Hector was the best

Thought the same with Gayle last week.  He was being asked to press the goalie and was running 30 yards at pace to do so every time he had the ball at feet.  I said he'll pull up here soon. Hey presto 5 minutes later.

At the game today.
Can't help but feel that this could / will be the defining game of the season against a very poor Northampton team lacking several first choice players and on a bad run of form.
A complete no show from 1 to 16. Add the NML injury and Bradley's stupid sending off and I fear the worse.
It's the Derby way nothing ever straight forward !!

Actually I've calmed down a bit, and the players did let themselves down, and the let the club down, and more than that they let the fans down. So apologies, your point accepted.
But it was underpinned by the tactics used today, which were woeful. When it has taken this far into the season to find that we need a third man in midfield, especially if Hourihane has to be in there (I don't remember Richi Sunack passing a law that he must always play unless injured, but it would seem to be the case), only to go with a two today. It crippled us,  especially when he took Adams off, not Hourrihane. And I don't know if you noticed or not, but we were back to the "whack it ide and lob it into the box" methodology that has never worked, and that didn't work today. When as players you know there is a much better way to play, and that you are capable of winning if only we would do it, but are forced into this sort of crapology, is it any wonder they were a bit half-arsed? Yes the players were poor, but they'd had their hamstrings snipped as they walked onto the pitch today.

I'm glad though that after all 5 subs had been made, he still kept the three centre backs on. Genius tactics against the one striker.

Limp, lacking in effort and skill, felt it like lasted all night without going anywhere and ultimately just left everyone feeling disappointed and frustrated. 
Anyway, enough about @Jourdan's nuptials, how bloody awful were Derby today!

Suppose it didn’t help player morale that Warne jovially told the fans forum that most of them were getting binned off if we go up anyway. Not that it should detract from wanting to win a game anyway, but I imagine it didn’t help. 

Sorry mate not for your lot it doesn’t; you’re as much bottlejobs as we are and I can see you getting done at Stevenage next Friday. The only team I think have any momentum is Peterborough at the moment, who incidentally were best team I’ve seen at Pride Park this season. I don’t know how our season is going to pan out now; I have had the stuffing knocked out of me by todays result and wouldn’t be surprised if we end up falling out of the top two and getting done in the playoffs, because I honestly don’t know which Derby team is going to turn up, game after game. 

its not really the fact we lost, its the way we lost

Horrible game.
Just nothing went right. Bradley was so poor today,  won't be missed on that showing.
No intensity,  no guile... I've been defensive of Warne's tactics but today there really was too much aimless hoofball.
Passing across the back 3 to wing backs who were as deep as a full back would be.. launching it when we didn't really have out and out wingers who could take advantage.  Sloppy passing. 
And brain-meltingly bad ref-ing. Pathetic s**t-housing, diving, staying down etc that was appallingly handled by the ref.
Another really bad performance, similar to a few others. When we are bad,  we are abject.
Needs a massive change for the next 3 difficult games.

It’s a combination of both.
Warne’s tactics today were so wrong it’s unreal. And his subs were even worse.
But the effort shown by the players… f*** me. I was about to have a f****** seizure I was that mad in the crowd. People clapping them off. Not a f****** chance, absolutely disgraceful performance 

Thought I’d have calmed down by now. Nope, still furious.
You f****** load of bottlejob imbiciles 

OK. Have your way. The players did absolutely nothing wrong and can put any poor defending, missed passes, failure to create and convert any chances etc. entirely down to Warne. 
 
I don’t agree with throwing players under the bus but I find it bizarre to suggest they were completely blameless for today’s poor performance.

I do think we are giving Northampton a tad too much credit and tolerance for their tactics. For me their s**t housing was outrageous. Never seen a home team in the same league employ time wasting to that extent which simply disrupted any continuity in the game. The referee's tolerance for it was typical of this league but he simply didn't do anything when they continued to do it. Ok they won but if we were guilty of that I would be ashamed. Disgruntled fan on way back from match.

Sibleys not done much wrong, Should be played further up though, probably as that 10 seeing as we have no forwards who can shoot on target or avoid offsides now. 

Just to top today off, I’ve just been told Hourihane has now played enough games to trigger a one year extension in his contract 

He was dreadful today.

You must be new to this Derby County thing, then. This isn't a one off. This happens every single time. Every time we have a chance to move forwards and leave our opponents trailing in our dust, we get the brush and dustpan out, sweep up the dust and give the clubs behind us a tow. As many of us have said, we should be sitting in first place with 5, 6 or more points clear, because the players we have, used properly, are well capable of that. But Warne has contrived to make us set up to be scared of a team that has lost loads of matches and conceded loads of goals. 
In his pre-match presser he was talking about having to defend for our live for goodness sake.  This is talking about a team that loses for fun, and lets goals in like they are on piece-rate for goals conceded. And no, we didn't even look like bundling the ball over the line.
We were summed up by Hourihane, right near the ned of the match, when he intercepted the ball in the centre circle, with everyone back for Northampton. H sent his pass towards Nelson, who was 5 yards away, but he put the ball 10 yards behind Nelson! What was Hourihane even doing on the pitch at the kick off, let alone right near the end?

We have retreated to the failings of the Exeter and Charlton games. Down to the manager and his obsession with Bradley and an
over-defensive back 3 formation ( which can be attacking as in our recent wins). In  hindsight the loss of Gayle seems so significant. Warne says in his interview that we didn't get the wing backs forward enough -- whose fault is that?

Just arrived in Cornwall for our Easter break….just checking in…how did things go 🫣

So a decision didn't go our way, is that why we failed to defend the cross or mark the goalscorer properly? Or the reason we fluffed a few clear cut chances? Or the reason we generally just bimbled about like it was a pre-season friendly? Yeah, I must have been watching a different game.

Why did we play all game with 3 CBs???? Elder for sibley really? Hourhaine was f****** terrible how did he stay on? Typical derby to just throw away every opportunity 

Warne was as bad as our players who seemed punch drunk from the Bolton game.
They all need to be criticised equally 

Absolutely effing toss. Not a single one of them comes out of that with any credit. Absolute disasterclass from the manager down.
If we make it up this season, it's in spite of our best attempts to stay down.
This teams needs a full reset, regardless of which league we're in next year.

We need a proper striker fit asap. Lost the two games Gayle didn't start when he wasn't fit enough, won the next 4, then lost again without him.
I knew it would be too good to be true, we never do things the simple way.

Grim.