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loweman2

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Maclaren spent the first half sat next to rush then he told rush to move and simmo came and sat next to him, they where clearly discussing what was wrong in the first 45 minutes, then 5 minutes before the end he disappeared off to clearly go and take the half time team talk, and what a difference that made, he then spent the entire second half pacing up and down on his own like an expectant father waiting for the birth of his child, he was like a cat on hot bricks and each time we scored he punched the air and when the equaliser went in you could see he felt the passion for DCFC it was back in his blood, after seeing him showing these emotions it made me realise this is what we have been missing in a manager for a while, lets hope he can get off to a good start against the dirties on Saturday !!! Come On You Rams !!!

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davenportram

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Win against Leeds and he'll be god in Derby fans eyes :D

2 wins in seven for you isnt it? Those draws will turn to losses soon. Enjoy it while you can. Wait until you play Burnley, Leicester, Reading, Blackpool and QPR and you'll realise you've not had as hard a start as you've been told.

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Ambitious

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The kiss of McClaren strikes already.

 

I know you'll say it's not his fault, he hasn't taken charge yet, but honestly it all goes down hill from here - I speak with experience unfortunately.

 

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

 

How stupid does that post look now... seriously, hahaha ******* hell. 

 

One of my all-time favourites. ALL-TIME.

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eddie

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I reckon there is a bunch of highly unproffessional lads in our dressing room feeling sorry for themselves because Nige has gone..

 

Those players can all feck off right now.

 

We're DCFC. Not Nigel and his mates FC

 

Bris's face, meet egg.

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Red_Dawn

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2 wins in seven for you isnt it? Those draws will turn to losses soon. Enjoy it while you can. Wait until you play Burnley, Leicester, Reading, Blackpool and QPR and you'll realise you've not had as hard a start as you've been told.

I know mate.. :( it's like we can only beat the **** teams like Barnsley and Derby!

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mwram1973

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**** teams and teams playing below their true level.

 

If mac was in charge we would of battered em, thought we were the better team anyway just couldn't score.

 

Not worried about red dogs anyway, all billy's sides play above their true level but more so than not eventually get found out and **** it at the last :lol:

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dabber

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I have a Dutch colleague at work who sent me the following article that dates back to when McClaren had just arrived for his second spell at Twente. Encouraging that the article rates how he could take the team to the next level that his predecessor coudn't, but I had to laugh at the comments about his signings. So those of you hoping for some gems from his international network be warned!

 

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/steve-mcclaren-and-fc-twente-make-a-happy-fit-in-the-eredivisie

 

Article from February 25, 2012

Nobody knew where the FC Twente coach Steve McClaren had disappeared to during his side's 4-1 victory at Vitesse Arnhem last weekend.
The English coach, in his second spell at the club, was in the players' tunnel viewing the television replay of a foul. He returned to tell the Arnhem coach that his player was innocent and should not worry.

To McClaren, it was a sporting gesture. But the Dutch Football Association consulted Fifa on whether it was appropriate behaviour.

Twente fans are conditioned to the eccentricities of McClaren, 50. He returns to his bench two minutes after the commencement of the second half, a superstition rooted, he says, in a late return that was greeted by a goal. Such actions irritate some, but McClaren is hugely popular in Enschede, a city of 150,000 on the border with Germany.

Twente may be fourth in the Eredivise, but they are just three points off leaders PSV Eindhoven with a game in hand. They also boast the best goal difference in the league, a figure boosted by the win at seventh-placed Arnhem.

If results go their way this weekend, Twente could top the league for the first time this season.

Twente have also reached the last 16 of the Europa League, where they will meet Shalke.

Life at Twente is a happy fit for the Englishman who was pilloried as "the wally with the brolly" as his country's national team coach before accepting an offer in 2008, on the advice of Bobby Robson, to manage the first-division Dutch side.

McClaren was not lucky with England, but he inherited a solid squad at Twente built by the current PSV coach, Fred Rutten, a Twente legend as a player. Rutten left for the brighter lights of Schalk, with McClaren inheriting a team who had finished fourth and reached the Champions League qualifiers.

The ambitious chairman Joop Munsterman oversaw an increase in stadium capacity from 13,000 to 30,205 by 2011. The crowds filled it and Twente, no longer mid-table regulars, became title challengers in one of Europe's most competitive leagues.

"McClaren filled in the gaps in Rutten's team," said Thijs Slegers, a writer for Voetbal International. McClaren finished second in his first season and then won Twente's first title, in 2010.

That success re-established his battered reputation as he became the first English coach to win a title outside his home country since Robson two decades earlier.

McClaren quickly accepted a more lucrative offer from Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.

"There was sadness when he departed, but relief that some of the players he'd bought would no longer feature," Slegers said.

"McClaren is perceived to be a good coach, a good tactician who knows how to form a winning team, but he had a lousy record with buying players.

"In his first spell at Twente he bought a useless player from Iran, a guy from Azerbaijan who did nothing, a South African who was very poor and a Brazilian who was nowhere near good enough for the Dutch first division."

One of McClaren's best signings was the sport psychologist Bill Beswick, who had been with him through his time at Manchester United, Middlesbrough and England.

Beswick worked with McClaren in Germany, but it did not work out, nor did it as his next job in charge at Nottingham Forest in June 2011. He resigned after 10 games and returned to Enschede last month.

Slegers said: "As well as being a good coach, he's popular because he's a normal guy who comes across well in interviews, unlike Co Adriaanse [his predecessor] who thinks he's a god."

If McClaren wins a second title at Twente, he might be perceived as Adriaanse wishes he had been.

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red_un

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If mac was in charge we would of battered em, thought we were the better team anyway just couldn't score.

 

Not worried about red dogs anyway, all billy's sides play above their true level but more so than not eventually get found out and **** it at the last :lol:

 

1-0, 7 points clear of your lot. Sounds like pretty sour grapes mate.

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chewbacca

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1-0, 7 points clear of your lot. Sounds like pretty sour grapes mate.

Reads like a dose of reality to me, the only untruth would be if Billy HAD actually got you promoted previously? Maybe this year eh? Still reckon we will hear another almighty bubble burst before too long.

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red_un

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Reads like a dose of reality to me, the only untruth would be if Billy HAD actually got you promoted previously? Maybe this year eh? Still reckon we will hear another almighty bubble burst before too long.

 

That makes no sense. Yes, that would have been an untruth, but you didn't say it. Nor did I claim that you had lied about anything.

 

Personally I don't think we're ready for promotion this year, so there's no bubble to be burst in my opinion. It's just great to see s do well against Derby for a change and we're just enjoying it. That's all.

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