kevinhectoring
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On 29/07/2022 at 15:10, Ellafella said:
Superb initiative. Cost of Living crisis will bite hard over the Autumn. Good to see that the Community in Derby is still looking out for each other unlike the Fat Cats at Shell and their ilk who are a disgrace to the Human Race.
Don’t blame the fat cats at shell. They are only doing what most people would do in their position. Blame the government for not requiring the fat cats to share the pain
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2 hours ago, StarterForTen said:
I see Hull City have just parted company with their manager. Perhaps one eye on Mr Rosenior's availability on that decision?
He has Hull history.
he has only had one post, and that as interim. And the cold reality is, he didn’t get the permanent appointment. So Liam may be on plenty of clubs’ lists as a ‘possible’ but it’s always likely the offer will go to those with more experience. Needs a bit of luck now
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1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:
*Edit: Tommo in for injured Smith.
With what will hopefully be a high intensity system, 5 subs should be expected most weeks. Starters as listed above, finishers to be:
Wildsmith
Chester Davies Cashin
Barkhuizen Bird Forsyth
Sibley Tommo
Collins Dobbin
Yes there’ll likely be a big difference between starting and finishing line ups.
First half we’re going to see a few old fellas running faster and further than they have for many moons. But some of them might not even last more than 45 mins.
Will favour the likes of Tommo, Knight and Dobbin.
The question is: can we maintain quality with things moving around like that? A particular challenge for the youngsters
And how will the old lags cope? Their current fitness levels give them 75 minutes in 4th gear. That’s not to say they can manage 60 minutes in 5th. And all the more chance of them getting injured
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45 minutes ago, rojo said:
I just want to say how lucky you are to have Paul Warne as manager. I've supported the millers for 69 years. Obviously, I've seen managers come and go during that period. As far as I'm concerned, and many other fans Warne is the best manager we've had.
Like Derby fans we went through some dark times. Administration points deducted, lost our ground, forced to play in Sheffield in an athletic stadium. No atmosphere, 4 years in the 4th division.
Paul has many qualities. Excellent staff management, a workaholic. He's articulate, honest and will live and breathe Derby County.
I thank him for all the memories, 3 Wembley wins 3 promotions and I wish him well and as a consequence wish the Rams well. I've never had a second team, but for the first time Derby County will be my second team. I look forward to seeing Paul succeed.
Hopefully Derby will be promoted and we survive in the championship and look forward to see you at the New York stadium.
All the best.
Thank you Rojo Everyone should have a second team
our club’s PR team have overexposed him since he joined which was not the best idea (the break did not help) so we’re looking forward to seeing him on the touchline
He talks a lot about energy, ‘gas on’ and runners. It’ll be very interesting to see how he applies that to a squad where half of the best players are a long way from being spring chickens -
On 28/09/2022 at 22:17, Gee SCREAMER !! said:
Plange was arse gravy for most of his last 5 months here. His goal output was shocking for games played and he missed possibly the easiest header in history in a massive away game at QPR. The other two have more potential in buckets, albeit there on the summer s*** list of crappy exits with a few others.
Plange worked his socks off and if he’d been alongside a n other who pressed high as he did we’d have scored more goals.
But yes he was still finding his feet at championship level when he had the ball. I can’t understand anyone rating him ahead of Malcolm E
(PS Lineker missed the easiest header in history )
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49 minutes ago, Magicman said:
Malcolm E is at Palace BTW but is a one trick pony bit like Ince all left foot
From what we saw of him here ME seemed to have a good all round game and loads of potential . Festy was the more limited player (albeit a force of nature when he got the wind in his sails)
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On 27/09/2022 at 16:52, RodleyRam said:
but people writing off LR completely frankly have no idea what they're talking about.
Who is doing this ?
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3 hours ago, Sparkle said:
I often wonder what Wayne Rooney could have assembled if we just had a normal amount of money to spend on transfer fees to build a side
Assembling (and motivation) was what Rooney was good at. But he had some gaps in other areas which led to him underachieving with those players he had deftly assembled
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26 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:
Now that's the lineup of a brave manager.
I'm not sure 32 is cut out for the wing back role though, nor 21 at CM.
34 hasn't played their before, but he's already been converted from CB to CM this season, so why not go that little bit further?
20 and 31 have their work cut out. Lots of energy required in the LCB AND CM positions and LWB AND CF positions at the same time.
21 coming on for 21 early in the Second half for fresh legs?
Why am I not surprised that you know all the players’ ages !
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5 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:
Tonight’s lotto lucky dip ?
Get down to Tesco’s it’s a winning combination
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33 37 ? 20
32 21 22 20 31
34 31
subs: 19, 36, 22, 21, ??
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7 hours ago, Blondest Goat said:
Love how Rosenior gets hammered for the lack of away goals. How many chances did the team he put together create? Really not his fault that Collins, Knight, Barkhuizen and the rest all missed chances they should've put away. Think really fine margins have costs Derby points away from home and ultimately Rosenior the managers job.
