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9 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:
is it really though?
We are the biggest club in this division, have the best training facilities, best squad, best stadium, biggest fanbase, one of, if not the biggest wage budget, etc, etc.
I wouldn't go as far as saying we have the best squad, it's very lop sided. We have very good defenders, a decent midfield, but we're lacking in attack. But as Warne has alluded to, there has been a dearth of decent strikers available unless you can pay silly money, of which we don't have. Having said that, if they're played regularly enough I'd expect Waghorn, Collins & Washington to get 10-15 this season
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9 hours ago, CongletonRam said:
Unrest between the supporters is quite possibly detrimental to the team. I wasn't surprised to see some vocal ill feeling toward PW, though we cannot excuse the players in this. Where is their fight. Where is their passion? It's too easy to blame the manager. Yes, it's his job to instill that into the team but c'mon...these are professional footballers that seem to be lacking some of the absolute bare essentials of a player.
I am not defending PW here, on the contrary, he is coming under pressure for the first time in his tenure. Fortunately for him, he has what on paper should be the easiest home game of the season coming up in 3 days.
I would be shocked if Clowes wasn't anything but 100% behind PW. Clowes has a vision which was clear giving PW the long contract. If we finish outside the play-offs, I believe PW would still be under no significant pressure. The owner would be likely disappointed, but as part of a 4-year strategy; another year in League One would not be a complete disaster.
That's how I see the situation, but the ill feeling, as much as it didn't surprise me, was sad to see.
Hello Mr Warne, It's nice to have you on the forum.
No pressure if we don't get in the play offs?!?!?!?!!?!! I'll take an ounce of what you're smoking please. There's no way he'd still be in he job if we don't finish in the top 6 this year. You would literally half the amount of season tickets we'd sell, reducing income, which in turn reduces transfer budgets, which Mr Clowes can't afford to top up, and we'll be in limbo for years
6 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:I'm exhausted.
There seem many fewer defenders of Warne now. More than a quarter of the way through the season and we're 10 points about the relegation zone but 13 off top spot. I should try to check, but I haven't the energy, but someone posted we've won 2 home games since the start of March. In the third division. To get into the automatic promotion places we will need to win something like 10 games in a row. We sit 11th in the table, 2 places below Burton Albion. And playing dreadful, clueless football with no evidence we might turn the corner.
The way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune and buy a football club. There's not really any way round that. The justification being offered for keeping Warne is that Clowes can't afford to sack him. But it's crystal clear to most of the fanbase that he can't afford not to. I'm sorry (as we all are) that it's come to this. I hope the manager is honest with himself and walks, but that rarely happens in life. And, like I said, I'm exhausted.
Worn out.
I wouldn't say I'm worn out, but i'm getting increasingly frustrated because and can see some aspects of his management that's good, but the constant underdog mentality stuff has to stop. Have a siege mentality by all means, like what Sir Brian & Fergie used to instill in their teams, but being humble servants of a football club, playing for your wife's & kids' respect/love doesn't give you level of confidence (slight arrogance) that you need to go out and thrash the Shrewbury's of this world. There's no strut to us at all...
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1 hour ago, IlsonDerby said:
Will have one final whinge about the amount of just vitriol from the stands.
Teenagers still of school age just F’ing every other word. Bloke behind me wouldn’t stop calling the ball boys lazy C words.
Collins constantly referred to as a lazy txxt- I mean he misses chances but the last thing he can be described as is lazy!
It made a match I was looking forward to quite an unenjoyable experience.
‘you F’ing D*ck McGoldrick - someone kill him’ was another pearl of wisdom.
I know this is probably just me getting old but when I went to away games with my mates at that age it wasn’t like that. You’d give some of the old wrist shakin and middle fingers to the home support and sneak a beer in but it wasn’t a competition for how many times the C word could be used in a match.
Sounds like the same piss ‘Ead that kept calling every player a fat bamford. Ironic seeing as every time he opened his ginger gob he sounded like the biggest bamford in the greater Nottingham area.
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3 hours ago, Kernow said:
Eustace gets a payout and his reputation well and truly in tact. He will probably end up at Rangers where expectation is high, but if you do an above average job there you’ve got a direct pathway into a good Premier League job.
Meanwhile Birmingham have a pretty expensive risk which only really pays off if they get promoted. Rooney is a bigger name than Birmingham, like he was with us. He knows that whatever he does there will still result with him getting another job pretty soon afterwards any way.
Looks likely that everyone is a winner in this situation except Birmingham City. Which is a real shame…
Karma for them wishing us dead perhaps...
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Hoooooow 'bout them Cowboys
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4 hours ago, Tamworthram said:
Not really wanting to go down the politics road but wasn't HS2 Labour's idea and announced by their Labour Secretary of State for Transport in 2010?
If that's the case, I stand corrected. But I was sure it was heralded as a large part of The Tory's plans to level up the North.
