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30 minutes ago, angieram said:

Can't mark Wildsmith too low after that save, whatever followed. It was world class! . 

He should have held it!! 😀

Wildsmith  6

3Forsyth  7

33Davies  7

6Cashin 6

38Knight  6

8Bird  6

4Hourihane  7

15Roberts  7

11Mendez-Laing  6

Dobbin  6

17Sibley  6

Smith  6

10McGoldrick  8

Collins  6

1Wildsmith 5

34Rooney 4

6Cashin 4

15Roberts 7

11Mendez-Laing 4

18 Dobbin 6

12Smith 7

4Hourihane 6

8 Bird 🦅 6

38Knight 5

7Barkhuizen 4

3Forsyth 4

10McGoldrick 7

9Collins 4

White 5

Davies 6

Exeter 3 Warnes Shambles 1

The what has become the usual unorganised shambles of a performance. it is painful watch. 

8 hours ago, ramboy63 said:

I remember reading something about a trial of making games 60 minutes actual play

As soon as the ball leaves the field or someone is injured or substituted the clock stops and only resumes once the ball is in play,a bit like American football do it

I think if you google the average omount of time ball is in play out of 90mins the average is 55-60 mins anyway

Would stop all this time wasting

It isn’t just about wasting a minute or two, it is done to disrupt the opposition, particularly if under the Cosh. So while it will stop some, it won’t stop it all. 

25 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Last time I checked, the season ended in May so it's a tad premature for a start. Secondly, I'd expect Warne to get a second season where he has a larger squad and a few more players that suit his style. If folk really need to criticise the owner, they might have the respect to actually wait to see how his plans play out rather than diving in at the first opportunity for a moan.

If the manager gets together a team that plays football in an entertaining way that is successful in the Championship I will be thrilled. 

If the manager rebuilds the academy so that it is successful in producing decent players i will be thrilled with as well. 

His history suggests that he is unable to do the former and has never done the latter. 

No matter, I will still buy ST number 56. 
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7 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Won't be a popular school of thought, but next season is the season where we need to get promoted. Happy-clapper I may well be, but if we went up this season with the current restrictions in place, I fear we'd be hideously outgunned. Of course, this season is not over yet, not by a long shot, but I'd not be too upset were we to miss out this year, re-group, plug a few gaps and then hit the Championship the following year with no finance-related monkeys on our back; free of soft or hard embargos, free of debt, free of wage cap, free of EFL business plan... These are surely the sunlit uplands for most Derby fans and the more I think of it, the more I feel that this is probably what Mr Clowes has envisaged as the most achievable and arguably the most optimal route forward.  

For balance, I made it clear from the outset that I had reservations about PW's credentials and how effective his style would be outside of L1, but the good run of form he and the team produced mostly quelled those fears, that is until we came of the rails. As someone who always wants to see managers given time to build a team (something they've not had at Derby for a decade), he remains just about in the black. That said, the argument that Warne has been found out against more canny managers holds water and our record against the better L1 clubs is frankly appalling. At the outset, us doubters were informed that Warne had more than one style and could adapt to our current roster, but that has not proven to be the case, so doubts linger about both his tactical nous, and the suitability of the type of players he might recruit trying to implement it. Put simply, will he recruit a top L1 team for a campaign in the Championship. Equally, will pump it down the channels to the quick lads be an effective strategy in the Championship? I think we need to finish the season as strongly as we can and take stock. There's some big decisions ahead, whatever the outcome and the fairest and most accurate assessment of Warne will be when he has a deeper squad with a full -pre-season in their legs.

A last thought, would be that those sticking small knives into David Clowes really, really need to STFU. Without him there'd be no Derby County. The same people repeatedly tell other folk we need to 'move on' and forget what happened, but they are simply trying to scrub history so they can whine about anything and everything with impunity. While for me, Warne's 'credit' is under review, Mr Clowes retains a 'AAA' rating. I find the lack of appreciation and loyalty in some quarters really depressing, not to mention a bit distasteful.

 

I don’t think that suggesting that the chairman got the coaching staff appointments wrong is sticking a knife into him. 

I would think everyone is appreciative that he stepped up to buy the club. At some point, if he gets future appointments right he will no doubt be able to move the club on at a healthy profit, if that is what he wants to do. 

Wildsmith 6

Hourihane 6

White 6

Cashin, 7

Barkhuizen 5

Sibley 6

Collins 7

Dobbin 6

McGoldrick, 6

Mendez-Laing, 7

Smith 7

Bird 🦅 6

Roberts, 7

Rooney, 6

Knight 6

On 08/04/2023 at 08:15, IlsonDerby said:

My concern is that I’m starting to think the mix of good football and direct football that we saw during the unbeaten run was more a hangover from Roseniors instructions and now we’re aimlessly launching it forwards with very little in terms of incisive good play on the ground. 
 

