StaffsRam

1 hour ago, Nuwtfly said:

I wonder if it’s Nathan Trott.

English goalkeeper currently with West Ham, who has been on loan this season at a club in Denmark. 

I believe his contract is about to expire with the Hammers. 

Nothing would be more typically Derby than to sign an overseas player who is actually a domestic player loaned out overseas…. 😂

2 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

When he says it feels great to be here, I can't help but wonder whether he's actually noticed where he is?

Clearly he does. Did you not notice the HAZMAT suit in the background…? 😂

Can’t fault either. Waggy may have limited ability but you could never doubt his enthusiasm and commitment. Nothing sums him up more than at the end of the final game - crutches? F*** that, who needs ‘em?! 😂 Right up there with being in the stands tanked and celebrating with the fans. 

Korey, I thought he got better and better as the season went on. Immense during the latter stages of the season. Quiet and unassuming, going about his business largely under the radar, but I thought Smith and Bradley were the unsung heroes of the last few weeks.

Great servants both, and would be welcomed back anytime.

6 minutes ago, maxjam said:

Its the hope that kills ya.

All that build up, and then very little after the final whistle.....😄

12 minutes ago, Gary Teale said:

Political but I’m not sure not many companies have any loyalty to their employees.

Football is no different, just as every release list shows.

He saw out his contract and by all accounts it sounds as though he made his intentions clear in January, giving us ample time to consider other options for the summer recruitment. It’s disappointing but I don’t plan on holding it against him.

2 minutes ago, Chilwellram said:

He’s been saying how Bolton will walk it at Wembley on his radio show 

Should have tried running it, like Oxford did.

Nothing against Bolton fans, but can’t wait to see Thogden’s Wembley Vlog… 😎😂

Operation: Jim Smith complete! 😂😂😂

No issues with this. 

Collo has probably been told he won't be #1, and Sibs may want to look elsewhere if he's not interested in continuing at leftback. 

The rest, Wildsmith is a little disappointing but not unexpected, and we can replace him IMO. Smith, is getting on but would probably have offered him another year, the rest, yeah about what was expected.

Recruitment is vital, but it already was, so nothing really changes there. Just hope we're well into it behind the scenes. Don't want to lose the advantage of automatic promotion by then fannying about on signings.

23 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Be lucky.

I missed our only Wembley victory but have a 100% attendance record for all our ignominious failures.

Same. Ironic that either of those losing sides would almost certainly have performed better in the PL than the one that actually got there.

Baggies fans can moan as much as they like, but we beat them at home in the regular season, were robbed away, and finished 8 points above them. Plus, you know, we actually won. Not our fault they couldn't hit a cow's a**e with a banjo on the day.

22 hours ago, Foreveram said:

I don’t get this, if you finish third you deserve to go up mentally.

At the start of the season everyone knows the rules, top two you are promoted, next 4 positions get you into a knockout competition.

I have mixed feelings on this one. When we finish 3rd, I think the playoffs are a sh** idea. When we finish 4th-6th then I think they're great... 😎

Tbf I think a lot of them went tonto a long time ago…

15 minutes ago, Rample said:

Be nice if we could squeeze 1 or 2 kids on rather than filling it with older players.

Weston, Fapetu, Robinson, Brown should all be vying for spots on the bench next season, providing we extend (most of) their contracts and we don't loan them out.

I remember when Butragueño was Director of Football there and moaned his bag off about how much the Premier League clubs were spending, and how UEFA needed to "do something about it". This was of course just a few years after Real had assembled the Galacticos......

They are a terrible example for football. Hugely successful but almost all of it either bought, cheated or intimidated towards. I only hope that at some point in the (not so distant) future that they get the Lance Armstrong treatment and all their trophies are taken back and their successes expunged from the historical records. 

8 minutes ago, DiggerB said:

“We pushed Derby and Portsmouth all the way”. 

Until they surrendered and decided to phone it in for the last few games. 

