The Scarlet Pimpernel

7 hours ago, Jourdan said:

If you are not convinced by Warne, that is fair enough. He still has work to do and plenty to prove.

Describing the support for him as verging on a cult and suggesting people are being shamed for not falling in line seems a bit much, mind you.

By comparison, those who doubted (or as you put it, critiqued) Rooney, Rosenior and Cocu and were arguably right in doing so were on the receiving end of much worse than we’ve seen in this thread.

I think even those very much in favour of Warne can see that he is not infallible and his management style is not without its faults or limitations and that his work here is very much one that is in progress. In many ways given where the majority of fans think we should be and how we should be playing, you could argue his work has not even really started.

That said, what’s wrong with enjoying the club being on the up, getting behind a manager who has an encouraging track record in this division, and a group of players who are obviously responding to his methods?

If we can’t be positive when we haven’t lost a game for almost a quarter of a year, when is the time?

I can't see many, if any, who are not positive. 

All true David. The way I see it is we only need to chase down second place. Currently we are 11points adfift with one game in hand. 

Exciting times! 

A bit of confusion on here I think. I was very vocal (unusually for me) not about the appointment of Warne but about some of the early performances. 

Quite frankly a few of the early performances were appalling kick and rush affairs and if we were still doing it I would be vocal about it now. 

Credit to Paul Warne, the management team and players that we have now got much more control and fluidity in our play. Long may it continue but if we resort to kick and hope again I for one am calling it out. What's wrong with that? 

13 minutes ago, Wistaston Ram said:

Arrived and having a haircut in a barbers serving free beer. It's another world.

It's what they call a fringe benifit. 

Just now, rammieib said:

West Ham actually think they will bring 4500 to 5000 fans to the game? Interesting.

15% so about right. 

101 seats left for Port Vale. 

365 tickets available for Port Vale as of now.

We ideally need some pace up front to replace Osula. 

39 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

Just seen that Ipswich have signed Nathan Broadhead for £1.5m. I’m surprised he’s gone for such a little fee I was under the impression he was highly thought of. 
 
Plymouth have made 5 signings and I’m pretty sure Bolton have added to their squad. 
 
If Derbys chance of promotion was tough before jan, the inability to strengthen considerably is a right royal kick to the balls.  

Warne said recently that he views January signings as panic buying. Or words to that effect. Much rather strengthen in the summer as a rule he said. 

Personally I'm not bothered what the others do. 

33 minutes ago, Beetle said:

I asked about booking a table at the Yard late last year. They could not tell me if it was opening again.

I guess the club are assessing all the options to generate more money, I wonder how viable the Yard is outside of matchday. There are some other restaurants nearby so there must be some demand.

On our match day visits from the South Coast we used to always book a table at the yard. Was a great way to set up for the game. Shame its not fully open.

I've been critical of the Warne style of play earlier in the season but in fairness we are starting to see players moving the ball forward with accurate  passes much more quickly and with much more accuracy. Even when it's long its been much more accurate . If we can keep this up and hopefully improve even more then I'm definately a convert. We'll done PW now keep it up. 

22 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

Good game today 

Was going to say the same. Played well today did Hourihane. 

23 hours ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

The Stokies shirts should have Just Chips on the front . 

Or on the shoulder 

18 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Eeek! Where's Sibs? 

Doing his hair

16 hours ago, Srg said:

He was great today. Helped he was played in what seemed like a 40 yard exclusion zone like, but he did use it well. 

I'm rather hoping Warne has found his best position. Like the above it's tempered with the space FGR gave him but if he can continue in that form that's where he should play. 

I thought they played well. Their long balls were accurate and measured but when needed they passed and moved and retained the ball. One passage of play must have been 30 plus passes. Rooney best player on the pitch by a mile. 

I suppose for me the issue is style of play. We are committed it seems to kick and rush football whereas to me that is not what I want to see nor is it progressive.

If we get promoted with it do we suddenly change our style and bin off Warnes own players for more fluidity or do we stick with it and presumably do a Rotherham and get relegated a couple of times? 

The shame is Rosenoir had these same players playing at a technical level far higher than they are showing now. It's true we couldn't score which caused us problems particularly away from home but that failing is still generally with us. 

Not a happy Ram. 

Just listened to Warnes interview on rams tv. "generally speaking they played how I want them to play". In fairness he also said he was disappointed but I'm afraid if this is his style of play his appointment for me is turning out very disappointing. 

Turgid ugly football. No more to say.

10 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

I sometimes think people forget that we are in league 1, we have a league 1 squad, and we’re playing against league 1 teams. If some of our players could finish, they wouldn’t be playing in league 1 with us. If burton could finish, they wouldn’t be bottom of league 1. L

i know we think we’re this massive draw, and compared to most league 1 teams, we are, but we are still league 1. We’ve been spoiled by the quality on show at the World Cup. 

As I said, league 1 crap 

8 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

We have lost all ability to put our foot on the ball and dictate play - instead becoming cowed by agricultural football 

Instruction from management? Get it forward. Its crap. 

Absolute rubbish. Officially league 1 crap. 

14 hours ago, ram59 said:

I think that the failure to get a good attacking RB, has cost us this season. Over the last few seasons, the likes of Bogle and Byrne have featured at the top of our assists' statistics. The thought of NML and a good attacking RB working together is quite exciting.

Talking of right backs, where did Nathan Byrne actually end up? 

Just noticed on the official site that this game and the next few are available through Rams TV. Something to do with the world cup.

Let's not rewrite history. The first half was appalling, only Wildsmith came out with any credit. The worst two were Cashin and Sibley closely followed by most of the others. 

Second half was a big improvement and both Cashin and Sibley improved hugely. I don't agree with the excuse of playing  out of position either . Basic skills of control, passing, crossing and shielding the ball don't change.