Let us be very clear, despite a tough start we had the higher xG than our opposition in every game under Rosenior and it was our finishing which was woeful. 
 

I think what worries me is we’re all hoping that he gets some players in that’ll make his style work and we’ll be successful but the other option is we fill the team with absolute cloggers and athletes at the expense of technical ability and we’re shown to still be falling short but we’re now left with a squad full of hoof merchants. 

My main fear is that he fills the team that makes his style work. 
I like to think that our expectations are that the team plays with a modicum of passing ability, not the kick it long predictable tripe that he has got the team playing recently. 
I think his managerial style is more suited to Rotherham, Barnsley & Wigan type clubs (no offence meant to any of them). 

1 - 3 🙁

Wildsmith 5

Hourihane 6

Chester  7

Forsyth  6

Cashin 6

Collins 4

Bird 🦅  6

McGoldrick  8

Mendez-Laing 7

Dobbin 6

Smith 6

Roberts 7

Davies 6

Sibley 6

Barkhuizen 5

Knight 7

Ref 8

6 minutes ago, minesahartington said:

Really need to avoid being dragged to down to their level

I think they could be saying that. Nothing improved performance wise at all. 

FGR 1 -  0 County 

Wildsmith 5

Forsyth, 4

Cashin, 5

Bird 🦅  4

Hourihane 6

Collins 3

Dobbin 6

McGoldrick, 8

Mendez-Laing, 6

Smith 7

White 6

Roberts, 7

Rooney 6

Barkhuizen 5

Knight 7

Sibley 6

manager 3

ref 4

pie 2

Generally, I think most of the referees have been ok. Of course we have had the odd shocker as well. If yesterdays officials were guilty of miscommunication that is poor. One of the major things referees need to realise is the effect on clubs and players livelihoods when they get a simple thing wrong without double checking with each other. Even from the other end of the ground the linesman looked confused. 
Hopefully they will learn from it. 

We are so predictable in everything that we do. At times it was a shambles. Both of those issues come from the manager. 

0 - 3

0 -0 at HT Ipswich change formation and it confuses our manager again.

1Wildsmith 5

12Smith 6

3Forsyth 5

6Cashin 5

15Roberts 7

4Hourihane 6

9Collins 4

8Bird 🐧6

17Sibley 6

11Mendez-Laing 6

7Barkhuizen 5

23White 7

18Dobbin 6

10McGoldrick 5

Warne 3

It is proving to be a bit of a repetitive issue. Opposition change things and our Mr Warne doesn’t seem to have the ability to counter it. 
It is a problem. 

1Wildsmith  6

12Smith  5

33Davies  4

Roberts  6

6Cashin  4

3Forsyth  5

8Bird  5

4Hourihane  5

McGoldrick  6

11Mendez-Laing  5

Dobbin  7

17Sibley  6

Barkhuizen  5

22Springett  4

Knight  4

9Collins. 4

Warne. 3

5 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

I haven't ready the normal meltdown from the usual suspects regards the refereeing standards and bias against us by the EFL so can only assume:-

1. The referee had a decent game.

2. There is in fact no bias against us by referees in this division and or the EFL

3. Or following on from point 2 the referees association read this forum after the Plymouth game and told the ref to go easy on us and not make the deliberate victimisation so obvious. 

The referee was fine. I think with a couple of exceptions the refereeing standard has been OK. We are not going to have the best referees down in the third division. It will be a mix of experienced referees who just fall a bit short for the two leagues above, or those with less experience but working their way up like  the excellent Rebecca Walsh. 

1Wildsmith  6

34Rooney  6

33Davies  5

6Cashin  5

3Forsyth  7

12Smith  7

4Hourihane  6

8Bird  6

11Mendez-Laing  5

15Roberts  6

17Sibley 7.5

18Dobbin  6

22Springett  5

7Barkhuizen 6

9Collins. 4

22 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

I had exactly the same conversation with my wife yesterday.

It makes no sense at all. You have somehow managed to escape with your family from a truly desperate situation and find yourselves in a wealthy Western European country (France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium etc) so what do you do next? Pay a small fortune and risk the lives of your family to make a perilous sea crossing to another Western European country. 
 

 

Maybe when we were going round the World sticking our flag up in other peoples countries and teaching them English, we should have taught them French instead - if only we knew!! ?

Sack him, sack Wright, sack Shearer, sack any others in football focus etc. programmes who refuse to work. The programmes need refreshing anyway. The BBC cannot and should not back down in this. He thinks he is untouchable, time to cancel his contract.