RamontheMoor

Is there nothing Rams fans won't moan about.
A win today so we have 3 pages moaning about a commentator that wasn't actually commentating. 
Coming up with new and inventive things to criticise should be considered our specialist subject.

Rather have Ed than Dave Fletcher .
Ed is a Derby fan 
Nothing wrong with Ed Dawes 

It's quite an unpleasant forum on here sometimes isn't it.
The blokes doing his job,has some time off for unknown reasons and gets personally slagged off by fellow derby supporters whilst he does so.
 
 
 
 

That's the spirit.

Clough and taylor .. close the thread 

I’d be worried about how much we were paying him to lure him from Man U. 

That's the million dollar question. No one is really sure. All we know is that he's been here for 10 years. He was CFO when Sam Rush was sacked for alleged financial irregularities. As CFO either he was negligent in policing what was going on, or he was complicit in what was going on. Yet he stayed in post. He was CFO/CEO throughout the MM FFP-busting glory years and eventual admin. Again he was either negligent or complicit. Yet he is still here
At the forum he was asked outright whether he thinks he could have personally done anything differently to avoid what happened with FFP/Admin and he changed the subject.
So we don't know that he did anything wrong, it's just a general feeling of something not adding up - and the fact that when questioned at a public forum he refused to address it doesn't help allay anyone's fears
It's not a witch hunt, or a vendetta - just fans who want what's best for the club. Administration was such an emotionally draining time, we all want to move forward with a clean slate. And we have that in terms of an owner, a squad and a manager. But the CEO - nope - same guy who let it all go to s**t last time. Only fair that we question that
 

Very good point and i can only speak for myself, but i don't care about any of the nice things as long as we win on a saturday.
I know the two aren't exclusive, but ultimately i'd have the devil himself as manager if he got us 3 points on a saturday. 
I like PW as a person and i'm desperate for it to work, but other peoples fears about him being tactically poor etc. seem to be correct. I think maybe Derby is too big for him. I remember him making a passing comment about fans spotting Waggy in a pre season photo and he compared us to MI5. Richie Barker also told a story where he was surprised to see a young boy wearing a Derby shirt in the Yorkshire area, before he realised that Derby are followed throughout the country. 
We're not going to be patient especially in League 1, where there's an unjust feeling that we should be there in the first place. PW seems to be Nigel mk2 except Nige's recruitment was better and he had the luxury of being in the championship to keep us satisfied.

Stevie Howard would be perfect for Warne's system. He'd get about 30 goals at this level.

Tonton Zola Moukoko, why? Because he's a wonderkid.

Brett Angell 

Igor - so Warne can prove to the world that 3-5-2 is the greatest formation ever

That's how I read it at first which couldn't be right.... Read it again and saw as @RoyMac5 has pasted. Terrible site, don't know why I bother with it. 

That's how I read it at first which couldn't be right.... Read it again and saw as @RoyMac5 has pasted. Terrible site, don't know why I bother with it. 

That's how I read it at first which couldn't be right.... Read it again and saw as @RoyMac5 has pasted. Terrible site, don't know why I bother with it. 

That's how I read it at first which couldn't be right.... Read it again and saw as @RoyMac5 has pasted. Terrible site, don't know why I bother with it. 

Wilhelm mate, German CB.

Interesting that the FA statement does not exonerate Wildsmith from the handball decision but states
“The FA has now confirmed that Wildsmith did not prevent a clear denial of a goalscoring opportunity”
This clearly is in my opinion to prevent thre referee from being highlighted as wrong in his decision making. It would be a lot more useful to the game in general for them to just state the referees decision was wrong.
 

Are we going to continue to blame him for everything for the foreseeable future?
Yes, Mel over spent on tripe and ruined the harmony in the dressing room by doing so, he can take the vast majority of the blame for why we are in league one but he’s not the one forcing us to use Sunday league style tactics and making a good squad of players look poor, that’s the fault of our current manager, a man that doesn’t get the best out of the players at his disposal or use them to their strengths.
Did Mel want the limelight, Yes
Did he make rash decisions, Yes
Did he take us from the cusp of promotion to broken in league one, yeah he f****** did.
But, he spent a fortune of his own money doing so and I believe deep down he did it because he loved the club and wanted to return them to the top flight, yes, he’d of loved the adulation but on the whole his intentions were good.
Us currently playing like we think the ball is full of Semtex is not his fault.

I thought we’d already blamed Mel?
I’m under the impression he’s already aware we all hate him?
Does blaming him again get him to right his wrongs?  Is that even possible?  I doubt it!
Strikes me we are better off just trying to move on?  🤷‍♂️
 
Agree about the Clowes/Hero thing though. 🐏

Last year was a nightmare. The almost unthinkable nearly happened - we were so close to losing our beloved football club, founder members of the football league, champions under Clough and Mackay, FA cup winners after the war and European Cup semi-finalists.
David Clowes, a genuine fan with the means to do so, rescued the club at the last minute. He himself says it "was close".
Thanks to him, we have a club, our club.
We must learn the lessons of the past. We must not get into the same precarious mess ever again.
But....we can move on. We must move on. We should now look forward. We do not have to merely be content that the club is still in existence.
It's ok to demand more from the manager, the teams on the pitch (not just the first team but especially them).
We should demand exciting, entertaining football that gets results. It does not mean that we won't forever be grateful to David Clowes for saving the club.
It means we want Derby County to once again be a beacon for good football. Attacking football. Positive football. Entertaining football.
That means passing football, intricate moves, running with the ball, creating chances. It doesn't mean sitting back and hoping to score from a corner or a free kick.
I like Paul Warne, the man. But I don't like his tactics. I don't like his desire to play 3-5-2 with the players he has available, I don't like his use of players out of position or not giving the academy players a chance. I don't like the emphasis on set pieces rather than attacking play.
Yes, at least we still have a club.
But we are Derby County. The football should be, must be, ought to be better 🐏

A squad on paper that should be competing for top 6.
Will the players gel? Will the manager be brave enough to drop certain players if others fit better, (no England manager has done that since Alf Ramsey for instance).
There's a lot of luck/chance/refs decisions etc that go into a promotion season, the only way us fans can influence it is by giving our players confidence and support when they need it and making it hostile for the away team.
 

Personally, I'd miss Collo.
He makes it so much easier to believe that I too could pull on the shirt at first team level.

Sonny Bradley will do OK for us. Some players take longer to settle than others

Warne  “we’ve laid on taxi’s to get home”
Keogh “you want sum?”