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I must be a bit odd (according to some views on here ) 
I actually like his summaries post match. Honest realistic, doesn’t want to slag players but will always drop a hint tempered by recognising players are human. As to results, we aren’t running away with as some think we should but we are at it and serious challengers. Then you get to style of play. Sometimes quite dynamic, sometimes a bit predictable. We don’t have a midfield balance or a general. That said, the hit it wide is because that is where our line breakers are strongest. If Wash and/or Waggy were fit we could well see more from the middle or the channels. 
another poster suggested we only had good results because we have batter players. I disagree. Some of our players have elevated natural skills that come out on the best of days but the rest of the time misplace passes, fail to control like so many others. Those leading lights have all passed their peaks and face a match by match battle against younger legs on average. I like Warne. Can’t stand the vitriol, don’t think he’s a genius but he’s a good manager. Derby need a hot shot in the front line and a dominating midfielder. We aren’t failing or playing bad stuff because of Warne. I reckon he’s doing a good job with what he’s got. 

I've got a feeling he's failed a medical so it's probably back to the drawing board. Is he any better than the other 'highly' rated winger we signed, Camara or something like that ?.

You’re right, the finances are totally different. We’d all like to watch flowing football but I’ll settle for where we are given where we’ve been recently.

Why does it? Portsmouth, Bolton and Posh have all drawn and lost games this season, do you think after each of those results they’ve decided top 2 is beyond them? Nothing is decided today. 
 
We had a below par performance with a passable result. Take the point and move on. Still plenty of points to be gained before the season ends and as it stands we’re 3 points off Portsmouth with a game in hand.

Money is the problem when it comes to attracting players. Have you missed the last couple of years?

As long as there were no big surprises for DC after admin, presumably any Bielik payments etc were known about, surely these numbers are to be expected by the company and prob more importantly the EFL. Presumably they have seen them before publication and are happy in accordance with what they expected coming out of admin and our business plan or cant imagine we would have been able to sign someone on a fee yesterday. 
 
cements my total admiration for DC and his family as they have gone from running a successful development company on a low key basis and enjoying being normal rams fans (if actually we can ever be normal) to taking all of this 💩on to deal with. Can you imagine the stuff he's had to deal with?  And after all that you have fans moaning about us not signing people, going over snd over the words the poor bloke said on the budget for this year forensically, and how terrible last January's window was, etc.
the accounts wont tell half the story but to me there are no words to describe what David Clowes and his family did for all of us, the club and the City. I also dont think we know just how close we were to being gone. Also in strange way grateful to Kirchner as if DC had not already been involved with knowledge of what was going on when just buying the stadium, would he have been in a position to act so quickly to save us? 
 
Respect always
 

Has Wildsmith forgotten to reply to a Warne text or something? 
This screams of Paul being desperate for Vickers to be his number 1 and has waited for Wildsmith to drop the slightest of clangers before dropping him.
Poor decision and terrible man management if so.

You can see that their recent form might be stemming from harsh criticism from fans even though they were winning up until the new year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67863544 This interview last week seems like Colby Bishop their main target has lost some confidence and he goes and misses a penalty today. 
This is a lesson for our fans to not be too negative of our players. We might drop the odd irritating stinker i.e. Bradford and we might not sign anyone this month but were in the mix and they need all the support they can get!
 

🤣 Yeah right yourself. He’s gone out on loan to the club where he started his career, to play first team football, why does that imply it hasn’t worked out here? He joined the academy, he’s 19 years old, going out on loan is part of the development of young players isn’t it? 
It genuinely amazes me how many people on this forum seem to default to the most pessimistic and negative stance on anything and everything 

Hear! Hear! @angieram. Whatever our personal views you can’t help but be aware of just how incredibly hard PW et al work for Derby County. They are totally absorbed & dedicated to the job. They so deserve success and I really want them to get the job done. 

Can’t say I feel any enthusiasm whatsoever. There is a serious disconnect somewhere

Congratulations to Paul and his team and very well-deserved. 
I always think a Management team's job is a frustrating one, because if you win it's in spite of you, when you lose it's all your fault.
Enjoy the moment, get your heads down and carry on the good work. 

It was reported at the time the deal was agreed and all but signed, and they turned round at the eleventh hour and asked for more money. Cue Warne talking about ''liars in his next press conference.
There was a lot of talk around this at the time, not sure how you missed it? Also weakens your own argument about Warne having an adverse effect on potential signings if you're not aware of the context... 

Spot on mate. You won't find a consistent winger in league one and if you find one in the championship they are likely to get snapped up.
We are a league one side. Who honestly do people honestly expect us to sign? I can't fathom it.
These are the same people who didn't want us to sign Jordan "currently the top scorer in league one" Rhodes.
We're a league one side, with a league one budget. Some of our fans need to realise that.

Maybe we should pick Warne’s replacement from the Saudi league as the managers over there don’t half manage to attract some players.

Not difficult to see we’ve lost a game (an irrelevant game at that) and suddenly the fact we’ve won 9 of the last 11 league games ( you know, the important ones) is forgotten and people start picking over the bones 🦴 of the last transfer window. I despair at our so called supporters. 

And the club, and the facilities, and the “project” (prospect of promotion etc), the location, the player’s family situations and so on.
Once again quite complex situations being reduced down to simple binary terms seemingly loaded against Warne. 
I watched an episode of “stick to football” earlier in which Gary Neville and co debate the transfer situation at a club and it made for interesting viewing. Included an amusing anecdote in which Keane tried to sign a player for Sunderland (Anelka maybe 🤔) who told Keane after meeting him for a couple of hours he needed to think about the decision, and as he got in his car and drove out the car park Keane got a text saying “I’m joining Bolton cause my wife wants to live in Manchester”.
Yes Warne and his style of football (or lack of) will play a part, but there’s more to it for the players, their families, and the agents involved.

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;
 

Paul Warne has found a way to hand victory to Fleetwood 👏 👏 👏 
New GK and Bradley in defense.
He does know we are playing the bottom team right?

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

He’s playing box to box, breaks into ours in the hope of giving something and runs back to theirs to make sure we get nothing 

I believe Goddard had an agreement that he would be allowed to move back to London if a certain fee was paid.  A favour he was granted as a thanks for turning down Liverpool and coming to Derby.

I think your 10 year old opinion is soundest

Bristol City have more ex-Derby players than Derby have ex-Rotherham players.
They may as well call themselves Derby B. Must be because Nigel Pearson used to be their manager.
#NeedSomeScouts
 

He joined Rotherham in January 2023 until the end of the championship season….while Paul Warne was managing, erm….Derby County.
It’s a rumour but turning our noses up at a player joining from a premier league club just because he played for Rotherham last year seems strange to me