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So here are some measured comments - unusual for me, I know! The first 20 ro so minutes, it was a reasonable watch. Nothing special happening, fairly even game but Derby in pretty good control. Then  the video feed disappeared, so I missed the goal, and Carlisle's period of pressure, and by the time it came back on screen, the match had changed. Apparently Simmo made a tactical switch, and suddenly they were back in the game, apart from being behind. Rumour has it that he smuggled a piece of paper out to each Derby player with the message "From now on, boot it as high as you can, hood it long". Love from Warney.
And that was the story of the match for the rest of the 90 minutes, apart from three isolated occasions where we got the ball on the floor and put a few passes together. And each time we created an opening. Not that we did much with those openings, but never mind.
Nelson did pretty well, as did Fornah and the new guy does look good. But not much else. And no, the ref wasn't biased towards Derby. He was actually fairly anonymous, which is how it should be. A couple of bungled decisions, and a soft penalty to us.
I am glad we won, and glad that we did while playing so badly, but with the performances as they are at the moment I am not proud of Derby County. I had hoped after Tuesday that we had turned a corner, and for 20 minutes felt that we were continuing in that direction, especially when Paul said Tuesday was how he wanted us to play. But we were very quickly back to what caused the outcry last week.
Come on Paul. We can do much better than this.

So here are some measured comments - unusual for me, I know! The first 20 ro so minutes, it was a reasonable watch. Nothing special happening, fairly even game but Derby in pretty good control. Then  the video feed disappeared, so I missed the goal, and Carlisle's period of pressure, and by the time it came back on screen, the match had changed. Apparently Simmo made a tactical switch, and suddenly they were back in the game, apart from being behind. Rumour has it that he smuggled a piece of paper out to each Derby player with the message "From now on, boot it as high as you can, hood it long". Love from Warney.
And that was the story of the match for the rest of the 90 minutes, apart from three isolated occasions where we got the ball on the floor and put a few passes together. And each time we created an opening. Not that we did much with those openings, but never mind.
Nelson did pretty well, as did Fornah and the new guy does look good. But not much else. And no, the ref wasn't biased towards Derby. He was actually fairly anonymous, which is how it should be. A couple of bungled decisions, and a soft penalty to us.
I am glad we won, and glad that we did while playing so badly, but with the performances as they are at the moment I am not proud of Derby County. I had hoped after Tuesday that we had turned a corner, and for 20 minutes felt that we were continuing in that direction, especially when Paul said Tuesday was how he wanted us to play. But we were very quickly back to what caused the outcry last week.
Come on Paul. We can do much better than this.

So here are some measured comments - unusual for me, I know! The first 20 ro so minutes, it was a reasonable watch. Nothing special happening, fairly even game but Derby in pretty good control. Then  the video feed disappeared, so I missed the goal, and Carlisle's period of pressure, and by the time it came back on screen, the match had changed. Apparently Simmo made a tactical switch, and suddenly they were back in the game, apart from being behind. Rumour has it that he smuggled a piece of paper out to each Derby player with the message "From now on, boot it as high as you can, hood it long". Love from Warney.
And that was the story of the match for the rest of the 90 minutes, apart from three isolated occasions where we got the ball on the floor and put a few passes together. And each time we created an opening. Not that we did much with those openings, but never mind.
Nelson did pretty well, as did Fornah and the new guy does look good. But not much else. And no, the ref wasn't biased towards Derby. He was actually fairly anonymous, which is how it should be. A couple of bungled decisions, and a soft penalty to us.
I am glad we won, and glad that we did while playing so badly, but with the performances as they are at the moment I am not proud of Derby County. I had hoped after Tuesday that we had turned a corner, and for 20 minutes felt that we were continuing in that direction, especially when Paul said Tuesday was how he wanted us to play. But we were very quickly back to what caused the outcry last week.
Come on Paul. We can do much better than this.

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

Does anybody know what formation we are playing? Or is “formation” too strong a word for it?

You are only supposed to have mince pies at Christmas. Oh silly me - its September, so that'll do!

After today’s performance? The result is the only positive. We were awful, and the blame for that lies with the manager 

So here are some measured comments - unusual for me, I know! The first 20 ro so minutes, it was a reasonable watch. Nothing special happening, fairly even game but Derby in pretty good control. Then  the video feed disappeared, so I missed the goal, and Carlisle's period of pressure, and by the time it came back on screen, the match had changed. Apparently Simmo made a tactical switch, and suddenly they were back in the game, apart from being behind. Rumour has it that he smuggled a piece of paper out to each Derby player with the message "From now on, boot it as high as you can, hood it long". Love from Warney.
And that was the story of the match for the rest of the 90 minutes, apart from three isolated occasions where we got the ball on the floor and put a few passes together. And each time we created an opening. Not that we did much with those openings, but never mind.
Nelson did pretty well, as did Fornah and the new guy does look good. But not much else. And no, the ref wasn't biased towards Derby. He was actually fairly anonymous, which is how it should be. A couple of bungled decisions, and a soft penalty to us.
I am glad we won, and glad that we did while playing so badly, but with the performances as they are at the moment I am not proud of Derby County. I had hoped after Tuesday that we had turned a corner, and for 20 minutes felt that we were continuing in that direction, especially when Paul said Tuesday was how he wanted us to play. But we were very quickly back to what caused the outcry last week.
Come on Paul. We can do much better than this.

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

Actually the real reason we got the soft peno was because I wrote to Rick Parry after the disgraceful refereeing at the Bolton match, and all of a sudden Rick had a pang of guilt, and began to feel compassion for Derby Cou............................... Who am I kidding? Of course he didn't. He'd need a heart for that to happen!
We got away with one. That's all!!!!!

Are you here for the five minute argument or the ten minute argument?

Actually the real reason we got the soft peno was because I wrote to Rick Parry after the disgraceful refereeing at the Bolton match, and all of a sudden Rick had a pang of guilt, and began to feel compassion for Derby Cou............................... Who am I kidding? Of course he didn't. He'd need a heart for that to happen!
We got away with one. That's all!!!!!

I think this is what's called a 'balanced appraisal' and as such it has no place on this forum. Could you please re-submit using solely hyperbolic terms; shocking, chaotic and shambolic are forum favourites, but feel free to improvise. 
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No it doesn’t. But the EFL owe us a colossal number of soft decisions, so I’m grabbing that with both hands, thank you very much.

He runs around a lot...but he has lime green jelly where his brain should be.

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No it doesn’t. But the EFL owe us a colossal number of soft decisions, so I’m grabbing that with both hands, thank you very much.

Does anybody know what formation we are playing? Or is “formation” too strong a word for it?

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

That was never a penalty. It was as bad as the penos that are awarded against us.

Good grief. Collins with the easiest pass into the box gives it to the defender. its embarrassing. I am considering moving house so I don’t have to admit being from Derby.

I think it's basically this...