Chris_Martin

its not really the fact we lost, its the way we lost

I struggle to remember a time I’ve been so incensed by a performance or a result. I feel absolutely conned for finally allowing myself to believe in Derby County in their current form. I felt physically sick at the performance from the first 30 minutes that I just wanted to remove myself from watching the game. It was a disgusting display. A horrible game. I watched the Mansfield and Colchester game before hand and both of them were MILES ahead of what I had to endure in that first half. 
Warne fell upon a system with Gayle upfront and it all started to click, when you see the performance today it’s apparent that he knows what he wants to achieve but doesn’t have a plan on how to achieve it. Gayle was an easy solution at the time, I’m sure all things being well that he wouldn’t have signed him. Today really played out all my worst fears - I’m just glad that I was able to monetise us not winning promotion whilst we sat in our best situation. I have absolutely no faith in this team and less so in the manager to find a solution. 
I like him as a person, I even find his management and coaching not without merit, but why waste the best part of £10m on keeping an category one academy when you have such a short-sighted approach in the first team. It makes no sense to me. If we fail this season, there is absolutely not way he can remain as the Derby County manager for the next rebuild. Get him gone. 

At this stage of the season Warne should know how to get the best of the team. That doesn't rule out an off-day, but it should rule out off-days of this magnitude, and of this frequency. The biggest issue is that he got us reverting to hoofball, which hasn't worked whenever we've tried it, and strangely enough it didn't work this time, either. So we got him pre-match blathering on about the threat Northampton offered, and that we would have to defend with our lives, and clearly set up in fear of them, when with our comparative league positions and current form they should have been scares witless of us. Hourihane has told us that if they don't play the way Warne tells them then they get dropped. So today's tactics have to be on him. And when, as a bunch of players you know you can do better, and are being forced against what you know will work, is it any wonder that they looked, to be frank, hacked off at times?
And I brought the ref into it because he really was poor. If he had given the free kick for the blatant foul on Wilson, and the card that should have followed, Northampton wouldn't have broken away and scored, then our terrible defending would have mattered, or actually even taken place. So effectively he did cost us the game, but I would never make that claim, because it was our shocking defending that cost us the game. But the ref did nothing about the timewasting even before the goal, or Northampton stealing 5 - 10 yards and more for every throw and free kick, but was actually quite hot on Derby players for their throw-ins. And although Sibley deserved his yellow, maybe if the ref had given the free kick and yellow for the foul on Sibley immediately before he got his revenge, then that yellow card for Sibley wouldn't have happened. Or an offside on CBT after he had run through from the middle of a group of players before the ball was played.
But my main reason for pointing out the ref's abject performance, and why I didn't include the detail i have just given, was to highlight the fact that Derby County' performance was even worse.

It's because the league is crap and we have been slightly less crap.
 

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Hourihane

Warne is such a poor manager, he really is. 

U know were still second in the table no matter what bolton do?
been crap today but i wager any team in the country would look pretty crap without their main frontman
…. and then his replacement

Yes 

Would any other manager with the team in this position in the league divide opinion so much? Strong likelihood those against Warne are correct and those in favour are slightly blinkered by us somehow being 2nd despite Warne. 

This is so bad, I can’t put it into words. Diabolical performance. But let’s face it, there have been quite a few of these this season. 

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We won our most important game in a long time on Saturday and all you have done since is spout your usual negative b*******. Seriously, why don't you just take a day off and let the fans enjoy the moment instead of trying to rain on everyone's parade. Better still, why don't you disappear and only come back when DCFC are actually bringing some joy into your life.

didn't he sub on smith a defensive mid for gayle though
yes i would still say that, because we could of absolutely walked the league this year. My main problem is that these players are capable of playing a far more advanced level of football than this  
I'm not bothered whatever formation we play. Warne can pick any formation, the style and tactics will always be the same though. 

don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that

don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that

don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that

don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that

don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that

If warne got his tactics spot on, then why did he have to change it so drastically at half time?
 

If warne got his tactics spot on, then why did he have to change it so drastically at half time?
 

If warne got his tactics spot on, then why did he have to change it so drastically at half time?
 

If warne got his tactics spot on, then why did he have to change it so drastically at half time?
 

the point i was trying to make is that the promotion race is easier than last year
Ipswich, Sheff Wed and Plymouth were both great last season, barely dropping any points. Ipswich are one point off top of the championship
Reading have come down with a points deduction, and have been forced to sell players and can't afford to buy. Blackpool have really struggled this season. Wigan have also struggled at times and had to sell players. They also have had a points deduction this season. 
Barnsley, Bolton, Peterborough are all kind of where they were last season. Which really just leaves Portsmouth who have improved in comparison to last season
So overall, it is clearly easier to get near top of the league this season