Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
Agree with much of that but not that it's right to blame Warne. Warne had to work within a tight budget based on our income (that let's face it none of us know the full detail of, but I trust Stewart not to cheat us) and built an ethos and squad that he felt had the most chance of working successfully in L1 with that budget. Time will tell to what he changes with greater resources at Derby - if he succeeds in keepoing Derby in the Champ and in the top half (anything less will see their fans after him!) then we can conclude that he is a good manager. If he fails, with greater resources, then those who say he is limited will have justification for that view. Only time will tell.

And yes, MT has to be given time, to go down and rebuild if necessary. But I'm not sure I agree that we shouldn't question the wisdom of arriving mid season at a club that has a way of playing carefully built up over years, a squad with some good strengths but def limitations and then quickly try and get those players to play in a way that exposes their weaknesses and doesn't utilise their strengths is certainly not the way I would have advised a manager to do it! As already said on here, he didn't have to make the changes so quickly, I think you firstly have to play to the strengths in your playing staff and then slowly start to make steady changes so you don't bomb!
But MT has said that he wants to play a more direct style but he can't, because such a style requires a target man to lead the line and hold up the ball. This then allows for the high press, we are having to sit deep because we have NOTHING up front, the vast majority of us said that we had to get another forward in, especially when our reserve was sent out on loan, PW said he needed another forward, we lost out on the Watford lad at the last moment, I still think rumours about PW looking elsewhere were known and this impacted our ability to get some players in (agents talk!!), the bottom line is we didn't get that cover and we are suffering because of it. I do not blame PW totally for that I think the club should have dealt with it, if we can see it then so can the so called experts running the club and the recruitment team. many other clubs bring in players and the manager gets involved by stating his desires and at the end, for me the club failed to recruit key players, For example peltier and high were wasted wages and the money could have used better. I think MT is suffering due to poor recruitment and that responsibility is shared out and PW is part of that problem.