Dean (hick) Saunders

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DCFC Welcomes back Kevin Poole as goalkeeper coach and backup keeper.

Kevin says “I am looking forward to working with David Marshall for next year and pushing him hard for the gloves. Young Roos I think has great potential but is best served with a loan spell which I am confident of arranging with my many contracts in the game”

Seem to remember Baldrick being a useful squad player for Brighton when they were at top of league every year.

Cant remember actually noticing the other dude.

1 hour ago, TexasRam said:

Not what any of us want, but it’s where we are now. Sad we are now shopping in the middle isle of Aldi, hopefully we can get the equivalent of a decent cheap battery drill. 

Can’t we get Messy and Ronoldo from Aldi and they be almost as good as the real thing but cheaper.

Accounts… When… Anyone Know Anything…

3 hours ago, Sparkle said:

I get very very excited when I see a goalscorer being signed as a centre forward !

I think the last one was Dean Saunders although Dean Sturridge was a lot better than some gave him credit for even though he came through the ranks 

You forgot…

Da Da de Da… Stevie Howard.

Would be happy with another one of him for next year..

Just now, 24Charlie said:

A bit of advice please.

I'm toying with the idea of taking my grandson, who will be 5 next week, to the Man Utd friendly but I'm not sure if he's too young.

I thinking of using it a test event and if he likes it I'll get him a season ticket.

Does anyone on here take a child of this age?

If he likes/loves football then it’s fine age to start.

If he is not particularly interested then it could be hard work (based on my experience) but still worth a try.

Recommend getting quite close to the pitch.

Can’t hurt to give a trial surely.

Would need to think very carefully about handing out a contract (expect he will want more than CKR initial popcorn pay).

2 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Looks like Kamil is getting ready for preseason:

Has he signed for Ipswich?

24 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

So who would you pick? Bear in mind that to take those extra 2/3 penalty takers, you'd have to weaken a different area of the squad.
English penalty takers last season:

Vardy - 8/9
Kane - 4/4
C Wilson - 4/4
Ward-Prowse - 3/4
Bamford - 2/2
Ings - 2/2
Sharp - 2/2
Barnes - 1/1
Mount - 1/1
Sancho - 1/1
Lingard - 1/2
Rice - 1/2
Watkins - 1/2
Lookman - 0/1
Lundstrum - 0/1
Sterling - 0/1
Welbeck - 0/1
J Willock - 0/1

Ward-Prowse for James.

Bamford for Calvert-Lewin.

Probably could do without the other left back (Chilwell) seeing as Trippier was preferred backup on both sides.

Presumably Wisdom can play if Davis can. (Assuming he is still training with us)

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

For the Euros and World Cup, I don't care about style - it's all about the results.

Who knows how successful a more adventurous style of play would have been? Maybe we would have got knocked out in the groups.

Southgate's tactics almost worked. They worked better than any other England manager in the last 53 years and bettered only once over 81 years.

Thanks. What would we think of the idea though? (Of taking specialist kickers like in American Football). If we had 2-3 specialist kickers we could have called on we almost certainly would have won (with Pickfords saves).

Downside is weaker squad. As a couple of your favourites would not make the trip.

Given tactics of England making penalties a high possibility and a plan to sub on penalty takers at the end, it would probably make sense to pick some of the squad who regularly feel the pressure as they takes club pens. They would of course still be good enough to be called on if needed.

Looking at Ings, Bamford and the like rather than selecting a kid who looks good at peno in training, pick someone who is proven.

They were better team B4. Just have to accept it not look for excuses.

(Some more years of hurt to follow)

What can I (we) look forward to now?

Why can’t they just practice slab head type penalties. Don’t let anyone not do them like that.

Who was that Burnley player who had one step run up and put it in top right every time. Should be able to get all pro’s to do that?

I’m on the cheese and wine now. (Old guys rule)

Boom

COYE

“50 ways to leave your lover” (Paul Simon).

For those fans wondering whether to sack off their Rams fanship.

If we genuinely do have £20M tax bill then it surely must be admin or sale (new owners paying) soon? Don’t think MM can/will run the club himself for many months in this scenario.

Didn’t Bob Maxwell have to sell some of his Oxford Shares in order to buy Derby?

The fact that Derby accepted the penalty would suggest to me that MM was accepting also it was his responsibility as owner.

Derby have accepted the error so probably not the biggest place to throw rocks.

MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. When are we going to see the re-filed accounts and what are they going to show?

I guess we will soon find out as we will probably have similar quality team AND fans in the stadium.

Can Someone can statto it and report back to the collective please.

“4 Q I won’t do what you tell me”

(Rage Against the Machine)

Maybe a good thing that we can’t even progress a Menghi type transfer. It will really focus the mind of the club to sort the umbongo out at pace.