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3 hours ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Don’t get the crowd argument, surely all teams will benefit won’t they ?

Not really, you only have to look at the league table any season, to see that some teams are better home than other teams in a similar position and some are worse.

Quite often you'll see a midtable team's supporters moan that their home form is bottom six and their away form is top 6.

Perhaps Rooney felt that Lawrence needed somebody to show some faith in him after he was left out the Welsh squad for the euros.

I must admit that I am surprised by this decision, but I can remember 2 other captain appointments which were met with similar enthusiasm at international level, Beckham and Rooney. Whilst not winning anything, they didn't seem to have a detrimental affect on either the England team or the players' performances.

27 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

Not sure about you but I could not just magic up £1.4m overnight.

Also, if the club were led to believe the transaction was still going ahead I don't think they would have desperately trying to get the funds in place.

MM's assets are measured in millions and mine in thousands, I'm sure that I could raised £1,400 much quicker than the club did, to pay the players.

I have sympathies regarding the club being strung along regarding the buyout, but the facts were that players weren't being paid and rules were being broken, at a time when the club was already under investigation.

The Weds' punishment is disproportionate though and should be questioned.

I think that we would have had some kind of defence of the players had been paid a couple of days late, as soon as we realised that the deal hadn't gone through. Unfortunately, it was done 2 or 3 weeks later.

They should simplify the survey, just ask one question. Is the EFL fit for purpose?

2 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

What does the job title mean? 

CB v Huddersfield

I think that there is a lot of negativity over Davies' potential contribution on here, if he stays.

He actually made 13 appearances last season, including one in the league cup. He suffered that bad injury, which I thought would finish his career at his age but definitely would put him out until next season. It says something about his physical and mental strengths, that he managed to return to help out in that crucial final game.

Now let's look at what he can offer the team for next season, he's too slow, but wasn't Darren Moore even slower? Moore showed that experience can carry you a long in that position in this league, during our promotion year. I think that Davies and Mengi could prove to be a decent partnership in the centre of defence.

I expect that Wisdom must have been on a decent wage also. Even if he does stay, I would think that it's on a greatly reduced contract.

Just now, Agadirram said:

............"and will now press for a rule change".

Doesn`t that statement, an admission of their oversight and incompetence  tell you all you need to know?

Surely that statement means that we didn't break the existing rules?

24 minutes ago, Wignall12 said:

Strange that , it's happened in Middlesbrough too !! ........Global warming ?

And in Wycombe also..........................and they're not even on the coast, so it can't be rising sea levels.

44 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Confirmed in training...

Coaches: Rooney, Rosenior, Nicholson, Jenkinson
Goalkeepers: Roos
Defenders: Davies, Byrne, Forsyth, Buchanan, Solomon, JBrown, Cashin, McDonald, Ebosele, Bardell, Williams
Midfielders: Shinnie, Bird, Sibley, Watson, Dixon
Wingers: Wilson
Forwards: Kazim, Stretton, Duncan, Plange

MIA: Walker (coach), Given (coach), Pearcey (GK coach), Marshall, Wisdom, Bielik, Lawrence, Jozwiak, Waghorn

 

MIA; Knight 

2 hours ago, JoetheRam said:

Starting line up next season:

GK: Clough & Taylor Statue

 

RB: Rammie

CB: Private Derby

CB: Derek from Chad

LB: Walking Backwards Man

 

RM: The King of Rome

CM: Robert Lindsay

CM: Robert Maxwell's Re-animated Corpse

LM: Owen Bradley

 

CF: The Steve Bloomer Bust

CF: Kenco Coffee Cup

 

I bet we'd still do better than last season.

We would, if we had B4 in the centre of midfield organising things.

19 hours ago, Carnero said:

Oh don't get me wrong, over the season i agree that we were lucky to stay up on such a low points total.

But to say we couldn't do the job ourselves I still disagree with, we did do the job by drawing when we knew the Rotherham result.

Who's to say we wouldn't have won in the last 10-15 mins had we known Rotherham had won? For a start we wouldn't have put Davies on for Waghorn would we! Mind with this manager maybe we would have... 

Continuing on this theme, how can it be fair to dock points after the season has finished? A 2 point penalty given before the last game would have meant us still going for a win in those last 10 minutes rather than sitting on the draw. Wednesday had all season to make up their 6 point penalty.

I think that Derby would appeal any decision resulting in a points penalty for last season and knowing the speed of the appeals process, this wouldn't be decided upon until after christmas.

3 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

I like the idea in principle, but the maths aren’t working for me. If 40,000 chipped in £2.50 that would probably work, although not probably over the next few months as there are a lot of birthdays in my family during July and August.

How about the 20,000 season ticket holders all turn up at the same time, at the EFL hq, with a fiver each, to pay the fine?

I think Jozwiak's best period last season, was when Bielik was playing.

This could be for a number of reasons:

A, he felt more settled with a fellow Pole in the team.

B, he benefited from having a better player giving him quicker and better passes.

C, he benefited from playing in a team playing with more confidence at the time.

Like many players, past and present, he seems to be a 'confidence' player. Hopefully, he can get and maintain that confidence next season.

I really rate CKR, but I could have strangled him, each time he gave a soft free kick away in the last few minutes.

A bit of poetic justice all round, between him and Chelsea, they royally screwed us over with the protracted move 18 months ago. No respect was paid to Derby whatsoever, we didn't even receive any help in the loan department afterwards.

He needed to serve a decent apprenticeship before taking on a job like that, not one lucky season with Derby made to look better because of a large number of worldy goals from Wilson.

He should have built something at Derby and given himself a better shot at Chelsea a couple of years down the line. Lets face it, chelsea never hang on to a manager for very long. Now, his reputation is tarnished and he will find it difficult to get another club.

Chelsea, in the meantime have wasted a couple of hundred million quid in the transfer market and ruined the reputation of  one of their 'greats'.

My name is D**** C*****

My team is Derby County, naturally!

32 minutes ago, CocuCrazyCocuMad said:

Just because it’s the best football that was played in the last twenty years means nothing. Some fans value promotion. Which puts him on par with Billy Davies.

It could be argued that premac1 with Jim Smith was the best football  in over 40 years which came to an end when he left for Man U. How much was down to him or Smith, is unknown, but the magic left soon after Mac. He was considered ahead of his time then, nut that was 25 years ago and football has changed and would it work now?

I remember the squeeze coming out of the Popside every game. I used to lift my feet off the ground and see how far I could go, before having to put them down again. 

That was a long time before Hillsborough and Just seemed to be a fun thing to do. 

What a lovely story with a happy ending, albeit about 46 years late. Maybe the surviving team members will have a 50 year celebration in 4 years time and that photo can be recreated with his medal firmly clutched in his hand. 

I remember sitting in the A stand for the last few seasons and made many good friends, especially my mate Paul from Belper and I come up from Brum,  we still sit  together now. 

There was one fellow in the A stand, a true English gentleman, but biased as hell. All match, every match he used to berate the ref with such classics as 'shows us your red shirt referee or put your glasses on referee or you bounder referee or you hound referee ', that was his favourite. But he never swore, until one match when the ref was having a shocker and he said after all the usual insults 'referee, refereeeeee, you're a, you're a, you're a............. You're a bastaaaaaaaaad!! 

Silence descended all around him and we all turned to look at him. Sheepishly and with a very red face, he said 'well, he is' we all fell about laughing.

Good times.