Abu Derby

I remember how utterly disenchanted I was at the time with the appointments of Brian Clough and, three decades later, Jim Smith.
"Not big enough for Derby County" went through my mind over both OBE and TBE.
The same thoughts now.
Same results please.
 

Leeds would have took more 

Gut feeling is Warne is not the true name we are after. 
Clowes does things quietly and behinds the scenes. Wouldn't be surprised if a bigger name like Dyche has been lined up and just kept on the quiet 

Salt mine has reached peak production levels.

Steve Cooper

Keeping the red dogs off the bottom 

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Conceded 3 in 4 minutes

Just seen a Twitter comment of “Steve cooper always looks like he’s just been let out of a headlock by one of his mates”
Glorious 

What's it been - £170m? At the moment that works out at £40m a point. Bit much to be sitting in 19th place and could even be bottom come tomorrow evening ?

I said their demise would begin at man city. They have bought too many players. They have now lost to both teams promoted with them. If they can't get anything against Leicester then they've had it

Back when I was in the 6th form at School was when I first started going to gigs. Ten Years After, Wishbone Ash, Floyd, Zeppelin, Atomic Rooster, Deep Purple and so on. What a Time to be alive. Biggest regret was that I never saw Zappa live. Had tickets for Sheffield but they cancelled. Zappa had fallen/been thrown off the stage a couple of nights previously and broken his leg.

If we are going off managers who got promoted from the Chanpionship in Mick McCarthy’s era, I would prefer Owen Coyle, Ian Holloway or Phil Brown.

A few observations about last night's match.
Horrible place to get to, and get out of, traffic-wise. Ground didn't cope well with the Derby fans, not enough infrastructure, too much stewarding that did nothing! I questioned the sit anywhere policy and was told they'd sold more tickets than seats so wasn't going to be a place for everyone anyway. Resulted in two rows of our fans standing on fence behind goal and up every gangway.
I thought we played without urgency but I disagree with the cause of that. It's not Bird slowing it down, he played some fantastic forward passes to Sibley early doors. It's when the ball gets to Hourihane - it's an unnecessary step sideways as it's already with our most dangerous players. He's a bigger luxury than Lawrence in that he hasn't got any end product and he never drops back and does his defensive work. Lawrence did both. Liam drops him and we start working again. 
I thought Collins was offside and Mendez Laing wasn't. But officials seemed keen not to favour the 'big' club. We're seeing that time and time this season and it isn't going to change.
Penalty looked soft to me. A much stronger body check on Knight in second half not even a free kick (one of many), yet that a penalty? I don't see it. It's inconsistent. 
I lost my temper with Rosenior over the substitutions (sorry for the swearing!) Taking Sibley off, when he was creating, leaving Hourihane on when he was doing nothing. No way should a booked Hourihane stay on over Bird either. What for? A crap free kick that led to yet another counter attack from Lincoln. Look how many of those started from Hourihane losing or being too casual with the ball.
Cybulski currently could do a better job up front than Osula. Dobbin not strong enough, either, but he was occasionally wriggling away from his defender, played better than his replacement who should have done better with his one chance (did nothing after that.) 
Davies was off the pace but he was right to have a go back at the bloke giving him the w***** sign at the end of the game.
I thought Lincoln were strong, organised, fit and up for it. So were their fans, impressive all round. ??
Rosenior needs to wise up quickly to what wins games away from home in Division Three. Liam, here's a clue - it ain't pretty football.

The tactic every week seems to be. Start Mcgoldrick and Barkhuizen.
Then bring on Sibley and Dobbin.
That's it. 
The right back situation is bizarre. Needs to bite the bullet and chuck Oduroh in. Because if he can't see Knight is needed in midfield then there's no helping him.

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really. 

We haven’t scored one goal away from home all season. Shocking really.