Mr Tibbs

27 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

I look at the batting line up and I don't see where those big runs are coming from. I've never been hugely impressed by any of them in 1st class cricket. Only Burns averages 40 in that.

No neither have I, none of them are making their spot their own. Luckily, there's not a whole load of talented replacements who can come into this side seamlessly IMO.

If we could bat a bit this summer we'd make a contest of this series as India's batting isn't perfect either, we're just so far off it with our first innings totals and have been for quite some time. 

Solid start. 

India fantastic, mind. 

19 hours ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

It has no connection to current teams unless you live local to one of the test ground franchises. Like Rammieib I support Derbyshire not a made up team for Notts etc  
Designed to try and undermine the less “fashionable “ counties IMO 

That’s why I don’t like it. 

Again, no problem with peoples opinions. You do you.

Its when that misery is directed at people trying to enjoy it, like you can't enjoy this without having to go and watch 20/20 first. Maybe I'm lucky as my counties ground and a few of their players are being used so there is more of a connection. Any excuse to go watch cricket at Headingley on a Saturday is good enough for me, cringey DJ's and branding aside. 

2 hours ago, rammieib said:

I don’t support a team which isn’t Derbyshire.

I havent found the format interesting and couldn’t give a toss over who wins or loses.

Personally in cricket terms, I want Derbyshire to do well (generally unlikely) or England (generally likely).

That’s fine, it was aimed at people like myself who want to enjoy this without it being mutually exclusive to 20/20.  

It’s possible to enjoy this as it’s own entity and just leave the t20 stuff alone. English Cricket on TV for another 20 odd days - what’s not to like. (Weather permitting!)

5 minutes ago, MuespachRam said:

I think you would be surprised with the actual number of goals scored by the players you mentioned during the 2014 season

russell-8, ward-6, Hughes-3,

Hendricks-9,Dawkins-5

so none of them got double figures, it’s weird because I also have the feeling that they all got 15 goals each..

but like you say, we desperately need someone in midfield to contribute, captain Tom needs to step up and get as close to 15 goals as he can and Joz and shinnie need to be hitting 8-10 each…… it’s on.!

No surprise at all. I purposely left Bryson out because it makes the argument depressing. It's exactly what we need though IMO, not the shower we had last year. 36 goals last year in total (15 players) and those 5 players scored 31 alone! 46 goals with Bryson.... 6 players. Dawkins played half a season and is often forgot but he would have been our second top scorer last year.

I don't think we need our lads to hit double figures, just for them to spread it around like that 14 lot did. A minimum 5+ goals each would be a start from Lawrence, Joz, Knight, Shinnie and Bird. Then a couple of competent strikers on top of that will finish it off. If we're honest there's no way we can't improve on last year, I just hope we get close to doubling our GF column, not just adding a few to it. 

2 minutes ago, rammieib said:

If anyone is liking this, just go and watch your county in the 20/20.

Higher scores, good crowd numbers and a team you can support, not a made up one.

Or just do both and enjoy both. 

21 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Not really. He was always going to play, and it’s basically on the condition they let him leave next year. I can wait another year for the Packers fall from grace back to the obscurity of pre Favre ?

Even if they win a ring this year? ? 

I know they're not all on the same page at the moment but they were good last year... and now the band looks like its getting back together with the Cobb trade? Written in the stars this kind of stuff.

I think as a team we just need more goals in general. I'm longing for the days when goals just came from everywhere. Russell, Ward, Dawkins, Hendrick, Hughes... didn't even need a striker! Just good old movement and good use of the ball. I'd even take a set piece specialist like Inigo to bag us 10 goals a year, we haven't even got that. It's down to Rooney to sort our poo out and try and progress our playing style.

Lawrence has got to get back in the goals, Joz has got to kick on. When we can we've got to try and address that midfield because we're in for another drab season in front of goal with those centre mids IMO. CKR will lead the line well again but his form will probably fall off a cliff again, as he tires over the season (as expected at his age and zero depth to give him a breather). 

Not going to panic just yet, as depressing as the squad looks, it is what it is. Let's see what wheeling and dealing we can do when we're allowed. 

A-Rod back in town. Jordan Love and the rest of the NFC North will be spewing. ?

Got tickets for the game at Headingley on Saturday so be interesting to see what its like in person. A good game on offer but I'm sure the line ups are going to be completely decimated by the England squad announcement.

Last night was pretty good cricket in fairness, pink and green graphics aside. 

Nice to have some comms from the club, regardless of any actual changes to our operating limits. 

5 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

We're in the news, we're an absolute disaster zone EFL footballing-wise and Rooney is still big news. If you think that there's no sympathy for what happened to Rooney look at some of the Man U twitter posters. There's sympathy for us because of him too with a fair few suggestin Ole should lend us young players for free. As Derby fans we sometimes get a bit of tunnel vision to our misery atm. #COYR

I sympathise with him, he's been taken advantage of for sure. But how many more times does he have to be put through the ringer before he takes himself out of these situations? Until he gets a bit of self control I'm not sure he should really be manager of a football club. 

My views are biased as I'm just not arsed about him being our manager, I'm just fed up. Things like this are easily avoidable if you act like a rational person IMO.

8 minutes ago, Stagtime said:

So a bloke has a night on the turps, ends up maggoted and sleeps it off but still gets crucified. What do people want, maybe stagger around town, end up getting rolled by some young Bamfords after a easy target or maybe he should’ve done a Mr Magoo and wrapped the Range Rover around a post. The bloke’s a footballer not the friggen Pope. 

