Donnyram

7 minutes ago, Andrew3000 said:

Was this announced on official website? Is it just me or does it seem that these sorts of appts aren't being announced through the usual channels at the time?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I suspect he’s still working his notice at Lincoln….. no doubt official announcement when he finally joins us 

17 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

What does Head of Performance do?

It’s focused on individual strength and conditioning, managing training loads and injury prevention based on data from things like the GPS vests that players wear.  I’m sure there’s lots more to it but that’s the basics that I have gleaned from my youngest son who is pursuing this as a career.  He’s at Ipswich Town Academy at the moment as Lead Academy Physical Performance Coach for the U9’s through to U16’s.  Recently graduated with a Masters in Strength and Conditioning.  I keep pushing him towards Derby and hopefully he’ll get there one day ?

20 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

Mount

hughes

ebiowei 

gordon

tomori

wilson

festie

alstop (for cover) 

, in that order 

Think I’d have Alstop top of the list….. sounds like he’d keep everything out ?

On 22/01/2023 at 06:03, Mucker1884 said:

I'm with @Boycie

I have a 100% losing streak at Wembley... we're due a win! ?

 

 

*OK, I've only been once... but we lost! 

I have to confess, I’ve watched Derby at Wembley 4 times…….. Anglo Italian Cup final (Cremonese?), Play offs versus Leicester, QPR and Villa - lost all 4.

The only games at Wembley I’ve missed….. FA Cup final v Charlton, Charity Shield v West Ham and Play Off v WBA……. Won them all.

Financial bribes not to go this year if we get there invited ?

He’d be a good signing in my view……. he’ll give us the spark we need ? 

1894 left ?…… good fun this 

capacity 32,200 ish.

3% no show (including Mucker1884, apology accepted)  = 909

 29,197

Allowing for a sales rate of 30 per hour reducing at a rate of 5% plus or minus a standard deviation of 2.256 over the remaining 60 ish hours plus a further reduction due to sub zero temperatures I predict an attendance of 30,254, +/- 1042 therefore within the range of 29,212 and 31,296 approximately give or take a few

1 hour ago, SK47 said:

I don't know if this deserves its own post but I'm super proud that my eldest (16 year old) godson has recently been playing for Ipswich u21&u23's, with the paperwork going through on a 2 year deal.

 

He was involved with the u23 training on Thursday/Friday and was asked (along with 10 others) to stay behind to play a game with first team, of which was mixed teams.

Henry Partnered Richard Keogh at cb at the age of 16. I'm absolutely over the moon that I've watched him grow and play to the point he is now involved with partnering an ex Derby captain, amazing stuff.

 

Keep an eye out for him, Henry Curtis. His paperwork is currently going through and hes playing Swansea this weekend. I've already told him if he ever gets the call to play for Derby, he has to. No ifs or buts.

 

❤️?

Excellent stuff.  My lad has probably been working with him….. he’s the Academy Physical Performance coach at Ipswich working with U9’s through to U16’s.  He travels with the U16’s for matches

17 hours ago, plymouthram said:

B. Our away form continued to be depressing pre Warne.  =We only lost one away game under L.R. and that was at 1-0 at Charlton in which we could have won if our team had their shooting boots on in game we totally dominated.

Not sure that’s the case.  We also lost 2-0 away at Lincoln under Liam and our away league record pre Warne was played 4, 2 draws and 2 defeats with zero goals scored.  
 

Under Warne our league away record is played 9, won 4, drawn 4 and 1 defeat - 13 goals scored

Do we know what happened with Cashin?  He’d be a huge loss if out for a lengthy period

2 minutes ago, Matchday Fred said:

Warne must have a boner for Banjo Collins. Dobbin and Didz on, but Collins somehow stays on the pitch.

To be fair I think Collins does some good work defensively from set pieces.  Last time he took him off we conceded a late equaliser against Burton from a set piece

On 29/10/2022 at 19:01, RoyMac5 said:

I love him as a winger, but he's wasted as a wingback. Good performance today.

Totally agree……. hopefully our Head Coach realises this also. 

As disappointing as it has been in the 2 home games (2 wins from 3 league games is not at all bad) I have a few positives to take out of the negatives that give me a little bit of hope.

1.  The football against Port Vale was awful - totally by-passed the midfield with long balls.  Warne acknowledged this and took responsibility as this was not how he wants to play.  Against Exeter we resorted less to long balls

2.  First half against Exeter was awful (first 5/10 minutes were slightly better than awful) , no energy, no press, no urgency, no quality.  Warne was honest about how bad it was….. he needs a response Saturday as it will be his toughest game so far and without the response we will lose.

3.  Playing NML and Barkhuizen as wing backs is not working.  TB was totally lost against Ipswich - worst game I’ve seen him play.  NML was ineffective first half against Exeter - receiving the ball 20 yards inside our half and immediately closed down.  He needs to be playing higher up the pitch - arguably our best attacking threat stifled at wing back.  It was better 2nd half in a 4-3-3.  It remains to be seen if this was an acknowledgment that things weren’t working and demonstration of flexibility from PW or a one off.  I hope it wasn’t a one off!

4.  Despite lots of personal opinions, we do have some good players (we miss Jason Knight so much as he has the energy of 3 players).  I am also sure Paul Warne and his team are good coaches.  As long as the team are supportive of Paul Warne and vice versa they will work it out

5.  We have great support……… we need to stay behind the team and help them through this phase.  Building momentum in the run up to Christmas will give us a chance to get into the play off places.  

If the team play as energetically as Paul Warnes interviews we’ll be fine!

