Norman

Currently, no, I don't have high expectations. 
We are still under financial restrictions and have an owner who appears to want to run us as a sustainable business.
My expectations are with the above in mind. 
 

If Warne ever moves NML away from that right wing again I will write a strongly worded comment on this forum.

I'm not going to watch anything that uses apostrophes so.

Ward looked good in preseason, but hasn’t been great in the league. Elder and Washington can’t get a start. Bradley and Nelson have seen their time plagued with high profile mistakes. Wilson has shown ability and why Bristol were happy to get rid in equal measure.
Waghorn looks like the best of the bunch - a goal and an assist in his limited game time. He was a player we signed because he did well whilst on trial because he lived close enough to the club. 
At this venture, the recruitment looks wildly poor but important to give these players time. My worry with Bradley is that his been hooked at half time twice in four games and looks completely out of it a lot of the time. I did consider whether there might be something more sinister for his enormous drop-off going on in his personal life. 

What, that’s not good news?

Barbie.
0.5/10
Look there is a hidden meaning behind it all, telling us to be ourselves, not who we think we should be so I'll give it a .5 for that, but the film itself is terrible.
And @DarkFruitsRam7 called me sexist for saying so, and thinks the film is "quality".
I beg to differ and I cannot imagine the level of drugs that have been taken to create that hot mess.
If Ryan Gosling prancing around with his 6 pack out miming is your thing, then go for it, everyone else don't bother.
It's one of those films which young kids playing with Barbie today wouldn't get, it's one for the 15 year old pink girly girls. 
I get that's stereotyping but that's what it is. My Mrs walked out and thankfully said it was poo before me. 

Thought I'd found Maddie McCann for a second there.

"Look at him now, look at him now, look at him now" repeats Ed Dawes
I can't, Ed. I'm listening to the radio.

Anyone else hate the fact we have to go to crap stadiums like this now.

Paul Warne’s a football genius duh duh duh duh

I hate when someone starts a sentence with “listen”, I am f¥cking listening, I’m capable of a two way conversation. I’m not waiting to speak, I’m waiting to respond.

I like Paul Warne and his staff, as people. 
 
From what I can tell, they're a decent, honest and principled bunch. 
 
I believe that's what attracted David Clowes to them in the first instance, alongside their record of success in League One. 
 
I'll also add that they saw those principles reflected in David Clowes, hence their decision to come on board.
 
From the start it was referenced by all parties the entire ethos of the club needed changing, and rebuilding work was needed from top to bottom, which is not the work of a moment, or indeed a few months. 
 
The backroom staff had been hollowed out to the bare minimum, across multiple departments. 
 
A review of the remaining staff saw several leave, and a new round of recruitment has taken place, building the club back up to operating strength across the board, from the casual staff,offices and the football support and academy roles, a process that is still ongoing.
 
That's not a normal issue that an incoming manager has to grapple with, rebuilding the back room to what it should be, while ensuring his requirements are met. We've seen a level of churn across the Academy management in that time, which must have demanded Warnes attention at various stages, in addition to the normal commitments management brings.
 
We've an owner learning about operating a football club, having taken over in sheer desperation, leaning on the manager he's appointed I presume, there seems to be no other football experts within his team we know of.
 
None of this is normal for a first team football manager, especially in his first job away from a much smaller club with different expectations, so mistakes and stumbles will inevitably happen. 

 
We got close enough last season that there were few grumbles about his position, yet after only two games, one in the league, there's a sizable minority calling for change, and a notable shift in how he's perceived. 
 
I'm not a natural defender of Warne, but will stand up for his work so far.
 
 I'm a self confessed football snob, and don't see him as the man to lead us back to the promised land of the Premier League, probably based around pre conceptions of his football philosophy rather than any evidence, but he's Clowes choice to launch that journey, and some of the criticism on here recently is well out of kilter with the job he's done so far.



 

And that just sums up Derby County right now, not even at the right war 😂

I'm guessing the authorities don't want resources redirected from a busy night of the year, like the last Friday before Xmas, to police a football match.

If he is so touchy I will drop him off at the donkey sanctuary. He might feel the love there 

Here's one of my knee
 

None of his permanent signings have played a competitive match for Derby yet, so that is a ridiculous argument.
Yet again we are going down the strawman route. Being disappointed we can't spend £300k on a player after bringing in £2-3m in fees isn't espousing £6m on Bradley Johnson.
I'm tired of anything other than fawn eyed adulation being treated as treason or heresy.
 
 

He offers nothing that Korey Smith doesn’t already offer. 
 
Stat pad, 5 yard sideways pass merchant 👀

Terence Crawford though. Jeez. I fancied Spence to win

This level of what? A game of Bridge at the welfare?

New Physio I see.

Folding the rug over. Nice touch.

Loving women's world cup ...