nottingram

Ashley Cole at left back as well. Malone getting sent off in the last minute v Leeds was a killer. Played a diamond midfield in the final with a left back who couldn’t get out our half.

Depends if you think it’s good to have a go at people for offering opinions on a website designed for people to offer opinions I suppose.

Wilder very close to a L1 job in the summer and now finds himself in the PL on probably at least 10x the wages. It’s a strange game at times.

Such is the way of football, for younger fans this is more than likely the only cup competition we will ever see Derby compete in with a good chance of winning it. I was disappointed that we were knocked out early last year but understood why, with our small squad. I don’t really understand sneering at the competition.

Can see why Cooper is under pressure from the more sensible Forest fans. They shouldn’t have to put up with seeing that, and the football is terrible too.

Just wait until you hear about xGOT!

If he was desperate to be a PL manager he’d have took the Stoke job while they were in the PL. Football was not great but think there was definitely some weirdness with Mel telling him to cut the budget before giving Lampard £15m to piss up the wall. He also created a £10m asset out of Vydra who no one else had fancied previously.

I guess a budget that the owner feels is good enough to make specific reference to in a pre season interview. If you asked me for specific numbers I would probably say it is top 3-5 in the division, at a guess. And I dare say higher than that.

It depends whether there is truly the belief anything will be different in Feb. If you hold off and we’re still inconsistent it gives someone else barely any time to sort it out. It’s also another window where you might have backed the wrong horse, perhaps expensively given it’s January. I have not seen much evidence arising out of the summer window to leave me confident more transfer windows is what the manager needs. Maybe 3-4 hits out of 12? I don’t think people who run football clubs well are worried what fans of other clubs might think. And if I had to guess I doubt many fans of other clubs would look at Derby at the moment and think they were being managed well or making great use of the presumably very healthy resources they have at this level.

It’s strange - the seemingly accepted very short term approach Warne seems to take (not a criticism or praise, particularly) is completely at odds with almost every message that comes from the owner where it is all about sustainability, not panicking if we don’t get promoted. I think anyone sensible would have no problem with a long term outlook on things if the stuff happening on the pitch actually suggested that was the plan. But we have largely targeted ready made players (not necessarily old), academy players do not get any minutes that matter, and we’re taking a pretty big risk on the value of any players we could sell who’s contracts are up soon. Not to mention hiring a manager who’s experience to date suggested quick success at this level and finding our way back here immediately anyway.

Christ it’s no wonder the players look half arsed at the best of times if they’re not being paid

Jake Buxton is from Mansfield

Villa’s academy recruitment team will know about every child aged between 7 and 18 at every academy in the world. Let alone ones who play in the same country as them, who compete against them, and who represent their national team. They’re obviously not interested in signing players from us because our captain, who coaches their U8’s or something, is telling them to. I mean for goodness sake.

Lee Bell a top top manager. Hard for us to compete with Crewe Alexandra with the way he has got them playing.