Miggins

Sheffield Utd v Derby County
 
5pts
 AndyB    9
Cardiogram    12
chewbacca    9
Premier ram    5
taffyram    9
Wolfie    6
 
3pts
BarrowRam    5
BodminRam    5
ColonelBlimp    5
cstand    3
DCFC1388    8
europia    6
harwich ram    8
Idiakez    4
ilsonram12    6
jimtastic56    5
LazloW    5
Mckram    4
NegativeCreep    7
r4derby    5
ramant62    6
Ramifications    6
rammieib    6
timlondinium    6
Top Lino    7
Topram    7
 
2pts
Chris_Martin    5
RodleyRam    5
Sparkle    3
Van der MoodHoover    10
 
1pt
Alty_Ram    2
Amberram    3
angieram    2
Bessie1    6
Blondest Goat    2
BramcoteRam84    1
Carnero    3
Castor    6
dabber    4
DCFC Kicks    3
dcfc the 1 4me    2
Dordogne-Ram    6
Fla Ram    2
FlyBritishMidland    1
Ian Buxton's Bat    4
Jase116    4
Jimbo Ram    3
Jourdan    4
NebraskaRam    1
RadioactiveWaste    3
rynny    4
silverback    6
SKHunter    4
StevenageRam    5
thederbyram    3
 
Sheffield Utd 1 Derby County 0, '0' = FRGS.

You're right, Alf, and the ones I know to chat to are women. There are a couple of blokes, but I don't know them well.
The whole setup is wrong, imo, because a sizeable proportion of that away support is male and influenced by drink or drugs.
Other blokes don't tackle them either. Safety first.
I would like to think that if a person was reported the club would act, but what can they do, really? It's obnoxious behaviour, rather than illegal. So the rest of us have to put up with it.
An example from yesterday. I arrived at the turnstiles just behind a load of lads singing the Sharp sex offender chant. The entrances are at the far left of the stand. Our seats are far right. The concourse is rammed with singers, beer going everywhere, no way through for a short lady in her late 60s.
So I try to go into the stand on the left, to get down to the front and make my way across the front of the seats. Sheffield stewards say no way and send me back into the mob. 
No customer service, and no recognition that some of us do actually need protecting from our fans.
I know most away fans would tell me to stay at home, but I'm not quite ready to give up on my football yet. But I am beginning to dread the whole experience more and more each season.

It’s pathetic and embarrassing 

DERBY COUNTY WERE AT A HUGE DISADVANTAGE TODAY 
Sheffield United were relegated at the end of last season so for four years they will receive £40,000,000 a year minimum from the Premiership. So they have been able to afford to keep some of their stars and can also afford to sign on new ones from other clubs.
 
Derby on the other hand now have as an owner David Clowes who wisely is determined his club should not get into debt again. The only reason we have had a bit to spend this year is that we have received some £3,000,000 after selling some good players years ago and having a clause in their contract saying we we would be entitled to a percentage of their resale price. Those resales happened during the last close season.
But that money is peanuts compared with the cash now available to Sheffield United! So in fact our manager has done an amazing job to put together a team that can compete in the Championship with so little money at his disposal. Even today we were only beaten by one amazing strike by one of their stars.
So we should be congratulating our Manager not criticising him as some have been doing on here tonight!
 
 

Hi Steve
No worries, I’ve seen most things in my years following the Rams! They were an annoyance but an away day, travelling down from Leeds with my lad, meeting my brother and his lad (travelling up from London), meeting my school friends and their lads from Derby won’t ever be spoiled by a few idiots!! And we’re all planning the next game! COYR 🙏🏽
Cheers,
Horsforth. 

P.G Wodehouse from the directors box.
The scene at Bramhall Lane, ordinarily a bastion of comfort and civility, bore witness to a footballing spectacle that, in terms of both artistry and chaos, could be likened to a rambunctious afternoon at the Drones Club rather than a dignified sporting occasion. Mr and Mrs Clowes seated in their plush, velvet-lined seats, no doubt felt the chill of calamity that had slipped its icy fingers into the balmy warmth of victory’s anticipation, much like a chap luxuriating in a perfectly drawn bath only to have the infernal cold tap turned on by some malevolent spirit.
Down on the pitch, however, the Rams—those plucky, indefatigable blighters—were finding themselves undone by an inability to construct a solid defensive bulwark, their efforts at wall-building as tragically misguided as if one had entrusted the task to a crew of particularly dense bricklayers armed only with trowels, good intentions, and a singularly vague sense of geometry. Poor Zettestrom, he of chiselled visage and unassailable fortitude, found himself betrayed by that most treacherous of comrades, the near post, where the ball slithered past with all the ease of a practiced safe-cracker slipping through a cracked window.
Meanwhile, upfield, Osborn—who might well have been under the impression that he was starring in some bygone rugby league contest—persisted in launching balls skyward in a manner that would have warmed the cockles of Eddie Waring’s heart but did little to advance the Rams’ cause. In attack, our heroes were as bereft of potency as a gathering of elderly gentlemen at their club after too hearty a lunch, and one could not help but wonder if a dash of pharmaceutical encouragement in the half-time oranges might have restored their former zest.
On the touchline, the theatrical tension between Warne and Wilder simmered like an altercation between two harassed fathers at a schoolboy match, their handbags brandished with all the grace and subtlety of a duelling pair of bantam cocks. In the end, though, despite the single-goal deficit and the peculiar trajectory of events, one could hardly call the performance a disgrace; rather, the Rams, though bested by a team freshly descended from the Premier League, had proved that they were more than capable of holding their own, and perhaps next time, with the taps firmly adjusted, they might even leave the field basking in the warm glow of triumph.

