Dimmu

January is a tricky window.  Realistically any striker we’re looking to loan, as that’s all we can pay a small fee for unless we sell is going to look at Collins form with 18 goals and realise they’re 2nd choice, maybe lower than that once one of the others is fit.  That means there not going to be playing regular at their parent club.  If you’re that striker do you swap one bench for another?
Also, it makes getting a young PL loan tricky.  If you’re a PL club, do you loan your young striker to a club knowing he’s back up for the rest of the season?  Ideally you’ll want him playing around 75% of th3 time, may even stipulate it in the deal.
The summer is easier as it’s a clean slate and easier to cement your place.
Anyway, Gregory wouldn’t be a bad back up and will do a job, but I think I’d rather have Smith. 

Lee Gregory would be fine if there is nothing else we can get in. He's experienced, will be a handful and I'd fancy him to chip in with a few goals.
What annoys me is I am reading some fans on twitter using this as a stick to beat Warne with. "I'm worried about Warne and our transfer policy if this is what we're doing"
Do you think if we sat Paul Warne in a room he'd say that Lee Gregory was his number one target and one he has always wanted?
No he wouldn't. Ideally he'd want a 24-27 year old proven league one striker who's ready to go and good enough to step up to the championship but if there are any available then 1. They aren't going to be sold and 2. If they were, we can't afford them. At all.
It's like our fans have seen that we have next to nothing, had to dip into a loan pot for CBT and are just ignoring that. 
If Gregory comes in he'll get my support, he's a stop gap for the season. Gives us an option. Is he what I want? No. He's not. But he might be the best we can get given our budget.
I've seen people say they'll be livid if we sign Gregory and we should have kept Brown. Livid? If be more livid if we didn't bring someone in.
Brown is nowhere near ready yet. Thrusting a young player in early can ruin them. 
I remember when we got linked with Jordan Rhodes and people were kicking off then. He's second top goalscorer now.
But alas, it's all Warnes fault. Warnes fault we've got no money, Warnes fault our midfield is poor when half of them are out injured. 

NML should be LMNo

Vickero
Wilso Nelso Casho Eldero
NML  Houriho Birdo  CBT
           Sibbo    Collo

Is that why he went to play for both Joey Barton and Nigel Pearson?
 

We just need to play to Collins' strengths. He is not a lone striker, we all know that.

You win the Spirit of B4 award!

I agree. Seen some posts across social media, not too much on here I don’t think, but lots of our fans out there who have taken exception to Reading fans chanting at our expense and are now holding that up as justification to behave as arris holes towards Reading’s plight. 

After what we experienced as a club and what it would have meant to us as individuals, collectively, and to the local community in Derby and surrounding areas I genuinely don’t get anyone wishing it on another club and set of fans. Odd behaviour in my opinion. Would much rather see our fans set a positive example, “be the better person” type thing.

I think this should be said - I hope Reading survive as a club and I really can't understand why any self aware Derby fan would feel any differently after what we went through

As long as there were no big surprises for DC after admin, presumably any Bielik payments etc were known about, surely these numbers are to be expected by the company and prob more importantly the EFL. Presumably they have seen them before publication and are happy in accordance with what they expected coming out of admin and our business plan or cant imagine we would have been able to sign someone on a fee yesterday. 
 
cements my total admiration for DC and his family as they have gone from running a successful development company on a low key basis and enjoying being normal rams fans (if actually we can ever be normal) to taking all of this 💩on to deal with. Can you imagine the stuff he's had to deal with?  And after all that you have fans moaning about us not signing people, going over snd over the words the poor bloke said on the budget for this year forensically, and how terrible last January's window was, etc.
the accounts wont tell half the story but to me there are no words to describe what David Clowes and his family did for all of us, the club and the City. I also dont think we know just how close we were to being gone. Also in strange way grateful to Kirchner as if DC had not already been involved with knowledge of what was going on when just buying the stadium, would he have been in a position to act so quickly to save us? 
 
