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On the bench, but not used v Bristol. Obviously it’s more important Bradley gets minutes.

Warne is the Southgate of League One football. If we win, it is in spite of him. To start Smith ahead of Fornah is just criminal. 

19 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Not going to lie, I'm highly amused by this development.

Yanks ruining the sport shocker. It’s like, how come they get two world cups before we get another one? It’s their fourth favourite sport! 

Warne absolutely infuriates me. We’ll end up losing this lad. We’re 3-1 down, and he brings on Sonny chuffing Bradley. 

10 minutes ago, Oldben said:

Why does pw get his formations and tactics wrong so often and then try to make excuses.

In the past we employed a football tactics analyst, are we not doing that now?

Isn’t that what they used to call the manager? 
 

I have no faith whatsoever in his game management. His substitutions are a blind man picking a name out of the hat. 
I think we beat Barnsley in spite of Warne.

Why send on a cart horse like Waghorn when you have Weston on the bench. 

Am I alone in thinking David had a word in Warne’s shell-like when they had ‘talks’? 
In other words, change your tactics. Stop acting like the underdog. Get the players on the front foot. 
He will have been fully aware of home results in particular and the fans’ disenchantment. 

14 minutes ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

I’d have Simon or Barbara 

Barbara is no longer with us. 

Eustace. 
Carsley is busy. 
Rowett. Never go back. 

I think the fact we are now below Burton Albion is a line in the sand. 
Yeah, I know we have games in hand, but the fact is, yesterday afternoon, between 3pm and 5pm, they scored as many home goals as we have ALL SEASON. 

4 minutes ago, Matchday Fred said:

Becomes more evident this is a guessing game for Warne, and each game is pot luck. There is no consistency in performance. If the midfield is overloaded, fix it. Why go wide when banjo Collins at 5’9’’ is either outjumped or misses from 2 yards ? We all knew Waghorn and Collins would be nowhere near good enough. Everything possible should have been done to move out the totally overrated but chummy Cashin in order to fund a striker. Arguing the toss with Brighton has potentially cost this season. Not good enough.

I agree. He is overrated. And too heavy. 

Unless he gets rid of his inferiority complex, it’s a no from me. Away form looks sound, without pulling up trees. Hope form is awful. Ditch the 5 at the back, and overwhelm teams. 
This looks the easiest League One ever to get out of. 
Just do it. Or go. 

He’s parted company with Arsenal. Anyone think he might do a job for us again in some capacity? 
By all accounts he was very well thought of at Arsenal for 4 years. 

One problem is Warne doesn’t attract good players. He hasn’t got the personality/charisma. 
We’ve gone from the likes of McClaren, Cocu, Lampard and Rooney, to a jokey PE teacher. 

13 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Who is manager alongside Paul Warne coach? But I can't see why Mac would want to leave Man Utd unfinished business or not.

Time for Colin, everyone would know he's here on a mission and needn't be thought of long term. He knows what he's doing and has been successful at more than League 1 and more than Rotherham. 

Colin? Why would you want that foul mouthed geriatric? 

No way would he leave that cushy job at United with his mate. Unless his mate gets sacked. Country pile in Cheshire ‘n all. 

13 minutes ago, Barney1991 said:

Is that you Warne? 

The ONLY shot on target was the penalty. 

They should have an official time keeper. The ref has enough to do. Or, adopt the 30 or 35 minute half, and the time keeper stops the clock each time the ball goes dead. The game would still last approximately 90 minutes.

The thing that really bugged me was the time taken to take a goal kick , if their team was winning. The other one, not retreating 10 yards for a free kick, should be a yellow card every time. Allow ten seconds max. 
Additionally,  ten yards at a free kick should BE ten yards, not eight! Find a way to measure it, OR calibrate each referee so that a tall ref’s ten strides would do the trick, or a short ref, twelve strides. You get the picture.

It’s pretty inexcusable to not bring in a replacement for McGoldrick. Obviously there are not enough goals in this team. 30,000 turning up in this league is unbelievable support. Where is their reward? 

22 hours ago, Foreveram said:

True, but our capacity is 33,597 and we know we aren’t going to get that, so the segregation areas will always be a factor.

I think with a sold out home and away end we are looking at around 32,000.

Then it depends how many are on holiday.

That hasn’t been our capacity for a long long time. Not since the away fans were moved into the corner; necessitating two gaps between the fans instead of one. It’s nearer 32,000 now. If that. 

3 hours ago, Ram@Lincoln said:

Are you on holiday in Europe currently? Google will automatically adapt the timezones for you. 

No, but my Surfshark was set to Denmark 🤭

Kick off 4pm according to this. The 7.45s are 8.45s as well! 

3 hours ago, TuffLuff said:

I think I ended up summing up my own thoughts whilst attempting a non-bias chat with my Wednesday mate whilst playing 5 a side, paraphrased as:

Him: That peno looked a bit soft to be honest 

Me: Yeah I think it was overall but that’s what happens when we have to rely on a 38 year old captain who isn’t really match fit and hasn’t been probably all season. We were in a desperate position and gave the ref a decision to make.

Which I think there is some truth to with some of the decisions. Yes, as a Derby fan, I think we had a lot against us this and have been unfairly treated in that respect. But how much comes from what was our issue all season? Look at the penalty Whyte conceaded against Bristol Rovers, again it’s not a pen imo, but a player gets the wrong side of an inexperienced player and the ref is under pressure. In that situation are the opposition targeting Whyte?
 

We had too many inexperienced players in the wrong position and too many who whilst experienced were putting themselves in a position that they needed to recover. So yeah I would question a lot of decisions that went against us this season, some refs were shockingly bad. But we have to ask what kept happening from a Derby perspective, and whether intentional or not we kept putting ourselves in a position to concede soft penalties.

That might be true other than it was White who was fouled, not the other guy. On top of the penalty, he was booked! 

On 07/05/2023 at 15:42, Bris Vegas said:

I’m not sure if you’re talking to me but I watch every game.

In football, in any league, you won’t achieve anything unless you can beat the teams around you.

That has been our downfall this season.

‘You won’t achieve anything’? 
so how come Sunderland could quite possibly progress to the Premier League in the play offs having snuck into them on only 69 points? Coventry only got 70? Over the 46 games, those teams must have had a very mixed bag of results, and actually had much poorer seasons than we did!