Today showed everybody how the Rams can perform. The majority of the excitement came within the first 45 minutes of the game when Smith, Idiakez and Moore took the Rams to a 3-0 lead before the break.

Tommy Smith nodded in the first after Kevin Lisbie’s smart header into the box. It was then Idiakez who fired the second home through a full box of Clarets. Lisbie’s attack certainly pushed Burnley to the maximum and his determination obviously squandered the travellers as Darren “Big Dave” Moore tidied up a cross from Idiakez in the 34th minute.

Burnley tried hard to get a consolation goal but, at the end of the day, were beaten by the better side.

Derby have now got a 9 point cushion with 8 games left to play this season but, after today, there isn’t anything to worry about. Westley has put together a very confident and potentially clever team who shouldn’t need to worry about relegation and concentrate on building on today’s success. Our away match at Luton next week will be tricky for the team and Westley should be able to capitalise on his knowledge of the side but, after today’s performance against the F*xes, we should be able to travel back up the M1 next weekend with a spring in our step and yet another 3-points.

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Watford snatched a last minute goal to steal the Rams of two points after yet another very promising game.

Kevin Lisbie started the ball rolling in the 19th minute after latching on to an Adam Bolder cross. It was then Marlon King who smashed a howler home to take the Hornets level in the 35th minute.

It remained stalemate until the 85th minute when the young Giles Barnes gave the Rams the lead again but Bangura took the score level in the dying minutes of the game.

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The Rams managed to get their first win in seven games thanks to Adam Bolder’s 2nd minute goal.

The Rams went ahead early in the game and managed to hold ten-man Plymouth to the same score line. Paul Connolly was sent off in the 73rd minute after several nasty challenges on Tommy Smith. The best attempts from the travellers came from David Norris but he struggled to convert for his team.

This is the first win for the Rams under Westley’s supervision which should boost morale for the trip to Watford next week. Hopefully those new players might do something for us next time too!

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Our three game undefeated run came to an end yesterday as we travelled to Norwich and lost the game to a strong defence and even stronger front line. Jonatan Johansson and Darren Huckerby were the lads who took the Canaries’ goals home while Adam Bolder had the most impressive chance for us in the first half.

Hopefully, our loan signing of Kevin Lisbie from Charlton and a possible Dwight Yorke will inject some striking force into the side for the near future which is what we are lacking at the moment due to injuries.

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It was three draws in a row for Derby on Tuesday night as they travelled to their East Midlands rivals and managed to scrape a point back due to a clumsy own goal from F*xes’ Richard Stearman.

The Rams took the lead in the 24th minute thanks to a Mounir El Hamdaoui shot from Danny Graham’s back-pass but the lead was cancelled three minutes later when Iain Hume met Alan Maybury’s pass and put it past Campy.

It wasn’t until the 55th minute when the F*xes took the lead from Maybury’s finish but it was Tomasz Hajto who headed the ball in to the goal area and Stearman’s finish in his own net that took Derby level and walking away from the Walkers’ Stadium with a point.

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Derby managed no more than yet another goal-less draw against a less-than-impressive Leeds United this week.

Derby seemed to dominate the entire game with more attempts on goal than Leeds but, unfortunately, none could be converted with less than half of them actually going on target and challenging the keeper. Danny Graham and Giles Barnes were denied in the first half while Leeds’ Robbie Blake and Liam Miller were left standing due to Lee Camp’s saves.

It’s an agonising time for temporary caretaker manager Terry Westley. That’s only two points from three games but he is determined to get a win at Leicester on Tuesday. He has a lot to prove but, with the support, we should be able to avoid a duplicate of last year’s 1-0 defeat at Walkers Statium.

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