Wolfie

5 hours ago, DCFC1388 said:

ive been told that Rooney has done his ACL & strained his PCL as well as a bit of damage to the cartilage

But apart from that he's fit as a fiddle....🙄

Funny how some seem to think Rosenior played good football here. Pass, pass, pass, pass, lose ball, concede goal etc etc

Zero goals and points from the first 4 away games last season wasn’t it?

 Bolton 1-2 Derby

Waghorn frgs

1 hour ago, alram said:

i am fully supportive of him but our actions in the transfer market dont really add up to a 5 year plan, most of our signings under DC will be in a zimmer frame in 5 years

So we should only sign players who’ll still be with us in 5 years time? On our budget? With fans wanting quick promotion? OK. 

Protaras, Cyprus

6th & 1 point off 2nd

Peterborough 2-0 Derby

no frgs

I just can’t quite work out why he’s admitted to it. Who gains from that?

Derby 2-0 Fleetwood 

Waghorn frgs

38 minutes ago, swanny said:

no, sorry,  actually you are spot on. I just listened back and all he said was that we had a budget which was  "sizeable compared to the rest of the league"  which does hint that its big compared to others but doesn't actually say that. 

S'OK!.

I'm a bit of a stickler for accuracy & fairness - I suppose especially at the moment when emotions all round are running a bit high. I (in my mind) have to question these things, otherwise opinions based on false assumptions get used as a stick to beat the club with.

12 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

However, if it's unrealistic to expect us to finish in the top 6 then something has gone seriously wrong since the end of last season.

No worries fella & absolutely agree with this.

8 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

Of course I agree that nobody has actually said we've got the biggest budget, because they haven't. Not even the poster you were quoting stated it as a fact. Do you agree that people can at least make an educated guess on where it lies?

Yes. All I did was point out that nobody had said it. Which you're agreeing with. Guessing that we've got the biggest budget isn't very educated IMO, given our EFL situation and what has actually been said.

You just seem to have decided that ALL criticism is simply knee-jerk reactions and guff and refuse to hear a word of it.

Wow, and based on no evidence what so ever apart from me correcting the record on this one thing here. Well done.

I don't mind criticism if it's justified - which it isn't if it's based on a false premise. Someone says we've got the biggest budget and some people will believe it and repeat it etc etc etc.

Please can you tell me what you consider to be an 'inflated expectation' for this season?

Bloody quote splitting thing not working.

19 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

Can you show me where these fans are please? Because I'm yet to see anyone on here have that attitude.

I'm assuming Twitter/X or Facebook pages, but I really don't like using opinions from places where there's such a depravity of wit as the basis for an argument on a standalone forum.

Probably similar to the ones who think we have the biggest budget in the league - which inevitably feeds some of the inflated expectations and kneejerk guff we see on here.

13 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

No, but they have said they think it's good enough for a team to be promoted with, from which you can make an educated guess as to its size when you factor in our income levels vs other teams in the league, our choice of manager and the likely size of the contracts we've given out to bring in the signings we have done.

Not the best budget in the league, but very unlikely to be anything below the top 6 overall.

Right, so you agree with me then, when I point out that it's never been claimed to be the case.

1 hour ago, swanny said:

Clowes will always have my love for saving the club. but yes he can be criticised: he's not jesus. 

He talked about stability and has a long term view rather than a MM style 'bust the budget and go for it gamble'....the infrastructure stuff he has done at the club sound great. experienced manager, experienced head of recruitment etc... 

The facts are we now have this all in place. we apparently had the highest budget in the league,

 

Nobody has ever said that.

You asked for thoughts, well here’s mine:

That this is a classless and frankly disrespectful topic about a man who reluctantly stepped in and saved our club when nobody else would.

So, unless he’s deliberately done something which has harmed the club or risked our future (financially or with the EFL) then yes, he’s blameless. IMO. 

Derby 2-0 Oxford

Collins FRGS

Anyone watching Wolf (BBC)?

Is it worth catching up on?

8 minutes ago, Malagaram said:

Any ideas what McGoldrick is doing wrong,3 games in,no goals

He scored in the last game

Burton 1-1 Derby

Collins frgs 

I hope for their sake the Colombians play football better than they sing🤣

2 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

According to my sauce, there is a lady at B&M Spondon called Beryl, if you head there on a Saturday between 9am and 12 she will show you her baps for 4 quid.

 

 

That's why Wilko has gone into admin.

12 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Hourinhane, Mendez Laing, McGoldrick, Barkhuizen, retaining Knight and Sibley.  Lets be honest, most teams bar a couple at this level would've s*** their pants with joy at having that lot in their first 11 on opening day and that couple would've taken a few for their squad happily. 

That may be so but I'm pretty sure I remember the expectations poll for last season didn't have the majority saying we should be achieving at least top 6.

1 hour ago, Kokosnuss said:

Hmmm

History suggests he knew how to get Rotherham out of the league, but that doesn't necessarily mean it shows he knows how to get Derby out of it.

History only shows that in his one attempt so far to get Derby out of the league, he failed. He took a team which should have been capable of finishing in the top 6 and finished 7th, missing out by a solitary point.

 

OK & while I agree with the first bit, your whole argument is based on the bit in bold which, IMO at least, suggests that your expectations from last season were on the high side, given that we had a wafer thin, aging and makeshift squad with no RB (for example).

38 minutes ago, sage said:

So you defend an accusation by saying I haven't got time to prove it but I think it will happen one day.  

The Daily Mail school of football discussion.

I was so fed up, I did scroll through, there was no one, then one poster later did say it. 

 

Do you think the poster called WarneOut (deliberately not tagged them) could be another?.

Either that or they're just so tired, they can't spell properly.

I love a conspiracy but good grief, it's a stretch to take an admittedly inappropriate rambling brain-dump of a rant and make it out to be some manipulative master-plan.