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MickD

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    MickD reacted to IslandExile in Wayne Rooney   
    In your "oh so humble" opinion.
    In mine, he never had a chance given the circumstances.
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    MickD reacted to Leeds Ram in Wayne Rooney   
    Rooney was the right man at the right time for that season. He articulated how we all felt and pulled together a bunch of youngsters and frees who put up such a good fight. We went down fighting admirably after such a hefty points deduction and I don't think I've been prouder of the team and fans than after that fulham match when the game was all but up for survival. You could perhaps argue a couple more away wins which a more astute manager buys us keeps us by the skin of the teeth in the division but it just wasn't quite to be. 
    On the Birmingham move I think it's a mistake by both parties. Rooney is coming into a turned-around side who have suffered their own financial woes recently and it'll be hard to take the credit even if it does go well. Birmingam have sacked a bloke who took them from looking at relegation to a play off place. I can't see it ending up well for Wayne unfortunately.
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    MickD reacted to Srg in Wayne Rooney   
    He made a power play to run the club with a con man and his agent. How can you support the guy when he was getting paid handsomely for Rosenior to do the work, then walked when his crew got found out?
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    MickD reacted to 1977 Ram Raider in Wayne Rooney   
    Will he do better than Eustace - No.
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    MickD reacted to Jimbo Ram in Wayne Rooney   
    The second half of the first season he was in charge ranks amongst the worst football and run of performances that I have seen in 50 years supporting the 🐏
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    MickD reacted to jimtastic56 in Wayne Rooney   
    100% undermined Cocu. His performances on the pitch near the end were awful.
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    MickD reacted to kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong in Wayne Rooney   
    More fool them.
    I thought he was a mediocre manager at best whose wages helped to drain the club's finances even further at a time we could ill afford to do so.
    Plus I feel he was always instrumental in the removal of cocu and undermined him as the manager in his own desire for management.
    And he will always be the man who was in charge when we were relegated to league 1.
    A massive mistake by Birmingham that won't them take long to regret I fear.
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    MickD reacted to Tamworthram in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    We all share the same ambition but, the reality is we may not go up this season either through the autos or the play offs. None of us know what is going through DC’s mind but my gut feeling is that he is nowhere near sacking Warne. I would very much doubt Warne is thinking it’s promotion this season or bust in terms of Warne’s future at the club. That may not be good enough for some of us but it’s not us making the decisions.
    With regard to “bring in someone who can get the job done” who do you suggest? It’s easier said that done. Certain managers may prefer a more entertaining style of football but there is no one (especially one we could afford/attract and is available) who can guarantee us promotion. Logic suggests that you’d go for a manager with a track record of getting promoted out of league one like, errrr Paul Warne??
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    MickD reacted to Tyler Durden in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    No I've always stated as others have on here that the number of duplicate threads being started to say exactly the same thing is beyond tedious now. 
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    MickD reacted to Foreveram in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    I’m sure Mr Clowes will be eternally grateful for any business advice you could give him.
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    MickD reacted to cool_as_custard in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    This is getting so tedious, especially as one man and his trusted advisers are the only people who matter here. Categorically, the business plan will not include funds set aside/ringfenced for sacking a manager. That doesn't mean they won't have considered that PW won't make it to the end of his contract but any cash needed to pay the 4 of them off will undoubtedly come out of the playing budget. 
    Generally clubs are not run like we used to be. We need to remember where MM and his scattergun approach to hiring and firing got us. Changing from 433 possession based with Mac to RealMadrid mk2 with Clement (spunking £10m in one day on BJ and Butterfingers), hard running, lots of effort with Pearson, back again to 433 with Mac v2, kick and rush with Rowett, 433 with Fat Frank, totalfootball with Cocu, Rosenior-ball under Rooney and now the patented League 1 no control but lots of crosses with PW.
    I am not saying Clowes will not pull the plug but a 4 year contract, being singleminded in who he wanted and being just outside the playoffs before Autumn is here tells me it isn't likely to be anytime soon. So the endless new threads by people wanting their 15 mins of DCFCFans glory finding new ways to criticise PW are very premature. IMHO. I expect Clowes will look at all the good things that have happened under PW rather than concentrate on the negative. 
    As others have said, the sense of entitlement in our fanbase is off the scale. Last week wasn't perfect but 5 points from 3 games is 76 points, as is 18 from 11, but with the positives of Nyambe, Nelson, Fornah, Wilson plus Bird, Hourihane fit to play, solid back 5, with Ward back soon. 
    Having said all that, if football owners can sack Eustace with their team in 6th, then anything can happen. But I trust Mr Clowes with my club much more than that.
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    MickD reacted to Archied in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Are you feeling a bit ruff ? Then the butchers is probably the place for you and a few others 
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    MickD reacted to Archied in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Will clowes patience soon run out ? With warne or this forum?😂
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    MickD reacted to Tamworthram in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    As you say yourself, the club is being run professionally (from what we can see) and therefore I can’t see why DC will be running out of patience quite yet when we are sitting 8th (albeit a disappointing 8th) and we’re nowhere near writing the season off as one we can describe as “nearly being promoted” stage yet. Nearly being promoted this season may well be an option for DC even if not for us. 
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    MickD reacted to Rampant in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    If the multi-million pound layout had been on players then we'd all expect more. It hasn't been though and, to be fair to Warne and the recruitment team, if the players we sign in the future are as decent as Nelson, Nyambe and Fornah - all acquired for nowt - then we'll be promoted this season or next.
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    MickD reacted to Simmo’s left foot in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    I don't know about Mr Clowes patience, but isn't it about time these stupid repeat new threads were deleted by the mods?
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    MickD reacted to Archied in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Would it be worth opening another area on the forum like say the Jim smith room ect which is the warne out room where people can open endless warne out threads under countless headings ?
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    MickD reacted to sage in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Agreed no need for another thread but if you think DC won't be seriously looking at dismissing Warne if we finish 8th, I'm sure you are mistaken.
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    MickD reacted to MarsdenRam in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Give it a rest FFS
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    MickD reacted to Tamworthram in Will Clowes patience soon run out?   
    Yet another thread about PW. Very tedious but I’ll reply anyway. 😀
    I suspect he already has regular conversations with Warne. As for his patience, I suspect he has more than most of us on this forum and won’t be going into meltdown if we don’t go up this year or even end the season where we are now - 8th.
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    MickD reacted to ilkleyram in Hard work, instinct, intelligence?   
    Louie Sibley. Always seems to me to work reasonably hard and got a good instinct for a shot or a pass but lacks a wider football intelligence that the likes of Will Hughes has, or IMO Max Bird has. There are times when he, for example, fouls someone or gets booked unnecessarily or gets caught out of position, when I think why on earth did you do that?  
    I do wonder whether that’s why a number of different managers haven’t picked him regularly because on the face of it he’s got all the attributes to be a good player. Perhaps they don’t yet trust him enough.
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    MickD reacted to Yoxoram in Derby v Notts County (A) Match Thread   
    Someone has forgotten Blackpool. It also took the brilliance of Cheltenham's goalkeeper to stop Collins scoring there.
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    MickD reacted to Topram in Derby v Notts County (A) Match Thread   
    Feel for Collins. No one was slagging him last week at Blackpool, game without a goal and he’s getting pelters again, embarrassing 
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    MickD reacted to Tamworthram in Derby v Blackpool (A) Match Thread   
    The worry is, all runs (good and bad) come to an end eventually and sometimes in the most unlikely circumstances. 🫣
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