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    The Key Club King got a reaction from angieram in Paul Warne   
    Ah, I've fallen for that logic before I'm afraid. We think we are in a mini slump, when in fact we were in a mini-period of success and the slump is the normal state of affairs. Gets me every year!
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from angieram in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Adslegend in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Chris_Martin in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from rammieib in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from DCFC Kicks in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Blondest Goat in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from LeedsCityRam in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Andicis in Paul Warne   
    Ah, I've fallen for that logic before I'm afraid. We think we are in a mini slump, when in fact we were in a mini-period of success and the slump is the normal state of affairs. Gets me every year!
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Andicis in Paul Warne   
    It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
    I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
    The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
    I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 
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    The Key Club King reacted to Sparkle in Paul Warne   
    I said it at the beginning of the season and got moaned at - At home we have been ok about twice whilst losing to two league two sides in the cups as well - try selling season tickets to watch that garbage again.We have the players to actually play real football and look decent
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    The Key Club King reacted to Ghost of Clough in Dajaune Brown - loan to Gateshead until end of season   
    Define "decimated". In terms of players, we lost only Ryan, Eze (who joined us at the start of that season), and Kellyman from our academy sides during adminstration. Williams was a fringe first teamer by the time we sold him. In terms of staff, I beleive we no longer have any vacancies for academy roles.
    Define "dreadful". Last season, the U18s finished 7th last season (2 points off 4th) and are currently 4th (3 points off 3rd) this season. Results for the U21s this season still aren't great, but if you'd watch them you'd know they aren't too far off the pace - evidenced by having lost by more than 1 goal only twice in all compettiions since September (a record which our first team also has).
    It defeinitely won't take a "geenration" to get back to the levels we were at previously.
    Warne has had a number of academy players participate in first team training. That doesn't mean he's willing to give them a go in the first team though. It also doesn't mean Warne is a good or bad judge of player. As I've stated many times before, there is also a difference between the ability of a squad/fringe player and a regular starter. Examples I gave in the past were Brown and O'Shea being good squad players at Man Utd, but less impressive as regulars for a struggling Sunderland side. You could also look at current PL sides and their use of academy players. For example, Liverpool have given Bobby Clark 6 appearances this season, but if they were to loan him out to a L1 side.
    "If they're good enough" is only true if a manager is willing to give them a go. Thompson was good enough for 25 Championship games in the 21/22 season (1521 mins) but only good enough for 10 under Warne last season (159 minutes). Warne isn't the only manager guilty of it, but he absolutely is afraid of putting young players in incase they make mistakes.
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Premier ram in Stephen Pearce on Radio Derby 6pm Tuesday   
    Steve Gibson recently converted £107m worth of debt into shares, as he has done before and was fully expected. If he had not done this and just left the club with the debt and a spiral of problems occured similar to Derby, would Middlesborough's CEO/CFO be blamed? 
    Having said that when I went to the loo at 2am whilst having a post night out curry with my mates at the Moghul on Green Lane in 1996, they ran off and left me behind and the owners definitely held me financially responsible for it. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Crewton in Stephen Pearce on Radio Derby 6pm Tuesday   
    Steve Gibson recently converted £107m worth of debt into shares, as he has done before and was fully expected. If he had not done this and just left the club with the debt and a spiral of problems occured similar to Derby, would Middlesborough's CEO/CFO be blamed? 
    Having said that when I went to the loo at 2am whilst having a post night out curry with my mates at the Moghul on Green Lane in 1996, they ran off and left me behind and the owners definitely held me financially responsible for it. 
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    The Key Club King reacted to Ghost of Clough in Academy thread 23/24   
    The U18s finished in a respectable 7th position last season, only 2 points off 4th spot. As far as I'm aware, we haven't recruited from other clubs for our U18 side this season, all progressing from our U16 side. The small improvement this season is from a combination of having a very talented group of 1st year scholars, as well as not needing to fast track too many into the U21 side.
    The U21s certainly had a season to forget last year. Results have improved, but even the games we are losing are typically by just 1 goal (we've only lost by 2 or more 3 times, the last was in September). There are a few reasons for the improvement. The 3 main one being:
    1. More high potential U18s progressing into the U21s. Last year's 1st year pros were all released in the summer, with only 1 2nd year pro retained (Bardell). This to me highlights the low potential of the U21 squad last season.
    2. Solid recruitment - Weston, Gibson-Hammond, Bartley, etc. These signings have helped us maintain a healthier flow of U18s into the U21 side. Jeffcott and Lindsay helped plug gaps too.
    3. Perhaps the most important- having good CBs playing at CB. For most of last season and early this one, we had players filling in. Bartley returned from injury in October and gave us a good platform to build from. Bardell is back now too. Early this season we had DRobinson, Radcliffe, and Bradley Johnson filling in. Last season Grewal-Pollard and Clarke were often played there too.
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from whiteroseram in Academy thread 23/24   
    I don't know much about our academy but it's seems as if results have improved a lot since last year. Obviously there were struggles last season as we were starting from scratch, but has our improvement been a result of our much maligned recruitment team? Whilst we are lamenting the potential purchase of another 30+ year old striker, is it that our recruitment focus has been on stocking the academy up with future talent and getting it back to where it was pre administration? 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Crewton in Academy thread 23/24   
    I don't know much about our academy but it's seems as if results have improved a lot since last year. Obviously there were struggles last season as we were starting from scratch, but has our improvement been a result of our much maligned recruitment team? Whilst we are lamenting the potential purchase of another 30+ year old striker, is it that our recruitment focus has been on stocking the academy up with future talent and getting it back to where it was pre administration? 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Derby4Me in Steve bloomers washing errrrr I mean watching   
    So many on here embarrassed by our songs highlight the problem with the atmosphere. We are too self conscious about what we look and sound like to join in with something that isn't cool or original. 
    It really isn't that important.
    As Adam Ant once sang "ridicule is nothing to be scared of". Though the alternative lyrics to that are the best football chant I've ever heard:
    "East Stirling,
    East Stirling,
    Cowdenbeath are nothing to be scared of." 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Grimbeard in Steve bloomers washing errrrr I mean watching   
    So many on here embarrassed by our songs highlight the problem with the atmosphere. We are too self conscious about what we look and sound like to join in with something that isn't cool or original. 
    It really isn't that important.
    As Adam Ant once sang "ridicule is nothing to be scared of". Though the alternative lyrics to that are the best football chant I've ever heard:
    "East Stirling,
    East Stirling,
    Cowdenbeath are nothing to be scared of." 
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    The Key Club King reacted to IlsonDerby in Finance   
    What on Earth are you on about? 
     
