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1 minute ago, Millenniumram said:

Collins down, was such a great decision not to sign a striker 

Hardly a decision,we couldnt get one FFS.

Have you thought about cheering up for half an hour

19 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Probably had him running 10 laps around the pitch. That'll work!

😉

Well,it did!

17 minutes ago, Millenniumram said:

Max Bird is a new man now he knows he doesn’t have to play for Warne much longer!

WHAT 

A

GOAL

The same gaffer who bird specifically states has been taking him aside to improve his shooting?

Clearly crap coaching as it hasn't worked has it...👀

5 hours ago, valakari said:

Its an absolute joke.

Playing the underdog mentality card..when we are the biggest club in div 1 by a mile!

Can't stand the football, can't stand the manager...its only my love of Derby County that keeps me going

You poor thing.

34 minutes ago, DCFC Kicks said:

Can everyone stop saying "we're second in the league". It's highly unlikely we will be once Bolton play their games in hand

And if your aunty had balls she would be your uncle.

11 minutes ago, Macintosh said:

I still think there are strikers to be found with some hard graft and imagination. Gayle, he was released from his contract after the window closed because of the zero chance of him getting a game and he wants to find a club that will play him. He has taken that gamble and given up £7,000+ a week for an opportunity of match time. He has that hunger. Gregory still comes under this category of being no use to his club now. Many others whose contracts are up in the summer too, costing their club wages to see out the next six months for adding nothing. How hard did Liam Rosenior work to get Cardiff to release James Collins? He did not have a recruitment team to help him. Think outside the box, including Europe. Maybe phone up a few agents in the spare time they now have and ask them for inside info, if players could persuade their club to cancel their contract? Not every player is a greedy bar steward like Ikechi Anya.

He didn't have to work hard,most of the players who came in during that period thought that they had Rooney as their boss,that was the draw.

(Why,I'll never know,he was useless but there you go)

15 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Now we're back up in (effective) 3rd place, based on points per game, we're again faced with the question of can we push on? Will we move properly into the automatic places and, if so, can we cement our place there? 

Warne knows we need to haul ourselves over the 2 points per game mark, and the players know that too. Will we fall back again, or will we finally seize the opportunity? Is it a question more for the players or the manager? Is it for the manager to instill the right mindset in his players? 

Warne is proving himself a pragmatist and our trajectory has been upwards, but is his ceiling the playoffs or automatics? I'm so pleased we're within touching distance, but because we haven't yet gone further, I'm not totally convinced. I am more convinced that a few months ago. 

I like the way you use your own metrics to describe our position in the table.

Let's hope we don't get promoted in the automatics then find out we only had 1.97 and the fa decide to use Carl Sagan's system instead and send us back down,that would be so disappointing.

Warne, tactical masterclass today,he got the team selection spot on too...

Warne,very much in.

Just now, CBX1985 said:

How much injury time is there in the Derby game?

Just saying..

Whilst i would have loved a new striking option,I do believe that in waghorn,wash and Collins we have enough firepower going forwards.

The most crucial problem warne has fixed was having a new enforcer in the midfield who also had the proven capacity to score goals.

I think we will see an immediate improvement once teams realise that we don't have a soft midfield underbelly anymore.

Hopefully we will see the benefits tomorrow 🤞

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Or our own youngsters want to stay here?

Best ask cashin Roy .

20 minutes ago, DRBee said:

In the end we will be damaged far more by Warne's tactics and team selection than the failure to secure another striker.

 

Yep being a massive 4 points off off the top spot with a game in hand over Portsmouth is an absolute disgrace isn't it.

Ffs boys,it's not as tho warne and everyone else doesn't know we need another striker in....

The problem is actually getting one in and none of us know what our requirements and most importantly our restrictions are.

If we don't get one in tonight,we still have wags and wash to come back in and we have all quickly forgotten the impact that waghorn made at the start of the season before he was injured...he could well do it again and wash is a solid back up.

Anyway,we still have 20 minutes to go 😬

49 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

It's in my DNA yoof....😉

It's not good for you mate!

5 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Is everything going terribly well.....

 

 

....or just terribly?

Just now, RoyMac5 said:

More excitement than a season and a half of Warne! 😄

Most of it off the pitch.

5 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

They were kept up by their new manager, not something Warne managed to do.

