Derby blood

I wonder what his true relationship with Morris is like. I suspect it might not be chummy.

In our situation I'm amazed at the quality of the players he had lined up, some of who have signed. 

I never thought i would say this but i feel sorry for Rooney, i just wonder how many false promises he has been given as to strengthening the squad, he has quoted Several times saying that things are progressing and he should be able to bring in players in the next few days etc. Well here he is,the final day of the transfer window and he is having to sit on his hands seeing players he wanted signing for other clubs. Belief and enthusiasm only lasts so long before you think what's the point. 

Yeah I thought the sub was going to be for either Sibley or Morrison both of whom looked knackered. Jozwiak still looked bright at that point. 

I thought he was very unfortunate to be substituted this afternoon.  Morrison had exhausted himself first half (he was everywhere).
Jozwiak was excellent. 

Trying to stay positive, when all I read is negativity. We aren’t the car crash ( poor analogy ) team we thought we would be. Rooney doubters need to give him a break IMO.  We are playing better football at times and that was what we needed . Admittedly we aren’t doing it for 90 mins but it’s a start.  To be able to do this under our squad/embargo problems gives me hope that when we can free ourselves from the EFL obsession to hurt us we can move forward and challenge this division .
COYR??

It's so short sighted of the club not to man the ticket office. The annual cost of a few employees would have been met in extra ticket sales in the first game alone.

Very frustrating and troubling to read the posts of @Saul, @Steve Buckley’s Dogand @maydrakin. Can any of Mel’s apologists on here give any valid reasons why this shitshow continues to roll on.
On another thread I see the EFL are still getting pelters we cannot sign players. We were asked to get our house (accounts) in order by the 18th, then put back to the 24th, and it is pretty clear from Percy’s postings, that we are not in a position to convince the EFL that we are within reworked P&S limits. We also appear to be still outstanding to HMRC unless the EFL website is incorrect. It is not the EFL now stopping us moving forward it is Mel Morris. His vanity project has spectacularly failed and we, the club, are in limbo because of his actions.
I think it was @Ambitiouswho called him a stain on our club a week or so ago. The sooner we can wash him away the better. 
 

Currently on 11 days waiting for my reply. It is absolutely shambolic. I think everyone on the administration and ownership side of the club has completely lost interest. No wonder fans can’t get ticket issues sorted. A month into the season and we still haven’t opened our ticket office or opened phone lines, even in our darkest days we managed to sort things like this out. It is nothing short of disgraceful and incompetent. 

Very pleased with what WR has achieved given the circumstances. We have though a fragile hold and are an injury away from near disaster. I’m disgusted with the EFL; the sooner they have an accountable body to report to the better. 
How will this all pan out? Who knows but I’ll keep supporting the players throughout. 

We sold out at Coventry once so I managed to get a restricted view in the home end and watched the match peering around a post. It ended up 0-0 the post was more interesting.

Blimey mate, I have sat in the home ends on numerous occasions. Don’t get gobby and people don’t mind. 
I remember going to Millwall at the old Den and being in with the home fans. In the end they knew I was Derby but we all had a laugh and no problems whatsoever. Add Chelsea on numerous occasions, Man U, Spurs, I could go on. 
 

I would suggest it's a good thing to encourage fans to watch the actual game rather than have the players see the stands emptying well before the end of each half.

I think he told him to get up!! ??

I think we've got plenty of goals in us if we play like we did yesterday, particularly in the first half.
Stretton was millimetres from scoring, should have had at least one pen and with better decisions in the final third, could have had another two or three great opportunities.
Certainly feel we're much more of a threat than last season and much better without CKR up top on his own. ....as much as I love his effort and attitude, we're having to play differently without him. I do wonder if we'd signed Baldock before the season started whether that was the initial plan anyway and CKR would have been on the bench.
I initially questioned Rooney's appointment but I think he's doing a cracking job with what's at his disposal. Can't think of a game last season I enjoyed as much as the first half yesterday
 

It’s the first time that Wayne has been consigned to the prospect of no more players coming in. I’m fully expecting a “go with what we’ve got” type interview next week after the deadline. 
 
Waynes took a lot of stick from a coaching perspective since he started, from the media and fans especially. For me he’s starting to prove this season he may have what it takes to cut it. I’ve enjoyed our start to the season, we’re playing decent football again, there’s an actual style of play developing but the squad is threadbare. The lack of options off the bench is stopping us from turning the tide of games back in our favour. Unfortunately he’s being severely let down by the people at the top of the club, with a few more players we would easily achieve survival this season.

Sorry to be the one to bring this back up .
but now the dust has settled and the adrenaline has stopped pumping is anyone else absolutely bricking it that rooneys comments appear to suggest nothing is getting sorted out before transfer deadline day 
i know weve made a reasonable start but the squad is bare bones and while i thought we were absolutely outstanding first half the second in line with other games this season we lacked options from the bench and were unable to stem the change of the tide
Ill be v concerned if nothing changes by tuesday

Sky sports programme today was so anti Derby it was laughable , the two idiots on commentary were bad enough but Prutton was just ridiculous. I bet he sent a video to the corrupt EFL after the game to get Fozzy banned. He may have well of been wearing a Forest shirt . I just hope this EFL/Sky agenda creates a siege mentality spirit . Up the F...ing Rams !!! ????

That would be the smell from our 6 fingered friends drifting through the ground. 

Can’t believe there were people out there today who were saying Joz was no good. He had a bad spell last half of 20/21 but today he looked excellent 
wish he’d stayed on 

Well I thought it was a good game and probably the best East Midlands Derby for a while. At last there was a bit of needle between the two teams. Love it. That said how it ended up 4 yellow cards to 1 against us is beyond me. 
 
Yes we should’ve won. We murdered them first half and we had equal chances in the second. Before Roos error there was the Roos world class save but other than that I can’t remember them creating anything else even though they had more play. Sambas made at least two good saves McKenna somehow got a toe to stretton’s shot, another awesome block stopped Fozzy being played clean through by Jozwiak, and that’s before we talk about the 3 penalties we should’ve had.
But I’m going to focus on the positives. We played some great stuff at times, we have a plan, a pattern of play, a method. They have none of that. They play on second balls and wait for mistakes and rely on individuals. We have some serious young talent in our ranks. I love the brand of football we’re trying to play and I think we will improve. Criticise Forest all you want but they don’t ship many goals yet we carved them open at times today.
23,000 today yet the atmosphere was awesome!! I’m going to enjoy this season!

In all fairness to Rooney and I’ve criticised him a lot but who does hi bring on to change the game off that bench have you seen it. Add a baldock ckr or bielik and it’s a whole different bench with options 

We need a bit more luck with decisions by the officials.
We need a stronger squad.
Another point towards staying up and with all the off the field issues during the summer it's probably the best we can hope for.

Well I could not fault our lads efforts they gave everything they had and more we should have had 2 pentlies given to us but oh no not given I wander why and ref needs to go to spec savers. And us the fans were brilliant once again it sound like 40k in pp today. Jack station was so unlucky not to score the winner he struck it well enough.

Not opening the ticket office, not selling season tickets and not communicating with fans is really having an effect on ticket sales (and hence revenues). Who'd have thought?