TomTom92

I’m not a Rooney fan. I don’t think tactically he’s been that great at all and I wouldn’t have shed a tear if he’d been given the boot in the summer. 
 
That said the character he’s showing in the face of adversity is unremarkable. Fully got my backing now. 
 
Maybe in the long run this might be a blessing for both us and him. Start a fresh in league 1 with hopefully a decent owner. Wayne gets a full season to continue to learn the managerial lark and further cement his hold in the dressing room. 
 

Now where can we find a decent owner? 

Why would we fail to agree a 9 point deduction and then take a 12 point one? Is there a business reason to this? 

My love for Derby has not diminished but my interest is slowly starting to. Find it hard to justify missing family events etc only to ruin my weekend by seeing us churn out the same old poo.

Personally think there’s still a hangover from the 11 point season. To have the club you love mocked every season is not a great feeling. Plus Derby seem to be the only team in recent seasons that has missed out on promotion and failed to go up in the next season or two. Overall it’s led to us being out of the prem for over a decade and for us to be overtaken by ‘smaller’ clubs. 

Now we’re going through a slow car crash of boring, losing football, with a selfish owner and a rookie manager who has zero charisma. Add in covid and the rising prices of everything it’s just a bit meh. 

The championship is also losing its magic. The 3 relegated teams are always looking good for a return and the ridiculous financial rules are stunting any ambition from anyone else. I don’t think it’s impossible to get promoted as a non relegated team but it appears harder than it was 5 seasons ago. 

I’m not sure who’s more selfish Rooney or Morris. Rooney must know he’s not the man for the job but he’s staying on regardless knowing that he has the perfect excuse in our off field troubles. As for Morris the fact he’s still the owner and still clashing swords with the EFL because of pride is toxic. Both need to go but I can’t see either going any time soon. 

A draw would’ve been fair but as soon as 11 minutes went up I knew we’d concede. Then we conceded 30 seconds in to the 11 and I knew we’d lose. I’m trying not to get to angry as there’s 44 matches left. But losing to relegation rivals is not the one and having Rooney as manager isn’t helping either. 

14 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

no it isn't

Car crash in slow motion. Negative news gets leaked, we all go through the ringer getting our heads around it before starting to come to terms with the news. Then wallop even more depressing news gets released and repeat. Seeing people say be careful what you wish for like we should just accept what’s going on because Dr Evil might stop funding us. The prospect of AFC Derby is looking better day by day.

Mel’s lost the plot. Can someone collect him and put him to bed please. 

Pretty sure he could’ve left in jan. Huddersfield fans were practically begging for him to go and yet he stayed and hardly kicked a ball. Not sure we should be going after players that would rather sit on their bum for a few quid than play.

Not going to comment on Derby because at this stage it’s farcical and pathetic for all parties involved. 
 
One thing has got my back up though and it’s the ‘poor Wycombe’ narrative. They got promoted under an asterisk and then going in to the last match of the season they were pretty much down. Unless they won 15-0 (never going to happen). So us, Wednesday and Rotherham played it as a 3 team shootout and because Wycombe won a pointless match they are now in prime position to swap with us. 
  
If the EFL do swap us with us with Wycombe then it’ll be a loss to us and the championship as a selling point.

Would’ve loved Sturridge this time last season but I question why he’s been out of the game for a season. Same goes for Huddlestone. Surely they’d rather play football for less money than they want than not play at all? But the evidence suggests otherwise.

Really rate Sibley but this season is becoming a nightmare for him. He’s hardly kicked a ball and when he has he hasn’t taken the match by storm like his performances last season.
 
In an ideal world we could loan him out to get his confidence up but it’s all hands on deck for us so hopefully his luck changes he gets some confidence and can become the player most of us believe he can be.

I’m a big Frank fan however I had zero time for him leaving and for how Chelsea behaved during it all. 
   
Derby don’t have much luck at all. In any other season had Chelsea not been in an embargo I very much doubt they’d have gone for Frank. We can only speculate whether Frank would have got us up or not. 
  
As it stands we have far bigger fish to fry than what Frank does with himself now. Shame all round with the only real unconcerned party being Chelsea.

Think Wayne needs to pull a few strings and cash in every favour he'd owed to get the players we need to survive. Need a centreback, winger and striker for me. Another centre mid if i'm being greedy but at least 3 newbies.

                Marshall

Byrne, Bielik, Clarke, Buchanan

                Rooney

           Knight Holmes

Jozwiak                    Lawrence

               Waghorn