Gerry Daly

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

It just doesn’t feel right. It feels a bit like a return to the days of Jeremy Keith and Sleightholme I’m afraid. Sleightholme was the front man who suggested that there were ‘persons’ in the background providing the cash but in fact there wasn’t, just 3 chancers. I’d much prefer that there was real transparency about this, but it’s just smoke and mirrors. We are all desperate to get out of the position we have been in this season but I fear this might be ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’

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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Needs a big dollop of horseradish sauce surely

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Agreed.

It's the only thing the government have got right.

I think they got the furlough scheme and support for jobs and the economy and mass testing right as well(not test and trace). So those two plus vaccinations are 3 big chunks. I think you need to wait for the outcome of a proper, academically rigorous and thorough public inquiry before drawing conclusions   

14 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

Read some stuff about the Brazil P1 variant - and it sounds like they are in big trouble. Variant even more transmissable than the UK/Kent variant, and younger people being more seriously affected. Hospitals running out of anaesthetic to intubate people, having to commandeer supplies from Veterinary practices...

And it's already spreading in the US...

From what I've read though its the Kent variant that's running rife in Europe with some South African. Also its thought that whilst the current vaccines are possibly less effective against the South African and Brazilian, they still provide some protection. I think that in UK we can be reasonably confident that a 4th wave based on new variants can be held at bay or largely mitigated until we get amended vaccines for booster shots in the Autumn. I'm not so confident about the EU zone though, it looks really dicey. Figures in France for example are going up alarmingly and the Germans are following not far behind  

Its really starting to take off in mainland Europe now

1 hour ago, Sith Happens said:

What i dont get is why they have slammed the brakes on so quick on AZ.  But when deaths were reported with the Pfizer vaccine there was no pausing.

https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-deaths-eu-medicines-agency-1565405

Yes the Regulator came out after investigating and said no link, but they didnt pause that while they waited on the investigation.

 

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