I was on the second row from the front, left of the goal. Two blokes in front of me spent the entire game shouting obscenities and gesturing at Sheffield fans in the upper tier and on the left side. They hardly watched the game at all. Then proceeded to ask how Zetterström was an international keeper and let that free kick in (but in a lot more base and irate way). Then one of them was constantly yelling “Cooper” trying to get the attention of their keeper. 
 
it’s one thing trying to watch the game and get behind the lads when we’re struggling to get to our end of the pitch but listening to those two tossers made it a lot worse!!

Didn't think it was a free kick, but we didn't set up right and got punished.
They deserved the points, but wemove on with pride, especially first half display.
They're bringing £20m players off the bench. No shame in losing that.

It doesn’t take a genius, critic, analytic or a******* to lay out what happened: we lost to a better team with a moment of real quality. 
On the flip side: that’s the lowest xG Sheffield United have had at home since playing Arsenal in March. It shows that we were able to really restrict them to good opportunities and that’s something that we need and can count on to keep us in games. 
If we score that chance in the first 10 minutes, who knows what kind of game we would’ve seen. I do like how we can consistently restrict teams to poor quality chances, though. It’s a great trait to have. 

Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say a moment of genuine quality got the better of us. Watching the highlights back and you can see what a lovely strike the free kick is. That’s what £15 million can get you. That’s the difference right there.
People will criticise our attacking set up and ask why we’ve only had three shots in 90 plus minutes, but did you really expect us to go to a recently relegated side and take the game to them?
Sheff Utd were always likely to impose themselves and have too much quality for us given where we are in our rebuild. We have to take it on the chin and not let it get us down and just come back swinging v Norwich next weekend and try our very best to get more points on the board.
We’ll finish the weekend in the top half and with a five point cushion from the bottom three. There really isn’t a lot of fuss to be made, surely?

Narrowly defeated. I'd say that was a reasonable result. Well done to away fans, the team and everyone else who contributed to this result.  I hoped we might just manage a draw but I think this was an ok result. X

Narrowly defeated. I'd say that was a reasonable result. Well done to away fans, the team and everyone else who contributed to this result.  I hoped we might just manage a draw but I think this was an ok result. X

Narrowly defeated. I'd say that was a reasonable result. Well done to away fans, the team and everyone else who contributed to this result.  I hoped we might just manage a draw but I think this was an ok result. X

Derby County v Cardiff City
 
5pts 
NONE

3pts
Alan Ramage 4 EVA    4
AndyB    4
Bessie1    5
BucksRam    5
DCFC1388    5
DCFC-Trouty    3
EnigmaRam    4
harwich ram    5
MaltRam    5
Malty    5
mozza    4
NegativeCreep    4
1977 Ram Raider    6
Rich84    5
SKRam    5
taffyram    4
Top Lino    4
Van der MoodHoover    8
 
2pts
chewbacca    4
 
1pt
Addingham Ram    2
Animal is a Ram    2
angieram    1
archram    3
BaianoPOTY98    1
BarrowRam    2
BathRam72    3
Brammie Steve    3
BriggRam    1
Cardiogram    7
Carnero    2
Castor    5
Chris_Martin    3
ColonelBlimp    2
Comrade 86    2
DE56Ram    1
dabber    3
DCFC Kicks    2
dcfc the 1 4me    1
DerbyAleMan    1
DesertRam    1
DiggerB    3
Dordogne-Ram    5
Elgin_Ram    3
England Ram    10
Eoghan1884    2
Elwood P Dowd    4
europia    3
FindernRam    1
Fla Ram    1
Foreveram    5
Gladys_was_the_Greatest    1
hydraulic ram    3
ilsonram12    3
irobinson    1
Jase116    3
jimtastic56    2
Jourdan    3
Kernow    7
leroyoftherovers    4
Miggins    6
Mucker1884    5
OohMartWright    4
Osbaldwick    6
Puffin    2
1967Ram    5
ramant62    3
Ramifications    3
rammieib    3
Ramsamwidge    2
RodleyRam    3
sheeponacid    2
SKHunter    3
Sparkle    1
StevenageRam    4
SuffolkRam    1
SunnyRam    5
thederbyram    2
TheHospitalier    4
timlondinium    3
TimRam    5
True Ram    3
WharfedaleRam    4
Will Hughes Hair    4
Wolfie    1
 
Derby County 1 Cardiff City 0, Goudmijn / (Kenzo) = FRGS.
 

