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Sheffield Star reckons Joao is a freebie, so he would be my top pick on an initial 6 month deal. 
 
Do I think Warne will pursue the free agent option? No

What an utterly pointless back and forth this has degraded in to.
As it stands and like it or not, Collins is our main man up front. Get behind him, help keep his confidence up and he'll do his level best to get us over the line.
I don't give a toss what his % of his goals are penalties, just that goals are going in. Get a grip. Ive done my share of moaning about our style of play but this takes the biscuit.

There has been somewhat of an over-reaction to us not signing a striker, but there are good grounds for the frustration. Firstly, our manager admitted that he held back from January transfers last season and it cost us, as did his lack of rotating the squad to avoid burnout. So what has changed? Well we have signed a midfield muscleman, which we needed, and it will strengthen our midfield, assuming Paul Warn actually plays the three in midfield which we need to. Otherwise midfield will remain open-season to the opposition. And we have signed a good winger. But the lack of squad rotation has resulted in us sending a striker out on loan. The word is that DJB is not considered ready for "men's football". A number of people have complained that he should have been given opportunity with the "who's bothered" cup matches, but apart from 45 minutes out of position (where have we seen that before?), Dajun didn't get a look in. I am of the mind that his 45 run-out was for a purpose - he should have been played off Collins, not alongside him, effectively in his shadow. Whatever, it rendered Brown ineffective, proving that Warne was right, Brown isn't ready for the step up. The lad hasn't featured since. There are other U-21s who have had the door slammed in their faces as well, again with a number of people saying that they weren't ready. However, when admin came to town we were forced to used a whole load of the kids, and the truth is a number of them stepped up to the plate magnificently. If ever there was a time when the kids wouldn't be ready, it was when they had to face the trauma of what was happening on top of their step up to the first team. And there are loads of other clubs who do give chances to their youngsters, yet somehow we only seem to have little boys who freeze in front of the bright lights. Really?
Secondly there is the absolute gaffe of letting Brown go out on loan when we were staring a striker shortage in the face. Warne says that we have been badly let down  late on by selling clubs over strikers we had lined up, but it isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. Why not hold on to Brown until a new striker had come in? It's not rocket science!
But this isn't the first, nor is it the second time we have faced an underwhelming transfer window. In reality this type of fiasco is actually normal, as though it is part of the Derby way. So the moaning isn't "So where is the striker?", it is more of a case of "Oh no, not again!" It has gone on for years and years. The only improvement is that we haven't had key players going out for the equivalent of a packet of Haribos, a mouse's tail and a used condom, which has also been "the Derby Way" in past times.
But that was yesterday! It's today now, so let's look forwards! I hope that the addition of Adams will move us to a 3-man midfield which will strengthen our matchplay, and mean we can have a greater effect in the final third, and which may just create the room for our new potent winger to do his thing!

Is that Portsmouth and Bolton have done this year? Impressive if they have with the signings they've made.

It matters not.
We needed a striker, we didn't sign one, we had a chance of top 2 and to be fair still do, chances of that happening diminish by the day however.
Whatever reasons and whoever is it blame, the club failed.
We may fluke promotion and this is purely a dropped stitch in life's tapestry (to quote Del Boy), or we miss out on promotion and we languish in league 1 for a 3rd season having lost Bird and the inevitable loss of Cashin.
Tis what it is.
 

All clubs lose money, good luck running a club that’s self sufficient.

All clubs lose money, good luck running a club that’s self sufficient.

Yeah it was. I just could not say exactly what it was as I was told in secret.
I just realised the mood was low so wanted to pick it up and just say look good news is coming. 

If we were aware of Bristol's interest before yesterday, which we obviously were, then we should probably have laid down the law - "You have until midnight on the 30th to get this done or it isn't happening, we'll take our chances at tribunal in the summer".
That being said, even if the monies were transferred at 2259, we could have just done the same with any club we'd agreed a deal for a striker with.
I think the issue is that the deal happening on the last day mean't that most if not all of our targets had already moved elsewhere. Then we were left scrambling around and because we'd made it public knowledge that we were desperate for a striker certain other club(s) tried to take advantage.
I think the only things we could really have done much differently would have been to prioritize a striker over the other two roles and used whatever £££ we did have in the pot to secure one. And, we definitely shouldn't have let Brown go out on loan until we'd got someone else signed and sealed. Brown might not be ready for regular first team action, but in the event of Collins being unavailable and neither Waggy or Wash being back then he'd have been a better prospect than playing someone out of position.

