EulogyForEvolution

I ducking hate supporting this club. I really do ?

Good lad!!!!

Only a matter of time this. They've got their tails up and the player they are scared of has been taken off.

Yet another boring half of football. Ebosele was bright but as soon as they noticed he's literally our only avenue of attack we had nothing.

Neither Lawrence nor Morrison are playing on the left, so we just have no one there. Both are dropping back to pick up the ball between the defenders with Bird and Shinnie.

It seems Rooney is also asking Bryne to play as an inverted wing back, which means we miss his overlaps - one of the best parts of his game.

I'm not sure this new identity he wants for us is going to pan out. I like that he's trying something new but we could do with keeping it simple with how thin this squad is. 

Morrison, Shinnie, Bird and Lawrence are all dropping back into our own half. I've lost count of how many times they've all been in there together, then not having a pass to make forward. We can't just put everything through Ebosele.

The difference this man makes to our team is unreal. If he's half the player he was last season he will carry us to safety. 

The ideal scenario would be having enough points to not need him. To be able to let him come back into the team gradually over the course of the second half of the season through a mixture of appearances from the bench and some starts from centre back would be the dream. 

I worry that we will be forced to rush him back, but hopefully we don't, even if we are in trouble. There aren't many like him outside of the Prem and if we can get him back to full fitness he will eventually be worth a lot of money to us - either through leading a promotion push or from a big sale.

4 hours ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

There are games when Shinny types are perfect and I would not want to sell even if squad was a bit bigger.

I do not think him and Bird play well together though. Neither are very progressive, it is either or for me between the two and the second CM must be more progressive.

Very true. And to get another Shinnie type of the same quality we'd need to pay a 'Shaun Barker type fee', which we can't do at the moment.

Hate to be a downer, but I think Rotherham get 4 points from their last two games and we lose to Wednesday.

Scored the winning goal for my Derby side in the 2026 Champions League Final against Athletico Madrid. 

Sign. Him. Up.

                  Marshall
Bryne  Davies  Clarke  Forsyth            
            Bielik   Knight
Waghorn  Lawrence  Jozwiak
                 Rooney

I think that's probably our best team on paper. It's a hard one to call, though.

It'll be interesting see how Ibe does, how our promising youth develops, and how things change when we bring in a striker. 

I went to join and I was automatically in there too ?