Somewhat like Rooney then....and some thought he was the best thing since sliced bread,up until he cut and ran.

2 hours ago, SSD said:

I think in years gone by I don't think it would have mattered what type of football you played to gain promotion to the Championship, it was more based on budgets and the quality of squad to keep you up. Of course, these points still matter. I believe with teams who go up, you have to try and focus on more control of the ball in possession and midfield is really instrumental in keeping the team ticking over.

Peterborough are a prime example of trying to go all guns blazing, works great in League One, every time they gain promotion it's straight back down the slide because it does not work in a better division. I know Rotherham have a small budget and it's mainly why they've struggled to go much further. You hear the feedback from their supporters when Warne was manager, they just did not adapt to a different level. If Warne does get us out of this absolute pit of a league, which I believe he will, he has got to start thinking of another way to keep us in the Championship. I appreciate he wants to do everything at 100mph and make the team monster running machines, it usually keeps the team in games at the end. When he is up against a half decent side in the Championship, the team will get picked off very quickly, even lesser League One sides can do it. It has happened to every single Rotherham side Warne took charge of.

I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to go wing backs again, he is that stubborn. I hope he reflects and realises to change it up, adapt to a higher standard of football. I just don't think he will. It's becoming more clear as time goes on that he will have that L1 Neil Warnock tag. I thought he was more intelligent enough to bring his winning formula but choose the right moments when to break, when to keep the ball. It's a shame I feel this way because he's a very honourable man. From watching his Derby side for nearly 18 months, grinding along every match is not a good platform for a promotion winning side.

 

We say that but when came to us,I think Rotherham were sixth or so in the championship but quickly slid away once warne left.

So he may have more of an idea than we think about managing in the champ...

23 hours ago, Curtains said:

I like the guy 

He’s doing ok under difficult circumstances 

The club are still under restrictions whichever way you want to look at it. 

Exactly my thoughts too curtains.

Don't get me wrong,the football needs to improve but Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

And...I like him too,I enjoy his chats...at least he's honest.

37 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

I think we're under par in the league table - not by a huge amount because there aren't top sides away over the horizon like last season, but the pre-season poll on here was an expectation of promotion and with over half the season gone we're only 4th. We should be doing better.

We are three points off top and joint third on points!

I'd imagine if Liam had been in charge and we were in third place,it would like a plasterers radio on here.

4 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

So see how easy it is to get the wrong end of the stick, why say it (but of course Sibs gets the 'joke')? What penno btw, missed seeing that.

No penno was actually given by the ref thankfully...and unsurprisingly as missed most of what was going on other than Collins being offside a lot,as usual.

20 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

He thinks he comes across as funny and quirky. He doesnt. Sibs quite pleased today probs then will hear that. 

I have the opposite view on this,he does come across as honest,funny and quirky to me and I actually thought he sounded impressed with Sibley aside from the peno and he didn't criticise that in any case,just admitted that it was one (fair enough,it was!)

He also praised him for being the only player to be making forward runs.

I personally thought sibs did well,he tracked back well and made some vital tackles and at least he always has a go,going forwards.

The game itself was absolutely dreadful in the first half,we were slow,dull and looked frightened to death.

The changes for the second half were positive and we looked a different team,if not one that was in my mould of a great derby side.

It was effective however and all of a sudden we were on the front foot with Cheltenham not really getting a look in from then on.

Birds goal was superb but eclipsed by collos' effort which was outstanding....if he stayed in the box more often,this might be something we would see with more regularity.

Three points off top,joint third place as it stands and we aren't even playing well yet....if we can finally click going forwards,you never know,the autos may actually be on.

It would be more understandable if we weren't 4 on the league,a few points behind the top spot and with a still admirable record over the past 13 games.

To be honest,I'd prefer us to play like we did in 2014 to 15 under Mac and we had a striker like CM again,but we are where we are and all that matters is to get promoted which warne has a track record of achieving.

I do think that warne as person grates some people on her (not me,I actually like the guy) and that's behind a lot of the negativity here....after all the football under Rooney was worse and took us to relegation but some on here who now hate warne still fawned all over him (cards on the table I couldn't bear the bloke)

Let's get behind him (you don't have to like him) and the team,get promoted and take another look once we are back in the league we should be in.

Oh bloody dear.