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Well, well, who'd have thought it? Put players into a formation they are more familiar with, round pegs in round holes and watch them go! Credit to Paul Warne for making the change that resulted in our most fluid performance since he took over (I hope it wasn't only born out of necessity.)
I will start with Hourihane, because I have been particularly harsh on him. I thought this was his best game for Derby (goals notwithstanding.) Not surprisingly, this also enabled Bird to have his best game for a while. Their workrate and closing down was excellent. When they had the ball, they were spoilt for choice who to pass it to. Our midfield has discovered its engine at last! 
The defence worked so hard. The rocksteady Cashin the standout for me, but Fozzy marshalled them well and his experience was vital at times. Smith and Roberts worked their short socks off and got up to support the attack admirably. I felt a bit sorry that they let two goals in, but that was a very inexperienced combination. Despite this  Wildsmith didn’t have a lot to do, says it all.
But the plaudits of course go to the forward-line. The first goal was simplicity itself, McGoldrick stroking the ball into the back of the net. I think it gave him the confidence to go for those other two shots. The best finishing we've seen at Pride Park for a while. I'm so pleased a player of his quality has got his first career hat-trick in front of such a boisterous and appreciative crowd, who seemed to have recovered from Tuesday evening's lethargy. Well deserved, Didzy, and I enjoyed your comments afterwards on Radio Derby about managing your training time to maximise your time on the pitch. Warne, take note - it's not all about running around! 
Having said that, Collins - what an engine today, and he did make so much difference to the team dynamic. Mendez-Laing was excellent as ever and Dobbin more at home, although he does need to remember to track back with his man occasionally. 
4-2 at half-time slightly flattered Bristol, I thought, but plaudits to their fans, who got right behind their team.
After such an explosive first half it was perhaps inevitable that the pace dropped in the second, but we started brightly, should have scored more, and managed to hold on comfortably with the introduction of fresh legs. 
A word about the ref, I thought he did a good job (only missed the blatant foul on Collins just outside the box first half.) I did think Hourihane's was a booking. On today's form we'll miss him on Tuesday night. Hope we've saved some of today's fight for then.
Well done, Rams!

“HMS piss the league” ?
actually made me titter
However, bit like when someone said “announce promotion” when Lyle Taylor signed.

Are you a football club struggling with a large squad of overpaid, overrated flops who you just can't shift?
Call Notts Forest today!
Your deadwood could be posing for tiktok videos with their new forest shirt on whilst you're chuckling all the way to the bank with a surprisingly transfer fee, and don't you worry about the player's personal dsicussions, we offer some of the best bench seating arrangments for players earning six figures per week in the whole of football.
Call Notts Forest, but don't take our recruitment team for fools, we'll drive as hard a bargain for your players as we did for everyone else's this summer.
*yes, they will have to look at Steve Cooper on a regular basis as part of their contract.

Must have some washing needs doing.

Been a brilliant acquisition. Even at wing back hes been excellent still a threat going forward but he has a good defensive brain. When we have played wing backs I don’t think we’ve lost anything from NML. He’s my player of the year so far.

I like most on here have watched years of football and seen thousands of players but sometimes you don't appreciate how good a player is until he plays for your team.
Nathaniel Mendez Laing falls into that category for me. I've always considered him a bit of a flighty player who is largely anonymous, a bit lazy but who might get you an occasional goal. Having now watched him for a dozen or so games I think that he is a quality player, with bags of skill, a team ethic and who isn't afraid to work his socks off. I'm surprised how many of our goals he seems to be at the heart of.
In my opinion he is probably our signing of the summer and if we are going to be successful it will be due, in a large part to him.

Just thought I’d start off by saying Warneball is so s*** to watch ?
From hearing his interviews listening to his podcasts it’s clear today is how he wants us to play and if this is what Warneball is, give me more!! Yes please!! 
 
