Gerry Daly

Nice to see your lad is also bringing up his kids in the right manner!

I think we would all be happy with a draw tonight, but you are right I never think setting out for a point is a good idea

Oh well. Hopefully we have moved on from that period

2 hours ago, Rich3478 said:

Was a bit misleading yesterday as a huge area left empty, surely this won’t happen for Carlisle as well?

think Leyton orient be close to selling out after a couple of weeks sales!

 

Yeah wy do that? Surely they could have sold a lot of those seats to Derby fans. I guess they would have had to partition the concourse because its part of the away section  

12 hours ago, DB83 said:

Bolton only need two wins to overtake us if we lose the next five.

What if Bolton lose their next 5 though. Eh? Eh?

Is he allowed to get some food inside him for the evening game against Portsmouth? 

I heard Jeff Bezos wants to deliver us the Premier league title

How many are Blackpool bringing?

I think we still have a lot of good players in the squad and they will be smarting from Saturday. We all - or should I say many of us, myself included- just expected us to go on a roll after the Bolton game and cruise to automatic promotion. Well clearly there are still bumps in the road but we will get unexpected positive results as well as negative. And our opponents will drop points. We are STILL in the box seat. We need to win Friday and I'm sure we will  

Their players are constantly on the ground feigning injury

Awful!! We can only improve

Very pleased Thompson starts

3 minutes ago, Carnero said:

I'd like to keep all of Fozzy, Smith, Barkhuizen & Collins as squad options even in the Championship.

It's important to maintain some degree of continuity given the togetherness that's obviously been fostered within the squad.

Have you considered the wages those 4 are likely on though? I think the evidence suggests we had to offer top money to get Smith, Barks, Collins and Hourihane to come here as we were desperate at the time. Others too like Chester who has since gone. I'd keep Fozzy but let the rest go and spend the wages on some younger players

Wilson can play at a higher level than this and will go on to do so in my opinion. Tremendous feet

Really enjoyed that, thank you

that was incredibly impressive

9 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Saved me the trouble. Much more polite too, though my intended response used fewer words 🤔😋

I'm not sure why Comrade, I didn't talk about Warne or his tactics. I'm just saying that Bradley will play whether its a 5 with wing backs or a 4 with Cashin at left back 

4 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

 

 

People keep suggesting teams with a flat back 4 not including Bradley. Thats just not going to happen you know it. 

1 hour ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Today is a great opportunity for Paul to prove us doubters wrong.

At home to Port Vale, with Dwight Gayle, Corey Blackett Taylor and Mendez-Laing at his disposal.

I don't even think he can mess this up.

Winning a game now, even winning it convincingly won't prove anything to me. I have had nearly 2 seasons to form my opinion. I wonder how Warne feels about today. If I were him I would have some serious Butterflies in my tummy 

Initially at least he boosted the clubs coffers through extra sales of bobble hats 

OK lets see how we feel a bit further down the line  

36 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said:

How have you come to this conclusion? From what I've perceived, I believe the exact opposite to be true- Warne is often vocal about what he wants ie. a striker in January. When that's not delivered, how are you coming to the conclusion that he's ''completely responsible'' for our recruitment- surely that proves the exact opposite?

I agree he’s not completely responsible for players chosen being got ‘into the building’ from the point of view of agreeing contracts and so on, but I think the evidence suggests that who we choose to go for is completely down to him. He wanted a striker in January you say. OK so who did we chase for most of the window to the apparent exclusion of all others? That’s right, his ex player ‘Smudge’. Then when it became clear we weren’t getting him we made a desperate last minute move for Gregory. The whole thing was an absolute shambles

51 minutes ago, Jram said:

With the lack of rationality in the face of defeat on this thread, it makes me wonder how some people function in their day to day lives. 