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Let's face it, we have form with allowing teams that have been on a winless run to batter us, so we're definitely going to lose. A scrappy 1-0 win for The Robins...
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As others have said, I think he'll change it up to suit the opposition. I think the more pressing question is, how can set us up to play against team who sit in. Our 2 best results so far this season have been away from home, where we've hit teams on the counter. Whereas our worst have come at home where teams have camped on their 18 yard line. personally I'd prefer to see our more technical players feature in home games, and our speedy/"head down and knock it" lads play the majority of away games. I get that isn't the best thing for team cohesion, and players like Sibley won't take too kindly to being in and out the side, but that's where he'll earn his wages...
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32 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:
And the one in Bristol, and the promised Metrolink to Manchester Airport has infact been running since 2014. Oh, and Sunak told Susannah Reid on Tuesday that he hadn't made a decision, even though he had already filmed the announcement video.
There has to be a way to stop this - it's just shambolic and, as a result, only 37.1% turnout for the bi-election yesterday. British people seem totally disillusioned. My suggestion would be that parties - government and credible opposition - cannot propose spending and commitment of funds without their being a third party, totally independent, review body considering them. In theory this should be the House Of Lords but that is now full of nominations from either party. But nobody should be able to unilaterally cancel a major element of a £100bn investment and then start sloshing it around like confetti with not even the most basic understanding of how it would be spent.
This should be bigger than government, opposition and politics. Shame on us that we've let it become just that.
Ah, but the problem is that if we as a populous decide to pipe up and do something about it, like i dunno protest, we'll now be locked up for doing so.
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On 04/10/2023 at 15:13, PistoldPete said:
Never mind we will have the Midlands Hub instead. Which won’t help Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Peterborough, Northampton or anywhere in the East Midlands at all. So not much of a hub or the Midlands is it?
Not to mention the 200ft viaduct they'll be building over Long Eaton. I can't wait to open my curtains in the mornings to stare at that. Not to mention the chaos they'll cause for years with just building the funking thing.
Let's face it, it was a vanity project to begin with, just more typical Tory/Little Englander bluster, and bait to grab Red Wall votes. Just think the amount of other things the money could've been spent on...
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Christ talk about bringing my mood down...
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20 minutes ago, 8Leeds said:
Ince, Dawkins, Thorne ??
Ince was signed permanently by Clement/Mad Mel.
Gorgeous George would’ve been the best signing the club ever made, if it wasn’t for the eagerness of his boss to play him in a pointless friendly right after he joined…
Still erks me that Dawkins was so under utilised. Used to knit stuff together so well.
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1 hour ago, oodledoodle said:
Arrognace makes for great football. Think of the great managers like Clough, Jose, Fergie. And the greats like Cantona, Stimac, Ronaldinho etc etc etc. Give me that kind of football all day long.
Misplaced arrogance is awful though. It just screams entitlement. Like Man U after Fergie.
Again, I don't want to come across as Bertie Big Balls, but as a club, in this division we shouldn't be cowering to other teams. But surrendering the lions share of possession to the likes of Peterborough & Bolton smacks of a small club mentality.
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On 09/09/2023 at 04:01, Bris Vegas said:
The football under Lampard was dire when Mason Mount was injured. We won only once in about ten weeks (11 games or so).
We have had purple patches under all managers since.
We broke a 40-year club record under Phillip Cocu of scoring at least once in over 20 consecutive league games. Not even Jim Smith or Steve McClaren manager that.
We had a great spell under Wayne Rooney when Bielik was injury free and completely dominating the opposition.
I don’t recall creating as many chances as we did during Rosenior’s spell in charge, regularly having over 60% possession and 20+ attempts on goal.
And to be fair to Warne, I think he boasts the longest unbeaten run of any Derby manager since Jim Smith. But then again, it largely coincided with playing all the bottom teams and hammering the likes of Forest Green Rovers, Accrington Stanley and Morecambe.
Long story short, we’ve had purple patches under all managers and Lampard has gone on to show he is a bog standard manager who wouldn’t have had us anywhere near the top six without £100m worth of talent on loan.
And it's blatantly obvious now that Jody Morris was the brains behind the operation. It's no coincidence that his Everton tenor was so bad with Clement as his No 2.
I for one voted yes. I prefer to watch a gung ho, heavy metal pressing game, than endless passes between our back 4. I think Warne's problem is that he's turning us into underdogs for most games. It's the same issue that Moyes had when he went to Man Utd. Now I'm not for a second comparing us to them, or displaying the kind of entitlement reserved for those gimps up the A52, but we're a big club in this division (and the one above) and every team, regardless of whether we're home or away, shouldn't look forward to playing us. But I get the feeling that a lot of his ethos is based on being a scrappy, "have a good go" team, whereas we should have a bit more arrogance about us.
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At this point Jets fans must be thinking what they collectively did wrong in their former lives.
I can't see Rogers playing on after this
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I turned Rams Player off after 75 minutes and willfully joined Mrs R in the lounge, to watch some wedding planner challenge show with Sara Davies & Jacque from First Dates. That's how bad it was!!!
