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It’s on his Wiki @David. So it must be true! Ask any Robot 🤖.

No @Mucker1884. I really admire "Kaney" (cue Warney's face in my head) as a player and his L-S-P is cool. It's a plain and simple fact.

I love that too @8Leeds; He's a little tea-pot with a left-sided part-ting. 😲

Half-marks allowed; please rate all subs. Closes Thursday @ 18:00. Results by Thursday 22:00. Average is 6.00. Therefore, when a sub steps on the pitch he is on 6 - that's the baseline. Also indicate ATG (at the game) or TV (Tv). Vickers Wilson Bradley Cashin Collins Sibley Elder Fornah Robinson Brown Fapetu. Allen Cox Weston Hawkins Wheeldon Osayande.

I did think not...but actually I think those young guys deserve to be "incorporated" into the Hall of Ratings so yes...will get on with it today. Thanks for the encouragement @jameso.

Hear! Hear! @angieram; I hope so too. I'm slightly perplexed that since he was 17 he has been at a number of clubs: That's normally a negative insofaras it suggests that Clubs have perhaps cast doubt on his potential although for me he has obvious talent. I'm not suggesting there is anything amiss, just curious. His goal tally is obviously sparse, but the quality of the cross last night suggests he has a peach of a foot on him. He fluffed 2 unbelievably "simple" chances first half at Blackpool earlier this season when it was easier to score so at 23 maybe just has that "head storm" tendency when he realises he can score; that hopefully will disappear as soon as he gets off the mark but his record suggests he has something to work on. "But he's a full-back" I hear you say. Well maybe, he can develop into a more attacking advanced player at Derby. Hope he scores soon...almost got one at Crewe with what the commentator rather dismissed as a mis-hit cross, which the keeper did well to beat away for a corner. "That would have been a goal! " Motty would have exclaimed...and yes some goal it would have been. Keep that side-parting Kane, it's your schtick, and it's going to come good soon. To the tune of "sing when your winnin'", "He's got a left-sid-ed part-ing, left-sided part-ting...etc"

In praise of Kane Wilson. He's 23 and he's a Brummy. He's got GCSEs (His grades were two A's, four B's and five C's). OK he's had a bit of a stop-start flavour to his Derby career but I really enjoyed his 2nd half performance at Crewe last Sunday and thought he was very lively last night AND ... it was so nice to see his pinpoint, fast, whipped-in cross right onto the sixpence-piece that is Collin's head. All Collins had to do was shut his eyes very tight and listen for the "schooowwwrrllll" {that's the sound that the net makes when a hard-struck leather ball hits the back of the net}. Lovely goal Collo but that's an example of a goal where at least 50% of the resultant joy is "owned" by the guy who crossed the ball. After 15 league games Kane is 12 in the DCFCFans' Forum ratings; although he's fallen down the table lately, he's just 0.65 off the top. I think Kane will be right up there this season. Big few months ahead Kane but you're my one to watch. And...he's got a great left-sided parting.

Was expecting a broad brogue so the Scouse “overrr the Moooon like ta bee fairrr” was a wee surprise. 😲

Li-schensed to schkill...

Crikey...Collodiniho...left-foot, curler

8 years ago to the day when we smashed their first team 5-0.

Bradley done there. 1:1

Indeed, Warney has pulled Brown off at half-time.

Did well to "toe poke" it too. Warney likes a toe poke allegedly.

Derby totally lack any sort of control when we get into / around the opposition box. Just "hit and hope" crosses that invariably find a defender or sail everyone by. Oh for the days of Bryson/Hughes/Hendrick/Martin & Ward (J) when we weaved our way through defences like a hot knife through butter.

Isn't that Becky Thingy at far side Lino? She's panting heavily!

Apologies for the quality of the visual but they don't copy and paste very well. If you click on it you get a clearer version. Table 2 shows average ranks by players after 15 league games. The table gives Rank after 15 games and compares with rank after 8 games so you can see the "movers & shakers". I'll let you absorb the detail at your own will - apart from Nyambe who stays at #1; Bird 🐦has started to fly up the table and has elevated 11 places; Nelson has advanced 2 places; Waghorn has dropped 8 places...and so on. The ranks/scores do seem to have "face validity" ie they fit in with my perceptions of players over recent games. The potential surprise is Hourihane who have advanced 3 ranks but still overall attracts a "below average" score - although by a very tiny amount.

