Andrew3000

I have no particular opinion on this aside from loving the name No Limits Sports Limited.

well here's hoping for some favourable results but they really look a bit worrying
Coventry15:00Bristol City  Bristol manager bounce has faded and I sense they are not that interested
Rotherham15:00Wycombe another surprise result for Wycombe but I don't expect it.  Just give them a tough game please  TBF they have picked up 7 points from their last 3 games.  Rovrum have some defensive problems after their skipper was sent off given they have injuries to 2 other defenders.  Dare he risk them both in this game?
Sheff Wed17:30Cardiff it is quite likely that a loss will see wendy 9 points from safety.  Cardiff's season is starting to disintegrate
Birmingham play tomorrow as do udders

I'd be pretty appalled if complacency crept in with us on a mere 43 points. The bigger danger for me is over-caution.
Not suggesting for a second Reading & Norwich are free hits but think we need to be targeting points against both. Reading are wobbling at the minute & Norwich are coasting to a title (as a insipid draw at Preston on Friday showed). 
People talk about how poor our squad is and losing Gregory & Waghorn won't help but we have Lawrence, Sibley, Jozwiak & Roberts as options in behind one of the best CFs in the division (statistically CKR has second highest goal to shot ratio). All 4 of those attacking players would interest better placed clubs than us. There are goals in this team & we need to find the balance between being solid but also having real menace going forward. In short, hanging on with no attacking threat will see us beaten easily.
Our record against the top 6 has been very good. A repeat over the next 2 games (say 4 points from the next 2 games) would take the drama out of later games & inject a bit of confidence to finish strongly.

Think it’s worth remembering the lad is only 22, moved to another country joining a team that’s struggled whilst bringing through a number of academy players.
Apply some context, not all players hit the ground running.
Maybe if we stick with him, let him settle in, not get on his back (when stadiums reopen) we’ll get to see the best of him?

Well of course he has. He's been playing as a forward for us..... ?

It's a minor detail, I love these previews, really informative. 

I've been confident all season we will get out of this, even when we were rock bottom. I honestly believed we will stay up and I still do, but even I'm starting to get just a little bit worried now.
This is the most concerned I've been all season, probably because we're coming down to the business end and we're still in trouble not looking like we can score another goal let alone win another game. Add the comments from Rooney about Waghorn and this just looks like a recipe for League one.
We need to sort it over this 2 week break. Beat Luton first game back and we're halfway there.

Full time. 3-2 win for the young Rams ?

Borkovic scores for 2-0 just before half-time.

Every result can't go for us every round of games. Apart from that one, other teams' results were pretty good for us this week.

Glad you enjoy them! Hopefully, our Brentford one is better than the teams performance against Millwall!

I think the issue is that Sibley is an attack-minded, very creative central midfielder, and when he burst into the team and made such an impact that was his role. So it's frustrating that Rooney is occasionally giving him 5 or 10 minutes out on the left wing and then singles him out for criticism for not delivering. 
We are absolutely desperate for goals as a team. If we can't start scoring we might yet be relegated. But we're not making the most of our attacking assets. I say put round pegs into round holes and we might be more dangerous. We have lots of players who can do a job wide, but Sibbo is better suited and perhaps our biggest goal threat centrally.

Some players simply don't play well in cameos off the bench and struggle to get into the flow of the game. Some players always seem to start games slowly and take the first 20-30 minutes to get into their rhythm, grow into the game and make valuable contributions - when they only get 15-20 minutes there's no chance of that happening.
Some players don't train quite as well as others yet come match day they light it up. That's not to say that poor performance in training is something to be accepted, far from it, but sometimes a good performance out on the pitch in real match situations can be the spark for improvements in training - it doesn't just work one way round.
There are plenty of players who aren't "the perfect professional" who have very good careers in football and make an impact on the pitch, but Rooney seemingly wants a whole squad of perfect pros. That's all well and good but it doesn't help us find a creative spark to our performances, just a lot of hard work to no end.

So why not just have a word with him in private, given he has unfettered access? Why not qualify his comment by making it clear that it's not just SIbley under-performing. Why not give Sibley the run of games the likes of Waghon have been afforded to see if with games he does 'do better'?  It's the inconsistency and lack of loyalty that has annoyed people.
Given Wazza is meant to have gleaned some lessons from his time under Ferguson, you'd think he'd have learned that you defend your players as individuals to the hilt in public and if they need the hairdryer treatment, it's done in private. Publicly shaming your players, even when you're 100% correct, is the fastest way to lose a dressing room and frankly, it just smacks of desperation. 

Yesss!. Nothing against Weds personally, but we need all the help we can get at the moment.

Norwich 2-1 up

Norwich level

I actually forgot about the Wednesday game but I can recall him being bright again there and honestly saying the goal was just down to him is probably overcooking it. But it serves my overall point, Sibley makes a mistake -> dropped to not return for an age and yet there are several worse offenders who get a free pass.
We shouldn't be concerning yourself so much with the defensive contribution of the forward line when it oh so clearly the other way that's the problem

None of the other players going forward are doing anything? Sibley coming on offers more than most of our attackers does, and yet is held to a standard the starters aren't. 

Rooney seems to be holding Sibley to a higher standard than everyone else for some reason.
Its easy to say he has to do more in his cameos but we are all sitting there watching Waghorn do nothing and watching Jozwiak stand on the ball by accident a million times a game while doing nothing else so that excuse really doesn’t wash. We are completely insipid from open play and we have an exciting and creative attacking midfielder twiddling his thumbs. It’s really bizarre 

Yep, Rooney is being a right rick. He's regularly the most impactful sub (even when it's usually only 10 minutes he's given) and it's always, "he needs to do more." Meanwhile Waghorn, Jozwiak, Gregory etc. get much more chances than him and have been woeful for the majority of the time, yet seem to receive much less criticism than Sibley. 

I hope Sibley can take it. It must be very tough for him playing out of position, seeing Watson get praise for being brought in to play centrally when this is Sibley's position but he's never selected to show what he can do there. Yet last season he showed us how good he was playing centrally. It's a very weird one on Rooney's part.

You are dead on, we forgot that one! He was in our notes to discuss, but we some how missed it! Too many former Derby players at Millwall now!

yup.....the one amigo

Agree with all of that except the CKR bit! I think he can be the pivot for all that creativity.