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Derby are fresh out of League One and survived last season by the skin of their teeth. We are an established Championship side having been in it for 7 years and should have finished in the top 6 last season Notwithstanding that Derby have had a tougher run of games than us - Stoke, Coventry, Bristol and Ipswich - why are you attempting to use Derby's results so far as a metric? Should be embarrassed given the head start we've had on them over the last 5 years.

I imagine Ismael has been told that league position is irrelevant this season. He seems far too relaxed at the moment for someone as fiery as he is whilst overseeing this shit show. The goal is to polish some of these turds into profitable assets and reduce the amount Venky’s need to send over when the rest of the transfer sales runs out.

This filling the squad with your own cheap buys and youth is fine if most of them cut the mustard but if they don'y you are stuck with them. If you get relegated they are then mostly worth less than what minimal fees you are paying for them. I suspect should that happen the ones who brought them in will be long gone though with a few years wages and commission in their pockets.

Rave reviews are for this season for Doncaster in League one, has already been in the team of the week

No, I've never rated him. Much prefer Yuki. I can just about live with him being 3rd choice which he now undoubtedly is after the new signing but I'd be fine if we did get rid. Give him a banjo and a cow and no need to worry about the cow's arse...

Sorry fella but your selective consumption of this forum is to blame here. There were plenty of people who were pleased about the win but weren't chugging the going up juice.

don't agree at all Mark, Birmingham aren't that good and we should have taken all 3 points. Poor defending for the 1st and 2nd. But in the overall context of the game, We should have won. Birmingham spent loads of money and they were poor. Yesterday, after that second half performance, we deserved a point doesn't a week make a different on here, Last week after a win, everyone was saying how well drilled and organised we look. Now we aren't, FFS. Huge downgraded on Eustace? How Derby Rovers doing at minute? oh yes, they signed players late or not ready due to Fitness issues, or Morris was signed late despite signing on 26th June 2025. FFS, you are quick to come out for excuses your mate Eustace but for your own team that you support its put the boot in on your own team head coach and players, how that for your credibility? You didn't rate Eustace much when he came here now its your king. FFS, how that for your credibility? My credibility? don't worry about it, its not concern. and before you asked, My view on Ismael is still the same as last time you asked.

My edit button isn't working, but to add to my above post, and as you say, we won't pay the wages, so again the 3 year contract isn't the big gamble part.

As I say, even if we signed him for 500k, if he isn't deemed worthy of at least 3 years, there's no fucking point.

Well he couldn't break in as a regular for a League One side and his rave reviews are only in League Two, so I don't find it bizarre at all.

we’re absolutely doomed this season if we get pulled into a relegation battle. The players have no experience in the championship whatsoever.

No. Toth, Kargbo, Henriksson and Baradji have one. Gueye didnt need one.

I think getting angry is only ok if it acts as a catalyst for positive action. I think what the past fifteen years has shown is that it doesn't matter what the fans do, these wankers in India won't do anything. So yeah, I don't think in this case getting angry will do any good, you'd end up having a stroke. I'm past the abbey stage. Well past that. I'm in the resignation stage (= confirmed despair). I'm starting to see the benefit in getting relegated in that we won't get gubbed by Burnley next year. I've long done given up any aspirations the club, other than the forgotten hope that that fat bastard and his shit eating brethren will have a TIA one morning and decide to sell the club. Or perhaps the whole family will get wiped out in a geophysical event. One lives in hope

Does losing Gueye do anything for slots?

Can’t be worse than big Sam G

Personally I have not felt that the team, manager and supporting staff have been this detached from the supporters since the Kean days. I think we all know this doesn't end well.

Which is why most teams take one or two punts on unknowns and use the experience in the squad to guide them. We've driven the experience out and expect a bunch of players who have only experienced mediocrity and relegation in poor leagues to step up. This is also why you don't put a complete amateur in charge of the club's transfer philosophy.

It works for the agents though.....and that is what seems to matter most!

Who knows how much we paid. surely though, if I was paying 2 mill for a player and giving him a 3 year contract I would want someone with championship experience or someone proven to score goals at a similar level. Rovers can’t or won’t do that because they won’t pay the wage. Because we won’t pay the wages we have to gamble more. It’s not the road to success in my opinion, unless you either have top class scouts or you get lucky. Dont forget, league position tends to correlate very significantly with the wage bill.

Eustace had us punching above our weight last season. Once he left the points per game was more realistic and he's took half the team with him. The season before we stayed up on the last day despite having the league's top scorer and Adam Wharton for half the season. We're a bottom end of the league team.

He's part of it all. He must have known what he was letting himself in for. He must have known that we were letting players go who wouldn't be replaced like for like. But he took the money anyway and no-one could blame him. And players are always going to follow the money---that's how we won a Premiership.

Because when he came he showed some glimpses and plundered a few goals but since then, from the back end of last season he's gone alarmingly backwards. Certainly hasn't looked comfortable at all under this coach and his offside antics are ridiculous for a pro footballer. So i think we've got another big lad in so it's best all round to move Maktar on and get some money back or at least let him get some regular action somewhere. I think if you plonked him in lge 1 or 2 under the right system he'd get a bag full.

On a personal note I've said he's a donkey even when scoring. He has zero control over either himself or the ball, just occasionally it works for him.

He was loaned out a week before Carter was injured, maybe he would not have been loaned out if Carter had been injured beforehand. However, is now playing regularly just one tier below where Rovers currently are, and is on a similar trajectory to Scott Wharton & Hayden Carters pathways. He still has a fairly long contract, and can come back and be a part of our squad next season, when Hyam no doubt leaves

Hyam replacement sorted