brady1993

Good fun, though! ?

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

I've said before but the worse the situation gets the better he has seemingly handled it.

I largely agree, one thing I do wonder with him though is whether we'd have seen more from him if we had more options for rotation  (or been more willing to rotate him) whilst he's been here.
Championship wingers by and large are inconsistent with them drifting in and out of form. With Lawrence we've largely played him through those bad spells during his time here and placed an increasing amount of expectation on culminating in this season where in my opinion we've tactically set up to try to get the most out of him. And to be honest he seems to have done worse the more we've seemingly relied on him.
Of course this could just be a case of him doing better when we've had better players but anecdotally he seems to me to have always done better the first game or so back after a layoff.

Just never seems fazed or defeatist about the situation, so impressive given the horrendous circumstances. I really hope he gets the chance to manage us in a stable state....he absolutely deserves it.
Lesser men would have walked from this nonsense months ago. You find out a lot about people in adversity.

Well that’s the first question answered. Is Rooney up for the rebuild in league 1? Absolutely he is and is already planning for it. Biggest positive this week. Club needs certainty and stability, no one coming in will know the club like him or know what we have. Hopefully he can convince the likes of Bird Knight etc to stay as well, he’s really making a statement by his actions, if anyone can say he’s bigger than the club he certainly can, yet he doesn’t, he shows great humility and outstanding leadership in a critical period in this club’s history
We need the ownership situation sorting and then he can have the chance to manage without his hands tied behind his back, then we can really judge Rooney the football coach. Get a new owner and we can actually start being optimistic about the future again.

Lawrence is a decent player. Certainly not my cup of tea, but he's proven Championship quality. The problem with his time at Derby has always been that he's never come close to living up to the justifiably high expectations for one of the highest wage earners. And before anyone starts, yes, I'm aware that the 37k listed in the Mail isn't necessarily accurate, he's definitely one of our top earners regardless.
One of my major frustrations is that Lawrence is the prime example of our bafflingly poor transfer policy that has helped land us in our current mess;
Bang average player has statistically exceptional season that any analysis deeper than, "oooh shiney, we want" would reveal as a clear anomaly unlikely to be reproduced.
Once the player is at their peak career value Derby swoop in with an absurdly high bid and stupidly high wages to dissuade competition from other clubs who the players agent assured us were very close to signing him.
Realise we've been sold a dud and wonder why there's no interest when we put the word out that a bang average player with 30k/week wage demands is available for transfer.

I don't think we should be piling in on Lawrence. It was obvious he was going to leave after his contracted ended, which I believe suits all parties. He's not going to be here next year and personally I would give him the month off, as well as others who don't see their future here next year, so we can bed in the younger lads who may well be needed next season. 
Let's be honest, we're going to be playing in games that have absolutely no meaning. The players looking to move aren't going to put their bodies on the line, they will do the bare minimum to get by - essentially making them worse than a 18 year old who may want to make a point. If if the latter doesn't, at least we will have learnt more than carting out the senior players that won't be here. 
Byrne is another potentially in the same boat. 

It's all ifs and buts but it's likely if we get all the talented youngsters swept up this time we stay down in league one for a while. The academy looks expensive at that point but it would theoretically give us the means of actually rebuilding a bit further down the line because the infrastructure for producing these players will still be there. If we close that it will take a long time to rebuild, I mean it's taken about 5 or 6 years from us majorly pumping money into the academy to beginning to see the fruits of that investment.

It's a fair point, one I wasn't really considering in that line up and I think you are probably right.
I still think we want to be relatively close to something like that line up though as I think it will give the best most benefit in the longer term.

I'm still naively hoping we can convince Bird and/or Knight to give us another season at least and if was in charge I'd be doing what I could to try to obtain that goal. Having one or both beyond this season will seriously bolster us from two angles; a lot more quality in midfield and if we can avoid selling them this season we are more likely to get a bigger fee for them down the road (and one we can reinvest at that).