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33 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

I'll stick my neck out, it isn't difficult, it's very long.

I don't think we will sign CBT, Langstaff or anyone we have heard of.

We will end up with a couple of deadline day kids on loan.

We seem to have made players, who are going to cost more than we can afford, our top targets. Basically arsing about and wasting time...similar to last year.

Prove me wrong Paul and Stephen..please.

It would very much follow the trend of Warne signings so far, the restraints maybe getting slightly looser now. We can hope.

It's worth remembering our owner isn't really that cash rich, just a succesful local business owner that wanted to save his club. I don't think he really wants to spend his personal wealth on a load of overpaid footballers even when the EFL controls are relinquished.

Popular player L1 clubs are looking to sign? Add Derby County to the list to drive more engagement and clicks.

No chance we spend more than probably 350k on a single player IMO.

2 hours ago, Returning ram said:

If you read this forum you wouldn't go near any of our players on that basis.

Sheff Wed fans told us Mendez-Laing was crap.

Think Bolton will win the league personally, really dont fancy the playoffs . Autos are there for us really, our run of games now is pretty favourable as well. Need to get these couple of players in now to give us some edge and that fresh push we didn't get last season.

7 minutes ago, Ramdale said:

Yeah, if Warne is going himself to watch I would suggest he’s a major target. Just looked thru the fixtures & my guesses would be one of the following:

Armando Dobra (Chesterfield)

Davis Keillor-Dunn (Mansfield)

Owen Moxon (Carlisle)

Callum Lang?

It's poor football at times, Bird's neck must ache like a bitch watching all those long balls bypass him overhead every game. It's effective  but only when we are high on energy, soon as we drop off you can see it going wrong. The period before the equaliser we couldn't put 2 passes together for 5 mins it was genuinely awful. John-Jules was poor all game, link up play just never came off constantly rolling around for fouls that never were.

Warneball feels like it's all or nothing to me, either really effective driving teams back or total loss of control. Had an OK first half then after 2nd goal went in the levels seem to ease off and we let them right back in to it. When we finally started whipping proper crosses in things started to fall, one thing I can't stand is floated crosses. Fair play to Hourihane though he stepped up that last 10 mins and pushed us forward.

Quality player but in our financial position we have no choice but to accept a lower offer of 2m, all the best.

2 hours ago, Old Spalding Ram said:

Just been having a read on the Charlton forum regards Blackett-Taylor.

Definitely leaving……….only us mentioned

Out and out winger, pace to burn.

Doesn’t put in a great shift defensively.

4-3-3 effective, 3-5-2 forget it.

Creates plenty of chances, need runners from midfield getting into the box.

The feeling is they’ll definitely miss him.

Pinched from Charlton forum.

CBT likely to be first out of the door as soon as Derby match our valuation. They've already (according to news reports) offered £250k, I expect £350k would do it.

I do think we'll miss his pace on the break.

CBT will get found out at another club after an initial 4/5 good games .. he will then go back to the way he played for us in the last 2/3 months

 I just hope it’s not one of the those all your eggs in one basket type transfer windows👍🐏

 

4 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Yeah, you seem really good at calling fights after they've been fought. Give yourself a gold star tinsel tits! 

Jeez, triggered or what! 😂

Triggered? Alright buddy. Not sure what this calling fights after they have happened jibe is all about. Only one person losing their head in this conversation and started being mean. But since you insist for some reason I only call fights after the fact....

6 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

Pretty spot on prediction there Alpha.

Callum Smith lacked power and variation. He just didn’t move Beterbiev who was wearing him down round by round.

I was watching on ESPN and they were focusing on Smith’s corner at the end of each round and his coach was just saying the same thing over and over - you’re head hunting, looking for a one-punch knockout. No good baby. Work the body, left hook downstairs. Every round the same.

I think he and Smith knew very quickly that Beterbiev just was barely flinching at Smith’s punches and round two aside, there was no punch variation to potentially win a round on scoring punches.

I prefer Bivol of the two and think he would win the unification on points.

I didn't get why Smith thought he could stand and trade with little foot movement just bobbing his head but then again he's never been a mover in there. Bivol on the otherhand has elite footwork. I'll give the press conferences a miss though, they'll be horrendously boring!

I was interested to see how Beterbiev looked as he's getting on a bit now but he still seemed fresh, not had many wars I guess. I remember watching Callum Johnson drop him, his performance looks far better as time goes on. I'm leaning towards Bivol but I kinda need to see how Bivol reacts to Beterbievs shots, I feel like Beterbiev might be a bit too rigid/flat footed to get to Bivol though.

7 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

Well we'll see next time it gets tickled won't we. Don't get me wrong, he's favourite to qin but if you actually read my post. I've said for me AJ is vulnerable to a puncher and Ngannou is no 13/2 shot. I stand by both comments.

I don't remember you saying as much as the time. Someone did though.

The Bivol comparison, which I think I've made quite clear in my original post, is that the Canelo's camp did not fully appreciate what they were taking on. Very few did, despite your claims, as the Mexican went off a 1/4 favourite. I've simply suggested I think the same error is being made with Ngannou and at at the prices, I'm happy to take that chance and I'm not sure what all your years of watching boxing have to do with anything either.

Saying a heavyweight is vulnerable to a puncher is literally a nothing statement, there isn't a single heavyweight that can take clean shots to the chin for fun. That's the nature of the division, especially against the heavier handed guys.

