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3 minutes ago, Blondest Goat said:

Barks first touch has been terrible today.

His second and third have hardly been spectacular either…

1 minute ago, PistoldPete said:

What did the sky pundits think of the penalty claim ? Looked a definite foul probably in the box?

Hendrie thought it was a decent claim but started outside the box anyway. Very close either way. 
 

Feels like one of those that would never be given live but maybe by VAR.

Off the ball, we were superb throughout the first half. For all their huffing and puffing and home support, we restricted them to half-chances.

On the ball, we were terrible for the first 35 minutes. Terrible decision making, hopeless lumps forward to non-existent runs in behind and Collins completely isolated up front. 
 

We finished the second half the better side when Sibley was able or was instructed to play 10 yards further up the pitch. Barkhuizen suddenly had someone making overlapping runs or a reason to drift inside into the half space. 

1 minute ago, Ramarena said:

Hourihane seems to be just lumping it half the time he has it.

I mean they all are to some extent but you’re right, he’s the worst culprit. They seem to be pressuring him in particular.

So many times we’ve missed a chance to slow the game down by failing to string three passes together.

Just now, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

Must of been necessary if fozzy has one?

Bit of a soft one, Fozzy grazed his arm and he went down like a sack of potatoes.

Felt like a cumulative yellow for a few fouls before rather than a fair consequence for what he did.

We seem to have absolutely no interest in playing through the midfield. Not helped by the fact that Hourihane is a passenger today.

1 hour ago, NottsRam77 said:

Im not sure where all the pressure and expectation is coming from tbh.

6 months… thats all it was.. 6 months ago wed have all given our right nuts to still have a club.

we then entered what was left of the transfer market armed with no transfer fees, no money to line the pockets of agents and a restriction on what we could pay and over the given length of time we could pay that player for.

We did well to get a squad and tbh these are players that other clubs who had more time to get over the line and more money to tie up passed up on.

lets enjoy what we have, if we make the play offs great, if we dont we dont.

to put into context who can tell me the last time we had a manager that lasted more than 2 full seasons ?

im looking forward to judging warne after 2-3 seasons not 5 minutes and one restricted transfer window 

Unfortunately, the appointment was a statement of intent. Once you start racking up the points like we do, and poach a manager with three promotions to his name from the league above - whilst miraculously holding on to some of our young players - it's not a surprise that some are seeing promotion as the aim this season.

I completely agree with you though. How short some fans' memories are.

5 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

More likely they don’t want to rush him back after a nasty injury.

Surely this is the most rational explanation? If we were trying to sell him, he wouldn't be in the matchday squad at all.

Really impressed he’s surpassing the remarkable feats of Paul Clement.

6 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

 

Penalties aren't a lottery despite all the esteemed opinions of the Radio Derby commentators to the contrary. 

While I agree, the same applies to Liverpool. Stands to reason that they should be better at taking and saving penalties than us.

Although Firmino tried his very best to prove Radio Derby correct.

This is the place where we discuss our opinions.

Unless Paul Warne is wasting his time trawling through the forum, what we say here has absolutely nothing to do with his job whatsoever.

We can basically say what we like about him, in fact. He'll never find out.

Paul Warne's breath smells like monster munch. Pass it on.

Booooo. They belong at Le Mans, not fannying about in the midfield.

Manufacturers in F1 are annoying. Let the privateers have it out again against Ferrari.

42 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

It's always been expectant barring last season

Wasn’t so bad at the start of the season. It changed when we got the new manager in - it was a statement of intent. And it’s really heaped the pressure on.

After his bizarre comments last night I wonder if the better comparison is Brian Clough at Leeds, wasting energy falling out with people it would be better to get along with.

Not sure why Warne is so determined to come in like a steam roller and tell everyone what he thinks of them when we were right in the hunt for the playoffs. He’s acting like we were a team languishing near the bottom, needing to hear a few home truths.

Well I guess the combined football knowledge of Cocu, Rooney, Rosenior and Warne wasn’t enough to stop them from playing a League 2 player in almost every match for 3 seasons. 
 