🖤 Love Paul Warne 🖤
🖤 Love Ebou Adams 🖤
 

I don't know exactly why....but I really love this team of players.
More than I can remember. 
There's just something about the 'dynamic', and the characters dare I say?
The basics that I enjoy are there, like Billy's team we arent bullied and can mix it physically (Nyambe, Nelson), a few 'characters' that I'm proud are Derby players (Cashin, Wilson, Ebou) who play with pride and a massive smile on their faces, plus going forward we've got absolute pace to burn (Jackson, NML), and technical ability (Ozoh, Kenzo, Yates).
We look dangerous at set pieces, don't concede many goals. No more, one-paced 'how are we going to score' teams (dare I say like we could look with Bird, Hourihane).
Yesterday we deserved the win. Got the goal and then restricted Cardiff to pretty much nothing. Second half was eventless but that's what we wanted. 
I'm not saying we've cracked the code,  but when we play well I love the physical, pacey, skillful way we play. More enjoyable than lots of the games we won last season.
We actually have players who as a kid I'd have worshipped and I think that's been missing for a long time. JWZ, Ozoh, Adams, Kenzo.....are all players that make me smile and enjoy football that bit more.
Really hope we can see the team from the last couple of games a fair bit this season, with the odd 's***thouse 'boro' performance thrown in.
 

A little closer to the Boro performance than the Brizzle one, but 3 points nonetheless.
The non-negotiables - energy, desire, commitment - have all been bang on since Barrow. This is looking like a *team*, fighting for each other, the little flicks and round-the-corner passes, things seem to be coming together.
First half was good but I would have loved another goal. Kept setting up traps and then got forward quickly. Second half not so much, never seemed to control the game after their change of shape.
Notable mentions for:
Elder - amazing what a good preseason does, he's gone up a level.
Goudmijn - gold mine by name, gold mine by nature, clever, technical but not afraid to do the hard work either
Eboooooouuuu - he's here, he's there, he's every-*bleep*-where.
Nyambe -  brick wall again.

You wouldn’t see this sort of behaviour in Waitrose.

My considered thoughts - 
Very good first half, not so good second half.
No offence to Nat Williams/Kane Wilson/Joe Ward/Sonny Bradley but you’re gonna have to go some to get a game in this back 4.  
How nobody else fancied Nyambe last season, on a free, in League One, is beyond me.
Maybe those who moaned about the fact we spent the majority of our transfer budget on a goalkeeper will now understand why.
I was quietly confident that Elder would come good, but he’s been REALLY good so far this season.
Kenzo is an absolute baller.  If he carries on this trajectory he’s going to be POTY.
Jerry Yates looks like a player with a massive point to prove, whether that’s to his parent club, or to potential employers for next year.  I for one would hope we everything we can to sign him up permanently. Very good footballing brain, and runs his socks off for the team.  Add a few goals and he’ll be huge for us.
Think we might struggle a bit if Ozoh is out for a while.  Osbourne is steady, but we missed David’s sheer physical presence went he went off.
Still have enormous man love to Ebou.

Yep such a good post! Listen to Elder’s post match interview it sums up how good it is to be playing in this team, for this management team and in front of these fans. Thought the crowd was excellent again today, whole ground joining with the south stand and so good to be hearing positive supportive chant/songs on the whole. The post match ovation for Ebou was fantastic, something special. I was excited going to PP today and elated coming away and I believe this is just the start. There will be losses but boy it won’t be because of a lack of effort or togetherness on the part of this team.

