Gee SCREAMER !!

33 minutes ago, Zag zig said:

Anyone able to confirm if Swarkestone bridge is open please? My usual match day route in from S.Derbys, be good to know.

7.30 this evening 

A reminder of some of the roads in Derby and Derbyshire still affected by flooding

Derby is still cleaning up after the Storm Babet flooding - here's the latest list of road closures from the city council:

Eastgate is closed on both sides to Pentagon due to flooding – the council is in the process of clearing this.

Darwin Loop remains closed due to flooding. It is expected to remain closed for several days.

The A52 remains closed due to flooding. It is expected to remain closed for several days.

Derwent Street underpass remains closed due to flooding.

Phoenix Street underpass remains closed due to flooding.

Meadow Eoad around Darwin car park remains closed due to flooding.

Chequers Road is partly closed due to flooding.

Markeaton Lane remains closed due to a car blocking the road. There is still access to Markeaton Crematorium for pre-arranged services. The council team will contact you directly.

Key roads across the county are also still affected by flooding, according to traffic company Inrix - these include:

B5057 Darley Dale, between A6 Dale Road (Darley Dale) and Oker Road (Darley Bridge) - road closed

B5010 Station Road, both directions, from Main Road (Elvaston) to Central Avenue (Borrowash) - road blocked

The Road, Ingleby, both directions, from the John Thompson Inn (Ingleby) to the A514 (Swarkestone Bridge) - road closed

Sawley Road, Draycott, both directions, from the Church Wilne turn-off (Sawley) to A6005 Station Road (the Coach and Horses pub, Draycott)

A6 between Duffield and Milford.

Darley Bridge and Four Lanes End crossroads.

They were redirecting lots of traffic over it this morning re the radio.  So bridge itself is ok I'd assume.  Unless it crumbles being 900 years old and having a month of traffic shunted over it in a day.

12 hours ago, McMuffin said:

With Mason Bennett as no.2!

Quite the fitting moniker

1 minute ago, plymouthram said:

Yes we got a League one manager, that's been proven before he got recruited. I was one that was against his appointment from day one. I was hoping (being a longlife Derby fan) that he would be able to adapt, change his tactics, playing style etc. All other coaches/managers, having seen Warne's teams (Rotherham & Derby) style of play, have worked it out and know how to beat it with inferior players.

Basically exactly what I said yesterday.  Play the same style 3 times.  If you have anything adequate as a coach/manager you'll work around it by that point.  Question is can Warne work round their Warne fix.  At this juncture it's a clear no. Just more 'gas' and no doubt another raft of muscle strains.

22 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Having won promotion from this league 3 times we’re well short at the moment of Warne’s highest point.

You wouldn't have thought so the way he practically shat his pants with joy at a coffee machine on his first day.

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

What does he say about crap football? There is plenty of scoring ability in his squad - Waggy, Collins, Barks, NML, Washy, Sibs even Hourihane.

Woah .  Slow down there. 

Christmas is coming  Here's warneys list of top talent for January.

2 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

It is if you play crap football, barely touch the ball and the biggest joy you get is hearing the final whistle.

Aren't we doing that against Cheltenham.

3 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

What actual evidence do you have that it won’t get better? Neither of us can dip into the future and see.

When you look at how we started the season, we lost two of our first three league games. Since then, we have won four and lost two in nine. We’re recovering, albeit slowly.

Saturday was our first loss in any competition since the beginning of September. The way some are carrying on, you would think we’d lost 10 in 12.

Our current form simply suggests that we’re recovering from a poor start, but that recovery is not yet complete for several reasons - injuries, inconsistencies amongst players, some poor decisions by the manager, a lack of cohesion, a lack of luck in some cases. Obviously we haven’t clicked as quickly as many would have liked, surely including Warne himself.

We can all see performances haven’t been good enough in the main, but it’s a long season and you don’t have to be the finished article in October, November or even January. I would be worried if we were in this position in April and time was running out.

As it is, we have 34 games to play and there is so much life left in the season. There’s no need for so much catastrophic thinking, especially when a team can click very suddenly and often in spite of any evidence pointing to it, and then they look a completely different prospect playing with confidence and belief and riding momentum.

The current standard of football is the most horrendous I've seen bar the games at the tail end of 07/08 in 40 years.  I consider this worse on a par however, as the opposition is average to horrific and any kind of management brain in planning and during a game would see these players rack up points.  Never have I offered my nephews a chance to watch Derby and they don't want to go anymore.  They won't be the only ones.  With so many other entertainment options on the market nowadays, you can't afford to keep serving up s**** turgid football and expect teenagers to keep going regardless.  This blokes rancid excuse for football will cost the club millions in lost revenue over coming seasons as youngsters switch off and pick up other habits.  It's boring as hell, frustrating as hell and an appalling watch.  In the 3rd division.  Watching his 'gas out' bollox is like sandpapering your eyeballs.

Just now, IslandExile said:

Chris Powell is now assistant manager at Sheffield Wednesday.

We probably should have shifted the P.E teacher out earlier then and sent him off to the John Beck retirement home.  I hear there's room on the Cowley brothers wing.  Portsmouth doing OK since they went down that route I see.

14 minutes ago, europia said:

Oh yes, and splash some cash to get some 'McLaren-esque footy' capable players into the squad. It's a pipe dream, unfortunately. 

I think for this level we've already got a fair few, were just not seeing it as we don't need to use a midfield and can only look to get more goals from set pieces.

