Abu Derby

South stand were incredible. Really inspiring support instead of waiting for something to happen.

Whitaker is joint top scorer in the Championship and Plymouth have priced him up at £16 mill. It just shows - you have to be patient with these young lads . I hope we have a sell -on clause for Bird . 

He seems unable to get into games and unlike adams shows little passion for the fight. Get shot !! 

I assume from this opinion that you have met him then 

Can anyone tell me when our last good performance at home was? We’ve got a team with quality in abundance (for this level) and their instructions are get it out wide and cross. When that doesn’t work we’ve got nothing, even against a side like Shrewsbury who were quite clearly devoid of any quality whatsoever. Painful.

Turgid performance and they owe us one v Exeter City. Struggling to see any game plan. Very low intensity until the final few minutes. Don’t think this lot could handle the play offs.
 

A fairly standard league 1 performance from a Paul Warne team tbf.
Thankfully we don't play teams of the quality of Shrewsbury Town every week.

Another home game, more points dropped from a winning position. No surprise there. Double figures I think now. That will be why we don’t get promoted. Our game management is a disgrace

That game was Warne all over - poor disjointed first half and go ahead in the second with one moment of quality.
Sit back and try to hold on then acted shocked that we don’t.
Why don’t we ever push on and try to score more rather than sitting back ?! Why not take advantage of the twelfth man ? Look how much the crowd get behind you when we do attack ? Why can’t Warne see this ?
People will scoff but his tactics are woeful.
 

and a Haydon Roberts assist, according to the Beeb at least.
Once a Ram, etc.

No words.

Ahh bless. Always shows a good soul when someone cares about animals, which B4 obviously did.

After the win at Charlton and going 2nd, B4 would have been over the moon, really hope we can go up for B4, in the name of B4. Once A Ram Always A Ram. 

There’s a player in there somewhere. He’ll be our next Igor. 

I don't think it's too soon to declare Ebou Adams as the best midfielder in the country who will single handedly ensure our promotion.

He’s just too good to be true
We can’t take our eyes off Ebou

Most of that possession Vs Crewe was picking the ball out the net and kicking off.

This is Collins we're talking about. He doesn't do tired.
I would only worry about injury, suspensions, sending off - and even then we have players who can cover that central position in an emergency. 

Another one we’ve been linked with for the past 12 years. 

The process used for this season will need to be overhaulled. 12 summer signings and a further 2 in January, of which only 3 are likely to be regular starters is absolutely shocking (Nelson, Nyambe, Blackett-Taylor). This is also after the squad failed to place top last season, losing 3 of our first 11 (Roberts, Knight and McGoldrick) and not even having a right back in the entire squad.
It's summarised by having no long term vision. That's in terms of: a) bringing in younger players who will either maintain their current standards for longer, or have room for improvement; or b) planning how the players will fit into the team.
Warne put a clear focus on older and more experience players, based on the rationale of higher wages equates to better players. If more budget is put towards the wages, we'll end up with a stronger squad of players.
Warne also had no plan on how to fit the players into the team. This is demonstrated by early summer recruitment being with 3421 in mind, which quickly changed to 352, and then alternating between 442 and 4231 during the season so far. We signed a LB (Elder) to play as a wing back, but also signed Nyambe (RB) after already signing 2 wing backs. He also signed a slow CB who cannot play in a high line and is uncomfortable on the ball under pressure. We've basically got through from October with only 1 fully fit forward whowas 2nd choice last season and failed to improve on in the summer AND January.
The style of play our CF targets prefer also varied. Summer targets like Harris, Rhodes and Sharp all have different strengths and weaknesses. Similar with January targets such as Smith, Gregory, Mubama, Ennis. It's just a scattergun approach all round. Most of these targets compromise on the high intensity press Warne wants to implement too.

Would take Gail Platt at this point.

Just seen Keeftenbeld coming out of Beaufort chippy with 2 pickled onions. Looked to be in a hurry and was asking random people if they had a biro. 

Just seen Keeftenbeld coming out of Beaufort chippy with 2 pickled onions. Looked to be in a hurry and was asking random people if they had a biro.