inter politics

I'm sorry but I want to watch football 

I'm sorry but I want to watch football 

I'm sorry but I want to watch football 

He can't touch the ball if defenders are sailing it over his head! 

Thanks for the messages, everyone!
Alice & her family actually aren’t football fans at all, but I’m slowly indoctrinating them. The three nieces & nephew's are all getting Derby kits for their next birthdays!  

Get that clean sheet boys

Get that clean sheet boys

Get that clean sheet boys

Mason Bennett comes on and they collapse. Coincidence? I think not

Wash 3-0

Max Bird on fire today. Carried the team.

Max Bird has been absolutely unbelievable in our counter attacks today

Get in!
1-0 (Collins)

I think he would’ve been an excellent signing for us and is for Blackpool - I think it’s very understated how well he did in that Morecambe side. He shouldn’t be playing in League One now. 

hi all
What most concerns me about PW is his inability to just shut up when necessary.  Rambling interview answers, accidental revelations of what should be confidential and kept within the squad - he does seem to be verbally incontinent TBH and this needs to change.
In your workplace, if your boss (who after all is responsible for your career) wanted you plaster your cubicle with photos of your family and asked inappropriate questions about them all the time, how long would it be before you reported that boss to HR?  Players are entitled, as professionals in the public eye, to a private life and to confidentiality.  Some of the stuff he says on the radio makes even me squirm, so I wonder how some players must feel?
At what point does concern for his employees well-being morph into just David Brent-isms?  I wonder if we have now passed Peak Warne?  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.  A footballer who has read a few Psychology books is also a dangerous thing.  This, remember, is a profession in which Roy Hodgson is regarded as a high level intellectual and Eric Cantona is apparently a philosopher by virtue of having a French accent and talking b******s.
I'm not accusing PW of any malice at all, but I do accuse him of naivety in the extreme.  There is a reason why most managers choose their words carefully in interviews.  Also, an apparent lack of verbal and cognitive discipline in public makes one wonder if he isn't actually similarly disorganised in other respects and relying on his staff to make the difficult calls behind the scenes.  Note also the "election" of the team captain, which is actually a complete abdication of his own responsibility to decide who has the necessary leadership qualities to wear the armband, accept the responsibility for that choice, and appoint the right player.  A football team is not a democracy.  
PW is very typical of the modern zeitgeist, in which everyone is all nicey-nicey on the surface, but underneath lurks a refusal to (a) grow up and accept the passing of time, (b) accept adulthood and the burdens and tough decisions that go with it and (c) accept that we can't be all things to all people all the time.
At this club, bobble hats and bull***t will only take you so far.  He has adjusted badly to being at a larger club with much more press and public scrutiny, and the signs are that it's gone to his head.  Time to cut the c**p and focus on delivery IMO.
"Popularity is a crime from the moment that it is SOUGHT".  No employer can ever keep everyone completely happy all the time, it just isn't possible, especially when you have 22 players competing for 11 starting places.  Gaining respect is more important to a manager than cultivating popularity, and respect lasts longer than popularity too.  In seeking popularity, my thesis is that PW has actually lost the respect of many people, hence the flat performances.  And a desire to be universally popular is nothing more than the manifestation of his own inner insecurity, and if he is to address that properly then he needs to take a sabbatical.  Failing that, just rig him up to a machine that delivers an electric shock if any answer to a question goes on longer than 30 seconds.  A few days of that should do it LOL.
If PW lived up to his own hype, we should see (a) a team greater than the sum of the parts, (b) in an appropriate formation, (c) busting a gut for the manager and the club.  So what happened?  Last seasons' tropes are already evident again this season - lack of imagination, fragile under pressure, losing games in the last 15 minutes, wrong formation for the strengths of the available players etc etc.
Warne lovers, by all means disagree or tell me I'm wrong.  However, when he was appointed we were 7th and we finished...7th.  Not a disaster, but not earth-shattering either.  

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

Think we all need to sleep on things after tonight. I believe in long-term stability but would be happy in this moment in time if he went.

I’ll be boarding the Warne out wagon if it turns out his comments last night are the difference between Bird staying and leaving. 
 
Class player. Didn’t do enough last season but isn’t his fault rosenior bought in 2 very similar CMs to play with him. No coincidence our form fell off a cliff without him in the side though.
 
A shame he’s perennially underrated by our fans. 
 
He may well have been on his way without those comments but he’s one we should h e been aiming to build a team around moving forwards. 

He was arguably our best attacking player last night

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

You don't air thoughts like that. Really poor leadership. Needs to think about his actions more.

This is where Warne's personality does not help. He has no filter so throws out random thoughts he's best to keep to himself or the management team.