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It’s only half the season but, regardless, I wouldn’t consider 46 games a particular big sample in such a low scoring, random sport. I am admittedly no expert whatsoever though and would happily be corrected if someone works in sports getting or something

This sounds suspiciously like anti warne rhetoric 🤔 Jokes aside- those post 90 stats are so close to other teams that they’re not worth considering. In fairness, likewise with the 75-90 stat. We could easily score none for the rest of the season. Too few games, too small sample size to read into it too much

Looks like he’s staying then- really pleased. I think, like Bird and Cashin, he’s miles ahead and of this league in terms of quality. Hopefully we can sign him permanently in the summer and then he can bang in 30 goals in the championship next season and lead us to title glory

I’m obviously very pro-Warne but I do find it a little sad that there is only room for one up and coming youngster on our bench tonight for the EFL trophy Compare it to teams like Liverpool, City, Arsenal who all regularly start/bench youngsters across all formats and play at a much higher level. Disappointing after seeing so many debuts in recent years

Not just that, he’s an excellent football player. Physically though, I think there’s something wrong with him which means he can barely run

It’s sad but I just can’t see Warne giving Robinson or Brown a start. Hope I’m wrong

I do think Hourihane is a bit of a liability without the ball. Sometimes he’s so slow I actually say wow. Given the naff opposition we come up against in this league, however, we often get away with letting unmarked players break into the box so it’s probably worth having him in for his in swinging corners Bird is top drawer.

I half remember an horrific stat after Waghorn left: Derby released 8 players on a free since 2018 who they signed for a fee with a combined loss of (around) 40 million quid Blackman, Johnson, butters, waggy, jozefzoon off the top of my head and that’s over 20 mill Shows we weren’t the smartest buyers, certainly pre Clowes

Behave

Getting Joe Wilkinson in as a free-kick specialist. Heard it yesterday at Moor Farm

Bring him home

Anyone know what the Peterborough players’ celebration was about for the third goal. Really incited the crowd and they definitely seemed like they had a bone to pick. Behaving like that has a way of biting you

He was utterly anonymous the few times I saw him play for Forest Green but hard to judge given they’re one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen 😂

Technically, I think Bird is one of the best players in the squad. He does seem to lack ambition though on the pitch. I think, with his ability, he’s never going to be far from getting really good numbers but it just keeps not happening. Reminds me of Hughes a bit.

Fair play to you. I don’t think it’s anything to do with Warne changing anything though. I genuinely think it’s just that 15 games or so was never going to be enough to judge the squad. I think they’re now much fitter and more accustomed to the style so the football is better. I also think we had some rotten luck/decisions in early season and that has started to turn. We’ve also got a lot of fit players- Bird, Hourihane, Thompson, Barks, Wilson are all arguably key players who missed chunks of our inconsistent start through injury I don’t doubt for a second we will have a poor run between now and May so I’m not going to be smug and say anyone is right or wrong- they might still finish 7th yet

I think there’s quite a few players in the squad who would be good enough in the championship plus a few younger ones who are nowhere near their ceiling (Bird, Sibs, Thomson, Wilson) I don’t think it’s a total rebuild. Probably would still need to sign potentially ten players though

I love how smug this thread has become 👏👏 let’s enjoy it now before going 9 without a win in Feb/March 😂

I remember playing Birmingham a few years ago and Jutz scored two. It led the commentator to remark that Jutz had scored 11 of his then 99 career goals against Derby and therefore over 10% were against us 😂

Apologies if this has been answered but is it televised?

I know what you mean but I doubt anyone’s gonna be desperate for Cashin because I don’t think any Prem club will be buying him with a view to him improving their first XI (yet)

Disappointed with the first team line up tonight. I appreciate it’s easy to criticise Warne and, if we’d been pasted with a team of kids, he’d have been criticised for not taking the competition seriously. I also know he has to keep squad players happy who might not be playing. However, I think it’s a bit silly that not 1 young talent started the game 🤷‍♂️

Horses for concourses, I suppose

Saying “I just prefer standing at a football match” is a real red flag for me. Sit down, my knees hurt

I think this is a part of it. I do wonder whether we should change what we consider success. It’s not like we’re ever going to win the Premier League. Highly unlikely we’ll ever finish top 10 in the top division ever again. Begs the question: what are we striving for? Maybe we should strive to be as good as possible with minimum 5 academy grads in each starting 11. If that ends up in the Prem, great. If we end up staying in League 1, so be it. Obviously this is completely hypothetical but I think it would be a novel interesting way for the club to operate

I meant in terms of that being the start of the academy really being used. It wasn’t until Rooney/Rosenior where we were giving 5-10 debuts a season. More out of necessity though, I suppose. It definitely shows that we should use it more that so many that we blooded very early have gone on to be key players here or elsewhere