CBRammette

To be fair would you want your prob last contract to be at Rotherham - sorry nothing against Rotherham but surely the getting derby promoted, or proving those lovely derby fans wrong, or being besties with ryan reynolds, or helping poor beleaguered whoever back are more appealing narratives? If he comes to us he will so want to rub it in the faces of those who hate him - what motivation to score/assist and celebrate! I hope

Bird will only look good if the players in front of him make intelligent runs. If they stare blankly at him while heavily marked he’s going to look ordinary.
Any numpty can knock it out to the wings. 
Warne doesn’t seem to appreciate that knocking it wide and getting the big centre forward to bundle it in went out in about 1973.
We have built a club of good young footballers. All we needed was one or two tougher characters to solve the soft underbelly we sometimes showed in the past.
We seem to have thrown the baby out with the bath water.
Too many players slow in thought and deed.
Plan A should be on the deck. Plan B can be route one.

When do we ever get best case?
Godden would be a great signing and Godden and Smith would be so much better than we have.

I suppose we do need some older heads...

That would be hard to take. My favourite players have left or about to leave. 
replaced by people I don’t like or have respect for

Love watching bird play. Think with better players around him he’d not look out of place. Wasted at 10. 
 
A real shame it’s getting to this point with the fans and a local lad. 

This forum: "Max Bird needs to get more assists."
Max Bird: *Gets assist in the first game of the season*.
This Forum: "Oh no, not *those* kind of assists"

He could have been the country's top scorer, he had 4 decent attempts on goal

Its been mentioned by PW that we have a budget agreed with EFL, before Knight sale I think. But whether there were always limits to that budget from EFL or if they just sign off on the club's budget as long as they think reasonable no idea. 
If the spend constraints are due to DC who has already saved the club from armageddon wishing not to
-further risk the money his family have made or the businesses in which the family has employed people
- or manage the club sustainably after where we got to under Morris
then I am not worried at all. I think we will probably never know just how badly Mel left everything at the club and it is going to be a slow build. There obviously needed to be reinvestment in the decimated academy as well as the first team which presumably all comes from the same pot. 
 
I am not shooting you down saying the above but just I do trust DC is doing things correctly for the long term future of the club. Having said that I do think its important we get out of this division ASAP as if/when crowds start to drop off longer term we will be more constrained

The linesman/person/no mark was right inline, I don't believe he is blind as all in the North Stand saw his shirt almost ripped off, To weak to get involved, I'll give the Ref a get out of jail free card on this one as it was at the back post and out of his line of view, I believe with all the new rules that have come in this season...people running up and down the line with material on sticks are only allowed to give throw ins and offsides.
A further continuation of piss poor officials from last season 😡
 

Or online

He wasn’t clapping.
He was doing an impression of how Wildsmith should have cleared that cross.

My grumpy middle aged woman thing is the drinks breaks. Today they constantly broke up play. Does that get added on? How did players manage until the last season or so? I would get it if hot but today? They all should just have their bottles in a small area on opposite side to technical area and if they want a drink they go off and get one with no coaching and no stop in play. 
 
And yes the music was atrocious. The pitch man bosses everyone to make some noise in the second half then instantly a loud hideous thing comes on (thunderstruck???)  comes on that kills any attempt there may be to sing totally dead. How is that ever going to produce any positive vibe? Also I tried to speak to someone near us pre-match and we gave ip trying to shout over it. Its deafening. We're west upper- is it as loud elsewhere? And I am not old before people start

Didnt hear anyone saying Warne out today. 

I get the whole angry disappointed losing first game thing. But please allow things to settle…… many ages on here. Some won’t be witness to the success of the past.
Heard Waggy and Smith announced soon. Squad still in the making. Read the Bradley signed thread….. he will be immense I’ve no worries at all. This team will grow in stature. 
Still gutted, five ales hasn’t helped much, but we go again 

My grumpy middle aged woman thing is the drinks breaks. Today they constantly broke up play. Does that get added on? How did players manage until the last season or so? I would get it if hot but today? They all should just have their bottles in a small area on opposite side to technical area and if they want a drink they go off and get one with no coaching and no stop in play. 
 
And yes the music was atrocious. The pitch man bosses everyone to make some noise in the second half then instantly a loud hideous thing comes on (thunderstruck???)  comes on that kills any attempt there may be to sing totally dead. How is that ever going to produce any positive vibe? Also I tried to speak to someone near us pre-match and we gave ip trying to shout over it. Its deafening. We're west upper- is it as loud elsewhere? And I am not old before people start

My grumpy middle aged woman thing is the drinks breaks. Today they constantly broke up play. Does that get added on? How did players manage until the last season or so? I would get it if hot but today? They all should just have their bottles in a small area on opposite side to technical area and if they want a drink they go off and get one with no coaching and no stop in play. 
 
And yes the music was atrocious. The pitch man bosses everyone to make some noise in the second half then instantly a loud hideous thing comes on (thunderstruck???)  comes on that kills any attempt there may be to sing totally dead. How is that ever going to produce any positive vibe? Also I tried to speak to someone near us pre-match and we gave ip trying to shout over it. Its deafening. We're west upper- is it as loud elsewhere? And I am not old before people start

Well it seems we have settled on our scapegoat, glad it didn't take 5 or 6 games, why waste time. 

Lost someone close to me recently.  
Mad keen football person. They loved it.
We have to enjoy it wherever possible.
It’s footy.
It’s fun.
Be passionate/angry/frustrated/delighted/ecstatic whatever. But enjoy it. Enjoy being part of something that is bigger than us as individuals. 
Its Derby County. 

Well I'm worn out.....
7 hours plodding around chessington world of adventures in a constant heavy rain punctuated only by 2 torrential downpours of biblical proportions.......
I missed the match and am convinced I've contracted trench foot 🙄

Missed the game today but was able to watch it, points from the performance, we need 4 more new additions 2 forward a wide man and a midfield destroyer, that's as Important as the two forwards, if we have to sell Bird so be it. Played OK but mistakes and just not enough up top, fozzy scores a second the game is won. 
45 games to go keep the faith and if my memory serves me right we lost to Wigan opening day of the season under Arthur Cox and went on to win the league. 
 

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It was like us trying to chase Wigan!

Well lots of happy chirpy people on here tonight, thank goodness we didn’t win eh.

Collins ran his arse off and actually had some nice touches, not his fault the service was terrible, bird passed it out of play from 3 yards and the bloke behind went ffs Collins get of the pitch… the guys just the scape goat