Alvarez's camp are super dilligent and definitely did know what they were taking on, have you ever watched an interview with Eddy Reynoso? Bivol was not an unknown, I saw him first when he KOd Broadhurst, he then went on to beat Barrera, Chilemba, Pascal and Joe Smith Jr.

I was just being nice rather than trying to dunk on you for casual viewpoints but if you want to be upset someone dissagreed with you then fine. Years of watching boxing lets you see the tropes and false beliefs people can be lead in to. Fighter hype and special aura always gets exposed at some point just like it did with Canelo. Don't take things personally, boxing is all about opinions and conjecture.

27 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Surely BT would have reported this first 😬. Take it with a pinch of salt until he does 😊

It was also confirmed by a local journo there also. And since sunday mirror editor:

Pinch of salt obviously but quite a few journos saying it now.

I feel like Collins is massively undervalued honestly, playing as a lone striker where service is everything putting in a shift for 90 mins week in week out. Decent goal return as well and he's one of our most vocal players out there every game. I have more beef with our wide men and centre mids, no one ever gets up there to support Collins up against both CBs. Mendez-Laing has an off game and we look pedestrian at best.

On 06/01/2024 at 22:14, Comrade 86 said:

Agreed, but it's a fight that really worries me from AJ's standpoint. AJ looked born again in his last fight from a technical standpoint, but he'll still have the same chin. Neither Usyk or Fury bang, Ngannou definitely does and he's entitled to improve too, given he's only had the one fight. AJ will hopefully come out and make a mockery of my fears, but to my mind, this has the same vibe as Canelo-Bivol fight to me. Once again, I don't think folk are seeing what they are looking at. Canelo and his camp didn't see that Bivol is a quiet assassin who would beat their guy up badly. I fear that AJ and Hearn just figure Ngannou to be like the ex-MMA fighters who fought Logan Paul, but Ngannou isn't a beat-up MMA vet, punchy and looking for a last payout. He's a feckin apex predator at the top of his game and his game is brutal. 

So for me, AJ most likely winner, yes, I'll concede that, but I'm on Ngannou at a working man's price.

AJs chin is absolutely fine, he ate Wlads biggest shot and got up, took clean shots from Usyk and kept standing who is an underrated puncher. Other heavyweights that sparred Usyk said he had them hurt and he punches way harder than people realise, he's just very smart in varying his punch power during fights. AJ got caught with a temple shot against Ruiz and that is much harder to recover from if you get your equilibrium taken. Took Whyte's biggest left hook and recovered plus many more cleans shots in his numerous world title defences. Fury got hard dropped early in his career by an unknown and Steve Cunningham who was a cruiserweight. Which HW chin do you put above AJs?

Personally I think Ngannou fought well but we saw a classic Fury performance of looking crap against lower skilled fighters, done it his whole career. Ngannou moved in straight lines and punched with Fury, if AJ uses his feint catch counter it'll be a brutal KO.

I don't see it comparable to the Bivol situation, I consider myself to follow the sport closely for many years now and I had Bivol to beat Canelo. Felt like Canelo had been cherrypicking a bit at the higher weights eg Kovalev who was way past his best. Bivol was a prime technical operator with elite skill level and a bigger frame.

I am really not a fan of the playing style in all honesty, when we don't play well it is horrendous to watch. Think we get battered in the Champ if we go up playing this way.

I am hoping he proves me wrong obviously but we've been here before on a good run, needs midfield energy ASAP.

1 minute ago, Ambitious said:

Probably, but he’s the only midfielder that is capable of providing a source of production. Bird, really, should be the one to stop teams running over us in the middle of the park - it’s not like he’s in the team for goals and assists. 

I feel like the role Bird has doesn't suit him, his assist & good play yesterday kinda showed you he wants to play higher up. I think he would provide far more supporting the striker more directly, he's good around the box doing the intricate stuff. Surprised Fornah hasn't featured more but maybe Warne isn't that impressed with him so far?

He clearly still wants more pace which seems to be more a crucial part of his playing style, Bird and Hourihane dont seem to have the legs to get forward and support the striker like he wants. Hence the amount of aimless crosses we saw early on hoping Collins could outjump both CBs. He's prob 3 or 4 players away from playing his way to full effect.

3 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

Yep. There’s no doubting his effort but I’ve always seen him as ineffective as a goal threat. Playing with NML and Wilson seems to have transformed him.

Bravo James!

His service has been woeful though for a long time and he's been dining on hopeful crosses lumped in to the box. Most of the time competing with both centre halves because we dont have the midfield legs to get in to the box and support. Now we are getting a bit more quality in there with Wilson supporting you are seing a return.

Hourihane's legs clearly gone, he's got good quality but even against bottom half opposition he's getting run all over. I remember this lad looking decent, be a good loan.

We need to strengthen with a couple if we want to challenge for the autos.

Our lack of quality in possession ultimately cost us today, they just had more athleticism and movement. Made Hourihane look like a statue. We can't win set pieces and bang in 100 crosses a game if we dont have the ball.

There are plenty of regular male refs we have that would have totally lost control of that game, from watching at home I got the feeling the people in the ground were getting caught up in a shared emotion that did not reflect reality. Hourihane should have been sent off IMO, extrmemely lucky, thought she did well in an ugly game. If Derby played the way Wycombe did i'd be absolutely ashamed.

I think finally settling on a preferred starting 11 and gaining some consistency has helped, less aimless crosses in to the box. Jan window is massive for us, need the firepower upfront and if we lose Cashin then we need to be prepared. Hopefully we can get the loan back for the season if it happens, i'm just hoping we get a good fee.