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Fozzy and Cashin in a back 4 Sat as sadly Bradley and Nelson just don’t look very good.

I have seen some lows supporting Derby for 50 years but this team and I use the term team loosely is a shambles. I have no idea what our game plan is and going forward I can’t think of any positives from our 3 home games. This is a tough watch. 😢🐑

I have seen some lows supporting Derby for 50 years but this team and I use the term team loosely is a shambles. I have no idea what our game plan is and going forward I can’t think of any positives from our 3 home games. This is a tough watch. 😢🐑

I have seen some lows supporting Derby for 50 years but this team and I use the term team loosely is a shambles. I have no idea what our game plan is and going forward I can’t think of any positives from our 3 home games. This is a tough watch. 😢🐑

That's obviously an impossible question to answer. 
I know it's still early days, the players need to gel blah blah blah but, my god that was grim. The worrying thing is, in my eyes, there isn't really any sign of improvement. I know we won handsomely at Burton but even during that game we often didn't look comfortable. 
 

As someone else said, what happened to an aggressive high press? Well, what happened is that we simply don't have the mobility or stamina to do it. So we back off, get passed through and sit back in our 5 man backline and when the limited opposition we're playing give us the ball back we have no out ball because the only pace is an out of position winger.
Everyone gets frustrated, starts trying passes that aren't there or taking daft risks and we gift goals away.
We huff and puff as teams with a freshly gifted lead sit in and manage the game. Occasionally we get joy from set pieces, but you can't score that many from corners against a professional defence.
Warne has bought these players and sent them out 3 times with 3 poor performances as a result. Burton we got away with.
Now we'll be short of Bird and Ward for a spell. Probably months.
2 weeks to save the season. Need three great loans. Pace, power, strength.
I'd go to a 4 at the back on Saturday and I'd make sure NML starts as a winger.
Rooney, Waghorn, Elder, Washington, Thompson to start.
433.

That’s the hilarious thing. Been banging on about a press for months but we just don’t do it. We aren’t capable, but surely he should know that with the Dad’s Army he puts out every week. 

We just don’t have the legs or the energy for the high press. 

Groundsmen have done a cracking job of the pitch in close season. 
 
Waste of time though cos it only benefits the away teams who want to play proper football. 

Without a change they will be crowned the worst team in the club’s history so you may not be far wrong. 

And we can’t even do that very well.  I think we managed to put in one half decent cross from open play in the entire game tonight - Wilson in the second half.

What is extremely worrying is that our football appears archaic just playing long balls and crossing into the box in hope and no real good football on the grass yet we have some good players 
The modern style is to keep the ball and movement into spaces and we looked like a pub team tonight 
let’s be honest our goal wasn’t worked it was just an oppurtunist goal albeit a good strike 
we are a big club in the third tier and many clubs will fear us at our place especially yet we don’t control a game and it’s like a basketball game where we hope we score first …Oxford looked miles better than us tonight and I’m not sure our start to the season will encourage anyone decent who can play football to want to come here 
I like Warne but it has to be 442 or 433 or he’ll be driven out ….I don’t think PW will want a pay off I think he’ll walk if it’s not working …I don’t think he’s a bad person though r not likeable but I wouldn’t mind betting that there’s an arrangement if it’ doesn’t work out as Clowes gave him a big opportunity 
Paul Simmo Simpson or Lee Carsley if he goes 

I have seen some lows supporting Derby for 50 years but this team and I use the term team loosely is a shambles. I have no idea what our game plan is and going forward I can’t think of any positives from our 3 home games. This is a tough watch. 😢🐑

Just got home and listened to Warnes interview and that’s the first time I think he’s lost it - that was awful, dreadful in every dept, we couldn’t get the basics right and the players looked lost and not happy with the way they are being asked to play.
And Warne says the second half was ok and there were bits that pleased him ?
There was nothing about that performance that pleased me - yes we scored a goal but it was kick and rush football by then. Yes Thompson did OK when he came on but why at wide left ?! Get him in midfield FFS !!!
A complete inability to admit that his preferred formation is not working - everyone but the manager can see that !!
For the first time under Warne I’m angry 😞

Really ? I think he’s distinctly average most of the time.

Really ? I think he’s distinctly average most of the time.

Indeed. The much maligned Darryl Powell did this for us in Jim Smiths team

I like Bird in that advanced role. I hope he stays as I think he could have a very productive season. 
Unless we strengthen in midfield Smith can/should play that deep lying role but I can't help think we would be improved significantly with a mobile destroyer type to protect the back 3 and give Bird, Hourihane and the wingbacks license to bomb on. Without that we are exposed and the CBs aren't quite mobile enough IMO. The squad gaps elsewhere are well documented and I do think we need to address them with permanent signings or quality loans (easier said than done obvs)
So in summary:
Keep Bird
Get CDM
Get LWB (we could survive without)
Get CF
Get another no. 10
Get champagne on ice...

That's where we fully agree. Don't know much about this Fornah, but I do rate Thompson highly and would like to see him given a fair crack this season. Especially as he looked more than adequate in the league above. The Lampard season showed us the value of loanees but we're not in anywhere near the same position now. 
My only worry is that our transfers so far suggest that our recruitment don't agree, and are potentially just trying to get us over the line, rather than build a sustainable squad that only even needs to be tweaked, rather than rebuilt. 

You miss the likes of Villa and Albentosa? 😀

I was surprised he made no changes for the Burton game but part of me understood that he was saying you were my first choice 11 last week, I believed in you then now go out and get me a result. We have two very winnable home games now, obviously the second one is easier on paper than the first. Win them and we have 9 points from the first 4 games and everything is looking good again particularly as we must surely have some reinforcements coming in. What will completely spoil it for me is if Bird goes. Let’s hope not

He’s a good young player and it baffles me why some people give him stick 🤷

He’s a good young player and it baffles me why some people give him stick 🤷

He’s a good young player and it baffles me why some people give him stick 🤷

He’s a good young player and it baffles me why some people give him stick 🤷