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Prevented chants of ‘Cox out’ as well which would have been both heartbreaking and funny at the same time.
Cox’s team will always be my Derby County, travelling all over the country watching his bunch of warriors. What a great time that was. Phil Gee through Burridge’s legs, George Williams scrapping on the goal line at Stoke, Bobby…always Bobby.
They were the days when new signings actually improved the team. Chandler to Callaghan, McClaren to Gregory, Davison to Saunders, Hindmarch to Wright, Wallington to Shilton… you could go on. 

I agree. Let’s have more Cox. Something this forum manages to do on a daily basis so why not @Owen87ITK. A 5 part series is definitely called for. Didn’t Radio Derby do a big feature with him a couple for years ago? Sure they did. Remember his Wallington playing at Ipswich with a broken finger/hand story. 
Great days.

Take your point buddy, but its one thing seeing sub-optimal performance, it's another stating he lacks talent and ability. In fairness, most on here do seem to see it but as has been stated countless times, the lad needs to start games, not be given the odd cameo and expected to play at the top of his game. As with any player, games will breed confidence and I think we're stating to see that latent ability coming to the fore now he is being given more game time.

The lad's going to be a top player. It's always astounded me that some folk can't, or wont see it. We've actually got an entire group of really exciting young players at the club right now and it's a delight to watch them maturing into senior football, despite all the distractions and chaos around them.
I'm particularly proud to see the fight and passion they seem to exhibit. Huge shout out also to all of our academy coaches who are doing a wonderful job and have been for a fair old while now. Lots of work still to be done, but some green shoots definitely in evidence.
Here's to a brighter future.
COYR

My interest in football waned many years ago. Hardly ever watch a match if it doesn’t involve Derby. Can’t even get up for England international games anymore. Football has been ruined by money. I wouldn’t support any other team.

I said in 1984 that if Derby go to the wall I'd never go to another match, nothing has changed for me. 

Roos - 7 Crucial save late on and generally accurate kicking to Fozzy. 
Byrne-  4.5 Really struggled against the winger and didn't offer much going forward.
Forsyth- 8 MOTM Excellent going forward - our best outlet and good passing.
Davies - 6.5 Exposed by lack of pace and high full backs at times but reads the game so well.
Stearman - 6 Did as well as could be expected - we're going to be hit on the break badly if we have play them together all season.
Bird - 6.5 Struggled to get on the ball - we are a much better team when he has the ball. Two of our best moves came from his passes - to Watson and through the lines to Sibley second half.
Shinnie - 5 Started brightly but started to lose his battles towards the end of the 1st half. 
Watson -6 Worked hard on and off the ball. Not suited to the wing but looks like he has something. 
Lawrence - 6 Worked very hard but poor quality on the ball, aside from 1 lovely turn. 
Jozwiak -4.5 Couldn't get in the game, and seems to either lack confidence or know what he's trying to do. 
Kazim - 6.5 Won most things - needs other attackers to be running off him. So frustrating when you can see he's going to flick the ball on but the wingers don't anticipate it.
Sibley - 7 Has to play. He's going to do some silly things but he makes us look so much more dangerous. Give him a run in the team and don't drop him after 1 bad game!
Ebosele - 6.5 Exciting player - not just speed and power but looks to have composure of the ball too. Needs to make better runs off the ball in to space - but that seems a team wide problem.

Find all the meltdown over who hasn't been picked hilarious. These players were hardly going to make a difference anyway. As long as he selects the likes of Grealish, I'm happy. 

Cameron Jerome, when he came I thought ffs, but his goals got us in the playoffs, if he'd stayed I think he could've done a job for us. 
 

When we signed him i thought he was a namby pamby winger , but after getting to know him through his djing around Derby and becoming good mates , im glad to say i now love the guy , Nigel Callaghan , oh and he did prove me wrong he was a good footballer

Just heard his interview,
“this is my club for life now” 
Oh Curtis, my heart 

Great interview with Sibley after the game. Criminal that he hasn’t played more in the ‘10’ position.
I’m not having this as Rooney being proved correct in his motivation for Sibley. Apparently he’s not been involved due to conceding silly free kicks and being too desperate to make an impression. What do you expect when he has 10-15 mins a game out of position? You build teams around Sibley, he’s that good. Hopefully we see more of that in the remaining games and Rooney sticks to that second half formula. With Roberts, Sibley and Lawrence we will hurt teams. 
Sibley has a nasty side to him, I love that about him. I remember an U18 game vs Arsenal, we smashed em and Sibley celebrates the winner in front of an Arsenal defender, goading him. I’m sure Sibley has learnt a lesson these past few days, I hope Rooney has learnt a bigger one. 

Or Sibley has wasted his talents this season, far to easy to blame the management when your playing poorly. 

How can he do more if he is not on the pitch. The first time in yonks that he is given more than 10 mins he shows what he can do...

As shown tonight, our coaching staff have wasted Sibley's talents all season. 

Rooney seems to be holding Sibley to a higher standard than everyone else for some reason.
Its easy to say he has to do more in his cameos but we are all sitting there watching Waghorn do nothing and watching Jozwiak stand on the ball by accident a million times a game while doing nothing else so that excuse really doesn’t wash. We are completely insipid from open play and we have an exciting and creative attacking midfielder twiddling his thumbs. It’s really bizarre 

Yep, Rooney is being a right rick. He's regularly the most impactful sub (even when it's usually only 10 minutes he's given) and it's always, "he needs to do more." Meanwhile Waghorn, Jozwiak, Gregory etc. get much more chances than him and have been woeful for the majority of the time, yet seem to receive much less criticism than Sibley. 

Indeed he’s also a kid in football terms.
Why doesnt rooney call out one of the big boys?

Just pointing out how bonkers it is to try and put Sibley down by comparing him with 1 of the top players in world football. 
 
To answer your question, 'People need to tell me who he is better than in the present team and who he replaces and in what position.' 
Who he is better than is all down to people's opinions. I personally think he is a more talented footballer than Waghorn has displayed in recent times but due to our lack of goals and the importance set pieces now have for us, Waghorn is needed because he's probably the best set piece taker we have. And now we've moved to 4-4-2 I think the only two positions he could really fill are Waghorn's right hand wing spot or alongside CKR. He doesn't offer enough defensively for a 2 man central midfield so unless Rooney decides to revert to 3 in the middle I think that spot isn't viable. 
In senior Championship appearances Sibley has 5 goals in 28 games and that includes 14 of which were from the bench. Waghorn, Lawrence and Jozwiak have got 3 in 57 between them this season (12 of them were off the bench). I don't think it's completely unreasonable that so many of us Derby fans are wanting and hoping Sibley gets more of a chance when our current creative and attacking players have been so poor this season. 

I understand our current situation keeping him out. But that's also an argument to play him as he's the only player who can bag a brace out of nowhere. 
The best place for him to learn, as with any young player, is playing in the first team. 
I'm starting to grow concerned over the handling of both Sibley and Bird. 
Bird is not a DM. Sibley needs to play. 

Gary Teale and Craig Fagan being two particular highlights