So, you believe people have come to their opinions because we lost? I have come to mine after watching last season and this, all the home games and quite a few away. Also by listening to what a broad range of people have had to say about it. From my own assessment of our recruitment over 3 transfer windows which I think Warne is largely, if not completely responsible for. From seeing how he utilises the academy. From listening to him.  

57 minutes ago, 8Leeds said:

Let’s end this season all guns blazing. 433, no 3 at the back, one holding midfielder, two in front who can carry the ball and look for forward runs (Thompson & Fornah), moving the ball with pace and purpose. No more over defensive, side to side tripe. First 15 against Charlton showed we have it in us. 
 

Better to go out with a bang than a wimper.

But we won't, you know that. Bradley, Cashin and Nelson will all play barring injury in all remaining games. Smith will play ahead of Thompson or Fornah

4 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

Don't try to speak for everyone mate there all entitled to their opinions 

I'm not trying to speak for everyone and of course they are entitled to their opinions. I just think making out that there is some sort of 'adults in the room' perspective on this has worn very thin

53 minutes ago, DavesaRam said:

BIG MISTAKE. ABSOLUTELY HUGE MISTAKE!

Let's start with the ref. I know I always mentioned the match officials, but i don't start with them - until now. Absolutely useless, but completely outdone in uselessness by Derby County. Adams was absolutely clattered 3 times in the opening exchanges without a single one getting a free kick. Some around me in the South Stand that the ref wasn't even looking. I think he was, but he was completely ignoring it. Then Bradley does little more than a bit of arm wresting and hr goes into the book for his first offence. Disgraceful! And that is only the start of it. But his ineptitude had little effect on the result, and lets face it we have overcome the match officials virtually every single match, so last night was no different. In fact it is likely that the match officials now turn up to Derby County matches confident that they haven't got to make bad decisions to screw us over because we do it to ourselves, virtually every match.

And so to the actual football - this shouldn't take long! It was clear as to why Charlton were down at the bottom - the match was obviously "2nd plays 17th". All Charlton brought to the match was hoof it higher in the air than Warne Ball, and kick lumps out of the Derby  players. OH, and it seemed as though they had brought the ref as well!

I suppose that I should have gone home delighted because we saw, perhaps for the first time in history, a Cashin header on target from a corner! But less than 5 minutes after scoring someone near me in the South Stand said "We're sitting back on a 1-nil lead already! - and we were! 

The game appeared to turn on the penalty. I wrongly thought that given this was the ref who reed carded Sibley last season for being fouled that it shouldn't have been a penalty, but by then, I actually didn't care, and noted that their were no protests from our own players. But the match actually turned on Warne's decision to go to a back 3. I have a feeling that this may have happened before during our illustrious history! Why oh why oh why oh why oh why does he keep doing this? And why oh why oh why oh why oh why does he never see that it never, ever works?

A major contribution to our lack of control in midfield is embodied by the Saviour of Derby County, the one and only Sonny Bradley. Virtually every time he got to intercept a high ball, of which there were millions, despite virtually always having the time to take the ball down and control it, he simply headed the ball up in an arc either to a Charlton player, or to a great big gaping whole in the middle of the pitch where our midfielders ought to be, like one of Conor Hourihane's constructive, play-making passes.

I listened to Paul Warne's RD interview, and he spoke of us never really playing well all season, and that we do have another gear to go up to, but which we never do, as though it is solely down to the players. And he still thins that going to 3 at the back is a brilliant tactical statement of genius. I also listened to  Smith give his thoughts, and sadly he comes across mentally as an absolute loser, effectively admitting that there is a culture of sitting back for the rest of the match as soon as we have scored. Heaven help us!

I will be back on Saturday - not for the football, but because my son is off to Spain soon for a holiday where he will catch one of the last ever matches at the San Siro Stadium, so it will be my last chance to see him for a while. Another friend has just had a holiday touring non-league clubs of Bulgaria so at least he will have seen some decent football in recent weeks. Lucy sod!

You need to tell your son that the San Siro isn't in Spain Dave, but I agree with your other comments!