Bris Vegas

In terms of the past 20 odd years, I don’t remember Steve Howard missing one. Head down, no pathetic stuttered run up, and just a hard-placed finish into the corner.
Harry Wilson was admittedly good. While our shoot-out win over Southampton in the playoffs 2007 was arguably an example of how to take perfect penalties. Those who stepped up and scored gave the GK no chance, even if he went the right way. Considering the occasion, nerves of steel.

It would be interesting to know how fellow supporters rank the importance of the current trialists, assuming we sign them.
I can’t help but feel Jags is the most important. Not only are we desperately short on defenders, but his experience could play a vital role too.
I know we need another striker and attackers, but I’d place Carroll over Aluko and Baldock. I think we need to place greater importance of adding creativity in midfield over flushing out options in attack. Carroll is a potential vital first-teamer, whereas Aluko and Baldock would surely be squad players only?

In terms of the past 20 odd years, I don’t remember Steve Howard missing one. Head down, no pathetic stuttered run up, and just a hard-placed finish into the corner.
Harry Wilson was admittedly good. While our shoot-out win over Southampton in the playoffs 2007 was arguably an example of how to take perfect penalties. Those who stepped up and scored gave the GK no chance, even if he went the right way. Considering the occasion, nerves of steel.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

He missed one in his last game for us, Blackburn at home, would have put us 2-0 up, within 5 mins of him missing we were 2-1 down. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Jozwiak. But let’s not pretend he swings crosses like that in on a weekly basis. His ball-striking ability is poor compared to the rest of his game.
If he could strike a ball as well as say Harry Wilson, then he’d be a £20m+ PL player because the rest of his game IMO is beyond Championship level. 
We’ve enjoyed some great Championship wide players in the past decade. Ince, Ward, Russell, Wilson. I think Jozwiak’s close ball control, turn of pace, dribbling in tight spaces and movement is better than all of them. But the abovementioned can all strike the ball far better.
 

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

Sancho has got posters of Ebosele on his bedroom wall.

Ebosele has been brilliant. Hope he gets plenty of game time this season.
j

I b*****y well hope so but it seemed Mel was seduced by the Lampard effect and somehow thought Rooney could replicate it. But for me Rooney had been poor and slow and an impediment to success for all his teams for a decade. Your two Rooney posts are very fair and make good points and although I dislike Rooney for it, you can't blame him for not looking a gifthorse in the mouth, but you can blame Mel. Our owner made a great decision with Cocu and then pulled the rug from under him by bringing in Rooney. And now we're completely stuck and the work Cocu was doing, as he was tasked, to raise the value of academy products as a business model for the club, has completely fallen by the wayside.

I don’t actually have any connection to Derbyshire, funnily enough.
I wasn’t born there. I grew up in an NG postcode, likewise my primary and secondary school had an NG postcode. 
I left the UK permanently when I was 20. 
But my dad, who also had no previous connection with the area, moved to the EM in his 20s and later worked in Derbyshire. 90% of football supporters at his work were Derby fans, so it was easy for him to follow them and later take me along when I was a kid.
My first game of memory at PP was around 97. We beat Coventry, and I specifically remember Wanchope scoring by chipping the goalkeeper and Richard Shaw (with his dreadlocks!) sliding back to try and clear it off the line and ending up tangled in the net aswell.
 

I’ll also add that I firmly believe Mel brought in Wayne Rooney in a bid to raise the profile of the club in order to sell it.
Rooney the player was never going to come in to the Championship and single-handedly turn Derby into serious promotion contenders. We didn’t sign him as a player for football reasons, despite being arguably England’s greatest ever player. 
Mel then doubled down on him by naming him manager. And he’s still yet to sell the club. It was a bold move which ultimately backfired.
With hindsight, I wonder if Mel wishes he never brought Rooney to the club.
I firmly believe if we had never brought Rooney in and stuck with Cocu, signing a few of his targets such as Dursun, Panzo, Dykes, Moore and Dickie, we’d be in a far healthier place now, on and off the pitch.
Cocu was our Nigel Clough. Maybe he would have never have gotten us promoted, but he was exactly what we needed while clearing the decks.

I don’t actually have any connection to Derbyshire, funnily enough.
I wasn’t born there. I grew up in an NG postcode, likewise my primary and secondary school had an NG postcode. 
I left the UK permanently when I was 20. 
But my dad, who also had no previous connection with the area, moved to the EM in his 20s and later worked in Derbyshire. 90% of football supporters at his work were Derby fans, so it was easy for him to follow them and later take me along when I was a kid.
My first game of memory at PP was around 97. We beat Coventry, and I specifically remember Wanchope scoring by chipping the goalkeeper and Richard Shaw (with his dreadlocks!) sliding back to try and clear it off the line and ending up tangled in the net aswell.