One.  For 85 minutes. No wonder he got booked.
We all know the home crowd can act as the 12th player on the pitch.  Did he not realise that incensing the crowd made them more vocal and encouraging in their support of Rovers? He might think the "You're sh1t, hahahaha" chant every time he kicked the ball (not just the goalkicks) and "wankerrr, wankerrr, wankerrr" chant (in Bristolian) were funny and he could somehow rise above it, but it just didn't help our team.  "Same old Derby cheats" was painful to hear.
I was unfortunately standing on the Rovers' terrace and they were absolutely loving it.  I turned to my son after the trainer was called on for yet another Wildsmith phantom injury and we agreed this behaviour would bite us on the bum eventually.  Sure enough, 7 minutes added time mostly down to JW.  Surely no Rams fan was surprised that a penalty was given at 90+5 mins when in other circumstances the final whistle would have blown long before?
Sort it out Wildsmith/Warne!

I like this formation. It just looks happy too.
 
         Wildsmith                       Rooney     
                       
 
                             Forsyth 
                         Mendez-Lang
 
 
Roberts                                                   Smith
     Smith                                                Roberts
             Bird.                                    Sibley
                    knight                    Barks       
                            Mcgoldrick
 
                       

I found Wildsmith's feigned injuries and timewasting a total embarrassment.  And the diving on the ball after every save.  The sort of behaviour you expect when you're 5 minutes away from causing a cup upset, not just trying to defend a lead in League One.  For 85 minutes. No wonder he got booked.
We all know the home crowd can act as the 12th player on the pitch.  Did he not realise that incensing the crowd made them more vocal and encouraging in their support of Rovers? He might think the "You're sh1t, hahahaha" chant every time he kicked the ball (not just the goalkicks) and "wankerrr, wankerrr, wankerrr" chant (in Bristolian) were funny and he could somehow rise above it, but it just didn't help our team.  "Same old Derby cheats" was painful to hear.
I was unfortunately standing on the Rovers' terrace and they were absolutely loving it.  I turned to my son after the trainer was called on for yet another Wildsmith phantom injury and we agreed this behaviour would bite us on the bum eventually.  Sure enough, 7 minutes added time mostly down to JW.  Surely no Rams fan was surprised that a penalty was given at 90+5 mins when in other circumstances the final whistle would have blown long before?
Sort it out Wildsmith/Warne!

I found Wildsmith's feigned injuries and timewasting a total embarrassment.  And the diving on the ball after every save.  The sort of behaviour you expect when you're 5 minutes away from causing a cup upset, not just trying to defend a lead in League One.  For 85 minutes. No wonder he got booked.
We all know the home crowd can act as the 12th player on the pitch.  Did he not realise that incensing the crowd made them more vocal and encouraging in their support of Rovers? He might think the "You're sh1t, hahahaha" chant every time he kicked the ball (not just the goalkicks) and "wankerrr, wankerrr, wankerrr" chant (in Bristolian) were funny and he could somehow rise above it, but it just didn't help our team.  "Same old Derby cheats" was painful to hear.
I was unfortunately standing on the Rovers' terrace and they were absolutely loving it.  I turned to my son after the trainer was called on for yet another Wildsmith phantom injury and we agreed this behaviour would bite us on the bum eventually.  Sure enough, 7 minutes added time mostly down to JW.  Surely no Rams fan was surprised that a penalty was given at 90+5 mins when in other circumstances the final whistle would have blown long before?
Sort it out Wildsmith/Warne!

"Scope for creativity".  "A bit cheeky".   "Loopholes".     Didn`t go too well last time.

If that’s how you feel that’s how you feel and I’m sorry to hear that. 
My own view is on a forum in which we’re all voluntary contributors, all of whom have similar or opposing views and opinions, it’s not comparable to the abusive personal/familial/domestic/workplace situations in which gaslighting typically takes place. It’s also not as though we’re being dictated to by a single media narrative. 
Everyone posting on here is entitled to their opinion, and they may differ from our own; 

Some say we’re lucky to have a club, I think we are, given where we were last season. As such my expectations are perhaps different to others. That doesn’t make me or them right of wrong, we just think differently on the matter.
Some say Warne could/should be doing better according to their personal expectations, he could or should be, and some people are able to accept that and give it more time, others seem less inclined to do so. That’s an individual’s choice.
Some say they’d prefer a 4 at the back formation, others don’t mind 3 at the back. We have had wins, draws and losses with both systems, there’s an argument for both, one stronger than the other given the options in the squad.
Some people think Knight/Bird/Sibley are all capable of playing at the highest level, some don’t.
Some people believe one of our wingers is blessed with a large….personality, others don't.
We all believe if you don’t effin bounce you’re a red.
And on and on it goes. If you feel strongly that your opinion is more valid than others fair enough, if you feel people sharing opposing views is psychological manipulation then take a step back for the benefit of your well-being as nothing is worth losing your mental health over, not even Derby County Football Club.

If you're going to use ChatGPT, you need to fact check it.
Mark Thomas joined Oxford from Portsnouth in 2014 and stayed their until he joined us.
Gilbey - Never played for Oxford
Henry - joined in 2017 for free from Wolves and is still at the club
Mousinho - joined on a free from Burton and stayed there until he retired.
Johnson - Came through Forest's academy and is still there, and had a loan at Lincoln (where Thomas has never been)
Grant - came through Forest's academy, spent a bit of time at Lincoln (where Thomas has never been)
Cullen - Came through Swansea's academy, spent a bit of time at Lincoln (where Thomas has never been)
Edun - Fulham's academy, a bit of time at Lincoln (where Thomas has never been)
Woolfenden - Came through the Ipswich academy, is still owned by them, and never played for a club Thomas was working at.

Then don't charge £30 a ticket.
Better facilities at Alfreton Town.
I don't buy this no money thing - they pay enough to their players and manager.
And there were dozens of stewards lounging around with nowt to do, as usual.
There must have been 250 women there yesterday  - that's over £5,000. Hire some bloody portable ladies toilets, for God's sake. Derbyshire Cricket Club manage to do it at Chesterfield and that's just for two weeks' cricket. 
It's not lack of money, it's lack of will.

Another unpronounceable Welsh name!

That’s very kind. I think I have a ticket coming via a Rovers fan from work. 
I wonder how many away fans have to do this each week? It’s the second time for me this season.
Hope we manage to contain ourselves when Derby score their third 😊

I suffer a bit with the current away history groupings. I live in North Somerset. In previous seasons I could get to Bristol City, Cardiff City, Reading and Aston Villa without too much trouble. And a couple of visits to PP too.  Always had to wait for general sale, but with a bigger away allocations at bigger grounds, never had a problem getting tickets as long as I was quick off the mark.
That list of previous away venues is only 4 though, so I don't make it to the 5+ group.  I was looking forwards to Bristol Rovers, Cheltenham, FGR and maybe Exeter this season, but due to the smaller grounds and hence allocations none (perhaps Exeter might), have made general sale.
I have a secret agent getting me a Bristol Rovers ticket for the 'home' end. Not the same of course, but that will have to do for this season 🤷‍♂️

Heaven alone knows what the “average opta power ranking” is supposed to mean.
Probably nothing more technical than “if you’re playing teams in good form it will be tougher than if you play teams in poor form”😀

I hope manage nap one mate.

My dad played for FGR back in the day, he was from Haresfield a tiny village between Gloucester and Stroud.

It's worth getting on the returns list as well if you really want to go to any of rhe others as it's surprising how many pop up at the last minute.