Grimbeard

Just the 180 miles between them.
Just like our local derby against Pompey...?

Derby 3-0 Morecambe
Fozzie

In this instance, I see it as whatever the exact opposite of "annoying" is!  ?

I’m not sure. That would imply they’ll sign everyone, and I’m fairly sure @B4ev6is would never buckle. 

Whilst epitomising at the same time, quite remarkable ….

Fozzies a jolly good fellow
Fozzies a jolly good fellow
Fozzies a jolly good fellow 
And so say all of us
And so say all of us 

Heck. I'm getting on a bit but even I had to check YouTube to remind me of the the theme tune to Starsky and Hutch. It would be some epic achievement if we could all sing that. ?
Don't give up your day job but credit for trying.

I'm always staggered, reading this thread and seeing how many fans still have doubts about Warne.
In my opinion, Warne's biggest strength is his clarity of thinking and the simplicity of the message he passes on to the players. Everybody knows exactly what their job is and exactly what is expected of them, both players and staff. Players are not asked to do anything complicated or anything they aren't capable of, which is rare in today's over complicated game.
I think that this clarity will also extend to the signing of players and I'm really looking forward to seeing the quality of the players he brings in once he has a free reign in the transfer market, because you can bet that players won't be signed on reputation. He will be just as happy buying a non league striker as an international one as long as they have the right character. 
He is proving to be far better than I imagined, as I was fairly cautious about him when he came in, but I think we have a special manager here and our biggest job is going to be hanging on to him if we can't keep up with his ambitions.

I think this is disingenuous about Mel who is also a fan, I felt he was quite private (but that might be debated), had the best intentions of the club at heart and likely bled black and white (or hopefully blue and white with red numbers). He mainly failed because he was incredibly unluckly and was battling a rigged system. He also made some poor choices, but for much of the time I admired his personal sacrifice in the Arthurian quest to establish Derby as a Premier League club. If I recall, the guy is at least £120m poorer as a result.

I think the world of Liam Rosenoir, he did nothing but good for Derby County FC. I wish him all the best at Hull City.
I think that Paul Warne is doing a great job at Derby.
It is possible to have both the above opinions.

This is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate using misleading statistics. Rosenior did not win 7 league games. Including the pizza cup in that is absolutely embarrassing frankly. In Warne's first few games he had some of the tougher games too as in the first 12, he had to play Ipswich away, Portsmouth away when they were flying and the Wendies. He also didn't get a preseason to get to know the players and was thrown straight into the action. How do you know Rosenior put this squad together and Rooney had no influence prior to that on summer plans? 
Of course nobody can say whether Rosenior would have improved the form, but we didn't look capable of getting a win away for love or money or really capable of scoring many goals or creating chances. 

You’re probably right but, ironically, is the sort of manager the previous regime needed.

I think that if a referee makes an effort and looks smart, it engenders feeling of respect from the players, thus making the referee's lot a happier one.

I think that if a referee makes an effort and looks smart, it engenders feeling of respect from the players, thus making the referee's lot a happier one.

If only one  then Tomori all the way for me. Classy player and I cannot understand how Southgate keeps omitting him from his England squads.
But I have a soft spot for most ex-Rams and would love to see how some of the ex-academy players like Whitaker and Ebiowei would fare in this team.
 

If there was VAR in our game against Bournemouth and Luton we probably would have won them and got auto’s and wouldn’t have needed the playoffs.. 
You can do this to the death, but the technology isn’t making the game more enjoyable or fair. It’s still massively open to interpretation. 

He's either an outlier or an outright liar ?

I think that if a referee makes an effort and looks smart, it engenders feeling of respect from the players, thus making the referee's lot a happier one.

I think that if a referee makes an effort and looks smart, it engenders feeling of respect from the players, thus making the referee's lot a happier one.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like 1967 when the ex Hartlepool manger came to manage the Rams. At first everything remained the same but after a time everyone knew something special was happening. 

I just don’t see the precise analytics that you do. I see a team/style that isn’t dogmatic. We go long, sometimes even hoof it, or we play channels, touch and go with zest and precision. The only constants are work for 90 minutes, no slackers and a desire to use wingers and width in attack. . Knight has clearly made a difference - the midfield as a unit has become much more aggressive and front foot, but bar that, Warne ball seems to me to mean be flexible, adapt, use your skills and your teammates at every opportunity. Plus .. run till you drop.
 
As for today, apart from a brief period in the second half, where it was too much in the air “hit and hope” for me, I thought it was a good watch. That in itself was a reaction to Bolton putting a bit of post HT effort in but we rode it well enough.

First half, Curtis looked like a guy that hadn’t started a game since October. Second half, he looked like he had 45 minutes of football under his belt. If he starts on Tuesday, I reckon he’ll look like a player with 90 minutes of football in the tank. Hope that helps everyone ?.

There was a lot of concern leading up to the game about the referee - understandable given some of his past performances- but I thought he had a decent match, particularly letting play continue in the lead-up to our first goal. The odd occasions when he made mistakes were because he was let down by the buffoon running the East Stand line - where on earth do they get these idiots from?