EulogyForEvolution

Salah and 10 million or they can do one.
Hey B4, I’m learning. ?

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.

Just dropping in to give full credit to the team and the management for a great win last night. I remain a little sceptical of the tactical direction of the team, just based on how thin the squad is, but it was excellent to see it all come together yesterday. If can put together a consistent run I would be delighted to eat my words - more performances like that would make me a happy man.

I thought Bird & Jozwiak improved massively - Joz really deserved that goal - and Jags & Baldock made a huge difference in their debuts. My personal MOTM was Curtis; his positioning is next level. Great all round, long may it continue. 

That is spot on ? Maybe Lawrence dropping slightly deeper. Did you build that through their heat maps from the last game?

I give credit to Rooney & Co. for staying to see the job through, but I really wish they would just stick to a simple formation with wing play and overlapping full backs. The players we have available are just not good enough to be trading positions all game. 

It might have worked for Rooney in his career, but he had Paul Scholes and Ronaldo around him to make it work. It doesn't work with a team average second tier players.

The answer for me is...I wish I could stop caring but I can't.

It's a running joke between me and my girlfriend that I'm like Michael from Arrested Development when he proclaims "I'm done with this family" or "We're going to Pheonix" with how often I proclaim I'm done with this club (emotions tend to run high after a loss like the one at the weekend).

I was having a conversation with my football WhatsApp group the other day - there is a big range of fans on there from Arsenal to AFC Wimbledon - and all of them agreed that there are few worse clubs to support. It's embarrassing being a Derby fan at the moment.

A few things recently have almost tipped me over the edge. The poaching of our academy products for next to nothing before they even play for us being one of them. This season should probably be the breakthrough seasons of Delap and Gordon in our team, but we never really got to see either of them even play, and now we're begging for one of them back on loan. The greedy bar stewards seem to be demanding a loan fee of more than double what they paid us for him. It begs the question, what is the point in trying to do it the right way? You could argue that the academy is the only thing Mel Morris has done right amongst all the deception and the shady practices, and even then the top talent gets plucked out before they even pull on a shirt for the first team.

Then we have the well documented troubles with the club. I was so proud of the team towards the end of the Clough era and into Mac 1. Since then we've become a laughing stock. I'm as guilty as anyone for enjoying the ride at some points, but it doesn't change the fact that Mel Morris has run the club into the ground. My contempt for him and the various embarrassing sagas could have finished me off, but they didn't. 

I feel like I would be happier if I could turn it off, but there is just no chance of that happening. It's like a shitty relationship you know in your heart is not good for you but you just can't leave it. No matter how many times I say I'm done, by the time the next game comes around it's all forgotten and I'm ready to get my heart broken again ?

The answer for me is...I wish I could stop caring but I can't.

It's a running joke between me and my girlfriend that I'm like Michael from Arrested Development when he proclaims "I'm done with this family" or "We're going to Pheonix" with how often I proclaim I'm done with this club (emotions tend to run high after a loss like the one at the weekend).

I was having a conversation with my football WhatsApp group the other day - there is a big range of fans on there from Arsenal to AFC Wimbledon - and all of them agreed that there are few worse clubs to support. It's embarrassing being a Derby fan at the moment.

A few things recently have almost tipped me over the edge. The poaching of our academy products for next to nothing before they even play for us being one of them. This season should probably be the breakthrough seasons of Delap and Gordon in our team, but we never really got to see either of them even play, and now we're begging for one of them back on loan. The greedy bar stewards seem to be demanding a loan fee of more than double what they paid us for him. It begs the question, what is the point in trying to do it the right way? You could argue that the academy is the only thing Mel Morris has done right amongst all the deception and the shady practices, and even then the top talent gets plucked out before they even pull on a shirt for the first team.

Then we have the well documented troubles with the club. I was so proud of the team towards the end of the Clough era and into Mac 1. Since then we've become a laughing stock. I'm as guilty as anyone for enjoying the ride at some points, but it doesn't change the fact that Mel Morris has run the club into the ground. My contempt for him and the various embarrassing sagas could have finished me off, but they didn't. 

I feel like I would be happier if I could turn it off, but there is just no chance of that happening. It's like a shitty relationship you know in your heart is not good for you but you just can't leave it. No matter how many times I say I'm done, by the time the next game comes around it's all forgotten and I'm ready to get my heart broken again ?

The answer for me is...I wish I could stop caring but I can't.

It's a running joke between me and my girlfriend that I'm like Michael from Arrested Development when he proclaims "I'm done with this family" or "We're going to Pheonix" with how often I proclaim I'm done with this club (emotions tend to run high after a loss like the one at the weekend).

I was having a conversation with my football WhatsApp group the other day - there is a big range of fans on there from Arsenal to AFC Wimbledon - and all of them agreed that there are few worse clubs to support. It's embarrassing being a Derby fan at the moment.

A few things recently have almost tipped me over the edge. The poaching of our academy products for next to nothing before they even play for us being one of them. This season should probably be the breakthrough seasons of Delap and Gordon in our team, but we never really got to see either of them even play, and now we're begging for one of them back on loan. The greedy bar stewards seem to be demanding a loan fee of more than double what they paid us for him. It begs the question, what is the point in trying to do it the right way? You could argue that the academy is the only thing Mel Morris has done right amongst all the deception and the shady practices, and even then the top talent gets plucked out before they even pull on a shirt for the first team.

