Derby Match Thread

Mckeown
Davies
Collins
Clarke
Dixon
Berrett
Summerfield
Jones
Bolaronwa
Dembele
Vernon

Subs
Killip
Osborne
Keeble
Sawyer
Clements
Rose
Cardwell

be interested to see how berret n summerfield do tonight

Quoted from monkeyboy

be interested to see how berret n summerfield do tonight

Especially with Summerfield's Dad watching from the Derby dugout!

Just got to BP absolutely drenched.  Expecting a few mistakes tonight due to the conditions.

At the park, had my umbrella Confiscated!!!! I might stab someone with it apparently.  Didn't search me though!!!

Absolutely chucking it down right now

gutted i can't be there tonight, but will be listening on BBC Radio 5 Extra

Can the pitch cope with this ?

Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Extra tonight!

Cmon Town!

oh plop

What a excrement start, seriously up against it now.

Conditions sound appalling........

Sounds like we're being hit by the conditions.

Same for both teams absolutely teeming down.

Match abandoned ??!!??  

That's the 12 minutes up , are they calling it off now !!!

Groundsmen will have his work cut out after tonight.

Yes please....  call it... save the pitch AND the players for Saturday...

Atrocious he must abandon it.

Secretly pleased (shame for those who have gone) but it saves the pitch and the players for Saturday.

Does this mean it stays at 0-1 until we replay the game. Or does it start from 0-0?

Temporary abandoment but cant in this

Looks like an early finish

Sounds like it's just a temporary thing....they might come back to play later this evening.


If it is abandoned it will be replayed and start 0-0 when it's replayed.

Abandoned confirmed by radio.

Looks like game off.

...and because they have played 12 minutes no one gets their money back

Yippee. We are unbeaten and played former league 1 team and championship team

Game abandoned.

Now confirmed

When will the rearrangement be? Assuming re entry for all of us who came tonight

Oh well. Live to fight another day. Shame for all those who travelled.

inevitable really.

Quoted from supertown

...and because they have played 12 minutes no one gets their money back

Is 12 minutes the cut off for a refund then?

Them poor derby fans

Quoted from lee65

Is 12 minutes the cut off for a refund then?

It certainly used to be

How many were there roughly? It suits me as I'll be able to go to the replay(on holiday) but it's a real shame for the traveling Derby fans.

What happens to POM entries for tonight?

Quoted from itsnotcoditshaddock

What happens to POM entries for tonight?

I won, i had match abandoned at 0-1  

Does that mean that Zak is still suspended ???

Zaps suspension is served......

Quoted from Civvy at last

Does that mean that Zak is still suspended ???

Yes the match was abandoned so he as not served a full match suspension.
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Quoted from Grimsby2012

Does this mean it stays at 0-1 until we replay the game. Or does it start from 0-0?

It starts at 0-0 but for the first 18 mins they have to play the exact same passes and fouls as they did in the first game and the same player has to score. After 18 mins. it is then a free for all. If a player was injured in the first game he is not allowed a substitute in the second game. If the scores are level after the final 72 minutes of the second game then there is extra time. If the scores are still level there is a new system where they all have to sing an  ABBA song or something like that

Right decision.

You have to feel for the Derby fans who traveled.

Terrible weather for the time of year !

They announced on tanoy refunds are available and ticket stubs can be saved to get ticket for the rearranged game

I remember an abandoned game v Dagenham a few tears ago.  Connells goal didnt count but Kempton s sending off did

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

I remember an abandoned game v Dagenham a few tears ago.  Connells goal didnt count but Kempton s sending off did

Rushden and diamonds

Right decision. Hopefully get a refund as i will miss the re arraned game

When is the rearranged game? Have they announced it? I heard someone say tomorrow night?

Feck this my gardens well flooded toilet system starting to back up not good.

D&R....R&D....pffft

Sorry if I missed it... but what was the attendance tonight  ?? How many visitors  ??

It was atrocious out there, water over boot height in large parts of the pitch. Rain still teaming down. Dangerous. Unfortunate but correct decision. Refunds available or stubs can be used for the rearranged game.

It better flipping well ease up soon because the water isn't too far off the top of the beck near the back of my house. I'd prefer not to be paddling during breakfast.

As for the game (such as it was), credit to both sets of players who were manfully trying to play some proper football despite the conditions.

Massive respect to all those that attended. I was really looking forward to the first evening kick off of the season but wimped out after spending all day out in the rain.

Impossible to sum up what happened in the minutes played. About 5 minutes before the abandonment Berrett played a square ball to Ben Davies that got halfway there before getting stuck and allowing a breakaway - at that point, it was never going to continue.

