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i was a bit disapointed when they got rid of cooper for all the people saying its a disgrace they have sacked him at the end of the day you are judged on what you are managing now and not a year ago, they have been pretty uninspiring this season but nuno is a top coach and a big improvement for them as displayed by yesterday

cooper is a good coach (would love him here) but naive at prem level, nuno is not naive and knows how to manage a good prem team

I have got to say I will hold my hand up and say I had completely lost faith in warne but you cant argue with the football and results we are getting at the minute. the best way to shut the moaners like me up is by winning matches!

Bullet dodged, thank god

15 hours ago, Tombo said:

In some ways I hope we do get Forest U21s. Think it would get a good attendance and would be good for revenue, and I think it would be a fun game to watch because the Forest kids are certain to give us a good game regardless. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

In many other ways, please god please can we not draw them

let us be honest it will live long in the memories of those down the a52, they will get bragging rights before a ball is even kicked. avoid at all costs for me as @Gee SCREAMER !! says it will be the most embarrasing fixture in our history and thats only if we play them nothing to do with what happens on the pitch. its not even worth thinking about if we actually lost to them as they will be well up for it

35 minutes ago, Justa said:

One thing I think we can agree on is that Warne is the most divisive manager we have had for some time !

Although I suppose in the MM era we never got the chance to be divisive as they were sacked so quickly.

its the inconsistency, when it looks like hes lost the plot we pull out a timely win and when it looks like hes cracked it, we perform terribly leaving us in this no-mans zone of achieving the bare minimum we should.

Thats the thing with Warne you think you have turned a corner and then he churns out this absolute rubbish

2 hours ago, Red_Dawn said:

How ungrateful is this. DC literally saved your club and its not good enough? He's done an enormous amount for DCFC and god alone knows where you'd be if it wasn't for him. 

You sound like my ex wife. 

i have no problem with DC or his plans. but we are not in a position to laugh at forests owner for having ambition

On 31/10/2023 at 12:29, BramcoteRam84 said:

Yes we would want to be in Forest’s position right now instead of where we find ourselves, no question. But we can laugh at their continued delusions of grandeur, the fact their owner and portions of their fan base think they should be one of the elite clubs in the country. They genuinely think they’re going to win trophies and get into Europe, they can’t get their heads around that they might have a couple of seasons of improvement ahead, they might have a season where they get in the top 10, but that’s as good as it’s going to get. Forest fans don’t seem to understand that if you take Clough out of their history then they’ve achieved f*** all, same with us. Difference is we get it and would therefore be over the moon with where Forest are and would embrace it, whereas portions (not all there are some more realistic red dogs out there) are getting restless. I hope they do sack Cooper, I hope they bring in someone (maybe even a name) with no knowledge of English football who will mess things up and accelerate their decline.

why is it funny that the owner thinks they should be an elite club in the country? 

i find that extremely unfunny really especially when hes willing to pump money into the club

meanwhile ours has grand plans to take us to the second division in 5 years 

there is no chance they are going down this year the teams at the bottom are crap, last year was the year they needed to go

12 hours ago, GeneralRam said:

Why is this p**** wearing another sports team hat when giving an interview? I know its baseball but everything he does from now on annoys me and this is just another thing to add to the list.

What an earth is he wearing in general, he’s a football manager not a PE teacher although I am questioning that myself

3 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

He saved the club from going out of extinction.

Everything else is irrelevant unless you'd have preferred that to happen.

Or are you saying it was pointless of him saving the club if all that was going to happen subsequently was us to piddle around in the lower leagues for an indeterminate amount of time?

That's how your post reads to me but apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick.

Everybody knows he willingly saved the club, but are we supposed to just sit here and be miserable for its existence even though it was saved

most are voicing their opinion based on what’s best for DCFC. He saved it but doesn’t mean his decision making has been extremely poor

You might be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if he was building something to get behind

hes filled the squad with journeyman hoofball merchants who will leave in the next or so for nothing anyway

i can’t believe he hasn’t gone yet, very worrying

let’s be honest he doesn’t deserve vitrol

but it calms down when he makes the most inevitable decision he will have to make in his business career. For me it’s slightly worrying he doesn’t seem to be budging on the warne mistake

he won’t be able to just run the club badly because he saved us without criticism 

Can someone dive into the details of results v League position?