On 22/09/2022 at 15:08, Alty_Ram said:

Wait, what, our goal-shy strike force is being boosted by the addition of (Diego) Costa ?!

Nah, we’ve ordered a batch of Kenco cups ?

10 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

Well I would personal welcome you to derby but you will need to improve attacking style of play but if I was you and try get us back into play off places but tommrow not playing gives you chance to work on a few things one thing that needs improving are our free kicks and corner kicks but please keep lang as one of attacking players or even maybe look at him at free kicks he has great shots on him.

My Rotherham supporting mate has said he is big on set pieces so hopefully he’ll improve our free kick & corners B4 ?

On 20/09/2022 at 09:26, SamUltraRam said:

I thought i'd show a comparison to our promotion season from this division in 1985/86 for a bit of fun. I'll try to do it game by game if there's any interest to read it.

Game number 9 was a 2 - 0 away win at Cardiff City & took us to 13 points - so we're ahead of that. Attendance was just 3,435 at Ninian Park

We'd just beaten Div 1 Leicester City 2 - 0 in the 1st leg of the Milk Cup

It appears that you could only name 1 substitute then as well which surprised me

Starting lineup:

Goalkeeper Mark Wallington

Right back Charlie Palmer

Central defender Rob Hindmarch

Central Defender Ross Maclaren

Left back Steve Buckley

Midfielder Steve McClaren

Winger/Midfielder Gary Micklewhite

Midfielder Geraint Williams

Forward Trevor Christie

Forward Bobby Davison

Winger/Midfielder Jeff Chandler

Substitutions: Paul Blades for Steve McClaren

 

Brilliant, this will bring back lots of memories as it was back in the day before Mrs Donnyram & junior 1 & 2 Donnyram when I was able to travel to most of the away games, culminating in a trip to Darlington on a Monday night if I remember correctly

4 minutes ago, Donnyram said:

Surprised by this decision tbh.  Quote below from a Rotherham supporting friend who unlike a few others I’ve wound up gave a balanced view,

”He’d do well for you, gets everything out of the players he has and is an absolute fitness fanatic so they’d run for everything.  There’s a reason he’s never kept us in the Championship though, not sure he’s got the tactical knowledge to coach at that higher level, especially against Prem teams that have come down.”

I’ve refrained from replying to say he’s not kept Rotherham in the Championship because, well, it’s Rotherham.  
 

Asked him if it’s more football or hoofball……..

”Somewhere in between.  When we had Smith we played a lot of long balls in the Championship.  Much better football this season, he likes a set play.  Scored plenty over the last few seasons from free kicks and corners”

Well, scoring “plenty” and scoring goals from corners would be progress!

Surprised by this decision tbh.  Quote below from a Rotherham supporting friend who unlike a few others I’ve wound up gave a balanced view,

”He’d do well for you, gets everything out of the players he has and is an absolute fitness fanatic so they’d run for everything.  There’s a reason he’s never kept us in the Championship though, not sure he’s got the tactical knowledge to coach at that higher level, especially against Prem teams that have come down.”

I’ve refrained from replying to say he’s not kept Rotherham in the Championship because, well, it’s Rotherham.  
 

Liam Rosenior

1 hour ago, Kokosnuss said:

We started playing better after 25 minutes but Wycombe had also sat back a bit, happy to pack their box and chance a breakaway goal for 2-0, which very nearly worked but for Cashin's brilliant tackle.

From 25-55 it was quite like a lot of our other games - we were decent but not particularly quick in build up, and the chances of us actually scoring a goal were slim.despite having a few shots.

We weren't getting in behind them and by the time we got the ball in positions to shoot there was a wall of defenders ready and waiting to block those shots. It was better than the first 25 but it was still the wrong setup.

I'm not sure how you can really call getting NML & Collins on the pitch a brave decision, we were still a goal down and couldn't just continue the way we were it else it'd likely have stayed that way.

Pretty much agree with you on all of this.  What seemed to work yesterday was playing 3 at the back with NML & TB in the wide “wing back” roles.  Be interesting to see if this is used again, maybe not from the start but if we are struggling to break teams down.

All in all, a very good last 30 mins in particular under immense pressure as I’m sure Liam and the team will have been aware of the the supporters “jungle drums of doom” 

22 hours ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Max bird isnt good enough too he needs to have more movement and also be less negative! Most over rated derby player ever! Playing with 10 men every game 

Wow!  You ask what he did……… without thinking too hard how about the forward ball into Mendez Laing for the 2nd goal.  Clearly much credit to Nathan for the finish but the ball into him was decent.  

He might not be playing his best football at the moment but to say what you have is so over the top
 

2 hours ago, Srg said:

He also showed us, as if we needed reminding, that he actually can’t play football outside of the box. Tried to score from half way and could barely kick it as far as the area, fell over the ball etc. He’s a curious footballer. 

Think he took the wrong club ?

They set up to nullify us and succeeded.  If we’d got 1 then I suspect we’d have gone on to get 2 or 3.

Shrewsbury won’t be the only team to set up like this so we need to find ways of breaking them down and one of the biggest differences this season is our lack of overlapping at full back.  We miss Byrne and to a lesser extent Buchanan.  
 

Knight is doing well but like others have said would be better in midfield.  An experienced right back who has the ability going forward (as well as being able to defend) would make a big difference in my opinion. Fozzy gives us that option at left back as I don’t think Odurah is ready 

I don’t know what his keeping is like but love the guy already!  I get the impression he’s pleased to be here ??

1 minute ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Looks to be done 

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