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Today he was impeccable all round.
I think for the future, Cashin and Nelson look better players. Plus Niambe and Forsyth have been great too... and all 4 are big strong lads who you can rely on. But as a group they aren't blessed with pace and/or age.. for that reason I'm not sure Bradley is what we need.
But Warne's recruitment has generally been decent imo so hopefully he can find someone over the summer.

Another year older in a League above....I'm not sure he's the answer ...but he had a great day today and that's all that matters for now.

Another year older in a League above....I'm not sure he's the answer ...but he had a great day today and that's all that matters for now.

Gimme Hope !!!!
We can all enjoy the “Sonny” days with a smile on our faces and love our club through the good times and the bad times. The sun is arising this wonderful Sonnyday morning, the sky is alight with orange, red, purple and blue and David Clowes, Paul Warne, and all the staff, and all the players and all the fans of Derby County can take our wonderful club to wonderful places all over the world, as the Super Rams climb higher and higher than the sun !!!
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
 
 

Life - Hope 🖤 🐏
Love - Sonny Bradley 🖤 🐏
Unity - Derby County 🖤 🐏
D.C.F.C Life, Love & Unity.

I say it’s clear to anyone without an agenda that Warne has signed players both with technical ability (Ward, Wilson, Embleton, John-Jules, CBT) AND those with physicality in their game (Nelson, Nyambe, Bradley, Adams).
He does favour an athleticism to his sides, but acting as though he hasn’t also signed and played players with some technical ability is very much the pushing of an agenda that goes on on here and amongst the fan base. How can some people claim he’s stubborn in his selection of Hourihane in one breath then say he only uses physical players in another? 

We’re not a perfect team, there’s been some frustrating games this season for sure and some shocking performances, there’s also been some good stuff too. 
I really find the stance of “this or that” to be so tedious. 
Being objective I think people should be able to admit there’s at least some use of technical players this season and last (McGoldrick, Sibley, NML, Hourihane, Barkhuizen, Ward, Wilson, Bird) alongside the athleticism of others. Almost as if the team needed a blend of both and it’s worked to the point of putting the side in touching distance of automatic promotion…. But that’s just my opinion 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

Another year older in a League above....I'm not sure he's the answer ...but he had a great day today and that's all that matters for now.

Defence was as rock solid as ever.
Nelson was quiet really as Cashin attacked the ball defensively and Bradley offensively.
Sibley worked his backside off and was his best game in a long while. Wilson was up and down like an animal and so strong. They made it a back 5 and a back 3 as and when needed.
Smith,  Adams and Thompson all-action,  scrapping,  ratting and running the game.
Collins won a lot of headers and NML without looking especially likely to score or assist (and missed a good chance) was full of beans again.
No poor performances. Got the goals,  dictated the game.
Another Warne masterclass when we score early.
Even looked like we may create a goal from open play 2nd half.
We went from a 2/10 performance to a 9/10 in 4 days.
One last big performance next weekend and hopefully we can watch a procession on the last day. 

Another year older in a League above....I'm not sure he's the answer ...but he had a great day today and that's all that matters for now.

Another year older in a League above....I'm not sure he's the answer ...but he had a great day today and that's all that matters for now.

Defence was as rock solid as ever.
Nelson was quiet really as Cashin attacked the ball defensively and Bradley offensively.
Sibley worked his backside off and was his best game in a long while. Wilson was up and down like an animal and so strong. They made it a back 5 and a back 3 as and when needed.
Smith,  Adams and Thompson all-action,  scrapping,  ratting and running the game.
Collins won a lot of headers and NML without looking especially likely to score or assist (and missed a good chance) was full of beans again.
No poor performances. Got the goals,  dictated the game.
Another Warne masterclass when we score early.
Even looked like we may create a goal from open play 2nd half.
We went from a 2/10 performance to a 9/10 in 4 days.
One last big performance next weekend and hopefully we can watch a procession on the last day. 

Mr Hyde turned back into Dr Jekyll during the week again!
Second half we cruised home and I was even able to watch most of the last 15mins of the stomach-churning Bolton v Pompey game. Both were going for it.
If Carlsberg did Saturday's then this was a great one. 
Back in our hands. Can even have a sneaky watch of the Bolton game with no stress.
2 games for glory. We have stumbled and corrected ourselves again....one last push and its our's!!!

