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So frustrating reading some 'fans' opinions on Birds move,

The bloke stayed with us throughout everything whilst others jumped ship, he's moved on to a solid championship club, something that we can't offer at the moment,

Short memories on here, the unbeaten run of last season ended when he got injured - we're a worse team without him in it.

Despite the disappointment I am pleased we didn’t play silly buggers with Wendies for Smith and Gregory. The latter wasn’t good enough 3 seasons ago.

It's been very quiet on the Billy Sharp front? Not even a thread of folks deviding themselves into "yeah but he'd be good" and "no but he doesn't like us and doesn't want to sign for us"

f*** me give the kid a bit of respect
Stuck by the club when it was properly properly s***, could have done a Buchanon or a Byrne but didnt
Time for him to move on.. No problem with that, he's earned a move. Going to see out the season so that he doesn't leave the club in a tougher spot for the rest of the season and gives some money and time for Clowes to get him replaced, good on him. Best of luck and hope he gets a big pay rise! 

Two words people.
Colin Kazim Richards.

Because he prefers Pearsons style of football over Warnes?

I'd go for free-agent Conor Wickham on a six-month contract. He's 30, a target man, and would be playing for a contract extension. That can be done after we miss out on whoever we are chasing and being held ransom by Wednesday. Let them continue paying their wages, they will soon regret that. Waghorn must be weeks away from being involved and Washington not that far behind.

Welcome Ebou. Sounds good, decent aura from an instinct point of view. Glad he’s got a buddy in Wilson. If he has fire like Kane then all to the good.
 
My happy clappy self thinks this could be a very good signing.
Happy enough with Bird OR Hourihan but the two together don’t cut it. Is Ebou the key and will Warne rotate ?

We have not been great att transfer windows for quite some time so might as well keep what little funds we have and try with the current squad. The risk with Gregory is that he will most probably end up injured after a few minutes and we are back at square one anyway. 

I dont see the point in signing anyone else this window pretty much everything out there currently are out of our price range or not good enough. Risk it till Wag and Wash are back we could play Barkhuizen up top he used to play striker once upon a time and as for midfield time to give Robinson and Fapetu a chance . 

Bring the lad home!

We seem to be in a bad place right now and should consider ourselves lucky to collect 7 points from our last four games. That could actually have been maybe 1-2 points or something like that based on performance.
 
Big challenge for Warne now to find the right starting eleven because as it looks right know we are in some trouble. I hope he can find a way out of this right now because otherwise we actually might find ourselves below top 6 within weeks. That's how bad I think we’re playing at the minute.   

I've argued that Warne is not the right man for us consistently for quite some time now, and in that time Ive tried to condense my argument down in to something as concise as possible in an effort to make it simple to understand.
I think it's as simple as this, do I enjoy watching Derby County play and do I feel like the personnel we have in place are suitable for the short, medium and long term ambitions of the club?
I currently do not enjoy watching Derby play. The performance levels are among the worst I've seen in my life outside of the 11 point season. In terms of our ambitions I will concede that in the short term Warne might get us promoted from L1, I believe that would be in spite of him not because of him. In the medium/long term I have absolutely no faith in his ability to take us beyond being a lower end, relegation threatened Championship team and we surely want more than that?

£1.25M in pensions. Curtis Davis and co certainly didn't come cheap.

This just cements DC’s hero status for me.
Of course the first few months out of admin  won’t be representative of the rest of his tenure and as @angieramsays there may be Bielek money etc in that loss.
However when you see someone running a successful, mid-size, profitable property company lurching into a business like football where it’s so difficult to turn a profit…….all for the sake of us…..you have to doff your cap.

Can't single out only Warne for a performance like that. The players could not do the basics or even run at times. I am no Warne fan and would not mind if we got someone else in but except Thompson and Elder not one single player did even ok tonight. What has happened to Sibley? Ward? NML? How can we perform so so badly on an individual basis? Remarkable.

This sorry lot need roundly booing off the pitch 

We are so poor tonight. But my god the ref is the worst I've seen in recent years. No only against us though so guess that's fair.

Perhaps we’re going to make a double signing announcement of CBT & Smith and leaving it as late as possible to disrupt Reading’s match preparations.  
You can see it now with the Reading manager putting panic notes to the group WhatsApp…… “scrap everything I said, Derby have just made a double signing and our intelligence tells us they’re now going to get it out wide and put it into the box”
 

When NML isn’t great we have trouble scoring. On to the next.

Great fighting spirit to go for it after a kick in the teeth but should'nt have had to really. Elder, Vickers and TJJ felt fragile. I think we need to find a few gems from the loan market. That could get us over the line this season if (big if) we get it right this time. 

Mascarell ?

There’s a rumour that the EFL are going to hit them hard with a 20 minute transfer embargo for this.