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    strawhillram reacted to Millenniumram in Anything positive going into The Blackpool match?   
    Bradley is banned.
    Can we stick in a frivolous appeal and get it extended?
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    strawhillram reacted to Ghost of Clough in Match Thread: vs Blackpool (h)   
    A question at the fans forum was raised, asking Buxton and Hale if they think the U18/21 players ahold have been given more of an opportunity this season. The response being "they haven't done enough to convince Warne". They also stated Thomspon not being a top performer in the U21s, but stepping up seamlessly under Rooney.
    None have played more than Robinson, who has only got 90 minutes vs a Wolves U21 side and hasn't played in any other game. The only player to feature in the League (Brown) has only got 13 minutes, I would be extremely surprised to see someone getting a chance this season.
    Take that Wolves U21 game away, then you really see how willing Warne is to using them: Brown (30 mins), Radcliffe (11 mins) Weston (6 mins) and Fapetu (2 mins). It's pathetic.
    They could have had a meaningful amount of minutes earlier in the season, even against the likes of Crewe or Bradford in Cup competitions, or when 2 goals up against Carlisle, Leyton Orient, and Bristol Rovers. If they were, we'd now have a better idea of whether they could step in for a couple of games. Even if they weren't ready, using them in more games would have helped keep our older players fresher, and potentially injury free.
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    strawhillram reacted to DCFC Kicks in Paul Warne   
    Its because there are no foundations. Warne just takes every game as it comes and tries to ground out a result by any means. It is working most of the time, but I'm never truly that shocked whenever we lose a game to anyone. It feels like Warne picks one-off tactics for each opponent and hopes they work, but occasionally they don't or the opponent works them out in-game and we lose. There's no longevity or continuity to anything he's implementing.
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    strawhillram reacted to kevinhectoring in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    NML has played too many minutes. There have been so many games where we could have taken him off but instead kept him on for 90 mins. And the way he’s played he’s so frequently isolated and having to do it all the work himself 
    Fozzy was the same foolishness. Should have been at CB all season.
     
    This is not just said with the benefit of hindsight 
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    strawhillram reacted to valakari in Injurys/absences   
    Has Warne ran them into the ground again..it happened last season when they ran out of steam!
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    strawhillram reacted to Hinzy9 in Paul Warne   
    Relax. The last time we got promoted on shaky foundations the following season was a breeze...
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    strawhillram reacted to Tamworthram in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I agree there is no reason to overreact, s##t happens. But I can’t help but feel you’re overlooking the manner of the defeat.
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    strawhillram reacted to Ram a lamb a ding dong in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    With the injury situation we are again underdogs so expect a cauldron of noise next week.
    Expect them to absolutely tear Blackpool to shreds
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    strawhillram reacted to DavesaRam in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    At this stage of the season Warne should know how to get the best of the team. That doesn't rule out an off-day, but it should rule out off-days of this magnitude, and of this frequency. The biggest issue is that he got us reverting to hoofball, which hasn't worked whenever we've tried it, and strangely enough it didn't work this time, either. So we got him pre-match blathering on about the threat Northampton offered, and that we would have to defend with our lives, and clearly set up in fear of them, when with our comparative league positions and current form they should have been scares witless of us. Hourihane has told us that if they don't play the way Warne tells them then they get dropped. So today's tactics have to be on him. And when, as a bunch of players you know you can do better, and are being forced against what you know will work, is it any wonder that they looked, to be frank, hacked off at times?
    And I brought the ref into it because he really was poor. If he had given the free kick for the blatant foul on Wilson, and the card that should have followed, Northampton wouldn't have broken away and scored, then our terrible defending would have mattered, or actually even taken place. So effectively he did cost us the game, but I would never make that claim, because it was our shocking defending that cost us the game. But the ref did nothing about the timewasting even before the goal, or Northampton stealing 5 - 10 yards and more for every throw and free kick, but was actually quite hot on Derby players for their throw-ins. And although Sibley deserved his yellow, maybe if the ref had given the free kick and yellow for the foul on Sibley immediately before he got his revenge, then that yellow card for Sibley wouldn't have happened. Or an offside on CBT after he had run through from the middle of a group of players before the ball was played.
    But my main reason for pointing out the ref's abject performance, and why I didn't include the detail i have just given, was to highlight the fact that Derby County' performance was even worse.
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    strawhillram reacted to Jimbo Ram in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    My favourite Carole King album….
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    strawhillram reacted to Mick Brolly in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Patheticism 
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    strawhillram got a reaction from Chester40 in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I’d piss on him even if he wasn’t on fire 
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    strawhillram got a reaction from David Graham Brown in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Warneoutism
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    strawhillram reacted to Steve Buckley’s Dog in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I know we are all feeling down but let’s wait to find out what our expected goals were before we all start panicking. 
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    strawhillram reacted to DavesaRam in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Warnism?
     
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    strawhillram got a reaction from Millenniumram in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I was hoping you were right first time when you said one game
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    strawhillram reacted to inter politics in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Sounds like this supposed chance has actually turned into a game we'd have been better off not playing at all
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    strawhillram reacted to JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    That's our season done then. When he's not getting it done Derby don't get it done.
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    strawhillram reacted to DavesaRam in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    You must be new to this Derby County thing, then. This isn't a one off. This happens every single time. Every time we have a chance to move forwards and leave our opponents trailing in our dust, we get the brush and dustpan out, sweep up the dust and give the clubs behind us a tow. As many of us have said, we should be sitting in first place with 5, 6 or more points clear, because the players we have, used properly, are well capable of that. But Warne has contrived to make us set up to be scared of a team that has lost loads of matches and conceded loads of goals. 
    In his pre-match presser he was talking about having to defend for our live for goodness sake.  This is talking about a team that loses for fun, and lets goals in like they are on piece-rate for goals conceded. And no, we didn't even look like bundling the ball over the line.
    We were summed up by Hourihane, right near the ned of the match, when he intercepted the ball in the centre circle, with everyone back for Northampton. H sent his pass towards Nelson, who was 5 yards away, but he put the ball 10 yards behind Nelson! What was Hourihane even doing on the pitch at the kick off, let alone right near the end?
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    strawhillram got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Warnes World
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    strawhillram reacted to Sparkle in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Well that’s a disaster - no other word for it 
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    strawhillram reacted to JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Well maybe the reaction wouldn't be so severe if we had a manager capable of adapting to the issues presented to him. He got it badly wrong today, and not for the first time this season. Once or twice can be written off as a bad day, but this happens far too often with Warne.
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    strawhillram reacted to RoyMac5 in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I don't understand why he didn't throw one of the centre-backs up front. But there's lots about Warne's football that seems inexplicable. The only good to come out of today is Bradley getting sent off.
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    strawhillram got a reaction from David Graham Brown in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Needs improvement
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    strawhillram reacted to Sparkle in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    I would tend to keep our best players on the pitch assuming that they weren’t injured 
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