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17 hours ago, trappatoni said:

I don't think he's been slagged off that much but he's been a disappointment given he came from the Championship.   In a back 3 he'd be 5th choice if Fozzy and Nyambe were fit - even on Saturday he didn't look as assured as Nelson and Cashin but he scored two goals and if he did that every week he'd get a free pass for his defensive lapses. 

Fozzy came in for the Bolton game and played out of his skin and is simply much better than Bradley and 2 goals don’t change the fact he’s to slow and if we do go up Bradley would get skinned in the Champ.

6 hours ago, Barney1991 said:

If he goes 3 at the back at home with sonny bloody Bradley at the back I’ll show that bobble hat up where the sun don’t shine 

Me to 🤣🤣

1 hour ago, Addingham Ram said:

Wouldn't that be just lovely jubbly. A stress free final day of the season, not having to smash Simmo's Carlisle, and best of all, the final day fixture of Peterborough vs Bolton being a dead rubber.

Would it be too much to ask for to be able to then sit back and watch Leeds suffer play off heart ache again (remember the last time 😀😀😀) and Forest to be relegated - on the last day losing at Burnley?

If Carlsberg did Football weekends 🤣🤣🐑🐑

2 hours ago, Bessie1 said:

Our first game in “the 11-point season” was a 2-2 draw against Pompey.  I remember leaving the ground thinking “that was pretty good, I think we’ll do alright this season”.

I did the same after that game saying to my son I think we will be ok this season 🤣

1Wildsmith 7

2Wilson 7

35Nelson 9

6Cashin 9

17Sibley 7

23Ward 7

10Waghorn 5

32Adams 8

12Smith 6

4Hourihane 5

27Blackett-Taylor 7

16Thompson 6

11Méndez-Laing 6

22Fornah 6

14Washington 5

9Collins 7 

ATG

10 hours ago, sage said:

If that is genuine then we need to appeal. If not, he goes down further in my estimation.

 

Please don’t appeal I don’t want him in the team thanks 🤣

43 minutes ago, Archied said:

To be honest , reading your post it sounds more like what your looking for is consistency and what knocks the stuffing out of you is the lack of it ,guts me too , my reaction during and for a while after the game was , why the duck do I bother putting myself through this 

reality is you really don’t get consistency at this level or even below mid table prem , the players lack that and it’s why they are not top level , what you gonna do ? Give up and support city ? 
nah where’s the gut churning butterflies , highs and lows in that ?
I get it though ,I really do ,it’s hard work being a derby fan

I don’t think it’s consistency that fans crave it’s basics like getting the ball down and try and play football even if it doesn’t work. Games like Sat make us look a poor side and we have had far to many off days even if we are 2nd.

Flat back four please Bradley off and either Wash or CBT on

11 hours ago, Topram said:

Always been a fan of Fozzy a great servant a great guy who deserves goods stuff 

but my does he deserve it, 5/6 weeks out just slots it like he’s not been anywhere, 

Hope we’ll see him see promotion with us he deserves it

That’s if for me the way he just slotted back in like he’s never been out for 6 weeks and now he’s getting older I actually think playing CB in a 3 is his best position. 🐑🐑🐑🐑 What a Guy.

11 hours ago, Chesterfield_Ram said:

I don’t think this is a great idea, but something I’ve just thought of.

So Bradley has been playing well in defence and Forsyth was motm today, so could we fit both of them in.

Back 3 of Cashin, Nelson, Bradley. Try Forsyth out up front. He’s shown he can finish with his feet and he’s good in the air. Could he be a handy makeshift target man with his attributes. Imagine ward and sibley whipping balls in to him. We’ll also have that extra defender for set pieces. He was originally signed as a winger wasn’t he so playing further forward won’t be completely alien to him.

Fozzy has to start in a 3 next game he’s simply better than Bradley by some distance.

How good was Fozzy today? 🐑🐑🐑 keep them 3 together at the back we go up in my opinion 🐑🐑🐑

Bradley in a 5 again so let’s hope they have no forwards who can run.

6 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:

if you want to put that narrative on it then ok.

