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The link you've put up there is from August. We've had several international breaks since then.

That doesn't work with our dogs. They cottoned on after the first few times they'd been fooled.

Sorry - what was the justification for signing a guy on a season long loan who hasnt been seen yet and who (as far as I know) still doesn't have a return date yet?

Well, according to a few people who've left the Club recently it isn't great. And Suhail admitted in the last Fans Forum that the various players who have left wanted to leave the Club. Dalglish is obviously talking about the environment from when he was here 30 odd years ago chaddy.

I don't know. I only mentioned the other two because Atcheson's name has appeared on the bench recently. Opinions on all 3 welcome. If none of them are a better option than Hedges in that position, I can't see much of a future in professional football for them.

Can anyone who's familiar with the younger players confirm what Atcheson and Litherland are like? Are they really that bad that neither can be risked and we need to play a winger at CB instead? In all the time I've been watching the Club, I've never known the the earth cave in because we've handed a young players their debut. Could the reluctance to use them be for financial reasons more than due to their ability?

I actually think that it looks slightly better lower down. The gold badge right next to the normal badge makes it look cluttered and even more of an afterthought than it already was imo. Either way, absolute disgrace though that people are being invited to make the effort to have a transfer put on months after buying a shirt. The home shirt this year should have had one badge only with some nice gold detailing around the normal badge to make it a unique one off design with gold lettering underneath commemorating the anniversary similar to the Centenary shirt. As with the alleged additional all white commemorative kit it comes over like they've messed it up deliberately to piss people off and spoil the anniversary year even more than the results are doing.

Generally, Alebiosu apart - what a lot of dross we've signed over summer. Baradji - never been seen. Tavares - (£2m) barely been seen. Forshaw- meh- why? Henriksson - a walking yellow card, looks well out of his depth. TGH - not the worst of the bunch by any stretch but ordinary nevertheless. Moreshita - (£2m) Flatters to deceive. Gudjohnsen (£2m plus) Completely anonymous. Not sure he's any better than Leonard Miller - Can't defend. Edit: - forgot De Neve- Saturday apart been a bit better recently, but unsurprisingly not up to to Championship standard imo.

I was so genuinely bemused by the Hedges love in I decided to watch the match back to see how he performed. As I thought in real time he didnt do anything noteworthy other than the fact he was largely responsible for the second goal by venturing forward and giving the ball away deep inside the Derby half which was then recycled and as a result we were short of cover down his side when the cross came in. Apart from that he went through the back of someone on 60 mins and was slightly fortunate not to earn a yellow card and very fortunate not to give away a free kick right on the corner of our area on 73 mins which if adjudged a foul would have been desperately close to being inside the area. Generally we looked extremely vulnerable any time Derby put a cross in. We have major problems if our idiot manager continues using Hedges there. Whilst I think he's rubbish I'm not going to blame him for playing poorly completely out of position, Ismael shouldn't be putting him in that situation.

Wasn't being sarcy, on watching the replay it was a pen but I've seen those not given. It was soft in the sense that up to that point we hadn't had an effort on target, Ohashi was going nowhere and Sanderson didnt need to make the challenge.

You make it sound like it was all his fault. JDT for all his pleasing attributes definitely WAS taking us down. Eustace managed to stop the rot and kept us up.

Two keepers would have been struggling to get anywhere near that.

Derby did nothing whatsoever wrong yesterday nor has there been anything whatsoever wrong with the vast majority of referees we've had this season. Im now convinced Exiled is on quite a clever wind up, moaning about the referee and our bad luck the minute we walk on the pitch every week and seeing who bites. He had me fooled for ages.

Why is it lazy analysis? You can be as tricky, exciting, or fast as you want as a winger but at the end of the day unless you're either creating chances for others or scoring them yourself it's all for nowt. Incidentally I thought Grealish turned into an absolute parody of himself at Citeh. Everytime anyone gave him the ball he just gave it straight back. Anyone could do that and take zero risk. Pep got most of the flak for that for instructing him to play in a certain way but even he must have got sick of him eventually as he initially left him out then moved him out of the Club.

I've mentioned it before but I think they're pretty fortunate to be as high as they are in the table. Without all those late goals earlier on in the season they'd be in a right predicament.

So how's that looking then?

I use it with sarcasm because it's a modern buzzword designed to hoodwink people into thinking all is well when it's clearly not i.e. "We're all aligned" (therefore by definition everything is clearly going to be ok despite all obvious signs to the contrary etc) Or we're "on a journey" (Mowbray) or we have to "trust in the process". There's another couple. Id have thought we'd have a lot better chance of success if rather than have a Head Coach completely on board with pursuing a disastrous policy, we had an ambitious Coach like JDT or Eustace completely at odds with Gestede and Pasha begging them to spend as much as possible on the team.

And that would have been before the improved new TV deal for the Championship. Edit: MP beat me to it.

What absolute tosh. Eustace (I think) had Birmingham in the play off positions when he was sacked there, had us in the play off positions when the management forced him out here and already has Derby within striking distance of the play offs. There's a bit of a pattern there........ I get the rivalry aspect but personally Id save the derision for ex coaches who were crap for us. So by the same token I guess you'd say we should have been waving plastic snakes (if they made them in those days) at Furphy, Lee, Smith, Kendall, Mackay, Dalglish, Hughes etc?

When I've seen him on TV in the past he's generally looked bright but I thought he wasn't quite top class in that there was a real lack of end product in terms of final ball and/or scoring. Thought he looked the real deal today though. How long did Salah get a new deal for? With the benefit of hindsight that looks like it could have been one of the most expensive mistakes ever. I'd be trying to shunt him off to Saudi pronto in January.

What would you have preferred he said just before an important Cup tie? "Well yeah (y'know) frankly I've had enough of working for these tossers, I want clarity on my own future and those of our key players and have had no joy so far. If I can't get it then I think my long term future would be better served by moving to Derby." I can't believe you're so hung up about him telling a white lie. If anything you should be annoyed at the Club for allowing him to stay in charge for that particular game as they clearly had no intention whatsoever of acceding to his wishes or even attempting to meet him halfway as "Project transition" was clearly in the offing.

Miller's shocking.

Completely agree. Terrible decision. I think there's a argument to be had that the law should be that if you're stood in an offside position you're off but unfortunately that catches someone stood on the far side of the pitch etc. So I've no problem with the law as currently drafted and as such the goal should have stood.

I assume that all the new signings will be on a lot more than a 12 month contract and doubt they would have agreed relegation Clauses down to League 1 levels so I'm in the camp that losses would be far larger if we went down. I would have thought the "plan" is to spend the minimum possible whilst just about staying up.

Eustace has only been at Derby less than half a season yet his career there is already mirroring his here. Saved a Club that looked doomed to relegation then next season has them in and around the top 6. Meanwhile, our mon is taking us in the other direction. But we're better off apparently because he's "honest" in interviews as one diabolical decision after another occurs with his blessing, and doesn't say "y'know" a lot in his pressers.