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Not fair on Luton they got 30 point deduction and non league so I suspect they will hold no sympathy and they couldn’t appeal either 

5 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Or maybe they just prefer Saturday afternoon football.

Maybe 🤔 I better mention to the wife we have two games this week then 

Our best available currently      
 

                     Wildsmith 

Nyambe.   Nelson.  Cashin.   Elder

      Bird.    Adams  Hourahan 

NML         Sibley.    Barkhauzen 

Gayle when fit enough up front whilst Hourahan should start at home with Wilson decent off the bench out wide - hopefully CBT can improve our options at some point and Waghorn to finish the season how he started it. 

13 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

With 4 out of the next five games at home the ticket sales for this one are a bit slow.

Over 4,000 tickets left.

More tickets already sold for the Saturday game against Port Vale, and Bolton game heading for a sellout.

The home supporters have seen us play 😉 maybe if they sold a ticket with 20 minutes to go it would be better value based on this season so far

I wonder if he is any good at centre forward ? Because he shouldn’t have been starting in a back 5 with 3 centre half’s at home again and Cashin and Nelson being fit.in my honest opinion 

Well we completely out foxed Stevenage didn’t we - by us not trying to score a goal or attack them with any menace until the very end of the game 

Fantastic 3 points Awful game to watch can we please get promoted and get out of this league! 
If we play like that for much longer and not get promoted then season ticket sales will be very slow 

Well done Sibley who scores some very important goals for us 

10 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

I don’t think we should underestimate the number of times Collins is there to lay the ball off to our midfield. His endeavour often turns defence into attack.

He may not be the most potent threat in the box, but let’s not criticise his general play.

Er hang on, I have never criticised Collins play, in fact my comments have been broadly supportive of his abilities within what we have available 

It would be rather unfortunate if Collins was out for the season - would that mean we would have to play the ball through midfield? 

2 hours ago, May Contain Nuts said:

Chris Martin was never going to go anywhere other than Bristol City or another team in that area.

He went to QPR when we needed a centre forward last season in January 

30 minutes ago, ossieram said:

I'd be interested to see what option people would choose if these were the only options?

A - Get promoted = Warne for at least another season. 

B - Stay in league 1 = Warne sacked.

Probably A should be warne will probably start another season 😉

1 hour ago, NorwichExile said:

I'm probably alone in thinking promotion would actually suit Warneball. We're on for our best away form season ever, and part of that is that teams are forced into attacking us on their home patch. We have a strong core to the defence and can counter quickly. Where we struggle is breaking down teams doing exactly what we want to do; sitting deep and breaking quickly. Promotion would mean we were not the heavy favourites for every game and teams would be expecting to take points off us, so would attack more freely and play into our underdog gameplan.

Is it fun to watch? Heck no, it's dour and boring. But it's effective. 30% possession away at Exeter sounds abysmal untill you read their fans saying we played them off the park and showed a real quality difference.

The bit about is it fun to watch at home is an important bit because people will not pay out to watch Heck no it’s not fun to watch in the numbers that currently attend home matches.

2 hours ago, littleover ram said:

It’s odd, we’re second top scorers in the league, joint fewest goals conceded, most away wins, in the automatic places yet it doesn’t feel like we’ve played well all season nor is there much optimism 

All done by looking cumbersome generally - in terms of scoring goals NML seems to be the one who makes things happen and without him we would be halfway in my opinion 

33 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Yes, I don't know what has been proposed yet for the younger ones like Sibley and Thommo, but whilst acknowledging that they have some improving to do, I think they're worth keeping. Wildsmith seems unwilling to sign a new contract, which is disappointing since the move here effectively kick-started his career, and imagine the others will depend on what division we're in, but I suspect it's the end of the line for Fozzy as a player at least, and we need better and much younger than Smith and Waggy.

I think it depends which league we are in - as well as which manager will be in charge for next season as they may want totally different types of players 

3 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I think that ship's sailed, but he seems to have been given a new lease of life at Rovers.