Tried to be clever and now they have at least another season in League One. Exactly what they deserve, I'm sure Cambridge and Burton fans won't be shedding many tears.

Peterborough:

Really liked the bit in his recent interview where he was asked if he'd found his home at Derby, and he said this was his club. You can look at his career and see how often he's moved around, to the point that despite being here for 2 years he's already played more games for us than anyone else. He seems really settled, probably the most settled at a club he's ever been. Very similar to Curtis Davies really, someone else who eventually found his home here late in his career.

Just now, Mucker1884 said:

No.  Nobody has mentioned it, not even in passing.  When was this?  

Tbf, if that had happened then I'd have hoped that someone would have started a thread about them when they were relegated so that we could all take the p***.....

1 hour ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Paul Warne would've sorted Keogh out/been a puppet of Keogh* and Paul Warne would've got more juice out of Anya/got Anya to take a loan elsewhere/had Anya training with the u23s*

*Delete as appropriate.

PW would have taken one look at Keogh and sussed him as a terrible human and that would have been the end of that methinks.

Anya, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't he part of the "Let's pay silly money to sign everyone who Sam Rush's agency represents" strategy?

5 minutes ago, Zag zig said:

The deluded owners comment resonates as having a Birmingham city feel about it to me.

Probably end up there, win the L1 Championship and then get sacked for not scoring enough goals in doing so. 

He's been extremely unfortunate so far. I hope he finds the right club for him. He deserves a fair chance.

1 hour ago, Red_Dawn said:

I can see that sentiment. Var in particular absolutely sucks the life out of football. 

However isn't it coming in for th championship too? Can't escape it 😞

I'm all for goal-line technology, where there's an instant and indisputable outcome. VAR, can f*** right off, I loathe it. Any game where it's used now, there's a goal and then you wait and see if it falls foul of one of the myriad of reasons they can find to rule it out. It's sh**. Then there's the obvious inconsistencies - this past weekend being a prime example. Numerous instances of interference with the Bournemouth GK go unchecked/unpunished, yet Havertz contrives (minimal) contact with the same GK and they're all over it. F*** off. It's a Pandora's Box that should never, ever, have been opened. 

Rosenior sacked at Hull.

WTAF? 😳

2 hours ago, Turk Thrust said:

Birmingham. Have you never been to Edgbaston, Digbeth, Sutton Coldfield? I lived for several years in Erdington, Five Ways and Four Oaks. Lovely but pricey

Lived and worked in both Birmingham and Bristol over the years. There are exceptions obviously, but I doubt anyone in their right mind would opt for Brum over Bristol. Relatively coastal, literally surrounded by the Costwalds and national landscape. Glastonbury on the doorstep, Cheltenham just up the road for the ponies...

Brum has only two saving graces; Mr Popadopalopadopolopolous (or whatever the f*** his name is) lives in Bristol, and Brum is closer to Derby (so gets some cache by association 😎). 

Whichever one of Bolton or Peterborough don't go up (or possibly both), they'll be there or thereabouts next season. If Lincoln and Oxford (if they're still there) can retain most of the squads then they'll have decent shouts as well. Charlton, with a full summer transfer window and pre-season under Nathan Jones could do well. Wigan and Reading on level playing fields. Wildcard Wrexham. All of those could easily give Birmingham problems. If they're anything like every other team of a moderate size that's gone down then the first year will be a huge culture shock. You can almost always write that off. They SHOULD acclimatize for the second year and realistically that's when you'd expect to see them mounting more of a challenge. 

Personally, I hope their management team, whoever it is by then, are equally as deluded as their fans when they're heading into the season proper. There's definitely more comedy gold potential there with that mindset. 

It's not the Derby way. We're not Leeds. 😎

2 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Would depend very much on which bit of Birmingham vs which bit of Bristol....if we're talking "where footballers live" probably Bristol.

I mean, it's all relative, obviously, but good chunks of Birmingham could easily be twinned with 1945 downtown Hiroshima.