Truckle

28 minutes ago, Blondest Goat said:

You're a ray of sunshine aren't 

57 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

On the other hand, we have only picked up 3 wins this year (7 games) - 2 of those against sides in the relegation zone and the other is only 5 points clear. We also lost to 1 of the other sides in the relegation zone and a L2 side during that 7 game spell.

Vey true. If only we'd started a Warne Out Out Out thread on Jan 1st.

Over 100 pages now!  Absolutely phenomenal.  Latest update, we have now taken 38 points from 17 games at 2.23 points per game since we started the thread.  

Can we keep on being cross for the run in?  We've got this.

On 18/11/2023 at 09:57, Truckle said:

When this thread started we had 18 points from 12 games, 75 pages later we now have 27 from 16.  We were 11th and we are now 7th, just one goal more in the plus column away from playoffs.  

By my reckoning if we can get to 225  pages we'll be top.

This really is a fantastic effort from all involved.

Since we started this thread, we have taken 9 points from 4 games at 2.25 points per game!  And we’ve added another 8 pages since my post so are now just 218 pages away from top spot.  If we can all focus and keep being really really cross for a bit longer we can do this.

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When this thread started we had 18 points from 12 games, 75 pages later we now have 27 from 16.  We were 11th and we are now 7th, just one goal more in the plus column away from playoffs.  

By my reckoning if we can get to 225  pages we'll be top.

24 minutes ago, plymouthram said:

Mr Warne, I hope you read this "Forum" because there is some good feedback from the Rams fans. Since you binned the 3 at the back the team has steadily improved. Today most players were above average in their performance and playing a strong team, they just blew them away. My one criticism is; in the 75th minute you brought Sonny Bradley on and reverted back to 3 centrebacks, during that last period of the match Barnsley had 2 good chances and could have scored. PLEASE STICK WITH A BACK FOUR!!!!!

He doesn’t.

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

I’m calling it that Big Trav has no idea at all the majority of the time, and he has you lot on strings. He though is a mate, or a mate of a mate, of who does the club media and photos and updates Trav when the photos are in the can. As for Simmo, my dog has more idea what is going on. And she is deaf and senile. 

8 hours ago, InstaRam said:

Why not take a deeper look at the Scandinavian market like Iceland, Norway, Sweden etc. Should be fairly cheep players and the kind of grafters which ought to work well in a Warne system? Some teams there have performed fairly well in the european competitions which make me think that a fair few of those players might perform very well in L1?  

Brexit, they won't qualify for a work permit.

4 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

The away form or results or whatever you want to call them haven't just been bad this season though have they? They've been abysmal for some time now. 

Didn't see that fact mentioned in your article. You've taken such a narrow sampling range to attempt to justify your own agenda it's simply not appropriate, other than purely to further your own personal opinion. 

I can't even describe what style Rosenoir had his team playing in other than to instruct them to religiously lose every away game they played in it seemed as that was the inevitable outcome. 

Nice to see a bit of positivity on this forum for a change though ?

This bit "The away form or results or whatever you want to call them haven't just been bad this season though have they? They've been abysmal for some time now. " is exactly the point I wanted to address.  We don't see this season in isolation we see it as continuation of last season and every disappointing away day.  If you examined just this season with no baggage it is unlikely you would sack Rosenior.  That's all.

I think getting rid of Liam was a mistake that could haunt us for years.  When he went we had the joint best home results in the league.  Can’t really do better than that.  Our away results were bad but our away form was generally pretty good.  Four away games is a crazily small sample size on which to base a season defining decision.   If you just look at the stats for away games under Liam we averaged 13 shots a game with 4.75 on target, under Warne it is 8.25 with 3 on target.  Admittedly it is still a ridiculously small sample size but there are also examples that come to mind.  Just before half time against Oxford, Collins chases down a defender forces a mistake and hits the post.  At exactly the same point in the match against Cambridge he does the same and scores.   That’s going to even out over a season.

So we lost a guy who had built a team to play in his style and brought in one who wants to play in a way entirely unsuited to the players he has.

I think the reason Clowes pulled the trigger is that he was thinking like a fan, there’s a bit more about that here if you can be arsed.
 

https://www.simontruckle.com/post/why-fans-should-never-be-chairman

I am really enjoying that Moment of Truth podcast and think Paul Warne comes over amazingly well.  I hope he's successful with us and think he probably will be but not sure about the decision making process.

https://www.simontruckle.com/post/why-fans-should-never-be-chairman

That Ronaldo pose apart, I thought Mehmeti was exactly the player I hoped Kamil would be for us.  Put him a team that didn't have ten Neanderthals and he would be class.

That's true generally but in this context?  Their most forward player is 3 yards outside of our box.

I really like the way we are playing but it does seem that we struggle to get men in the box.  This is the view from behind the goal for our winner- against 10 men we only have 3 men in the box (4 if we include Dobbin crossing) against 8 defenders.

With profound apologies to Carly Simon...

You gave us the things we love

And that’s DCFC

Clowes in our posse, clowes in our posse

And

We’re on cocaine what you gonna do about it, we’re on cocaine..

37 minutes ago, Sean said:

 

Is he driving barefoot and eating toblerones?

36 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Lets all meet up on the page 3000,

Won't it be strange when @DarkFruitsRam7 is fully grown,

be there 2 o'clock,

for the Quantuma update,

 

And 2201 pages in it is finally worth it.  Hats off you to you, the finest post in this thread.  

Help from the EFL?  That'll be the arsonist following the fire-engine with a watering can then.

