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Until 5 o clock later today.

Stunning morning and a perfect day for some footy, I reckon. Hoping for a comfortable win today as we get our season properly underway with a calm and controlled win against a decent Pompey side. 

COYR

I don’t know why but this is what I think of when I hear people on here constantly shouting for Chris Martin.

100%
Football has 5 to 10 year cycles.
Southampton, Leeds, Leicester and forest did their time at this level.
Villa, Newcastle, Burnley, West Ham did their time in the championship.
Clubs can be on top of the world, or at least think they are, and then 5 years later they can be an utter shambles on and off the pitch.
Forest fans can quite rightly gloat and poke fun at the moment, why wouldn't they? Make hay while the sun shines and all that. Football has this unique ability to come back and bite you in the backside.
Pompey fans laughing at Southampton as they won the fa cup and entertained Milan in Europe....
Leeds giving it the big un and splashing the champions league money.....
Keep your powder dry and be careful how you treat people on the way up as they will pass you st some point. 

It could be argued that a good manager makes average players think and play like a top 3 team. Calling them out in the press is going to do little to motivate them.
PW could do with taking the old  advice-"If thas got nowt to say. Shut tha gob."

3 points of top HMS pisstheleague has set sail

Well you lot have me to thank for that , if I had been in the eaststand then fleetwood would have deffo got a late equaliser, perhaps even snatched a winner and I would have been driving back down the m1 tired and miserable as duck,
far from convincing win but a strange one because we didn’t look much like a team whilst they’re were also some good individual performances, 
1, Thomson , real bright spark mom for me 
2 Nelson had a good game 
3 ,waggy looks a good signing , had a good game again and perhaps our best forward
4 nml caused probs all day with his running , just a bit better final ball or shot and he is golden , PLAY HIM iN THE RIGHT POSITION PLEASE MR WARNE 
on to the next game coyr💪

Get Simon Clough in immediately. He knows what he’s doing. Since he went that department has performed worse than abysmally. 

This will be the start of the next golden era for Derby County.
I believe that.
But then I believed that before Wigan. and before Blackpool. and I'll believe it before Oxford..and then Fleetwood.....

…especially when they ‘boo’.
Now to be clear, I don’t believe any manager should get a ‘free pass’ - and as Warne himself has said it’s a results business.
However, I do find it sad that the camaraderie between fans and players seems to be disappearing so quickly after the club nearly went bust. God knows that David Clowes must think - but I suspect the word ‘ungrateful’ has popped into his mind a few times.
I really believe no judgement can be made until around Christmas about how we are doing. If we win the next 10 games everyone will be happy. If we’d won the first 10 games and then lost two everyone would be happy.
 
We should try not to lose perspective just because it’s the start of the season and everyone now feels deflated due to their pre season optimism evaporating. What did we expect really? These players need to gel- we are still short up front and we lost our best player from last season. 
 
Give the club a chance, and if you’re booing don’t pile unnecessary pressure on the team. It won’t have the effect you’re hoping for!

We were never close to top two last season. We had a season to bed in after off the pitch turmoil, we weren't well equipped enough to go up last season on or off the pitch as a club in recovery.
What do you want? Us to fire Warne? With what money? Who would replace him? With what money? And what would we do about the squad Warne has assembled? We. Don't. Have. The. Money.
So stop the childish tantrums, it's two games in. We're a club under a financial business plan with the EFL, we're two games into the season with a new squad, and we're still finding our feet. 

I’d rather sign Waggy than Alfie May 
Waghorn has played at a higher level and would be dropping down a level 
MW does know where the net is but more importantly I think the club and fans mean something to him and can play as a 10 and add competition up front 
A lot got carried away about some players who’ve only ever had a purple patch in L1 
Players like Rhodes and Waghorn will get 10 + goals each in L1 guaranteed I’d say and they won’t play every game but our defence looks more solid and I genuinely think our forwards will score more across the lot of them and will get us out of L1 and that’s all we want for step1 of rebuilding the club 

I was trying to think of a way to sum up our attacking business done so far in the transfer window when this lovely lady summed it up nicely

There’s no Divine Right in football @B4ev6is but the stature of Derby County means expectations will be set at minimum top 6 and automatic promotion contenders. Last season was different due to context. 
We need a replacement for McDick and also Knight whom we will miss this year. Without those, we won’t be good enough.
Do I think we will? Yes, I have faith in Warne et al; Warne is a force of nature and I believe we’ll go auto this season.

And Goddard

We will recruit some ball winners/tacklers, players with pace all over the pitch and a couple of others (apart from McGoldrick) who can stick the ball in the net. That’s the difference between us and the six above us. 
 
Can’t wait for next season to start. For those who can’t be patient enough Forest are just up the road.

I don't watch Sky Sports for obvious reasons so whatever panelists they trot out with their expert opinions is neither here nor there. 
Warne will say he's disappointed of course. 
I'm just very weary of the predictable stuff on here stating that our squad should be romping the league as they should. 
We hardly had a team in the summer so the players we did manage to band together at short notice have done a sterling job getting us to where we finished this season. 
For some folks it's never enough.

Without parroting the "we only had 5 players just before the season started" mantra over and over again, the truth is at least 5 teams in our league, were at a far more advanced stage of team development than us - and it showed.

We got off to a slow start because of it, we had a squad relatively thin in numbers, which told on occasions - and that, ultimately was the difference between a play-off spot, or better - and not.

We could argue PW wasn't good enough, terrible key refereeing decisions in games, but ultimately lack of consistency cost us.

I'd argue, at the start of the season, the average expectation of our final position would be somewhere between 10th and 4th - and we pretty much performed as expected. Yes, we had a few star recruits like McGoldrick and Hourihane, in their twilight years, but you need strength throughout.

Recruiting late, and basically being stuck with those players with little or no wiggle room throughout the season, was no substitute for teams that were better planned and more organised than us.

You don't get out this division quickly, unless you are relegated from the Championship with a heavyweight squad that you can afford to maintain whilst you're down here.

Like most teams in League 1, we have to learn the "long division" route is the only sustainable route back up. We didn't have it, others did.

Close but no cigar. But realistically not that surprising. 'Twas always thus in this division. Having 30,000+ crowds doesn't guarantee anything unless you get the basics right. We didn't have the time to nail all those basics.

I'm as gutted as everybody else we missed out today, but foundations need to be built to progress upwards.

DTID.

I'm a simple man, with simple dreams.
 One is I'm hoping that we will have things sorted out by tomorrow evening and that we ultimately get the chance to repeatedly sing "F the EFL" loudly at Wembley while getting promoted.
DCFC 2 : Pompey 0
FRGS McGoldrick 
COYR!!!!!!!!!

Forest Green 1 Derby 2 frgs Collins. Clearly I struggled to believe we would get even 0. 

Think we need to move on from blaming the EFL….and the refs….and Warne….just get behind the team 😁

This will be a cagey affair similar to the game at their place. 0-0 or 1-0 either way I think. We’re at home, remember we’ve lost once in the last 5 months, for all people are trying to say it’s dire, only Barnsley and Fleetwood have we been truly bad in this recent run.
Im backing us to s******** our way to a 1-0 in this one.

Well getting onto the players early if not playing well is not going to do anything for their confidence, especially the young ones is it. If you want to boo(personally i dont do booing) at least save it till the final whistle.