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1 hour ago, ThePrisoner said:

The one he explained in Day 1 on the job here?

He loves Big Dave that much, he's doing his best to get him a managers job pronto.

2 hours ago, Boycie said:

Ohhhhhh it’s crap!!

Did you mean to post this in the matchday thread?

Bradley is nowhere near as good as Albentosa.

A better comparison would be Mike de Terwik.

5 minutes ago, TheTinMan said:

Did Warne say anything on Radio Derby about Bird, he said on Rams TV he'd find out before that interview. 

Yes, he said 

He'd take these broken wings

And learn to fly again

Learn to live so free

And when we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up

And let us join Hull for a few hundred thousand.

Would it be possible to send Sonny Bradley to take part in this, and play Owen in Central Defense?

I'd like to put on record, my defence of Paul Warne was based on the man, not the manager.

Just now, oodledoodle said:

Is this a joke about Jeremy beadle's tiny hand?

Bang up to date cultural reference. 

On the one hand, I thought Beadles save from Cashin was great. 

On the other, I thought it looked easy.

58 minutes ago, Archied said:

Just got in from a hard days graft , would love to be close enough to do midweek games but it’s just too far so sadly our seats will be empty , hopefully got time to nip over to France though😜, come on derby get that first home win

You don't need to nip over to France for midweek games.

Not unless you're an overseas subscriber.

6 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Chester was still training with us but has disappeared,  Shame about his injury as he really didn't break sweat in this league when he played.  His reading of the carthouse he was normally marking was an easy day out.  If we could get him on a pay as you play if he's without a club, he'd be worth bringing back. 

He's been offered a contract by Barrow, he's been training up there.

7 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Add to that, people who get to the checkout, and the assistant says that will b £x.x, and they suddenly start looking for something to make payment with, as if they never had any expectation that payment might be a requirement. Old people are the worst. I would ban them from Waitrose and more often than not I would have the store to myself.

I put on the previous version of this thread, I'd load the handheld scanner with Bullets, for exactly this scenario. 

Nowadays I feel sorry for the old buggers, having to cope with the self checkout system ain't easy for the best of us.

It's also quite embarrassing, when 2/3rds of the shopping chimes out loudly that supervision will be required to buy this product, please continue. 

To be fair, I should probably cut back on the glue sniffing anyway.

9 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

Ploughing through the Bear season 2 and I'm unconvinced. Loved season 1, but it feels quote boring in comparison

oh here's a whole episode of marcus making fancy puddings in copenhagen with the annoying kid out of school of comedy

Can't help thinking that if this was a first season it would be getting slated

Still - just watched the family xmas one and that's back to it's stressful best, so maybe it'll get good towards the end

The Five Fishes is heart attack TV.

The others fit either side of the scale, but I loved Forks. 

Imo, the first series introduced the characters, the second series made you care about them.

3 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

I think you can make an educated guess that it will be within the top 6, logically there's little reason to believe that 6 other teams have a bigger one.

I use the same educated logic when forced to use communal urinals. 

3 hours ago, Ambitious said:

BT you used to be a source of excitement and optimism, not dread and angst. Good news only, please 🫣

This is where football's gone mad.

Offering wages of 200k a year to a league One footballer should be exceptional, a rare talent, not a cause for bemusement.

5 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

Weir not amused

Sorry, we should probably lock the thread. 

We canal see where it's headed. 

8 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Why post what, 'Hurry up Harry'? I'm a big Kane fan, think he's a tremendous striker. He deserves to win trophies, and Levy is - nope can't type that, a four letter word. Don't mind Spurts, thanks for Dave M and all, but I'm just wild about Harry! (Ohh is there another song there? 😉 )

She cursed me out the house this morning, and when I called her at lunch she uttered these exact words.

"You know how you and Rev Jr felt when you thought Derby were going under? I feel 100x worse right now".

I've been rightly prodding her ever since, what a t***!

27 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

I think it's when the page hasn't quite loaded, you click on a link and suddenly its an advert! Or in this case the wrong thread. 😄

 

Why post that Roy?

The missus is Spurs mad, and she's kicking right off, actual feckin tears.

I'm walking around the house singing Daniel, and Leaving on a jet plane, its not even a conscious thing, and she's surely going to follow through on her promise to kill me any minute now.

