Jayram

1 hour ago, SaffyRam said:

Dreadful football, worse than watching Rowettball. It’s going to be a very, very long season. But, hey he wears a funny bobble hat ?

 

p.s. I’m usually a happy clapper.

Better get used to it Saffy, we’re stuck with him, his football and his ‘quirky’ interviews for the next 4 years…

Poor performance, midfield was non existent - Bird/Hourihane both crap, officials dire but these are the teams we have to beat to have any hope of challenging for promotion. Might be early days but didn’t see anything at all that was an improvement on what I’ve seen under LR. So deflating after last week.

Country over club for me at that stage of a major tournament but doubt it will be an issue; the EFL will move games back. 

14 hours ago, i-Ram said:

It’s a good question. Bit surprised it came from you though.

l suppose I am being a little unfair to Warne. It is the Club that seem to be hyping him up, with Owen Bradley gushing around him like a pubescent schoolgirl with a crush. Perhaps quite difficult for Warne to dampen down all the flattering small talk, and it’s easier to run with the ‘yeah, you’re not wrong, I am indeed a likeable, relatable, amusing kind of guy’.

I guess I am just a bit old school. Fwiw I take the view that a more measured approach would have been better over the last week and a bit.
Firstly because I think we should have been more respectful to Liam Rosenior. Not saying Liam was going to cut it, or indeed that he shouldn’t have been stood down, but the guy did a lot of good work for the club particularly during his final 15 months, and he deserved a lot better in my view with regards to the manner of his departure. A few lines on a website - thanks Liam, good luck, whatever.

Secondly because we have signed Paul Warne, not Pep Guardiola or Carlo Ancelotti or any other proven manager. He’s managed one club, one small provincial club, with clearly a lot of leeway and Bonhomie from his Chairman, and whilst he has had some promotions let’s not forget he has had a similar number of relegations. He is many ways an unknown entity, one who I hope succeeds I should emphasise, but the buzz seems to be, before he has even even managed one game, that he ‘is the man’ who is going to take us back up the leagues.

All a bit unnecessary, and premature, if you ask me. Happy to get carried away after say 10 games or so, when we are in the top 3 and playing decent football, but for me personally I would have preferred a more low key first week, with good performances and results over the weeks ahead being a more appropriate catalyst for the current love-in.

This is exactly how I’m feeling mate. All this hype for someone who comes across as a hybrid of Rowett/Holloway and who has as many relegations in his managerial record as promotions is ridiculous. I’m not interested in how many or what type of coffee he drinks, just that he gets out there, does his job and the football is at least watchable. 

Managing Derby in the Premier League on FM22. Currently 9th and 5 points off a Europa spot with 7 games to go. It’s going to be a tense afternoon. 

2 hours ago, mwram1973 said:

We'll obviously your not bothered in anyone elses opinions only your own. But here goes. He was at a tiny club with a tiny stadium and no budget,how can he compete when most teams in the championship have probably triple their budget, at least. You'd only give 4 year contracts to someone who has a successful track record at different clubs and leagues....good luck with that, unfortunately peps not available yet but I have it on good authority he's on DC's speed dial just in case. Jesus.

I’m absolutely fine with other peoples opinions but as a ST holder I’m entitled to my own opinion too, and I don’t think Warne is the right choice. I will support my club through thick and thin as I always have but I’m bitterly disappointed with this - not saying LR was the answer either but neither is hoofball and that is what Warne brings to the table.

5 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said:

When you have a £ shop budget then there's only a certain area you can shop, Making silk purses out of sows ears can be a time-consuming effort if at all, Talent in the football field either becomes an expense venture or you work within the means set out by the Chairman.

DCFC and LR had done a tremendous amount of work scouting, Ringing players/agents, Begging other teams for loans, What we have is a team on paper as good as any and arguably better that the rest in League1, What we haven't been able to do is come to terms with the style of play, Physicality and pace in this division, LRs mantra is keep ball and play through the opposition, Charlton and Lincoln away shows what happens when you lose the ball, Shrewsbury and Fleetwood shows what happens when they pack their defence.

Referring back to the "silk purses" we have them, They just need that little bit of education and mental attitude of how to go about this division, Paul Warne I would have thought knows more than most of what's needed, 1st to compete, Then to beat the others, Will he succeed...who knows, Would LR have succeeded...again who knows.

Reading the minutes that have been posted I get the feeling...rightly or wrongly that LR was finding things a little harder than maybe he 1st thought, His applauding all 4 quarters of the ground after beating WW went unnoticed by most who were there, Picked up by a poster on here, I'm sure that was LR saying thanks to all for your support.

Warne is able to mix his game up with different set ups, Teams who have watched us and knew how we played will now be wondering how will Warne set up against us ?    

I hope you’re right.

3 hours ago, mwram1973 said:

And successful 

You should give 4 year deals to managers who’ve proved themselves successful at different clubs and leagues, not someone who gets the same team relegated each time he gets them promoted.

1 hour ago, Archied said:

Is Liam a pound shop cocu?

Yes in all honesty. I’m not advocating for LR in this situation, just cannot believe we’ve given a 4 year deal to someone whose footballing style is so one dimensional. 

11 hours ago, Retro_RAM said:

What league do you think Derby are in? Can I join you in the multiverse where Derby beat Villa in the final?

I know exactly what League we are in smartarse, and I stand by my point. He’s a pound shop Rowett.

