Nuwtfly Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 "Rowett is Derby’s sixth permanent boss in 21 months, two more than Massimo Cellino has employed at Leeds in the same period. Considering the Italian is paraded as a trigger-happy nutjob, what does that make Mel Morris?" Well worth a read if you haven't already! http://www.theleaguepaper.com/featured/7689/dunlavy-column-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-derby-county/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireRam Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Well balanced, well written article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaRam Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I've said it before, all the sackings were justified for different reasons. but we can always do with another Mel the machete merciless sacking Morris to brighten the day up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said: Well balanced, well written article Not really, seeing as it's so anti-Mel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuwtfly Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 "MOMENTS into his first press conference, Gary Rowett was asked what he’d said to the shower of underachievers currently masquerading as Derby players. “We just shared with them one or two of the things we think are perhaps missing,” said the former Birmingham boss. One or two? Rams fans can name a few more than that. Leadership. Responsibility. Heart, guts, any sense of culpability. Pretty much the only thing they do possess is mercurial talent, fat pay packets and an astounding ability to see off managers. Rowett is Derby’s sixth permanent boss in 21 months, two more than Massimo Cellino has employed at Leeds in the same period. Considering the Italian is paraded as a trigger-happy nutjob, what does that make Mel Morris? The Rams owner has much to answer for. Morris undermined Paul Clement by bursting into the dressing room, then sacked him for failing to play the ‘the Derby Way’ – a non-existent philosophy already shot down in flames by Rowett. “If I feel we have to play one way to win one game and a different way to win the next, I’m going to have the opportunity to do that,” said Rowett. “That was made quite clear.” Yet Morris’ single greatest failing is his blind faith in Derby’s players – a faith they have both abused and routinely failed to justify. Derby were deeply unfortunate to be beaten by Bobby Zamora’s last-gasp sucker punch in the play-off final of 2014. Only blind luck and a bad error saw QPR through. But since then? Three years of bottle jobs. Three years of capitulation on the big stage. Three years of post-Christmas collapses. When the pressure mounts, Derby shrivel. Tom Ince is a class act. Will Hughes is a wonderful technician. Darren Bent a proven poacher. So it must be the manager’s fault, right? Crack the whip: Nigel Pearson’s strong-arm approach was not received well by the dressing room (photo: Action Images / John Clifton) Steve McClaren was supposedly too soft, too focused on flamboyance to rectify a lack of fortitude. Clement was too defensive, Darren Wassell too inexperienced, Nigel Pearson too confrontational. The latter was so frustrated by his side’s “frailties” that he let loose in a furious dressing room tirade, only for a delegation of players to go crying to Morris. Instead of telling them to grow a pair, Morris sent Pearson packing. When McClaren returned in October, Morris reasoned that the former England boss was the only man who’d ever got the best out of a squad fussier than Goldilocks. Now that he’s ‘failed’ too, will Derby’s owner finally acknowledge that maybe – just maybe – it is the players who are the problem? No footballer deliberately plays badly. Nobody wants to lose. But something stinks in that dressing room and only a clear-out will rectify it. Rowett’s arrival will no doubt spark a revival, but the new manager can’t let himself be fooled. The Rams have more chance of reaching Narnia than the play-offs. As Arsenal prove every spring, it’s easy to perform when the pressure is off. Take last year’s play-off semis. Pathetic in a 3-0 home tonking to Hull, Derby won the second leg 2-0 when they’d already been written off. Cue players spouting guff about “proving points” when all they’d really done is argue the prosecution’s case. Having blown so much of his fortune on wages and transfer fees, it is understandable that Morris would feel compelled to plough on, like a banker frantically covering a rotten trade. But the time has come to admit defeat. Sell the stars. Give Rowett the funds. And let him build what he did so successfully at St Andrews – a team far greater than the sum of its parts. What Derby have constructed is the polar opposite." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Nailed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbrianRam Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Bang on, sick of the players getting an easy ride by the chairman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ram Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Looking forward to Narnia though - it's on my bucket list actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 1 hour ago, YorkshireRam said: Well balanced, well written article In what way is that well-balanced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth's left foot Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I hope the players read it, too many times in the big games they have not turned up. I hope GR has a free reign to overhaul the squad if he can't get them to buy into his ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannable Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Sounds a little angry doesn't he??? Do you think he turned up an interview expecting sausages with the breakfast??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilsonram12 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Should stick that article in the changing room in big letters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 As l suffer from St Vitus Dance I thought this was a really good read. l didn't feel the need to shake my head once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Yep agreed, can't really question a word of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Tibbs Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Big fan of the Narnia bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihangel Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Hogwash, as soon as a 'writer' refers to the 'Derby way' as a style of play, you know they've done zero research. Additionally, we've had 4 permanent managers since Clough. As soon as someone claims 6 in 21 months, you can forget about a balanced article. It's actually really badly written as well, just a string of disconnected sentences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Love the term 'well-balanced' article. All that means is the reader agrees with the writer, regardless of whether what they've written is total hogwash or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanRam Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 " a squad fussier than Goldilocks". Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssendonRam Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 3 hours ago, Tombo said: In what way is that well-balanced? In what way is it not? Let's be specific now: which statements in it cannot be justified? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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