John Eustace has just had a decent shot just over, after an earlier bicycle kick which the goalie had to save. Rams:13 Bywater 02 Connolly 03 McEveley 19 Nyatanga 28 Albrechtsen 08 Savage 16 Sterjovski 23 Teale 30 Eustace 33 Bannan 11 Hulse
Substitutes 12 Price 07 Commons 10 Villa 22 Todd 27 Pearson

Ahhhhhh sucker punch, Gavin Rae fouled by Mile Sterjovski, Peter Whittingham takes the free kick, Roger Johnson heads in from inside the penalty box, 1-0 down.

Cardiff: 20 Taylor 02 McNaughton 06 Gyepes 12 Johnson 21 Kennedy 04 Rae 07 Whittingham 10 McPhail 44 McCormack 08 Bothroyd 18 Chopra
Substitutes 13 Heaton 09 Johnson 11 Parry 15 Comminges 29 Burke

6th corner to us, then Sterjovski almost makes amends, putting the ball just wide past the goalie, from Bannan's pass. Cardiff get their first corner. Barry Bannan's looking good. Teale linking well with Hulse. McEveley, Savage all showing good appetite, but we're losing, with 58% possession. Nyatanga on the run. Good challenge from Albrechtsen. Connolly cool back to Bywater. Even so, with the goal, McCormack Bothroyd & Chopra are hunting the killer 2nd goal.
Rae to Chopra, flag's up for offside as he puts it in the back of the net.

A last corner for the Rams, Eustace can't reach, and we're a goal down at half-time. No joy at the beginning of the second, except maybe Albrechtsen defending well. Kris Commons & Tito Villa are warming up. Half-an-hour to save a point at Ninian Park. Teale's starting to advance.

McPhail puts Rae through, he rounds Bywater, 2-0. Once again we're talking about "against the run of play" and "unfair scoreline" "no reflection", but guess what? It's goals that count, and that was a lovely counter-attack. On comes Villa for Hulse. Corner to Cardiff, Bothroyd on the far post heads in 3-0. Disaster as Derby's dead and buried. Commons on for Bannan. Todd for Albrechtsen. Johnson for Bothroyd. Parry on for McCormack.Goal difference is out to -8. See you later, Rams.

Cousin Mike's returned to Melbourne to see Geelong beat Richmond in Round 2 of Aussie Rules, so no joy there either: Geelong 15.15 (105) Richmond 13.7 (85)

I'm away for Easter, but it doesn't really matter, we're just about safe, as they get another corner with the last quarter-hour left before the long journey M4 over the bridge, M5 and across. 18,403 spectators, dozens of diehard Derby fans among them. I'll miss the away game at the Owls on Sat'dy, and the Wolves game on Monday, as Todd makes a hash of a clearance giving Johnson one-on-one which he happily converts for 4-0. Easy Easy chant the crowd. By now, Cardiff have 60% possession and all the confidence and the goals. Exhibition stuff now. Olé!

Burke on for Whittingham. Possession now 65% Cardiff, after that first little bit of pressure, we were outclassed. Nigel has a real setback here, after saying we needed the international break to improve, but he can dig deep. Let's hope we have the money to buy in the summer.

Free kick from Commons, on target, saved. 3 extra minutes. One more corner for us, Teale in, flicked at by Mile Sterjovski GOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL from Eddie Johnson in his own net. We'll take the consolation, it's probably the last goal at Ninian Park under floodlights???!!!???