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  1. 3 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

    Enjoy the ride. 🖤 🤍 🐏

    D.C.F.C. Life, Love & Unity.

    Clever stuff from warne Anything can happen in div 1 and our wonderful fans should just have fun, enjoy the ride etc …

    No, No, no

    it’s too far a cry from what he said beginning of the season: failure to achieve promotion in this div this season with this squad is … failure. 

  2. On 10/03/2024 at 08:48, Barney1991 said:

    Also the back 3 just didn’t look like they worked together cashin looked all over the place in a back 3 as it’s picking up different positions. 

    I was wondering whether Cashin was struggling for form in and after Jan, because he was so focused on the Jan window and ultimately disappointed by it. Anyway, I think he’ll contribute massively now in the run in 

  3. 2 hours ago, Sufferingfool said:

    The position suits him as he is much better when receiving the ball in front of him to run on to. His best games that I have seen have been at LB or Wing back.

    Said it before. In a wider ranging midfield role Sibley can look good on the ball but is too often awol because he doesn’t take up the right positions, whether we’re in or out of possession.  So when we’re in possession he doesn’t get the ball and when we’re out of position he flies around chasing the ball and often conceding fouls. But stick him on the wing and it’s easier for him to be in the right place his role is clearer and more obvious (just to pick a word), so it suits him better. The other place he tends to find good positions is in the oppo’s box 

  4. 1 hour ago, Barney1991 said:

    Btw that performance today and vale is how to play 3 at the back. I’ve been crying out to go to a back 4 but if we continue in this vain scrap the 4. We looked solid we moved the ball the front 3 interchanged. Best performance of the season and I loved every minute of the drive home. 

    Yes fortress 3 at the back is good so long as the others have intelligence and energy. Ward and Sibley fit in nicely even if Ward not at his best today. Was glad to see Barks start. Question is whether we can make it work against stronger sides. 

  5. 1 hour ago, Loughborough Ram said:

    I think he does some things well but he doesn't offer the team a consistent contribution in any other position than left wing back in my opinion.

    And I know we'll get the argument that he's never been given a run of games in any position, but it's a chicken and egg situation. He needs to grab the opportunities he has been given and make himself undroppable, and I'd argue that the only time he's done that is when he plays at left wing back.

    I know. I think the question of whether and how to use Sibley - if at all - is one of the hardest conundrums facing our manager. End of last season his starts ultimately proved a mistake (but I think playing close to Didzy is probably hard unless telepathy is your thing).
     

    Tbh Warne has used him more frequently than I thought he would, I was thinking he might be sold cheaply in Jan. There are players who read a game and find their best was to impose themselves.  I don’t think he does that well at all so he’s often underwhelming esp when in midfield 

  6. 4 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

    Only a suggested as a starter by two posters yesterday. You weren't either of them. Of those who did pick him in their suggested line ups before the game, at least one of them (yours truly), did so only because Nyambe is injured.

    Two questions; do you suppose that Nyambe's form might also have had something to do with Joe's limited starts? And in regards to your 'we've paid the price' comment, what is this 'price/ you claim we've paid?

    Don’t blame you for not reading my posts ( I should thank you for not having me on ignore.) But if you’d seen my posts you’d see I’ve been saying for ages Ward should be used more (including after the two dropped bollicks). Most recent was a recent reply to ghostofclough who was saying the same thing in the Charlton match day thread.  
     

    I like Nyambe and yes team selection is difficult because we’ve got a good squad now.  But that’s exacerbated by the flip flop approach to formation which imo is difficult for the players.
     

    The price we’ve paid is that we’re not going into the last stretch with an established set up and the ability to play consistently good football. And possibly we’ve paid in points as well but who knows. 
     

    I fear team selection rests too much on issues of personality and not enough on good analysis of football- based criteria. Indeed Warne has in the past boasted that his recruitment follows the same approach 
     

     

  7. 1 hour ago, Crewton said:

    Naughty step?? A freak injury kept him out for a long time and since he recovered from that, he's been left out of precisely 3 matchday squads, the last two due to a groin injury. When he did get back in the team, his performances were patchy. Two clumsy challenges that gave away costly (and harsh imv) penalties got the crowd on his back at PP and on here. He's made 12 appearances in the 20 games he's been available for selection since that nasty heel injury, but it's only in his last couple of starts that he really seems to have got up to speed again. It's a welcome development which doesn't warrant the thinly-veiled criticism of Warne on a premise that you appear to have imagined.

    there was nothing veiled about my criticism of Warne. IMO, if we want to watch decent effective football, Ward should be in or close to the starting XI.  And his defensive frailties need not be exposed if he is given the right role, especially now we have Adams. Been saying it for many weeks. 

