Felt hard done by on Saturday, certainly the Derby fans I travelled with, knew they were lucky to take all 3 points.
As soon as Smyth missed the 1 on 1, I turned to the person next to me and said it would go 3-1. Our season in a nutshell, missing big chances and conceding from the opposition doing very little.
There were definitely green shoots in the performance, I liked Smyth, showed a willingness to get on the ball and drive forward, but that does highlight the lack of that this season more than him being some kind of saviour.
3 refereeing mistakes in the run up to Derby's 2nd. He was a strange ref, completely duped by James Collins every time (though not the first, we've seen that a number of times playing Collins in the past - he's very good at winning free-kicks).
Can't decide on Manning - if we were in midtable, I'd be delighted and looking forward to next season with excitement. The current situation though does have me speculating whether it's a case of "right appointment, wrong time".
I agree with the comments on his style in L2. But lets hope we can drag enough points out the bag from somewhere. We've got to win again at some point - surely?!
On the camera thing -
Technically the EFL own the copyright to all images/video taken within a stadium, and obviously media organisations have to have accreditation to present/taking content etc.
Section 17, 20 and 21 cover it off on here -
https://www.efl.com/siteassets/efl-documents/ground-regulations.pdf
I used to take a small pocket camera in the Conference and when we came back in the EFL, upload my images/videos online/YouTube, and came up against multiple requests for them to be removed as they "breached copyright".
I understood that years back when phone cameras were rubbish so anyone using a better quality of camera could put out decent images/videos from the stands but a large percentage of match attending crowds have a good quality camera on their phone these days.
I guess they're just trying to stop non-accredited people taking shed loads of professional quality content and using it beyond just popping in a blog/saving to their personal files.
Got to be consistent though - with Vlogging making such a huge return, and thousands of YouTube channels full of videos of match action - feels like that these regulations need re-visiting as they're just not sensible for the amount of modern technology available.