Derby weren't too impressed!!!

[MattyRangers]

Let em get carried away & think they'll walk all over us. Let em put all the pressure on themselves & us go into the game as underdogs. Perfect for us.

[hal9thou]

Let em get carried away & think they'll walk all over us. Let em put all the pressure on themselves & us go into the game as underdogs. Perfect for us.

definitely, that's the way everyone should play this. In fact odds wise we are underdogs... perfect.

[QPRDave]

Let em get carried away & think they'll walk all over us. Let em put all the pressure on themselves & us go into the game as underdogs. Perfect for us.

..spot on Matty

[84rams]

Bunch of arrogant Northern to$$ers, i seem to recall at the start of the season there crowds were about 16k before SMc went and turned it around MUGS

We've never had a league crowd under 20k even with shitty following like QPR's. Home average 26k+

[Fraggy]

Oi Ramby; are your forums so quiet that you have to hang out on here?
Your attempts at trying to get a rise out of supporters on here is quite pathetic; surly there must be some enlightening threads on your own fans forum that you could contribute to, seeing as you have such a wealth of knowledge on all things football?

[ArcticHoop]

Oi Ramby; are your forums so quiet that you have to hang out on here?
Your attempts at trying to get a rise out of supporters on here is quite pathetic; surly there must be some enlightening threads on your own fans forum that you could contribute to, seeing as you have such a wealth of knowledge on all things football?

Maybe his ram is divorcing him or something

[84rams]

Maybe his ram is divorcing him or something

Ever tried to keep hold of a Ram? They really make you work for it.

[MYU]

Ever tried to keep hold of a Ram? They really make you work for it.

It would just feel wrong thinking about it!

[Shepherds Mush]

We've never had a league crowd under 20k even with shitty following like QPR's. Home average 26k+

Yeah, but you dont share your City with any other teams do you?

[maidstone_hoop]

debry fans can think what they want - love it that most of their views are based from media perceptions. The derby fans that know a bit about football will be very worried about playing us off last nights result and lets be honest we all know what to expect from derby theyve played the same way all year...Us however we have been average up until now but we are so unpredictable but also on our day we are the best team in this league.

[theblackmafia.]

For all their bravado Derby fans need to remember one small fact; we have spent 6 years in the Prem and amassed 278 points placing us 28th out of the 46 teams who have played in the Premiership. Derby have played a season more and are 4 points behind us in 30th place. They do have 2 1st Division titles and an FA Cup but they were in the early 70's and 40's! Recent histoy is pants, so Derby fans; get your heads out of your ar§es and realise your a tin pot club just like us...oh, you have one team in your city and we have....13! Muggy northern cûnts.

[stainrodisalegend]

Just spent ten minutes of my life reading that Derby threat. A few observations:

1) never had any feeling towards Derby one way or another - indeed, probably due to the Clough era and with their proud past (and boy is it all in the past...) stretching further back I have always thought they were an OK club, no problems with them. Felt sorry for them really as portrayed on the Damned United as a rotting, faded club.

2) They accuse us of arrogance. Odd. I don't think I have ever read such an arrogant, complacent thread as that Derby one (and I include in that some of the threads we used to flick through on oppo forums last season before we were stuffed by Man City or whoever). Roughly half of us (me included) have been critical of how we have gone about it this season and are actually a bit surprised that despite terrible injuries, poor tactics, Prem hangover etc etc we have somehow found ourselves in the final.

3) Its years now since they have played in the Prem (and then they were relegated with a record low number of points).

4) With Austin in the team our points per game average is way better than Derby's this season - fact. And he is now back in the team and back in the goals.

5) I completely accept we are a disjointed team in that awkward transition between relegation/ possible promotion where we aren't a team of honest Championship toilers yet nor can we say with confidence we are a team of brilliant Prem superstars. BUT. If I was Derby I wouldn't be so complacent about facing Austin, Krancjar, Morrison, Benayoun, Barton, even Hoilet - for all the failure of certain individuals to live up to their reputations, as an opposition fan of a middling Championship team that hasn't done anything much since the days of black and white telly, I would be a bit nervous facing a team of big match internationals for whom a play off final really isn't all that. The very fact that a lot of our players didn't turn up at Bournemouth away suggests to me that they might just turn up at Wembley. I'm not saying they will - just a possibility for an intelligent opposition fan to think about. Look how much better Nico looked in the semi - a match that mattered.

6) Love they way they present themselves as real football fans who know all there is to know about the game. They mock us for regarding Chelsea as rivals. The same cd probably be said of them when they regarded Forest as rivals for a long period. For the record I am not a great one for the Chelsea rivalry as accept they have moved into another stratosphere, but anyone who knows a handful of facts about football would surely at least know that from the mid 70s to the mid 90s we actually were consistently a lot more successful than Chelsea. Real Chelsea fans know that all too well; Derby apparently don't.

7) Man City etc can afford that kind of arrogance. If you aren't a major club - and neither Derby or QPR count as one either these days - any fan with two brain cells would surely realise that over-confidence is setting yourself up for a major fall and disappointment. We have certainly had our share of falls and it is in our folk-lore - presumably, reading that, failure is a foreign land to Derby.

8) QPR fans are among the least arrogant, least self-assured I know. We cd be three goals up in a major game with ten minutes to go and most of us will still be expecting the worst. Its in our DNA. And its that honesty and disappointment which makes our fans and our club what it is. But if they can't see all that, hey ho.

