Quote: DGM "Sums up my thoughts too.
On paper you'd say we had the edge and bookies are giving you around an 8-point start, but we all know the Derby never follows a script, it never follows the form book. Looking forward to it.'"
A couple of years ago, I did an admittedly slightly half-baked analysis that indicated that recent form is [iusually[/i quite a good guide to the outcome of derbies. However, the exceptions tend to stick in the mind more.
Under Morgan our really good run of derby results in 2008 and 2009, coincided with years when we finished a few places clear of Hull in the league. As you improved under Radford and we drifted towards relegation, you had much the better of the derbies.
I agree that derbies are different, and acknowledge that for a team with top 4 aspirations your form has been scratchy so far. However, having the better team is probably more important than wanting it more, IMO. I think we're probably more ready to acknowledge a quality deficit than Hull fans were in 2009, for example, and tbf you did have some bad seasons for injuries (as was mentioned now and then at the time). So for Rovers' fans, I think form/quality counting for nothing is a hope, rather than a way of making sense of a situation we're struggling to come to terms with. I'll hold on tightly to it until the result is determined, because occasionally it happens - but not often.
Decimated we were told.
