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2 hours ago, The Key Club King said:

I prefer Bird to Shinnie so I would likely drop Shinnie in the current formation though given our weakness out wide, I would probably play a midfield three. 

I would also argue that our defenders are not better than last season. Only Jagielka is new and he has been great, but we have lost Clarke who was at least as good if not better. We defend better as a team but seemingly at the expense of attacking threat. This is probably necessary given what Rooney has at his disposal.

I wouldn’t be saying clarke is better than Davies or Jagielka at all but that’s all about opinions 

27 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

This analogy of "these things will even themselves out" has baffled me for decades...they don't, The better teams appear to get the calls, Home advantage is a big sway in a lot of games, The ones who are at the other end of the table get the rough end of the stick.

 

I think Coventry and Fulham plus Bournemouth have all been to the school of I am going to fall over at ANY contact whatsoever and they are being rewarded for it and it’s very sad to see week in week out - we are getting nothing because all the press we have received is negative and that seriously impacts the judgements made by officials ( who are employed by the FA not the EFL) 

when we make a slight foul it’s an instant yellow card whereas our centre half’s are walking of the pitch every week with blood pouring from head wounds from elbows/ arms etc and some of our opponents have got away with some dreadful stuff 

12 hours ago, The Key Club King said:

I never calculated it but last season points with Bielik must have been over double of those without him. My hope for this season is that he has even half as much impact as he did last season. He's the only player we've been missing that could possibly transform us. 

This season we have better defenders at centre half which helps a lot currently! Who are you considering dropping to put Belick in the side ? He won’t be fully fit for a very long time 

12 hours ago, The Key Club King said:

Shinnie played in the Blackburn loss too where he was awful. The only truly transformative player we have is Bielik. 

We weren’t awful in midfield vs Blackburn we were just run ragged by their 3 forwards in a different part of the pitch because Blackburn put it down the channels 

1 hour ago, DavesaRam said:

Nice to see Sibley got a really long spell playing off Kazim-Richards. Must have been at least 4 minutes. What more does he need?

Time and a place we got a good point today 

Anyway it’s nice to see another youngster score for Derby

Very positive and very disappointing as well come  on Derby 

Bit of youth back in the side - good luck lads Ebosele to run at and behind malone who should give a penalty away and get sent off based on every time I watched him ?

2 hours ago, angieram said:

Not unless you want to cause offence. The new owners at Newcastle weren't very impressed.

I thought they actually liked it - seriously 

3 hours ago, JfR said:

Only very tangentially related to this thread, but thought it might be worth a mention:
Huddersfield owner Phil Hodgkinson placed nine of his other companies into administration the other day
https://www.purebusinessgroup.co.uk/index.html

 

Worth mentioning all of the George chip shops went into Administration the other day - must be lots of pie salespeople owed money due to the pandemic 

5 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Even during Lampard we were reducing costs wage bill down by about £4million I believe but yes after 2018/19 costs came down a lot ..  at least those not subsidised by 32 red.

Just to clarify 32 Red increased their sponsorship nothing else 

10 minutes ago, alram said:

Yes I am fine with that, but my general point is even a successful appeal wont make a jot of difference to the outcome of this season. The money used on it could have saved jobs

What if a very generous supporter had paid for the appeal ? 

14 minutes ago, alram said:

you really need to pull your head out the sand if you GENUINELY believe we are in this situation because of covid. absolute and utter delusion.

Of course it is - sure 90% of football clubs are sailing very close to the edge of an unrealistic business model most of the time but football isn’t a realistic business model. - you can actually point the finger at the EFL for allowing it for those 90% of clubs if you like but without ambition and hope football is nothing just ask a Bristol city supporter! 

Just now, Archie said:

I thought for a while now that 352 is the best fit for us, With Festy and Buchannen/Dylan Williams being the attacking wing backs. Stearman or Buchannen/Fozzy as the third central defender. Bird, Shinnie and Knight/Ravel make up the three with Beilik to come back and CKR and Baldock/Stretton up top. Nice balance of youth, experience and commitment. 

It’s all workable if everyone is fit and not carrying knocks, needing a rest etc, lack of consistency from some youngsters and so on 

we just don’t have enough players for tough games Saturday Wednesday Saturday - that’s the biggest problem 

19 hours ago, Black ('n' White) Sheep said:

Why the hell is Tom Lawrence club captain?!

Davies, Jagielka, Shinnie... all three would be better choices.

Well Shinnie was the only one under contract at the time would have had him mind as captain - can’t blame Rooney for trying to get more focus out of Lawrence 

3 minutes ago, Hordh said:

Yes all of football has been impacted, but due MM's bad handling of the finances it's only Derby that have gone into admin. 

Currently 

Even with no one else he gives us very little - he should have been sold two years ago and if we sold him in January it wouldn’t make a great deal of difference 

1 minute ago, Topram said:

The fights gone the efforts gone, they gave it ago for a few months but it’s worn off now! Pathetic result 

Maybe Barnsley actually played a lot better as well - our limited squad has to score its chances and we seem to hit the woodwork an awful lot especially away from home 

Well I haven’t watched or listened to the game so all I can say is that this is a very disappointing result especially as we seem to have been winning 

2 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Contract extensions are fine. It's only new registrations which would be an issue.

Wouldn’t they count as a new registration if it lapses which it probably will? ( I hope you are correct ) 

1 minute ago, Carnero said:

There is no 23 man rule (unless we're trying to register a signing whilst under a hard embargo).

There is if we are wanting to resign Jagielka and Baldock in January as the EFL currently won’t let us 

That’s actually a fairly experienced side starting tonight ! 

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

I suspect you will be queuing up later to mock me post-match, but really can’t see that Shinnie will be much of a miss tonight. COYR

 

Hmm missing our current player of the year should be a great loss but hopefully someone does as well if not better than Shinnie. 

6 hours ago, MuespachRam said:

Yep…and he did… and he knew the consequences and we went in to administration so we have to face the punishment.  

We have to face potential punishment 

8 hours ago, MuespachRam said:

Exactly….so he pulled the plug and we went into administration which he knew was going to be the result of him pulling the plug. 

At some point it’s either an owner, a finance corporation, or shareholders that pull the plug - it happens and it’s happening all over the economy