Mr Hyde turned back into Dr Jekyll during the week again!
Second half we cruised home and I was even able to watch most of the last 15mins of the stomach-churning Bolton v Pompey game. Both were going for it.
If Carlsberg did Saturday's then this was a great one. 
Back in our hands. Can even have a sneaky watch of the Bolton game with no stress.
2 games for glory. We have stumbled and corrected ourselves again....one last push and its our's!!!

Well done lads 👍👏🐏
Massive day. Just mustn’t go back in our shell against Cambridge who still won’t be safe when we meet them…
Today did really show the benefit of that early stroke of luck and the goal…
CBT must really be in the dog house. 

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

Great result and warne gets to keep his job for another week 😜
thought we were faster quicker and more aggressive in our play than them.
tommo and adams were excellent… sibley and wilson who looked so bad as make shift full backs against wycombe (yep i said it roy 😉) looked much more at home with license to push on knowing they had a 3 behind them. 
 
glad we got the goals we did as despite all our very encouraging situations there was still a bit of lack of quality from open play in the final thrid, but hey.. clean sheet, 3 goals and weve got it all to lose again (lord help us 😂😂) 

Two goals from a corner. 
Orient created nowt.
Derby look quicker, stronger and are getting to all the second balls.
Dominating position without actually creating very much, mostly playing in front of Orient and trying to swing in crosses and win corners. Working so far, no complaints.

Two goals from a corner. 
Orient created nowt.
Derby look quicker, stronger and are getting to all the second balls.
Dominating position without actually creating very much, mostly playing in front of Orient and trying to swing in crosses and win corners. Working so far, no complaints.

HT
Great score line and a fairly good performance in general, although we look a bit toothless in the final third, set pieces and crosses have been our main threat.
Orient are absolutely there for the taking.
We can really up our goal difference against this lot, if we get our attacking final third to click.
 

Shirtless I hope? 

Yep. The main problem we had last match was a gaping chasm in midfield. I'm made up having an extra body there. Hopefully, HOPEFULLY this is the balance we needed.

Washington and CBT didn't look like they would add much to the goal difference 

“Shall we take a trip”,  Northside, Granada Soccer Night with Elton Welsby. Absolute worldy of a tune

No Danger Mouse, Jamie and His Magic Torch, Supergran or Chorlton and The Wheelies??
Some good suggestions on here though... Twin Peaks and Stranger Things are really memorable and evocative. 
Plus Miss Marple (with those 2 scary women peering out the window) and Dick Turpin.

I agree with your sentiments and you raise an interesting point.  I think with what we had available. ..he picked the right team. And in hindsight we were f***ing terrible.  
So where does that leave us.
Scratching my head. I think when it's a battle with teams who come onto us, or when our players are allowed to do what they want, they are good individual players, who work hard and for this level we have better than average skill levels and that generally sees us through. When we come up against teams who set up to negate us we have simple plans that if unsuccessful can unravel and then we look really ordinary,  lacking in runs/movement/passing that give us good opportunities to score. We start to force the same passes more and more, overhit them, become desperate with decision making and run into blind alleys as no one is making any different runs. 
That probably is a management issue? Not giving them the structure where players overlap,  pop up in different positions,  beat their man with a 1-2.... Cashin's long diagonal ball is as revolutionary as it gets. Constantly heading down the wing to two out or form players instead of turning inside and releasing the passes that Smith made to NML was noticeable on Tue. 
Earlier in the season IMO we weren't as poor as lots of fans were making out. We have forced our way to 2nd so Warne deserves a chance to see it through,  but our poor performances are getting worse which is massively worrying as he should be getting a handle on where things need to change and it feels like the opposite. 
I don't understand how professionals could look so clueless, abject and unable to do the basics. They were clearly trying but they appear too rigid and uninspired which is the coaching side of things that appears to be at fault??
Anyway..I'm just waffling and waffling on and clearing my brain of the huge frustration I felt on Tue.. before going again tomorrow.
Tis the life of a Derby fan.

Steptoe and son.
Derby should run out to it.