Respect always
 

Twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men... 🎶🎶

I'd be surprised if this is not a long-term project for him and the club. He hasn't been fit in ages so maybe he is happy with how his fitness is being taken care of here.
Maybe the short-term goal is to stay fit this season and get some minutes. A medium-term goal could be a good pre-season with some bulking and buying shoes that make him stay on his feet. 
The long-term goal is to shoot us up to PL. 
When we are talking about persistent injury problems, I think the long-term approach is the only sensible one. And that might be the idea Warne has sold to him.
Speculative for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if so.

Twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men... 🎶🎶

Twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men... 🎶🎶

This just cements DC’s hero status for me.
Of course the first few months out of admin  won’t be representative of the rest of his tenure and as @angieramsays there may be Bielek money etc in that loss.
However when you see someone running a successful, mid-size, profitable property company lurching into a business like football where it’s so difficult to turn a profit…….all for the sake of us…..you have to doff your cap.

Twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men,
We've only got twelve men... 🎶🎶

I've probably had a bit too much time on my hands this afternoon and did some looking into Warne's managerial career.
Looking at points per game, he has shown improvement most seasons in League 1 from when he first managed in the league in 2017/18 averaging 1.72 ppg. This then rose the following two league 1 campaigns he had from 1.77 to 1.96 ppg. He had a bit of an off season last year averaging 1.68 ppg, but you can give him some leeway coming into a new team and only having 1 transfer window in the January to add some of his touches to the team. So far we're averaging 2 ppg so have improved so far this season.
Looking at it he has always been ok defensively in league 1, but has improved over the last 3 seasons conceding less than a goal a game on average. There is also a significant improvement defensively in the championship, with his averaged goals conceded dropping by over a goal a game in his 3 and a bit seasons from 2016/17.
On the bright side if he does get us back into the championship, he appears to be doing less bad going from an average ppg of 0.57 to 0.87 to 0.91 to 1.56 (last season in the 9 games he managed at Rotherham).

I'd be surprised if this is not a long-term project for him and the club. He hasn't been fit in ages so maybe he is happy with how his fitness is being taken care of here.
Maybe the short-term goal is to stay fit this season and get some minutes. A medium-term goal could be a good pre-season with some bulking and buying shoes that make him stay on his feet. 
The long-term goal is to shoot us up to PL. 
When we are talking about persistent injury problems, I think the long-term approach is the only sensible one. And that might be the idea Warne has sold to him.
Speculative for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if so.

I'd be surprised if this is not a long-term project for him and the club. He hasn't been fit in ages so maybe he is happy with how his fitness is being taken care of here.
Maybe the short-term goal is to stay fit this season and get some minutes. A medium-term goal could be a good pre-season with some bulking and buying shoes that make him stay on his feet. 
The long-term goal is to shoot us up to PL. 
When we are talking about persistent injury problems, I think the long-term approach is the only sensible one. And that might be the idea Warne has sold to him.
Speculative for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if so.

All Hail @Big Travwho got this spot on.
I'm sure @Jimbo Ram will be along with an apology soon.

I guess that is a possibility. We’ll have to wait and see.
Hopefully 12 months from now, he’ll be riding high at the top of the Championship scoring charts, like a similarly written off Morgan Whittaker.

I'd be surprised if this is not a long-term project for him and the club. He hasn't been fit in ages so maybe he is happy with how his fitness is being taken care of here.
Maybe the short-term goal is to stay fit this season and get some minutes. A medium-term goal could be a good pre-season with some bulking and buying shoes that make him stay on his feet. 
The long-term goal is to shoot us up to PL. 
When we are talking about persistent injury problems, I think the long-term approach is the only sensible one. And that might be the idea Warne has sold to him.
Speculative for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if so.

I'd be surprised if this is not a long-term project for him and the club. He hasn't been fit in ages so maybe he is happy with how his fitness is being taken care of here.
Maybe the short-term goal is to stay fit this season and get some minutes. A medium-term goal could be a good pre-season with some bulking and buying shoes that make him stay on his feet. 
The long-term goal is to shoot us up to PL. 
When we are talking about persistent injury problems, I think the long-term approach is the only sensible one. And that might be the idea Warne has sold to him.
Speculative for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if so.