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  1. If that's the case then Warne will be here until the end of the season. I'm not surprised, I don't think the ownership have smelt the danger from the supporters regarding the lack of backing we have for the manager. I reckon we are one home defeat from a full on meltdown. Currently feel like I am watching the team at home dreading the reaction if we went a goal down and couldn't turn it around. I don't agree with the "knee jerk reaction" statement. The football has been dreadful for 9-10 months, I think supporters have been patient for awhile and now the contained anger has boiled over. If away supporters start calling for your head then I don't know how you can turn it around. Personally I can't remember any manager in recent history where supporters have verbally pelted them and all of a sudden the results dramatically change. I suspect the board need to save face by backing him due to the level of investment they've put into the management team. I'm all for stability by the way. If I saw some shoots of progress with a consistent plan and style every week, Warne would have many more people backing him. But there's no plan, there's zero consistency and his recruitment on the whole has been woeful so far. It comes to a point where the egos need to be dropped for the good of the club. And that time is now.
  2. 3...2...1... Boooooooooooooooooooo!
  3. I take it he'll be doing it the media duties today? That's usually a sign if he's staying or going.
  4. Having slept on it, another major concern is losing our best players in January if we're not competing for promotion. If offers come in, we'll have to sell Bird, Cashin etc. Wildsmith is one of the best keepers in the league, he might fancy being a number one in the Championship. Then it weakens the team even more. Really big couple of months coming up and we've got a manager on the ropes in the 10th round.
  5. I think without the benefit of hindsight, I would have definitely looked at Paul Warne as a candidate based on performance. Sadly, I think he just hasn't proved he can take his managerial ability to a bigger reputation club. You're right though, I was a big Rosenior fan. I could see the shoots of great football, and we definitely seem to create more and we were genuinely unlucky in some away games, Charlton springs to mind. A really good project the fans could get behind on the cards. Rookie manager, bundled together squad with some quality. I'd have given it a go even for the simple reason of a "good factor" feel, nothing to lose.
  6. I'm basing this more on what Mr Clowes said in the summer when he said a competitive budget was set with the aim to be challenging for promotion. To me, looking at the issues Reading and Wigan have had financially plus Blackpool having a smaller wage budget than ourselves in the championship last year, we're a strong favourite in this regard. Sonny Bradley must be on a few quid I'm sure and Hourihane.
  7. I will admit I've had abit of fun at Paul Warne's expense. Harsh, however I feel more sorry for those poor supporters who have spent a lot of money going away to Cheltenham, Shrewsbury and now Stevenage to watch complete utter dross. It is not big headed, we should be dominating these teams. I keep banging on about how large our budgets are vs the rest of the league, this gives Warne a big advantage to make the team as competitive as possible with all these resources at his disposal. And he's just not getting the maximum out of this squad. Nearly a third of the way through the season and he's won back to back games once. We cannot build any momentum. It is constantly one step forward and two back. I thought Exeter was going to be the start of playing some really good football, creating changes and finishing lesser teams off comfortably. Today we revert back to a nervy shell of misery. The playoffs aren't far away at this point, then again we are 3 points away from 16th. Absolutely embarrassing and even the most positive of supporters can't hide from this. We could play the long game, stick things out and pray for some dramatic change in form where we go on a 5 match winning streak and put us back in the hunt at Christmas. The team is so far away from winning even 3 in a row. We have no idea which Derby is going to turn up on a match day. I really hope something clicks and we power up the league. But deep down in my gut, ever since that Port Vale home defeat awhile ago last season, bar a couple of good matches, I feel this team has been horrible to watch under this manager. No quality, mediocrity now setting in and pretending to play like an underdog with really technical players has not worked. This manager hasn't got to grips with understanding that you cannot play such pragmatic football when you have such a big budget and expect clapping and cheering when things are going poorly. Evolve your ideas, have some more faith in the players to try and dominate the ball. But he is stuck in his "if it ain't broke don't fix it" ways and now his arrogant attitude in the media interviews is starting to really grind my teeth. I have no more faith in Paul Warne, I'm going for the sake of supporting my club. I won't boo him out of the building. But he has to come up with bright ideas quickly or more supporters will turn on him and not keep their opinions to themselves at the ground. I fear things will turn nasty and this benefits no party involved at the club. I have had jobs in my life where it wasn't the right fit, I didn't settle in well. Maybe it's the same with PW.
