Bris Vegas

Derby have been excellent today. Best home performance in months. Elsewhere, it’s a shame Posh look done. Ideally we want them to have something to play for against Bolton at the end of the season. With a fixture pile up, you can see them resting all their better players against Bolton for the playoffs.

I have zero confidence in Warne being a success at Championship level. I don’t think he is at the level of Nigel Pearson, let alone a Bielsa or Farke. And as Derby aren’t going to have the biggest budget in the Championship, far from it, we’re going to need somebody great to ultimately have us challenging at the top of the table. But maybe Clowes just doesn’t want to take the risk. Maybe keeping Warne on a moderate wage and surviving in the Championship with a bottom half wage budget is enough to make profits provided 25,000+ fans are willing to suck it up.

Nice of Liverpool to supply Atalanta with 11 cones and their own stadium to do some midweek training in England.

Just looked at Posh’s fixtures. Wow, from the 29th of March to the 27th of April (last game) they will have played 9 games. They have 5 games in the next 17 days. They will be burned out.

I didn’t see anything of the game so can’t comment on performance. But a point isn’t a bad result at all. No way do Posh and Bolton win all their remaining games (stating the obvious as they play each other) but neither will claim maximum points. 3 wins from the next 3 and we will go up in 2nd place.

I’m not watching. The xG says Wycombe 0.21 - 1.39 Derby Shots actually has Wycombe ahead by 6-5. Did we miss a sitter or two?

I think the worst part is that along with diving, it isn’t instinctive so it evidently must be trained. But you can see why players do it. The reward far outweighs any potential punishment, which in most cases the harshest being a yellow card where 95% of the time they go unpunished.

Madrid vs City was a bizarre game. It wasn’t full of chances, yet there were six goals. All 3 of City’s goals were long rangers, while Madrid scored two deflections (one another long ranger) and a world class volley from a guy who has only scored two all season. I think the xG was like 0.85 - 0.92 when the score was 3-3. Bayern and Arsenal was actually the more open game with better chances created. Still, great entertainment. These big CL games back in the mid 2000s were 0-0 or 1-0 cagey affairs.

Unfortunately Forest have a lot of winnable games coming up. Burnley, Sheff Utd and Everton away, plus Wolves and Chelsea at home. I think they will get another 10 points. I don’t see Luton getting any more than 6. Luton gave it a brilliant go but they dropped some easy points by losing at home to Sheff Utd and squandering a 3-0 lead at Bournemouth.

This IMO is a great video and method of training which makes it enjoyable and will motivate you to do more. Consistency will always win.

9 points will be enough to go up with a better GD. Bolton aren't winning 4/4. The next week will seal our fate. Failure to win either game and we'll be in a spot of bother. The Wycombe game is almost a free hit.

Derby are still in a far stronger position than Bolton. Not only do we have a point advantage, we have easier games and a better goal difference. Even if we lose to Wycombe, Bolton will drop two points somewhere and if it comes down to GD, we'll be fine as we'll probably add another +7 (at least) from the final three games. Bolton won't be +8 over the next four games. No chance.

He was happy enough to sign a £350k a week contract though. Rashford is another talented player who has a huge spotlight on him because he plays for Man Utd. He is paid far above what his ability represents because he is at Man Utd, and he is regularly talked about as some kind of elite player because he is at Man Utd. He is a decent player, but no better than say Raheem Sterling.

It’s a good job I’m 8 hours behind UK time so just managed to see this now.

Sums up both teams. There is individual quality, but they are all over the place in terms of structure and control. It’s great for the neutral.

I’m insulted.

Vydra wasn’t good enough. He had one decent half season when Rowett could get a tune out of him but was subsequently mediocre for the rest of his time here.

Calling Jack Marriott a £5m dud. It was harsh admittedly. I’m glad he has gone on to have a good career.

Surely every post in here is an opinion? X had a good game tonight. That’s a good point. Warne’s subs were poor. Thompson looked lively. Wildsmith has to do better there. Warne deserves credit tonight. Pretty much everyone’s statements in here are opinions. Mine too. It would look a bit tedious if you have to write IMO after every line. Opinions are fine as long as they aren’t insulting anybody.

It will be interesting to see what Warne has to work with this summer. I don’t think many are naive enough to think our current set will do any more than struggle. We have conceded a lot of goals against the better teams in League One, especially away from home. I think that is now 11 in the 5 games at Pompey, Bolton, Barnsley, Posh and Stevenage. Is that down to Warne or what is at his disposal? The gulf between Barnsley and Bristol City is pretty big, let alone Barnsley and Southampton. If we’re going to struggle, I think it’s far easier getting on board if we play a better brand of football. But would better players result in Warne’s football being easier on the eye? I personally don’t see it but if he proves me wrong I’ll hold my hands up.

You flatter me 😘

I’m not sure how calling this fixture a Championship one next season can be deemed negative. We are going up.

Where else should I post? There are enough spam threads about. My opinion on Warne isn’t even that drastic. I’ve seen far worse on here. I apologise for having higher expectations and wanting to play a better brand of football. When you look at Plymouth and Sheff Wed struggling up there, it doesn’t bode well playing like this at League One level.

Why? I think my points are valid. I’m confident we’ll get promoted and have been for a while. I’m confident we would struggle with Warne as manager in the Championship. Surely I’m allowed an opinion 🤷‍♂️

Now that we are promoted, I hope Clowes is searching for our next manager this summer to give us a chance of progression in the Championship. I’d be looking at Mowbray’s situation once he recovers.