Gladram

Man of the match today, scored and we won 🦜

3 nil now 😄

Thameslink from Bedford run straight into London Bridge. Easiest station to reach from M1 is Flitwick

Also been selected for England U19 squad after switching from Northern Ireland 

I think something is coming. DFCC Official Twitter are posting on the hour about the 3rd kit. They didn't post as much for the home kit.

They know each tweet gets people looking for a new signing and been disappointed. 

1 minute ago, Brailsford Ram said:

Social media was up and running when Alex Ferguson was ruling his roost. Did he give a toss about feeding it? Of course he didn't; he kept his cards close to his chest and that's why he was so successful. 

It's grown bigger since. Instant news is what people expect. Every time they scroll they expect to see something new. It's either real news from the club or made up, they don't care, they just want news.

To have some sort of control clubs need to give out some news.

3 minutes ago, Brailsford Ram said:

I'm getting fed up with Paul Warne feeding us crumbs about what may or may not happen in the transfer market. It's getting very boring and tedious.

Cloughie rarely gave anything away until he announced the signing of John O'Hare, Roy McFarland, Alan Hinton, Dave Mackay, Willie Carlin, Terry Hennessey, Archie Gemmill, Colin Todd, David Nish et al. When the announcement came it was just exciting and breathtaking and we didn't have to suffer the mental torture that we are going through at the moment. It's tedious. If he could just take a leaf out of the master's book, if he wanted Waggy so badly, he'd have gone round to his house last night, sold the deal to Mrs. Waghorn, slept in their spare room, got her to cook him breakfast and then signed her husband so they could  get him out of their house and most of us would be happy today.

Just keep things close to your chest Paul and simply break the news to us when you've done the deal. All of our lives would then be so much simpler.

Different world now 24/7 coverage, social media, fans forum etc means there is a constant need for news. Saying nothing doesn't work and only fuels the flames.

2 hours ago, Jubbs said:

I personally can't see many of those being Thomas signings/targets.

 

Curious as to why?

45 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

‘like I said’, let’s hope this spurs Hourihane to more consistent effort. If it does, it’ll work well. 

He doesn't have to. Club captain isn't the one who runs around the most, shouts the most or is the most aggressive. 

It's the one who sets an example on attitude and behaviour in training, personal life and games.

The players, most of who worked with him last season, think Conor is that person.

People seem fixated about the match day part of the club captain's role. Paul Warne was very clear that the club captain is the one who leads by example and sets the standards 24/7. Conor Hourihane is the person the squad think is best to do this. Not sure how we can argue with the decision, though of course we will.

2 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

A few more media outlets have confirmed the interest. However, unless Collins is a big earner and we think we can find better for the wage he's on i really can't see this happening. In which case, if he was on that much then i doubt Shrewsbury would be able to afford him.

Seen these but there's a suggestion it's the wrong James Collins and it's actually a young lad from Watford. Journalists heard the name and picked the wrong one?

14 minutes ago, Macintosh said:

I'm sorry, but am I the only one that finds it amazing that many here have no football knowledge at all? Who's Sonny Bradley, never heard of him I've read. Curtis Nelson where does he play? This Conor Washington we've signed, is he any good? Ryan Woods – you couldn't miss him with his ginger hair and should know that Brentford paid a million for him from Shrewsbury when they got promoted into the Championship, he'll have played 20 times against Derby. The younger here, I thought they lived their life playing Football Manager and knew every footballer in the world.

I know him well and for many seasons said he was the type of player we needed to stitching the midfield together, keeping the ball moving but I don't think he's the player he was or what we need now.

You listed some players, all of who I knew, but missed an important fact. They all replaced older players who had left the club. Selling Bird and replacing him with Woods seems to me to be the wrong thing to do.

4 or 5 season's ago he would of been a great signing. Now he would be a typical Derby signing, picking a player up well passed his peak. Yes I know he's onlt 29 but he's not the player he was.

1 minute ago, silhillian said:

Doesn't actually say we're interested in Godden does it?

The piece on his Pateron account is slightly longer and names Derby in the Godden exit sentence

3 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

I'm sure Nixon hears stuff but with us it's not as often as it perhaps used to be. We seem to be running a tight-ish ship rumour-wise.

Nixon does have contacts and where he does he's pretty accurate, currently nothing with Derby. For Derby he only knows if the player is with a club he has contacts with otherwise it's based on Twitter. There have been very few Rams transfer stories on his Pateron account. 

Says on the Academy thread that Pat Lyons has left.

Interesting part in an article from Training Ground Guru

"The Rams placed 39th in TGG’s Academy Productivity Rankings for 2021/22 - the third lowest Category One club (behind Stoke City and Burnley). The rankings place teams according to the number of professionals they produced who played in that season (from Premier League to National League level):

https://trainingground.guru/articles/hale-appointed-derby-county-academy-manager

Perhaps this is what they're looking to improve? 

Won 2 Champions League medals 🏅 🏅

I think Shay Given coached the keepers to punch, as that is what he did as a shorter keeper. It wasn't natural to Roos so he lost all confidence and the ability to catch or punch it. Not helped by the crowd who added to the panic.

Seen a couple of his games for Aberdeen and he seems much more confident.

37 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Still the strangest signing we have made in a longtime - extremely expensive transfer fee with associated high wages at a time following a Wembley failure when every man and his dog knew we had serious financial difficulties - it’s not that we particularly needed someone at that cost in that position - sure I could have understood spending all that money on 6 good players or a extremely good centre forward. Yet the Derby county bad luck continued with him being fairly quickly seriously injured as we exploded financially.

I seem to remember our original interest was a loan for which we'd pay a fee. The logic in the purchase was splitting the purchase over the length of the contract and using our unique amortisation policy meant a low FFP cost in year 1. We also had an asset we could sell or get us promoted. 

Unfortunately his injuries knackered this.

He was serving a ban from his red card when he first went back. He then broke his jaw playing for the Development Squad (U21s?), so missed a couple of months and has only recently returned to playing games.

1 hour ago, Rambam said:

Didzy was nowhere near the keeper. No one was. 

To be fair if you see the whole thing Didzy was next to the keeper as the corner was taken but no way did he foul him.

20 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Not sure if this has already been mentioned but is there a rule which says that if 2 players from the same side receive treatment on the pitch at the same time that only one of them has to leave the field of play before being called back on by the referee?

The rules

Scored a goal as well