MadAmster

RamsTV 1Wildsmith. 6.5 Deflection saw their 1st go in, 2nd was in the right place but that leaves his right hand post open, a player on the post would have seen it saved, 3rd saw Jones slightly quicker 24Nyambe. 6.5 battled well but all too often had 2 opponents to mark 35Nelson. 6.5. He and Cash contributed to their 3rd 6Cashin. 7 He and Nels contributed to their third 3Forsyth. 6. Tough game against a good winger. His yellow and the knock to the knee saw him, rightfully subbed at HT 20Elder. 7. First time he's impressed me this season. 4Hourihane. 4. Too slow against a fast and mobile team plus a couple of very lame attempted passes 16Thompson. 6.5. Put himseld about to no avail 2Wilson. 7. Good 1st half, ran out of steam. 24Ward. 6. A better performance from him 11Méndez-Laing. 4. Did he beat his man at all? His failure to track his man saw that player provide the assist for their first. Half a dozen other occasions in the first half where he failed to track back where we got away with it. 19John-Jules. 6. One good shot on the turn. Failed to track back and looked sluggish being unable to catch the man with the ball when it's well known that you can run faster without it than you can with... 8Bird. 6.5 Trying to do the work of 2 with CH conspicuous by his absence. 9Collins. 7.5 MOTM typical Collo effort and 2 goals 7Barkhuizen 5. Lovely chipped cross for the first, pretty ineffective after that 17Sibley. 6.5 Very good defensively. Unable to make a telling impact going forward.

The darts theme, duh duh duh etc ending with We're Derby. Let's have the crowd do that without any "background" music or prompting from Matt.

Which is why we shouldn't have bought him in the first place. Only 4 in 28 for us then 10 in 24 at WHU in the top flight. His West Ham stats are a decent return for a striker. Murphy and the board looked no further than his goals to games ratio. When signing a player you should look at how he plays, what he does well and what he doesn't do well. Hales didn't have the skill set for the role Murphy wanted him to play. We should not have touched him with a bargepole. He got decent returns everywhere he played.... except Derby. That tells me it's the club's fault not that of the player.