Quoted from Davec

Rushden and diamonds

He knew it was one of those double teams.

That's an excuse for me to roll out the old story about the Yanks. In the qualifiers for the 1990 World Cup the USA had to play against Trinidad and Tobago. One of the Yank papers commented that the 'Soccer' authorities are unfair making the US play against two teams.

Quoted from oldun

It was atrocious out there, water over boot height in large parts of the pitch. Rain still teaming down. Dangerous. Unfortunate but correct decision. Refunds available or stubs can be used for the rearranged game.

Was that a mini boot or a 4x4? Either way it's deep water.  

Quoted from jimgtfc

When is the rearranged game? Have they announced it? I heard someone say tomorrow night?

I heard 2 weeks time mentioned, I think Derby have a league match next tuesday

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"Sort your pitch out"........... what a plonker.

Wow, some really, really stupid people in Derby. I'd doubt there are many if any grounds in the country which could have withstood this rainfall.

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Three from over a thousand is probably statistically accurate to the number of weirdos that can complain about natural rainfall.

How can they say sort your pitch ? Hardly our fault at all, when was the last time we had a game called off or abandoned

Is this the same Derby County who, in the Brian Clough days,  used to
deliberately flood their own pitch when playing better footballing opponents.

Idiots !  

It's one of the best pitches in the country and very rarely do we have a game called off for rain. If our pitch couldn't handle the deluge, i doubt many could.

Martin Bowley-Booth. What a double-barrelled pathetic-girl private

Just remembered the Derby pitch of the seventies which was a complete mudbath for most of the season.

Should the game have even started tonight?

Looking like Abba time at scunt land..County have made 4 subs, is this allowed?

Ginny - Ben Davies has told media pitch was fine during warm up.

I always remember the Baseball Ground , like a cabbage patch at its best. Maybe the Derby fans criticising are actual real walking, talking cabbage Patch Dolls, complete with vegetable matter of dubious origin for brains.
On a serious point, the game should not have started & it should have been called off prior to away fans travelling, must be irritating for them. From my perspective, I'm still mourning for my £3 Humber Bridge Tolls & gallon and a bit of diesel, ha, ha.

Our pitch is one of the only few pitches in England that is almost below sea level, when was the last time it was water-logged? Has to have been decades ago! Plus the pitch looked fantastic as always.

Quoted from mariner83

Ginny - Ben Davies has told media pitch was fine during warm up.

Fair enough. I suppose it's a tough call for all concerned.

Quoted from SteveHessle

From my perspective, I'm still mourning for my £3 Humber Bridge Tolls & gallon and a bit of diesel, ha, ha.

Get a tag.

To be fair the ball was moving fine during the warm up and the opening exchanges of the game, but the rain kept coming and it quickly became unplayable, I think Collins is still sliding somewhere on the seafront from his tackle on the halfway line.

Felt for the two lads with the water rollers, if there ever was a pointless job, they had it tonight.

Quoted from topuphere666

To be fair the ball was moving fine during the warm up and the opening exchanges of the game, but the rain kept coming and it quickly became unplayable, I think Collins is still sliding somewhere on the seafront from his tackle on the halfway line.

Felt for the two lads with the water rollers, if there ever was a pointless job, they had it tonight.

King Canute springs to mind.

Quoted from topuphere666

To be fair the ball was moving fine during the warm up and the opening exchanges of the game, but the rain kept coming and it quickly became unplayable, I think Collins is still sliding somewhere on the seafront from his tackle on the halfway line.

Felt for the two lads with the water rollers, if there ever was a pointless job, they had it tonight.

Yep - had to laugh at them trying during the 'temporary' abandonment. Regarding the warm-up, the rain wasn't that heavy and can understand why it started.

Quoted from ginnywings

Just remembered the Derby pitch of the seventies which was a complete mudbath for most of the season.

Should the game have even started tonight?

Yes - I arrived (soaked) about 10 minutes before kickoff and our subs were out knocking the ball around on the surface with no issue. Things looked ok for the first few minutes of the match, but after about 10 minutes the ball started getting held up by wet patches and players started awkwardly slipping so the referee didn't really have any other choice.

Quoted from topuphere666

To be fair the ball was moving fine during the warm up and the opening exchanges of the game, but the rain kept coming and it quickly became unplayable, I think Collins is still sliding somewhere on the seafront from his tackle on the halfway line.

Felt for the two lads with the water rollers, if there ever was a pointless job, they had it tonight .

Yeah..... they looked sad figures in front of the Lower Young's, well done to them anyway.

