kevinhectoring

Totally agree. Foz in the left of a three also allows Cash to play in his best position. 
He should be in the team when fit, whether in a 3 or a 4 at the back. Changing a relatively settled, winning side is, as you say, not wise at this stage, so we just have to hope for the best.

Please no. imo that would be a grave error for so many reasons   We’re playing well in the current system, it suits the squad and we’re benefitting from players feeling comfortable in a system that’s working.  A straight swap, Forsyth for Bradley, would be better if he’s determined to use Foz. But even that would be a mistake at this stage. 

Too far ahead? Pompey play Posh this weekend, there’s a world where on Saturday night we are 2 points behind them with still needing to play them. 

Agree with what you say about the JC injury. But not Fozzie.    imo Warne should months ago have had Foz in the CB role alongside Cashin and Nelson. It’s far and away the strongest defensive base to play from, and - with Fozzie’s distribution - and Wilson, Ward and/or Sibley (even Elder) playing wide, still allows plenty of attacking threat. Frustratingly, Foz’s injury might have been avoided if we’d used that system by design instead of necessity  
As for Nyambe, with Nelson, Cashin and say Foz at the back Ward should be picked ahead of N whether or not N is fit. Ward hasn’t played enough this season. 
 
Question now is whether he brings Foz into the back 3 in place of Bradley. Foz is the better player all round but despite that I hope Warne will not make that change at this late stage. Don’t think he will …

"Assume" is doing allot of work there. The debrief is put together immediately after the game. Owen and Barks give their immediate opinions after watching the same live action and replays that they show in that programme, unless they have other footage and analysis that they neither show to the audience or refer to. There's no further analysis or footage shown after the publishing of the debrief on the OS. They're such controversial incidents, why isn't there more conclusive evidence published if it exists and they've been able to base their opinions on it?
People were convinced Chris Martin dived until someone showed conclusive evidence that he didn't. Maybe Conor Hourihane deserves the same clarification?
 

Yeah maybe, however he made the same hand gesture for VAR that they do in the Premier League.
Just made me laugh, what an idiot! Bet he got some hammer on the team bus on the way home last night 😱😂😂

Worth another look I reckon 

Such an intelligent footballer, Barks 

Even the ball boy is trying to win a free kick now. Nice dive son. 

Good half - plenty of fluency. Had some good chances not least Gayle in the second minute. Shame we’ve not found a goal -  Reading will be pleased with this score line and have had the odd decent spell   

Such an intelligent footballer, Barks 

Such an intelligent footballer, Barks 

Good half - plenty of fluency. Had some good chances not least Gayle in the second minute. Shame we’ve not found a goal -  Reading will be pleased with this score line and have had the odd decent spell   

What’s stranger is for you to pick up on Warne’s asking the fans to back the team and enjoy the ride of the next 9 games as a pre-cursor to failure.
We’re second (outright now without the caveat of games in hand others were keen to point out before), have as many wins as Pompey, have the best goal difference in the league on account of having the joint second best goals conceded and fourth best goals for, have players seemingly in form, have players coming back from injury to strengthen the squad for the run in, have just won two games on the bounce 3-0 following a mini slump, and you’re picking on how things are worded in press conferences?! 
 

Don’t think he usually gets enough out of this squad. It’s a poor division 
as for owner timescales, I don’t see any  reason for not wanting promotion asap. DC’s vague 4 year plan was imo intended to manage fans’ expectations. The Derby brand loses lustre each year we languish in this lamentable league 

Don’t think he usually gets enough out of this squad. It’s a poor division 
as for owner timescales, I don’t see any  reason for not wanting promotion asap. DC’s vague 4 year plan was imo intended to manage fans’ expectations. The Derby brand loses lustre each year we languish in this lamentable league 

That's just your interpretation of what he said. To me, he was merely stating some "home" truths : at this stage of the season, the fans can help to lift the team when they're struggling (as they have done at times recently) by vocal encouragement; understand that the players are doing everything they can to win promotion and get behind them; we're in a great position now so let's all push together. I heard nothing that suggested he was trying to deflect blame in the event we failed.
I think some of our fans are just looking for excuses to feel offended now.
 

Give the team the best support we can - however they play -  and enjoy it whilst the team selection and football is good 
 
But not be persuaded that staying down is anything less than failure. 

I am confident (but not sure. How can you possibly be sure?) hence why I said “unless it’s mathematically certain” but, there are various scenarios whereby we could be going into the last two games with it all still to play for even if we won our next seven. Imagine if Barnsley and Peterborough both won all of their games prior to the last two. They’d only be 2 and 1 points behind. They may be unlikely scenarios but are they any less likely than Derby winning every game? Even if Portsmouth lost against us, Peterborough and Barnsley but won all their others they’d only be 3 points behind. 
 
Essentially, don’t celebrate too soon. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Most of our midfielders do as required by the manager - ie Hourihane made that quite clear. Sibley plays as required by the manager, he's never had a long (ie more than 3!) games in a midfield role, how on earth can he learn the position at this level. He adjusted to being fullback well enough, perhaps he could be allowed to adjust to being a goal-scoring midfielder? He's younger than Wilson btw, where will he end up under Warne?

He put over some delicious crosses in that first half. Curled just behind the defence, just waiting to be headed in. Gayle isn’t quite up to speed yet but once he gets used to Ward’s delivery he should get hatfuls. 

Thought ward was excellent today, especially first half. 

As for stronger sides, this lot had won 3 out of their previous 4 games before yesterday, and we dismantled them on their own patch, when our rivals were dropping points against equivalent or worse sides. Of the remaining fixtures, only Bolton, Blackpool (both at home) and Pompey A are arguably tougher than yesterdays fixture. If we reproduce this performance consistently regardless of who we’re playing we have a great chance. 
Yesterday we were very good. Its grossly unfair to place some of it down to poor opposition when they weren’t poor. Vale I agree wasn’t the barometer as they were really bad but not the case yesterday. They had their moments and we stood firm.