The deal works for all parties. The issue is when was the transfer completed?
I believe it was in the evening and then we asked for the announcement to be held off on the proviso we brought in a striker to soften the blow. If i'm wrong and the monies didn't transfer until past 11 then out of spite i'd have cancelled the deal and let them face a battle for his signature. However i have no evidence but i reckon i'm not far off with my theory.

The Premier League player was a lad from Liverpool, but that was knocked on the head by Liverpool. Was that a case if “We’re not letting our players go there”?

Given the number of players out of contract in the summer we're going to have another rebuild job on our hands. With that comes the "they need time to gel" thing - If we don't go up this season there's probably a sub-conscious admission that we won't challenge next season either way.

Well, I can't tell you how furious I was last night. I felt let down, misled and angry but now is the time to move on, and get behind the players we have. There's no point at all, giving up on promotion, and moaning about our lack of depth, the hierarchy at the club, the transfer strategy, the scouting department or even the owner. 
This has nothing to do with where we've come from in the last couple of years, that doesn't get you a free pass ad infinitum. The club need to look at what went wrong because they clearly had a plan and for whatever reason we came up short but there's nothing to be gained at this point, by singling out people for blame, we have to grab this league by the b**locks and forget what we haven't got.
Just one final point. I am somewhere in the middle on Paul Warne, I'm sure that he's a great bloke to know, but sometimes he gas to realise when to shut the f*** up. A lot of the feelings at the moment are down to him spouting off about what we want to do in the transfer window, just play it cool mate, tell the fans stuff on a need to know basis, lower expectations a little.
Anyway, come on you Rams, let's get the show on the road.

When you realise we have money in the pot for the summer but you realise warne Pearce and Thomas are doing the transfers 

Everyone knew the score by 5 o’clock. 
 
Fair play if you want to stay positive but it’s a disgrace not to land a striker at all. There was me thinking Gregory was poor. 
 
Genuinely flabbergasted. Alright though because Wash is back soon.

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Okay the Bird money going in to the summer pot. But the league next season will be stronger. 
All 3 relegated teams will be up there, 5 of the current top 8 will be up there, Wrexham with their wonga and then the likes of Wigan and Reading if they get their acts together. IMO any funds would've been better spent yesterday at least partly to see if we can go up and avoid the royal rumble of next season. 

Because we’re in a 4 horse race this season and next season it’ll be a 10 horse race.
Theres being positive and then theres being blind. 
  
So if Collins gets injured you think the predicament we’re in is acceptable?

Put a deal sheet in and tell Bristol to hurry up. Or tell them to hurry up at 5 and threaten to cancel the deal if they don’t seal it pronto. 
 
Plus we had a whole month to address this issue. 
 
No way should we be going in to the run in with 1 fit striker. I’m sorry even Burton and Carlisle have signed a striker. Dreadful.

Livid. Genuinely no excuse once the Bird money came in. 
 
Pearce, Thomas and Warne are all useless.

Why don’t you grow up , where do you get off making crass and insensitive comments like you do

Then don’t sell him

Put a deal sheet in and tell Bristol to hurry up. Or tell them to hurry up at 5 and threaten to cancel the deal if they don’t seal it pronto. 
 
Plus we had a whole month to address this issue. 
 
No way should we be going in to the run in with 1 fit striker. I’m sorry even Burton and Carlisle have signed a striker. Dreadful.

Because we’re in a 4 horse race this season and next season it’ll be a 10 horse race.
Theres being positive and then theres being blind. 
  
So if Collins gets injured you think the predicament we’re in is acceptable?

Win, lose or draw we can’t slander this man. 
 
Got a whole fan base resting on his shoulders because of incompetence in the boardroom. 
 
Good luck James we’re all behind you.

Win, lose or draw we can’t slander this man. 
 
Got a whole fan base resting on his shoulders because of incompetence in the boardroom. 
 
Good luck James we’re all behind you.