A) hope we still got a few quid from the radio commentary and b) interesting idea to only refund those with a dn postcode

I took the Mrs as my Dad couldn't go.
It certainly came down didn't it. Parked in Barnett Place, wasn't so bad on the walk before KO, afterwards we got soaked.
Pretty sure there's a swimming pool in the car.

I thought we started pretty well, not sure what happened with their goal, looked like someone didn't pick Keogh up.
Still, we get another go.
Was a bit surprised to see Bogle hanging around behind the Pontoon..

It's absolutely drunk it down, stairs rods , hammer and tongs all day in the East Midlands... all evening too... I was gonna come tonight from NW Leics,  but changed my mind with the weather...   can't believe the sheep shaggah who said sort out yer pitch... what a complete knob end....  oh yeah sorry... forgot Derbys pitch has always been a billiard table...  tw@t.....

Just Back
Soaked fed up and me Birthday
But
Right decision to abandon
They looked sharp
We looked, not like the same from Sat
But forget tonight and onwards
Come on Town!!

Must be very unusual to have a game abandoned in August, I can't recall us having so much rain in the summer months.

What unbelievable rain and having shown no sign of slowing down, it had to be abandoned.

On the Derby forum, somebody has mentioned that some teams would allow the side who were winning the first game, to walk the ball into the net.
Something no doubt that would not have been mentioned, if we had scored the goal.

One of them said it was because our pitch was so s--t it couldn't soak up a bit of water, when in fact it was stunningly beautiful at the kick off, considering all the rain. And it didn't cut up too.

I tell you one thing if we allow Derby to walk the ball in the net for the re-arranged game I will be furious

Quoted from Davec

I tell you one thing if we allow Derby to walk the ball in the net for the re-arranged game I will be furious

Would you be furious if it was the other way round?

My only gripe was that it didn't look to be a corner!

Quoted from ginnywings

Just remembered the Derby pitch of the seventies which was a complete mudbath for most of the season.

Should the game have even started tonight?

For me, no. I parked up in Harrington Street at around 6.25 and the rain was torrential then. The weather forecast suggested that the rain would continue in that way throughout the game, on top of the rain that had already fallen during the day. I couldn't see any way that the game would finish and, in that context, common sense should take over and mean you don't actually start it.

That said, having seen the state of just one or two of the roads on the way out of town, I just hope any flood damage is not too severe.

Well, it wasn't a corner. Two of our players let the ball trickle out of play when either could have cleared it for a throw-in.

The match was abandoned so the next one will start with a clean sheet and that's that.

Quoted from sydney

Just Back
Soaked fed up and me Birthday
But
Right decision to abandon
They looked sharp
We looked, not like the same from Sat
But forget tonight and onwards
Come on Town!!

Agree,

Arrived in Grimsby 19.25 after driving up from a meeting in Kingston, left Grimsby at 20:25 for a trip home that took in 2 diversions as well as p1ssing it down all of the way, back in the house at 11.55.

UTM!!!

Must have been a long diversion...

Quoted from topuphere666

Would you be furious if it was the other way round?

My only gripe was that it didn't look to be a corner!

My only gripe was letting it slowly roll out for a corner rather than clearing it, Why take a chance on the ref getting a tricky decision correct?

Anyone know what the attendance was and how many Derby fans ?

Quoted from psgmariner

My only gripe was letting it slowly roll out for a corner rather than clearing it, Why take a chance on the ref getting a tricky decision correct?

Tricky decision? Clear as day from my seat in the Upper

Quoted from psgmariner

My only gripe was letting it slowly roll out for a corner rather than clearing it, Why take a chance on the ref getting a tricky decision correct?

I disagree, the players left it because they were confident that the ball was going out for a goal kick - it certainly looked it from the upper.
If they had booted it into touch they would have been berated for wasting possession.

Leaving the conditions out of it, Derby are a decent side, but we were doing ok and several times got into dangerous areas. Had the makings of a good game. Cannot comment on the corner/no corner as it was impossible to tell from the middle of the main stand. Although a guy near me was getting wound up with the ref for giving it, saying it was never a corner. Unreal

Quoted from Mallyner

What unbelievable rain and having shown no sign of slowing down, it had to be abandoned.

On the Derby forum, somebody has mentioned that some teams would allow the side who were winning the first game, to walk the ball into the net.
Something no doubt that would not have been mentioned, if we had scored the goal.

One of them said it was because our pitch was so s--t it couldn't soak up a bit of water, when in fact it was stunningly beautiful at the kick off, considering all the rain. And it didn't cut up too.

We just about did that last night, I can't remember who challenged Keogh but it might as well have been my wife.

Same as last season, just about another free header.