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Perhaps, but one of Brighton or ourselves are going to be caught by Huddersfield I feel. If we beat both of them in the coming weeks we will cruise to the title I think. This is a vital time, thank goodness we have Gayle coming back.

Good defensively, poor going forward. Awful ref and commentary. It's over and we are back to the top, job done, move on and fuck you Don Goodman.

What the fuck is Goodman going on about, seriously !!

This Ref is just terrible the commentary team are terrible, the game isn't much better but we are winning that's all that matters.

Would still take Mitro off at half time though, no point in taking a chance.

Wow analyst talking sense.

They are determined to get the goal descredited aren't they, fucking hell.

What exactly did he do wrong for yellow? didnt go for the ball, 2nd time, backed into his man after being warned 5 mins earlier...........are you watching ? You are on something, he did nothing wrong for the yellow, it wasn't even a foul, are you watching

Fuck off commentor, should not be on the field, fuck off.

That's not a yellow, when Mitro gets one for absolutely nothing ?

Huddersfield are starting to worry me, with Norwich up next who are also on fire. Gap could be down to a point soon.

That ref is giving us nothing today, pandering to the crowd.

Should have scored Diame really

Means the bloke is an absolute idiot.

He should never have been booked for the first one, but he has to be taken off now, for the team sake we can not afford to go to 10 men.

Absolutely nothing in that, it was a bloody accident

He's off but what can he do, he has to go for the ball.

Take a draw here right now, they are a lot better than the league table shows.

Gonna need to win today, Brighton and Huddersfield ahead already

Huddersfield and Reading have already surpassed the points total they got last season, Leeds are only 5 points off theirs. Ipswich and Cardiff have really slumped.

A look at the final table last year is interesting: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/tables/9484389/Football-League-Championship-table-2015-16.html Brighton finished on 89 points for 3rd !! And of course the lottery of the playoffs (hate the system, were a team can potentially finish 10 - 15 points behind another and go up ahead of them) saw them fail. Sheff Wed finished 6th on 74 points , to match that we need only 4 wins. Our current points total coupled with our GD would have us finishing 11th last year, in early feb. It really is ours to throw away now but 90 points is the bare minimum we need.

TBH, we've tended to fair better against the better teams, it's the poorer ones where we've struggled.

Just watched the full 90 on the club website. This thought process that we won the first they won the second and it was a pretty even game was just not true. They offered absolutely nothing for the first 80 mins or so until Ince missed that sitter. We were passing the ball around very well at times. Nervy at the end and clearly missing our top scorer but it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, thoroughly deserved victory.

Can't forget about the huge part he played in the goal, he does hold the ball up extremely well on occassion, but that miss was poor, he needs to take his chances, otherwise he will be playing somewhere else next season.

Just seen the highlights of the last minute corners they had, ffs how does Scott Carson get away with the rugby tackles in there, would have been a travesty if they had scored from them. One the first one they had the cheek to claim a pen, when Carson is all over Lasc. Derby head coach Steve McClaren told BBC Radio Derby: "I'm disappointed to lose points but we came here, had a go and got them nervous at the end. "We were disappointed with our first-half performance and the goal, but in the second half we were fantastic and should not have lost that game." Line-ups Match Stats Live Text Home TeamNewcastleAway TeamDerby Possession Home49%Away51% Shots Home19Away4 Shots on Target Home8Away2 Corners Home5Away5 Fouls Home15Away9 Yeah Steve 19 shots to 4, shouldn't have lost at all, no justice in this world