However, we are 2nd (or 3rd) in the league realistically because the league has been so poor this season. In any normal season we would absolutely not be. The target for the season was automatic promotion (as stated by warne in pre-season) and if we are only just hanging on to that playing against this level of opposition, what chance do we have if we go up to the championship? Where is the long term planning? What are we building towards? I still don't even know what our team is, what's the identity?

This is it for me if we somehow go up this season playing like this then next season we are in a relegation battle just like Rotherham always are.

I can honestly say I’ve enjoyed watching relegation battles over the years than this Gash. 😢

Warne has just said we can run the clock down against Shrewsbury ffs 

1 hour ago, ck- said:

He was fabulous against Charlton. Winning headers, getting his body in the way, and looking comfortable on the ball. I’ve been one of those who doubted him - he was getting caught out of position and completely missing headers far too often in previous games.

Let’s hope that yesterday’s Bradley is the one who shows up for the rest of the season. It looks like there’s still a player in there after all. 

He still can’t run and he makes me nervous but he was ok yesterday.

52 minutes ago, Archied said:

Seen a few state that it was 3 points but a hard watch , not really how I saw it , I enjoyed it , hard fought win away against an out of form team who actually have some decent players who can hurt you ,it swung about with both teams having periods of looking on top and a piece of quality won it , the fans sounded fantastic on rtv ,

rinse and repeat , simple fact is we just need to go out and get as many wins as we can , that’s warnes job and he is doing pretty decent at it ,

max bird was beating his hand on the badge and was as good as I’ve seen him ( wasn’t sure how loan back would pan out ) , perhaps though knowing/feeling it was time for a new challenge he did it in a way that helped the club also ,,, as people have stated ,why not wait till season end and maximise his choices and money scenario, he has signed with a new club but brought in much needed money to derby and stayed on loan to obviously ( clear from yesterday) give his all to leave this club promoted and in a better place , perhaps the club wanted/ needed him to move now if not signing on for another contract , he has my support for the rest of the season for which he is very much one of us and my best wishes for the rest of his career 

coyr 

Still gutted Bird is leaving and no coincidence he played well with a proper defensive mid next to him. 🐑🐑

2 minutes ago, S8TY said:

We won’t miss his hard tackling in midfield ….good deal for us …move on 

What about his quality on the ball? We will miss that 

15 minutes ago, sage said:

This only makes sense if it allows us to make permanent signings this window 

Yes and not 30 somethings at Sheff Weds.

2 minutes ago, May Contain Nuts said:

Typically if O'Rourke says something is agreed and will happen, it happens?

Thank the lord he sounds like a proper DM, although that's no guarantee he'll be used as one.

Probably play as a 10 so Hourahan can continue at DM 🤣

5 hours ago, Premier ram said:

I still think Fornah, Bird and Thommo as a midfield 3 is the answer

At least try it.

On 24/01/2024 at 21:42, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Most probably one of the ones Warne alluded to when he said that players who don't want to be here can move on.

Maybe a bit discontent amongst the troops.

Unless he’s covering at RB he shouldn’t be anywhere near our 1st team on this seasons showing.

18 minutes ago, secretsquirrel said:

The Warne situation seems to be similar to Moyes at West Ham-A section of support decided long ago they were not having their style of Football despite the results/ position in the leagueAlways uner the surface but as soon as a defeat they rise to the top.

Very different if Warne had us playing like West Ham in the top 7 of the Prem I don’t think anyone would be complaining.

6 hours ago, TINMANTED said:

we have played very little football well in the last two seasons,people will put up with the dross while results go the right way,and moaning is pointless because we are getting points.when the points are coming and the football is dross,people who are not happy with it will call it out

And rightly so 🐑🐑

7 hours ago, CodnorRam said:

Some derby fans seem to be abit entitled. Same as forest fans. Both clubs have a very good history. But both have been crap for years yet think we should win everything and outplay every single team. Aslong as warne gets us out this bloody league i couldnt care less.

Entitled? We are in the 3rd tier of English football and we can’t string 2 passes together. If we were outplaying teams and getting mugged on the break I don’t think anyone would be complaining and for the record I don’t want Warne sacked but I do want him to wake up to the fact our midfield balance has been wrong all season.