    hes a university professor who specialises in sports finance and we were an incredibly ‘interesting’ case in that respect in terms of the amortisation policy and the overspending. 
     
    honestly were not that important enough for someone like him to hate us. 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Rammy03 in Finance   
    There is a lot going on in these accounts and it is only 9 months but it's probably reasonable to say that with our wage bill that high (in L1 terms) we are not sustainable unless the owner bankrolls the club and covers the losses. That's something worth considering when we spent half the season moaning that we did not buy Peterborough's reserve striker. Clowes is indeed a saint! 
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    The Key Club King reacted to CBRammette in Finance   
    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
     
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    The Key Club King reacted to Stive Pesley in Finance   
    I enjoyed the comment that Derby County are now a successful property business with an unprofitable sideline in football
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from LazloW in Steve bloomers washing errrrr I mean watching   
    So many on here embarrassed by our songs highlight the problem with the atmosphere. We are too self conscious about what we look and sound like to join in with something that isn't cool or original. 
    It really isn't that important.
    As Adam Ant once sang "ridicule is nothing to be scared of". Though the alternative lyrics to that are the best football chant I've ever heard:
    "East Stirling,
    East Stirling,
    Cowdenbeath are nothing to be scared of." 
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    The Key Club King got a reaction from Premier ram in Similar staff situation.   
    I remember when so many people here thought that Jody Morris was the brains behind the Lampard era. His time at Swindon has now dispelled that myth. Though Lampard's subsequent spells at Chelsea and Everton suggest there were little brains involved at all. 
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