StarterForTen

24 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

I did nail this down as perhaps the most depressing game in the club's history, where we are made to play against another side's U21 side in a competitive match. I'm not surprised the interest is at an all-time low. 

It's the fact that the fixture counts as a first team game for one side, but it isn't for the other - that's just mad. It's either a first team game or it isn't - can't be both!

Derby 3 - Vale 1

FRGS: Collins

PLUS....

The game might be our first home match in five weeks - no scheduled home games in November unless we get a home cup draw(s).

Wednesday game is likely to be on Sunday 4th, live on Sky

22 minutes ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Port Vale are only FL club not named after a  place apparently.

Port Vale was a very small area of a suburb of Stoke on Trent according to my Dad, who was born in the Potteries

12 minutes ago, sage said:

                     Wildsmith

       Rooney  Stearman. Forsyth

Odurohh Thommo Robinson Roberts

                        Sibley

             Dobbin.        Osula

I think that line-up shows just how far the club has come since July 1st. That's a well-balanced and decent 'all-change' XI - even without McGoldrick and Kasey Smith

I see Hull City have just parted company with their manager. Perhaps one eye on Mr Rosenior's availability on that decision?

He has Hull history.

1 hour ago, Animal is a Ram said:

We'll see the third kit vs. Cambridge, and the away kit in the Pizza Cup.

If we win - or even just score - at Cambridge they will never play in anything else!

#SuperstitiousPlayers

So glad he's had new DCFC pictures taken.

Everytime I see this old Rotherham pic I think of Ming the Merciless....

2 minutes ago, Big Trav said:

Believe LR is staying, but probably looking to leave ASAP. Apparently wanted ~400k a year to be manager which is a massive chunk out of the budgets. 

£8k a week? Isn't that less than some of the players are on? Doesn't seem to be too overboard a demand. does it?

This talk of Warne setting up Rotherham to play direct is, in my opinion, a good sign that he is a decent coach - not the the opposite. He built and managed a team to be as successful as possible within the means at his disposal, and physical endeavour is a cheaper commodity to work with than technical ability.

The fact that Rotherham have struggled each time they have been promoted to the Championship shows that those financial boundaries have a ceiling of achievement and, I suspect, he's a bit fed up of continually trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. He probably wants to work with a bit more budget and capability to see how far he can take a team - therefore that doesn't mean Derby would play in the same style as Rotherham have.

This smacks to me of a good move. My only reservation is that Warne has been successful with only one club (a club he's been a part of for many years in a number of roles) and you never know if that will transfer to a different set of circumstances. Look at Nathan Jones at Luton. - he went to Stoke and bombed, yet picked up where he left off back at Kenilworth Road.

By this time tomorrow Steve Bruce will be available.

As Jim Bowen would say: “Look what you could’ve won.”

4 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Choose to live in a monarchy, did you mean democracy ?

The United Kingdom is a unitary state that is governed within the framework of a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch, currently King Charles, is the head of state. 

Whether you’re a royalist or. Republican, by living in the UK we are all choosing to live in a monarchy. The country’s sovereign of over 70 years has just died; doesn’t she deserve a few days of small sacrifice as a mark of respect?

Morecambe 0 - Derby 3

FRGS: Collins

1 hour ago, NorwichExile said:

There were points last season where Lewis Carroll would have gotten a game...

If we were to sign Andy Carroll would we be in Wonderland?

11 minutes ago, StevenageRam said:

I would hope we throw everything at this competition. It's got to be our best chance at any silverware for a long time and we all deserve a nice day out at Wembley considering what we've been through lately

I've been to a few EFL Trophy finals and they are cracking days out. A couple of years ago I was one of very few neutrals in a near-90,000 crowd to see Sunderland vs Portsmouth. You don't get many games at Wembley with that many 'proper' fans in - normally filled with corporate bods (like me!).

You don’t want to leave early at a Rams vs Posh game - third injury time winner in a row. 

1 hour ago, TomTom92 said:

Ignorant to the standard of the MLS these days but it’s either better than most of us give it credit for or Byrne’s too proud to admit what he’s done was wrong and has had to resort to the MLS. 
 
If only he had a time machine.

So in MLS, unless signed as a marquee player (very much doubt it) the salary cap means senior players can not earn more than $612k per year, which is under £10k per week. However, the average MLS senior-roster player earns well under half that, in fact about £4k per week.

Guessing Byrne would be over the average but under the top rate.

Might have this wrong, but I thought he was on £12k a week with Derby?

1 hour ago, BriggRam said:

Is that the donkey that was kicked to death when the bus driver taking a school of visually impaired kids to Blackpool thought it a good idea too put a bell inside a beach ball and told them to have a kick around on thd beach, while he popped off for a pint

Bus driver got his ass kicked for that. 

The sad thing is, that if the boot was on the other foot, Knight would be just the kind of player we'd be looking to buy!

1 minute ago, Carnero said:

Hasn't he been here since the age of 11?

I make it 490,000 EUR compensation (£410,000) do you agree @Ghost of Clough?

Was it in the John Percy Telegraph re-hash yesterday that Derby received £290k in training compo for Ebosele? I think he didn't join us til he was 16 so do Bray get some of that too?

During a dispute such as this I wonder who finally arbitrates? Being football, I guess it won't be a court of law in the first instance.

You'd think this is for the FA to decide upon, or perhaps the EFL if the player registration is through them - especially if his registration is to pass from one EFL club to another (as seems most likely).

I'd heard from a source at Stoke City that they felt it would cost no more than a year's salary to sign him, about £650k.

5 minutes ago, whiteroseram said:

Wording of the club statement felt very pointed towards the Byrne situation didn't it? 

But if Bremen are paying development compensation, not a transfer fee, that assumes he was not under contract. If the same is true for Byrne then he is available on a free transfer. 

Now that Burnley have sold McNeil will that reignite their interest in Knight?