9 hours ago, Rammed79 said:

Still Simmo for me

My suggestion was Simpson and Chris Powell.  Think that would be a good combo and they've worked together before.  Powells heading up the Spurs U21's at the minute so a big help at that academy end as well you'd hope.

4 minutes ago, Ramos said:

Richard Keogh - player manager 

15 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:

Are these pro-Warne fans in the room with us right now?

Just the one.  He's called Aubrey.

9 hours ago, Jram said:

Anyone else still willing to give this time? Don’t seem to be many on the forum.

I don’t think we’ve been that bad (albeit I wasn’t there yesterday). Sounded like we had some good spells in the game though and we’ve had some brilliant performances (Peterborough, Blackpool)
 

Big squad turnover in the summer so willing to give it chance to come together. We’ve had some bad luck with injuries and decisions which will hopefully turn. 
 

I think some of the anti-warne sentiment is the immediate anger of losing to so-called lesser clubs but, unfortunately, we were always going to lose games across a 46 game season so no need to panic 

7 hours ago, IlsonDerby said:

Because our owner (as is absolutely his right) wanted this guy with a seemingly golden track record in our division? 
 

To say there aren’t progressive managers out there for this level just because we’ve got Warne seems a reductive way of viewing it? 

Warnes had success in this division playing the same way a couple of times.  Any manager with a brain will have sounded out this system and worked out how to counteract it after playing his side over 2 or 3 games.  If he hasn't the capability to adapt to their changes himself.  Checkmate

3 hours ago, SSD said:

I had such high hopes for the bloke. Great record in this division, couldn't take Rotherham any further I assumed due to budgets. Let's see what he can do at a big club. And I think now we've all seen what he is capable of. Nothing.

The bloke hasn't grasped the size of the job at all. Did he really think hitting the ball wide as early as possible and smashing crosses into the box was going go down well with supporters? The good managers evolve their ideas over time. He is expecting really technical footballers to become athletes who can run half a marathon and bulldoze the opposition on the break. No wonder tactically we are all over the place.

This squad is top 6 easily, any half decent manager could at least be competitive. We have the biggest wage budget in the league. And what this manager has produced is nothing short of something I'd expect on a Sunday morning on Alvaston Park. Pathetic, amateur standard of football where crossing the ball gets clapped at like seals on our bench. Bottom half league one teams can easily figure out our game plan within 5 minutes. We've got all these quality midfielders and we still insist on avoiding them at all costs when we attack. It is painful to watch. Is this really the best this squad has to give? 

I'm done with it. I was so excited to see what he could do with a summer and implement a plan to fire us up the league. Currently, we're firing into the midtable wasteland. It is embarrassing. He's got all these resources at his disposal and quite frankly, he's a rabbit in the headlights facing an inevitable doom.

Lovely man I'm sure. But a football manager who has a clear glass ceiling and has demonstrated he cannot take his work to the next level. 

Did you know sometimes you need a goal" from a set piece" . it's like listening to a parrot listening to Warne.

4 hours ago, Jram said:

Still think they’ll turn it around 👍🏻  we’re going to lose a few 

For nothing in the summer.😃

9 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

A few fans are swearing 😞

 

not sure Joes been going long if that's the worst he's heard

Just now, Rammy03 said:

I don't understand the Hourihane criticism. I think he is trying his best. I don't doubt his commitment at all. 

He was a step up from Fornah first half certainly. However, I'd have kept Fornah on and shifted Smith off to be honest for energy.  The own goal was a shove and shouldn't have counted.  

12 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:

I don’t think he is or does. He’ll see it as 7 unbeaten before today and he’ll point to the header their keeper stopped at 0-0. 
 

I hope he is gone soon. 
Not going to clap the fans is a turning point mind. 

We played to much pretty football today apparently.

1 minute ago, NottsRam77 said:

He looks a player with ability surrounded by crap.

sibley looks not much better than the dross around him going on todays contribution 

I'm not convinced myself.  Good midfielders drive a game .  He's pedestrian more than he's not.  I thought Sibley had a better game today playing out of position, Having to drop back to get the ball and having no striker in the box as Collins was AWOL.

This is disgraceful.  They actually probably should have drawn but it was total bollox.  The opposition was very basic again. We matched that with our play.  No control at all

1 minute ago, NottsRam77 said:

Nothing … but we were talking about sibley and the apparent clamour lfr his signature

well actually it is.. no reason a player of his supposed ability cant stand out at this level

bird manages it 🤷

Does he.  ?

Just now, Ramarena said:

1-0 Shrews.

Their winger gets a cross in under no pressure from Foz and I think Hourihane turns it in. 

Great effort to keep it out from Wildsmith 

Think there was a foul.  Surprise!!!! no one spots it.  This is total s**** however .  Smith is having a mare.  Is Warne putting bromide in their coffee.  Please leave you P.E teaching chancer.

Just now, Ghost of Clough said:

Team not happy with the ref. A bit of argy bargy in the tunnel

If they could do the same whilst playing, that would be an improvement.

26 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Yer didn't want to post that as wasn't sure whether it fitted in with forum guidelines 😏

Feel sorry for him.  Everyone makes at t*** of themselves at least a couple of times when they first start drinking  at 16 or 17 and they realise there is a cut off for them.  In the old days your mates would take you outside and nobody would be taking photos to last forever on the internet. Have they realised he could be inhaling his own vomit or is the photo more important.