I have never known a manager with such a bad record against top half teams, I don’t know whether it’s in my mind but it feels like we lose every game against top half teams 

33 minutes ago, DazzaRam said:

Whoever advised Clowes to appoint Warne over Rosenoir should be locked up for football crimes!! If its just Clowes's decision then he should pay up for his horrendous error. Clowes will always be a hero for saving the club but the decision to not appoint Rosenoir will go down in history as one of the worst at Derby. Warne has sucked the life out of Derby fans. Hes in a special club of managers now along with Jewell,Brown and Docherty!!

Agree it was a clear mistake, don’t let him do more damage. Get him out

his reluctance to make a change is worrying

I am so tired of this BAG OF ABSOLUTE s*** we are being served up with

Warne simple has to go, he is incapable of manging derby. it's not even about the results, we have spent 90% of games this season being absolute crap and are fully deserving to be a mid table league one team. we havent even been unlucky.

I remember people saying they wouldn’t mind us going down because we get to go to some new grounds and win some more games that was pure nonsense at the time & even more nonsense with hindsight 

this league is a complete hellhole

first time i havent willingly gone to a derby match for yonks, i do feel quite guilty i must admit but seems like a lot of others havent bothered either

3 hours ago, IlsonDerby said:

Snap your hand off for Notts County’s gaffer. 

absolutely, a style of play we can get behind. the job hes done at notts is underrated because of wrexham

I think you can measure a squad on whether they can achieve promotion based on How many of our current squad could make an impact at the level above? 
 

I honestly think the answer is very few, even the ones that played at the level above for a few seasons had little impact at that level which tells you league one is there level 

and my biggest issues remains the same which I am sure I bore people with but we have too many old players on the decline and not enough with an upwards trajectory

51 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Isn't that the issue though summed up very succinctly - damned if you do damned if you don't 

Put a weakened squad out get beat then there's uproar on here.

Put out a decent starting 11 win the game but it doesn't matter as they're a division below us and had a big change of personnel for tonight's game.

yeah I don’t disagree, sums up this competition for me

14 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Forum seems very empty tonight...either it's because it's a school night or everyone has blocked me.

Probably the latter. 

Probably a few reasons mainly being this competition is pants

it wasn’t even a strong Notts county team they put out, I was surprised we risked so many first teamers ourselves

lets be honest whatever way they paint this its a ridiclous decision.

not only is the timing stupid, its not like they are even replacing him with a top manager where you can say okay i can see what they are planning.

birmingham found another idiotic ownership, you cant treat fans like idiots like they do in the states

37 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Apart from a few exceptions (for example Liverpool didn't "deserve" to have their goal ruled out and we didn't "deserve" to have Wildsmith sent off at Bolton), you get what you deserve. We deserve to have as many points as we've got because, quite simply, that's how many we've got and I don't think any of them have been earned as a result of a bad decision by the officials or a fortunate/unfortunate ricochet or deflection.

We're currently not playing well enough to justify a play off spot and certainly not got enough for top two. But equally, we're not bad enough to be any lower.

not sure i agree, you dont always get what you deserve in football. we know this very well.

i dont think our performances have merited being as high as we are, we barely have a shot on target each game.

51 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

A 4-year contract and nothing from DC saying otherwise tells me you're just guessing. 

NC was about as long-term as we have ever got, and he was let go just as things were coming to fruition. 

That’s my point above , Nigel was building the club up even if it wasn’t him that was reaping the rewards, the foundations warne is putting in are made of quick sand

It’s not about getting a long term manager it’s about having a long term plan for the club

when warne is inevitably sacked the club will need another rebuild. A club with a plan will change the manager and not much else would need to be changed

i can’t give you a name of who the answer is, I haven’t done enough research but I can tell you there is dozens of quality coaches in youth football than are dying to manage a club like ours and look at where the two managers top of the championship have come from

as a club we’ve gotta take risks on managers now because we aren’t in a position to attract proven quality, you get cast offs in league one.