Abu Derby

ffs let’s just announce Akinfenwa until the end of the season ….jeeez 

We’ve been after Narki Wells for about 15 years. 

We’ve been after Narki Wells for about 15 years. 

We’ve been after Narki Wells for about 15 years. 

Agreed, there's still areas of Pride Park that could do with a lick of paint and a tidy.

Make it f****** stop

https://www.thestar.co.uk//sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/derby-county-register-interest-in-second-sheffield-wednesday-striker-clubs-in-talks-4498600
 

After Lee Gregory, Jesus wept. Pathetic. 

Just looking at Middlesbrough & Blackburn each about to sell an academy player for around £20m then considering how little time our young players have had to show their value. 
Imagine actually giving our youngsters some minutes in the first team and getting a £20m bid... 😕

Typical derby recruitment department from the last 10 years. In the summer go in for Marvin Johnson to be messed about in wages etc. have a look at smith and get the same. Up comes January we spend nearly the whole of January looking for a striker. Send in a loan bid the week before the deadline to none other than Sheffield Wednesday again. Agree to pay wages and then get messed around saying they want a loan fee. Instead of moving and having a really good look around we again stick the satnav on to Yorkshire again to the same club and ask for the other striker and get messed around in wages. Ohh and Rotherham where we had Washington from also hail from Yorkshire. 
 
do we literally scout Yorkshire only or has warne give up the coffee machine for Yorkshire tea 

Joe Ward playing for the 21s tonight. That for me makes me believe he is the player on the way out.

Find it incredibly frustrating that Fornah and Ward are being linked with leaving.
Warnes signings (mostly) haven’t shown much of anything to improve us, and if we’re already looking at letting two of them go 6 months after signing then surely we need to be asking big questions of Warne and the recruitment team again? 

Can see the rest of this transfer window ending up as another nightclub ten to two pull 

Dreadful performance. I don’t even know where to start, so won’t bother, but I will say I feel for the fans that went tonight. 
The last few weeks have been rotten to watch, performances have been really bad. Too much emphasis on results, rather than performances have seemingly led us down the wrong path. Standards need to be so much better than they currently are.
I’m still very much concerned that the people currently employed by the club don’t have the necessary skillset to achieve long-term. The recruitment and coaching is miles off where it needs to be, for me. I have no doubt that even if we did get promoted this season, we would be in for a long season next year which is a niggling thought that I can’t shake. 
Obviously nothing I can do to change the decisions the club make so I’ll continue to support (and moan) as it plays out. I hope I’m wrong, honestly, because I want success for Clowes and I’d like Derby to be seen as a relevant football team on the national stage again. 

You could put Kevin de Bruyne in our midfield, it wouldn't make a difference because Warne actively bypasses the midfield. 
It's a tactical choice that is currently, and will continue to, cost us points.

It’s a totally brainless comment from him in my opinion. Why would you do that unless you accepted that your own midfield was crap !? And if that’s so, then why not look to strengthen that as your priority!?
All the good teams build from a strong midfield - I am seriously wondering about his tactical nous. His one trick/game plan is pass it out wide and cross into the box. It’s frankly pathetic imho. 

I know there’s a long way to go still and we’re still in the play off places but after the last two abject performances in the league, needing an injury time goal to beat Burton and the farce that was the Bradford game I really think the team need to put real show on on Saturday and beat Cheltenham comfortably and in style.
 
The current bad run doesn’t mean we’re out of it, anymore that the good run of results (not necessarily performances) meant we’d turn the corner, but the poor run needs to end pretty damn quickly. No disrespect intended but if we can’t manage it at home against Cheltenham then there’s plenty to worry about.

Feel for the 2000 fans who made the trip tonight, really do.
 

Thought crossed my mind but if we were promoted, would he get games at Derby. I'm not sure and I think that'd be enough to steer me back to the loan option which I'd have thought ought to work well for all parties, but clearly the Wendies are needy AF.
And on that note, not sure if anyone has said as much, but I think we should tell them to do one.

We sold him in the January before admin. Rooney didn't want him so got rid. The fee was got for him was the difference between going in to admin when we did, or at the start of September.
 
His record at youth level showed exactly why he needed time to adjust at first team level. Even when stepping up to the U18s and then the U23s he needed time to adjust to the increased physicality.

Perhaps Steve Cooper is a better judge of ability than us 🤷🏻‍♂️.

We should never have sold Whittaker. Ridiculous decision. 

Signing soon. Been seen for a second time outside Beaufort chippy. 

Yes, they were actually - and numerous fans from clubs across the UK came to the march and subsequent sell out game against Birmingham at Pride Park. Putting hard cash in our coffers when we needed it.
And supporting initiatives like the one to pay back St John's Ambulance when they lost out in our administration. 
I can understand people who hear chants from a small vocal minority of supporters at games taking umbrage, but this isn't about them, or the Club, it's about those patient fans who put in the hard yards -  year in, year out -  following their club. 
I feel their pain, and tbf, I think B4 would do too, given how anguished he was when we were in the same situation.
Some things are more fundamental than fan rivalry.

Signing soon. Been seen for a second time outside Beaufort chippy.