DavesaRam

I pray to god we start to find some form and Burton would be a good place to start.
If after 5 minutes there’s still a 20 yard gap between each of the centre backs, no midfielder screening them and both wing backs in the opponents half, it’ll be safe to assume we’re in for more of the same.
Only wish I was born in Nottingham so I’d have more fingers to cross. 

What puzzles me is this idea that it takes ao many games for the players to ”gel”. Both Wigan and Blackpool have had big disruptions to their squads, but Wigan played like they had been together for 12 months or more, and judging by the comments Blackpool are similar.
Thinking back we have regularly started seasons slowly while the players get up to speed, all the tome being stuffed by teams who are up to speed from day one.

And that just sums up Derby County right now, not even at the right war 😂

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

I am off to bed as I’m starting work at 4am tomorrow, but I won’t miss any more midweek matches because of work as I retire on Friday.
I’m thinking of using my pension lump sum to by a pair of boots as I’ll have plenty pf time to turn up at training. I know I’m 66 but surely I can do better than this lot.

We had problems with 3 at the bsck last season. Then Warne was forced to go 4 at the back and we started getting better results. Funny how that happened, isn’t it?

I hope that we don’t find out that Dajaune Brown’s middle name is Sibley.

We had problems with 3 at the bsck last season. Then Warne was forced to go 4 at the back and we started getting better results. Funny how that happened, isn’t it?

Brown should start. I want to see what he can do with as many first team players as possible. Not seeing how he can scrabble around in the last 10 minutes when no doubt lots of subs have been made.

@Macintosh’s post in the Waggy thread pointed this out but Ryan Conways book about the Cocu-Rooney years has a release date and is available for pre order: 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Before-Fall-Play-Off-Extinction/dp/1801505039
Be interesting to see if anything new comes from it and I hope it does well for Ryan.

Quite true, according to those figures, no team should have scored more than 1 goal yesterday and most shouldn't have scored at all. It makes a mockery of the whole concept of the xg stats.

Well here is Johnny-Come-Lately at last. We had a friend staying over who I drove home last night, and this morning I went to my other church, so here I am now!
Reading through this thread it would seem that a number of us are suffering from "High Expectation" Syndrome. 
Because of the Dilly-Dallying in the transfer market and the subsequent lack of strikers, we have bigged up that it gives us the opportunity for goals to come from all across the team, instead of just one star striker, and so expected to give Wigan a right whupping - especially as they have been hit hard with woes themselves. Maybe also they are aggrieved at how they have been treated, and have come out fighting for a common cause, just like we did when the EFL were habitually slitting our hamstrings then asking why we couldn't run. It might explain how Wigan brought nearly as many fans to an away match as they normally get for a home game, and why their fans did themselves proud.
A came away from the game disappointed that we had lost, but saw plenty to be positive about. We moved the ball well a lot of the time and created a lot of opportunities, and spent quite a lot of the match on top. Wigan gave us a really good game, and it was a good game to watch. But what if Wigan had taken their early chance? An even bigger what if is  why the hell we didn't get a penalty in the first ten minutes. We won't see a more blatant offence in the area .................. until the next one, and the next one, and the next one ................ Having asked for greater consistency from our match officials, we are at least seeing that. They are just as crap as they were the last season, and the one before that, and the one before that. Smith got booked for walking the ball away a couple of steps from a free-kick, and the refs are clamping down on that, but not until after Wigan had kicked the ball away four or five times already, without the ref doing anything. And it took 23 minutes for the first Derby free-kick, and we didn't get a second one until well into the second half. I haven't looked what the ref's name is, but whether it is Simpson or not, he certainly wasn't a homer. He only booked a Wigan player for kicking the ball away because Smith ran alongside him bellowing in his ear "You can't not book him for that"!
So two gifted goals decided the result, with much already being said about that. I think Tyler Durden mentioned a key element, in that Hourihane had the chance to play forwards, but stopped, turned and played a safe sideway ball which led to  Bradley being put under pressure. Hourihane has a lot to offer, but far too often stops and turns and stifles the forwards flow, or simply lumps the ball upwards and slightly forwards. He can do much better, and at the moment is a weak link in our forwards play. 
Their is criticism of our crossing, but Ward put plenty of balls in, but it needs a striker to be there to get on the end of them, and far too often Collins (our striker, remember) wasn't in the area, indeed he was often out on the wing. Yes Collins can do a bit of the link-up play, but that isn't his job. He need to concentrate on what he should be doing. Maybe another reason for our high expectancy was Collins getting on the end of crosses during the pre-season matches, making us think he would do it in the real matches. Apparently not.
A real positive is with the substitutions, particularly Kane Wilson and Callum Elder - both seemed to come on and play with a passion. Wilson looks like a player who will excite the crowd every time he gets the ball. He has tremendous ball control and weaves his way around defenders like they aren't there - he could prove to be a great signing. However I was baffled why Thompson was put up front - surely midfield would be his place, and yesterday in place of Hourihane instead of NML. 
Maybe what we need up front isn't so much a striker as a goal scorer!

Rather he did leave for his sake if Warne plays him out of position