Then we have the well documented troubles with the club. I was so proud of the team towards the end of the Clough era and into Mac 1. Since then we've become a laughing stock. I'm as guilty as anyone for enjoying the ride at some points, but it doesn't change the fact that Mel Morris has run the club into the ground. My contempt for him and the various embarrassing sagas could have finished me off, but they didn't. 

I feel like I would be happier if I could turn it off, but there is just no chance of that happening. It's like a shitty relationship you know in your heart is not good for you but you just can't leave it. No matter how many times I say I'm done, by the time the next game comes around it's all forgotten and I'm ready to get my heart broken again ?

Roos
                           davies     stearman
       Bird                                                      Shinnie
           Byrne        Morrison                                       
Ebosele                                  Lawrence
 
                                                                                  Forsyth
 
                                           Stretion
From the last game it will be somwething like this but with different personnel maybe

Well I’m just glad that he was crap anyway.

I know one supporter who has @Boycie 
 

For someone who has done very well in business, Mel Morris seems to have very little grasp of what you should get back from a bad investment. 

From a business point of view, he has ran this club into the ground. He has spent something ridiculous like £40 million plus on players who went on to leave for nothing since he has been in charge. He has done poor business when selling our players on (Will Hughes as an example). He sacked Richard Keogh for being a passenger in a car that crashed in a drink driving incident, which would have been fine if not for the fact that the players who were actually driving didn't face consequences. He has one of the worst records I have ever seen in football for hiring and firing managers. We have been a circus since he walked through the door.

He 'had the EFL on strings' and went to war with our governing body. A war which we were only ever going to lose with the 'creative accounting' he was trying to slip through. He has then been caught trying to flog us on to anyone who comes forward, regardless of how dodgy they appear to be, to the point where he was stitched up by a journalist pretending to represent ducking criminals wanting to use the club to launder money. 

Now he refuses to agree to fund the club if he cannot secure a sale, leaving us in an embargo with a management team of novices that he can't afford to sack and club morale at rock bottom. Everyone knows we can't compete this year. Everyone knows whose fault it is.

But yeah...hold out for the big bucks Mel ? I'm sure someone will come and bail you out. 

Just do the honourable thing and let the club go to someone decent who makes an offer. It's the least you can do at this point. You're not exactly going to run out of money and you will live the rest of your life in a level of opulent luxury most of us can only dream of, and that would still be the case if you let the club go for 20p and a Freddo.

For someone who has done very well in business, Mel Morris seems to have very little grasp of what you should get back from a bad investment. 

From a business point of view, he has ran this club into the ground. He has spent something ridiculous like £40 million plus on players who went on to leave for nothing since he has been in charge. He has done poor business when selling our players on (Will Hughes as an example). He sacked Richard Keogh for being a passenger in a car that crashed in a drink driving incident, which would have been fine if not for the fact that the players who were actually driving didn't face consequences. He has one of the worst records I have ever seen in football for hiring and firing managers. We have been a circus since he walked through the door.

He 'had the EFL on strings' and went to war with our governing body. A war which we were only ever going to lose with the 'creative accounting' he was trying to slip through. He has then been caught trying to flog us on to anyone who comes forward, regardless of how dodgy they appear to be, to the point where he was stitched up by a journalist pretending to represent ducking criminals wanting to use the club to launder money. 

Now he refuses to agree to fund the club if he cannot secure a sale, leaving us in an embargo with a management team of novices that he can't afford to sack and club morale at rock bottom. Everyone knows we can't compete this year. Everyone knows whose fault it is.

But yeah...hold out for the big bucks Mel ? I'm sure someone will come and bail you out. 

Just do the honourable thing and let the club go to someone decent who makes an offer. It's the least you can do at this point. You're not exactly going to run out of money and you will live the rest of your life in a level of opulent luxury most of us can only dream of, and that would still be the case if you let the club go for 20p and a Freddo.

I'm assuming SMC is Steve McClaren? He owes us big time? 

The same Steve McClaren who came back to us and got sacked less than a year later for no reason other than to make way for Gary Rowett?

He do you figure he owes us anything?

We've faced a covid-depleted Huddersfield and Peterborough (who for my money are nailed on bottom 3) and managed to come away with 1 point despite going 1-0 up in both games. 

The draw with Salford was nice in mid week, but it shows how far we've fallen getting excited by that. 

Rarely has an owner ducked a previously well run club up to this extent. I wish he had never laid eyes on us. The only solace I take is that at least we didn't do one of those behind the scenes documentaries.

We've faced a covid-depleted Huddersfield and Peterborough (who for my money are nailed on bottom 3) and managed to come away with 1 point despite going 1-0 up in both games. 

The draw with Salford was nice in mid week, but it shows how far we've fallen getting excited by that. 

Rarely has an owner ducked a previously well run club up to this extent. I wish he had never laid eyes on us. The only solace I take is that at least we didn't do one of those behind the scenes documentaries.

We've faced a covid-depleted Huddersfield and Peterborough (who for my money are nailed on bottom 3) and managed to come away with 1 point despite going 1-0 up in both games. 

The draw with Salford was nice in mid week, but it shows how far we've fallen getting excited by that. 

Rarely has an owner ducked a previously well run club up to this extent. I wish he had never laid eyes on us. The only solace I take is that at least we didn't do one of those behind the scenes documentaries.

I ducking hate supporting this club. I really do ?

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.