Dean (hick) Saunders

This thread is in danger of ruining my good mood. Catch u tomorrow 😀

This thread is in danger of ruining my good mood. Catch u tomorrow 😀

A crazy last 10 minutes. 
Gough (a 2nd half sub), got a straight red, quickly followed by a straight red for a Stoke forward (a 1st half sub) and a 2nd yellow for one of their CMs.
In the 3rd minute of injury time, Cruz Allen (in fantastic form this season) stepped up to score the winner. 1-0

I don’t think it would take too much for me, I like him enough but just get frustrated at the lack of emphasis or thought on situational football. Even at our best, the game is largely a basketball match where the ball is all moving all over the place, the players are spread so far apart from each other and we are absolutely sitting ducks to counter attacks. At our worst, we just can’t control the pace of the game or take the sting out of it. Wildsmith is a god send at times as he’s clever enough to see when we need a break. The football is just played relentlessly, ball into space and a lot of shirts running after it. 
I’m happy for that to be part of our makeup but we need to start controlling games a lot better, suffocate teams and get them moving off the ball aside from us electing to do the running. 

In answer to many of those panicking about EVs, after listening to all the scare stories.
In the next 4 or 5 years, the cost will come down as more are produced, just look at history, only enthusiasts or the very rich could buy the first tvs, colour tvs, video recorders, cd players, transportable phones (the size of a briefcase for the latest battery to power it), microwave ovens, etc. MG already have the MG4 for well under £30k with a 7 year warranty.
Charging and range, Toyota have told us they will be producing mass produced cars with over 600 mile range and 20 minute charging in 4 years time. So, you will get 3 weeks charge on your car, while you're in the supermarket doing your weekly shop.This is in addition to all the other charging opportunities.
The biggest problem will be generating the electricity required.
 

Good sense of humour ?

Why are we obsessed with bringing back old managers... would you bring back your ex wives too?
Nostalgia is a dirty liar and I think in order for Derby to move forward, they need to stop looking back!
Mel Morris, old managers or former players... nothing is as good the second time or the third or the fourth. 
Need to recreate the new Derby Identity and not have it tied up in how we played 10 years ago etc
Not played the best under Warne but give it time at least, we gave nigel clough 4 years? we've still not spent a penny, we shall see where we are by Christmas. 
Play offs this season is the realistic target still plenty to play for
If Warne is sacked he will be sacked but until then....

Alf? Right back and only 50.  He was the back up option
 

The refereeing is poor but its the same ref for both sides.
Start playing well, Creating more chances & we'll find we'll get more decisions or the poor decisions will affect the game less if we are three up.
Yes the officiating hasnt been the best but its the standard for the division we find ourselves in. We need to stop moaning about it & start playing proper football 

The endless sideways at the back from Clement, Cocu, Rosenior was I would say equally as unpopular with the fanbase from my memory.
As someone said if it leads to success then this is what counts.
Hence Billy Davis ball is the last time we were truly successful which was pretty pragmatic and simple.

He looks like a good footballer who is a yard or two off the pace of the game. A little like Hourihane. However, one would hope that regular games would improve that. I thought he ran the game from 60 mins to 85 mins.  

The endless sideways at the back from Clement, Cocu, Rosenior was I would say equally as unpopular with the fanbase from my memory.
As someone said if it leads to success then this is what counts.
Hence Billy Davis ball is the last time we were truly successful which was pretty pragmatic and simple.

justifying warne's mediocrity by saying LR was also mediocre is nonsense in my opinion
 
at least LR gave us a vision and something that resembled a plan of action. he may have failed too but we are going nowhere under warne and will need a few transfer windows to clean up his mess.

But we were all salivating over Giles Barnes skinning people alive, and (duh duh duh duh) Stevie Howard banging them in. Even pragmatic can be fun.

The endless sideways at the back from Clement, Cocu, Rosenior was I would say equally as unpopular with the fanbase from my memory.
As someone said if it leads to success then this is what counts.
Hence Billy Davis ball is the last time we were truly successful which was pretty pragmatic and simple.

What is the right way?
Football is about scoring at one end and keeping the opposition out at the other end.
Do that and, on the whole, you'll have a reasonably happy fanbase. Of course there will still be the purists who have been brainwashed by Sky into thinking every goal should be preceded by a minimum of 100 passes.
 
 

Thought the lad did well today - neat and tidy, passed to white shirts, organised well and most importantly was disciplined in staying in the centre of the park - shame about his miserable voice, but you can’t have everything 😉

Thats the one.

Well that’s my first away game of the season and a good point earned considering we only had one effort on target. In terms of Portsmouth they were a bang average with no great players 

Until 5 o clock later today.

I’m in my late 60s and was lucky enough to be able to retire 10 years ago. After a difficult couple of years getting over not working I love my life - exercise every day, never felt fitter, though bits are dropping off - my hearing needs aids, my eyes need glasses, my joints creak, I’m on medication (low level) for cholesterol and blood pressure and my hair is largely a distant memory. I do find myself thinking about my mortality fairly frequently  though not morbidly. Death is the last great secret I have to experience. I  know I have long since passed the halfway mark in my Rams watching season tally.
In my youth 65 was old and people often died soon after retirement. Now I’m there I want to keep going but I am a deathist - never heard that expression before. I want to keep on going so long as life is comfortable and my body is not giving out. I’ve no interest in the far future - I expect it would look terrifying to today’s world, just as today’s world might be terrifying to people born 300 years ago. I’ve no interest in rounds of surgery to replace my heart or organs for the 5th time - you would end up like Trigger’s broom on its 20th handle and 10th head or whatever it was.
What I would like is the opportunity to pick the moment I go and in the UK. But that’s another debate.

Very Difficult to predict team.
New signings had a couple of weeks to bed in.
injured players coming back..
Makes for some interesting pub talk pre match. 

Very Difficult to predict team.
New signings had a couple of weeks to bed in.
injured players coming back..
Makes for some interesting pub talk pre match. 

From top of Snowdon yesterday.
Massively lucked out on the weather..

I lived Bob Davison, but anyone suggesting him over Dean Saunders is off the mark. Dean was Bob with dials turned in every department. Miles better.