Gerry Daly

Never go back once never mind 3 times

Eustace 

31 minutes ago, Malty said:

Looks v much like sibbers is playing on the left side of a front 3.

Why does it? He played on the right against Notts and scored 2 goals. Barks has been playing on the left. I think Sibley will play on the right 

3 minutes ago, Gerry Daly said:

I don’t know where all this certainty that it will be off is coming from. The only game that’s off so far is Ross County v St Mirren. Far worse weather up there

And Rotherham now

I don’t know where all this certainty that it will be off is coming from. The only game that’s off so far is Ross County v St Mirren. Far worse weather up there

4 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:

I agree that we could have better strikers, and we are are weaker up top than last season. But how many teams in league one have a stronger forward line than us? Not many, and I'd argue no more than one or two. And there are only 4 teams who have scored more than us, and two of those have a game in hand. I'd argue 22 teams in this league would happily swap for our front line.

I think a lot of the arguments that we have poor forwards are with our poor conversion rate. Collins is at 26%, one of the lowest in the top 10 scorers. I'd be more worried if we weren't creating chances.

Yes, that's me being positive. No, I'm not drunk.

 

I think John Jules will make a massive difference if and when he gets fit. Also I imagine there may be some ins and outs in January

Our squad is more than good enough to finish near the top of this division EXCEPT for the strikers. And therein lies the problem  

I think either Dean Sturridge or Tommy Johnson. They were quick over a short to medium distance which is what counts in football. But I wonder if they would have beaten Mark Wright over 100 metres 

Should we have(or could we have had) two red cards last night? One for Collins blatantly smacking that guy on the top of his head and the other for Sinley's wild, reckless, late and totally unnecessary challenge where he smashed that kid into the sidings right under us?  

Luckily he is one of those who’s big contract runs out at the end of this season

I'm imagining that guy as Chris Kirchner

49 minutes ago, Malagaram said:

I am amazed that people are giving so much time and space to the Warne in/out saga when thousands of people are being killed in the Israel/Gazza strip conflict.There are far more important needs to be addressed.

What on a Derby County football thread? 

Lets wait for the next crap result and performance, probably tonight, to sharpen up the debate a bit

There will be a good away following including myself. It won’t go down well if we lose which I think is 50/50

He did. One day very soon he will get the full Phil Brown treatment

1 hour ago, TomTom92 said:

We’ve got 2 options; 

A) Warnock, make this season a free hit and have the king of poohouse entertain. Then come the end of the season appoint our long term guy.

 
B) Go long term now and hope we back the right horse this time. Notts County or Stockport’s maybe? Eustace if he gets the sack? I like Evatt but he would be to expensive I imagine and maybe his Snapchat woes are affecting his personal life right now, so steer clear.

Or what about option 3, appoint Warnock or someone like him -  a 'Jim Smith' type, been there, done it older manager - but also appoint his potential successor to work alongside him as an assistant. Someone like Curtis Davies maybe? I could see Cutis learning the ropes alongside alongside someone like that for a season or so and then taking us to the next level 

50 minutes ago, Abu Derby said:

Warne has 3 and a half years left, minimum. Not going anywhere. 

OK thanks. 

I don't disagree with the options discussed on this thread, but I think Wilson is a real player and will go on to shine for us

2 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I remember being at work when Derby were missing Stimac against Leicester and a Leicester fan advised us we were lucky as they were missing Prior AND Walshy.  How we laughed, even the resident plastic Liverpool fan, at the comparison.

  I wasn't laughing when we replaced Stimac with bleedin Prior.

mmm we didn't laugh so loud when we played them at home towards the end of Jim Smith's time

5 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

It's why I think we'll go back to 3/5 at the back - a back 3 of Nyambe, Nelson and Cashin, and 2 of Ward, Wilson, Forsyth and Elder as wing backs.

I don't doubt that for one minute. Vomit worthy

5 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

I don't think we could afford any current Championship or League 1 manager.

• Lee Carsley (England U21) would probably be holding out for the main England job at this point. Even if he isn't chosen for that job, I doubt he would drop down to L1 level.
• Luke Williams (Notts County) for the long term project. Someone I could see taking us all the way to the PL.
• Gary Bowyer (unemployed, previously at Dundee) to build solid foundations and rebuild the link between the first team and academy
• Paul Cook (Chesterfield). A difference in opinion led to him being sacked at Ipswich, but he's done well everywhere else.
• Aaron Danks (Middlesbrough assistant manager) has been assistant for Kompany at Anderlecht, Dean Smith at Villa and now Carrick at Boro. Has also been involved with the England setup, having assisted Paul Simpson as they won the U20 World Cup in 2020, and then the  U21s in 20/21. The riskiest option I've listed, but has a good contact list and I think is worth taking a risk on. Another I could see growing with the club as taking us to the PL.

You don't think we could afford any current league 1 manager. So the managers of Fleetwood, Cheltenham, Burton, Shrewsbury, Leyton Orient etc. Are you mad?

4 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Nyambe was a defensive right back (back 4) who started to transition into a RCB (in a back 3/5).

Wilson has always been a RWB.

Ward was a RM (such as in a 442), well suited to RWB (in a back 3/5) who can be RB or RW in other systems.

Barkhuizen was a RM/RW, who had occasionally filled in at LW and CF.

Thanks for that. My point is that if we are now going to play a flat back 4, we have one right back(on a six month contract) and 3 or maybe 4 other players for a more attacking right side position

1 hour ago, QuitYourJibbaJivin said:

Personally I think PW needs to chose between Wilson and Nyambe and stick with it until 1 drops out. Tried to shoehorn Wilson in and ended up going 5 at the back which was extremely puzzling. 

We are playing 4 at the back and we have 1 right back - Nyambe - and 3 right wingers, NML, Wilson and Ward. I think Barkhuisen prefers to play on the right as well. Bit of a mess isn't it 

On 30/09/2023 at 11:18, Gerry Daly said:

Fancy us strongly today. We have been improving the last few games and are due a convincing performance at home 

Dear me that aged well

1 hour ago, IslandExile said:

Enough is enough is enough

Yep particularly as he thinks that was a good performance