I thought we were unlucky against Wigan, because we were at least on the front foot and looked like we wanted to play football, but last night was turgid. It'll go down along side Barnsley away under Pearson as one of the dullest performances I've ever witness.
I really like Warne, he's a good human being and I really want to turn things around, but unless he can turn things around within the next 3 games I think he'll be out.
The first thing he should consider is changing the formation. I know he's signed players that, in theory, suit this system but at the moment only Ward (and possibly Fozzy) really seems to get it. We looked so much better last season when he let the players at his disposal dictate the formation, not the other way around. With who we have at the moment, he should switch to something like -
--------------Wildsmith
Ward----Nelson-------Fozzy----Elder
---------Hourihane---Bird
Waghorn-----Sibley----------Barks
--------------Collins
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On 11/08/2023 at 15:35, Bris Vegas said:
I had such an epic career game on FM in about 2013 I don’t think I could ever top it - not that I’m interested in buying the new games anyway.
I started out in the Austrian second division with Wattens. Got promoted and finished top 4 in the Austrian Bundesliga the final two seasons (4 seasons total there).
Then I got the Basel job. Won the Swiss league three years in succession (3 seasons total there).
Then I moved to Frankfurt in Bundesliga 2. Got promoted first season which was fairly easy given the budget.
After just the one season at Frankfurt I made the controversial move to join rivals Stuttgart who had better players, bigger budget and Europa League football. Spent 3 years there, finishing top 4 each year and won the German Cup.
Joined Bayern when their manager got the Germany job. Won the Bundesliga every year, won 2 more German Cups. No CL unfortunately. By this time I was 14 years in and all the recognizable names had retired.
After 3 years at Bayern I resigned. Winning the Bundesliga was no challenge and repetitive. I wanted a fresh challenge so sat out for half a year before joining Real Betis who were top 6 in La Liga.
I turned Betis into an Atletico Madrid. I won 3 successive Europa League titles (4 in total over 7 years). 3 Copa del Rey titles. I toppled Sevilla. But I couldn’t win La Liga. My best was 99 points and that wasn’t enough as Barcelona went unbeaten and got over 100.
After 7 years at Betis I was 22 seasons in. I had my mind on 25 total before retiring.
So now I moved to the MLS for my retirement years. I joined Real Salt Lake and won the MLS league and cup double in my final two seasons.
I was thinking this is it before one last job tempted me. The Colombia national team. I spent five years in the charge, but a Copa America semi-final defeat to Brazil was followed by a World Cup quarter-final exit to France put an end to that.
30 seasons in total. An epic game. But that was the end of my FM days.
Admittedly I did play an updated patch of CM01/02 during Covid. Nostalgia.
My fave saves have been taking provincial clubs to the big time. Had a great Burton save once where I took them all the way to the Champions League back in FM19. I did the same with Newport in '22 and with Wrexham in this version, both times I signed our ex player Jamal Hector-Ingram and he bagged for fun, regardless of the division.
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Maybe one of these lot can put a modern spin on Steve Bloomers Watching???
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On 26/07/2023 at 14:24, Rample said:
Downloaded some unofficial updates and going to spend a couple of hours today seeing what this can do.
Never played 3 at the back so this will be interesting.
And hows it going??
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It rears its head in Flash Gordon when Prince Barron storms a room and screams “Freeze ya bloody b*******!”
My 2nd year junior school teacher Mrs Angelsey used to go to school with him, and before she was married her maiden name was Bond 😮 -
On 22/07/2023 at 21:05, Raich Carter said:
I was going to say that. He got injured early on and his game was all about pace. I remember his debut for us and he was properly rapid.
1-0 vs Spurs if I remember rightly. He was poo off a shovel quick before his injury. Wasn't he still turning out for Mickleover Sports up til a couple of seasons ago?
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On 21/07/2023 at 19:11, NottsRam77 said:
Thought straight away callum ball
scoring sensation at youth level… then .. wow talk about a fall from grace / failing to live up to promise
Rumour has it @B4ev6is still has his poster on his bedroom wall...
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7 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:
See the interview earlier: It's 25 getting the overhaul, not 24.
Not that I've played FM since... I have no idea now but I know I was at Plymouth and I think I had Jamie Mackie, but also I had a young RB/CB who was a proper star for me but who's name I can't remember.
I ended my FM days on a high at least, taking Plymouth (and that RB/CB) to the brink of Europe before I had a falling out with the owners about their lack of ambition to take the next step and resigned.
My bad. The import thing is for 24?
Will Clowes patience soon run out?
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If we're having to reply of young strikers with potential isn't that what our own academy for? I think if we'd signed a pup on loan who'd only bagged, for the sake of argument 2 in 14, our fan base would be melting down quicker than it already is.
How can you have the best squad overall if you don't have a good forward line??!?!??!?!??!?!?!?!!!???