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It's easy to criticise fans and say they should just put up with the turgid football served when you don't actually attend the games. 

I actually thought Gayle looked really promising for a player that’s been here a week with limited training.
He’s still got pace and played some really nice balls to bring others in to play. It was just a shame that we don’t seem capable of stringing more than 2 passes together beyond that.

Thought Ed was very much improved, more balanced and less moaning at the officials. Actually commentating on the game. To say he's not been commentating for awhile, excellent from him. 
I get the impression Eric Steele can't stand Paul Warne football. He used to be more upbeat and positive with his analysis, for example when Cocu was in charged. Maybe he is more of a fan of the possession based style rather than Warne's counter attacking set up. He definitely simmers his opinion on the football being presented, rightly or wrongly.
I wish Malcolm Christie still lived in the area. He would be an excellent full time commentator alongside Ed or Dom. You can tell he has got his passion back for football and tries to gain positives out of performances with his insights.

Been mulling this over since FT today but think this is my current hypothesis about Warne.
I think Warne gets the mentality of opposition teams who see Derby as ‘a big day out’ (or however you want to put it). I think he gets the different approaches when he comes up against the vast majority of league one sides and whilst it doesn’t always mean the prettiest football, he probably gets about 90% of decisions in these games correct. Hence our league position.
I think where PW struggles is where a team fancies it and aren’t treating themselves as underdogs.
What I mean is, that there are games where you need to encourage teams to play, let them have the ball and make mistakes and you capitalise. Again it doesn’t equal the best football but it’s effective. There’s also games like today where I think we need to be, for lack of a better term, Billy big bo****ks and play a professional game. What concerns me, for example in games like today is that they have a big attendance and we don’t go about shutting the crowd up. We let it all grow, the crowd gain confidence, the players gain confidence and we invite the pressure on. We’ve dropped major points in important games this season and i think we can see it’s from maybe not having that mentality to see a game out or poor game management.  PW will persist with players and tactics and gamble on the wrong outcome. Our joy today was through Cashin, Bird and Sibley linking up, but he upset that second half by taking Sibley off and changing shape. He persisted with Wilson, who did little today except, and NML on the wings which Barnsley could defend against, rather than the passing movement that was working a bit.
I like Warne and he’s smart enough to figure out how to overcome the problem he has in these matches, but he’s got to evolve past maybe relying on the easy decision (eg taking sibley off) and try and manage these games more smartly and frustrate teams. Keep the ball, slow the game down, don’t worry about entertainment etc etc 

Barnsley were really up for this one. First half was good to watch, back and forth and both sides created chances. Panicked in the second half and the football became a hot potato of hoof and "av it". Not a big concern thanks to Bolton losing. I have seen a lot worse under Warne. 
He tried to keep in solid, adding in another midfielder. Backfired unfortunately and it was too late at the end.

Complete contrast to last week. Both teams up for it. Cracking equaliser. Great game so far.

Complete contrast to last week. Both teams up for it. Cracking equaliser. Great game so far.

Complete contrast to last week. Both teams up for it. Cracking equaliser. Great game so far.

I think RamsTV are okay for a commentator. 

I remember years ago, loads of us piling into the back of a transit van and travelling all over the place. No seat belts or anything. You couldn't (shouldn't) do that now. Health and Safety gone mad. 😀

Personally I'd sooner they carried on with Dom Dietrich on commentary purely for the fact that I think he is a significantly better commentator then Ed Dawes. 
 

Hope they let Dom continue on commentary and keep Dawes to the phone-in - there's been a vast improvement in quality of the matchday coverage since Dawes left.....

One big plus about Paul Warne is we can definitely compete with our rivals in this league. Granted, we had that Stevenage away performance (let's forget that horror show) but on the whole we always look like we're in the game, even if we don't win. It was not a good game of football although Steve Evans was very much the instigator for making it a real slogfest. 
Warne is going to tick the promotion box. I'll put my neck on the line. Especially with signing Gayle who's a great footballer for this level, if he can play 60 minutes a match I'm happy. I can whine and moan about the football on show, Warne knows how to escape the league. I think in hindsight, all sides of the fan base want this. It has been a laugh playing League One teams, 3 seasons of this level would become a joke. I just pray he takes the standard up another level next season in the Championship.

