Bald Eagle's Barmy Army

Always enjoy reading your posts. 

Whilst ever we have the current regime we won’t see youth. 
 
Browns development has been hindered massively this weekend. He could have played in 1 of 2 games but instead wasted his time sitting on a bench with no chance of playing unless we’re 4-0 up on 80 minutes. 
 
Youth can add so much to the team when bedded in properly. It’s also something that fans love to see and can also forgive youth if things don’t go quite to plan. 
 
 

In a roundabout way, yes 😀

Maybe Crewe are better than Northampton 

Sorry, what?
Praise/Defend (delete as appropriate) the performance by all means, but come on now.
This is League Two Crewe's reserve team we're talking about.

So Paul Warne thinks we were “smoking them”, whatever that means, but if we hadn’t equalised they would have “smoked us”. Well actually Warne has “smoked us” instead. As I said earlier lots if people on here think we played well, with many thinking we played “on the floor football”. The truth is he got us playing football into midfield, at which point we reverted to type by going wide and flinging crosses in, to a single striker who is shorter than all the defenders. At least Warne realised, and replaced him with Collins, who is only taller courtesy of him wearing his hair in a quiff at the front. 🙄
We allegedly had an absolute feast of shots on goal, but I must ask how many saves did their keeper have to make? And how much of our apparent good play was actually our good play? And how much was it that Crewe let us play like  that obecause they knew that as sure as eggs is eggs and Paul Warne is Paul Warne and we would revert to depending on crosses which his gargantuan defenders would cope with easily?
Or: can’t score for toffee? I know what: let’s leave who, in Warne’s own words, is the best finisher at the club on the bench, only reluctantly bringing him on because Nyambe got injured. Our strikers struggling against giant defenders?  What about Browne? He knows what it is like to score regularly. And if you could convert him into bricks, you could build a very impressive outside building of a certain type! But no, lets go with the shorties instead.
Yes we did keep the ball on the floor towards the end, which is when we finally started to threaten. But even then we were taking too many touches before trying to feed the ball through, so we were still letting their defence get into place before trying to create something. And when Sibley did get on, we didn’t give him the ball and ket him run at the defence. No, it was still going out wide to be crossed in. But Sibley did get an assist, steering the ball to Hourihane when it would otherwise have run through to yet another Crewe defender. So in his last 3 or 4 games Sibley has scored 2 goals and got 2 assists. So why is he still getting dumped to the bench?
After Tuesday night we were all full of beans, not because of Warne’s tactical  genius, but because he let the players do what they are good at. Maybe he had finally got the message and the corner had been turned. I had my doubts at the time, and was right to do so because today was same old, same old. Albeit with a slightly different coat to make it look like football, but it was still Warne-ball.
DAMM!

Didn't watch the game but fair play to the lads for coming back from 2- 0 down with about 2 minutes of normal time to play.

Warne isn't a risk taker, he's a plodder. We needed goals today (only a Cup game after all) and at no time did I think he'd bring Brown on. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

In summary - everybody was cross with how many crosses we had. It never crossed my mind we couldn’t cross the ball as bad as we try to. 

One of the worst I’ve seen in a Derby shirt. 
 
Although he was a bit better when he played RB 

We have the players to play on the deck and through midfield. The stats back up our strengths and weaknesses. 🙂

Well said. To go with the first team's 4 against Northampton, the late two at Crewe today and the U21's four against Manchester City last week. Good that some can still show balanced appreciation.
COYR

U18s scored 5 yesterday and the U16s got 4 

Paul Warne get out of our club 

Think it was David Clowes shouting it. 

Any player with a semblance of talent, potential or ambition will be on the phone to their agent begging to get them out of this club.

Not to worry we will beat Wolves u21s on Wednesday and then all will be well again…

I've switched over to the wheelchair Rugby League on BBC2. More movement off the ball than I've seen all day from Derby

On commentary - "Derby are just starting to become predictable."
We became predictable about 8 months ago 🤣

Paul Warne get out of our club