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7 hours ago, EnigmaRam said:

It’s probably something akin to Ibe’s situation

Yes, and therefore the details are rightly private, and should be kept that way

2 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

If we weren't relegated due to the quality of the team then how do you reconcile our appalling away performance?

And not by saying we weren't very good away from home, there has to be underlying and root causes to this.

Remember same set of players home and away.

The rest of your post along with similar comments by other forum members I've not debated so not sure why it's even been brought up. 

I take you bowling with some friends. Your form is a little erratic, some strikes and also some 2s and 3s, but you comfortably score more points than me. Then I deduct 21 points from your score, leaving you behind me in the rankings, and tell you I beat you because your play was "poor".

Do you think I am making a fair comment, or did I beat you because I took points off your tally?

 

7 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

 

Only Peterborough and Barnsley accrued a fewer number of away points last season then we did and were the poorest teams in the division by a country mile. 

So again same question still stands, why are folks maintaining that we didn't get relegated last season due to the quality of our team.

If the quality of our team was so good then why did we witness the above?

Do the maths. Without the points deductions, Derby would have stayed up. Therefore they weren't relegated due to the quality of team, but because of the quality of previous ownership. This isn't complicated. Derby were a poor team away from home, but that's not the same thing; they were a rather competent side at home, just lacking a cutting edge up front, or I'd say a good team at home. You can't discount that - you average it over all the games played. When you do that, you have to reach the conclusion Derby were rather mediocre, but certainly not poor. Except financially

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

This thread strikes me as one of them private, clique jokes. Everybody else is in on it except one. Well, I think we are going to p!ss this league, and yes I will be booing Clowes and Rosenior if we aren’t top at Christmas. Come on you lot. The last 2 years seems to have turned you to mush.

Last season taught us that a supportive home crowd can actually contribute to success, even with a subpar team. With a stronger squad, that same energy from the fans could be what puts us over the top. If it comes with some humility then even better. Or we could all revert to that entitled D-bag mentality, and abuse our players for every misstep. But I like to think we've learned

I went for 7-10 and would be happy with that. Would be more surprised to have guessed too high than too low

3 hours ago, Coconut's Beard said:

Cyrus Christie who runs up the pitch and doesn't bother to come back, has no positional awareness or footballing intelligence of any kind,  can't defend offers nothing in attack and just gets in other people's way?

Cyrus Christie one of the most useless RBs we've had in the past 15 years who was shown up for what he was by a 33 year old Chris Baird?

Also the one who has played nearly 400 league games and 30 internationals. Some managers clearly feel he has something to offer

No. 2 weeks ago I'd have taken top 20. Now I'll take top 10

20 minutes ago, Millenniumram said:

I’ve always viewed caretaker as being temporary for a game or so, whereas interim usually means until the end of the season. That’s how the terms have generally been applied as far as I’ve seen, but of course there’s no official definition.

If there is a difference maybe it's one of intent - caretakers will step down, interims are hoped to become permanent?

7 hours ago, The Key Club King said:

Some interesting thoughts on this. Forest have always produced better youngsters than us - maybe because it is a large city.

On a side note - who is the best footballer Derby have produced? Either from youth teams or the reserves.

Steve Powell, maybe?

2 hours ago, Millenniumram said:

Doesn’t really tell us anything that we shouldn’t already know really. Rosenior was appointed Interim manager, a careful choice of wording (rather than caretaker manager) which insinuates he’ll be in charge for a longer period of time. Personally, I didn’t think that was the right thing to do - it’s still pre-season, so there’s plenty of time to interview and appoint a permanent manager before the campaign begins. I’d have just made Rosenior caretaker to look after things until either he or someone else got the permanent job.

