Srg

England need to get in the absolute bin today. Awful. 

4 hours ago, Magicman said:

Most people in his position would have access to the best counsellors and medication so no excuses he should have been able to play but my view is he couldn't be arsed - too much money too young and off field distractions. 

Bet you think drunk addicts can't be arsed to not take drugs.

4 minutes ago, VulcanRam said:

Tidy finish. Any chance he can bring that striker back with him? 

25, plays in the Guatemalan top tier. Bagsman for them and the national team at roughly 1 in 2. Sense if you actually wanted him and could get a work permit, then we would be able to get him.

26 minutes ago, valakari said:

Am i missing the point???

If we get £1m transfer fee, plus £1m wages ( £20k per week), thats £2m.

How much do we still owe Arsenal??

Surely we should have, at the very least, instigated a bidding war to cover what we owe!!!

Very poor negotiating in my book....

Hope its not still Stephen Pearce at the centre of it all!!??

Tell me, Mino Raiola, how we go about creating a bidding war for a player with a history of two ACLs, is known not to want to play for us, has 1 year left on his contract and the whole footballing world knows we literally can’t afford to have to pay his wages this season?

The fact he’s gone permanently for money and not just on loan is astounding business. 

ACL by November?

in all seriousness, great player when healthy but the fact we are getting some actual money for him given his wages we couldn’t afford is excellent. 

Was expecting Leyton Orient but he might live in the Birmingham area and Cheltenham isn’t too far if he does. 

12 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

Shocked by the amount of negativity towards Bird. I think he’s one of the most cultured and technically gifted players we’ve produced in years and would much rather hold onto him over Knight or Sibley.

Unfortunately I don’t think we’ll see the best of him under PW; he seems to favour the Bryson/Knight type of midfielder from what I’ve seen so far. My only hope for him in the immediate is that Warne can give him the Barlaser treatment as the 1 in a 3-1-4-2

Don't get your second paragraph there. Warne has said how important Bird is in the past and you can't have a team of one or the other type. Bird has all the tools to be better than Barlaser and he was a player Warne liked a lot. 

Just think this pigeon-holing and presumptions over what Warne does and doesn't like is getting a bit daft.

Just hope we don't have that blue and yellow from the logo on the shirt.

Not really. Stewarding and staffing costs for those stands far outweigh those like yourself that wouldn't go.

2 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Surely you work hard because you have that belief? We are too big for this league with all our resources - even under this business plan. Why do you think Warne thought last season a failure? Why shouldn't we expect promotion this season? We have the resources to put together a very good squad, if we don't do well then it's the managers fault.

Too big for this league doesn't always equal the same reason we should want/expect promotion.

You need good players, hard work, togetherness, tactics and all the rest of it. And those are the reasons Warne will have been disappointed, not because we have some nonsense divine right to go up.

Similarly, there's a difference between expecting promotion through those reasons I mentioned, and expecting it just because we're Derby County as many are seemingly doing.

14 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:

I do like Jason Knight, a lot, but for an attacking midfielder anybody looking at his numbers from the outside would surely say he didn’t score enough goals last season, nor did he have enough assists. And that’s playing in League One.

Also, it doesn’t matter how much we think he’s worth, he’s only worth what someone is willing to pay.

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On the other hand, there’s a gamble to be had here in that if we don’t sell Knight, and we get promotion, he may be willing to stay and sign a new contract in the Championship with Derby but, if we don’t go up, or he’s unwilling to extend his stay, he can leave for nothing next summer.

Played as much anywhere else as he did as any form of attacking midfielder, but therein lies the Knight conundrum.

39 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

There are, of course some poor teams in this division but I really don’t think it should be “automatics or else” for PW. Do you not think it’s reasonable to consider Barnsley and Bolton as serious contenders? There will be other teams that are also expecting an improvement on last year (Portsmouth?) as well as a potential surprise package or two.

For me it has to be: automatics is the target (as it should be for half at least dozen other teams) and reaching the playoffs is minimum expectation. The consequences of achieving anything less is of course dependent on circumstances. If we finish 7th on goal difference having lost some key players due to injury then we dust ourselves down and start again. If we finish in the bottom half of the table with no mitigating circumstances then DC may have a serious decision to make.