That ship probably has sailed but it should have even seriously considered because the standards are so much lower in this league and good players can still shine brightly 

9 minutes ago, Taribo said:

So what you’re saying is we need to bring Chris Martin home? 

Great lay off for Thomas goal and a great anticipation for his goal as well, disrupting that Stevenage defence all over the place 

10 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Summer suggestion since no one will start the thread...

GK - Radek Vitek (Accrington, on loan from Man Utd). 3 clean sheets in 4 games since he joined them on loan. Good on the ball as you'd expect from a Man Utd keeper bit also a very good shot stopper. A 6'5" giant.

I thought the Shrewsbury goalkeeper looked useful with two good saves and was mobile around the box last Saturday 

4 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

Just shows that you can’t read too much into the match stats. Possession Exeter 70% us 30%;  shots them 13  us 9

Shows we defended better and counter attacked with a bit of ability 

Good 3 points 

3 good goals ( Exeter keeper may have helped a tad) 

We all said Bird and Hourahan needed help and now they have it in Adams 

20 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Hopefully much better than mo Camara who wasn’t a footballer 

Opps I got something in my lens - it’s Abdul Camara 

37 minutes ago, Barney1991 said:

Cbt needs to start helping out defensively 

Worrying for the future to be honest but a solid reason to leave him on the half way line when there are corners against us if he gets selected in the future 

56 minutes ago, minesahartington said:

Is CBT actually a footballer?

Hopefully much better than mo Camara who wasn’t a footballer 

7 hours ago, IlsonDerby said:

I’ll be honest - my problem is not Warne and has never been Warne. My problem is performances and that more often than not we still feel along way away from what he thinks his football should look like at full flow yet he’s had 3 transfer windows and a very healthy budget to work with. 
 

I’m pretty sure that our budget is higher than any of the Rotherham sides he took up. 
 

If we were playing the football I think he envisages his teams playing then yeah it’d be a bit of a change from the possession based stuff we were a bit more used to but ultimately it’d still be entertaining to watch but in a different way. 

Having seen Derby play against a warne Rotherham enough times and the added extras of his side on TV I know I didn’t want to watch his kind of football and unfortunately he is very consistent in how he approaches his kind of football which doesn’t come close to what I want to watch - let’s be clear I hope we get promotion this season and I also hope he moves on elsewhere when the season ends and we can approach football in a more appealing way.

7 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

Rowett. Guaranteed to polarise thoughts. I didn't like the football he served up, despite it being reasonably successful. Much the same as I was with Paul Clement. Clement went when results became as bad as the football. Rowett never got that far. None of us will really know why he went but... the commonest "reason/rumour" is MM told him there was no money for incoming transfers which was why he decided he'd be better off elsewhere. In came Lampard... Waggy £5M, Marriott undisclosed, Florian Jozefzoon £2.75M, Wilson undisclosed loan fee, Holmes for a reported £700K, Cole no fee but wages won't have been cheap, Tomori  undisclosed loan fee, Andy King undisclosed loan fee, Evans for a reported £1M, Malone undisclosed fee, Mount undisclosed loan fee. So, there was money there, possibly just not for Rowett. One thing is certain, there;s little chance we'd have had Wilson, Tomori or Mount if GR had still been manager. I think we would have still seen "safety first" football but we'll never know if he could have improved on his 17/18 finish.

Maybe but he wanted to leave and so he did

                      Wildsmith 

Nyambe     Nelson    Bradley    Elder 

          Bird.   Adam’s.     Hourahan 

NML.         Collins.      Barkhauzen 

assuming Cashin isn’t fit 

11 hours ago, Ram a lamb a ding dong said:

Wasn't there so can't comment but from the face if it, the match sounded dire and we failed to kill off a bang average side.

We really need to turn in a good dominating performance, something we've not seen since Oxford.

Tactically though we are questionable.

In terms of a positive it can only be that we have a rock in the middle who is key to the outcome in May. Hopefully we can get CBT moving 

I always try to think of our players developing from the Academy on first team duty but that never happens in recent times