One big plus about Paul Warne is we can definitely compete with our rivals in this league. Granted, we had that Stevenage away performance (let's forget that horror show) but on the whole we always look like we're in the game, even if we don't win. It was not a good game of football although Steve Evans was very much the instigator for making it a real slogfest. 
Warne is going to tick the promotion box. I'll put my neck on the line. Especially with signing Gayle who's a great footballer for this level, if he can play 60 minutes a match I'm happy. I can whine and moan about the football on show, Warne knows how to escape the league. I think in hindsight, all sides of the fan base want this. It has been a laugh playing League One teams, 3 seasons of this level would become a joke. I just pray he takes the standard up another level next season in the Championship.

One big plus about Paul Warne is we can definitely compete with our rivals in this league. Granted, we had that Stevenage away performance (let's forget that horror show) but on the whole we always look like we're in the game, even if we don't win. It was not a good game of football although Steve Evans was very much the instigator for making it a real slogfest. 
Warne is going to tick the promotion box. I'll put my neck on the line. Especially with signing Gayle who's a great footballer for this level, if he can play 60 minutes a match I'm happy. I can whine and moan about the football on show, Warne knows how to escape the league. I think in hindsight, all sides of the fan base want this. It has been a laugh playing League One teams, 3 seasons of this level would become a joke. I just pray he takes the standard up another level next season in the Championship.

Does love to duck and dive that bloke. 
I thought DC would kept him in temporarily to go through the books, make sure there were no more nasty surprises in our way, then let Pearce go, thanks for your service etc.
I know there's many NDAs in place and we will never get to the bottom behind the truth of our downfall. I'm at peace with it now. Let's see if Pearce can redeem himself with the faith DC has put into him.

Does love to duck and dive that bloke. 
I thought DC would kept him in temporarily to go through the books, make sure there were no more nasty surprises in our way, then let Pearce go, thanks for your service etc.
I know there's many NDAs in place and we will never get to the bottom behind the truth of our downfall. I'm at peace with it now. Let's see if Pearce can redeem himself with the faith DC has put into him.

Does love to duck and dive that bloke. 
I thought DC would kept him in temporarily to go through the books, make sure there were no more nasty surprises in our way, then let Pearce go, thanks for your service etc.
I know there's many NDAs in place and we will never get to the bottom behind the truth of our downfall. I'm at peace with it now. Let's see if Pearce can redeem himself with the faith DC has put into him.

Does love to duck and dive that bloke. 
I thought DC would kept him in temporarily to go through the books, make sure there were no more nasty surprises in our way, then let Pearce go, thanks for your service etc.
I know there's many NDAs in place and we will never get to the bottom behind the truth of our downfall. I'm at peace with it now. Let's see if Pearce can redeem himself with the faith DC has put into him.

Apologies for the red ink, I'm colourblind and didn't realise.
I will rephrase he doesn't want to retain the ball to he doesn't want to retain the ball in key points during the match. The manager has made hard work of earning the points when if we just kept the ball for 10-15 minutes rather than aimlessly going wide every time, it will grind teams now. Not pretty but at least we can exploit the space when the opposition get tired.
We've got one of the oldest squads in the league, where is the game management to take a breather and keep the ball. They look shattered as if we are playing quality sides every week, like we earned a brilliant point. Shrewsbury had nothing brilliant about them and we made them look better. It is a chore to watch this standard every week, nothing to do with Derby being in League One either. Ipswich could play nice fluid football, Plymouth did too. Okay, they had some stinkers along the way but I have heard plenty of praise from their fans on the managers and how much of a joy it is to watch every week. How is it we are 2nd yet it's a 50/50 split on how we perform and the football on offer, even on those unbeaten runs. Something isn't adding up. Warne has demonstrated so far he is just a short term Neil Warnock type manager who I don't believe can take his football up another level. Achieves results here but this is never going to be competitive when we play teams who can actually pass a ball more than 5 yards. And I hope he proves me wrong when we gain promotion out of this pit of a division. 
I think we are just making things very difficult for ourselves when we have the quality and experience in the side to see games out.  

