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Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

Pleased, but not surprised. He's a thoroughbred as a coach. It's be madness not to use him.

After all the stick recently, thanks are surely due to Mel for some how or other, enabling Rooney to bring in the loanees that he wanted.
Well done sir, always a Ram. 🐏

Since his tenure as permanent manager, the transformation has been astonishing. This could be down in part to how useless Cocu was and the influence of Steve Mac but the major credit needs to go to Wayne. 
Now moving on to this transfer window, albeit very short for Derby. MM was given credit for putting his hands in his pockets again to bail us out. Without knowing the full details, I would estimate that with 3 permanents leaving plus a few other loans (2 for reasonable fees) and 5 loans in. I would suggest that Mel’s spend is a big fat zero, and probably actually money in credit. Now I have no idea if this was Wayne’s remit or money was available but Wayne couldn’t find suitable players to spend it on. Either way, we now have cover for areas we were short in, have viable options from the bench to affect games and competition for places. At very least I expect this to keep Derby in the championship ( a major achievement from when he took over ). Realistically I expect it will enable us to pull well clear of danger, and you never know, maybe even a late flirt with 6 th place. Now that’s what I call management of the highest order. Thank you Wayne 

He needs the thrill of the ball hitting the back of the net. 
Hope that happens for him at Stevenage. 

I haven't seen enough to form a serious opinion on the lad, but I hope he gets game time. Could be a player. Dean Sturridge looked keen but a bit 'meh' until he suddenly looked amazing. JHI could be the same.

His little cameo on Saturday was excellent. 2 minutes on the pitch, and a great crunching tackle after closing a defender down.
Hope he does well.
 

I think this is one of the most interesting transfer deadline days for us in many a long while
lots of links and some more likely to happen right up I’ll until the window slams shut later tonight. Watch your fingers!
 Thank you Mel and Wayne

Boro are favourites according to Sky. This is the one that I wanted here.

Too many teams above us, too many points have to go to one or other of them in too many games. We could catch up 14 points on Bournemouth in 20 games if we show amazing form and they have a Devon Loch run in...but we can't catch half the division.
Bielik injury pretty much underlines that.
I've really enjoyed watching us for the last 6 weeks or so, with occasional blips obviously, so I'm more interested in getting a successful end to the window and then watching game to game and seeing how the new lads can be blended in.
 

Too many teams above us, too many points have to go to one or other of them in too many games. We could catch up 14 points on Bournemouth in 20 games if we show amazing form and they have a Devon Loch run in...but we can't catch half the division.
Bielik injury pretty much underlines that.
I've really enjoyed watching us for the last 6 weeks or so, with occasional blips obviously, so I'm more interested in getting a successful end to the window and then watching game to game and seeing how the new lads can be blended in.
 

Too many teams above us, too many points have to go to one or other of them in too many games. We could catch up 14 points on Bournemouth in 20 games if we show amazing form and they have a Devon Loch run in...but we can't catch half the division.
Bielik injury pretty much underlines that.
I've really enjoyed watching us for the last 6 weeks or so, with occasional blips obviously, so I'm more interested in getting a successful end to the window and then watching game to game and seeing how the new lads can be blended in.
 

Quite excited by the prospect of the names mentioned. Looks to be a common thread...quick, strong, uncompromising buggers on the pitch who can play a bit. 
3 or 4 of these types and we can have an enjoyable end to the season.

Relegation scrap? is he joining Forest

We might not be pretty, we might not get all the plaudits, but oh my I love it.
Experience? Pfft.
Wayne Rooney’s Derby County 😍🐏

The new George Thorne.

Unless it's a Leon Osman, Mason Mount quality of loan, no point whasoever bringing kids in to a relegation scrap IMO.
Can't see this being true.

Unless it's a Leon Osman, Mason Mount quality of loan, no point whasoever bringing kids in to a relegation scrap IMO.
Can't see this being true.