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My take from watching on RamsTV, but I feel somewhat we are currently playing in second gear. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, in that I think how we are playing is pushing teams out of position and we find gaps on the wing or around the box, but it’s also can be a slog to watch. We spent years in the champ working out how to break through teams that sit in at PP and maybe this is a good way to counter it. We won’t get away with it over the next few games, and I don’t think Warne is best pleased with the last couple of performances either so I expect something to change. We will have a very good indication about where we are after Jan 1st I think.

Presumably Cooper is already gone and this is all part of the formalities, but it’s incredibly poor form to leak out that you are speaking to another manager whilst Cooper is officially in place still.

I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt here because he gets lost between going alphabetical and going via the map within seconds. All tactics go out of the window. Leicester and Coventry come up early and he gets the West Midlands out of the way, but basically misses Notts County, Burton, us and Stoke. I think by about half way through ohe’s just circling the permitted hoping to remember ones by the coast. Started fast, tumbled and then struggled to find any momentum after.

It’s been referenced before that Percy is getting his info from the hierarchy at Forest. Worrall and McKenna have been as poor as anyone else in defence and up until last night they were heaping praise on Murillo as a boy wonder. Have little time for Cooper but this feels a low move, and theres little surprise for who it comes from.

They were singing we’re gonna 5-4 just before Fulhams 5th 😂

I think you need to think a little more outside the box, he could be anywhere or anyone!

In fairness I think they did ok after! Also Mel wasn’t the chairman that season, just on the board.

Wait, what’s going on here @The Baron, are you passing your username on to Cameron??

I’m generally quite curious about this on Saturday, but I do wonder where the organisers had seen this display before, because I was only aware of Rangers ever doing it. A quick search shows Leicester did it once too, but wouldn’t it be slightly dodgy territory considering why Rangers might do it in the first place. Im sure those organising had the best of intentions but I do hope they thought about this thinking it would look good. Also yeah, H&S gone mad and whatever, but I’m kinda glad we didn’t have a load of plastic about with no way of thinking how it would be disposed (as this wasn’t communicated I’m presuming here admittedly). It probably would be a slip hazard on a damp day, but if they won’t biodegrade then it’s a bit of waste considering they will be single use. The whole thing to me seemed a bit ill thought out by all involved and hope there’s lessons learnt all round. Obviously we want good, positive things that contribute to our atmosphere, and I’m sure those involved in organising had good intentions, but also I think the club are pretty good themselves at marking remembrance weekend and there was other things that money could have gone to.

They’ll be no smoke without fire unfortunately and heard about this a while ago, but Mel took up a job as a Health and Safety Executive and keeps sticking his ore in

Really sorry to read this, like many others it’s knocked me for six. My condolences to his family. I hope they are able to read this one day and see the impact he had on a community. Will raise a glass tonight for Daniel/B4.

Interesting appointment this for both Championship and League One. One thing that sticks with me on this is something Darren Robinson said on Radio Derby and I’ve repeated a few times. There are managers out there who win nothing but can set a team up to look good and show that they have a style of play, and it catches the eye of pundits and chairmen but it essentially means nothing and there’s managers who can go job to job doing that. It benefits them as a manager but not the club they leave behind. Football is a funny game, and there certainly isn’t a formula tonappointing ghe right manager, but this strikes me as that type of appointment. It’s a ‘who’s doing well in the league below, young and can bring in fresh ideas’ approach, but I’d say 9/10 it doesn’t really put you in a better position to where you left off.

Kinda enjoyed last night from a football perspective. First off for all the times we criticise Sky etc for their annoying kick off times, this was a really good bit of scheduling. A local game, everyone else has played, both teams need the win, atmosphere in the ground…it helped make it a bit more of a spectacle to the viewer with minimal impact to the logistics to either club. To me it’s exactly what you want from a Monday Night Football game and it’s a bit of a lesson that it’s not about getting x amount of games on tv, but putting games on that people want to see in the right slot. Secondly I really enjoyed how Tottenham went about it, they couldn’t stop how Chelsea were going to be go about it but they introduced doubt into Chelsea and it very nearly paid off if Son had got his shot off better. It was entertaining, which was what football should be. The VAR stuff just doesn’t work, it won’t because there’s too much jeopardy in most goals that get scored in the prem. Someone will always find fault somewhere. I didn’t think it was too bad last night tbh, but I do think that maybe if the game is 2-2 or 3-2 to either side at HT and Tottenham are a player down and considering everything I said in the first bit, it might have set up a better game of football second half rather than it being an entertaining mess.

I thought it was a poor player performance, to the point that if we lost I’d say we came across as arrogant and lazy. It’s the problem, I think, with the idea that you tell the player to ‘keep doing the right things’ as Warne says. First 20 we are in control, next 10, we do the same things over and over but get complacent. Players aren’t in the right position, when the cross comes in, crosses become more ‘floaty’ and with less intent and we lost control of the game. Bradley then loses his head, maybe not for a wrong reason but it was a catalyst for a dreadful end to the half and start to the second. Credit to Warne in that he got his subs right to put the pressure on them. Even bringing Sibley on later meant he didn’t fall into the pack. To be honest though i thought the game changed because Hourihane stepped up his game, gave out a few home truths to those around him and did enough to get us over the line. We can all be critical of him, but I thought he was the one who really changed it for us today. Wish we saw that side of Hourihane a bit more than we do. Thought Nelson and Smith played well, everyone else was a big vat of meh until the subs came on. Some of that shooting was shameful and is starting to be a big concern. But for now I’m happy enough to get through to a replay and go from there.

I know there’s a few comedy/stand up heads on the forum so thought it might be worth starting a thread.l to post upcoming shows/festivals/reviews etc etc Anyway… ————— Daniel Kitson has announced a tour of outdoor shows including two in Derby at Melbourne Hall on June 18th and July 14th. Don’t think ticket links will be about for another week but once they are up I’ll post a link.