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5 hours ago, Raich Carter said:

Is that an 'in' joke that's passed me by?

Why do you think that?

4 hours ago, Brammie Steve said:

I was on holiday once and agreed to play in goal.

I did a classic dive to make a save and discovered that the “pitch” was as hard as concrete and as rough as broken glass!

I was in agony for the rest of the fortnight.

I don’t blame goalies covering up you betcha!

Take the pain. Unfortunately, it comes with the territory.

I've crossed over from the dark side. I used to mostly wear tracky bottoms when I played in goal but I'm in shorts these days with the odd exception when it's really cold 🥶.

18 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

If you think Man City are playing football such as what was served up under Clement and Cocu and to some extent under Rooney and Rosenior then you really have lost the plot.

Not quite what I said but never mind.

2 minutes ago, sage said:

Yeah I'd hate us to play like Man City 

Totally missing my point. We are not City and don't have the class of player to gloss over the boring bits of possession football. I want to see exciting fast paced football and there are times City do that even within their possession game when they move the ball quickly even if not always going forward. But there are other times when after 20 passes they are pretty much in the same area of the pitch as on the first pass of the sequence. Sorry, but then, I find their play a bit meh. There has already been one game this season when I stopped watching because City were boring me. I am not a City supporter so I can do that. I would never stop watching a Rams game no matter how bad we were because I support my team. Hell, I even chanted Rooney's name (something I never thought I could) because he was at Derby.

2 hours ago, Archied said:

I have mixed feeling with them , at times they are great to watch and at others they are frustrating as hell ,wanting to score the perfect goal or walk the ball in ,

for me the problem with obsessive possession footbal is players can and do too easily fall into the mindset trap of just keeping the ball , strolling round and it can become a real snooze fest 

Pretty much sums up what I think of Man City. When possession becomes the most important aspect of a team's game then it can be very sleep inducing indeed; such as what was served up under Clement and Cocu and to some extent under Rooney and Rosenior.

I'm not saying the football is brilliant under Warne. It quite clearly isn't [yet]. My hope is that it will get better and I'm prepared to be patient and give Warne time.

24 minutes ago, DCFC Kicks said:

Explain why the team has got gradually worse since Warne has been here then. Shouldn't it be the opposite? He's been here 51 games now, which is long enough to demonstrate some sort of progression. 

I presume therefore that you would have sacked Brian Clough after the first few games of the 1968/69 season as after a reasonable start in the 1967/68 season, league form went downhill. His record at the start of 1968/69 was poor with only one win in the first six matches and three draws. Translated into today's points totals that is six points. A worse record than Warne at the start of this season.

1 hour ago, Terry Hennessy said:

I don't get this anti Warne comment by certain people. 

Since Billy Davies left in November 2007 [the last manager to win us anything] ... that's nearly 16 years ago we've had 17 managers...17 managers... and not 1 has got us up. Warne has done 3 promotions from this league.... has effectively had only 1 transfer window... not had any money to spend.... I just wish you'd give him a break and stop this hire and fire merry go round talk....

Good post. Some have come close but no one has made it. I agree with "give him a break" and would point out that the gods have not looked kindly at us. For example, injuries to players who might have made Warne's preferred style of play work better (Ward, Kane and Sibley).

Our start, I think it's fair to say, has been bang average but historically Derby have never been brilliant starters and it doesn't seem to matter who is the manager and their style of play.

20 minutes ago, JfR said:

Rangers have a few up there as well - Tom Lawrence, Jack Butland and Kieran Dowell

Palace have 4 if you include Plange: Hughes, Ebiowie and Plange are the obvious ones, but James Tomkins was on loan here for about a month 15 years ago. I have no idea why I remember that

Maybe you remember Tomkins because he was a class above our team at the time. He only played a few games in the season after the infamous one but he was a good footballer who's career was seriously impaired by injuries.

36 minutes ago, Chellaston Ram said:

I think he’s done an ok job, he spent over 120 million last season on about 20 players, half of which never got a game and he ended up scraping safety due to some lucky home wins and other teams being equally rubbish 

I do wonder how much control he had over the incomings. What he did well was fashion a team out of them that was able to compete in the Premier League.

3 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:

So we sacked liam when we were just outside the play offs but playing decent football, with a feeling we were really building toward something good. Then replace him with an experienced manager to get us promoted and we are now exactly where we were outside the play offs, but playing terrible football that feels like we're just going backwards. Great.

I'm in the same camp as Archied. The slow turgid passing sideways and sideways and sideways again didn't entertain me either. I was surprised when Rosenior wasn't given the job full time but neither was I unhappy.

There's no denying that Cooper has done a good job. And there's always room for a little chuckle at Chelsea for losing at home.

Manure's loss is some consolation after yesterday. Well done Arsenal.

23 hours ago, nottingram said:

Ok to post it now it’s confirmed he’s staying you mean

I know Millenniumram and I do not agree on all things but I will defend him on this. Sometimes it is the right thing to do to keep a confidence until it no longer matters.

My first thought was ACL when he went down. I'm keeping everything crossed that I'm wrong. Best wishes to the lad.

Several Blues fans kept asking me to please sign him. I think that tells you all you need to know. A friend from North of the border didn't think much of him either.

5 minutes ago, angieram said:

 

I won't believe this until I see Cashy in the team tomorrow. Please, please let this be true. I will never forget going to bed happy that we had held onto Tom Huddleston only to discover in the morning that he had been sold for a pittance.

4 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

Brighton need burning at the stake. Why leave it so late? 

I'd rather burn all the deal sheets.

But, but, but, there is no link to Rotherham 🤔😉😜!

Now I am preparing to have a meltdown.

On 30/08/2023 at 14:27, Grumpy Git said:

Based on results so far this season, this league is wide open.

You can now all thank me for stating the bleeding obvious.

Thank you Grumpy.

For obvious reasons, this thread will be on a slow burner today so I just thought I would at least add somut to the thread. Now, where did I put my Bolton ticket 🤔.

2 hours ago, Shuff264 said:

Suppose it deserves its own thread really, but wonder how people would rank our keepers for the last ~10 years?

Wildsmith
Roos
Allsop
Marshall
Hamer
Carson
Grant

Allsop, Carson, Grant, Wildsmith, Roos and equal last Hamer/Marshall.

13 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

If Liverpool want him to start playing man's football week in, week out, at a big club with good facilities, in front of big crowds, we'd be a perfect destination.

Agree with this. He looks a very good prospect. However, I am sure Liverpool will want some guarantee of game time if this move is to be a runner.

I nearly choked when I saw the fee and had to check this was the same Patrick Roberts who had a loan spell with us. A bit unfair to base my opinion on such a short stay but I thought he was utter tripe.

3 hours ago, Sparkle said:

Anybody else getting annoyed at being linked with anyone who played at Rotherham 

No.