Pan out

Form says we should win over the two legs. I've got to confess that I'm nervous as hell though.

I'd be happy that we're still in with a good chance come the end of Thursday evening, having won, drawn or at least be only one goal behind. Any of those score lines and I'm confident of ending Sunday the victors.

For me a trip to Wembley alone would be fantastic and promotion an "icing on the cake" bonus.

If any games go to penalties we're done for.

Larry
I think that if we practice penno's in training then we will get better at them and win.

What do you think?

Agree that practice is needed Iwas. I just worry that confidence is shot re penalties and that's what could cost us.

It's going to be a tight contest.

Beating Brighton at their place was one of the results of the season that really set us on our way.

If memory serves well the Brighton games could have both feasibly been draws, especially the home game.

In previous years we haven't been able to break them down, but the cutting edge and options from the bench have been there this year, and I think that is what will make the difference.

McDermott paid us a nice compliment the other day, by saying we have imagination in attack. In previous years we've been so pedestrian and the change is largely down to one player, Chris Martin.

How well we defend the aerial threat of Ullua and how well Brighton deal with the influence of Chris Martin will have a huge bearing on which way the tie goes.

As long as we don't lose our heads like we did in the first half at Turf Moor then we're more than capable of making it to the final.

It'll be tight but i'm going 2-1 to Derby over 2 legs.

Hopefully I can persuade my bar owning mate to whack it on in his club.

Important to respect the opposition. Liverpool seemed to think they coulld walk the ball in to the Palace net tonight and found it wasn't that easy. We probably didn't give Millwall enough respect when inexplicably they beat us at the iPro. Well it was either that or having Sammon leading the attack.

^ I'm not Spart - Liverpool's problem isn't trying to walk the ball into the oppostion's net, as they seem to be rather good at getting it in the net.
Their issue lies at the other end of the field, keeping it out of their own goal.
As a free-flowing attacking team ourselves we'd do well to learn from their mistakes, our defence can certainly be prone to costly error at times and there's no worse time to make a blunder than during the play-offs.
Agree we do need to have respect for the opposition though, confidence is good, over-confidence can damage you (a la Watford, they scored early on and we weren't expecting it)

You SHOULD OF been in bed earlier than that Ramps - you've got a big morning ahead of you !

Pan out?

I thought that it was going to be another JA606 classic cookery thread.

Wassa:

There were still a couple of hundred Brighton away tickets left last night.

comment by AnglianRam (U17428)
posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
You SHOULD OF been in bed earlier than that Ramps - you've got a big morning ahead of you !
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Ang - I'm used to getting up early drunk, doing it sober in order to watch the team I love is a walk in the park