Nuwtfly Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Huge night for us tonight. Always is when you play Nottingham Forest, but for me, there's a few reasons why this one sticks out as especially important. After some absolutely wretched form (and football), we are in desperate need of a win. Especially such an emotive win like the one against Forest can be. At this stage in the season, the lift a convincing win and performance could give us might be enough to not only secure a playoff spot, but enough to get us promoted. A loss might have the opposite effect. A huge gap may start to open between ourselves and our top six contenders, and with the mood dipping quite significantly of late, there's a chance a humiliating defeat could end up as the first big nail in the promotion coffin we've been seemingly building since January. There's also the horrible little detail that Forest aren't that far behind us, and a big win for them might just send them on a trajectory to finish above us for the first time since god knows when. And finally, this is a huge night for Frank Lampard. 11 points for the last 14 games I believe it is? I've said consistently throughout the season that I am yet to get on the Lampard bandwagon and often wonder whether his appetite is bigger than his stomach. He wants to play a 4-3-3, expansive, attacking game like the one we saw under McClaren, but does he know how to actually do that? Is he up for this? I don't know. I hope he is. Tonight could start answering that question. I've been on this forum long enough to know some will strongly disagree with the sentiment (and assumption) in this post. That's fair enough. I got a lot of stick for a post I did about Rowett at a similar stage of last season. However, if you can't write your opinion on Derby County on the best football forum in the business, then what on earth else am I supposed to do with it? Tweet it? Yikes. Looking forward to the big(gest) night. Up the Rams ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Duck it, I'm gonna go all @Inverurie Ram on this one. If you can't get up for tonight's game, I really ducking do pity you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 This game is no bigger than the last one against Millwall or the next one against Villa. We are playing Forest tonight, not Real Madrid. The players do owe us a performance tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 52 minutes ago, i-Ram said: This game is no bigger than the last one against Millwall or the next one against Villa. We are playing Forest tonight, not Real Madrid. The players do owe us a performance tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiddingsRam Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, i-Ram said: This game is no bigger than the last one against Millwall or the next one against Villa. We are playing Forest tonight, not Real Madrid. The players do owe us a performance tonight. It is for me and I hope it is for the players too ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 They’ll win. just to punish me for not being there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilsonram12 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Less confident I’ve felt going into a derby in a while, the last match has put that feeling in unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnero Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Nuwtfly said: 11 points for the last 14 games I believe it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuwtfly Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 You're right @Carnero I got that the wrong way around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnero Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 18 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said: You're right @Carnero I got that the wrong way around 3 wins 5 draws 3 defeats (Leeds, Sheff Utd, Millwall) Not great... but hardly a disaster given the games we had over xmas/new year. Basically we've had 2 poor results in the last 2 games and it's being overblown into some sort of crisis aka "February Wobble". Who is Daniel Story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbob Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Got a feeling in me watter about this. We'll do these bankers tonight then kick on and storm into the playoffs. COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North East Ram Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbob Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 8 minutes ago, bigbadbob said: Got a feeling in me watter about this. We'll do these bankers tonight then kick on and storm into the playoffs. COYR It's probably just cystitis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 5 hours ago, BurtonRam7 said: Duck it, I'm gonna go all @Inverurie Ram on this one. If you can't get up for tonight's game, I really ducking do pity you. I pity @BurtonRam7 for associating me with anything to do with poxy Phil poxy Collins, the sad thing is he could play for us and create more than we have so far in the first half! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nuwtfly Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 And that's the reaction to the Forest game. Too early to say I told you so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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