Oldben

Would Anthony Evans, Bristol rovers, be a good signing for us

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/torschuetzenliste/wettbewerb/GB2/saison_id/2023
As can be seen from table none of the top scorers in the championship, with the exception of jamie vardy (37) and Will keane (31)  is over 30 years. 
The derby county top scorers ...
James Collins - 13 goals, age 33
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing - 8 goals, age 32
Tom Barkhuizen - 6 goals, age 30
Martyn Waghorn - 6 goals, age 34
Conor Hourihane - 5 goals, age 33
Louie Sibley - 4 goals, age 22
Max Bird - 3 goals, age 23
Craig Forsyth - 3 goals, age 34
Conor Washington - 3 goals, age 31
Dwight Gayle - 3 goals, age 34
In terms of recruitment, i would like to see us sign some strikers under 30.

Washington has a year left on his contract, who would buy him

https://theathletic.com/4957498/2023/10/16/epl-efl-explained-deal-english-football/
a club promoted from League 1 to the Championship would see a significant increase in their income:
Each Championship club receives £11.6m per season from the EFL's central distribution and Premier League solidarity payments.
In contrast, a mid-table League One team currently receives only £2.2m per season.
Under the proposed new deal, that same mid-table Championship club would receive £17.5m per season - an increase of £5.9m.
So on average, a League 1 club promoted to the Championship would see their income increase by around £5.9 million per season.
This is a substantial boost that can make a big difference for the financial health and competitiveness of the promoted club.
 
on average, the TV rights for Championship clubs are worth around £11.6 million per season. This is nearly 5 times more than the £2.2 million received by a typical League 1 club.
 
Additionally, Championship clubs get paid around four times as much for hosting TV games on Sky Sports. The facility fee is £100,000 for Friday night and Saturday games, £120,000 for a Sunday game, and £140,000 for a Thursday game in the Championship, compared to very rare televised fixtures for League One clubs.
 
 

Wildsmith has cost us possession so many times with his crap kicking. Can someone just take the ball off him?

I hated everything about that second half.

If we can't beat Carlisle at home then we don't deserve to go up anyway to be blunt.

Can only beat the teams in front of you, but it's league one. Let's not get carried away.

I'm not sure Peterborough would rest anyone against Bolton regardless of their midweek result - they'll be pushing for 3rd as a minimum for the playoff advantages it brings...
COYR - let's do the job ourselves though, let the rest sort the playoffs out between themselves

If Gayle had stayed fit I think NML would have had more rest. He’s the only fit attacker with any pace we’ve had since TJJ got injured. Expect next year his workload gets reduced over the season once we’ve got some young, athletic forwards in place. 

the whole defence defended well,but the clearances all went to gold shirts and came straight back into the mixer,no quality at all

Well that was an awful performance, But who gives a sh!t we got 3 points, Unless something Catastrophic happens next week we're promoted.
Let the squad re build start...another 10 players at least who are able to control a ball and find our players, Sibley MOTM for the only highlight of the game...the ball to NML 😊
 
 

I think I might consider Jonson Clarke-Harris, who's 29 years old and a free agent this summer.

I think I might consider Jonson Clarke-Harris, who's 29 years old and a free agent this summer.

Point I was attempting to make was that our summer transfer targets need to be a step up from the last two summers.
We will need players either used to playing at a level akin to the championship on a regular basis or capable of playing at that level.
I also intended to look at what it takes to be successful at this level.
In any case the quality and type of player we sign in the summer needs to be of a higher calibre than players aged 30+ and young loan players who take time to adapt to the championship level of play.

How many of those signings were 30+ and injury prone, were on the subs bench in the teams they came from.
How many did we throw money at to get them to come to us because the players who might have been a better fit would not have come from the championship to league one.

We can continue the thread next year after we are promoted as we might be in in relegation fight with them.
Even if we are not, we will need to out perform them and bottom half of the table teams next season in the Championship.
 

Just assuming we will not have a decent budget in the Championship compared to many other teams.
The best available players there might look at us and say they've only just been promoted and they might be relegated, there are better championship teams we could play for.
Money counts, will we have that.
Will our budget be significantly more than warne had at Rotherham.
A number of the players we've signed barely got a place on the substitutes bench at the championship teams they came from.
 

It's fair to say Warne was never given the budget to compete in the Champ but it is concerning how poorly his style faired in previous attempts. Will we really back him much more outside of potentially wages due to revenue? One big signing so far keeps getting berated by the other players for not tracking backing and losing his head after missing a chance.  Tempting fate here though making assumptions we'll get there.

I think it’s largely the thought of seeing Sheff Wed and Plymouth, two sides who looked better than the current Derby side, struggle to hit 50 points in the Championship.
I see us currently weaker than teams like QPR, Huddersfield and Wednesday so we will need to have a decent summer (or a manager who can excel on a budget) to give us a chance next season. 

https://skylab.com/bouncebackability-what-are-the-chances/
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/article/how-difficult-is-it-to-climb-through-the-english-football-league-system

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire... Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. Let history bear witness - it was on this day we fought for our destiny, and showed that we are derby county fc." (Modified from Winston Churchill)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Today, we carve a future they will never forget. For we are derby county fc" (Modified from George Santayana)

Not really bothered about their position or how they have 'languished' (bless them .....)
We will only go up if we get 2nd auto place. The side we have now won't be able to buy a goal in the play-offs.

What I find extraordinary is you can’t see that the pass was one you’d expect on a parks pitch on a Sunday morning. 
I’m no Einstein but I’m going to take a wild guess and say a ball to feet is easier to score from than one sent in knee height. 
I didn’t realise being a pro footballer also entitles you to score every chance you get. 
Did some forget to tell Derby this ?

Might have done better playing a 433