  8. 3 hours ago, DavesaRam said:

     

    Today could be the making of Joe Ward as a Derby County player.

     

     

    You only need to look at the guy on the ball to see his quality, and that’s not new. But he’s been on the naughty step and we’ve paid the price 

  9. On 29/02/2024 at 08:13, Sparkle said:

    remember he has 3 promotions from this league so it must have been just as poor on a least 3 occasions before.

    For various reasons I think Warne is more likely to get 100% buy in and effort from a Rotherham dressing room than from ours   

  10. On 29/02/2024 at 11:11, duncanjwitham said:

    Best I could tell, we started in a back 4, went to a back 3 when Sibley came on (at left wingback), then went back to a 4 when CBT came on (Sibley went into midfield and Cashin went back to left back).

    Drawing pretty pictures on an overhead projector is one thing. It’s quite another to ask players frequently to adjust to different roles in different systems whilst there are players coming on and off, the oppo is throwing everything at you and you’re  knackered. We’re good enough to win most of the time in this hapless div by playing the system that most suits us and one the players are accustomed to 

  11. 23 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

    We have Ward amd Fornah who are seemingly being frozen out of the squad. Thompson impressed in pre-season but was reluctantly put into midfield at the start of the season "because there wasn't anyone else", and appears to be back in the same situation now. Sibley still needs to make an impact in back to back games to stay in the team, and now isn't even fancied at LB over a CB. Barkhuizen likewise- only 1 start all month, despite scoring 4 and assisting 3 in 8 ganes when given a consistent run of starts in December and January.

    Exactly. NML being run into the ground and no sign of Barks or Ward. It’s not intelligent selection   And yes, we probably get best value out of Sibley at LB. 

  12. 30 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

    You've forgotten how decent he looked there last season, involved in our long unbeaten run? I would have had to say what a good choice it would have been, but I didn't need to! 😄

    NML gets knackered and loses his touch and control if he’s overplayed. Which he has been. He should be coming off at 70 mins regularly. Next thing is he’ll get injured. Just as happened to Fozzy when he was required to do teenage sprints up and down the left touchline week in week out. 
    I think Warne, as a trim little fellow who keeps himself in annoyingly good shape, has no idea what impact old FatherTime has on the soft tissues of normal sized men

  13. 3 hours ago, Curtains said:

    Does Wildsmith even care ! 
     
    Didn’t look upset at all .

    Drop him and put anyone in goal other than him 

    He’s our best keeper when at his best.  but his head is in completely the wrong place.  He clearly won’t be with us much longer  

    We have a habit of losing our best players 

  14. 15 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

    Failure” is a powerful word. If we don’t get promoted then PW will have “failed” against his personal hopes and expectations, so he’d obviously be disappointed, but he may not have “failed” against his chairman’s medium term expectations or the expectations laid out to him upon appointment.

    In assessing the manager there is one question and only one: is he getting the players at his disposal performing to their potential ?
    A different question is: if he doesn’t, will the chairman sack him ? 
     

    I don’t think he gets the best out of this team. And I don’t think he’ll be sacked any time soon 

  15. 2 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

    There was nothing to stop other clubs adopting the same approach, so it was as if it was an 'unlevel playing field'. In fact, further down the line it would have put us at a disadvantage before evening out.

    Every other club adopted the same approach tho’. And given the mess we got ourselves into, only a lunatic club would now change its policy. So the effect of the ‘policy’ decision was likely to ensure a common approach going forward. (I know that by its terms the LAP decision allows different approaches, but the effect of the decision and surrounding circumstances is to discourage anyone from changing)

    2 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

    The club could have called upon 'The big 4', but the audit file had been reviewed by the ICAEW and approved as compliant. The IDC also stated "[evidence] was consistent with the Club having been able to determine the pattern of its consumption of future economic benefits from its ownership of player registrations ‘reliably’"

    You’ll know better than I do, but I’m thinking ICAEW review certainly does not constitute their sign off on every technical point that underpins an audit. Or indeed on any technical point … 
    I like ‘having been able to determine’.  The IDC knows that on appeal, evidence is not reconsidered so comments like that are included to reduce the likelihood their judgement is successfully appealed. (No one likes being overturned.) Did we put forward evidence we had in fact carried out the determination in a consistent manner? 

    2 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

    You also must have misremembered that about our expert witness. "The Club did not serve a report from or call evidence from an expert accountant... It took the decision not to call any such expert evidence having seen the factual evidence served by the EFL". When the EFL wanted to submit a late report, the Club weere given another option to call upon a witness.

    ‘also’ !

    It’s true I may have misremembered. But make no mistake, our legal team are the only people who know why we called no expert. If our expert was wobbling, for example , we would hardly put that forward as a reason for not calling him 

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