3 minutes ago, Eatonram said:

I agree, Ed is being slaughtered. Couhig is asking the questions and Ed is trying to answer rather than the other way round.

I cannot believe how poor the standard of journalism is at Radio Derby.

Well then, it seems pretty clear that Mel, channelling his inner Greg Wallace, did indeed eat my hamster, served up on a buttery biscuit base.  I agree with most posters that he made loads of mistakes but I still stand by my original point that administration wouldn’t have happened without the EFL retrospectively changing the rules, and then actively trying everything from delaying tactics, constant appeals and spin to get us where we are.  That and Covid.  I am willing to bet the loses posted by Bristol City are the tip of the iceberg and I am expecting to spend the rest of the season watching the EFL busily extending a helping hand to 23 overspending clubs while casually keeping their foot on the throat of ours.  David mentioned Mel writing a book, which would be interesting, but I think a lot of the actions of the EFL are in the public domain already and I’d hope one of the journos who cover the club had a bash at it. 

I don’t understand why we are all so keen to blame Mel rather than the EFL. 

The problem with laying the blame at Mel’s door is that the logic just doesn’t add up.  It relies on 3 pillars:

• Mel is as thick as mince
• He actively decided to ruin and devalue an asset he owns
• He is some kind of agent who intentionally bought Derby to ruin it.

Let’s assume for a second that Mel Morris is neither stupid nor intent on ruining the club he supports, then you really have to ask – how does any of it make sense?

There is an alternative narrative to the ‘Mel ate my hamster’ view of the world. What he did during his time was try to get us promoted by sailing as close to the limit of FFP as possible, just like every other club with a reasonably minted owner.  Where he massively failed was in not having the foresight to build a time machine.

When we submitted the financial figures to the EFL on 30th June 2016 the EFL signed-off on those figures. As a result Mel based his future spending plans on how much he could put into the club while staying within FFP using that method. He funded the club on this basis for the next 3 years, without a murmur from the EFL.

Let’s say that the EFL had been even half-way competent – it’s a stretch I know, but bear with me – and had said on the 30th of June 2016.

“Mr Morris, we don’t think you should amortise in this way, can you resubmit using the previous method?”

What do you think he would have done? Given that he’s not stupid or intent on ruining the club I’m betting he’d have said:

“Right you are, I’ll change my plans accordingly”

And over the next couple of years sold Tom Laurence and not bought Krystian Beilik.  From the figures that have been quoted I think would have been enough to comply with FFP, and if it wasn’t he would have sold someone else, wouldn’t he?  Given the alternative was to destroy a really valuable asset he owned I don’t think that is an unreasonable assumption.  I would argue the EFL retrospectively moving the goal posts and a global pandemic that disproportionately hits the best supported teams are why we are where we are rather than the blame all laying at Mel’s door.

15 minutes ago, David said:

It's rules such as above that builds this "vendetta" that some believe the EFL have towards us.

Let's not forget here, the EFL signed off on our accounts, they only became an issue when they looked into the stadium valuation despite Kieran Maguire alerting the EFL to take a look at our accounts a long long time before the stadium sale was made public.

Meanwhile clubs such as QPR smashed the FFP rules the season we played them at Wembley, were Derby crying and threatening to sue the EFL and QPR, no.

Gibson however, well he's been a dog with a bone on this. I suspect the EFL would not have appealed and pushed as hard if they didn't have this threat hanging over them, and this all may look like paranoia, but honestly tell me I'm wrong.

The EFL will not want this in court, front and back pages of the paper for the country to see their handling of all this.

I find it hard to take that we're being punished for something historically which was approved by the EFL, the punishment doesn't feel like it fits the crime either.

We've been under embargo for the best part of a year, unable to strengthen the team, can't submit accounts as there is an argument over accountancy methods which are not in the EFL rules.

We're then being denied an opportunity of an interest free loan that could have helped prevent us going into admin because of the above investigation, so we're hit with -12.

Yet that doesn't appear to be enough as they want a further 9 point deduction.

At what point are we allowed to feel a little annoyed by what the EFL have done here, I'm amazed other club fans are actually enjoying this when it could be their club next.

We have a club down the A52 with an owner sending players between his 2 clubs in plain sight, how is this not been flagged up as a potential FFP issue, can you imagine transfer negotiations? It's a table with 2 chairs and just himself. 

It just stinks, it really does. Maybe I'm biased as this is my club, but it does absolutely feel like a vendetta that won't end until they have us in League 1.

When you look at what Rooney and this team are up against, it's incredible the fight they continue to show on the pitch. They don't deserve to have a relegation on their CV's, not one of them.

If we somehow stay up against the EFL's best efforts to send us down, without a doubt Rooney should be manager of the season, not that the EFL would be brave enough to award it him.

I tried to capture this sentiment in this a few weeks back, particularly the bit about other EFL clubs not being worried about their future:  https://ramsreviewpodcast.wixsite.com/home/post/the-wrong-coloured-shorts

Listening to the Administrators it did occur to me that Mel might not  have been talking out of his arse on radio Derby after all.  He said something to the effect that buyers were just sitting back and waiting and he felt that putting us into administration was the only way to get them to put up or shut up.  From the press conference with the Administrators today it does seem like he might have been right.  They were talking very positively about how a lot of interested parties, who had already carried out due diligence were now actively looking to buy us.

Can these guys stay and run our club?

Could have gone for Ian Dury instead of Barry now you come to mention it. Wouldn't put it past us.