Derby County vs Brighton and Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[loz]

Agree. No shame being beat by the better team over 2 legs, especially when we have lost both center backs today. Nowhere near as bad as being beat by 6th place Palace last year. Finishing 6th is a great achievement that shouldn't be overlooked by today's performance. Disappointing, yes, but overall pleased with a season in which I expected mid table mediocrity.

Palace finished 5th that's why the played Brighton who finished 4th

 

[Don Quixote]

Next season we should be going for automatic promotion.

 

[paul wickens]

I don't know what has been more depressing; a lack of quality on the ball, a lack of bite in the tackle, general slowness of thought and movement, tactical ineptitude ( why was Buckley playing if he was injured, too many long balls, anonymity of Orlandi and Lingaard, substitutions too late) terrible commentators on a Sky dismissing Brighton out of hand or an inept referee ....or all of the above

 

[somerset]

Give our travelling fans credit though. Still making a decent noise.
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Indeed......long miserable journey home too....good effort.

 

[Don Quixote]

Absolutely disgraceful what a load of rubbish

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Fantastic support from the Albion fans despite the capitulation.

 

[upthealbion1970]

No, failing once more in the playoffs is........can I remind you that there are no prizes for finishing 6th......its failure not to get through the tie....again.

Christ on a bike

 

[Ernest]

FFS, what a shower of shite , This is worse than last year

 

[turnbull92]

Miserable performance, but not nearly as miserable as the one on here. Seriously depressing. Did well with what we've go this season, completely outclassed today by a team we probably all want Brighton to resemble. On to the next one. Do try and cheer up a bit.

 

[Mowgli37]

The variety in goal music is interesting.

 

[glasfryn]

Felt that this time last year, including against scheming / always look after no.1 Poyet.
But this time it was incredible we even got to the playoffs, so the money was a bonus, because our team and squad contains so much mediocrity - some old slow players, Ulloa who everyone but me seems to adore (to me a heavy slow-coach, loses every battle against centre halves and gets ref against him), some young players who might/might not make it but a class or 2 below those of Derby for example and some players who are relentlessly injured like Orlandi and Buckley.

It really is D-Day for the Board to decide their strategy re the squad - pace, power, proven players in their mid-20's .... are required a.s.a.p. in bucketloads. And please stop this expensive sentiment - why on earth are well paid Ankergren and Brezovan on our books, slow Greer, even slower Andrews?

Over to TB to exhibit the same brilliant overview he showed with Falmer, Lancing and no doubt his other business interests.

we had one of those and we let him slip away to Blackburn

 

[Goldstone76]

Would have taken play offs at the beginning of the season. Derby will do well in the Prem.. We lack depth.. without the long running injury list and the Poyet saga we may well have got into the top 2 but inconsistency found us out.. as well as a Derby team on fire. Whats needed now is to build on what we have. Oscar shouldnt go anywhere and to be honest if this is his first season here he will only get far better. We are a work in progress..

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Walloping. Blasted Hendrick, who should have gone off, gets their fourth. Calde, Dunk and TK all over the place.

 

[DBL]

Absolutely disgraceful what a load of rubbish

What a load of rubbish, what a load of rubbish.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Shocking.

 

[easynow]

We can still win this.

 

[supaseagull]

Still least we won't see Keith Andrews anymore #silverlining

 

[matbha]

3-0 down and 11 minutes to go, piece of pi$$

**** off prick

 

[Pavilionaire]

We're making Derby look like Brazil. Fair play to our fans still singing, top effort.

 

[Ernest]

Derby were nothing at the start of the season now people are making them out to be some kind of Barcelona