22 minutes ago, Mrso said:

There'd be animosity if they thought he was irreplaceable.  But he's a jobbing upper League 1 manager with a proven record of failure in the Championship.  It's hard for them to be sad; it's hard for us to be glad.

Don’t get the excitement about this appointment - he’s a lower league manager whose teams play a less refined version of Rowettball and whose tactical ‘nous’ is found out at Championship level every time. Poor from DC this, especially the 4 year contract.

Not impressed by the idea of Warne. He might ‘know’ League One but he sure as hell doesn’t know the Championship otherwise he wouldn’t keep taking Rotherham back down every time they get promoted. It strikes me that he’s just another meat and potatoes manager - if he was that good someone else would have come in for him by now. We should have given LR till the end of the year at least.

Rams 0 Wycombe 1

80% possession though.

7 hours ago, Crewton said:

I recall Steve McClaren's swashbuckling teams of 2013-15 and 16/17 struggling to break down teams who sat in and played on the break/direct/long ball etc, and losing a number of games 1-0. People used to moan about "no Plan B" at a time when we were playing some of the best football at Derby since the Jim Smith peak years. We couldn't solve the problem then, and now after 4 games and working under an EFL business plan, folk (not on here) are screaming for the head of a manager 4 games into his career because he hasn't solved it yet while he's trying to rebuild the playing side of the club. And we're 7th. I f'kin' give up with some of our fans.

 

No one as far as I can see is screaming for LR’s head, but the play it safe away from home template has to change. We have thrown away 5 points in our 2 away games because they were both very winnable and yet we let them slip away. The possession based game at this level isn’t going to work - teams will do exactly what Shrewsbury did and just move as a unit to frustrate us. LR has to be flexible in his tactics and work out a way of switching the play or we are in for a season of dull 0-0’s or 1-0’s (wins and losses). Early days but I worry that LR has his tactical philosophy set in stone regardless of the opposition. 
However, isn’t it nice to be moaning about football things rather than finances and administrators? COYR!

9 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

Precisely the point I making.

Unless we're expecting said striker to score a goal with every chance they're presented with which is just cloud cuckoo land.

We weren't adventurous enough and didn't want to win the game that badly so the draw is what we deserved and we got. 

Funny how reading comments already saying we should be beating teams like Shrewsbury ? we've only been in this league for 5 minutes and already we've built up a divine right sense of entitlement.

Shrewsbury were utter garbage though so we should really be beating sides like that if we want to progress in this league, even at this early stage of the season.

Hmm, a toothless and tedious performance - Cocuesque. A point is a point but blimey that was dull.

Bloody hell what happened in that second half? Can’t go through the season playing one half of football every time! Glad we hung in there - Cashin was magnificent. Up the Football League we go…

4 minutes ago, whiteroseram said:

Mine certaintly has

Mine has too!

I have always hated Man Utd - I grew up in London in the 1970’s but for some reason I now cannot recall I disliked them intensely. I remember being furious as a 9 year old when they won the FA Cup in 1977 and ecstatic when they lost to Arsenal 2 years later!

Apart from that it’s obviously the Trees, Leeds, Leicester (I lived in Leics in the 80’s and was one of only 2 Rams fans in a school full of their supporters) and latterly clubs like Chelsea and Man City for the way they bought all of their ‘success’. 
 

18 hours ago, Wistaston Ram said:

For those of us that live outside Derby how many away games will be closer to you than home matches? For me it will be four, Shrewsbury, Port Vale, Burton and Bolton (not much in it, time wise but shorter distance). Hoping to get to all these grounds.

I live about 3.5 miles from Oxford Utd's ground and I have Wycombe, MK Dons, Forest Green, Cheltenham, Bristol Rovers and Portsmouth all closer than DCFC.

3 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Oxford's a complete dump

No it isn’t - it’s lovely. We Oxford Rams (all 3 of us) love our city - you must be thinking of Banbury- thats a proper s*******!

From a personal point of view its very telling that I've felt more engaged with the club recently than at any time in the last 8 years or so. I've bought a season ticket for the first time in years, renewed my away membership and even signed up for the programme subscription. I feel energised by what the future may hold - we have a brilliant owner, a decent squad and we're playing in a new league with many new grounds to go to. I can't wait to see how the season pans out.

Got the book onTuesday and started it last night - already loving it.

38 minutes ago, TomBustler1884 said:

I was initially a bit disappointed with the kits as for some reason I thought we had had lots of good ones from Umbro.

However, having looked back on our kit history, we've had some very boring kits since the 90s. There is the odd exception - the 15/16 home shirt, the black Avon Tyres one, the zebra kits, but generally we don't get a lot of imagination into our kits.

It baffles me that Umbro don't do a competition and let fans have a go at designing them - there are so many that people do on here or social media that would sell out so quickly. It would be great to get an explanation why that can't happen.

I'm assuming we will get a new supplier next year, but not sure who I would want atm. Castore maybe?

There have been some great kits out this year, and some absolutely insane ones. It's a shame ours are so.... meh. Even the attempt at something a bit different on the home shirt looks like a bog standard shirt with tyre marks over one corner.

I really hope it’s someone like Hummel next season - their designs are so smart and unfussy generally. Umbro’s are just awful.

What an utterly bland collection of shirts  - thank god I can’t fit into any of them these days.