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If that was his best game for a while he will never be anything more than a league 1 footballer. What did he do. Houihane won us the game what did Bird do? Hourihane is past it but still won the game for us. Bird should be doing more than a player who is past it.

Wildsmith is a better keeper than Vickers.
We have gone away from our solid back 5, for various reasons...Nyambe we can't help, Forsyth is injured, But Wildsmith we can re-introduce!
Unless we buy a better CM, possibly Brannagan or Arblaster, we need to start Liam Thompson in a 3.
Thought Kane Wilson was MOM...he really is the best kid in the playground!
 

It's poor football at times, Bird's neck must ache like a bitch watching all those long balls bypass him overhead every game. It's effective  but only when we are high on energy, soon as we drop off you can see it going wrong. The period before the equaliser we couldn't put 2 passes together for 5 mins it was genuinely awful. John-Jules was poor all game, link up play just never came off constantly rolling around for fouls that never were.
Warneball feels like it's all or nothing to me, either really effective driving teams back or total loss of control. Had an OK first half then after 2nd goal went in the levels seem to ease off and we let them right back in to it. When we finally started whipping proper crosses in things started to fall, one thing I can't stand is floated crosses. Fair play to Hourihane though he stepped up that last 10 mins and pushed us forward.
 

A win is a win but it is clear we need a mobile, athletic central midfielder with pace. Bird and Conor are just not quick enough. We seem to lose the battle so often there. Think Warne should have bolstered the central midfield 20 minutes earlier. Just an observation, Vickers not convincing, poor handling and kicking. Thought Wilson did ok but Elder poor. Who knows what that goal will mean come the end of the season 😊🐏

We dont have a midfield, both are not good enough championship we would get battered 

Not at all impressed with the way that went, but 3 points.
Any of the better teams in this league would have beaten us. They just need to watch our poor set up in midfield

Excellent L1 players ready to step up to the level above:
 Mendez Laing, Nelson, Cashin, Wilson, Wildsmith,  Nyambe
 Decent L1 players who will need replacing eventually at the level above:
Forsyth, Hourihane, Waghorn, Collins, Bird, Barkhuizen, Washington, Smith, Rooney, Bradley 
 Academy products:
Brown, Weston, Robinson, Hawkins, Fapetu, Bardell, Cox, Wheeldon, Thomspson, Radcliffe 

He clearly still wants more pace which seems to be more a crucial part of his playing style, Bird and Hourihane dont seem to have the legs to get forward and support the striker like he wants. Hence the amount of aimless crosses we saw early on hoping Collins could outjump both CBs. He's prob 3 or 4 players away from playing his way to full effect.

At least with Warne in charge the state of the pitch can't impact any of our slick passing play, because there isn't any.

Dress it up with stats as much as you want, his general play has been pretty poor on most occasions that he has played.

Bird 1 goal involvement every 3 games ! Against some of these pub teams . Hope he’s not bragging about that .

I like collins, he was just off side

They played second half and we lost that half 1-0, and created nothing.

Tonight's performance shows we really are not right for promotion.
How many times have we seen this shambles this season?
Far too many!

No and this is my worry ....I'm not at all confident we'll see the type of signings that would get you off your seat...but they might be able to run a lot 
I'm not entirely convinced that managers of Prem and even some Championship clubs see Derby as a place to trust there players development regarding some decent loans which could be pivotal to us getting up

I was at the game and the 2nd half was much worse than the first .Vickers  kept the score down whilst Bird and Hourihane were our soft underbelly.

I know 80% of fans hated the EFL trophy.  But that is the 3rd cup competition we have gone out of at HOME. It won’t matter if we get automatic. Let’s not blame the young midfield that played the first half . The 2 nd half was much worse .

Collins was about 3 yards off side, is the reason he didnt pass 

To finish, we need to create something to finish them 

Fair enough. Don’t think we’ll see anything conclusive either way. But he looked to be ahead of his man to me.   
 
doesn’t change the fact he should have done better with the ball mind you. 

Collins was about 3 yards off side, is the reason he didnt pass 

In fairness it did look like Collins was about 3 yards offside 

Collins was about 3 yards off side, is the reason he didnt pass 

Collins was about 3 yards off side, is the reason he didnt pass 

To finish, we need to create something to finish them