Matchday Thread: Derby v Shrewsbury

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To be fair to Warne he admitted his mistake setting up with 3 at the back in the first half, though why he didn't change it before HT is a puzzle.

One would have thought a basic throw in is within the grasp of a L1 player but it does seem as if none of the players are able to execute a good one.

Warne surely has to protect his players? Its a risk either way, but the greater risk is surely a long term injury to a kept player also why CBT wasn't used even though he may have calmed the team down. Nelson could have won it at the end.

I'm not sure why people were expecting quality football at this level, if the players could produce that consistently they'd be in the championship surely? But Derby are going to struggle against teams that come here to stifle, as has been seen all season, it takes two teams to entertain.

Fair play to Shrewsbury, they had a game plan to stifle and nick the game if they could, they did that and nicked a pt. But we can't afford to keep dropping these pts.

[Andy_Faber]

To be fair to Warne he admitted his mistake setting up with 3 at the back in the first half, though why he didn't change it before HT is a puzzle.

One would have thought a basic throw in is within the grasp of a L1 player but it does seem as if none of the players are able to execute a good one.

Warne surely has to protect his players? Its a risk either way, but the greater risk is surely a long term injury to a kept player also why CBT wasn't used even though he may have calmed the team down. Nelson could have won it at the end.

I'm not sure why people were expecting quality football at this level, if the players could produce that consistently they'd be in the championship surely? But Derby are going to struggle against teams that come here to stifle, as has been seen all season, it takes two teams to entertain.

Fair play to Shrewsbury, they had a game plan to stifle and nick the game if they could, they did that and nicked a pt. But we can't afford to keep dropping these pts.

Warne made comment about the awful throw-in performance earlier in the season and things improved for a while, Nelson in particular taking fairly prompt ones backwards to Cashin, from wher an attack could be built. we seem to have reverted back to lobbing hopefully towards collins, and jumping for a ball with back to goal and defender on his back is clearly not a strong point

agreed there should be some protection of players, I think the balance (in taking off Nyambe) yesterday was way-off is all

I wasn't expecting high quality, just a bit of structure, Shrewsbry out-structured us yesterday

Another odd point I've never got, if wacking the ball hopefully into their area in a gung ho manner (ie last ten mins) is seen as having more chance of succeeding than the previous 85 mins approach, why bother with the earlier approach at all?