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Actually disagree there, Buxton was a pretty good distributor of the ball. 

Sure. Morrison, Stearman, Allsop & Davies all on 12 month contracts under £4.5k with Jags and Baldock to come vs Blackman, Butterfield, Anya, Marriott, Shackell MK II, Jozefzoon, Camara etc etc etc ?

This gets better…..making a profit on Joswiak and getting Grosiki in on a free capped until the end of the season and restricted wages meaning we don’t get stuck with a large contract. I’m loving our EFL imposed restrictions…..it’s making us so much better in the transfer market ???

Sorry but Sibley was the most threatening of our front five and only played for forty minutes.
He needs to start as he’s the most likely one to score and/or create for me.

Do we set up to score goals or to not concede goals? The Euros saw Gareth Southgate pick 8 or 9 defensive players every game and it worked for a while but couldn't get him over the line, with an incredible array of attacking talent on his bench. Rooney has far fewer options but a very similar mindset.
Asked in today's Radio Derby interview why Louie Sibley doesn't start Rooney effectively said he doesn't trust him defensively. Sibbo is to Rooney what Jack Grealish is to Southgate. Rooney said he didn't play Sibbo specifically because his number one priority was not to fall behind in the match.
Here's the interview https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09pv3hb with the best version of the interview at 46:30.
Derby's problem is not scoring goals. Louie Sibley is the biggest goal threat our team has. Aston Villa built their team around Grealish until selling him for £100m. If Derby are going to survive (and maybe thrive) this season we need to build our team around Sibbo, not give him a cameo in which to try to make the difference. How best to do this?
I have long argued that the 4-2-3-1 does not work for us and we should be playing 4-3-3 (set up as 4-1-2-3). With the players available at the moment we should have Shinnie shielding the defence and then we can have Morrison and Sibley as the two more forward midfielders, which gives a forward line of Kazim-Richards central and Jozwiak and Thomas wide. So much more threatening than what we have at the moment.
With a team desperate for goals, having your 5 most dangerous attacking players in the line-up seems a no brainer. Rooney needs to learn to trust Sibley, and I am certain that trust would be rewarded.

We can only afford one and that's on a six month loan from Man United.

Great result for us last night, both Bournmouth and the baggies drop points.........I will start a relegation watch thread when I see what Cov and the dogs do.

Well I am feeling quite confident that we can make a good start to the season Derby are the under dogs this season but i think this will play into our hands and yes i feel for roony not got the backing he had hoped for but Derby do have decent young players I know many are worried but I am not but other hand about ownership I am concerned.

I would imagine so. They’d become players of professional standing meaning, depending how many we play, we’d increase our squad, leaving less space for trialists
No doubt the club are “having discussions” about this issue with EFL but that phrase has lost all meaning as the club seem to trot it out for everything 

Oh Kamil ye faithful, joyful and triumphant 

Kamil Kamil Kamil Kamil Chameleon da da da daaaa 
I’ll get my coat ?
 

David did actually say "the morning" for his written report.........just thought I'd put that out there, to be helpful.

+ Emil Riis Jakobsen 

Mel’s comments re the academy are contradictory to what has gone on during his tenure.
We sold Hughes for a pittance to fund a Dad’s Army brigade under Rowett.
Max Lowe was breaking through under Mac 2 then fell completely out of favour under Rowett and Lampard.
If Mel wasn’t happy, why did he back those two to bring in a bunch of ageing players on high wages?
And when he finally looked to go back to square one with Phillip Cocu, he immediately saddled him with Wayne Rooney and pulled the rug from underneath him.
I struggle to understand how somebody acting in the best interests of Derby could do such an appalling job given where we were in 2013-14, 2014-15 and the funds that were at his disposal. There is no malice on Mel’s part, just sheer incompetence and lack of planning/organization throughout his tenure.

Yeah we can’t sell Lawrence, he’s the only one who’s likely to hit double figures goals and assists 
Agreed that it’s gutting that he will probably leave for nothing next year when he could be a 5 plus million pound asset but, if we get relegated to League 1 because we sell him now, we will lose far more 

Lawrence is an average championship winger when you aggregate his numbers across his years here. He's had one good season where he did get into double figures goals wise and that's been about it. A classic case of us overpaying in fee and I'm sure in wages for second tier mediocrity. Unfortunately, we're in a position where second tier mediocrity means he's likely the best attacking player we have on the books. It'd be madness to sell him now because we're simply not in a position to get anything better or just as good for less money. 

Festy is getting the Sibley Summer 2020 treatment on here
in fairness, I think he is only signed for one year so would be typical if he completely destroyed the championship this season and went to West Ham for free next summer 

Wayne Rooney, full pre-season and managerial tactical masterclass incoming.

Bird. Going to be a top player (hopefully for us).

Yes, quite easily. Huddersfield away first game of the 19/20 season. 
Let me guess, "that was 2 years"
We paid £4m for him, a quarter of what we got for Ince, who didn't produce 8/10 every week. And also here is your problem, you expect him to produce 8/10 performances every week, if he did that he would be at Spurs or Everton or Arsenal. Only the very top players produce 8/10 every week.
Complete rubbish. 
As is this. 
As is this. He was very good under Lampard, people only remember Harry "£50m" Wilson, Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori (not calling them, they were very good) from that season, but Lawrence also had a good season. He also had a good 2nd half to the 19/20 season. 

Only become the main focus of humour in a David Squires cartoon! ?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2021/aug/03/david-squires-on-the-football-leagues-return-and-the-rooney-blues

After the cost cutting. What sort of home gates do we need to break even? Are we now paying rent to use Pride Park?

What are the expectations for this season?
With the current thread bare squad, reliance on academy players and a number of trialists, is the aim just to stay in the championship, positions ourselves for a more successful 22/23 and remain attractive to a potential buyer? Or do you expect more from Wayne and team?

Is there any future plans to move away from having betting advertising? ..... Due to increase in people getting in debt through betting and effect on metal health and increased suicides from betting debt. Understand means needs other forms of advertising which i'm sure isn't exactly free flowing at moment but be nice to acknowledge the issue/ have a plan to move away from it in future.

Now we have lost many of our high wage earners, will it be possible for the club to break even this coming season with the owners subsidising only future player purchases, rather than the day to day running of the club?