Yes that’s one way of looking at it. Or you can stand back and ask yourself: is this group of players looking as good as they should? Or: with this group of players, should we be losing to that lot? Or: how come the oppo makes more effective changes and subs than we do ?
The xG and other stats only take you so far
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2 minutes ago, Kingpin said:
Just a lot of cheesy ‘Dad’ jokes., and David Brent stuff. But I can overlook all this with winning football.
Hey buddy do you have a problem with dad jokes ?
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20 minutes ago, roboto said:
Wasn’t there some news from the recent supporter meeting that said the business plan was flexible based on how our financial health looked going forward
Ah I though that was a reference to the business plan restricting football expenditure to a set % of revenues. In other words allowing much greater expenditure if we get promotion
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1 hour ago, ramit said:
Up front honesty and doesn't take himself too seriously, i do like that.
And willing to talk about personal issues in an honest and very genuine way. Good to have a manager who does not speak in cliches
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1 hour ago, Brailsford Ram said:
My point was that it was time for a decision to be made - that was always going to be David Clowes decision and I would have supported it either way. Warne had not been mentioned at that time. At the time I would have been happy for Rosenior to be appointed. I became more doubtful having watched the Plymouth and Lincoln games and the fact that Rosenior seemed reluctant to change the system when it was clear that other teams had now worked out how to counter our possession game. I think you will find that I said that if he was not prepared to change, we could not challenge for an automatic promotion place and the best we could hope for was to maybe challenge for a play-off spot.
With Warne's appointment all options are again a possibility.
You actually said LR needed to be appointed on a permanent basis and quickly, before he was tempted away by another club.
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Good of Warne to call rosenior in advance. and clear what he’d say about his departure.
did anyone understand the segment about the 4 year contract? pW says convincingly that he didn’t force that issue. So why is the contract so long ?
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2 hours ago, cosmic said:
Rosenior to Rotherham..? ?
Yes that was a very weird thing for PW to say. I think maybe a lighthearted comment to deflect from the awkward topic of LR’s departure ?
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45 minutes ago, Keepyuppy said:
I missed it - can it be heard on play back anywhere ?
Go to radio Derby on BBcSounds
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7 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:
My main worry was Sibley drifting to the sidelines, but I can actually see him growing into the role we saw him in for the youth sides within a 352 - whether one of the 3 in midfield or playing off the main CF.
Yes the change may not be ideal for Sibley. This season we’ve not seen the energy on the pitch that we saw last year (for a few reasons, including a different balance between age and youth and also (to give him some credit) loss of Rooney’s motivational skills). Warne likes runners and will be wanting energy to balance the more silky players (Bird, Hourihane and McGoldrick). Not sure that plays in Sibley’s favour ...
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6 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:
Clowes made a point of specifically mentioning Pearce in the recent supporters AGM by saying along the lines of he has a point to prove following the amount of unfounded criticism that has been flung his way.
Nice to see Clowes not coming in with any preconceptions or prejudices, publicly supporting one of his staff whilst taking time to form his own balanced opinion on matters.
Q went out of their way to praise him. DC is doing the same. Says a lot
I suspect Pearce regretted not pushing back against MM’s wilder ideas. Though if he had pushed back, he’d surely have been out on his ear.
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6 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:
Honestly, being trolled by you on this forum is like being attacked in the park by a blind, 16 year old demented Chihuahua that’s lost its sense of smell. How can you kick it away without hurting it ?
Butt into someone else’s conversation if you want but at least read it and do your best to understand it. That’s not much to ask
Some questions for you (buddy, mate, pal, feller, whichever daily-mail-inspired salutation you prefer):
- do you know what ‘flipping’ means, to anyone who works in real estate ?
- do you understand why it’s relevant that DC’s comment on his likely tenure as owner was in response to a direct question (errr which needed somehow to be answered) ?
Your great buddy, pal and mate, that lovely fella brailsford ram promised us in one of his constabulary sermons that DC would ‘flip’ the club. That’s not what I’m suggesting. (And he shows no sign of doing that, by the way.) I’m suggesting instead that he begins to get altitude sickness in the championship and - as the fans’ inevitable clamour for promotion to the PL reaches a crescendo - he gets a nosebleed; and that he’s got the good sense to get out whilst the going’s good. (But he might keep the stadium, oooooh !!! )
It’s just opinion my dear friend. It’s what forums are for. If you disagree, just say why. And, oh, I might be wrong ?
woof woof
KH x
PS If you can muster a reply, I’d like iambic pentameter please
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Cambridge Utd v Derby (A) matchday thread
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I don’t think Warne will play Bird AND Hourihane. Or if he does, I don’t think he’ll do it twice.
And the formatting of your squad is very confusing. Looks like NML and Barks are in a 3 legged race.