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Warne out. I don't care if we turn this game around. It's just the absolute worst dross I can recall us playing.

He's got no excuses with the squad he has in this league, i'd much prefer a young progressive manager. Should be scoring for fun with the quality on hand.

It’s very telling that our two most notable players in last few games have been whoever is playing left back 

I want to be entertained but when you are playing okay and winning you don’t mind but when it goes to pot it’s horrible. No goals no pattern of play not even if in the top 10 of teams to have made the most passes this season paints a picture of how dross our football is 

Absolutely grim, form completely gone. Pattern of play is truly depressing.

Went from being an U18 PL champion, to scoring a 25-yard cracker on his full debut and then banging in a hat-trick on his second start, resulting in speculation of a £20m+ move to the Premier League.
To now being a makeshift LB in the third tier, a squad player only stepping in as our 34-year-old regular is out injured.
Seriously, wtf happened?

I got assaulted earlier today on my way to town. It was more enjoyable than this game so far. At least it gave me an adrenaline rush.

I’ll say it first 
 
GET THIS CLOWN WARNE OUT OF OUR CLUB!!!
 
But don’t worry , they pressed us , we didn’t take our chances , we didn’t move it quick enough!! Blah blaaaaah yaaaaawn!!! 

Lordy…that pass from Barks

That's exactly why it should not need 'a moment of magic' to beat them. Our tactics are just so... poor

See how they aren’t pressuring our CB’s but are straight onto our full backs when they get the ball.
Smart management

Cheltenham are a team of players who were so bad it took about 11 games to score their first goal. Their budget will be peanuts and yet under this new gaffer they’re playing above the sum of the parts. 
 
Our players are capable of so much more. Give them a canvas and plan to go and do it on. 

Have you just got a line on your bulls*** bingo card with that sentence?

Now, now! You can't expect too much from a club with one of the biggest wage budgets, the biggest ground, the best facilities and a manager with a track record of promotion.
It's your own fault for expecting too much!

Unfortunately that day Northampton decided not to try to mark any of our players particularly Washington which made it a lot easier.

The issue isn’t that we want the prettiest football in the history of the game, it isn’t that we want to make Manchester City look like a bunch of crude lumpers. It is that we know that if our players were allowed to play to their strengths they could storm this league. The weaknesses and deficiencies are plain and obvious and are holding us back. So instead of cementing our position in the automatic places, we are preparing ourselves to be glad we scraped into the play-offs.
Credit us due that we are up there despite having controlled virtually none of our matches, but ignore the possibility that we are only still up near the top because League One is so weak.
Then we start slagging our midfield off for being powder-puff and easy for the opposition to go marauding through at will when Warne admits to setting midfield up to be powder-puff and easy to maraud through. And all the opposition have to do is play the tallest central defenders they’ve got and double up down the flanks and we are stuffed.
The issues are addressable but ignored so we continue to stutter when we should be motoring forwards.
But despite all this I will be there and I will be noisy, helping the South Standers make our support heard. And shouting at the ref!
COME ON YOU RAMS.

For @Jourdan 
@JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta "I posted a version of this in the match thread but it belongs here I think. I'm Warne out, I have been all season really. Even in our run of form performance levels were frequently poor and we rarely look like a team in control of a football match.
The simple fact is Warne thinks he can approach the Derby job with good vibes and percentage based kick and rush football down the flanks that offers little control. There's not really any nuance to it and any manager with half a brain can figure it out and counter it. 
Despite the above, we have brute forced a number of wins by having better players and a bigger budget than the opposition. If we get promoted we won't have better players and a bigger budget than the opposition. What do we do then?
I maintain that a manager with a more advanced approach to football and how to set a team up would extract better performances out of this team, and the deficiencies I see in Warne's approach will only become more of a problem as time goes on."

That final match of season where he signed the waiver. He totally got what fans were going through. The article is great and makes me proud that he feels like that about Derby after such a long and varied career

"...It is how, even relatively late in a career, a club can come to mean so much to a player. It is how, for all the perceptions of the modern game and its money, a player can completely embrace what a club does for a community; what it means. Davies arrived at Derby when he was 32 but he willingly says it’s the club he most identifies with, and he speaks about them in the way a one-club man might. There’s authentic emotion...
If the last few years of Derby’s history displayed many of the game’s modern issues, from competing amid the financial stretch to ownership and the very running of clubs, Davies’ part in that showed the good of the game: “the togetherness”, as he puts it.
It was about much more than the football. And it’s why Derby fans love him for more than the performances. Davies stood up for the club and its people at a time of huge uncertainty...
It’s revealing that Davies puts this memory, a time that was full of such “frustration” and uncertainty, above the fact he has done something that puts him in football’s record books. The centre-back scored a goal in football’s oldest showpiece, having struck for Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup final.
They might have lost that game to Arsenal, but there was immense pride in it as well as tangible achievement. Every time someone even glances over the list of finals, there is Davies’ name.
That still doesn’t mean as much to him as Derby.
“It's because it was total emotion, and emotion for the club,” Davies explains. “It was a belonging. I will always look to Derby as a positive memory, regardless of football."
 

If ever anyone deserved a round of applause,  it's Curtis. 33 minutes, anyone?

Exactly this!
This thread feels like we’re placing blame on the midfield (admittedly I don’t think bird or Hourihane have been good enough this year) when in reality most of the problem is tactical. We flat out don’t use the midfield effectively.
Warne outright said last night that they’d tried to bypass the midfield. Why after that clearly hadn’t worked all game we decided to throw on 2 more wide players and try it again baffles me.
If it’s not getting the ball up the field outwide quickly, Warne doesn’t have any other ideas. 
I don’t recall a single attack going through the centre of the pitch last night. 

Exactly this!
This thread feels like we’re placing blame on the midfield (admittedly I don’t think bird or Hourihane have been good enough this year) when in reality most of the problem is tactical. We flat out don’t use the midfield effectively.
Warne outright said last night that they’d tried to bypass the midfield. Why after that clearly hadn’t worked all game we decided to throw on 2 more wide players and try it again baffles me.
If it’s not getting the ball up the field outwide quickly, Warne doesn’t have any other ideas. 
I don’t recall a single attack going through the centre of the pitch last night. 

We will make the play offs but if we don’t hopefully it means Warne will be gone even if we somehow managed to get up I don’t want Warne leading us into a championship campaign 
wrong choice of manager and  easier to say when we play badly of course but even some of the victories haven’t been great 
This group of players are good enough to control games but we don’t and that’s because of how we try to play that comes from our management team 
Lincoln was like a basketball match with no goals was way too open we could easily had won 2-0 and equally had lost 3-0 
yes we will win a few but can anyone honestly say the football we are seeing will carry us very far 
when we used to lose games under Mac1 we still often looked the better side the play off final being a massive reminder of that ….we go again Saturday  COYR

Or maybe get a manager/coach in that understands that a functioning balanced midfield is an alternative to endlessly lumping the ball out wide and into the box in the hope that someone will get on the end of it. Bird isn’t a bad player but is being made to look so by a coach who has no interest in playing football in any way other than his own prehistoric way.