Once again thanks to those of you who take the trouble to post your player ratings each week - you're brilliant. I've caught up with the punching of all the data from the first 15 League games and Fig 1 and Table 1 give the numbers of the average aggregate team ratings for those 15 League games *. Fig 1 is an SPC chart (statistical process control). SPC charts show "common cause" and "special cause" variation in data - basically if there are significant differences in trend data. You can see from Fig 1 how the average aggregate ratings vary over the weeks - from 2 lowest scores of 86.7 (Oxford home and Stevenage away) up to 113.27 (Blackpool Away). What does that tell you? Probably just that ratings tend to be highest when we have won well and lowest when we have been roundly beaten (Oxford and Stevenage). In Fig 1, the heavy dark line is the overall average - so you can see when the Team has been rated "below average" (dots appear below the line) and "above average" (dots appear above the line). The dotted lines are the "control limits" (in an SPC x-bar chart, these lines are the average moving range of scores between the games. Any dots that appear "beyond" these limits, either above or below, show statistically significant differences. We will probably only see those if the Team's form shows a sustained improvement or a big reduction in performance. I've also calculated SD, Minimum, Maximum and Range so you can see how scores vary. So, when we won handsomly at Blackpool, there was still a difference of 12 between the highest and lowest aggregated rating. * Definition: The sum of ratings for all players given by each rater, divided by the number of ratings. I'll post some more analysis during this week - including the average ratings for each player over the 15 games thus far from which we can see the ("statistically") best Team, based on DCFC Fans' Forum ratings. @sage noted this based on the 8 game point. Those of who who posted specific questions, I will look at those later this week, and post some answers.

1Wildsmith 6.5 No fault for the goals; good save at the near post 2nd half. 24Nyambe 6 Stout game but ponderous when attacking. 17Sibley 6 Late sub. Fed NML for the assist. 35Nelson 7 Calm and assured. 5Bradley 5 At fault for the second when he failed to clear. 6Cashin 7.5 Had a notable impact on the game with incisive passes. 3Forsyth 5.5 Some sloppy passes and should’ve tracked their centre forward for the goal. 2Wilson 7 Pace and proactivity and troubled their right-back; some effective delivery. 4Hourihane 6.5 Equalised at the death. Lots of possession but slow and ponderous. 12Smith 6 Lots of possession but cannot play the pass to unlock the defence. 7Barkhuizen 5.5 Pace but no product today. 20Ward 6 Some delivery which found a Derby shirt. 8Bird 7 Sole creative type but nothing quite worked today. 11Méndez-Laing 7.5 Tireless threat but too many poor aimless crosses. Missed a sitter of a header when totally unmarked. Made amends with his goal. 14Washington 6 Grafted but nothing worked. 9Collins 5.5 Goal chalked offside. Doesn’t occupy the box enough. The game stats reveal that Derby should’ve won comfortably today but we’re actually lucky to have scraped a draw. Clearly Northants papered over the cracks and unless Warne gets a striker we will continue to fire blanks. I also don’t believe that Bradley is up to the job so another CH will be needed (assuming Cashin departs).

Half-marks allowed; please rate all subs. Closes Thursday @ 18:00. Results by Thursday 22:00. Average is 6.00. Therefore, when a sub steps on the pitch he is on 6 - that's the baseline. Also indicate ATG (at the game) or TV (Tv). 1Wildsmith 24Nyambe 17Sibley 35Nelson 5Bradley 6Cashin 3Forsyth 2Wilson 4Hourihane 12Smith 7Barkhuizen 20Ward 8Bird 11Méndez-Laing 14Washington 9Collins

I wonder who his favourite character is? 😲

“…the thrupnys…”. Wonderful coin of phrase. One for the over 50’s there. Short for “thrupenny bit”. Pl. Thrupenny bits; Cockney rhyming slang for a loose bowel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threepence_(British_coin)#:~:text=The British threepence piece%2C usually,⁄4 of one shilling.

On the subject of scran {inevitably the voice inside my head says that in a strong scouse accent}, I got this at PP last night: picture doesn’t do it justice really and did enjoy it. Since when did we become all cordon blue? 😲