Eaststander7

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

This. 👍

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

U mean The much maligned simon clough. Who only got the job cos his brother was the gaffer
some people dont half talk s*** (not aimed at u buddy) 

Clough was working under the mindset that we needed to stay in the division first, aim for promotion second, whilst decimating the budget year on year. Did a fantastic job over his time here and some of the attacking football we played at times was as good as anything served up by Mac, it’s just Mac served it up a lot more often and Clough was very very quick to revert back to defensive play whenever things got a bit tough. 
 
Remember the year Southampton went up we were top with them after 4 straight wins at the start of the season playing excellent football. Then a tough run of games happened and he reverted back to dragging ourselves to 50 points. 
 
Tired of the disrespect shown to our most important manager since Jim Smith. 

people moaned there was no plan b under mac
i know the obvious answer to that is that warne seemingly has no plan A 
people like to moan 
 

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Yes enough is enough.
Can we stop these pointless polls

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

Decent enough performance until we got to the final pass. They hardly ever reached a white shirt. 12 shots to their 4. 2 on target to their 1. Very frustrating afternoon. Had we got one, I feel we would have got a few but we didn't get that all important 1st goal. IMO our best 90 minutes of the season. Really need to find our touch in the final third.
 

Many more positives than negatives for me, including:
* The defence looks solid
* New signings Nyambe and Fornah look excellent and John-Jules, albeit on little evidence, looks very good too
* Bird, Barkhuizen and Wilson are back in the squad
The biggest issue imo is a lack of pace and movement up front. A Sturridge type striker with anticipation and pace gets on the end of two or three of those crosses today. Collins is too cumbersome. When fit, I'd hope to see John-Jules leading the line but until then I'd like to see Brown on the bench as an option.
 

I thought it a much better “Football” performance today, we don’t look as wobbly at the back and there were times when we strung a few decent passes through midfield. If we still had McGoldrick, or someone like him, we would have scored 3 today.
 

I purposely didn't read the forum until I was home and I'm so glad because you saved me the bother of posting earlier because its exactly what I would have said.
Every week its constant moaning about just launching the ball aimlessly, yet today we played the ball constantly on the floor.  Passing was fairly crisp and our control really good. Lots of angled balls between their backline but then our final ball was either poor, the shot blocked, we didn't attack the ball or it just didn't fall right.
Pretty much controlled the game and if we'd had a better striker and/or a bit more luck then we would have won 2 or 3 nil. Set pieces were pretty poor to be honest though.
The boos were aimed at the ref/linesman who were awful 2nd half.
I actually enjoyed the game other than our failure to score,  and its clear the agenda of a few regular posters is just to moan relentlessly, regardless thus rendering the match day thread almost pointless so I will avoid it in the future I'm afraid. 
Disappointed and of course 'we should be beating' Cambridge but we missed good chances and were the only team playing football.  
 

He might not be good for Derby, he might not play the football we all crave, he may not lead us to promotion but to describe him as “a disgrace to this football club” is frankly, a disgraceful thing to say IMO.

The crowd sound amazing!

Hoping the latest news can be the start of better things to come, tried to express what the club means to me:
 
I used to walk to the Pop Side with my Dad 
Now I walk with memories of what we had 
Past the vans and the smell of burgers 
The tribe gathers, the flock converges  
So please don't take my Derby away
 
In the stairwell I give a pause 
Above, the South Stand rises and roars 
Chants and songs that we all own 
As one, together, no one alone 
You are my Derby, My only Derby 
 
The referee was a joke 
Their goal a lucky toe-poke 
Fight on! all Rams say the same  
There is always the next game 
You make me happy, when skies are grey 
 
Suddenly a club in its death-throws 
Is there a future, no-one knows 
Soul of a city with all its history 
Are their hearts so bleak and wintry 
You’ll never notice, how much I love you 
 
A tiny baby inside a pram 
On his chest, proudly a ram 
I dream that one day my son will say 
I used to walk with my Dad down Pride Park Way  
So please don’t take my Derby away