Rab a dab doo Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Are you an Optimist or in the Pessimist corner in the run in to the end of the season ? Is your glass half full or half empty ? Will we go up automatically or fall short and into the playoff's ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyPowell Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 4 hours ago, Rab a dab doo said: Are you an Optimist or in the Pessimist corner in the run in to the end of the season ? Is your glass half full or half empty ? Will we go up automatically or fall short and into the playoff's ? How about a realist= Winning the playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I don't think we will go up. i think wolves and villa will pull away. i think we will end up scrapping it out with cardiff, fulham, sheff utd, bristol city etc . not sure why that should make me a pessimist but it probably will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimbeard Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 By the terms of the question asked, I'm a pessimist, I don't think we'll go up automatically. However, given the expectations of most people on here last summer, we've already had an excellent season and even if we don't make it this time I'm optimistic for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertRam Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I am usually an optimist, I think we are having our drop off at the moment with the run of draws, and will start another run of wins against SW. possibly only 3 more losses all season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wixman1884 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I'm a pessimist, I think we'll make the playoffs but as injuries creep in, I can't see us staying in the fight for automatics. We're too reliant on a few key players, much like McLarens 2nd season, if we lose Vydra, Davies or Keogh for a run of games we'll slide quite quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I'm a realist and believe we'll end up where we deserve to and finish higher than I thought we would at the start of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodle Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I’m definitely an optimist. I think we will continue to achieve far more than I thought possible at the start of the season and remain in the play offs. I’m optimistic we can win those too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archied Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I’m both ,, optimist in the main but as a derby and Scotland supporter their is always that nagging feeling that things will go tits up when you get optimistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Gnarly Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I think if i said that if we went up in the play - offs that would be optimistic if we look at our start of season expectations - we all thought we would settle for just under the play offs. Miles away from where we are now. Just be grateful and enjoy the position we are in and hope that it improves - Then come the end of the season evaluate where we are then and what we can go on to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaRam Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I'm an engineer and think if the glass is half full or even half empty it's twice as big as it needs to be! im optimistic we can do it if injuries don't hamper us but I'm pessimistic that we didn't strengthen enough in January to cover or improve the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I try really hard to be a pessimist, it’s so much easier on the nerves - but by nature I’m an optimist and I think I’m too old to change now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minesahartington Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 i am an optimist at 3pm and a pessimist at 5pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammed79 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Optimistic, we'll win the play offs with Keogh powering a header for the winner finally banishing memories of our last trip to Wembley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TibshelfRam Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Probably a pessimist. I tend to err on the side of caution and routinely predict a Rams defeat (I figure that to do otherwise would be to tempt fate). But, more acutely, I am a realist. I don't think we'll go up and never have done - even when he had a cushion over 3rd. Wolves have won it. Villa's problem was always gaining momentum and now they have I think they'll pull away. But, look - so they should. Wolves have spent enough money x2 to guarantee promotion so anything but is a failure. Fair play to them. Villa have a PL squad far better than this division if you look solely on player for player. They have a huge wage budget and so, they should be going up. The top two are what SHOULD be the top two if you look at expectation. I don't think we'll go up in the play-offs but how do you predict such a crazy few games?! I tend to think that a team coming in with momentum will win it (I still think back to Palace under Dowie in 03?) and so my money is possibly on Fulham. But Rowett has built a capable side. This team has exceeded expectation. I wasn't excited about this season - I thought we'd languish mid table and so to make the play offs is a real achievement and should be judged as such. I suspect it'll be judged with the usual 'we blew a top 2 spot with our traditional early year collapse' - it shouldn't. If we go up - and we still have every chance - it would be incredible. I don't think we will but, given the sides around us, we shouldn't really expect to. UTR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssendonRam Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I regard myself as an optimist generally with Derby County being the exception to the general rule. At the start of this season I was hopeful that we’d compete for the lower end of the playoffs and that GR would avoid public execution as a result. A few games in I was still hoping and defending GR’s tenure as solidly as Carson....and hoping like hell Mel had learned his lessons. By 20-25 games in, I was stoked with our progress. In trying circumstances, GR had managed to transform our fragile squad of individuals into a genuinely solid, cohesive, united and committed team. And we’ve been improving the longer the season has progressed. Even then, I found us neck-and-neck with Villa for autos when predicting the rest of the season. Our results have tended to exceed our performances instead of the reverse, as had been the case since Mac 1. Could not have been happier if I’d sent GR a list of the improvements I’d love to see from his side by the halfway point of the season. Even now - if this is the run we look back on at season’s end as a bit of a slump - we’re drawing matches we would’ve surrendered calamitously in our ‘downers’ of recent seasons. So I do consider myself an optimist forecasting a finish of second or third - fourth at worst because I do rate Cardiff and I think they’ve had their lean patch - with only a point or two separating us from automatic promotion if we, in fact, don’t win it ourselves. Based on the more rapid than expected improvement in our areas of greatest weakness, I’m still an optimist even if we do happen to miss promotion this season. As an aside, I also regard myself as a total rationalist. I’m one of the least superstitious people I know too. Except insofar as Derby County is concerned. So...why the hell are we even talking about this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brammie Steve Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 It's being so cheerful as keeps me going. As long as Carson is fit we can expect at worst to win the playoffs at Wembley. If for any reason Scott is unable to play I still expect us to finish in the top six but I won't be so certain of us winning promotion. Still, it's a nice position for an optimist like me to find myself in as a Rams fan!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kevin Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 This doesn't land well with me but I don't know what to make of Derby as a team .I think the defence is well on top of their game ,I watched the interaction between the players on Saturday and they are well in control and I say this despite the two centre backs looking more shaky than they have for a long time . The midfield is a cause for concern ,BJ doesn't work well with TH ,George is not back to his best yet [understandably] and Ledley has been out and needs to play again IMO .It's also very slow Norwich ran rings round it . Losing JR is losing a number as he Anya and AW are all ok and on a par, I feel if we had real ambitions of promotion a top winger was a necessity.Looks like we tried but it didn't come off we may live to regret that. TL has ability needs to start making it count. It's a blow losing SW but providing everyone stays fit them CJ ,DN and MV should see us through . We are doing better than I expected but I don't think we will make the top two thats being realistic not pessimistic .They just don't convince me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Pessimist because as a derby fan I’ve literally never seen us have a good run in. Not compared to the form for the rest of our season. I’ve literally been broken so much so that I never get my hopes up for them to be dashed. Can anyone actually remember the last time we had a good run over February- April time? Even in the promotion season our form slipped, same in 13-14. Rather frustrating given it’s such a key period that we always seem to slip up, some years more significantly than others, while some of our rivals pick up pace. I can only assume it was better in the Jim smith promotion season, tho I wasn’t alive to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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