TomTom92

47 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

There has been loads hasn’t there, we probably brought in some of them due to him being out with his serious injuries but not one of the replacements have ever looked better 

Derby's recruitment in the fullback areas has been diabolical in the past 30 years. If i had to make an all time XI from the past 30 years i'd be looking at Fozzy, Brayford or Bogle. All solid championship full backs in their prime, but hardly a good return. Anyway moan over, well done Fozzy. 

18 minutes ago, May Contain Nuts said:

Plus he clearly doesn't want to leave Bristol (the place) as he waited around so long after his release from City to sign for Rovers.

The sooner CM retires the better. 

Would've been happy to have signed him over Waggy or Wash in the summer but alas we didn't and with Collo pulling his weight, signing another 30 odd year old doesn't make much sense now. 

Can't see Bird leaving in the window purely because I can't see anybody spending £1.5m+ on him when his contract expires in the summer. I know we'll be entitled to compensation and my guess may be complete nonsense but i doubt we'd get £1.5m+ compo. 

Warne seems to rate him which is fair as he is our best midfielder, however for saying he's one of our own and has been with us for years, my personal attachment to him is minimal. 

Think he'll leave if we don't go up and is we do get promotion it'll be 50/50 if he stays or not. As long as he gives his all until the summer thats all we can ask for. 

12 points minimum in my opinion. 
 
Hoping Posh lose a couple of players in Jan and somebody comes in for Evatt at Bolton.

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Unfortunately, he's just not very good, and at 24 he's unlikely to improve by much in the future. It's as if our recruitment team went searching for a "more athletic Korey Smith". Neither are good enough to play the sole DM role, and neither offer enough going forward to play further forward. Bird gets criticised for a lack of end product, but he's like De Bruyne in comparison to Fornah.

Think your post is slightly harsh, but can't really disagree. 

Think Fornah's probably an average league 1 midfielder. Signing a well rounded centre mid must be a tough gig admittedly but we really struggle to find a balance between goal scorers (Hourihane and Sibley) who can't really defend and defensive minded players who can't score (Bird, Smith and Fornah). Maybe Thompson is the golden ticket?

If we could keep JJ and bring in another forward then i'd be happy.

Would hate to extend JJ's deal only for him to break down a day after deadline day. That said, we'd need to move one of our forwards on if we brought two in which doesn't seem viable. 

Therefore I guess JJ as a gamble, then a quality winger and attacking centre mid will suffice. 

Just now, Hoppo said:

Come on what did he say? You can't leave us all hanging on a thread like this!

Believe he said Fckin hell to one of the questions. Not in a sinister manner just slip of the tongue.

Sickener. 
 
But as others have said, as long as we react accordingly you just have to accept today for what it is. Plus when you play 100mph football 3 times over a small period against 3 good teams it was always going to be hard to sustain.

Keep shovelling this humble pie in to my mouth. It tastes so good.

14 hours ago, Grimbeard said:

Er... it's still December innit?

Yes threw my toys out the pram because Warne was being downbeat about it. Won’t be able to properly complain until it happens..hopefully it doesn’t.

1st NML, because without him we'd be midtable

2nd Nelson - Been one of Warne's best signings for us

3rd Nyambe - Solid rightback 

41 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

Went to the game and thought Warne’s tactics were sound . Up against a dogcrap team with dogcrap players , who tried to play like Man City . Just wait for them to give us the ball and put it in the net . We should have been 4 up after 30 mins , only taking advantage of one of their gifts. Should never have been hanging on at the end .

Yep watched it on stream and if every team played like them we’d win every match. 
 
I know they’ve had points deductions etc. but if they put that sort of performance in most weeks then I’m surprised the Wigan fans can stomach the it.

11 hours ago, Millenniumram said:

We’re still only fourth, despite the recent form.

Someone had be the Christmas grinch, and it had to be me.

Just shows that the criticism earlier in the season was justified. We’ve gone on an unbelievable run and we’re 4th. Without Warne and the lads turning it around we’d be sat around 9th with 6th place our only hope.

Said it before and I’ll say it again. Whoever has the best January will go up automatically.

Nothing can stop the Paul Warne come back 👏👏

Shaping up to be a similar January to last season. Great..roll on 7th place.

Wonder if we'll go back in for Bobby Clark at Liverpool. Was supposed to sign on loan on deadline day but Klopp blocked it to have him around the first team. Don't think he's played for them though so not sure of that logic.

Credit where credits due I really didn’t think Warne had the comeback in him. 

January will determine how we end up.

Shame they stayed up last season and then have 3 povvo teams this season to save them.

Win or lose Warne will have plenty to say, he’s a right Malta mouth.

Quite impressive from Warne to turn us from McGoldrick FC to NML FC.

1 minute ago, Gerry Daly said:

I thought it was an abysmal performance glossed over by the fact that we somehow managed to win it. We would not have done if Smith had not got injured and replaced by Fornah

But we did win. If we sacked Warne and his successor came in I doubt most of us would care if we stole a victory. 
 
Whilst today doesn’t banish any demons for me regarding Warne, a wins a win and better to feel good about it than pick fault IMO.

10 minutes ago, Srg said:

It’s better than the current alternative though. The pedestrian nature of Hourihane/Smith just doesn’t work. They don’t have the movement on or off the ball. 

Yeah agree we haven’t got much option. Feel like we’re missing that magic in the middle but can’t see us pursuing that kind of player until Hourihane has gone.

Smith minus his Pirlo performance against Blackpool offers us very little. I know Fornah has been mixed so far but rather have him in there than Smith. 
 
That said, Bird, Hourihane and Fornah still doesn’t fill me with confidence.

Obviously hoping we win but if we have to lose I hope it’s to a late Martin winner after Warne’s brought on 3 defensive subs. Twitter and on here would explode.

Cashin has a 1 year option so Brighton will need to cough up if they want him in Jan.