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It seems even though we have the largest attendances and income we can't compete with Bolton Pompey and even Charlton and Oxford ffs !! 😧 What that man MM has done to this club!!! grrrrrrr 🤬

Have to say its not looking promising but we live in hope

You make Warne out to be some kind of messiah with lots of tactical nous, I really don't think he thinks having control of the game in midfield is as important as a lot of fans see it

Think this will be tough as fully expect new manager Nathan Jones to be in the dugout for them saturday (new manager bounce and all that ) They do have some good players in Dobson, Coventry,May,Leaburn Ladapo etc We may well rue not getting max points against Lincoln or Reading as I don't think we will win this one If we were to win though fair play but you just know they're going to turn up against us I'd definitely pack the midfield in this one 3 as a minimum as Dobson,Coventry are decent also I'd bring Wildsmith back and Nyambe straight back in

Saunders was 1m from Oxford as I can see the back of the sun now ….in the days of no transfer window …it was early morning and I’d popped in to get my paper on the way to work …at first set of traffic lights I flipped the paper over to get the sport news first of course and there in big bold letters was “ Rams sign Saunders for 1M “ I had to pull over and read the whole article I was that excited lol great signing but was a gamble still I thought simmo was about 250 - 300k from City or Oxford

Oh really ? I didn’t know that I would still like us to take a punt now and again on someone lower down the leagues I remember Bobby Davison being a brilliant signing but hadn’t heard about him much before we signed him …we don’t seem to go for up and coming talent Also Simmo …what a great signing he was and scored so many for a wide midfielder better than some strikers

It just annoys me that we don’t seem to see these sort of players until they’re worth too much…. like before he joined Wimbledon for example

Exactly this ….you can blame EFL and all kinds of different reasons but we are fans …if we have no money then put more effort into finding hidden gems and why sign players with history of injuries …Alfie May for one seems fit and plays regularly why didn’t we get him ? There has to be a plan before the season started and a contingency plan and plan to the contingency plan but we always loook like we’re scraping the barrel at the end of the window

Haha I didn’t mention Warne or bring him up as no need Warne was.nowhere near our club then Rooney was manager and Rosenior was assistant …I am honest enough to say I was with a few on here who just thought he was a tv pundit who came to us but he did his Euefa A and B in Ireland and I’m pretty sure Rooney did t have qualifications at the time saying that I’ve seen plenty of good coaches without any badges who are encouraged to get there badges/ licences etc and I used to think that when you did these courses there might be a chance you’re individuality and ideas might dissapear under all of the hoops you have to jump through but to be honest each module you can suit to adjust to your own ideas and I guess the reason I like coaches like Pep and Liam is that I prefer the possession based ideal which is why I don’t like our current style but everyone has different ideas of what is good to watch I spent a lot of time in Holland and was heavily influenced by the Cruyff model at Ajax although I didn’t spend time at Ajax but did spend time at Den Haag Jourdan

Haha so if you’re questioning whether it was a legit conversation it was …I’ve been involved in football coaching many years and when a friend of mine picked this chap up I was introduced in the car and I mentioned I was a Derby fan and it was me who brought Rosenior up …just got back from coaching in Ireland …so chatty yes…why not …no secret in it

I know it’s done I’m not stupid …as I said previously it was pointing out to another poster on here that we had a well thought of up and coming coach/ manager that’s it …move on from telling me to move on lol

I do like Warne I don’t get why some find his friendliness and quirkiness as offending as I think he’s a decent bloke but I don’t like his football and would’ve liked a coach / manager who had a long term vision of where we’d like to go and how we’d like to play I also don’t like how he doesn’t give the youngsters a chance

I don’t im just pointing out he was well thought of to another poster

Didn’t say he was did I ? #stfu

So what if we don’t go up this season ? Would you give him the summer and another season?

Why would Liverpool be consulting an fa assessor ? What a ridiculous stupid thing to say ….Rosenior was assistant to Rooney at the time ..plenty on here including myself questioned if he was influential and thought Rooney was the main man …its proved over time that Rooney is pretty useless and Rosenior seems to be doing ok …and is trusted with good loan signings ….enough said can’t be arsed to argue with people who come up with crap as an argument

What is says is a person who didn’t have to say anything about Rosenior chose to put me right about his abilities because he stood out from lots of other people …that ok with you ?

Interesting also that both Liverpool with Carvalyho and City with Delap trust Rosenior in helping to develop there players ….says a lot

Fair enough 👍🏻

I’ve mentioned this before but I spoke to one of the fa assessors regarding Rosenior and at the time I was very dubious about him as assistant like some on here I wondered if he had any input I was told by the assessor himself that …Rosenior was one of the brightest most innovative young coaches he’d seen and said he’d go on to be a great coach and maybe manager …it changed my mind about him and he should’ve been given until the end of the season as minimum ….instead we have archaeic Warne ball percentage basketball end to end no midfield garbage

Haha do you really think Carvallyho would sign for us on loan even if we could afford him and was in championship ??? not if he wants to learn anything no !!

Regarding Ward …. Why exactly did we sign him ? Hes not a RB he’s classified as a RWB and posh fans warned he was not good defensively…just why did we sign him ?? Warne obviously f***** it up thinking we would go 3 at the back so Nyambe rescued us enabling us to play 4 at the back I never understood why we signed Ward if we wasn’t going to have the conviction of playing 352 or 532 regularld we don’t hes not a bad crosser but do we need him ? I feel we’ve wasted his time and ours because he doesn’t fit more Warne nonsense like Fornah….lets sign him …don’t play him then possibly offload him ….christ alive …what I’d give for a manager with vision and conviction of knowing how to do it and what players are needed to do it ….dont trust any signings he makes

Met the football legend Darryl Powell on a domestic flight back from Spain I was with my West Ham mates and after summoning up the courage to speak to him at the baggage reclaim he asked me if I was also a West Ham fan and I said no and explained myself being a Derby fan he was brilliant to talk to very humble and grounded and said he was a massive West Ham fan but would have followed TBE anywhere as he said at pompey he was inspirational and like a father figure and incredibly funny and honest …I asked him what he thought about the “ Darryl Powell’s a football genius” chant and he said he loved it with a wry smile lol top top bloke …what we’d give to have a character like him in midfield now ….great bloke and very underrated

Sparkle is right though so far you’d say most of his signings are less than impressive and if they left tomorrow we wouldn’t miss them ….and Vickers should’nt be in front of Wildsmith either wtf is going on there

Yikes I didn’t even think that was a possibility …but you’re right!