Liverpool v Derby (A) Matchday Thread

[VulcanRam]

2 minutes ago, Crewton said:

It was more the notion that fans of CL clubs don't go in for "bantz" that I found ludicrous. 

Yes, that bit is rubbish!

[VulcanRam]

4 minutes ago, Ian Buxton's Bat said:

I was one of lucky ones who took the diversion over the toll bridge - you've got til midnight to pay online......otherwise they'll sting you £40  (It's something like Merseyflow.co.uk)

Thanks @Ian Buxton's Batjust paid it, only £2, all good 

[scout's dad]

11 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

f*** me.  What a bunch of sour b*******

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=353309.160

They’ve made more noise on there compared to what I heard on the radio during the match ?

[Ghost of Clough]

3 hours ago, Oldben said:

Derby player ratings

GK: Joseph Wildsmith (9), RB: Korey Smith (7), CB: Eiran Cashin (8), CB: Craig Forsyth (8), LB: Haydon Roberts (7), RM: Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (7), CM: Max Bird (7), CM: Conor Hourihane (7), LM: Louie Sibley (7), ST: James Collins (6), ST: William Osula (6)

Subs: David McGoldrick (6), Lewis Dobbin (6), Liam Thompson (7), Jason Knight (N/A), Jake Rooney (N/A)

Minor point, but we played 541. Smith and Sibley were wing backs with Osula at LM

[Topram]

Late night that! Great effort from them all, really hope we can go and preform like that on Saturday! Fans were brilliant. Saw someone say Wayne Rooney was in away end?

[rammieib]

15 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

It's 45% of all gate receipts after costs are deducted. I believe that would include stewarding, lighting, concourse staff, etc...

Yep - I imagine there was 5000 in corporate last night at £200 a head. 47k paying £15. It’s probably in the region of 600k after expenses deducted. (And I’ve already taken VAT off).

Super payday for us.

[angieram]

46 minutes ago, VulcanRam said:

Indeed, it was a pretty quick run back though I seemed to go over a toll bridge somewhere near Warrington. 

No toll on our route. We avoided that one, too!

[Ram-Alf]

13 minutes ago, Topram said:

Late night that! Great effort from them all, really hope we can go and preform like that on Saturday! Fans were brilliant. Saw someone say Wayne Rooney was in away end?

He was with these 2 Ladies

[WestStandStartTheBounce]

1 hour ago, angieram said:

Or you could have switched Google maps on and went around Warrington and avoided them all! ?

Dam, you mean i sat in almost stationary traffic for over an hour for no reason. I did have my sat nav on but obviously wasn't smart enough to re-route me.

[angieram]

4 minutes ago, WestStandStartTheBounce said:

Dam, you mean i sat in almost stationary traffic for over an hour for no reason. I did have my sat nav on but obviously wasn't smart enough to re-route me.

Yes, our in-car sat navigation is usually similarly unhelpful, which is why I use Google maps, set to fastest route.

It's never let us down yet, though takes us on some unusual diversions from time to time! 

[jono]

1 hour ago, VulcanRam said:

Indeed, it was a pretty quick run back though I seemed to go over a toll bridge somewhere near Warrington. 

Think it would be Barton Bridge over the ship canal on the way to Lymm. Used to be 2p (return) when I was young ! ?

[kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong]

24 minutes ago, WestStandStartTheBounce said:

Dam, you mean i sat in almost stationary traffic for over an hour for no reason. I did have my sat nav on but obviously wasn't smart enough to re-route me.

my mistake was to have toll roads turned off on google maps (which i do to avaid the m6 toll road when im working)

Doh!

[Curtains]

Good performance by the lads last night .

Worth the traffic jams getting there.  

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

2 hours ago, Crewton said:

A Liverpool fan, 2022, bless :

"That's why I love the Champions League. Proper fans who just support their own team rather than thinking they're having proper funny bantz for 90 minutes. Fans of other UK teams are the worst of the worst, and the lower down you go, the worse it gets." ?

 

Yes quite.  All those PSG fans who turned for the champions league final were there to support their own team, as were those in Hungary last year who had to play behind closed doors.

Perhaps we could have experienced a bit of Europe ourselves in the late eighties but something happened that caused a banning order preventing us.  Some club who perhaps weren't concentrating on just supporting their own team.

Memory escapes who might have caused that scenario.  Can anyone help.

[angieram]

Although I was proud of all the players last night, I was particularly pleased for Birdy, Cash, Sibley, Fozzy, Knight and Tommo. 

They endured with us last season, got relegated and still stuck around. Character and spirit shown by all of them and I'm pleased they got their opportunity to play at Anfield. Just sorry Curt wasn't fit enough to experience it. 

Truly our own.

[scout's dad]

2 hours ago, Topram said:

Late night that! Great effort from them all, really hope we can go and preform like that on Saturday! Fans were brilliant. Saw someone say Wayne Rooney was in away end?

Actually Wayne was in Torquay - he’s got a part time job as a Gary Johnson lookalike ?

[CBRammette]

3 hours ago, angieram said:

Yes. Me and Lucy North Stand Ram! 

On behalf of all the supporters' groups - and supporters, really. Very emotional. No-one should ever go to a football match and not come home.

Liverpool staff were excellent,  very helpful and appreciative. We got escorted back through all the checkpoints to ensure we got to our seats in plenty of time.

We still had a few braindeads chanting their vitriol at the game, but quickly drowned them out with pro-Derby singing.

Really lovely gesture. 

[Ellafella]

3 hours ago, SKRam said:

Come on you should know we do ‘meaningless coned off roads for absolutely naff all reason’ like no other country. Simply the best ?

wE GO t BrEXit dONe aNOrl! ?? BrING baACK BORis

[DavesaRam]

Thanks to George Thorne for putting the Twitter video of the foul on Cashin, which was clearly a penalty.

Ironically no-one has that we could have actually won that game if we had actually been given a penalty. i say “could have” because we’d have missed it anyway!

Well done to you Rams for holding on, and to you Rams fans for being noisy!

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

Yeah I was Kenny but lower and v near them. I thought the victims stuff was particularly bad given it was clearly just a reaction to them being beaten [it was only after the final whistle but from a very large chunk of them]. It's never 'right' to chant that s***, obviously, but to pull it out just because you've been beaten shows the character of the type of fan that sing it. Cowards, one and all.

Less than 30 seconds in 'football in a library'.
Around half way through first half 'feed the scousers' [reprised a couple of times in the second half]
They managed to save the best for the very end though when, as a result of them losing a penalty shootout, they decided to sing 'always the victims never your fault'. Because the right way to respond to an unfortunate result is to mock the death of 97 people 30 years ago.

They were vile.

I sit not far from the away support. I feared that Derby would be as bad as Leicester were twice last year, singing about Hillsborough and poverty. There were a couple of occasions were a handful, literally only a handful, started singing songs about victims and food. To the credit of the rest of their support, no one else joined in. The generic crap about libraries washes over me but I am very sensitive to the crap that came from Man City this season and Leicester last year (just two examples of many).

 

Which is it then ? 

Apparently some of you were also shining lasers in the Liverpool players eyes when they took their penos as well.  They couldn't have just missed or anything.  Like Millwall after 10 pints of Stella you lot .  Pure savages.