I’m not using us as a comparison to Leicester. I’m saying if Leicester are in League One, they aren’t suddenly going to play crap football because of the opposition.
Here is a better example.
Stockport don’t use League Two as an excuse to play crap football. They play some lovely stuff.
Derby have the players to be playing a far better brand of football than what Warne and his coaches are currently serving up.
That said, I still feel Warne will get us promoted this season.

Apologies for the red ink, I'm colourblind and didn't realise.
I will rephrase he doesn't want to retain the ball to he doesn't want to retain the ball in key points during the match. The manager has made hard work of earning the points when if we just kept the ball for 10-15 minutes rather than aimlessly going wide every time, it will grind teams now. Not pretty but at least we can exploit the space when the opposition get tired.
We've got one of the oldest squads in the league, where is the game management to take a breather and keep the ball. They look shattered as if we are playing quality sides every week, like we earned a brilliant point. Shrewsbury had nothing brilliant about them and we made them look better. It is a chore to watch this standard every week, nothing to do with Derby being in League One either. Ipswich could play nice fluid football, Plymouth did too. Okay, they had some stinkers along the way but I have heard plenty of praise from their fans on the managers and how much of a joy it is to watch every week. How is it we are 2nd yet it's a 50/50 split on how we perform and the football on offer, even on those unbeaten runs. Something isn't adding up. Warne has demonstrated so far he is just a short term Neil Warnock type manager who I don't believe can take his football up another level. Achieves results here but this is never going to be competitive when we play teams who can actually pass a ball more than 5 yards. And I hope he proves me wrong when we gain promotion out of this pit of a division. 
I think we are just making things very difficult for ourselves when we have the quality and experience in the side to see games out.  

I genuinely believe the only reason we are anywhere this year is because the division is the worst it's been in years. The likes of Ipswich, Plymouth and Wednesday last year were levels above any team in league one this year. I think this crappy division masks just how poor we are. We're rubbish, I don't care if we're sat in second. The eye test is a complete giveaway. 

The players can have lapses in concentration, that happens to every team and late goals goes for and against us. The manager tells the players what do, how to set up, where to play the ball, movements going forward. I think the squad is good enough to play with more control, more fluidity, wearing sides out by actually keeping the ball. There was a couple of times where it was one touch passing and we got into their box, really good football. If we just kept the ball better, Shrewsbury would have burnt out in the end. Their quality of pass was awful and we kept gifting them opportunities to knock the ball in the channels once their subs came on.
The manager does not want the team to retain the ball, hence why every side we face regardless of quality keeps having chances. We should be killing teams off, not just with the scoreline but making them run around and tiring them out. We could easily pick teams off but Warne's style of football makes it very difficult to put games to bed. I don't think many folks are moaning for the sake of it, even if I don't agree with some of their points. The team is not playing smartly enough in a "bad patch" where we are picking up points but it is a chore to see to 90 minutes. We should not be breathing a sigh of relief thinking I'm glad we've like some points here like underdog smaller club with a small budget. 
 

The players can have lapses in concentration, that happens to every team and late goals goes for and against us. The manager tells the players what do, how to set up, where to play the ball, movements going forward. I think the squad is good enough to play with more control, more fluidity, wearing sides out by actually keeping the ball. There was a couple of times where it was one touch passing and we got into their box, really good football. If we just kept the ball better, Shrewsbury would have burnt out in the end. Their quality of pass was awful and we kept gifting them opportunities to knock the ball in the channels once their subs came on.
The manager does not want the team to retain the ball, hence why every side we face regardless of quality keeps having chances. We should be killing teams off, not just with the scoreline but making them run around and tiring them out. We could easily pick teams off but Warne's style of football makes it very difficult to put games to bed. I don't think many folks are moaning for the sake of it, even if I don't agree with some of their points. The team is not playing smartly enough in a "bad patch" where we are picking up points but it is a chore to see to 90 minutes. We should not be breathing a sigh of relief thinking I'm glad we've like some points here like underdog smaller club with a small budget.