I don’t know.

I don’t get the appointment. The whole first part of the season was a total waste of time. We’ve started from scratch just a couple of months after starting from scratch.

Would’ve made sense if we went with a manager who had some sort of continuity with the style of play.

It’s absolutely impossible to prove this, but based on what I saw in the first half of the season, we probably would have lost last night but would’ve created way more and come away feeling more positive. Under Rosenior, we controlled the ball and created, but we missed a load of chances. We probably would have given Ipswich more chances at our end too.

But at least the fans that travelled would have seen more action in front of goal.

I really can’t work out why we’ve decided to rip it all up and go with someone so different. We’re effectively back in pre-season with a manager trying to coach a new way of doing things. In October.

Before I get too upset about this result I need to remind myself that I’m not sure that this tournament ever existed in my conscience before August.

1 hour ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I just view it this way, if it didn't buy them additional performance they wouldn't have done it. How much it bought them, we'll never know but can only speculate.

TeamLH: obvously, it further taints the tainted title...

Orange Army Soldiers: obviously, it was only catering that was overspent and really nothing technical at all, why do you think Karen was so adament it was defomatory to suggest they got any advantage at all.

 

 

If you’ve gone over, it doesn’t matter what you’ve gone over with. It’s all performance.

Other teams have fed their staff too, and some, including Mercedes, had to lay people off to do it. The whole point of the cost cap is that everything goes within the cap - and if you’ve gone over it, you’ve overspent on performance.

1 hour ago, ColonelBlimp said:

Nothing to see here, in terms of performance anyway.

Unless, of course, you are a dyed-in-the-wool TeamLH fanboi

I've seen one report suggest that they've gone over by as much as three times Alfa Romeo's annual upgrade budget.

That is very significant in terms of performance.

11 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

Looking at the players signed in the summer, which ones do you think were signed exclusively to play in a possession based team?

I wouldn't say any of them were signed for us to pass triangles around the opposition or tikka-takka our way out of the league. 

But to flip the question round, who have we signed to suit us stretching the lines out and passing longer? If that's the way we wanted to play, James Collins makes sense as a target man, but around him you'd want really pacey wingers and box-to-box midfielders around him. Our central midfield players, including the ones we've signed, are largely technically gifted players suited to having the ball. 

Whichever style of play you prefer as a fan, it makes sense to find an identity and stick to it. We've been left behind in the last decade by much smaller clubs who have done that and replaced their managers and players with something similar whenever they've lost them.

4 hours ago, Archie said:

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.

To answer your questions:

1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 

2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 

3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.

People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 

I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

This is exactly how I feel.

Decent bloke, good manager in fact, but a totally perplexing appointment. 

If this is how Warne wants to play, it means the players we signed in the summer were the wrong players and the academy is preparing youngsters for a style of play that doesn’t exist in the first team.

So we’ll have to start from scratch. Again.

Think the sponsor vs no sponsor debate is irrelevant when our kit makes our matches look like a PES game where they haven't got the rights to Derby County.

K AND AN E AND A DOUBLE T...

1 hour ago, sage said:

I kind of agree but Barkhuizen was in front of us second half and was blowing out of his Harris 

 

A huge chunk of our talent and experience aren’t capable of lasting 90 mins. Big problem with no short-term solution.

Just now, TomTom92 said:

Can anyone put their finger on why we’ve looked dreadful for 90% of the second halves this season? 
 
Not sure at this stage the ‘we’re a new squad that’s been put together’ excuse can cut it.

How many players out there had played a full pre-season? And that’s before you get to the fact that even if they had, we had a shorter one than most of the league.

There’s absolutely no way Rosenior thought it would be a good idea tactically to remove his best players. They can’t last 90 minutes, or if they could, they’re at risk of an injury that puts them out contention at all.

It’s not like Clownes bought the club and cured every single problem. There’s still going to be a hangover from the chaos off the pitch and the shocking fitness levels is is where it manifests itself on the pitch.

Sadly, once you start behind, it’s very hard to catch up.