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The worry for me is that when we hit a difficult spell, Rooney struggles to remedy the situation.
Six games without a win now. Performances on the downturn. It could be a very long winter.

Anyone know a good trauma councellor as I have Fulham away as one of my midweek awaydays this season?

Classic WUM.
Starts a thread with one incendiary comment and then disappears.

Of course we are not down.
How can we be down with 30 games to play and 90 points to play for, or even 81 if you include an incoming points deduction?
We have ten games in the next nine weeks to build a platform for the second half of the season.
This is where Rooney sinks or swims.

Is there any context that means a 14% win rate over the equivalent of 2/3rds of a season is an acceptable performance though? I think that's a reasonable question to ask. 

The worry for me is that when we hit a difficult spell, Rooney struggles to remedy the situation.
Six games without a win now. Performances on the downturn. It could be a very long winter.

Come on guys, don’t be so down in the dumps.
Rooney has the hardest job in English football. You can’t expect us to compete with Barnsley.
We scored a goal. We ran around a little. Surely that’s enough?

I am losing the will to live, what point are you trying to make? Rooney is a novice learning his trade as a Manager, making a lot of mistakes and errors as he goes. I would have gone for Paul Cook. He is now doing well at Ipswich and has done pretty well wherever he has been, even with little money to spend. But it’s conjecture, he might have done worse, he might have done better, who knows. Not worth even discussing. We can actually judge Wazza on his record, 13 wins in 54, 4 wins in 32 or 3 wins in 16, whichever fact you prefer, take your pick. In my view Managers need to earn the right to manage our great football club, Wazza (and Lampard, I felt the same when he was appointed) haven’t earned that right yet. Get your badges, get your experience in the lower leagues, prove yourself as a Manager and then look at becoming Rams boss. I am off to bed. 

How am I skewing the numbers, they are facts. That is his record. I don’t think that Rooney was the right option when recruited and I stand by that but he ain’t going anywhere soon so a bit of a pointless conversation. I hope he somehow is able to turn things around.

Pushing my agenda, what is that meant to mean? Why ignore last season, he was Manager wasn’t he? He has had a really difficult job but coming out with a statement of fact that nobody else could have done better is nonsense, just fits your agenda perhaps…

Who knows, but the statement that nobody could have done better is meaningless. Someone else could possibly have won more than 4 games in 32…..

If Rooney was as switched on as people suggest, he would have brought in his own people when he was offered the job permanently.
We’re always bemoaning the lack of a goalscorer.
How did Luton find Adebayo? How did Blackpool find Yates and Lavery? How did Swansea find Piroe?
Personally I think coaching is the biggest issue but it has to be said that our scouting and recruitment is very uninspiring, restrictions or not.

It's pathetic our fans turning on Rooney. Absolutely pathetic. We have a threadbare squad and have been overperforming. Now we inevitably start to struggle with our lack of options and immediately some fans are throwing the toys out the pram. Get real. Nobody we could appoint could get more out of this squad than Rooney. He's doing a good job. 

You don’t know how another manager would have done. 

If Rooney was as switched on as people suggest, he would have brought in his own people when he was offered the job permanently.
We’re always bemoaning the lack of a goalscorer.
How did Luton find Adebayo? How did Blackpool find Yates and Lavery? How did Swansea find Piroe?
Personally I think coaching is the biggest issue but it has to be said that our scouting and recruitment is very uninspiring, restrictions or not.

Of course we are not down.
How can we be down with 30 games to play and 90 points to play for, or even 81 if you include an incoming points deduction?
We have ten games in the next nine weeks to build a platform for the second half of the season.
This is where Rooney sinks or swims.

Of course we are not down.
How can we be down with 30 games to play and 90 points to play for, or even 81 if you include an incoming points deduction?
We have ten games in the next nine weeks to build a platform for the second half of the season.
This is where Rooney sinks or swims.

That argument can never be proved or disproved unfortunately so is an easy statement to make. 

Come on guys, don’t be so down in the dumps.
Rooney has the hardest job in English football. You can’t expect us to compete with Barnsley.
We scored a goal. We ran around a little. Surely that’s enough?

Come on guys, don’t be so down in the dumps.
Rooney has the hardest job in English football. You can’t expect us to compete with Barnsley.
We scored a goal. We ran around a little. Surely that’s enough?

Why is it laughable? Forest were bottom of the league when Hughton left. They had won 1 in 13 league games dating back to April, losing 8 of those. Poor, negative, flaccid football had been a feature. Morale was on the floor and disgruntlement rife, and a previously accomplished manager at this level found his reputation very much damaged. I am not seeing the appeal yet, are you?
On the face of it, yes, a big club, but with question marks over the owner, the transfer strategy and the size and make up of the squad, it can’t have been an easy sell.
I can comprehend very well the restrictions Rooney is and has been working under. Perhaps we just have different ideas on just how debilitating they are.
Entrenched? Me? No. It just takes more to impress me than 4 wins in 30.

Why is it laughable? Forest were bottom of the league when Hughton left. They had won 1 in 13 league games dating back to April, losing 8 of those. Poor, negative, flaccid football had been a feature. Morale was on the floor and disgruntlement rife, and a previously accomplished manager at this level found his reputation very much damaged. I am not seeing the appeal yet, are you?
On the face of it, yes, a big club, but with question marks over the owner, the transfer strategy and the size and make up of the squad, it can’t have been an easy sell.
I can comprehend very well the restrictions Rooney is and has been working under. Perhaps we just have different ideas on just how debilitating they are.
Entrenched? Me? No. It just takes more to impress me than 4 wins in 30.

Why is it laughable? Forest were bottom of the league when Hughton left. They had won 1 in 13 league games dating back to April, losing 8 of those. Poor, negative, flaccid football had been a feature. Morale was on the floor and disgruntlement rife, and a previously accomplished manager at this level found his reputation very much damaged. I am not seeing the appeal yet, are you?
On the face of it, yes, a big club, but with question marks over the owner, the transfer strategy and the size and make up of the squad, it can’t have been an easy sell.
I can comprehend very well the restrictions Rooney is and has been working under. Perhaps we just have different ideas on just how debilitating they are.
Entrenched? Me? No. It just takes more to impress me than 4 wins in 30.

It was passable when you could get Sky Sports News on Freeview ?

I will stick with my Meccano set thank you.