Gerry Daly

How long to go is it?

One of our tactics is to try our balls off

22 minutes ago, Addingham Ram said:

It's got everything to do with tactics.

That's what English football is based on. If the team with the best 11 players won every game, football would die in empty stadiums.

A lesser team of average players, playing to their strengths, and knowing their weaknesses, with a competent manager and with tactics suited to those strengths and weaknesses, should be capable of giving anybody a game.

We have an obvious weakness in the way we play, the opposition know it, but we keep doing it. For God's sake why?

As others have said, play like this in League 1 and we'll struggle big style.

Sort it out Wayne!

Now then. Have we equalised because of tactics or because we have at least one player capable of producing a moment of supreme quality?

5 minutes ago, Chester40 said:

Tactically we are all over the place. 

Rooney is saying all the right things and the players are giving everything...but I'm not sure he's not ready to know what to do tactically is needed on the pitch.  

It’s got nothing to do with tactics. They have much better players it’s as simple as that

Just now, Bubbles said:

new gaffer needed for next season

What because we are losing to the team that’s top of the league?

Ebosele is a worry at right back

We are better in midfield without Morrison. The problem with Morrison apart from him not releasing the ball is that he doesn’t work hard enough and drops into the back 4 to get the ball. People the blame Bird but all he is doing is playing where he has been told to play

At the end of the day if you pay 4million for a current international to play in the second division he should be outstanding. He isn’t in fact he is no better than our academy products who are considerably younger

It looked and sounded like there was at least 10,000 Derby fans there

3 hours ago, Carnero said:

Andrew Hosking just done a very positive 15 minute interview on talksport. Mr Kirchner sounds like the real deal.

From 10.35am.

Thank me later.

That was EXTREMELY encouraging. Thanks very much for taking the time and trouble to post it uo

Max Bird should play with Bielik and further forward as other people have said. Let’s not forget though that we have some ageing players at centre half with little cover. Thankfully we have had no long term injuries to Davies, Jagielka and Stearman but it’s surely only a matter of time so Bielik may also be needed there

I’m surprised and pleased to hear he lives in Barton. I imagined he was up near Newcastle. Absolutely no doubt about it my favourite time as a Rams fan. I’d love to be able to thank him in some way

38 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Knight is maybe the only player we could get serious money for in January. He certainly will not be with us in League One. 

Bielik and Jozwiak would sell for less combined than Knight.

Buchanan we only got one silly offer for and that was from Forest!

Bird , Sibley have gone backwards since 2019/20, although Bird has had the odd good game this season. But unless Premier League boys are after them and they won't be, we wil get very little for them. 

   

Too negative and your second sentence is just plain wrong

I would agree it is. When did they stop including ST sales as attendees anyway?

21 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

I'm a bit of a saddo so here is the latest seat availability:

East Stand; 2084

North Stand: 3261

South Stand: 416

West Stand; 2373

Total available for sale: 8134

So how does that equate to a crowd of only 20,000 then given that the ground capacity is over 32,000? If you subtract the 2,000 odd away section that still leaves nearly 22,000 sold. Reading will have sold a few and there will still be a few more today and on the night so surely the crowd will be 22,000 at least? 

At least after every goal for the opposition they don't chant 'your going to get your fu**ing heads kicked in' like they used to in the 70's  

On 04/09/2021 at 15:04, Carl Sagan said:

I'm confused in that this is the Derby badge from the time isn't it? New that season? I have no idea about the opposition ones. Are they what you mean?

Yes I meant in the league table. Sorry I was being a bit of an arse 

6 minutes ago, Indy said:

Admin points deduction can be appealed if shown to be force majeure and out of their control. I think this explains Mel repeatedly blaming COVID and saying we would have been able to trade through but for the pandemic. I note that the administrators statement yesterday made the same argument in the very first paragraph. 

I think this too. 

5 minutes ago, Duracell said:

If a potential investor was put off by that comment, they were never serious in the first place.

Of course. Wayne is a football man who has made a lot of money because he was very good at it, not a business man.  

It would be nice if we could have the club badges of the time rather than the modern ones. 

4 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

@Owen87ITK get the dj to play Suzie Quatro Can the Can............everyone loves a bit of Suzie!

So make a stand for your man, honey
I'm a Derby Ram
Put your man in the can, honey
Get him while you can

Ram the ram
Ram the ram
If you can
Well Derby can

 

I didn't think all that much of her when I was 11. She looks well nice now!

You could hear them really loud on the radio. Well done lads

They haven't shown the slightest intention of trying to get these runs. Rubbish

I think most reasonable people can see that in these exceptional circumstances something like this is needed. Its clear it will only be temporary. I think the people worrying about civil liberties of 'ethical concerns' just need to accept that we are not in the right place for idealism and some rough and ready make the best of a bad job measures are the best we can do  

10 hours ago, cstand said:

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