Watford v Derby, Friday 19th February

[Ted McMinn Football Genius 2,863]

Deserved better, good effort though boys.

Scum dogs next Friday and then duckers can’t defend set pieces COYR 🐏 

[Gritstone Ram 6,838]

More effort second half.

[Topram 3,062]

Deserved a point joke ref 

[Rammy03 1,496]

Unlucky to lose really

[AndyinLiverpool 9,459]

Is there any team that ducks around with it more in injury time when they need a goal?

[Scrumpyram 68]

4 minutes ago, StarterForTen said:

That’s why Sibley doesn’t play too often 

Yep, so unecessary.

[mozza 7,858]

Good effort Derby, couldn't quite break Elton's heart.. 

[Pearl Ram 10,529]

Ah, we’d have whupped ‘em if we had Bielik playing.

Not one to remember for us but we didn’t disgrace ourselves. Onwards and upwards.

[TomG 632]

Just now, DJFern94 said:

2-2 right? 

Another possible point denied by utter dross refereeing!

[QuitYourJibbaJivin 1,656]

1 minute ago, Derbados said:

Ball floats over to Jozwiak with less than a minute to play 5 yards from goal and he controls it and stands still. . . braindead 

The first touch was terrible, he’s in on goal!

[Kinder 1,858]

No disgrace to lose to this lot but it feels like we’ve been robbed.  If that goal had been rightfully given, we’d have been all over them.

[Ramslad1992 1,878]

A bit of luck and extra quality (plus the poo ref) wins it for them, a much better second half performance. Can’t lack the effort but some of them just aren’t good enough. Positives to take from this though.

[DerbyRam! 716]

Want to see Sibley starting next game instead of Waghorn!!! I mean why can't Rooney see this??

 

[ollycutts1982 1,951]

The lack of urgency towards the end was alarming. As are the stupidity of stupid free kicks. We got exactly what we deserved in that game for conceding 2 schoolboy goals. Give 2 goals away to a team at the top of the table you are never going to get anything out the game. 

[GrimsbyRam 715]

2 minutes ago, Heisenberg said:

That cameo by Louie Sibley is the exact reason why he doesn’t start more under Rooney.

Agree did well on the ball.  He must wonder how Waghorn gets that much game time.  The difference in ball control could not be more different.

Edited February 19 by GrimsbyRam

[Black ('n' White) Sheep 645]

Just now, Mckram said:

Not a bad effort in the end that. Could have easily been a 2-2 draw on another night. 

That WAS 2-2. It's laughable that players can be sent off and banned after the final whistle has gone, yet referee's aren't responsible for rubbish decisions! There's NO WAY the one in the first half should have been disallowed. I'm fuming at that. 😡

[Van der MoodHoover 13,048]

Hands up... We actually improved second half, which is relatively unusual for us. 

Didn't play well enough for the majority of the first half. The disallowed goal distracted from an underpar team performance. 

[BathRam72 2,583]

On the brightside.  Watford very lucky with their first. Excellent second. We have a perfectly good goal disallowed. Could have easily been 2 - 2. Against a team who look like they are destined for promotion 

[AndyinLiverpool 9,459]

4 minutes ago, jcidaho said:

Gives Rooney every excuse to not play him.

It does suggest why the manager might not trust him.

[Kernow 10,303]

Well that's frustrating to lose as I definitely think we could've got something. Much better performance, and more encouraging than the Wycombe performance despite the result. At 2-0 after 20 minutes with a lucky bounce and sloppy defending, it could've gone a lot, lot worse. Maybe not so long ago it would have.

A good opportunity to bounce back on Tuesday. If we can win that, then we're still in an excellent decision. The game is done and the players shouldn't feel too hard on themselves, I think they gave a good account of themselves against a lot of Premier League quality players who were in good form themselves.