Tamworthram

A number of reasons why we can't expect a good run at a top 6 place. 
There are more than 6 teams with much bigger budgets than we'll have. 
There are more than 6 teams who already have more players than Derby with recent premier and championship experience. 
There are more than 6 teams who don't need to rebuild like Derby have to.
There was a report highlighted on one of the topics regarding the average wage bill of teams promoted to the premier, it was over £60m, we will be no where near that. 
We're can hope and dream of a top six place, but to expect it, that's delusional. 
Or maybe your deliberately setting unrealistic targets, so you can say that the club have failed at the end of the season?

Hope and expectations are two different things.
I hope we win the league but I don’t expect it.

Right so when you said all those 30+ players you didn't mean ALL those 30+ player? 😀

Saw someone suggest him for us, doesn’t look Championship standard to me. 

How could any of the answers in this thread be more than hope? We are missing around 7-8 first-team players at the moment and I haven't got a clue who is available, never mind we are being able to sign.
 

It will be interesting to see what Vernon Kay has to say Monday morning , he’s been saying how Bolton will walk it at Wembley on his radio show 

He was right. Unfortunately Oxford were running..
Dammit @StaffsRam

You sure he said walk? 

Plenty and with good reason. They both just failed to turn up at a couple of key games. 

Every time I see him he’s absolutely awful, wouldn’t go near him.

That Santos that they all rave about is absolute dog 💩 

I'm not sure I can cope with the inevitable melt down on this forum if we have to wait until August let alone "later August". 😀

I've made the same comment to my wife, not that she was interested.😁
You only have to look at various clubs' accounts, to see what a difference our fan base makes over other teams. Our ticket sales are much better than those of Stoke and Bristol, even though we were a division below them at the time. Our turnover being £4m higher than Bristol, despite them getting around £5m more from the football league share out.

I think they were each given c36,000 tickets. Last I heard Bolton had sold 30,000.
Even allowing for League One, they haven't got the depth of fanbase we have.
The Oxford lot will be mostly daytrippers! 
Also, hospitality is always sparse when it's a lower-league offering as there are less hangers-on. Shame that section is directly opposite the tv cameras.

As with most things in football I imagine that this is simply down to money - Wildsmith (more likely his agent) thinks he can get more than we are prepared to offer and Derby think they can get a better keeper for the money Wildsmith (his agent) is prepared to accept.
He's been a good keeper for us these last 2 years, so no hard feelings and wish him good luck for the future.
Looking forward to seeing who we're bringing in now, whether that be Iversen, Johansson or someone else.

I understand there is a facility to add additional members to the squad during the summer.
 

Surprised we didn't offer Korey a year personally thought his performances at the end of the season were a big help in us going up.

If PW et al, having seen him perform in pre season training/friendlies don't think he's quite ready, I'm quite happy to accept their opinion. If there's a slight doubt, give him some cameos in August. If the doubts are founded, it's out on loan.

I would think that Warne will want some 'influence' in the dressing room from experienced players, I'd be surprised to see them all go. But who knows.

Maybe. It needs to be correctly targeted 'ruthlessness'.

Eh?
What's it got to do with either Boro or Wycombe what our budget is and why should we be checking it's OK with them?
Unless of course you believe the conspiracy theory that Gibson controls the EFL. 😀

3 reasons to compare a good wife to a little toe...
 
1/  They're cute
2/  They provide much needed balance
3/  You never truly appreciate them being around... until you bang them on the coffee table late at night.
 
 
 

One was pretty good.
But two was awful imho.
It's turned into a soap opera.

Mrs Badger liked it, but I'd have happily stopped watching.

The Responder first series was great and 3 episodes in for the new one I feel that has dropped off a tad. Still pretty good though.

I’m okay with it. There’s enough aspects of serious farming to make it educational. 
I laugh at the silly bits, as he intends us to. All reality TV is anything but, given there will be an entourage following everyone around and interactions will be scripted.
 I think everyone should be educated on how food reaches their table. Other farming programmes are more accurate but don’t have mass appeal.
It needs the daft bits to keep the audience amused in between the more serious messaging.
Clarkson screwing up and being abused by his co-stars makes us feel a bit better about our own shortcomings 😊