Rammeister

So, if my understanding is correct we are in a worse position both on and off the field than when Clough Jr was here in 2013.

Marvellous.

Mods- can you please add the word ‘Not’ to the title of this thread. I reckon there’s three places you can put it. 

1 hour ago, Chris_Martin said:

Lawrence is no Andy Carroll though?

Fortunately. 
 

5 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

Can you get any more injury prone than these guys!??

1 minute ago, atherstoneram said:

But there would only be 50% chance of a foul being given for handball.

Eye for a goal though.

Shame Hamza isn’t really coming here. I would think that with a goal scoring record like his, he’d feel right at home with us.

There is an article about him in The Sunday Times today.

‘My mum gave up half her life for me, so if I give up, I’ll have let her down’

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a2176f1a-0817-11ec-9bf4-46b41c0cb5c4?shareToken=bdd966caa14db2f96da5cbf68a4ee91b

Points issue. Should have had three.

2 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Wow. That bench is stripped bare if Lawrence breaks down. Not that robust at the best of times

Nostradamus??

12 minutes ago, ColonelBlimp said:

Erm, no. I ain't singing that. It's terrible and reminds me of that point in time where Simple Minds went downhill. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) being the peak.

Try again.

 

Theme for Great Cities…you’ll enjoy singing that. ?

Alive & Kicking - Simple Minds

You’re welcome.

Can you do an executive summary please?

Frank Lampard

1 hour ago, Carnero said:

We should also switch to 2 up front as neither is a target man.

Play Baldock instead of a "No.10" and get Stretton running in behind the oppo defence.

Yes. 
 

It would also be great to see us play off the shoulder and have some pace up front. Personally, I think we may score more goals than we were able to do last season doing this. 

2 hours ago, Coconut said:

Completely off topic but had a weird dream last night that England had been taken over by / sold off to the Netherlands (& possibly the Danish in a coalition). None of it makes any sense of course and it's a series of vague and poorly written ramblings, but...

It started off with me watching Derby play a match on a park (we were losing, struggling to create any clear chances all game and then missed two open goals) when some military trucks drove past us all (about 2000 fans) headed past towards some local political headquarters for talks with our 'leaders'.

People started leaving the game, walking away talking about their rights to be English and talking of a resistance. They seemed prepared for all of this (maybe they'd been to a meeting with enforced NDAs?)  but I had no idea what was happening. I sensed a vague threat that if we didn't move on we'd be in danger, so I followed them to a hideaway, or various hideaways, but I ended up getting lost along the way and ended up in an attic somewhere, or maybe it was underground, I don't know.

Nothing else happens until I'm up and awake the awake the next day.

I walk out of the hideaway and literally everything has been transformed as if I'd been asleep 5 years - new buildings, signs, banners, company names altered, everything branded with the regalia of the new country (which was still in part called England).  There are parades, bands, marches etc celebrating the new country. It was all very colourful and loud, everything nice and clean.

Most people talking Dutch, it's the law now, but at this point in the dream I remember certain 'fun' activities being legal in the Netherlands so actually I was pretty cool with this whole thing.

I was still lost and couldn't understand any signs though, as were a number of other people stumbling around looking dazed and confused - I spoke to these people and they all seemed to be ushering me to a 'safe zone' (I didn't feel unsafe). I follow their instructions and end up in a modern day speakeasy, which of course was was a local Wetherspoons, it just had to be!

...and then I woke up.

 

This dream you had…is it possible you’d thought about Steve McClaren that day before you went to bed? 

50 minutes ago, Curtains said:

Apart from that .

Many people lose money especially in Football. 
 

Still the same point though Mel is not a money tree 

Source?

1 hour ago, DCFC_Sloth said:

I don’t think I would have made the post, but I don’t think a win today would do any more than paper over the cracks. 2 wins in 18 and 11 points still is far from good enough. 
 

Would you not agree that regardless of the situation surrounding the club, that Rooney has the tools available on the pitch to get more points than he has? 

I think only just in the starting line up. The bench isn’t anywhere strong enough at present to make any necessary changes.

I don’t think Rooney going will solve our issues as the squad is still the same, and I feel uncomfortable judging him until he can get more players in.

5 minutes ago, Addingham Ram said:

Then Wayne brings off Morrison and brings on Joz to close the game out.

Yes, strange one. I do wonder whether this was about his metrics etc showing that he was becoming less effective/or getting tired.

Given our lack of quality and the faith WR has in Ravel, I’d be surprised if he took him off because he thought Kamil was a better option.

14 minutes ago, DCFC_Sloth said:

8 points from the last 51 available. 
1 win in 18. 
Surely it’s time for him to accept this job is, understandably, too much for him and do the right thing and walk away. Install Mac until the end of the season and try to regain some kind of positive and understandable style of play. 

Question is, would you have posted this if we’d hung on for the final 10 mins of added time and got the win?

Need to bring this thread back to subject.

6 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Why so many goalkeepers ? Are we going to convert to a basketball team ??

Our opposition each week may well be getting some basketball type scores.

Best advice is to wear a mask, as the smell emanating from the pitch last season was said to be ‘agricultural’.

6 minutes ago, Rampage said:

Does this help us guess the starting eleven.

Yes- looks like Marshall and Roos will both start.

Born in Holbrook, lived in Derby until about two years old and have been in the West Country (Wells,Somerset) ever since.

8 hours ago, Rev said:

There's one thing worse than being talked about darling.

That's not being talked about.

Caper club for the world, imagine the hits a semi decent, not furloughed social media team could wring out of us!

Don’t think I’ve heard the word ‘caper’ since the late 1960s when ‘The Italian Job’ came out.

40 minutes ago, Woodypecker said:

This is likely more media hacks having fun at Rooney / Derby's expense; we're such soft targets. Remember the Covid-positive clown that visited Rooney allegedly with a presentation watch to show him, which put Rooney into isolation last season?

Rooney could do with behaving with more decorum as a public figure and also be mindful of the disruption, disgrace and cost that Derby players contrived not long ago, in their stupid drunken-driving incident. 

 

I want Rooney to succeed, but I can’t help thinking if he has aspirations to be a top manager, why doesn’t he notice that Pep, Mourinho, Klopp, Tuchal etc don’t seem to repeatedly get themselves caught up in this type of nonsense on nights out?

The problem is that I think Wayne Rooney doesn’t understand that he is Wayne Rooney.