Predictions etc for the BIG GAME

[Andy_Faber]

Turd free!!

Just asking y'all if you noticed anything....if you have, its temporary for now, I'm all for rehabilitation. We'll see

[macstheman]

After their capitulation in the second half of the season the oldies have done well but I think tonight will be a bridge too far. Agree with rA and I reckon their legs will go!! 3-1 defeat, so here's to next season!!

[MadAmster]

I'd love to be that positive but it depends which team turns up. We can do enough to win on aggregate, or even the tie, but equally we have the capacity to get battered 4-0.

Its so difficult to figure out as there are so many variants of the Rams out there.

An early goal for us will leave them really chasing the game and vulnerable on the break to conceding more. Let's hope we can got at them from kickoff and get that goal in the first 15 minutes, always assuming we don't concede 2 in getting there

Playoff semi final. A goal up going into the 2nd leg. Wembley and possible promotion within touching distance. I don't think we will see the 20 points in the opening 19 games of 2018 Derby turn up.

I would not be surprised to see Vydra on the bench and then bringing him on for the last 30.

Team selection, formation, any of it doe NOT matter to me today as long as we don't lose.

[ManxRam]

I think he might play Forsyth left side of a back 3 and put Anya and Wisdom at wing back in a back 5. Jerome up top on his own with Weimann and Lawrence playing off him. Hudds and Johnson completing the XI.

Vydra and Nugent very handy from the bench.

[ManxRam]

Oh and we can't afford to sit too deep

[ramAnag]

After their capitulation in the second half of the season the oldies have done well but I think tonight will be a bridge too far. Agree with rA and I reckon their legs will go!! 3-1 defeat, so here's to next season!!

But I really hope I’m wrong mac...agree with Manx’s selection and formation...and would add that Ledley and Hanson might have important roles to play coming off the bench too.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Oh and we can't afford to sit too deep

Agree with both of the above Manx. We must try to attack them early on and not sit back and let them on us for the whole 90 minutes. That way disaster looms - we aren't good enough to do that: in fact I dont suppose that any team in the Championship could succeed with that gameplan. park the two wingbacks on Fredericks and Sessegnon which just leaves targett as the wide option to pick off. Oh yes, and perhaps injure Mitrovic early on!!

Have I noticed anything? - well in the sense that you can notice a nothing, then yes, its nice to see the back of Spunky, if that's what you are alluding too. I'm not sure about rehab though, great in theory but it hasn't worked with the previous identities that StensonRam mentioned

[StensonRam]

Agree with both of the above Manx. We must try to attack them early on and not sit back and let them on us for the whole 90 minutes. That way disaster looms - we aren't good enough to do that: in fact I dont suppose that any team in the Championship could succeed with that gameplan. park the two wingbacks on Fredericks and Sessegnon which just leaves targett as the wide option to pick off. Oh yes, and perhaps injure Mitrovic early on!!

Have I noticed anything? - well in the sense that you can notice a nothing, then yes, its nice to see the back of Spunky, if that's what you are alluding too. I'm not sure about rehab though, great in theory but it hasn't worked with the previous identities that StensonRam mentioned

Tend to agree with you Geoff, they can easily score 3 while we're finding our feet, need to get at them from the off and harry them close them down quicker and don't keep letting them run at us - something I think we let them do for too many spells hoping the other guy would deal with it, its got to be a collective effort oh and don't get turned by Mitrovic, and for a big guy he don't half fall over a lot and cries 'broken leg ref'

Its going to be a tough night at their place and if we slip up on just one element then we'll be punished, we'll only get a win or even a draw if we're 100%, sadly though I think its a bridge too far, we needed more than a goals cushion, I'll gladly be proved wrong but i fear the worst