Regarding the size of our support, sadly league tables are not determined by attendances. Also, don’t forget, there are certain clubs that finished above us in the league pyramid that may well get bigger attendances if they had bigger grounds. If we were still at the BBG we wouldn’t be “the 18th best supported club in the country”.
 

The “we’re Derby and we are too big to be in league one” stuff needs to stop. Have to humble yourself in this league because only by working as hard as every other team, who may well consider us a big scalp, will we actually achieve what we want to. Fans having that attitude doesn’t help. 

Reading winding up petition confirmed. 

58 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Cheers Jubbs, yep, I thought as much. I'd favour his info over the other account which I think just maybe just regurgitates whispers as fact.

It’s not even a question. One is a plugged in local journalist and the other is a bored, sweaty teenager in his bedroom. 

6 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

Bristol Rovers have signed Javani Brown after his exit from Exeter.

Brown is, of course, due to stand trial in July accused of physically assaulting a woman. 

Bristol Rovers' manager is, of course, Joey Barton.

I mean, what could go wrong?

Saw this. What a match made in heaven. Wonder what their fans think. 

23 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Sorry to ask but why don’t you think anyone would be interested in paying that much?

Because the word was Charlton’s accepted bid was £300k less than this. 

33 minutes ago, Eoghan1884 said:

7 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Surely May would sprint here from Cheltenham if we want to sign him ? @Big Trav what's the score ?

The Yard’s milkshake machine is broke. 

Basically zero chance anyone pays £500k for May.

4 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Best 11 from last season based on minutes per goal contribution in that actual position:

Wildsmith (0)

Knight (1064)   Davies (698)   Roberts (286)   Barkhuizen (160)

Mendez-Laing (180)   Hourihane (233)   Sibley (310)   Dobbin (209)

McGoldrick (98)  Osula (118)

 

In a full 46 game season. Remarkably, that works out as 101 goals in the season (201 contributions). The deadly front 2 of McGoldrick and Osula would have a combined 77 goals and assists, and Roberts would have 14/15 from CB 🙃 This would Match Ipswich's seasonal total.

Using only those currently contracted to us and the record last season, we end up with just 65 goals (130 contributions)

Wildsmith (0)

Nelson (2278)   Cashin (2214)   Forsyth (3494)

Ward (239)   Hourihane (233)   Bird (448)   Barkhuizen (160)

Mendez-Laing (180)   Sibley (310)

Collins (227)

Full list here:

And this is where stats without context is a problem. Osula scored goals in cup games against lower league opposition (including non-league opposition). This is not representative of a League One season whatsoever.

1 hour ago, Mihangel said:

I'm sure I've got one somewhere you can have, may be in the loft! Remind me!!

Just FYI before you go giving them away, they're worth £100+

28 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

It is a bit of a shame with the Beeb coverage of Glasto that they focus so much on the main stages - what you then end up with is a fair chunk of ageing rock stars huffing and puffing their way through their greatest hits (or embarrassing themselves beyond compare - as per plastic surgery addict Billy Idol singing about "My Generation"). This year seemed to miss a lot of the new band coverage - besides Fred Again I saw very little that I thought "ooh, that's new and interesting".

You can watch anything and everything by the Red Button/iPlayer.

2 minutes ago, MACKWORTHRAM said:

We also need much better goal contributions from elsewhere. Other than Collins, Hourihane and Mcgoldrick. I'd guess not one player got over 5 goals for us last season.

Barkhuizen has a purple patch for about 6 weeks but in the main was massively underwhelming. Infact he was the biggest disappointment signing wise for me in terms of what I expected to what we got. Looked scared to death half the time. Most of his goals came when we were coasting. He just seems to go through the motions. Not a player you want to bring on when you're losing to drag you out if the s**t.

Sorry I went off on a tangent there 🤣.

But we need midfielders to chip in with 5 minimum. Wingers need 7-10 goals minimum. Collins needs to be getting 10-15 next season (which I think he will do playing in a front 2) then the new strikers need to be 10 minimum.

We were so heavily reliant on Mcgoldrick last season 

You missed NML.

Underlying problem was we were so heavily reliant on McGoldrick because Collins was so bad.

Just now, OUTSIDER said:

just planning flights £28 return same day,

there wont be a chance of fixture change in lge 1 would there ?

For the Wigan game? It's possible. No Premier League so they'll want some for TV. Presume Championship will take priority though.