But that’s a moot point now really, the decision has been made and a few weeks have past. Not sure anyone really needed it confirming that Liam will start the season in charge, but I guess the statement makes it explicit. I strongly suspect Rosenior will be our manager temporarily for this season, and then we’ll re-assess next summer. If he does well (i.e. gets us promoted) the job will probably be his, otherwise we will part ways at the end of his contract at no cost to us. I guess it makes financial sense, either way up we all need to forget about the long term for now and back Liam this season and see where he takes us.

I think "interim" is just the official term for a caretaker manager. I don't think it necessarily suggests a different timescale

3 hours ago, Crewton said:

I think Knight is capable of playing RB. He's a good tackler for one.

Agreed. I don't see it as a great long-term choice as I'd want him in midfield but he has the tackling ability and a fantastic engine, so he could absolutely handle it until there are better options

58 minutes ago, Ram1988 said:

Based on all the players under contract with us what is our strongest 11?

If we had a game tomorrow then maybe something like this to start?

1 hour ago, Half Fan Half Biscuit said:

Is that Black Pudding Bertha?

Look why is the colour of the pudding relevant here? etc...

With these issues it's always best to consider harm rather than offence - whether there is any potential harm in using an expression. I'd say there isn't any here, and that (a couple of) people are acting with great motives but coming at things from a wrong angle.

Anyway, hopefully we can agree we're all part of Liam Rosenior's Black & White Army

Using expressions like "an accident black spot" or a "black day for X" is problematic because it's using "black" to mean "bad", so most people these days will find a different way to express this, quite rightly.

Saying a black person is black isn't problematic. It may have been unnecessary on this occasion and so better left out, but it's not racist to include skin tone as an identifier where it makes things clear. On the contrary, dancing around trying to avoid saying a black person is black can honestly be more problematic - you're acting like you think black = bad. It's not.

Anyway that said, Kwaku Oduroh played really well and I'd like to see him play lots of minutes this preseason

2 minutes ago, atherstoneram said:

Wasn't he a Quaker.

Stop stirring

1 hour ago, roboto said:

Careful mate. That's cancel culture right there...

How?

12 minutes ago, Phuket Ram said:

An immanence of pessimists seems quite apt. 

You think pessimism is an inherent quality?

5 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Exactly @LeedsCityRam and @Brailsford Ram.

We support Derby County Football Club and we expect our owner to be loyal, honest and at the very least be reasonable, unfortunately the folk at Radio Derby had to force a pushed apology, out of the guy, after he had just put us into Administration, after fans had backed him for far too long, because we didn't want to accept that he was just a businessman making it up on the hoof and potentially gambling our beloved Derby County away to the dogs.

Sing up.

 

 

 

 

Sing up!

As an aside, I saw them play the Venue earlier in the month. Still good value after all these years.

12 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

I used to work at a now defunct bank and we had a list of funny names we used to update and send round, and we wonder why it no longer exists.

The only two I really remember was:

Cleveland Beavers, hardly funny 

And

Mustapha Schitt, which was bloody hilarious.

 

My favourite name of a former coworker was the glorious "Manmeet Banga".

55 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I hope you realised I wasn't being serious. 

The backers are Korean.

I did realise that you weren't being serious, yes ?

19 hours ago, Crewton said:

The backers are Chinese and 31 is 3+1=4 which is a lucky number in China. 

FACT 

Actually 4 is the most unlucky number in Chinese numerology as it can also be pronounced to mean "death". 8 is the luckiest number

2 hours ago, nogbad van 50 said:

 You win the word of the week award!!?

It's Latin for "disgrace" or "a source of shame".

2 hours ago, StarterForTen said:

About 1 in 24 as things stand!

Bugger, only one club getting promoted from league 1 next year? That's a blow!

16 hours ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Was it Einstein who said the definition of insanity is to carry on and on doing the same things but expecting different results….or something like that….I for one will be disappointed if Wazza doesn’t adopt a much more offensive approach tomorrow and try something a bit different. If that means pushing Curtis upfront for the last half an hour I say go for it….

Actually... no. It was Rita Mae Brown, the mystery novelist in her 1983 book "Sudden Death".