[Connell10]

Just spent ten minutes of my life reading that Derby threat. A few observations:

1) never had any feeling towards Derby one way or another - indeed, probably due to the Clough era and with their proud past (and boy is it all in the past...) stretching further back I have always thought they were an OK club, no problems with them. Felt sorry for them really as portrayed on the Damned United as a rotting, faded club.

2) They accuse us of arrogance. Odd. I don't think I have ever read such an arrogant, complacent thread as that Derby one (and I include in that some of the threads we used to flick through on oppo forums last season before we were stuffed by Man City or whoever). Roughly half of us (me included) have been critical of how we have gone about it this season and are actually a bit surprised that despite terrible injuries, poor tactics, Prem hangover etc etc we have somehow found ourselves in the final.

3) Its years now since they have played in the Prem (and then they were relegated with a record low number of points).

4) With Austin in the team our points per game average is way better than Derby's this season - fact. And he is now back in the team and back in the goals.

5) I completely accept we are a disjointed team in that awkward transition between relegation/ possible promotion where we aren't a team of honest Championship toilers yet nor can we say with confidence we are a team of brilliant Prem superstars. BUT. If I was Derby I wouldn't be so complacent about facing Austin, Krancjar, Morrison, Benayoun, Barton, even Hoilet - for all the failure of certain individuals to live up to their reputations, as an opposition fan of a middling Championship team that hasn't done anything much since the days of black and white telly, I would be a bit nervous facing a team of big match internationals for whom a play off final really isn't all that. The very fact that a lot of our players didn't turn up at Bournemouth away suggests to me that they might just turn up at Wembley. I'm not saying they will - just a possibility for an intelligent opposition fan to think about. Look how much better Nico looked in the semi - a match that mattered.

6) Love they way they present themselves as real football fans who know all there is to know about the game. They mock us for regarding Chelsea as rivals. The same cd probably be said of them when they regarded Forest as rivals for a long period. For the record I am not a great one for the Chelsea rivalry as accept they have moved into another stratosphere, but anyone who knows a handful of facts about football would surely at least know that from the mid 70s to the mid 90s we actually were consistently a lot more successful than Chelsea. Real Chelsea fans know that all too well; Derby apparently don't.

7) Man City etc can afford that kind of arrogance. If you aren't a major club - and neither Derby or QPR count as one either these days - any fan with two brain cells would surely realise that over-confidence is setting yourself up for a major fall and disappointment. We have certainly had our share of falls and it is in our folk-lore - presumably, reading that, failure is a foreign land to Derby.

8) QPR fans are among the least arrogant, least self-assured I know. We cd be three goals up in a major game with ten minutes to go and most of us will still be expecting the worst. Its in our DNA. And its that honesty and disappointment which makes our fans and our club what it is. But if they can't see all that, hey ho.

and the post of the season goes to! brilliant mate!

[Connell10]

i really dont care what derby fans are saying, talk is cheap , we will see who the best team is on the 24th!

[maidstone_hoop]

Just spent ten minutes of my life reading that Derby threat. A few observations:

1) never had any feeling towards Derby one way or another - indeed, probably due to the Clough era and with their proud past (and boy is it all in the past...) stretching further back I have always thought they were an OK club, no problems with them. Felt sorry for them really as portrayed on the Damned United as a rotting, faded club.

2) They accuse us of arrogance. Odd. I don't think I have ever read such an arrogant, complacent thread as that Derby one (and I include in that some of the threads we used to flick through on oppo forums last season before we were stuffed by Man City or whoever). Roughly half of us (me included) have been critical of how we have gone about it this season and are actually a bit surprised that despite terrible injuries, poor tactics, Prem hangover etc etc we have somehow found ourselves in the final.

3) Its years now since they have played in the Prem (and then they were relegated with a record low number of points).

4) With Austin in the team our points per game average is way better than Derby's this season - fact. And he is now back in the team and back in the goals.

5) I completely accept we are a disjointed team in that awkward transition between relegation/ possible promotion where we aren't a team of honest Championship toilers yet nor can we say with confidence we are a team of brilliant Prem superstars. BUT. If I was Derby I wouldn't be so complacent about facing Austin, Krancjar, Morrison, Benayoun, Barton, even Hoilet - for all the failure of certain individuals to live up to their reputations, as an opposition fan of a middling Championship team that hasn't done anything much since the days of black and white telly, I would be a bit nervous facing a team of big match internationals for whom a play off final really isn't all that. The very fact that a lot of our players didn't turn up at Bournemouth away suggests to me that they might just turn up at Wembley. I'm not saying they will - just a possibility for an intelligent opposition fan to think about. Look how much better Nico looked in the semi - a match that mattered.

6) Love they way they present themselves as real football fans who know all there is to know about the game. They mock us for regarding Chelsea as rivals. The same cd probably be said of them when they regarded Forest as rivals for a long period. For the record I am not a great one for the Chelsea rivalry as accept they have moved into another stratosphere, but anyone who knows a handful of facts about football would surely at least know that from the mid 70s to the mid 90s we actually were consistently a lot more successful than Chelsea. Real Chelsea fans know that all too well; Derby apparently don't.

7) Man City etc can afford that kind of arrogance. If you aren't a major club - and neither Derby or QPR count as one either these days - any fan with two brain cells would surely realise that over-confidence is setting yourself up for a major fall and disappointment. We have certainly had our share of falls and it is in our folk-lore - presumably, reading that, failure is a foreign land to Derby.

8) QPR fans are among the least arrogant, least self-assured I know. We cd be three goals up in a major game with ten minutes to go and most of us will still be expecting the worst. Its in our DNA. And its that honesty and disappointment which makes our fans and our club what it is. But if they can't see all that, hey ho.

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