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to say he was a 7/10 in last 12 games is even more hilarious to me

i think he's talking specifically about the stoke game.
Bradley's only real strength is his heading. You can mostly get away with this in league one, but when he comes up against championship sides every week that actually want to play football, his lack of pace, decision making, etc, etc, will unfortunately be found out. We saw examples of this in league one with some of the teams that try to play good football. 

Yes, totally agree. When I saw that display I didn't realise it might be the only really good game we'd see from Bradley all season. He was propped up by Nelson and Cashin, who could have coped very well without him.

honestly, Stoke pre-season is his only convincing display to me, and was one of the few times we did set up like that, and was against a Champ team. So if that’s how we’re going to play like that he’d be useful is suppose.
I don’t mean “pinned back”, I mean literally camped in our own box, which is what we were against Stoke. 
 
I’m still hopeful we will be competitive enough to not have to play like that.

Troy Parrott:

I think Lampard probably would’ve still left, but how do you know we wouldn’t resign Mount and Tomori on loan again? Wasn’t a deal already lined up to sign Wilson permanently?

I remember seeing some pictures/videos at the time which suggested it was literally just Mel and Pearce on their own in a room.

I remember seeing some pictures/videos at the time which suggested it was literally just Mel and Pearce on their own in a room.

Even if we had beaten Villa, we were in a hole then and promotion may not have helped.
If you could go back to one point, it was at the end of 2014/15.
Even if you sack McClaren. Don’t go and spend £25m in one summer on a bunch of random players and hire a manager who’d never managed before.
That summer alone is the primary reason we went down to League One. Every bad decision after that was a consequence of trying to rectify the monumental mistakes made that summer.

You don't realise how annoying that is to a Derby fan based in Brum, with all the bad fortune that we've had.😡

I don’t know if we’d be where they are, but they would be where we are. They were all or nothing at the end of their parachute payments and massively over spending. That’s why they had such a good squad. They would’ve been stripped for parts after that season and plummeted. They should build a statue of lampard. 

I'm really excited to see what PW can do for us back in the champ with no restrictions. If you're a Prem manager with a potential young gem, PW is just the man you'd want to send them out on loan to. How he is as a person and a manager, the togetherness he's created with our team, add into that our facilities and attendances we'll attract some good young players this summer. 

You mean the marriott that scored one and was so close to getting another?
Or the marriott that came on and completely changed the play off v leeds with 2 goals?
 

I'm pretty sure they scored a goal at Sheff Utd at the end of their first season that kept them up, that with goal line technology would have relegated them as it didn't go in.  Get the luck sometimes as well. 

Mel would still be here as it would the chance for the narcissistic nature to come to fruition.   Villa are a bigger club than Derby with more financial clout and had 100 million from one player to reinvest, so I doubt we'd be in their position without a lot more investment.  I imagine they're quite surprised. 

I know Villa were better but it was a one-off game.  What if they lost the semi final on penalties? For them to be in the CL 5 seasons later, just makes you wonder. Where would we be now? Would Mel still be here? etc.

Anyone one else think of the 2019 POF every time they see Villa and where they are? Where would be be now if we'd won that game? I wonder if they even think about it at all.

Nope. By far the better team and squad.
A half fit Jack Marriott wasn’t changing a damn thing. We didn’t leave the second coming of Pele on the bench, his career has showed everyone that. 

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Anyone one else think of the 2019 POF every time they see Villa and where they are? Where would be be now if we'd won that game? I wonder if they even think about it at all.

RIP Bernard.
I painted a model figure of them not long ago as King Theoden from Lord of the Rings alongside my nephew. Great childhood memories.