kevinhectoring

really hate this merry-go-round of players. Wouldn't mind it so much if we were going up in the world but being stuck in the third tier (the third tier) is not a strong place to sell the club from.  Those who said 2 seasons in div 1 might be good for us were fools.
(Think I might have said it actually but only once and without focusing on the inevitable exodus of talent after the failure to bounce straight back up)

Hope there’s no steep steps into the building 

fair enough, a while ago I visited Ripley (not yorkshire or even surrey) to have a coffee at my friend’s chichi little cafe. Well it was delightful. So, life is full of pleasant surprises.

maybe. Or maybe it’s precisely the opposite: the fans who get swept up in the nubile bright-eyed promise of some at our academy lose all objectivity and judgement when assessing how good these youngsters actually are. As demonstrated by some of the lala land posts above 

Warney’s training regime would probably finish him off 😂

Out of our young players. Knight, Sibley, Cashin, Bird. 
The only one I'd really hope we keep is Cashin. The rest can go for me.
Knight, I'm resigned to it anyway. Always going to go. 
Sibley. Can almost count on one hand how many good games hes had here? How many managers has he played under? None have consistently picked him. I don't think it helps that he's a bit stupid. Makes stupid decisions, makes stupid unnecessary tackles and gets needles yellow cards, managers can't trust him. I remember one game this season where he was left back and got booked in the first half. Warne took him off at half time because he can't trust him not to get another yellow. I can't even see anyone coming in for him at all.
Bird - 3 goals in 139 appearances. Flatters to deceive so often. I come out of games and question what he's offered? Surely a midfielder that is as good as some of our fans think he is should be dominating games in this league? He offered nothing and in a lot of games got bullied. 
I just don't think Sibley or Bird will amount to anything other than average Championship players at best. Says a lot that the only club he's linked with is Hull.
I think because they've come through the academy some of the fans think they're better than what they are. 

Problem is, players of that quality usually want to play in higher leagues. where there is more money. So it’s brave to think we’ll have a player of his class.
to call him a journeyman is also brave 
tbh I doubt players like didzy fit into Warne’s ideal squad 

Won’t surprise anyone to know I put automatic promotion. As I’ve said before, this league is absolutely s***. It’ll be even worse this season with the better teams gone, and those that have replaced them in disarray. We’re heavy title favourites for a reason, there should be no way Derby County, with our budget, fail to dominate this league. We won’t have a better chance to get out of this cesspit. 
Promotion via playoffs will just about be acceptable, but shouldn’t be necessary. I’ve were still in League One this time next year, the Paul Warne should be nowhere near the club. He’s already failed once last season (how do you not even make the playoffs in League One!), to not get promoted this season would be absolutely abject. The pressure is on, he needs to rise to it.

Anything less than promotion is not okay. The league is so incredibly weak this season, and if we don't get out of it then Warne should be let go. It's really that simple I think. 

the reference to Australian seems a bit unnecessary in this particular context 

We had a stroll around Melbourne (not Australia) on Thursday. It was very nice, we had lunch in one of the many cafes. 

would prefer bale twine’s ropey 

Not if you’ve ever lived in Melbourne mate. As the late Robin Williams said, if Melbourne’s not the asshole of the world you could definitely see it from there. 

the reference to Australian seems a bit unnecessary in this particular context 

Something we need to remember when slagging off other places and accents, is that Rams fans come from far and wide and can get offended by fellow Rams attacking their home and culture. I am born and bred just outside Brum, like ANY big town or city there are places that are not pleasant, but these are matched by some very nice areas and people. How many Rams fans on here born and bred in Nottingham, cringe at the repeated comments about their folk being inbred and having 6 fingers and the level of crime in their area?
I've been fortunate enough to go to Vancouver and Melbourne (Australia), 2 places frequently in the best places to live in the world. But I happened across areas in both, just off the tourist route, which were as bad as anything in Brum.
Let's think twice before slagging off other places and/or people, please.

To quote Mike Harding, Birmingham, how can two million people have a speech impediment?
 

It would be good for him if he intends spending the best bit of his career piddling round midtable championship for 4 years, getting no improvement, then finishing at Preston.  Painful as it is a move to Bristol may be better.  Two years of playing well and he'll get a move somewhere better as their players seem to get picked up.  He'd actually be better of here than Stoke, putting in a right shift for the season and getting us up. 

I think it is what both of them want.
If he wants to leave, we would be mad to turn down c£2m for him in demotivated phase.  That could bring in a good striker, or pay higher wages to one who is available.  

I bet Alan Nixon knew, he just didn't fancy saying.

Sense it’s also because attacking players may cost money. Need to see what’s happening with outgoings and what money we have. 

At least half your client base come on here looking for reliable information/solid rumours, and you want them all kept in the dark.

No, I don’t think you were asking a question about Sibley; I think you were playing to the gallery. Sadly, the simple answer to the question you now ask about him is: no.     Didn’t you know that already ? 

I’ll match him for patience. I read through your entire post (it was a lengthy one even by your hefty standards) where you predicted that Sibley might replace McGoldrick as our goalscorer in chief. All of it. And I didn’t once fall off my chair laughing. (Nor did I laugh when you weightily predicted that Clowes would sell some of his shares in the club within weeks of purchase.) I could go on. Keep them coming; and, please, more semi colons. 

I can’t lie, extremely concerned with this signing and the actual player evaluation process that led to him signing. 
I could be wrong, and obviously every player deserves a chance, but if I had to guess this will likely go down as an uninspired, frustrating signing based on what I’ve read about the player and my own little research that I’ve done about him. 
He was quite clearly the worst player on the pitch against us in the game at their place, laughably bad. 

I’m not talking about interpreting anything. 
 
You said Jason Knight went public with the line that the club would let him leave if we failed to be promoted. He didn’t. There’s no interpreting that one way or another as HE DID NOT SAY IT.