BPV

Problem is with our current manager it doesn’t matter how good the academy players are he will not use them to improve. The efl trophy was a great time to get them some competitive football yet we still constantly use the older generation. Like with previous recruitment I have no idea what the actual plan is 

If we were aware of Bristol's interest before yesterday, which we obviously were, then we should probably have laid down the law - "You have until midnight on the 30th to get this done or it isn't happening, we'll take our chances at tribunal in the summer".
That being said, even if the monies were transferred at 2259, we could have just done the same with any club we'd agreed a deal for a striker with.
I think the issue is that the deal happening on the last day mean't that most if not all of our targets had already moved elsewhere. Then we were left scrambling around and because we'd made it public knowledge that we were desperate for a striker certain other club(s) tried to take advantage.
I think the only things we could really have done much differently would have been to prioritize a striker over the other two roles and used whatever £££ we did have in the pot to secure one. And, we definitely shouldn't have let Brown go out on loan until we'd got someone else signed and sealed. Brown might not be ready for regular first team action, but in the event of Collins being unavailable and neither Waggy or Wash being back then he'd have been a better prospect than playing someone out of position.

Given the number of players out of contract in the summer we're going to have another rebuild job on our hands. With that comes the "they need time to gel" thing - If we don't go up this season there's probably a sub-conscious admission that we won't challenge next season either way.

The real issue is the summer signings were generally poor. If we’d signed the right strikers in the summer (young, injury free) we wouldn’t be desperate for a striker now. I don’t believe there was not any up and coming and affordable strikers in the lower divisions for us to have gone for. The Rams scouting system has been a problem for years.

It's not Brown's technical or physcial abilities which are stopping him from being L1 ready. The groundwork should have been laid for him months ago, which could have been the difference between him being ready to step up to start the odd game for us in the league now.
Waghorn and Washington have both been out since October and there was a 4 week gap between John-Jules making his first appearance since September. We sort of did... he got 45 minutes playing with Collins in the Wolves U21 game when he would have been better paired with a creative player - even Weston, Allen or Wheeldon would have been a better choice (instead of Collins) to see what he was actually capable of. He then got 15 minutes as a late sub (again paired with Collins) against Northampton and only 1 minute since - he didn't even get a run out in the other EFL Trophy games since then. That was the 3-0 win over Fleetwood and the dysmal dispaly against Bradford.
If he was given more game time to ease him into life as a Derby first team player, we would have been able to make a fairer judgement on if he's capable of playing a few games for us this month or not. It's not as if John-Jules has done much of note since his last goal (he played in 10 games since)

Why send Brown out on loan?
Warne missed a valuable opportunity to integrate the youth into the team in the Pizza Cup. Brown and Weston both could have got more minutes, but alas, Warne knows best.
We entered the window with 3 fit strikers, we exit with just 1. 
That is on Warne and Warne only.
 

So when the owner made his statement that he thought we had a competitive budget, do you think he was naive or duplicitous?
If DC believes that the budget this season was and is "enough to get out of this league" then why should we expect it to suddenly step upwards in the summer?
Surely it's the utilisation of the available budget that's the issue here?

Another anti climax with Warne and the total fraud Pearce at the helm, shock horror.
There is no way on this planet a club 4th in the league, with the facilities and fanbase in L1 we cannot get in a half decent forward on loan.
Get Warne, Pearce and Co gone the second we fail again this season, use the Bird or better still the Knight money if needs be to pay them off.
Never even replaced Mcgoldrick so f*** knows why I expected someone to come in to help Collins.

There must be some room for manoeuvre though? Warne spent the last few days sniffing around Sheffield Wednesday for 2 ageing strikers. 
You’re telling me there wasn’t anyone available from the PL academies down to League 2 with Scotland in between?
I get the frustrations at Pearce but Warne for me is a stubborn mule when it comes to recruiting and now it’s bitten us big time. 