  8. Got nothing on tonight, quite happy to drive Warne back to the school gym facilities at Rotherham.
  9. I'd rather watch someone's Granny play tipping point on a Saturday afternoon.
  10. Warne being incredibly mardy, shock horror. Can't handle the criticism. He's shocked by our fans turning. Didn't take much accountability. If he lasts the week I'll be impressed.
  11. 3 points off 16th place.... Struggling to justify giving him until the end of the season.
  12. Gone from crisp passing to can't pass wind. Why have we gone to lumping it again. I reckon we could outclass these with some more ball retention.
  13. I mean I'm not a Warne fan but Christ, a bit of positivity is needed today 😁
  14. Made me laugh listening to the Exeter manager saying how he thought he could dominate our right hand side in the game. Nyambe ate that skinny little winger for lunch.
  15. Derby were okay. Exeter offered absolutely nothing and I think Wildsmith had to keep warm, I don't think they had a shot on target. Played the ball through midfield alot more and we created even more chances, funny that. Get them more involved and we look alot more dangerous. That's what I want from Derby every game. Solid, in control, no scary moments, let the quality shine through. Ryan Nyambe is one of the best right backs I've seen in a long time. He didn't give their winger a sniff. Even when he lost the ball, he soon knocked the player off the ball in no time. Quality player, get him signed up on a longer deal.
  16. SSD

    Pro Warne

    I'll definitely give him praise for settling on a solid back 5. Defensively we've been a lot better since the beginning of the season. It's a shame everything else is abject.
  17. If I was David Clowes, I would have appointed Paul Warne too if he was available. Fantastic track record in this division. On paper he's a great candidate. I blame the manager for not stepping up, for clearly not being able to transfer his management skills to a big club. He's the one who purposely picked buying older free agents on bigger wages, for having about 8 full backs, with his 5 at the back system failing miserably and not getting the most out of a really strong core of a team. I completely lay the blame at the manager's door. He wanted the challenge of managing a bigger club and he's proven to most supporters that he can't cut it.
  18. I think most of us would have picked Paul Warne. On paper he's a perfect candidate. What isn't helping is the style of football. Pragmatic managers do not get time from supporters if things go wrong. The vast majority of fanbases won't put up with it. I think it's a simple choice for him. If Warne doesn't achieve the objective of promotion then he's out the door. I think the manager acknowledged that anyway earlier in the season, even if it was said with some humour. The sensible thing, as much as I cannot stand the football, is to keep Warne until it genuinely look like a play off place is out of reach. Give it until the final third of the season. If we're still in midtable by then, start fresh and bring a new manager in to assess the squad before the summer. I think that's fair.
  19. I had such high hopes for the bloke. Great record in this division, couldn't take Rotherham any further I assumed due to budgets. Let's see what he can do at a big club. And I think now we've all seen what he is capable of. Nothing. The bloke hasn't grasped the size of the job at all. Did he really think hitting the ball wide as early as possible and smashing crosses into the box was going go down well with supporters? The good managers evolve their ideas over time. He is expecting really technical footballers to become athletes who can run half a marathon and bulldoze the opposition on the break. No wonder tactically we are all over the place. This squad is top 6 easily, any half decent manager could at least be competitive. We have the biggest wage budget in the league. And what this manager has produced is nothing short of something I'd expect on a Sunday morning on Alvaston Park. Pathetic, amateur standard of football where crossing the ball gets clapped at like seals on our bench. Bottom half league one teams can easily figure out our game plan within 5 minutes. We've got all these quality midfielders and we still insist on avoiding them at all costs when we attack. It is painful to watch. Is this really the best this squad has to give? I'm done with it. I was so excited to see what he could do with a summer and implement a plan to fire us up the league. Currently, we're firing into the midtable wasteland. It is embarrassing. He's got all these resources at his disposal and quite frankly, he's a rabbit in the headlights facing an inevitable doom. Lovely man I'm sure. But a football manager who has a clear glass ceiling and has demonstrated he cannot take his work to the next level.
  20. The fact away supporters were hurling abuse at the manager is the beginning of the end unfortunately. Have you ever seen supporters turn on a manager and the team all of sudden picks up? Either DC takes his medicine and pays him off now or the atmosphere at home will be toxic.
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