Yet I still can't stop myself, and now I've added that to the repertoire.

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

 

Try again Roy!

13 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Dam.

Any ex sluice for a pun.

7 minutes ago, Marriot Ram99 said:

Sign players who may not be nice guys and might swag walk into training listening to 50 Cent booming out the Mclaren but can score and have the right attributes e.g pace, touch and athleticism but caveat that by warning no bull will be tolerated. 

Sign players with bags of pace and athleticism and maybe only average skill level and young and unproven but with the potential to be very effective like an Osula type.

Basically don't be as picky with all this bollocking about being nice guys and being able to play pressing football,  if we can afford much being picky and snobbish in some regards based off his previous interviews will not help. We don't want bad eggs but better to risk I on that type of player like a Collymoore than some sh*tter from Rotherham or some 32 year old Clogger.

If the players are listening to 50 cent swagging into training, I'd venture they'd be well over 32 to begin with.

We could have enquired, only to be told the loan fee or wage contribution were beyond us. 

Maybe it wasn't that, maybe there were penalty payments in case of non selection, which sometimes happen with players of a similar profile. 

No one knows, but that doesn't stop some speculating.

45 minutes ago, Marriot Ram99 said:

7th place in a league with about 9 decent sides is hardly a good achievement, it's the absolute bare minimum of what is acceptable for this club. Without the performances of Mcgoldrick and Mendez Lairg mid season we would have been no better off than the likes of Fleetwood and Shrewsbury on very small budgets last season wasn't awful but he hardly deserves a slap on the back for it. This season the aim is promotion and its not the results that have been the worry It's the manner of performances, s**** football and lack of pragmatism with what we have available players wise.

Seeing as you've quoted my post, you'll have no problem pointing out where I say 7th place is a good achievement. 

10 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

Nah, not sure about that one bit.

Rooney had his personal interests but it's hard to deny he stood by the club in their darkest hour - sometimes paying out of his own pocket to do so. We all know Rooney had no invested interest in Derby and was here for a share of the club or some business interest - why would he be here for anything else. But my view is that he acted with decency and integrity (inside the boundaries of someone here for business reasons) and could have completely dropped us (and others around him) under the proverbial bus on more than one occasion. Doesn't mean I want Rooney back, or anything like that, but I do appreciate what he did for us at the time he did it.

I know, you don't agree!

Brilliant figurehead, so so manager.

We needed a figurehead more than we needed a manager, so it suited both parties.

I like Paul Warne and his staff, as people. 

From what I can tell, they're a decent, honest and principled bunch. 

I believe that's what attracted David Clowes to them in the first instance, alongside their record of success in League One. 

I'll also add that they saw those principles reflected in David Clowes, hence their decision to come on board.

From the start it was referenced by all parties the entire ethos of the club needed changing, and rebuilding work was needed from top to bottom, which is not the work of a moment, or indeed a few months. 

The backroom staff had been hollowed out to the bare minimum, across multiple departments. 

A review of the remaining staff saw several leave, and a new round of recruitment has taken place, building the club back up to operating strength across the board, from the casual staff,offices and the football support and academy roles, a process that is still ongoing.

That's not a normal issue that an incoming manager has to grapple with, rebuilding the back room to what it should be, while ensuring his requirements are met. We've seen a level of churn across the Academy management in that time, which must have demanded Warnes attention at various stages, in addition to the normal commitments management brings.

We've an owner learning about operating a football club, having taken over in sheer desperation, leaning on the manager he's appointed I presume, there seems to be no other football experts within his team we know of.

None of this is normal for a first team football manager, especially in his first job away from a much smaller club with different expectations, so mistakes and stumbles will inevitably happen. 

We got close enough last season that there were few grumbles about his position, yet after only two games, one in the league, there's a sizable minority calling for change, and a notable shift in how he's perceived. 

I'm not a natural defender of Warne, but will stand up for his work so far.

 I'm a self confessed football snob, and don't see him as the man to lead us back to the promised land of the Premier League, probably based around pre conceptions of his football philosophy rather than any evidence, but he's Clowes choice to launch that journey, and some of the criticism on here recently is well out of kilter with the job he's done so far.

5 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Since Sibley's already done LB, LWB, CM, AM, SS, LW and RW under Warne, we'll probably see him at CB or RWB next.

He'll probably march back into the team as SS.