Derby County V's Wednesday OMDT

[Lord Snooty]

 

 

 

 

"You seem in very good spirits this evening ,Sir"

 

"Indeed I am, Stubbs, indeed I am!"

 

"I must say I am  surprised. I thought perhaps you would be full of trepidation about tomorrows game, Sir"

 

"Not a jot. Not. A Jot. And shall I tell you why, Stubbs?"

 

"If you would like, Sir"

 

"Because."

 

"Because what, Sir?"

 

"Because Stubbs, I didn't think we'd get this far. Didn't think we'd get to this stage. I really didn't. My God, but it's been an awful season. Take out the Cardiff game and we have had literally nothing to be happy about. At all. This club is a complete shambles on and off the pitch."

 

"Well yes, exactly, Sir, and today could seal your fate to the third division"

 

"Yes, yes it could. But it won't."

 

"It won't?"

 

"No. Because the Gods are with us. Taken a shine to us. Lady Luck is with us!"

 

"She's has a funny way of showing it ,Sir"

 

"Not at all. I mean to say, you've seen some of our games this year?"

 

"Indeed I have, Sir, which is why I'm afraid I can't see where you have acquired this belief that Lady Luck is on your side."

 

"Well, we've been tosh, haven't we? Absolute pants. Poo.  Complete and utter bobbins, the whole season through. One of the worst seasons on record. Really. Some of the worst football we've seen. Some of the most depressing, inept, poke yourself in the eye with a splintery chip-fork performances that any Owl has ever had the misfortune to suffer. We couldn't win a kick in a riot. We've had 5 men picking the team from this desperado squad this season. We've never looked like a  unit under any of them. Never looked like a decent football team. Never looked like we'd score goals.  We seemingly pull names and formations out of the hat before kick off each week. We play players who struggle in their own positions...out of position, for a whole season! We've had long term Injuries to our best players right down the spine of the team too. And did I mention the points deduction? A mentally crushing points deduction. It has been absolutely ,100%, disastrous this season. Disastrous. But we're still here. On the last day of the season we're still here.  We should have been dead and buried, Stubbs! Dead and buried with everything that's gone on. With all that lot.  Yet here we are. Here we are, one win from safety. After all that! If that doesn't tell you we're lucky then nothing will!"

 

"Well, when you put it at that angle, Sir. I mean, I suppose you could look at it like that..."

 

"Exactly, Stubbs. Exactly! And I do."

 

"Very good. More tea, Sir?"

 

"Oh, this isn't tea Stubbs. It's red turps. I'll have another though. Only 14 hours until kick off."

 

 

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Derby County

V's

Wednesday

Championship

Kick off: 12:30

Pride Park

 

Rooney may decide to match Sheffield Wednesday and start with a back five, which will likely see Nathan Byrne and Lee Buchanan feature as wing-backs.

 

Goalkeeper Kelle Roos has started the last two matches ahead of David Marshall and could keep his place in the side on Saturday.

 

Strikers Colin Kazim-Richards and Martyn Waghorn – who have scored a third of Derby's goals in the Championship this season, with 11 combined – are the most likely pair to lead the line, while midfielder Lawrence, who has three goals in his last six appearances, is set to start just behind them.

 

You'd pick yourself if you were Rooney. Wouldn't you? I mean ok, he's 35. But he's got to be better than anything they've got. You'd be tempted wouldn't you. "Ok Chaps, I'll play number ten. Give me the ball all the time and I'll take all the free kicks and any penalties."  I mean to say, you would, wouldn't you. 

 

He's got great discipline. He really has. Not with the booze and the grannys of course, but in terms of not throwing himself in there like Roy Race, a Boys own hero saving the day and the club. 

 

 

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THE WEDNESDAY

 

Although Liam Palmer, Sam Hutchinson and Julian Borner started as the back three against Forest and kept a clean sheet, Moore may decide to start one of Chey Dunkley or Osaze Urhoghide, which would allow Palmer to play in a more natural right wing-back role.

 

This would also allow Callum Patterson – who began the game against Forest as a right wing-back – to start further forward and he could be joined in attack by Josh Windass and Jordan Rhodes.

 

Captain Barry Bannan has played in all 45 Championship matches this season and is set to lead the Owls out once again this weekend, playing in central midfield alongside Joey Pelupessy. There's talk of Luongo. But really. Who knows. Who knows what we'll see. 

I hope we've taken the blue shirts and just put some white shorts in the kit bag. I don't fancy that grey kit tomorrow or the green one really. They've got black shorts and white socks. I think we could get away with our stripes and blue socks if we just took a change of shorts.

 

 

COME

ON

WEDNESDAY!!

[B&WOwl]

Judgement Day is upon us, can we have a miracle?

[CircleSeven]

Hadn’t realised there was a game on tomorrow. Who are we playing? These end of season ‘dead rubbers’ are always a bit boring. Focusing on looking forward to next season now and we can all just enjoy a match tomorrow with nothing at stake. 
UTO!

[kobayashi]

Just f0okin smash’em Wednesday and have faith in Big Mick...

[Rogers]

Last game at last. Whatever the result, it’ll be good to get this season behind us.
 

It’s been like watching an old dog with cancer struggle to do the old things it used to do; it can’t chase the ball, but it really wants to. 
 

Now, it’s time, one last trip to the vets. 
 

 

 

[Weshallovercome]

Been looking on the Derby message boards and some fans are planning to cheer their team on from outside the ground.

 

Hopefully we can 'do a Cardiff' and shut them up.

