cannable

Keogh was great at playing out, not having that

A one-footed Bucko

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

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.

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.

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

Still think he was vastly under-appreciated as a left-back for us. 
In his first two seasons he was the best arguably the best left-back in the division, only Charlie Daniels really would also be in contention.
He came back from his first two ACL injuries to win his place back from Olsson who had been Blackburn’s POTS before joining us.
He then fought off £3,000,000 signing Scott Malone, who himself was coming off of being named in the league TOTS and a season in the Prem to keep his starting place before his third ACL.
I never got it. He’s one of those players that when he has a stinker he has a STINKER but they were always only ever once or twice a season.

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

Bielik in that 10 ish game spell in 20/21 was easily one of the best spells of games a player has had for Derby in the past 15 years, like you said, he single-handedly kept us up with amazing performances. The performances against Swansea, Brentford and Bournemouth were incredible. 
Thorne was quality, but he didn't drag us through games like Bielik did, he fit seamlessly into the team, but the team was already good. We were perfectly capable with Eustace in the team too. But as soon as Bielik was injured in 2021, we only won 4/20 games.
In the 13 games Bielik played in 20/21, we scored 11 goals and conceded 5 at 1.62 points per game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Who’s ‘much better’ though? We’ve hardly got Terry, Ferdinand, Campbell or King to pick from have we?
It’s some nondescript CB like Ben Mee, Michael Keane, James Tarkowski etc.

He didn’t, Colin Calderwood did.
Billy actually signed five strikers permanently trying to shift Earnshaw 😂

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.

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.

Martin made me piss during Shaun Barker’s testimonial 😂
Properly got it 

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

Thought it was common knowledge that Davies didn’t sign Earnshaw. Having missed out on Nugent and Kenwyne Jones, Earnshaw was a ‘present’.

Meh, that was my argument for not selling Howard as well, at the time. I think I actually preferred Hulse though. He did it in a bad Derby side. Howard did it in a good one.

Suppose it’s all relative though. We spent £25,000,000 under Clement, when that was still a bewildering amount of money, and got worse.
How much of it was down to him is a question for another day.

Nah, IstanHull
My only ever away pitch invasion 😂