I mean I don't think what he's done is anything terrible but why is it always us? Why always Rooney? 

He's not a footballer anymore. He's manager of Derby County and with that should come standards, professionalism and conducting yourself in the right way - especially hours after talking about dignity. 

I don't think getting his face farted on (genuine or not) is a great image for the club with everything thats going on right now. Makes an even bigger mockery of the ongoing clown show. 

1 hour ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Thought 20/20 had done that ?

So did I.

But then I got deep into a Twitter/Wiki/Statista hole last night when I found out participation numbers in this country are down by a third in just over 10 years. Something needs to be done to re-ignite young peoples interest. 

To be fair we need blind betting on Derby to up our odds on the other side of the bet, it’s a necessity. 

Looking like another profitable year this season. 

4 minutes ago, Carnero said:

No chance, "quick" bowlers in women's cricket are 70mph when in men's they're 90mph. It would be bloody dangerous ?

Not if we make Mark Wood and Jofra bowl left arm..

Peak audience at 1.6m last night... 100k short of Sundays international T20 vs Pakistan. A good start but the test of time will be the measurement of how successful it is. 

We don't have to love it, we've already bought in. But if it can attract audiences like that and breathe some new fans into the sport then it may just be worth it. I don't think The Hundred is ever going to be anyone's favourite form of the game but if it gets people through the cricket door and opens up the other forms of the game to them - happy days. 

There's so much wrong that needs nipping in the bud ASAP, mind.  

I quite liked it, not a bad opener. 

More cricket the better, generally more entertaining than two football teams trying not to lose. 

33 minutes ago, Curtains said:

FFP is  not fit for purpose.

Derby always religiously tried to work with FFP over many years when other clubs like QPR and Bournemouth etc etc flouted it .

PS Why is this in Nathan Byrne thread 

Have we done that since Mel arrived? Maybe now we're up poo creek. Religiously pushed the boundaries until they burst and we're now blaming everyone but ourselves. 

1 hour ago, TexasRam said:

Maybe we were watching a different game, after 30 mins we where far from comfortable and couldn’t get near the ball. Their goal could be seen coming from just before half time, no hindsight there it was blatantly obviously we needed to change things. However you’re right in the end we were 3 penalties away from achieving something amazing, and he’s doing a good job. I didn’t think I’d ever see us in a final in my life time, and I’ll forever be grateful to him and the team for that. Just a shame that maybe just maybe we could of actually done it and won the thing without even going to penos. 

Same game just completely different perspectives, which is what this is all about.
 

I saw the pressure and possession they were building but I also saw zero threatening moments bar the Chiesa chance which Pickford had well covered. No nail biting required until the penalties - in a Euro final! 
 

I think it’s in our mentality to expect more from English international teams but 2018 opened up a different view for me and I enjoyed that and this tournament so much more than previous ones. Probably the greatest, most enjoyable rides football has given me and I’ll be ever grateful to Southgate for that. 

I don't really get all the Captain Hindsight stuff. When you're leading 1-0 in a Euro Championship Final, very comfortably may I add, I can totally understand why a game-managing, cautious coach didn't go on the front foot and make wholesale changes. I think Chiesa created one decent chance for them all game and they grab a scrappy, 4th ricochet off a corner equaliser to get back into it - poo happens. 

Literally a couple of penalties being scored away from being knighted. Carry on Gareth, you're doing a brilliant job. 

1 hour ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Hypocrisy is non-England fans trying to tell us we should be ashamed of it, or trying to devalue our victory when they think that Maradona's hand ball, Ronaldo's wink, Lampard's ghost goal, Simeone's theatrics are all hilarious.

Show me a football fan (club or international) that has never celebrated a win for their team off the back of a favourable decision and I'll show you a liar.

Summed up nicely. 

We know it was a horrifically soft penalty and we'd all be sick to go out to a decision like that. We have done in previous tournaments. But what are people actually expecting us to say? Forfeit the game? Give Denmark the win?

I''d rather Sterling not dive to win us games because I hate it. Just like I hate our fans boo'ing other nations anthems because I hate that too. Am I daft enough to think its just an English problem? Certainly not but because its us it gets blown out of proportion like everything else. 

Fantastic night. 
 

Biggest achievement from and England side in my lifetime. No golden generation frills needed. Just Loads of dodgy, written off players who don’t deserve to be playing for our country - I love it. 
 

Pickford, Stones, Phillips, Sterling.. keep it going boys. 

Maybe its just me but I can't sit here and cry about the EFL after the way we've been operating for the past few years. 

Rolled the dice, failed multiple promotion attempts and have tried loophole after loophole to try and straighten out since. How many non-parachute payment clubs were giving Darren Bent (and the rest) tens of thousands a week in this division? Sold their stadium to themselves? Signed a player through a sponsorship deal? Registered player amortisation different to the required standard? 

I just can't sit here and say we've tried our best to avoid this mess, its been coming. 

If that view makes me less of a Derby fan than the super supporters are, so be it. I'll support the club where ever it ends up but I'm not going to lie about its shady activity post 2014. 

Think there's more to come from us, a job well done. I've seen too many tournaments in my lifetime with superstars and 'golden generations' to know 7 points and 0 concede to top the group is not to be sniffed at. 

Massive test next, which I'm not quite convinced we can overcome but we've got to believe haven't we?

It's coming home, until we're out. And if we go out next week then it's coming home next December anyway so strap in all you misery guts.