Rams lucky to have Hendrick

[Duracell]

Hendrick was brilliant last season and was exactly what we needed. After years of having crap, stupid and weak midfielders, we needed someone with a calm head who could get the ball down and do the basics right. Strange that it came from a 20 year old. The failure to get Eustace didn't seem to matter.

Curtains, I'm with you in saying Hendrick is a decent player, but surely this season you must have noticed that he has been our weak link, and by his own high standards, he's been very poor. His passing is inconsistent, his defending has been suspect and on many occasions he's simply not been in the game.

Today, he was a lot better but if you're in such of "quality", then the only players that showed that today were Brayford, Coutts and Hughes, without whom I can't see us creating much at all. Hughes vision is an absolute gift, Coutts ability to carry the ball kept our tempo up and he was always available for the pass second half, and Brayford coming forward was utterly sublime.

Oh, and our centre backs were outstanding. Buxton especially.

[davenportram]

The problem I've got with Hendrick isn't his technical ability it's his slow decision making which means he often has to rush or gets his passes blocked or caught on the ball

[Asanovic]

We are lucky to have him, but because of his potential, rather than his ability now.

[DCFCfranco]

Hughes gave the ball away a few times yesterday. But for me now hendrick can be classed as experienced midfielder (for us) he may only be 20/21 but he's played 50+ league games and has one full season under his belt. He's been poor this season. Consistently being a passenger and sometimes one of our worst players. I honestly think the only reason he hasn't been dropped is the lack of depth we have. Someone needs to give him a kick up the arse and tell him to up his game.

[Gary Teale]

Hendrick is what he is, very average champ player.

[TomCumming]

Does anyone think Bailey should be ahead of Hendrick not at Coventry

[Anag Ram]

Does anyone think Bailey should be ahead of Hendrick not at Coventry

I don't personally. However, I do think Bailey is a better sub than Bavies or Doyle. I think our midfield players generally pass well to each other, and Sammon offers himself up front. What we need is a forward who makes intelligent runs off the ball and occasionally has a shot!

I haven't seen anything to suggest we are better up front this year and think we need to raid the loan market for a goal poacher. The rest of the team put a shift in but we don't have anyone you would count on to put away a half chance.

Hendrick doesn't become a bad player overnight. I don't think dropping him will help either. We have to be patient whilst he plays through it and gets his confidence back.

[Alph]

I'm a fan of Bailey. Would have him on the bench atleast.

He's struggled for a bit when he was last involved. Injury, consistency.... he wasn't settled.

According to Coventry he's much the same now. Good passer but sometimes sloppy without reason. Very disciplined. Although they say he's been good in the tackle which suggests he may have toughened up a bit.

I'd just have him as hes the only specialist midfielder (as in he's not an all rounder. He sits deep and feeds people. Knows his job), he's the only midfielder at the club that's defensive in nature. He opens the possibilty of more formations (4231 please!!) so we don't have flat banks of 4 or 5 getting pushed deep in a neat line.

Just handy to have.

[Albert]

I do wonder if Bailey does have a future here. I'm certainly a fan of him, and as I've said in the past, during the first half of last season we performed best with him in the team, although I never redid my calculations at the end of the year. Hopefully he comes back a better player and challenges for a place.

As for Hendrick, he's a kid who's just completed his first full season, he'll have form slumps, get over it.

[rsmini]

Thought had one of his better games against Brighton. I did think he would be rested though. With Jacobs getting a game so Hughed could play CM

Mind you we could always try Theo at Right Midfield .... Oh hang on tried that. .. Didn't work really !!

[Ash]

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@srgDCFC @walsall_ram The lad is 20, it's staggering.

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[Ash]

Seems Bloomers isn't pleased with the Hendrick 'slating' 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' />

[uttoxram75]

I wonder if Bloomers is taking it too seriously. Fairly light criticism on a forum is not really "slating"....its the modern equivalent of pub talk, just happens that many people can see it but its not much more than idle chit chat amongst fans.

Thought Jeff did ok yesterday and came into the game more in the second half as we pressed for the winner. I'm not 100% convinced that him and Bryson are a natural partnership in the middle yet but he's doing ok. May well need a rest for a few games at some point.

[Pearson]

The problem I've got with Hendrick isn't his technical ability it's his slow decision making which means he often has to rush or gets his passes blocked or caught on the ball

Quite unreal!

You Sir, or Madam for that matter, can never have managed a footbal team, if you had, you would not have made that statement. What appers to you as slow decision making, is in fact poor positional play on the behalf of his team mates. There are times, especially in mid-field, when a player will be in possesion, be outnumbered, and not have no oulet. In cases akin to this he will lose the ball, that's football!

Don't know how long you have been supporting Derby, but do you remember Lars Bohein playing? He was also repetedly criticised for losing possession due to primarily buying time and looking for the optium ball. If if you do remember him playing, when that ball was delivered it was quality and created many a goal during one of the the best periods in our history.

