IlsonDerby

Vile defending

That tackle from Hourihane was stupidity. Very lucky not to be sent off. Show some experience ffs

Look a yard quicker than Shrewsbury since the goal!

Please don’t be Bob Malcom. Please don’t be Bob Malcom. Please don’t be Bob Malcom. Please don’t be Bob Malcom. Please don’t be Bob Malcom. Appearance #1: optimism at 10/10 from me. let’s hope he kicks in and doesn’t become BM mark 2.

Seemingly outplayed by Buxton? adult football is so so different to academy football. Most of these lads are nowhere near first team ready yet (and that’s no criticism) so the constant hankering for them to be given first team minutes right now is frustrating.

It’ll be some poor old receptionist on minimum wage who will have written that up 😂

Make some changes. We are just waiting for them to equalise at this rate. Be proactive!

Not shown up to the second half. Very disappointing. Too many passengers currently.

Adams looked good. I’ve missed a horrible bleeder that does the dirty work to allow the others to play. Reincarnation of Eustace. Heard it here first.

“Don’t want bird playing for us” have that you wet wipes 😂

You could have given me 10 attempts to predict the line up today and I wouldn’t have got close 😂

I mean aside from your own opinions of him Warne certainly wanted him in summer. I have doubts but our manager wanted him so much he got him out of a contract.

Perhaps but as it stands we’re not even guaranteed to be a championship club in the next year or so 😂

People keep talking about Brown. He wasn’t ready. If he was ready there’s be a list as long as our arm of league 2 and even lower end league 1 clubs trying to get him on loan. He’s an exciting prospect but that’s all he is right now and was never going to be given a real first team role this season. TJJ what can I say, I was expecting it unfortunately. Seems to have no luck but Warne was rarely playing him on his own up top. More often he was playing him with Collins which meant we surrender the midfield. This will at least force him to play 1 up top which gives us more midfield.

Wickham signed for a league one club last season didnt he before earning a move elsewhere due to his performances?

Disappointing to not get a striker in but to put some perspective on the window. Our squad is stronger than before it was open. We have another wide option to take the strain off NML. We have a combative horrible midfielder. thats 2 out of the 3 targets fans all agreed we needed. We also guaranteed decent money without going down the tribunal route for Bird without losing him and weakening the midfield. I think the negative reaction is down to not getting a striker but if Wash is back training and Collins stays fit then we’ve got a striker with 18 goals + Warnes first choice striker as our 2 options. Would have loved an Ennis or Smith to tide us over but they only became crucial because of an injury list.

Currently Bristol City are a bigger and better prospect for players than us. They’re building a young decent side to have a crack at the play offs. All you who think if we do manage to scrape up this season we’ll be aiming for play offs next season are in absolute dream land. we’ll be avoiding relegation with all our might.

Well come on then…

State of this grenade. Literally tagging him in it.

He hasn’t forced a move? He’s told them he won’t sign a new deal and Clowes has accepted a deal he believes to be good value which is probably just under tribunal fee (a discount for it not being a drawn out affair?). Some derby fans are such babies. ‘turned his back on us’ ‘forced a move’ ‘don’t come back’

But we have other fringe players we could get rid of first? Bird likely off in summer. Hourihane the same. New lad unproven really above league 2 level and is only a loan. We can’t just plan for the next 5 months. Smith clearly surplus to requirements. Leaves Fornah, Thompson, Robinson? Smith, Ward, Bradley are likely the players to try and loan out/move on to free up wages and get minutes. Perhaps not even Bradley as we’d be thin on the ground at CB.

Lose a younger player with potential for an older player on loads of money who isn’t guaranteed to score outside of that posh side?

And yet he got 18 goals in 42 league 1 appearances last season for a promotion winning side who were top for chunks of the season. Collins is on 13 from 29. I hope Smith is an improvement. I hope we get him in and he can do well but not at the risk of having to hand out a 3 year contract or anything silly

I don’t think we’re gonna get an upgrade on a guy with 18 goals with a third of the season left to play. Probably going to put score McGoldrick this year. Best we can hope for is good cover short term with a longer term replacement in the summer.

Dave Jones left foot was something else as well! Plus going 1-0 up against Portsmouth in our first premier league game back at pride park before Andy Todd’s diving header to rescue a point. It was very very good before it turned sour but the reason people put less emphasis on the football played by that team (because it was quite dull quite a bit of the time) is because the players were not a promotion squad and yet he had them up there punching well above.