Srg Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Bent has hardly played for ages. Hell be rusty at best. Still think injuries will gave a big impact if key players get injured. We aren't a top 6 premier league side. Literally no team from there on has an instant replacement for their whole squad to cover for injuries. We are a winger short now, we all know that and I believe Mac does too, but beyond that, we have the deepest squad and the most quality within that in the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Goalkeeper Grant/Roos Full back Christie/Fozzy/Shotton/Warnock Centre back Keogh/Bucko/Albentosa/Whitbread Defensive Midfielder Thorne/Omar/Eustace Midfielder Bryson/Hendrick/Hughes (i'd say 1 to add tbf) Winger Russell/Ward/Dawkins/Bennett Forward Martin/Bent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Unless the rules have changed you can only use three subs per game, so I'm not sure the squad looks weak at all. Should one of them get injured that's where the emergency loan comes in. Coutts was not good enough so has been shipped out, he hasn't really featured this or last season so no loss. I wouldn't bring anyone else in to sit on the bench, only if they are good enough for first 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papahet Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Doesn't look that weak?! Bennett's done nothing of any note in the first team Naylor? Garbage against Southport.. Calero? Talk of being shipped out to a league two club Hendricks been on annual leave since the Summer So wheres the quality, the game changing players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Doesn't look that weak?! Bennett's done nothing of any note in the first team Naylor? Garbage against Southport.. Calero? Talk of being shipped out to a league two club Hendricks been on annual leave since the Summer So wheres the quality, the game changing players? Well heck then Pap,how many players you think we need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Doesn't look that weak?!Bennett's done nothing of any note in the first team Naylor? Garbage against Southport.. Calero? Talk of being shipped out to a league two club Hendricks been on annual leave since the Summer So wheres the quality, the game changing players? These are all players that aren't direct back-up in the 1st team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 These are all players that aren't direct back-up in the 1st team? Yet they were on the bench in our last league game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I for one have not a clue really on what our spending limit as it were for the rest of this window is,but I feel if we do get another winger or something else,will be via loan. I think we need another winger and that is it along with perhaps a DM. We have best staff and best players imo and no need to bring in a lot more to get promotion. Warnock,Bent,and Albentosa I am confident will be shown to be good moves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Ideally and realistically we have 2 keepers for 1 position 2 RB's for 1 4 CB's for 2 2 LB's for 1 1 DM for 1 3 CM's for 2 3 Wingers for 2 2 strikers for 1 The midfield has become an issue for imo. Never been a fan of Hendrick and Bryson together. Tbh honest I call them the statue and the Yorkshire terrier under my breath. Never been a massive fan of either. Not that they're rubbish. Just without Hughes and/or Thorne I think they're both just decent Championship midfielders. Not the best in the league. Both good when they have quality around them. Similar to someone like Darren Fletcher at United, Milner for Man City. More Hendrick than Bryson tbh. Further cover for any forwards can be covered by loans. Not saying that we have a problem in midfield. Not at all. Just that it's a bit short on options. But that midfield could work for us for the rest of the season. Options are a rare luxury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yet they were on the bench in our last league game. That's such a ridiculous example to pick out! Albentosa hadn't got clearance yet Warnock out with a knock Ibe had just been recalled Dawkins was off for personal reasons Eustace injured Thorne injured Coutts out too That was a culmination of some of the unluckiest circumstances we've had in Macs era, and even then we had Hendrick, Bent and Shotton on the bench, three players who'd get into the majority of sides in the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 That's such a ridiculous example to pick out! Albentosa hadn't got clearance yet Warnock out with a knock Ibe had just been recalled Dawkins was off for personal reasons Eustace injured Thorne injured Coutts out too That was a culmination of some of the unluckiest circumstances we've had in Macs era, and even then we had Hendrick, Bent and Shotton on the bench, three players who'd get into the majority of sides in the Championship. We signed Warnock injured - not bad luck. Eustace unavailable even if not injured Thornes injury was known about for a while not unlucky just shows we are light in midfield at the moment Dawkins being unavailable reducing quality on the bench proves we need a winger because we only have three for two positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoneedshuls Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 But what happens if Ward's elastic snaps again. Our bench looked weak on Saturday. We could always bring warnock in left back and move fozzy on to the left wing if we're desperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 We signed Warnock injured - not bad luck. Eustace unavailable even if not injured Thornes injury was known about for a while not unlucky just shows we are light in midfield at the moment Dawkins being unavailable reducing quality on the bench proves we need a winger because we only have three for two positions. Were we supposed to get a winger in, in the 48 hour period we had between Ibe leaving and the Forest game? Why are you even mentioning that too, I highly doubt you'll find anyone on here who doesn't think we need another winger. You also said it yourself, we're light in midfield at the moment, in reality we have the strongest set of CM's in the league, who should all be fit in the coming weeks. Even then, 'light in midfield' for us against Blackburn could be having Hendrick and Coutts as back-up, still a sufficient bench, So, what you want us to do is spend thousands of pounds, in a league with financial fair play, for the 2.17391304% (genuine figure, just did that sum on my phone's calculator) of games where we're in that situation? Seems drastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 My god. If we were lets say midtable and looking for a slight improvement on last seasons position Would we be happy wed signed a player in their mid thirties who was injured would we be happy with "we could always play an injured LB and push our LB onto the wing" Would we have been happy with signing a striker who's scored less than Roy Cropper in Coronation street? Would we be happy with a squad that appears no stronger than last season with the save apparent weakness against teams that press and starve us of space to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Were we supposed to get a winger in, in the 48 hour period we had between Ibe leaving and the Forest game? Why are you even mentioning that too, I highly doubt you'll find anyone on here who doesn't think we need another winger. You also said it yourself, we're light in midfield at the moment, in reality we have the strongest set of CM's in the league, who should all be fit in the coming weeks. Even then, 'light in midfield' for us against Blackburn could be having Hendrick and Coutts as back-up, still a sufficient bench, So, what you want us to do is spend thousands of pounds, in a league with financial fair play, for the 2.17391304% (genuine figure, just did that sum on my phone's calculator) of games where we're in that situation? Seems drastic. No I don't expect us to get someone in that 48hr period. But the recall clause for Ibe was known about. I doubt very much Liverpool would have rung up on Thursday and said we want him back - there would be dialogue between clubs all season checking on their player. We haven't been linked at all to a winger - poor planning not to have a target in the pipeline just in case. Oh and don't use "we have Coutts " the club knew last week he was leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 This may seem a strange thing to say but we have added depth to Centre half (already had loads) but list Ibe and Coutts as potential wide men. We now have Ward, Russell and Dawkins. Two of these have had injury trouble this season and last. Could hit us hard in the last half of the season Who did we have wide last season when we were arguably playing better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambam Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 If Bent means we start pumping it long all the time, you can forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Do you know what you sound like? Seriously? This is the deepest squad we've had for a long time. If we get a winger in and possibly another CM, we could field two totally different teams and both would be competitive at this level. Acting like a child demanding everything "now, now now". Still over a week left of the window, plus emergency loan window if we're hit badly later in the season. Why don't you wait and see what happens before you spit your dummy out over this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I'm sick of reading people criticise and complain when we're seeing the best Derby team in a good few years right in front of our eyes. Hear all sorts of crap on here, on other Derby forums, on the Radio Derby moan-in, and then I get to the ground and in the South Stand I hear noise being made, but it's not supporting the team, it's whinging about this, that and the other. You've got no idea how good we have it here at Derby. Enjoy it while it's here for the love of god... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Who did we have wide last season when we were arguably playing better And how did we cope with injuries with the same players in the squad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.