cannable

I’ve got numbers for Ripley and Heanor if either would help?

16 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Cashin is a weird one for me. He was brilliant when he first came in and outstanding at times last season. But I just don’t see a top player in him. I don’t think his natural ability is that high nor his potential. It seems like when he is playing brilliantly, he is already reaching his max, almost overachieving compared to his natural ability.

I could be wrong but I just see a future solid Championship player at the most. No more. 

A one-footed Bucko

Think Albentosa was poor scouting.

Came from an Eibar side that defended deep and was signed to play in a high-line.

His only good game for us was when Norwich had us under the cosh for 89 minutes and we fluked a 1-1.

1 minute ago, Premier ram said:

Felt like 180

That’s why I ask, it was at least 40 surely? Shambles, the kind of moment you’d take a double-footed red card

Am I exaggerating or did Blackpool nearly score an 80 pass move? 

No… but that first half was Pearson bad. Won’t survive many more like that.

7 hours ago, ziggyram59 said:

I'm sorry to say I did not realise that Trevor Francis had lost his wife in 2017. 

Sounds like it f***** him up too. By all accounts it sounds like he was never the same after.

22 hours ago, Henrycav81 said:

That’s all well and good but Bairstow hasn’t been an all rounder in this series his keeping as been awful  and that’s affected his batting he had his golden spell batting when he wasn’t keeping wicket. I think it was sky that put a stat up the other day basically saying Bairstow only scores runs in the first innings if England bat first whilst he’s the keeper, I think he scored 70 odd in the first innings of the first test and barely anything else in his next 5 innings 

Oh I don’t agree with it, but as an explanation, it makes sense 

5 hours ago, kevinhectoring said:

tough one, Bairstow. Atherton thought it was the right call because it - potentially - it does so much to the batting line up. quite possible we’ll have a match winning innings yet out of Bairstow - the biggest problem right now is his confidence and stokes is the guy who can do loads about that  

The best, not even argument, more an explanation for Bairstow wicketkeeping was from Mark Butcher.

Stokes knew he wouldn’t be able to bowl much so wanted Bairstow to replace himself as the all-rounder.

It’s Stokes over Foakes, not Bairstow over Foakes.

8 hours ago, Sparkle said:

He isn’t though - the fact that he left the way he did was extremely disappointing compared to others

People were disappointed? 

Chris Woakes is an excellent seamer in the age of Jimmy and an excellent all-rounder in the age of Stokes.

What a cricketer.

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Based on the synopsis that he looked the best player in the best Derby side in 25 yrs, that means Thorne in the same side Bielik was in he'd have looked like Messi.

It’s not quite that simple though.

I don’t think either would have done as well had you swapped them around.

Defensively they’re ridiculously similar. Screened to perfection, won the ball loads.

On the ball… Thorne controlled the game better and has a greater range of passing but didn’t look as effective in a two.

Bielik could carry the ball with ease, before the injuries he was a throwback to Vieria and he looked his best in a two, I don’t think he’d have ran games at the base of a three though.

I personally don’t think you could split them at their pomp, and I thought George would’ve been an England regular, which says a lot.

Caved in and spent £240 for a ticket for Saturday 😂

1 hour ago, Ambitious said:

Bielik was a good player, but to compare him with George George is sacrilege. I think Bielik at his very best has proven himself to be a good Championship player and nothing more, best season in football came in League One with Charlton. Thorne, it felt at times, reinvented physics on a football pitch. I’ve not seen anyone come close to him in the last 20 years of watching Derby week-in, week-out.

Hmmm… depends though. Thorne made the best Derby side in 25 years look better.

Bielik absolutely bossed games single-handedly for a Derby team that would have been relegated but for his ten game intervention.

On 12/06/2023 at 12:22, IslandExile said:

Jack Wilshere and Nani played well.

Honestly believe that an injury free Wilshere would have been the difference between us winning something under Southgate and not.

2 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

It's looking a poor decision right now, you'd expect Asutralia to get a decent first innings lead from here.

I think it was more about bravado than anything else though, wannit? We’re spanking you first ball for four. We’re not letting you bowl us out, we’re declaring. We’re still setting attacking fields even though you’re smacking our spinner about.

I kinda get it, sets the tone for the series. Like bouncing Ponting and nobody caring if he’s okay.

On 10/06/2023 at 17:29, Ewe Ram said:

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

And it’s for a good reason 

You can take it when it’s his boyhood club, can’t you?

Fair enough, probably my favourite player to watch in a Derby shirt.

Left for a good reason.

Good luck to him and County.

2 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

Galling. Totally crippled our chances. Would never happen to anyone but us. Really fed up of seeing other teams prosper with everything falling into bloody place for them and offering up hardly any bloody hurdles while we continually either f*** ourselves over or get f***** over.

Eight of Bournemouth’s starting eleven played over 40 games that season and Kermorgant and Pittman rotated so you can say nine.

It is not unfair to say that injuries crippled our run in.

So do me a favour, take your sarcasm and clear off, won’t you? Edit: upon a re-read, I can’t actually tell if that’s sarcasm or not 😂

3 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

And Hughes I think too…we were left at times with Johnny as a lone striker. It wasn’t the case of 2 or 3 but more like 7 or 8 first team regulars missing

And Kwame Thomas as his cover…

40 minutes ago, NorwichExile said:

I'm still confident that if Schteeve hadn't mentally checked out with the Newcastle move, he'd have gotten us up and kept us there. We were looking like the real deal.

Oh come onnnn… we had Grant playing through injury, Dawkins off with bereavement, Whitbread, Bucko, Thorne, Mascarell, Eustace and Martin all missing the majority of the run in. There were niggles on top of that, Bent missed games, Russell missed games, Bryson missed a couple.

9 hours ago, ziggyram59 said:

If Davies didn't rate Earnshaw so much why did he buy him for Forest? Where he was quite successfully for them. 

He didn’t, Colin Calderwood did.

Billy actually signed five strikers permanently trying to shift Earnshaw 😂

Happy for Big Dave and a 90+ point team out of the division.

Every single fan that waved us off, both times I’ve been to Hillsborough actually, can suck a trump.

Is he still ridiculously bitter about being sacked when Clough went?

5 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I accept the disappointment people feel around not seeing Chris Martin strut his stuff on the Pride Park pitch once more, however I keep seeing  people aiming criticism at the club when all evidence suggests it’s not the club’s decision who the opponent is or when the match is played.
The rest of the club’s pre-season schedule hasn’t been confirmed, there might be another home friendly involving a more glamorous side than Stoke. 
 

Martin made me piss during Shaun Barker’s testimonial 😂

Properly got it