M1 was a nightmare and didn’t think we were going to get there , so annoyed and stressed we nearly turned round and went home ,,, glad we never ( hope I’ve dodged the speed cams )
love warne and the kind of team he wants to put out , the kind of culture and spirit he wants to build , credit to him and DC , in the stadium against Bristol and today it’s hard to believe we were where we were just a couple of seasons ago ,,,,, we will compete this season,
first half we were good and some of the one touch , flicks , runs and moves were a total joy to watch ( happy to pay good money to watch that kind of quality) , again we are so organised and hard working we are very good at controlling what the opposition can do with the ball ( having the ball all the time is not the only way to have some control over games ) which again came in handy as we lost our way a bit when ozo went off, we lost that bit of swagger and confidence but it’s a long season and you have to adapt and find wins when things go against you,,
KENZO ,,,,, he is looking like everything I hoped kinkladze was going to be for us , the Dutch georgie without the pies and a heap more workrate ,
credit to every other player today too , they come together as a team ,,,, there’s some good sides in this division and it’s a step up from last year but make no mistake, any team that beats us is going to need to be at they’re best , this bunch don’t lie down 
COYR 🐏💪

Absolutely buzzing with the win, even hours later. Here’s hoping there will be more celebratory fist pumping and derrière slapping during the weekly shop in Tesco as the winter sets in!
Three wins from five, back to back to back home wins, a spot in the top half, a positive goal difference, some signs of good football developing, breathing space to the bottom three, and a good platform for us to build on in the autumn and the winter. What’s not to like?
I have to admit I was a bit fearful for us after such a poor pre-season and then Blackburn away, but we have responded ever so well since and you can see Warne and the staff behind the scenes are really starting to show how shrewd they are.
They deserve massive plaudits! We look like a real team with everyone playing their part and fighting for the cause. If you look at the performances of Yates, Jackson, Kenzo, JWZ, Nyambe and Elder in particular, the recruitment team and the coaching staff must be feeling ten feet tall.
It’s still a long season ahead of course and we still have tests to pass and lessons to learn. Warne and the players will need us when we hit a slump, for instance.
But if the first five games are anything to go by, everyone at the club is pulling in the same direction and will leave everything out there to make us proud. Let’s stick with them.

P.G Wodehouse from the directors box.
 
Ah, what a day, what a day, my dear fellow, the sort of afternoon that leaves one with a warm glow and the firm conviction that all is well in this topsy-turvy world. Sir Watkyn Basset, looking as pleased as a cat that's just polished off the cream, accompanied me to the directors' box, where we made short work of a tray of Green Swizzles—three in, to be precise—before the referee’s whistle tore through the jovial atmosphere like a punctured tyre. Mrs Clowes, resplendent as ever, hovered nearby, offering cocktails with the grace of a duchess, and before I could blink, Kenzo was there, quicker than a ferret down a rabbit hole, latching onto Elder’s cross with the kind of finesse that would have had the local pundits waxing lyrical for days. The Rams, unchanged from their last glorious outing, defended like their lives depended on it, with Zettestrom, a chiseled Adonis of a goalkeeper if ever there was one, keeping a clean sheet as if such a thing were as easy as tying one’s shoelaces. Ebou, an energetic whirlwind on two legs, galloped about the field, though he missed a chance late on that Gussie Finknottle, even in one of his more diffident moods, would have stroked home with all the aplomb of a man feeding bread to ducks. Poor Ozoh seemed to tweak something or other—nothing too serious, one hopes—and Ozzie was promptly ushered on in his stead, with Phillips and Harness, the new recruits, also given a whirl to stretch their legs. It was a masterful performance orchestrated by Warne, as crisp and smooth as a well-shaken cocktail, and Pride Park is rapidly becoming as impenetrable as the vaults of the Bank of England. Now, of course, all eyes turn to the steel city for what promises to be a test of Herculean proportions, but if this is any indication, the Rams will be striding in with all the confidence of a chap who’s just been told he’s inherited a country estate.

My first game for a while. 
We played decent football in the first half. Lovely goal. Yates playing well as a link man. Goalie and defence solid. 
 
Second half was a slog. Everyone gave their all. Legs went so we went for the 1-0 win with 15 minutes to go. Managed it fairly well. Ebou nearly made it 2-0 but his legs went from under him😎
3 more points. You can’t ask for more than total effort and we got it.  Well worth the 400 miles round trip😄

Brilliant deserved 3 points. Not the prettiest especially in the last 25 mins. A bit league 1 with more polish. Cardiff quite physical ( but liked that tricky blond No 27) Ref was boring and petty. I think Kenzo might be a Will Hughes with goals, a delight to watch. I know we went on the back foot after Ozoh went off but even so I was screaming for him to push forward. He played a lot of safe back passes early on. I just hope he doesn’t get over coached and lose that Gerrard / Robson ability to carry the ball from deep and do serious damage.
Thought we ran the show for 60/70 minutes and then gave the ball away cheaply. Yates has to be one of the hardest working line leaders ever. Partnerships are still developing, we are learning. Some nice interplay mixed with some less elegant bits.
Some mentioned it’s going to be a long hard season. If this is hard .. Bring it on
Isnt it nice being above the dirties 🤣
To E. Adams esq .. free pass and voucher for a 100% Ram 
The sheep shaggers shagged some sheep shaggers 🐏💪🏼