Blondest Goat

Yeah it’s all well and good you objectively presenting stats to show he’s actually quite useful at this level and could probably do a job for us.
You could also add in the fact he scored double figures for a side that won promotion from this league last season who were storming the league at one point, BUT you’re missing the point that he’s over 30 and once played for a club we look down our noses at! (Scoring 18 goals in 45 league games as they won promotion from this league too)

So many people happy to write off players after no more than a handful of games and in some cases a half season that has been disrupted by injury and no significant run in the team.  Sort of mentality that saw Salah and DeBruyne moved on from Chelsea cos they weren't fantastic from day one.
Same people that saw JJ or Fornah do one good thing in their first 20 minutes of football for us and said they were going to rip it up in this league for us.  🙄

So many people happy to write off players after no more than a handful of games and in some cases a half season that has been disrupted by injury and no significant run in the team.  Sort of mentality that saw Salah and DeBruyne moved on from Chelsea cos they weren't fantastic from day one.
Same people that saw JJ or Fornah do one good thing in their first 20 minutes of football for us and said they were going to rip it up in this league for us.  🙄

So many people happy to write off players after no more than a handful of games and in some cases a half season that has been disrupted by injury and no significant run in the team.  Sort of mentality that saw Salah and DeBruyne moved on from Chelsea cos they weren't fantastic from day one.
Same people that saw JJ or Fornah do one good thing in their first 20 minutes of football for us and said they were going to rip it up in this league for us.  🙄

Couple of things here, last season was our first in League 1, not only would incoming players be sold the bounce straight back up dream, Rooney was still around whilst deals were being lined up.
18 months later, are we to believe Warne hasn’t signed any quality players, players which have us 2 points off the automatics? Nelson, Wilson, Ward, are they crap?
To top it off and suggest Warne isn’t respected at this level, come on, his CV will earn him respect, let’s not needlessly slander the guy because we’re not signing players that we want and he may have no interest in.

We are going to win this trophy.
The simple reason is that I am going on holiday across the date of the final. We are therefore bound to get to Wembley and bound to win it. We will lift the only cup trophy we will ever win in my lifetime and I won’t be there to witness it. It seems inevitable. 
I hope you all enjoy your day out. 

Vickers actually passed the ball out a few times and once through it out quickly to get us going. Something Wildsmith doesn’t do 

We need to find a league one defender that never makes any mistakes.  It's as simple as that.  🙄
 
Would imagine it will because we just don't look as comfortable as a 3. 

More nonsensical hyperbole used to slate someone who is doing their job for the team. I’ll admit he’s not the imperious defender many of us hoped we’d signed, but he’s played his part in winning more games than we’ve lost, contributed to the cup run which has provided the opportunity to rest others in order to keep them fresh for the league campaign, and put in headers and blocks today.
This is the definition of the word “disaster”, in my opinion it’s nowhere near applicable to Bradley. I appreciate others won’t agree, but it’s genuinely an excessive choice of language for a player who doesn’t look as good as we’d hoped, nothing more than that;
 

We need to find a league one defender that never makes any mistakes.  It's as simple as that.  🙄
 
Would imagine it will because we just don't look as comfortable as a 3. 

I’m not gonna offer an “it’s early yet he may come good comment”, but there were defensive headers Bradley did win in that game and ultimately we’ve won so he doesn’t need labelling “disastrous” in my opinion

Should've stuck with the back 4 that let in 5 on the last two games.  Not in the slightest bit calamitous for the Boro winner either.  🙄

Bird clearly is best in a 2 behind a 10 in a team who like to dominate possession, we rarely play a formation to get him playing to his max (excuse the pun) and we never play possession football anymore. So I do think he’s unlucky as we’re not really suited to him at all anymore. If he doesn’t want to sign a new contract, sell him and with the money on top of whatever we already are willing to spend we could sign 3/4 players to help get us with promotion with loans and perms.
I love Bird and would be happy if he stays but it could benefit all 3 parties involved if he does go this January. I certainly would keep cash out of the two of them if that was a choice needed to be made 

I thought similar the other day during the Peterborough game. Their entire midfield 3 cost probably roughly what we’d want for Bird. Usual caveats obviously, only one game, different roles in teams etc but all 3 were excellent.
Selling Bird doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Historically we are poor buyers though so would depend what we did after.
Not a criticism of Bird really, he’s a very good footballer - for example I think if you put him in the Peterborough midfield with the way they play he’d look great. But rightly or wrongly we don’t play like that and I think if Paul Warne was building his ideal prototype midfielder it wouldn’t be anything like Max Bird. 

I’m just not sure anyone can say that yet though, we’ve not seen enough. I agree he was bought in due to his athleticism. This was fully displayed in his late game heroics when he set up NML a few matches ago. He's unlikely to play the CDM role alone, whereas in the current 442/4231 he would be an athletic upgrade as one of the 2 in the middle.
I'm not saying he is amazing, I’m saying I don’t know what he is. I don’t think any of us do

Indeed.  By people who think they are better fans for not being critical of the manager or who seem to take personal offence over said criticism.  Strange behaviour for adults either way.

I thought Washington was starting to look quite useful with a couple of goals in the home games against Exeter and Northampton. 
Then he got injured.

This one’s for @Blondest Goat
I personally admire fans that get behind the coach, manager, players and support the football club they support and when Derby County struggle that’s when they need their supporters the most, so it’s support them, wherever, whatever and we all saw that, when supporters of all ages marched together to Pride Park with the same goal of saving our football club, side by side together, with not one fan beside another saying or stating or implying on social media or this forum that they are a better fan for whatever reason, just loyal supporters that are proud to be Derby County supporters.
It’s only folk, especially on social media, that want to create something out of nothing, or imply that a certain person or person(s) are this or that from conclusions they have made or made up.
Up The Rams 🐏

Indeed.  By people who think they are better fans for not being critical of the manager or who seem to take personal offence over said criticism.  Strange behaviour for adults either way.

I think it's just the desire to boot the ball as far away from his goal as possible.  Never understand why we do this.  Just play it to the defenders, play it round the back, keep possession and if we have to go back to Wildsmith to launch it at least we have run the clock down a little.  It's the same result but has taken a few more seconds off the clock. 
Thought without the ability to bring Bradley on yesterday we might not sit back so much and invite Boro onto us but it made no difference and cost us points yet again.

I think it's just the desire to boot the ball as far away from his goal as possible.  Never understand why we do this.  Just play it to the defenders, play it round the back, keep possession and if we have to go back to Wildsmith to launch it at least we have run the clock down a little.  It's the same result but has taken a few more seconds off the clock. 
Thought without the ability to bring Bradley on yesterday we might not sit back so much and invite Boro onto us but it made no difference and cost us points yet again.

Be interesting to see Mason-Clark up against Nyambe.  Glad Nyambe is still here for this one.  Could be a good dual.

Be interesting to see Mason-Clark up against Nyambe.  Glad Nyambe is still here for this one.  Could be a good dual.

I get a bit bored with all the Bradley comments.  My missus says "watch out" every time he comes on FFS.  We're in League One.  He made a mistake in his first game for us and made a nervous start after that.  Did people expect us to sign players that never make mistakes?  We're incredibly lucky to have the back four that we do, at least two of them are too good for this level. But even they make mistakes.  We conceded two goals in the first 15 minutes yesterday.  Were none of our defenders at fault at all for either goal?  It's always Bradley that's on the receiving end of the negativity though.  I don't see it.  He hasn't done anything wrong for some time now.  

Might still be! It’s nearly 2024.