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Even if we scrape a draw now it's still a shit result. Losing is just catastrophically embarrassing against this Derby team.

And we're losing to them. It isn't good enough.

Massive improvement needed in the second half. First 45 absolutely unacceptable against the worst team in the league, with the only positive being that we pulled one back. Time for Ismael to earn his money.

Didn't take long for this to get answered. Groundhog day despite the rotating door of managers.

There will surely be some negative sentiment aimed towards Derby and Eustace, that's natural considering what happened, irrespective of whether you see Eustace as a 🐍 or as a victim of Venky's. Ultimately the result is all that matters and if we fail to pick up three points from the worst team in the division, then we can't really expect to be in the top six at the end of the season. Our team hasn't exactly thrived under pressure in the second half of any seasons when we've been involved in a playoff push. Let's see if anything has changed.

You do now! We get a staff canteen voucher which covers a either a hot breakfast or lunch - can also be used if you want to buy snacks like crisps, drinks, etc. Is admittedly a solid incentive to come into the office.

There's no way Derby are offering him a fortune - they aren't the Championship Man City. If he's left and got a significant pay raise then it just means we were paying him a pittance (and refusing to give him a better deal in spite of excellent work), so why in the world would anyone expect him to stay? As for the article, not enough references about him being the most dastardly snake to have ever slithered into club management. Poor do. I did think it was clearly spun to be very positive towards him - boasting achievements when, as of yet, there have been none on the pitch. The behind the scenes work counts for nothing until it delivers results on the pitch. Until then it's just hard work, which you'd expect anyway.

Even if it is, nothing will come of it. Waggott will be sitting pretty until he retires. His only loyalty is to Venky's - and he must be doing as they desire, as otherwise he wouldn't still be here.

They gave Ten Hag a one year extension in the summer, based on winning a one off cup game, then sacked him a few months later - £15m down the drain. Then spend £10m+ hiring Amorim who has been just as much a dismal failure. Ratcliffe is responsible as the leader of football operations. Any responsibility taken from him for this collosal waste of money? Lol no, just make the poors suffer some more.

Of the teams above us, current home form reads: Coventry: 12 points from 15 WBA: 10 points from 15 Bristol City: 12 points from 15 Rovers: 10 points from 15 Away form reads: Coventry: 12 points from 15 WBA: 3 points from 15 Bristol City: 4 points from 15 Rovers: 3 points from 15 Not difficult to see how Coventry have surged up the table. They're a force both home and away at the moment. WBA, BC and Rovers are all struggling away from home recently, so it seems like this will be where the difference lies. Obviously if home form also drops off for any of the three teams then it's probably game over insofar as playoff aspirations are concerned. Of the teams directly below us, Watford's home form is poor at the moment, Boro's is average and Norwich is the same as us and WBA. Away from home Watford are also average, Boro are poor and Norwich are also poor. So, there's no immediate indication of a surge from any of the teams below us, although that could of course change quickly.

Oh, and for comparison, Rovers are 5th in the league table for home form (1.86 PPG, just behind Bumley on 2.06), whilst Derby are 23rd with 1.24 PPG. Away from home Rovers are 11th with 1.12 PPG and Derby are 22nd with 0.44 PPG. Our recent away form is pretty poor having picked up just 3 points from 15 available. We've lost 4 of our last 5 away matches. However, Derby's home form in the last 5 matches is even worse, having picked up just a single point from their last 5 home matches. So, the stats are in our favour... but...

Pretty much all of their home games at the very least are in must-win territory now. Their remaining home games are: Rovers (8th) Coventry (5th) PNE (15th) Burnley (3rd) Luton (22nd) Stoke (20th) Some tough games in there - Stoke and Luton games in particular likely to be crucial. If they very optimistically win 4 of those 6 games (keeping in mind they've only won 7 in the entire season) that would get them to 41 points. Realistically nowhere near enough to survive. So then they're going to need to take a fair few points from their away matches, which are: Plymouth (23rd) Swansea (16th) Portsmouth (17th) WBA (6th) Hull (19th) Overall you'd have to say they theoretically have more chance of picking up points against these teams, but the games being away is problematic, especially when you factor in Derby have only won one away game all season. The other six were all at home. So yeah, they look like they are cooked. It would require a hell of a turnaround in form for them to escape the drop at this juncture.

Everyone was hoping for that to happen last year, but they ended up going with Undertaker instead. Whether they'll retread the idea with Stone Cold this year remains to be seen - it feels like a missed opportunity to not have one last Rock/Stone Cold showdown on the biggest stage. I suppose the worry would be that two Attitude Era stars might (again) take the spotlight from current stars.

He just isn't that good. It's why we got him for a relative pittance with little competition. He's a player who at this point can be 'decent' at this level but that's about it. Yes he's slow but Dack wasn't exactly roadrunner and he was still a thousand times more useful than Cantwell.

Vince was surely the reason it never happened in the past, despite there being many occasions to do it and have it actually mean something. It's a bit late in the day now, and a weird time to do it considering this is supposed to be Cena's retirement tour. It does make the buildup more interesting than a face Vs face dynamic, at least, but with Cena being a part timer for basically a decade at this point it's not the same as Hogan (96) or Stone Cold's (01) turn. It's just a cool moment as opposed to an industry defining event.

Cena turning heel on his retirement tour wasn't something I was expecting. I don't watch WWE nowadays but I did watch the end of EC to see how they pulled it off. Interesting to see where they go with it.

Norwich did a lot of passing without really having an end product to show for it. From talking to a few Norwich fans post match this seems to be something they're used to away from home (apparently this isn't such a problem at home). We weren't terrible, but not great either. Average performance and probably lucky to have 11 on the pitch for as long as we did. Fair I think to have expected a bit more fire for a new manager, but maybe that energy was already given during Lowe's first couple of matches. It looked like a couple of mid table Championship teams duking it out, and perhaps at the end of the season that's what it ultimately will have been. There's plenty of inconsistent teams around us, so it isn't over yet. Coventry may well break away if their current form continues, which would just leave 6th up for grabs. The opportunity is there for Ismael and the lads, but we'll need to be winning against teams like Derby. Huge match irrespective of Eustace.

It's looking increasingly grim for Derby at this point. Another defeat today leaves them bottom, and if Hull win their game in hand against Plymouth at home on Tuesday then Derby would be 7 points from safety. They will be desperate regardless by next Saturday, and we've all seen this script before. Nonetheless even if you assume the high likelihood they'll take 3 points from us, it still looks like a monumental task for Eustace to keep them up now.

I wouldn't say it's reasonable to pay £20k pw for an unfit impact bench player. We might as well have just kept Siggy!

At least Dennis is only a loan for a few months. Still a horrendous waste of money, but still, could be worse.

They were poor today, I thought. If you didn't fair enough.

Indeed, home draws against poor teams aren't really enough now regardless of when we equalise. Can't blame Ismael though, as he only just got here. As usual it's the owners fucking everything up for, what, the 4th or 5th season in a row now?

Have to gratefully take the point and fair play to the lads for not giving up. Out of the playoff positions now though.

No new manager bounce, a lack of discipline and now bombing out of the playoffs as we have a shit second half of the season. As standard as the sunrise and sunset at this point

£20k a week well spent. Cheers recruitment team 🙄