We entered January with Collins, John-Jules and Brown as CF options and ended it woth just 1 of them available 

I think if the “restrictions” were particularly prohibitive the club should simply not come out and say they made a very good offer for a striker.
That way they can actually blame the “restrictions” without it looking like an excuse for being woefully underprepared and / or deleting every number in their phones except Dejphon Chansiri’s.

or is the very obvious indicator that we spent a fairly un-prohibited pot on wages for players who are getting splinters or splints.

Because we’re in a 4 horse race this season and next season it’ll be a 10 horse race.
Theres being positive and then theres being blind. 
  
So if Collins gets injured you think the predicament we’re in is acceptable?

Are you seriously suggesting our business plan makes us less able to bring in players than Carlisle and Burton?
 

Please not another warne needs another window, any more windows he will be living in a glass house he doesnt sign players 

You recently told me I couldn't possibly presume that players like Bradley and Ward are on good money, because I haven't seen their contracts.
Yet you seem to be very certain about the limits of our budget and terms of our restrictions. 

Put a deal sheet in and tell Bristol to hurry up. Or tell them to hurry up at 5 and threaten to cancel the deal if they don’t seal it pronto. 
 
Plus we had a whole month to address this issue. 
 
No way should we be going in to the run in with 1 fit striker. I’m sorry even Burton and Carlisle have signed a striker. Dreadful.

The ever cheerful false and forced  positivity is a bit too much tonight, tbh. Read the f****** room.

Can’t stand these kind of responses.
If the club were open and transparent instead of getting fans hopes up, the reactions would be a lot more understanding.
 
Why go around telling the media there are pots to spend to strengthen and then fail to do so? 

The club have thoroughly let the fans down this January. 

I don’t think it’s entitled for the fans to want a striker in, a position that everyone, including the manager had highlighted as a priority.
Plenty of clubs in this league with less money than us signed a striker. We needed bodies in as we literally have no fit backups. 
This month was purely and simply a failure 

Can’t stand these kind of responses.
If the club were open and transparent instead of getting fans hopes up, the reactions would be a lot more understanding.
 
Why go around telling the media there are pots to spend to strengthen and then fail to do so? 

The club have thoroughly let the fans down this January. 

Everyone knew the score by 5 o’clock. 
 
Fair play if you want to stay positive but it’s a disgrace not to land a striker at all. There was me thinking Gregory was poor. 
 
Genuinely flabbergasted. Alright though because Wash is back soon.

Not particularly surprising January - Warne seems to focus on over 30 s forwards based in Sheffield or anyone else with a lengthy fitness issue 
More bothered that Bird wanted to sign now to not be here in the summer because he doesn’t believe in Warne or the way he plays his football and maybe that’s the problem as lots of other third division managers all frequently say they know what a Warne team plays like and whilst we have little money to spend we are unable to consider getting a decent loan from a premiership club and I personally believe that’s down to how we approach the football served up by our current manager.
we can absolutely be promoted but it’s going to be a hard watch.

Reaction and results are a different matter - if you are able to identify talent then it doesn’t matter what the reaction from fans is. 
What is a problem is when you blow a huge wage on a player because he’s Luton’s captain, don’t worry about his actual ability or how he will fit in the team, then drop him within the first month of the season for a number of howlers. Equally, sign a bunch of players coming back off injuries who struggle to put a run of games together, because, well they get injured. 
I’d buy the ‘woe is me’ line from Warne & the recruitment staff had they not ignored whopping red flags prior to their signing. 
As I said, incredibly lazy CV-based approach to signing footballers. Nothing a f****** 12 year old with the latest version of football manager couldn’t achieve. 

I reckon Warne in his presser will mention how close we were to signing someone which will just infuriate us even more. This business plan needs shoving up someones a**e.  I’m sure a few fans agree that if we don’t go up this season then it’s time we say bye to Warne coz there is no way I’d trust him with actual money in league 1.