 

We never thought it would get this far, I thought we would go down at the beginning of the season, so to take it to the last day is sort of miraculous.

 

COME ON YOU MIGHTY WINGED WONDERS!!!!!!!!!

[Drewswfc]

Can't sleep and I've got to be up early tomorrow to get ont ale. I've got 16 bottles of bud for before n during match and if we win I've got a crate of rattler to celebrate. 

Need to play with some tempo from the off and get on the front foot and please God play 2 up front. 

COME ON WEDNESDAY

Lets leather these Sheep bothering b@stards. 

Bring on the rattler

UTO

[Weshallovercome]

......and Barry if you're reading this please play 20m further forwards, Joey can manage on his own for once.

[Rev Owl]

Errrrm...

Mmmmm...

Yeah

 

Not really sure.

 

Mmmm...

 

 

Ok.

 

Let's see what happens

[WalthamOwl]

Last game of the season, thank God for that. Would absolutely love us to stay up but if we do things need to change on and off the pitch, so many of these players need to go, people like Harris and Reach should be the first out the door, have a horrible feeling new deals will be handed out if we stay up which would be a massive mistake imo, fresh start needed. Secondly and more importantly Chansiri needs to get people in to help him and show him how to run a football club, I very much doubt that will happen though. Been a disgrace of a season but come on Wednesday!!!!!! League one would be a disaster. 

[Woodyowl450]

I'm trying to convince myself were down and anything else is a bonus so I can get some bloody sleep but it's not working. UTO  

[Shetland Owl]

Come on you OWLS, give everything you have got and dont spare the horses

[KcebSWFC11]

Goddamit I hope we win!

But if we don’t, or if we do but it’s not enough, we will still be Sheffield Wednesday. Don’t believe everything you read, we will not go away, we will come back & one day, we will be back in the premier league

[gazzatheowl]

Attack, attack, attack and don't fecking stop attacking until the coont in black/yellow/green/red/pink blows the final whistle. Leave absolutely everything on that pitch. I want to see all of you crawling off that pitch at the end. Derby are there for the taking, they've got no fight left in them.

Adam Reach if there's a 50/50 you win that battle

Jordan Rhodes if you put them thumbs away you might run a bit faster.

Josh Windass a little anticipation wouldn't go a miss.

We're all behind you, think Wembley levels of noise. This is the biggest game of your careers, act like it and we will escape relegation.

UTO WAWAW

[Groundhopping Owl]

A very good evening to you mi'lud, I commend you on your spirit of optimism which can only serve Wednesdayites well at least until kick off tomorrow - nothing left to be done now but hope the team deliver the performance Darren and Jamie will be demanding of them.

 

Still having hope is an enormous luxury of course and one we didn't think we'd be afforded - I've attempted to resign myself to relegation at least five times at various points this season, mainly after the Wycombe, Barnsley, Luton, Watford and Bristol City games. And yet we're still alive. Just.

 

I still refuse to believe, not because I don't think we can do it, but because I couldn't bear the disappointment if we didn't. I can appreciate the optimism of others though. A Unitedite friend of mine is so convinced we're staying up that he's put a bet on it. 

 

The one thing that occurs to me about Derby is Roos has form for dropping clangers in big games if you look at the play-off final a few years back, so that might bring a goal out of nothing. 

 

As for us, we've beaten Derby once (God we didn't half play terribly though), we can do it again but not if we sit back. Let's have Palmer back at wing-back where his performances have been so positive of late, I'd be tempted to go with Shaw in midfield and have Paterson and Harris in reserve with Rhodes and Windass up front, between them they've surely got the most goal threat. Whatever the team selection, I just hope they're sent out with the impetus to attack and set a positive tone in the early stages.

 

That being said, the pressure on the game is such that I'm not sure there's much point in analysing it much beforehand. It'll most likely be like a derby game where the winner is simply the team that copes better with the occasion and turns up on the day.

 

I've nothing at all to say about Rotherham, but I've always liked Mick McCarthy and would love him until my dying day were he to do us a favour tomorrow.

 

God the nerves are hideous. At least for once this non-morning person will have no difficulty whatsoever waking up tomorrow.

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY!!! 

 

Derby 0-1 Wednesday

(Bannan 61)

[Guest]

If we don't win or don't stay up I can accept it 

 

But if we get the same halfarsed performance we've had from our lot all season, then they deserve all the flack they will get 

 

They don't deserve to be called professional footballers if they aren't up for this game 

[CalmJimmers]

I keep getting kiddy on the thought of staying up.

 

Had this feeling a few times with Wednesday, always ends up in disappointment.

 

We win but so do Rotherham, us and Derby go down and make it a shiyt fire of a league next year.

 

[Mystic Neg]

For once in your lives, you sods, put a shift in and do it for the fans. We're like a cat and this is our 9th life of the season, for the love of God get it done.

 

That is all

 

UTO

[Pulixifer]

Lazarus's revenge. Moore in the dugout to watch Luongo boss the park.  3-1 Wednesday

[Mystic Neg]

56 minutes ago, Drewswfc said:

Can't sleep and I've got to be up early tomorrow to get ont ale. I've got 16 bottles of bud for before n during match and if we win I've got a crate of rattler to celebrate. 

Need to play with some tempo from the off and get on the front foot and please God play 2 up front. 

COME ON WEDNESDAY

Lets leather these Sheep bothering b@stards. 

Bring on the rattler

UTO

 

Fair well fellow Owl,

 

If it isn't the hope that kills us it may as well be the alcohol.

 

Chin, chin & chin up regardless