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Prefer you to keep on keeping on @Caerphilly Ram  and continuing to hold some of the less informed contributors to account 👍

Prefer you to keep on keeping on @Caerphilly Ram  and continuing to hold some of the less informed contributors to account 👍

Are you an experienced footballer in your late 20s?
Have you played League One football previously?
Do you have a beard?
 
Please contact Derby County recruitment for upcoming opportunities.

Alan Stubbs

Alan Stubbs

Please reassure me and tell me your aren't our new head of recruitment, please 🙏 😉

Stop with your factual sources that don't fit a person's pre-conceived narrative, it's not becoming.

Even a very basic understanding of genetics says otherwise.
Could be quite a hurtful comment tbh, but I know that's not how you meant it!
I do think certain players just have a weaker disposition (not actually the word I'm looking for but one very similar) than others hence being more 'injury prone'  - no matter their diet, workout routine etc - which can only really be genetic.
For instance I'm yet to see a player before or after Thorne who could somehow manage to have his career ended via an infection received during recovery from a pretty standard leg break .

Those were dark times.
The fear we may not have a club to support, was very real.
How fortunate we are.

There have been very few reliable links to players. Warne was quoted as wanting to add Roberts to the squad, he looks to be going to a championship club so fair play to him. I’ve done a quick check of the other names I can recall us being linked with via varying levels of social media accounts and the press;
Clark Robertson is joining a team in Israel. So that’s one more. Sean Clare? He hasn’t signed anywhere yet. Wes Harding? He’s still a free agent. Alfie May? He’s still a Cheltenham player. Lee Bonis? He’s still playing in Ireland. Sonny Bradley? He’s still a free agent. Aden Flint? He’s still a free agent. Callum Elder? He’s still a free agent. Harvey Knibbs? He’s still a free agent. 
 
So of the names linked so far, we look to have missed out on Haydon Roberts and Clark Robertson. Knight and Bielik might be sold, that was sort of to be expected, but they are currently still contracted. David McGoldrick is allegedly in negotiations with us and Notts County, currently he is still a Derby player until 30/06. The transfer window doesn’t open until 14/06 and all the noise regarding recruitment to come out of the club at the end of season suggested they had a clear list of targets and were working on securing those players. I am unwilling to lose faith in the club and its processes this early in the summer based on a couple of players moving elsewhere and unsubstantiated rumour. It’s really not as bad as some people seem to think. 

EDIT - please don’t see this as “being jumped on or abused” I am looking to present some balance and logic to the argument, that’s all. If anyone can counter this point with evidence of us losing out on a load of targets and the prospects for next season being grim then I’ll happily consider that perspective. 

Derby fans when we play it extensively around the back:
”wish we’d stop d*cking around with it at the back and get it forward quicker.”
Derby fans when we stop d*cking around with it at the back and get it forward quicker:
”Urghhh this is the hoofball I was worried about.”
😕

If he wanted to stay he would have signed by now.
Whilst I'd be disappointed to see him go. I honestly don't think he would have hit those heights again next season or played as much.
We're a bigger club, in a higher division who would have offered more money. But he just wants to end his career at the club he supports. Can't begrudge him that.
Good luck to him. 

Where's the disrespect?   Footballers have short careers and want to play at the highest level possible.  Having had two bad injuries Bielik will be more accutely aware of this than most.
The club will be putting the club first and trying to secure the best outcome for themselves.  Is that disrespectful too?

Probably in the minority here, I’m aware, but I don’t get the whole bringing back players from the last 10 years. With the failures we had, and the pain which ultimately nearly lead us to extinction, as much as I’m pleased Forsyth gets some recognition, I just want to look forward and not harp on about bygone “success”of losing play off finals. I’d rather forget, and build again. 

Spot on. I happened to have interviewed Warne a few times when I worked in the Apprenticeship sector, when he was still Rotherham manager and he was doing various higher level courses on Leadership & Management and Psychology etc. He is big in to his psychology, motivation and leadership techniques and is a very intelligent man and I am 100% confident that everything he says to his players and to the media etc. is said for a reason and because he understands his players as people and knows how to make them tick. I know most managers should have this skillset but I know for a fact that he is particularly interested in it and it is a major strength of his. I don't think anything is said carelessly or by chance.

Anywhere as long as it's not abroad.
 
Too soon?

Some horrible tweets going Curtis' way I can see.
If any of you are doing that then stop it. Consider doing something constructive instead, like throwing yourself in to the sea.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.

Largely agree with all of the above, but would add a special mention for the high quality of opposition time wasting we’ve seen this season.  Can’t recall it ever being at the current s-housing levels before now, it’s insane.