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I don't think we were great 1st half but the stats give more of a clue to their real threat. Perhaps I think your overall expectations are such that it needs pointing out that we had more chances.

The stats illustrate the point SRG was making. We were let off the hook by some poor Swansea finishing and some last-ditch defending. Their striker missed a golden opportunity from a cutback in the first-half. A really poor finish.
We were overrun throughout. I wouldn't blame the tactics as such. I just felt on the ball we were rubbish. Shinnie and Bird couldn't retain possession, Morrison was anonymous. Forsyth kept running the ball into trouble.
Swansea probbably won't have an easier away game all season. We caused them zero problems with any of our own work. Lawrence's 3 shots in 30 seconds only came about because their player casually passed the ball back and set him through. It wasn't even down to us pressing. Just a glaring error from their player.
But all in all it's a good point. We were poor, looked really tired and finished the game with a mixture of five academy players, free transfers and ageing players. 
I could be wrong but Lawrence was the only player out there who cost us more than £1m in terms of a fee.

Just past the post from the edge of the box, Allsop with at least 2 saves, Shinnie with a last ditch tackle… just to name a few. 3-0 wouldn’t have been undeserved. 

Awfully disappointed we didn’t get 3 pts.  Swansea are 19th and have won 2 games. We’re at home, with great support off the back of a good performance against a Reading team doing quite well so far.
These Awfully good points (1) we will amass at home against lower league opposition will only serve to maybe take us into double figures,  given our away form.
 Anyways, a better 2nd half, we had the better chances and should have scored .  This is why I can’t share the opinion that a point at home against Swansea serves us much purpose.

What a woeful game that was. One of the worst first half displays I can remember and we only weren’t losing through Swansea’s poor finishing. Finally got a foothold in the game through enforced changes and then threw it all away with bringing Ebosele on. Whilst I could see what he tried to do with that change it just desperately didn’t work. 
Regroup during the international break. 

When we’re thinking about points deductions, we’re thinking optimistically that 12pts is recoverable. But 21pts, no chance. Statistically 12pts has never been done before, we’d be making history just to overturn that deficit, so there’s no chance we could do 21pts.
So I just assumed that getting an extra 21pts on top of a what we need for safety must be something akin to automatic promotion form. Like the gulf between relegation and promotion must be something like 20pts right?
So I took a look at last seasons table. We survived by a point on 44pts. And extra 21pts would have put us on 65pts, just ahead of Boro in 10th.
the season prior was a bit more high scoring.  The safety mark was 48 (Barnsley had 49, but I think it’s safe to assume that if we’re on at least mid table form, then our goal difference should be better than everyone else in the relegation zone). Another 21pts would take us to 69pts which would be 8th, just above Millwall. 
so it’s not that ridiculous to think, if we keep doing what we’re doing, we could be on form for a 10th to 8th place finish. Especially as we’re currently playing without a bunch of our best players (CKR, Bielik) so you’d hope we’d have better form throughout the season, not worse. 

Thought Allsop had a good night. Like many, I wasn’t happy to see his name on the team sheet but he saved everything (mostly routine bar one or two) and even caught a couple of things too. 
Stearman worries me a little. Although not sure if he improved second half or I wasn’t as nervous about him because he was further away from me in the South Stand. Seems slow to move his feet and looked a liability. 
Don’t think it was a coincidence the goal came from the first time Forsyth used his acre of space to actually dribble forward rather than come back. He needed to do that more often to keep the defence honest. 
Midfield did a decent job of rotating deep to fetch the ball from the defence which was good. Trying to play out from the back with our personnel is not fun but they made the best of it by helping out - we did still manage one huge calamity after half time. 
Stretton looked decent but needs a big stint in the weight room. Reading do have some quick defenders which didn’t help though.
I am not one for conspiracy theories but after the red card and injury time penalty last game and now we have an unbelievably bad referee and linesman this game it doesn’t half make you wonder. The linesman missed some shockers, especially the ball being miles out first half under his nose. The referee didn’t give a blatant foul on Ravel on the edge of the box, a blatant penalty for handball, seemed to not bother booking them for the same thing Stearman got booked for, then booked Buchanan for his first foul. Just a baffling display of biased ineptitude. 

Good game. Played well. Awful ref. Decent atmosphere. Enjoyed it. ‘Nuff said. 

Good game. Played well. Awful ref. Decent atmosphere. Enjoyed it. ‘Nuff said. 

Good game. Played well. Awful ref. Decent atmosphere. Enjoyed it. ‘Nuff said. 

Multi millionaire with nothing better to do says ‘give me a call if you want my 2p’ results in fans singing his praises. Doesn’t take much does it. I’m ambivalent about him but this all feels like soin to me. 

For a start, it's factually incorrect.
That was his first stint as manager, not his second.

Staying on in a part time capacity 
 

Dreadful last stint as manager who can forget Derby 0 - Reading 3 in May 2015, we needed 1 fxxxing point to make the play offs ( I wish I could forget it) and he engineered a total cluster.
First managerial stint he inherited a great team built by Nigel, then left for the riches of managing Newcastle, totally useless individual as a player and as a manger.
 

Mel is no longer at the club. We're in Administration.

To call somebody overrated you have to have a benchmark against which to judge. From what I've seen he is a fairly average Championship midfielder, with a few good touches now and again. If he was any better than that, even with his 'issues', I imagine he would have played a lot more games than he has and at a higher level. 
So, from what I've seen, he is just about at the level I expected him to be. He doesn't look out of place, but neither does he look like a superstar.  He's good enough for us at the moment.

To call somebody overrated you have to have a benchmark against which to judge. From what I've seen he is a fairly average Championship midfielder, with a few good touches now and again. If he was any better than that, even with his 'issues', I imagine he would have played a lot more games than he has and at a higher level. 
So, from what I've seen, he is just about at the level I expected him to be. He doesn't look out of place, but neither does he look like a superstar.  He's good enough for us at the moment.

Give a lad a break he only played freaking few games and now got some players for again maybe he will playes further forward.

Even Ed Dawes's Dad can't listen to him on the radio. 

The World FC 1 - Derby County 0

Spend 110 of it on rescuing the club...
Then face a barrage of criticism and snide comments about me cutting and running whilst trousering a million quid for myself. 
 

You've done it now, watch him quit tomorrow. 

All that means is that before it could be sold, there has to be an opportunity for ‘the community’ to buy it.
I think the original idea was more for things like community centres or local pubs that, if they were sold and used for something different, might be harmful to the community (and who might be able to cobble the funds together to take over) not necessarily £80m assets.  

It is in Erewash and I believe I saw something the other day saying we leased the land off the Locko Estate (somebody might confirm that?).