kevinhectoring

We might scrape playoffs by some miracle but we're nowhere near good enough to go up.  

Threadbare yes, but if all he can offer is this disjointed stuff that he calls footie, that's no good enough for me. I have had it with the "small squad", "no money", "we are lucky to have a club narrative". If all he can offer what is currently played with tye likes of Hourihane, Barkz, Bird, Cash, Wildsmith, an on fire Didzy, NML, Knight, Smith... all players that have played higher up at a decent level, then I'm sorry it's just not good enough, threadbare squad or not.

Would like to see Warne change something now, before they score.  Fozzy on, move Rooney forward,  bird on, rest NML and Hourihane and bring on Dobbin and Sibley. 
NML and Hourihane will get no better now and as they tire we’ll be vulnerable at the back. 

Would like to see Warne change something now, before they score.  Fozzy on, move Rooney forward,  bird on, rest NML and Hourihane and bring on Dobbin and Sibley. 
NML and Hourihane will get no better now and as they tire we’ll be vulnerable at the back. 

Rovers look quite neat in possession but thankfully with dreadful end product. Quite surprised we haven’t got Foz in today for some experience at the back.

Wildsmith 
    Chester     Fozzie        Cashin
Smith   Knight   Bird   White   Barkhuizen
                 Sibley         McGoldrick 

Everyone does.  We have clubs trying to pass FFP by claiming they planned to sell players for ridiculous sums to comply with FFP but couldn't. Magic bean compliance. If there was any problem with these accounts the EFL had ample opportunity to flag it and we could have sold players.  As such they were responsible more than the club was.  A moot point as these accounts were cleared as acceptable when they stuck their nose in years after the event to cover their arses.  No rule applied at the time of filing.  

David Clowes has made it clear he’s pleased that relations with EFl are now on a good footing.  I think we should all follow his wise lead. 

He didn’t say ‘all along’.
 
But as things got really serious for us the EFL was crapping itself we’d go under and it was clear to anyone not biased who was paying attention that they were trying to help us. Jesus, Rick Parry was personally responding to fans’ emails ! Still can’t believe that one ... 
edit: I’m not suggesting Rick is Jesus 

It’s not trouble if you gain promotion though as countless others have proven.

David Clowes has made it clear he’s pleased that relations with EFl are now on a good footing.  I think we should all follow his wise lead. 

David Clowes has made it clear he’s pleased that relations with EFl are now on a good footing.  I think we should all follow his wise lead. 

Fair enough. Good post by you 

No thanks to any ex forest players.

Collins had a big game Monday and nearly bagged one from the far post. It’s not an easy call - I can’t believe how often he’s back in our own box picking up the pieces. Very hard to judge how valuable he is given his work rate. If only he could damn well head the ball 

Collins had a big game Monday and nearly bagged one from the far post. It’s not an easy call - I can’t believe how often he’s back in our own box picking up the pieces. Very hard to judge how valuable he is given his work rate. If only he could damn well head the ball 

A malaise can set in, if say we miss promotion twice. Harder to recruit, we play worse football, gates fall, the academy suffers further, sponsorship (what’s left) evaporates, Capex is reduced etc.  Surely you don’t want your team to be a perennial underachiever. 

No I’d rather be in the prem  If Brentford and Brighton can do it, why not us ?

iIRC, what Rooney (?LR) quite cleverly did for several games was indeed play short, possession football but occasionally push Fozzie high up on the left and quite successfully use him as the long-ball outlet when the press got too much. Fozzie unsurprisingly generally won the aerial ball and tried to find CKR or whomever with his flick on. It seemed a good enough ploy (albeit predictable and off the blackboard) and it had some success. It certainly forced the oppo to reset and took the sting out of the press. But sadly The flying Scotsman was dropped and replaced by Buchanan’s sideways floppiness and we were relegated. 
 

One thing you do have to give credit to Warne is getting fully stuck in with our traditions as a club. He’s fully immersed himself with our annual Lent/Easter collapse in form. 

One problem is offering the city of Derby as an attractive place to spend the non-football parts of tournament life. Its a dump!

love to see B4 nominated by the EFL as Supporter of the Year. That could be quite an acceptance speech 

Credit to the ref for adding on to the 7 extra minutes. I think we got 9? 

A malaise can set in, if say we miss promotion twice. Harder to recruit, we play worse football, gates fall, the academy suffers further, sponsorship (what’s left) evaporates, Capex is reduced etc.  Surely you don’t want your team to be a perennial underachiever. 

No I’d rather be in the prem  If Brentford and Brighton can do it, why not us ?

I didn’t say I wanted us to be perennial underachievers. Brentford and Brighton are great examples, examples of clubs who built themselves up with a clear strategy in order to realise their progression and establish themselves in the top flight, neither of which had been through the recent trials we have. You’re right if we don’t go up long term the damage could be grim, if we don’t go up immediately it won’t be a catastrophe is my point, I’m just preaching a little sense and patience is all.

Have you seen our form compared to Peterborough? There’s your answer. We’re not getting the results we need to, and have a much tougher run-in. We’ve consistently proven under Paul Warne that we cannot compete with top half teams.