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I thought Derby fans weren't too bad to be honest. They were quiet for long spells but then away fans generally make more noise if there are thousands of them. My first trip to Pride Park. Decent stadium, great views. Supposed to be a 5 minute walk from the station more like 20. Alright this afternoon beautiful day but after the match soaked to the skin and shivering which didn't help my hangover.

As for the game never looked a pen but seeing the highlights it probably was but ref gave us nothing. Donaldson is a great signing. Still has pace and his touch and ball control is top notch. And we know he can finish. Leon looks like a £5 million striker maybe more. And as others have said Stearman was quality today. Very composed. Duffy was below par but we can forgive him that. He has been tireless this season. All in all a good day at the office.
 



We were quiet for long spells too. Which made a mockery of our 'football in a library' chants.

Derby's support was OK, better than most. At least all their fans stand up behind that goal.

Pride Park is better than I remember it.
 
Shithole like the Madjeski, if McCabe ever moved is away from Bramall Lane to some retail park that'd be me done.
 
All I could hear on iFollow was mostly Blades fans. Espcially the chant "We're all wankers at the Lane." :)
 
Camden Blade said:
I thought Derby fans weren't too bad to be honest. They were quiet for long spells but then away fans generally make more noise if there are thousands of them. My first trip to Pride Park. Decent stadium, great views. Supposed to be a 5 minute walk from the station more like 20. Alright this afternoon beautiful day but after the match soaked to the skin and shivering which didn't help my hangover.

As for the game never looked a pen but seeing the highlights it probably was but ref gave us nothing. Donaldson is a great signing. Still has pace and his touch and ball control is top notch. And we know he can finish. Leon looks like a £5 million striker maybe more. And as others have said Stearman was quality today. Very composed. Duffy was below par but we can forgive him that. He has been tireless this season. All in all a good day at the office.
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watched the highlights can't even see a foul except a slight handball baldock trips and catches Russell it can happen to anyone
 
CarlingBlade said:
Shithole like the Madjeski, if McCabe ever moved is away from Bramall Lane to some retail park that'd be me done.
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Came out the station via the car park and couldn't find a shop or owt for some tabs. Mind you bumped into Greenwich Blade and walked to the ground with him which is always entertaining!
 
Ricky said:
We were quiet for long spells too. Which made a mockery of our 'football in a library' chants.

Derby's support was OK, better than most. At least all their fans stand up behind that goal.

Pride Park is better than I remember it.
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Yeah I thought they were okay. I got stuck behind some and in front of a load of people sitting down, which was annoying. Killed the vibe somewhat.
 
ElephantBlade said:
Yeah I thought they were okay. I got stuck behind some and in front of a load of people sitting down, which was annoying. Killed the vibe somewhat.
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As it always does. It's incredibly annoying at away matches. Why even bother...

Top tip for anybody in this situation at away games: If you can, just go to the back and stand in one of the aisles, if not a spare seat. It's a long time since I've come across stewards/police who are total arseholes about it.
 
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I'd cut the Derby fans some slack - I felt hungover and tired as ought, I suspect 90% of the people in the stadium felt the same way.

I enjoyed their scoreboard FAR better than ours, continuously showing the match with replays and even the penalty incident during the half-time analysis 'chat-show' that they broadcast .....(take note united?)

Sad and a bit scary to see a couple of Bobbies with machine guns outside the ground, but that's just a sign of the times.
 
Quiet by their usual standards at Derby based on my experience but maybe not too surprising with how many people were no doubt nursing hangovers today.

Good performance and a point was the least we deserved. Frustrated myself as the goal was entirely avoidable. Not seen it back to have an opinion on whether the penalty decision was fair but why he tried to shepherd it out there like that I don't know. I was screaming at him at the time to get shut because you could he was going to nick it round him.
 



I had the best seat in the house; back row, in the corner, with no seats in front of me, meaning I could have stayed seated for the entire game, not to mention be the first down the steps and out at the final whistle.

Which begs the question, why did I stand for the entire 90 minutes, and why was I the last out of the ground?


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Ricky said:
We were quiet for long spells too. Which made a mockery of our 'football in a library' chants.

Derby's support was OK, better than most. At least all their fans stand up behind that goal.

Pride Park is better than I remember it.
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I watched from home, and the fans were superb today. There may have been quiet spells, and I commend your campaign, but you have to be realistic.
 
Jon Bon II said:
Probably cos they're off their tree on charlie...
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Probably. But I doubt such a high percentage would be. So I'll go with stupidity first of all with the charlie supplementing it.
 
Northyorksblade said:
It's alright for you youngsters, it's hard on us oldies knees for 90 plus minutes. Didn't stop us singing btw
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I do prefer to stand at away games but like this fine fellow there are lots that cannot stand for 90. Saying that fans should just stand is plain wrong. I think there needs to be seating or standing options for all fans home and away - sadly it won't be anytime soon.

UTB
 
alcoblade said:
I watched from home, and the fans were superb today. There may have been quiet spells, and I commend your campaign, but you have to be realistic.
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Enjoyed the day out today, some good banter with the Derby fans and the performance/result was positive, but the fans weren't superb. Felt very flat for long periods which was inevitable I guess as some were nursing sore heads. Certainly didn't compare with Villa where I think the support was fantastic, but it picked up a fair bit after the equaliser at least. Hope it'll be electric at the Lane in a couple of weeks time but I'll be out of the country again by then :(
 
Well I must say me and my kids enjoyed it,the whole experience,off train at 12-50 Tiffany's bar till 2-30 steady walk to ground,thought we were the best team till ref handed em a goal but we carried on and deserved the equaliser,fans were quality yet again and it matched on the pitch,onwards and upwards the mighty blades.
 
The place I used used to work at had a box at Pride Park and used to take clients there for a meal and a match. This was around 1999-2002, when Derby was in the Premier League. For the Derby v pigs fixture, two of our guests were the head honcho at Co-op Travel and his son, who were both pig fans. Pigs were leading 2-1 late in the game and went 3-1 up in the 89th minute. The smug son came rushing over to my boss, who was sat next to me, grinning from ear to ear and gushed 'Oh thank you, thank you. Today has been brilliant. Thank you'. I just sat there non-plussed, calling the smug little twat all the names under the sun under my breath. Then Derby proceeded to score two in injury time to peg the fuckers back and how I managed to stay sat down when that equaliser went in, I will never know. I was going apeshit inside but the consummate professional I was, I projected an ice cool exterior to the rest of the world. The pigs faces were a joy to behold, especially smug son pig, who had, in the space of three minutes, gone from being a giddy, smiley, obnoxious toad to looking like he'd just necked a bag of gooseberries in one go. In fact, one of my colleagues - an Ipswich fan - had to rush out to the bog cos he was unable to suppress his laughter at the sudden dour demeanour of fatha and son pig. Still makes me smile to this day.
 
Bloody awful stadium. Thank the lord we didn’t go down the new “bowl like” out of town stadium route. What soulless place it is sat amongst all the car showrooms and portal framed steel “sheds.”
 
And why can't people go to their designated seats when they know it's a sell out?

Nobheads on backrow knowing full well they were in wrong place but wanted to be there.
 
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