LazloW

Stephen Pearce is not on the Board. Richard Tavernor is the second Board member alongside David Clowes.
I agree that the Board needs to be strengthened and we asked about this at the last SCG. We are told this is ongoing and the Club want to get it right, which is why it is taking time. 
Ironically, one of the things the Supporters' Board will be well-placed to ask about is exactly this. 

Is it not possible to do both concurrently?

Nobody need worry today. I’m not going to be there as feeling poorly. But that will definitely mean the performance of the season and a 6-0 tanking of poor Port Vale. It will be a case of PW’s teamtalk being something along the lines of “Hear Lazlo (not his real name) isn’t coming today, so we can take a break from making him miserable and revert to all out total football! Do you hear me, you can pass it through the middle and everything!”
As I refuse to listen to Radio Derby, particularly as it would make me feel even more ill, I shall be relying on you good people to provide me with your normal upbeat, informative and not at all knee jerk reactions to what is going on. Sure I’ll feel better in no time 😘

Can't we just have one thread without any attacking of Warne? Not like you can't do it elsewhere!

Of course, not everything Puma makes is that good....

… and very many more who would do a really bad job too.  🤪

Just to be clear, and to avoid any more nominations sarcastic or not. I have absolutely no interest in the role.
None whatsoever. Zero. Zilch. 
Whoever takes it on, good luck, be prepared for all kinds of abuse and repeatedly told “you don’t represent me”.
I’ll just stay over here in this little corner of the internet and keep this place online for you all. I’m happy doing that.

I simply don't have the time, but thanks for considering me 😂

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

Well he's been back for two games and we've lost both - that can't be a coincidence.....bring back Dom 😉

It's quite simple 
 
Barkhuizen      Gayle           NML
                          Bird
             Smith              Adams
Elder       Cashin        Nelson    Nyambe 
                         Wildsmith
 
Sibley, Wilson, Bradley, Hourihane and Waghorn to sub on 

This run of being so poor from open play really coincided with going to a back 3. Admittedly, last night, we didn't play a back 3 but it left us with Cashin (arguably the best CB in the league) playing left back to accommodate Sonny Bradley who's shown absolutely zero to be worthy of doing that. In turn, you're breaking up a great partnership in Nelson and Cashin. We're left with having space in the full back positions, with only 1 fullback capable of using that space (Wilson) who we're playing further forward.
Just so many square pegs in round holes unnecessarily.

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

It’s not like we’ve gone out and got Gayle as our first choice striker! We’re in a beggars can’t be choosers situation and he didn’t have a club, so I think it’s fair to say he isn’t going to come in and be a world beater.  What are people actually expecting!? 
I think the same can be said of a lot of our signings. We’re still in a position where we’re signing frees, loans or quite cheap players. Doesn’t excuse last night’s debacle - even the players we have should be able to deliver more than the quality we’ve had this season- but still think people are expecting our players to be better than they are. 
For what it’s worth, I thought Gayle did OK. Few decent flicks, got the ball in tricky places a few times and linked play but overall he had nothing to work off. We didn’t create a single clear cut chance for him. Can’t expect a striker to live off scraps and look fantastic. 
 

Had no control of the game at any point. The players were basically just doing as they pleased. 
When he was telling players where to take free kicks from they were just walking off.
Their player went down injured off the pitch, rolled back on and then walked 40 yards to the touchline, all while the referee just stood their watching. 
My favourite though was the free kick he gave us for a late challenge on Nelson which he 100% did not see and only gave because of the crowds reaction. 

I actually thought Gayle looked really promising for a player that’s been here a week with limited training.
He’s still got pace and played some really nice balls to bring others in to play. It was just a shame that we don’t seem capable of stringing more than 2 passes together beyond that.

I'd like to highlight the performance of the referee and his "barely there" assistants as a contributing factor in the team's collapse. In his last 4 games, he'd handed out 25 yellow cards and 3 red cards. Last night, he booked Bradley for his first foul (which wasn't either a professional foul or a reckless tackle) after Charlton had committed 6 fouls already iirc. After that, it felt like nothing short of GBH would get a Charlton in the book. Well, they certainly tried hard to live down to that standard, but the ref wasn't interested. His indifference to their thuggery certainly contributed to that second half performance because, unlike against Stevenage, the players were completely knocked out of their stride by these tactics. It all made me wonder if the ref had been told that he'd been too free and easy with the cards of late and accordingly took a more hands off approach.

Was involved in our best move with a little back heel. Has got a good first touch. Bad signing for the style of football we played last night. Nothing along the floor. No midfielder to slip him in. 

The ball control and passing are woeful at times. Do they just do set pieces in training?
And throw ins? Lost count of the times we threw to an unopposed Charlton player. Ludicrous.
I’m telling you, Sonny Bradley messes that team up. Take him out, let Cashin and Nelson do what they did so well. Play two proper full backs and have six players ahead of them who can create goals. It’s not rocket science.

Smith was our best player (I'd like to know why he was subbed). Gayle made a few good flick-ons and had good movement with little service. Bird was doing the job of 3 midfielders by the end because everyone else was playing upfront.
Warne got the substitutions wrong. Wildsmith did another brainless thing. Charlton were dirty feckers who had the weak referee in their pockets - Adams had the s*** kicked out of him, their player on a booking kicked the ball away but didn't get a second yellow card, their injured player ignored the refs instructions to take the shortest route off the pitch and didn't get booked......jeez, the list is endless 😞

Utterly moronic by Wildsmith. Once he realised he wasn't going to get there first he simply has to have the self-restraint to not dangle a leg towards the attacker. 

What was created that Collins could have taken advantage of? Yes we might have missed him but we'd have done no better.