The only travesty today is that it was 4-2, we totally outclassed them, we were at least 3 or 4 goals better. They got a bit of luck with the first goal, and the penalty (yet another) was stupid from Foz but in a way down to a left back playing right centre half.
So many good performances today. Didzy gets the plaudits he was phenomenal, loved Collins’ performance and pleased he got his goal, Mendez-Laing is my player of the year so far he’s barely had a bad game, Dobbin gave a good solid team performance, ran his socks off, and Bird and Hourihane were so much better today, before we get to the full backs, Smith solid taking one for the team playing out of position, and Roberts has just given his two best performances back to back. And Wildsmith is the best keeper in the league!! And Cash!!! The best centre half in the league 
We should’ve been further ahead at half time, we went for the 5th first 15 mins of the second half unlucky not to get it, from that point in the game management was superb!
I missed Oxford and Wycombe, but from the rest this is by far the best performance of the season!

Wasn't a harsh result at all. Yes I think they were ok and tried to play positive football but they were naive at times and the rams totally blew them away in 25 minutes. 

Overheard some Bristol fans saying "That was a harsh result". A harsh lesson maybe but they really should have lost by a bigger margin two soft goals conceded by the Rams. 

Because Hourihane had a Derby County shirt on.

I’m with you on Liam completely. As with all managers who come in I try to see the best in them and give them every chance instead of starting off cynical, and will defend them until they become indefensible, I got to that point pretty quickly with Pearson but I hope we’re a long way from that. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

I took the Sibley comment from Warne in a different way, it was more Warne saying he’s still learning about the team he now realises Sibley can’t tackle and although he didn’t say this, basically he won’t be playing him left back again. Didn’t think there was any other meaning than that. He looked ok but still not at the levels everyone expects, I think he needs to play deeper as an 8 at the moment because he is the only one actually carrying the ball.

I’m with you on Liam completely. As with all managers who come in I try to see the best in them and give them every chance instead of starting off cynical, and will defend them until they become indefensible, I got to that point pretty quickly with Pearson but I hope we’re a long way from that. 

We haven’t got any choice, he isn’t going anywhere soon regardless of results or performances. I would have liked to have given Liam more time but it wasn’t to be. Hope in time Warne will be a success but might take some time?

I think a lot of people are being very presumptuous about Warne, they have preconceived ideas about his playing style and are seeing what they want to see to fit their narrative. Unfortunately this narrative is gaining oxygen due to the inconsistent results and performances which happens with most new managers. 
 
People are saying he’s a my way or highway manager like Pearson. From everything I’ve seen or read about him he’s about as humble as they come and doesn’t have an ego. 
 
Here’s a novel idea - how about we give a manager time. 

We got the only people we could in and the best quality we could, not LR players, not PW players - just A SQUAD to be able to compete this season with.
Objective for first half of the season was always be in touch with playoffs and see if we can get in them the second half. 

This is a great summary. 
Of course, we will know whether Warne will prove to be flexible in the short term on Saturday.
I am accepting that it's going to take two transfer windows at least for Warne to transform the squad into one he wants to work with. And to get the academy to work differently too. It's not going to be easy as there's always that niggle in some minds (mine included)
"Were we that bad that we needed a total reset?" Or "Could Rosenior have done it quicker?" We'll never know.
I think another factor in our current situation is that  we have also lost the goodwill that Rosenior and his mismatched squad generated as the link with that season when we were all in it together. That goodwill has gone. I'm seeing it at matches now. Warne said 95% of fans clapped the players off at Ipswich, sorry, it was more like 50% - and I'm being generous at that.  Way down on similar situations at Charlton, Fleetwood etc. And the grumbling is back big time.
So Warne has got to work really hard to make us a new "something" that we match-going fans can buy into while he builds a new squad in his image. Will that be a never stop running, never say die mentality? Will we have a style? Will it be enough? 
I take your point about a Board review but at the moment that Board is still David Clowes and two accountants, none of whom have run a football club before. I know the process to recruit a Chair has begun, as has head of recruitment.  
There's such a long way to go to build us back up again. The new owner deserves the utmost credit for rescuing our club, but it is probably only now that the enormity of the task he has undertaken is dawning on him. 

That’s the whole reason Warne is frustrated. He cannot play the game for them. They are still adapting and caught between two styles and this is the result, we’re not doing anything. It needs patience and those that don’t go with him will be gone.
I think the majority are playing for him, some were saying Didzy and NML don’t look happy - not seeing it I think the latter in particular has adapted well and is one of our best players at the moment, Didzy was a bright spot when he came on. Midfield and not having a genuine right back are the main issues as i see it, and i think the some of Warnes post match anger was directed at an experienced player who is supposedly a cheat code for this level but is just not delivering.