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35 minutes ago, Crewton said:

TBH, whoever at the club thinks that is a tenable excuse needs banning from football, for exactly the reason you state.

I do remember allot of their fans screaming that we should be accepting any old bid for our players in order to meet our obligations, so they surely can't be supporting the club's argument or that would be very hypocritical. £35m wasn't a p-take offer and they knew they needed the sale to meet FFP.

My presumption is to be able to use the excuse about going over a threshold you’d have to show that you are some way down the line with getting the deal done. Thats similar to how it would work in the real world I think when it comes to accounting (I’m not an expert on that).

To enter negotiations after the cut off date and getting a deal done and thinking you’d get away with it doesn’t really hold up. Having a constant dialogue with the Prem is one thing, what you are telling them is another and my guess is they are just answering whatever you put to them and nothing else. Was the same with us under Morris and the EFL.

If you get chance to, and I hope they put it all on rams daily, but I think Radio Derby just had a great discussion since full time and it’s well worth a listen. Lots on the transfer window, where the club is at in terms of transfers, the performance tonight and what it says about the depth of the squad. Good post match interviews with Warne and Sonny Bradley too

More ‘interesting’ stuff coming

Paid £12million for him in Jan, ripped up his contract in August.

58 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:

Dry weather starts Friday I heard 🙂 

As someone who works outside it can’t come some enough! Feels like we haven’t had a dry spell since September

1 hour ago, nottingram said:

Wonder what Moral High Ground FC will have to say on this

It’s the game they decided they wanted to play (like we had failed it a couple of seasons before) and I think eventually, unless you are a Villa, you do run out of road. It’ll be interesting but cant help but have that feeling that modern top tier football is becoming  more of a weeing contest rather than about playing football, not that they have any sympathy from me.

Sorry for a mundane and obvious post but just to say to be careful over the next few days, A6 between Darley Dale and Bakewell was as bad as I’ve ever seen it there, 13 bends was just passable and Baslow was pretty bad. Everywhere is ok to drive but saw quite a few being caught out in the dark on my way back. The rivers are very high at the minute and a lot of water is coming off the hills so it’ll probably get worse before better across the county for a few days

Public Service Bulletin over, I miss dry weather. 

Please don’t blow this out of all proportion but I think It’s interesting that Thompson got 45 today when he wasn’t ready for that and Cashin was given the armband. Not saying that defo means that Bird is on the way but it’s just two things you can pull out of the sky if you really wanted to.

Saying that I do think it’s time we need to be able to give Thompson more game time, and Fornah to some extent. Also Bird needs to play at yheIf we sold Bird and the money was then reinvested into our strike force then I’d see that as a good move. It’s also worth maybe pointing out that I think Bird ready to push that next level, like Knight was.

A Derby side with Bird in might mean an extra 4-5 points this season, if selling Bird means we have a strike force of Collins, John-Jules and ,for arguments sake, Lapado* than that could be 7-10
 

*Not forgetting Waggy and Wash who are more than capable of picking up important goals when called upon

Thought the same thing throughout the game. We are a decent side but we need a couple of signings to give everyone a lift. 

Nelson deserves all the praise this season, and before anyone takes this out of context I was on the Nelson bandwagon before all of you, but he can have these lapses of being headstrong. He didn’t need to come across, or if you are it’s not about just winning the header it’s about winning the header and making sure it clears the box. But it’s one of them and it happens, I just think there’s maybe been a few instances recently when we have to trust another player and deal with the consequences. Another was when Ward tripped that player for the penalty a few weeks back, when he had Nelson coming across and Wildsmith coming out. 

Good game though and a good advert for what this league is. Peterborough very good, thought we had them under control for large parts but they really did their homework. Stretched the midfield and attacked the fullbacks who weren’t given protection. Warne changed it, we looked better and he got his subs right at half time too. But the problem was. it was too early for that gamble and Peterborough took control again and Thompson wasn’t ready for 45 so our midfield became stretched again. Ward needs to pull his finger out or else he’s going to get some backlash because his effect on the game was minimal in what was a good opportunity to really make a statement. But yeah that aside it was a good game and I don’t think you’d complain if either side had come out with a last minute winner. I don’t think it’s the type of game we look back on in May and go ‘we dropped 3 points there’ fortunately our previous two games put us in a decent position going into today so I have no complaints with where we are.

Little thing for those who want penalties to be hit hard at the goal, if it does get saved it’s hard for keepers to control where the ball goes and there’s a good chance it falls straight back to you. 

Think the ref made a cracking decision tbh

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. 

3 hours ago, David said:

Gone down in my estimation!

Was asked to see how many of the 72 EFL clubs he could name in 72 seconds.

Didn't get Derby County!

https://www.threads.net/@efl/post/C1AMq-hIPlq/?igshid=MjM0N2Q2NDBjYg==

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.

4 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:

No.

1 hour ago, JfR said:

It never rains

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 😂

12 minutes ago, Rev said:

You say that, but he's a bald bloke of average height, wearing glasses. 

I must have smacked 15 of them since his departure, and I'm not convinced I've rooted him out yet.

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

4 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Because Mel and Derby stopped Brighton, the team he supports, getting to the playoff final.

 

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.