Mr Tibbs

Derby fans; hate three at the back, hate route one, hate old players, hate overlapping centre backs. 
Also Derby fans; let’s replace Warne with Moore or Wilder.
This place is mental. 

Derby fans; hate three at the back, hate route one, hate old players, hate overlapping centre backs. 
Also Derby fans; let’s replace Warne with Moore or Wilder.
This place is mental. 

Let's analyse the situation here a little.
We are a cash-strapped club which narrowly avoided extinction last season. We are still under severe financial restrictions imposed by the EFL - we have to adhere to a business plan agreed with them. We have a manager who has been here less than one year of a four year contract. In order to relieve him of his duties, a large percentage of his contract will need to be bought out - using money we don't have. In order to bring in the 'right' manager, it is likely that we would have to pay compensation to another club - the alternative being that we employ someone who is currently out of work. In order to strengthen the team, we need to either bring in loans (and very few players are being loaned out by Championship or Premier League clubs at the moment - it's usually a 'last minute' thing) or free agents who are, by definition, players who have been discarded by others because we are unable to pay a substantial fee. Oh, now I'm depressed.

The amount of grown adults in this thread throwing their toys out the pram is hilarious. Oh no, we're out of the cup we were never going to win anyway.

There's a few genuine laugh out loud comments on here 
The rest is just jaundiced, narrow minded, blinkered drivel.
There's some folks actually revelling in the scoreline tonight as it then in their minds justifies their own biased personal narrative.
Weird. 

Potential second defeat in consecutive matches v teams who were in the championship last year. 
Waaaaay too early to hit the panic button. 

These lot calling for Warnes head will be the first ones calling for another managers head if he doesn't win in the first 5 games.
He's been here 9 months.
 
 

Me venturing back onto the forum after a few days 🙄

I  read most of the posts about the game before I saw it on RamsTV. I have now watched the whole match and I have to say I was pleasently suprised. The football was pretty good. We were the better side as the stats show and apart from the blunders we could have won. Wigan were no mugs.
Reasonably optimistic at the moment. Waghorn may be a more potent Collins but we will see. 

1 game played
Could have easily won by 2 clear goals but for 2 absolute shockers
Still 3 weeks of window open to get some pace in
An opening day defeat should serve us better than a 5-0 win as it will temper expectations. 
We have had a fair bit of turnover during the summer and it's never going to gel straight away.
Stop your whining...

I watched the game back and had a different impression from Saturday.

Derby dominated the first 30 minutes of each half and created chances. No-one played particularly badly.
Two awful mistakes - which you'd like to think won't happen again this season, let alone two in one game. We should have had a pen and a free-kick on the edge of the box in the first half - Lord knows why they weren't given. (There was also that corner we should have had but that's splitting hairs...)
Subs came too late - Fozzie's good chance came on 67 minutes, Wigan scored from nowhere on 72', subs came on 79 minutes. Two or three subs at 60 minutes, straight after the equaliser, would have made all the difference, especially given how dangerous Kane Wilson looked.
It was also concerning that from 80 minutes onwards any build-up down the middle was abandoned and all they did was frantically knock it wide for the cross.
Cashin is being asked to do too much. Nelson looked pretty comfortable coming forward and played some decent attacking & cross-field passes. Cashin can't cross for s*** and gave the ball away too often.
I was pleased their heads didn't drop after conceding the way they did. It was a frustrating game and a disappointing result, but I'm still optimistic for the season. I don't think this is the crisis it's being made out to be.

I think it’s a good addition. I know all the arguments for needing pace and younger players for the long term, however on a one year deal providing much needed depth and options across the forward line this makes sense. Welcome back Waggy 🐏 
 

I think people are being a bit pedantic here with your original post buddy... the case in study is a great example of his poor heading ability. Mistimed and weak. We'll take it all day though and it's a tick in the stat column. 
It was not Thorne to Johnny Russell, let's be reyt. 

Yeah, the dude who almost decapitated himself to score a goal to keep us up...I'm sure he'll lack heart and commitment.

**** ****
 
Im pretty sure everybody is sick of reading tripe like yours as well. 

I didn’t think it was as bad as some are making out.  Thought we did OK first half up until their goal.  We’d created chances, put some good balls in the box and their keeper made a couple of good saves.  I didn’t think we got the ball to Ward quick enough in the 1st half and when we did it was a bit behind him or he had to set it for a cross.  We put that right in the 2nd half.
Up until their goal in the 2nd half they were barely out of their own half.  Cracking finish by Foz and I thought we’d go on and won’t then but their 2nd seem to knock the stuffing out of us a bit.
We lost due to a couple of errors, it happens.  Nothings won or lost in August, particularly on day 1.  Just cos we lost doesn’t mean we’re doomed, equally we could have battered them and it wouldn’t mean we’d win the league.  Let’s have a bit of balance.

Because he’s twice the player than both of them. People are outraged about the result but when your best player continues to be a passenger at this level it’s not hard to see why we come up short against the better teams.
I’ve said in other posts he’s not the only one mind, Smith and Hourihane added to the ineffectiveness. They were all guilty of being caught on the ball, wayward simple passing and not quite taking opportunities when winning the ball further up the pitch. All just a bit powderpuff and meh. 
 

Think this is the fascinating thing about football, we all see it so differently. 
I think we could easily have scored 4 on another day, three sitters. Collins 6 yards out unmarked, Bradley free header and Fozzy at the back stick from 5 yards.. easily could have had more on another day. 
I think the last time we really looked toothless like you’re describing was under Rooney where we seemed to be 0-0 at HT every game and zero SOT was a regular occurrence. 
We’re a bit of quality away from cracking it IMO. 

Think this is the fascinating thing about football, we all see it so differently. 
I think we could easily have scored 4 on another day, three sitters. Collins 6 yards out unmarked, Bradley free header and Fozzy at the back stick from 5 yards.. easily could have had more on another day. 
I think the last time we really looked toothless like you’re describing was under Rooney where we seemed to be 0-0 at HT every game and zero SOT was a regular occurrence. 
We’re a bit of quality away from cracking it IMO. 

Think this is the fascinating thing about football, we all see it so differently. 
I think we could easily have scored 4 on another day, three sitters. Collins 6 yards out unmarked, Bradley free header and Fozzy at the back stick from 5 yards.. easily could have had more on another day. 
I think the last time we really looked toothless like you’re describing was under Rooney where we seemed to be 0-0 at HT every game and zero SOT was a regular occurrence. 
We’re a bit of quality away from cracking it IMO. 

It is interesting how people see it so differently. I think the fact Forsyth was seemingly our most dangerous player speaks for itself. Not sure where Collins was six yards out unmarked for a shot? 

Cant believe we've been relegated today. 

A bit harsh, that. Made me laugh! 

Think this is the fascinating thing about football, we all see it so differently. 
I think we could easily have scored 4 on another day, three sitters. Collins 6 yards out unmarked, Bradley free header and Fozzy at the back stick from 5 yards.. easily could have had more on another day. 
I think the last time we really looked toothless like you’re describing was under Rooney where we seemed to be 0-0 at HT every game and zero SOT was a regular occurrence. 
We’re a bit of quality away from cracking it IMO. 

Think this is the fascinating thing about football, we all see it so differently. 
I think we could easily have scored 4 on another day, three sitters. Collins 6 yards out unmarked, Bradley free header and Fozzy at the back stick from 5 yards.. easily could have had more on another day. 
I think the last time we really looked toothless like you’re describing was under Rooney where we seemed to be 0-0 at HT every game and zero SOT was a regular occurrence. 
We’re a bit of quality away from cracking it IMO.