Will Hughes Hair

I match your Kieftenbeld and raise you Fuertes 

Derby 9 Wigan 0
Nelson, Bradley and Cashin all with hat tricks.
Set piece practice pays off spectacularly as Washington and Collins focus solely on getting us corners.

I'd take Bannan in a heartbeat. 
Still a superb player. 

Bannan ?

About the average age of a west stander then.

We may have had S. Bloomer and Crusty Bloomer in the canteen at one time or another 

I can here Europe playing now…

We could hit the bullseye 🎯with this signing. Can’t wait to see him bullying L1 centre halves…😉

6-7 Hours instead of 48 hours. The timeframes are looking up.

On the sustainable theme I've seen somebody else mention this, our transfer policy is getting in players in their 30s, past their best, no resale value and probably won't extend their contracts. I'm struggling to see what is sustainable about that and where this cycle ends if there isn't a constant production line of decent talent breaking through from the academy we can sell on and not be shafted over like we always seem to be. 

I do believe you love Warne more than I loved the quite frankly fabulous Will Hughes 😂
Here’s another view on the key point. Warne is trying to deflect away from a recruitment policy which is looking increasingly parochial and damaging.

It's not criticism, it's concern. I'll explain.
Last season Warne said our squad is 3 players short. We are currently 3 players below that figure. So 6 less than he stated he wanted last year. 
Last year Warne bemoaned having too many players 30 and over. Half of our signings are 30 or over. WE have signed one player under 27.
We are 3 days away from our first game and we have 2 CFs, one of which has only had 1 week of training following an injury.
Our 3 of our 4 young players have been sold, under offer or injured. None of the 3 we have left have signed another contract.
We have a game plan that requires a high press but contains little pace in a backline leaving us stretched in CM where we have only slightly more pace. Only Washington and Nelson have increased pace in the starting XI, something which Warne wanted.
The statement after the Sheff Wednesday defeat implied we would have a bigger budget this year, this isn't apparent in reality. The ruling about Jozwiak appears to have swallowed the Knight fee, when we thought those debts were cleared.
 
None of this is a criticism, just legitimate concerns. We are all grateful for Clowes rescuing the club and don't expect or want MM levels of spending, but we currently have the smallest squad of the promotion contenders despite having the biggest 22/23 attendance by miles, 45% higher than our nearest rival. 
These concerns won't stop us buying match or season tickets or cheering our lads on at games, but they are concerns nonetheless.
 
       
      

For me, the issue with not replacing McGoldrick isn’t necessarily the number of goals he scored, it’s the situations he scored them in.  The other day, I skimmed through his performances from last season, and there were half a dozen or so games where we really struggled to break down teams, and then McGoldrick was the one that got the goal or assist and we won.  I think we got 13 points off the back of those contributions alone.
That’s not to discount other players contributions in those performances or anything, but I do worry that we don’t really have anyone that can do that this season.  If Collins is being marked out of the game by 2 big centre halves, they’re sitting in a low block stifling us, who in this team at the moment, is going to drag a win out of that game somehow?  I’m not sure we have many players that can do that.  And I’m not sure it’s a problem you can solve by just running around more.

To a point, my thoughts are just 'What will be will be'. I'll be there in South Stand cheering on whoever is wearing the Rams shirts so I'm really looking forward to the coming season as I invariably do. That said, it does feel as a combination of club and press that we have been slightly economical to this point with regards to our financial situation ('restrictions lifted' headlines) in the sense that very few people expected Bielik and Knight to leave for fees without Warne having the opportunity to reinvest some of that. If Bird leaves too, will that just be absorbed as well ?
You might (possibly correctly) say that we could have spent some of the incoming fees but chose not to, at least not on what was available at the price, but the reality is that we have still had to assemble another team with free transfers, potentially topped up by loans. That being the case, I think we need to seriously temper some folks expectations as other teams have not had that restriction and have been able to build on last year. With the contracts situation overshadowed by EFL restrictions, we have had to have a major rebuild again with very little resource.
If that's the reality then I'll live with that because that's where we are and as we are all aware, a bit over a year ago things were dire and we faced an existential threat to our club, but it did feel as if we were led to believe that there was perhaps more freedom to shape the side by buying players than perhaps seems to be the case.
Re 20-25 goal strikers, certainly that is not a requirement for any team getting promoted but that assumes that there are several meaningful contributions from elsewhere. At the moment I'm not really seeing where our goals will come from. The midfield apart from Hourihane hardly look to be full of goals and we still desperately need at least 1 additional forward/striker, ideally not in the veteran category who can take some of the load over what will be a long season. There were members of our squad who looked to be running on empty in the run in last year and with Warne's preferred intense pressing style I just think that running out of steam again is a real possibility if we can't give some positions a break. Our squad is tiny again.
I'm sure we'll all give Warne and the lads our full backing when they step on the pitch, but I think it is fair and legitimate to just raise a few concerns about some potential limitations to our ambitions. We have remodelled this team again with what little resource we seem to have had available but I am not seeing anything approaching a title challenge (just my opinion). After just missing out on playoffs last year, I think the expectation of most was that we'd be right in there this year with Warne able to sign players to fill the roles that he wants and that we'd have a transfer kitty that with a few outgoings and good ST sales that we would be used to fund that.
Warne suggested that promotion wasn't vital this year but he alluded to being judged if he didn't achieve it. Personally I think he is being asked to achieve a lot with this squad and I fear for him slightly re expectation.

Personally cannot see why people bother going on twitter.

So, in your words…
His recruitment for Derby is unproven.
His patter is questionable.
His in game management isn’t great.
Clowes may or may not be backing him in the recruitment market.
Washington plus blind faith in others (unnamed) will score the goals we need?
But let’s not worry?

I do believe you love Warne more than I loved the quite frankly fabulous Will Hughes 😂
Here’s another view on the key point. Warne is trying to deflect away from a recruitment policy which is looking increasingly parochial and damaging.

I do believe you love Warne more than I loved the quite frankly fabulous Will Hughes 😂
Here’s another view on the key point. Warne is trying to deflect away from a recruitment policy which is looking increasingly parochial and damaging.

Because as I said maybe we'd have been allowed to pay it over 2 or more seasons? If you needed the cash to pay for a car now it wouldn't help if you'd only got enough for a bus pass over two years would it! 😄

None of his permanent signings have played a competitive match for Derby yet, so that is a ridiculous argument.
Yet again we are going down the strawman route. Being disappointed we can't spend £300k on a player after bringing in £2-3m in fees isn't espousing £6m on Bradley Johnson.
I'm tired of anything other than fawn eyed adulation being treated as treason or heresy.
 
 

Yeah I know, but look what we could have achieved last season, we can better that this I think with a more balanced squad. Imagine if Didzy had been injured last season...you can only play the hand you're dealt. Plus we know that Warne wants more players in. #COYR

Who has suggested spending millions on players?
It's possible to be a little concerned at squad size and CF quality without wanting us to be reckless. In fact, I would imagine it is most supporter's opinion.
 
 

Reverse psychology my friend 😉

I find him pretty likeable, but can imagine it getting very annoying if we’re struggling. 
 
was a bit in the middle to him last season, some positives but some quite fixable negatives. Not sure we’ve addressed them.
needs a good season.