The irony for me is I thought he had an excellent game yesterday. it's obviously lost on most. but when Hughes was off in the second half, Hendrick sat deeper and was instrumental in moving us forawrd. We certainly looked a better side in the second half for it.

Always somebody or thing to bitch about with Derby fans. The same with John McGovern when we were winning Championships, unreal!

Still we must be making progress, nobody's bitching about Cloughie at the mo.

[Alph]

I wonder if Bloomers is taking it too seriously. Fairly light criticism on a forum is not really "slating"....its the modern equivalent of pub talk, just happens that many people can see it but its not much more than idle chit chat amongst fans.

Thought Jeff did ok yesterday and came into the game more in the second half as we pressed for the winner. I'm not 100% convinced that him and Bryson are a natural partnership in the middle yet but he's doing ok. May well need a rest for a few games at some point.

Spot on.

Also, I don't see why his age matters?

My daughter is 9 months. I tell her off for opening the cupboards, I expect her to do these things but I'm not going to stop moaning at her for it.

Hendrick is out of form. Doesn't matter his age. He still out of form. Is Bloomfield suggesting we should let him off? Maybe that's why Shrewsbury are *****?

[uttoxram75]

Spot on.

Also, I don't see why his age matters?

My daughter is 9 months. I tell her off for opening the cupboards, I expect her to do these things but I'm not going to stop moaning at her for it.

Hendrick is out of form. Doesn't matter his age. He still out of form. Is Bloomfield suggesting we should let him off? Maybe that's why Shrewsbury are *****?

Its good that your daughter is opening cupboards.

she'll need to know where the cleaning stuff is when she's older... 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ph34r:' />

[DDCC]

Does anyone think Bailey should be ahead of Hendrick not at Coventry

No.

[davenportram]

Quite unreal!

You Sir, or Madam for that matter, can never have managed a footbal team, if you had, you would not have made that statement. What appers to you as slow decision making, is in fact poor positional play on the behalf of his team mates. There are times, especially in mid-field, when a player will be in possesion, be outnumbered, and not have no oulet. In cases akin to this he will lose the ball, that's football!

Don't know how long you have been supporting Derby, but do you remember Lars Bohein playing? He was also repetedly criticised for losing possession due to primarily buying time and looking for the optium ball. If if you do remember him playing, when that ball was delivered it was quality and created many a goal during one of the the best periods in our history.

The irony for me is I thought he had an excellent game yesterday. it's obviously lost on most. but when Hughes was off in the second half, Hendrick sat deeper and was instrumental in moving us forawrd. We certainly looked a better side in the second half for it.

Always somebody or thing to bitch about with Derby fans. The same with John McGovern when we were winning Championships, unreal!

Still we must be making progress, nobody's bitching about Cloughie at the mo.

No I haven't managed a football team, and poor positional sense of team mates can't be used as an excuse for not playing the simple pass back or sideways to a teammate when the killer ball is not on.

If the optimum ball is not an option play the simple pass - like we did for the goal against forest when the ball when into midfield then back to the defense- get the opposition moving then play the killer pass when it is on.

The key thing is spotting that hey the killer ball ain't on but I've got a centre half or a full back in space ill knock it 5-10 yards to them instead quick enough to not lose possession.

[DDCC]

Quite unreal!

You Sir, or Madam for that matter, can never have managed a footbal team, if you had, you would not have made that statement. What appers to you as slow decision making, is in fact poor positional play on the behalf of his team mates. There are times, especially in mid-field, when a player will be in possesion, be outnumbered, and not have no oulet. In cases akin to this he will lose the ball, that's football!

Don't know how long you have been supporting Derby, but do you remember Lars Bohein playing? He was also repetedly criticised for losing possession due to primarily buying time and looking for the optium ball. If if you do remember him playing, when that ball was delivered it was quality and created many a goal during one of the the best periods in our history.

The irony for me is I thought he had an excellent game yesterday. it's obviously lost on most. but when Hughes was off in the second half, Hendrick sat deeper and was instrumental in moving us forawrd. We certainly looked a better side in the second half for it.

Always somebody or thing to bitch about with Derby fans. The same with John McGovern when we were winning Championships, unreal!

Still we must be making progress, nobody's bitching about Cloughie at the mo.

I'm with you Hendrick is the most complete midfielder we have. He has improved this year from last in his positional play, concentration etc. Premier League teams are interested, Hughes is quality but Hendrick is doing the job a lot of fans don't see the full value of.

If he wasn't playing though we would miss him badly. Bryson has a lot of admirable attributes but he is limited as a footballer and he would struggle to do what Hendrick does.

[DCFCfranco]

I don't really see what you want hendrick to do with the ball Pearson. He's not pirlo he's not got the ability YET to constantly play killer passes. Like dav says play the simple pass. Our whole team plays simple passes. It's been said before, he's out of form, simple as he needs to recapture that form from last season or you could see Coutts or Hughes moved into the middle.