derbydaz22

It's all ok, just had a kick around with Mr Collins in the joiners car park, he is so sharp and ready for tomorrow. Got him down to score the perfect hat-rick tomorrow, header, left foot, right foot finishes, to keep us in 2nd place with a 3-0 Rams victory. Once A Ram Always A Ram. 

I've been told the scan has been held up, Collins was in the A&E yesterday at Derby General, He was sent home after a 23 hour wait and told to come back Saturday morning when the Scan machine will be operating again ...lets hope they can rush the resulting scan through 👍

We were top of the league after the first game of 18/19 season.
We played on the Friday night.

Its a good point you're making but that's the difference between honesty and deceit isn't it? You could lie/deceive to try get that extra 1% chance you mentioned or you can be honest, have morals and stick to your principles. Warne has chosen the latter and that's commendable, fatty has chosen the former and that's why he's a dislikable p****.

Our problem is that our home fans - absolutely rightly - would not be happy with 30% possession at home in a third division game

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.

This train of thought that we are struggling to play good football because League One football is poor and the opposition drag us down to their level is just a complete cop out for poor coaching.
Do you think if Leicester were in League One they’d suddenly struggle to play football too? Or do you think they would just play how they are in the Championship and batter everyone 5-0?
You can’t use the opposition as an excuse for playing crap football. That is on our manager and coaches.
 

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.

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.

Not in the best of taste given that Bird's dad died a couple of seasons ago.

That's evidence of just how poor this division is. Our football has been consistently poor and it's still enough to get through most of the dross in this division bar two or three exceptions. That won't be the case if we go up.

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.

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.

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?

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 

Think we’ll be in the play offs this year but we’ll have to play better than normal if we’re to be the best side over 3 games 

That game was Warne all over - poor disjointed first half and go ahead in the second with one moment of quality.
Sit back and try to hold on then acted shocked that we don’t.
Why don’t we ever push on and try to score more rather than sitting back ?! Why not take advantage of the twelfth man ? Look how much the crowd get behind you when we do attack ? Why can’t Warne see this ?
People will scoff but his tactics are woeful.
 

Very frustrating, particularly given Bolton & Peterborough dropped points.
As others have mentioned, conceding late goals at home is becoming a recurring theme with this team. There seems to be a real reluctance to a) hold onto possession & b) slow the game down. We drop deeper when protecting leads at home & on the break, seem desperate to make the killer pass to score a deciding goal. Problem however is that the ball is often lost from the flick on/speculative ball/run into a load of their defenders...they then recycle the ball & come back at us with our defensive shape pulled out of position.
We can point to weak defending for the goal but we shouldn't be conceding the ball so easily in the first place. Get the ball on halfway line? Hold the bloody thing up & play it simple to move the team up the park. This is basic stuff we're not doing & it's going to cost us.

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

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

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 

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

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