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  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
    ...... that's 4 points we have taken from them this season. Very pleasing.

    Different type of game from us last night too. We didn't have the lion's share of possession but did more with what we had than they did with theirs. The opposite of what has happened so often this season thus far.

    The Cherries had 57% possession 1st half and 67% 2nd half. They had 2 shots, 0 on target 1st half and 8 / 2 in the 2nd. We had 8 / 3 in the first and 4 / 3 in the 2nd. Of their 2 on target, the first was a gentle lob which any of us would have had, the other brought a brilliant save from Roos. Apart from the goal, their keeper had saves to make and there was a goalline clearance by a defender.

    They are, potentially, (one of?) the best footballing sides in the League yet their major weapon appeared to be putting the ball over our defence and running on to it. It didn't work. Nearly did early doors but Solanke mis-hit a ball he should have put away.

    They started both halves the more lively but over the 90 minutes we were the more dangerous team on a meagre 38% possession.

    I was pleasantly surprised at both the performance and the energy levels as I had serious doubts that we would be more than slightly more lively than we had been against the Millers. It seems the players haven't been told the "rule of thumb" recovery rate

    Worst performance of the night was the pitch. More on that in a separate thread.

    I thought Roos had a good game.
    Byrne continued his decent recent form.
    Evans was excellent.
    Wisdom too.
    Clarke was Clarke.
    Buchanan wasn't back to his previous levels but still had a good game.
    Bielik shone.
    Shinnie broke the play up well.
    Knight was back to Duracell levels but seemed to have difficulty with ball control on a poor pitch.
    Jozwiak was as industrious as ever but his ball control was on a par with Knight's.
    Kazim was closer to his previous levels than he had been against the Millers.
    Agree with most of that, MA.

    Just add.

    Roos...one fine save, excellent handling and distribution throughout but two or three bad errors of judgement of when to come out.
    Buchanan...overcame a poor start...a good sign.
    Bielik and Shinnie...both outstanding first halves...faded a little second half.
    Clarke...outstanding...MOTM by a distance for me.
    Rooney...strange reluctance to use subs, couldn’t understand keeping CKR on after eighty minutes. He could barely run and Waghorn’s fresh legs might have posed more of a threat. Increasingly impressed by his post match interviews.

    Referee...worse than the pitch...not biased, just bloody awful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
    Rattea, can you remind me which season we did well in under Nigel Clough, please?

    09/10 14th on 56 points
    10/11 19th on 49 points
    11/12 12th on 64 points (11 off the playoffs)
    12/13 10th on 61 points (7 off the playoffs and lost more than we won)

    I haven't posted the 08/09 stats as he was only at the club from January.

    The last 2 full seasons were "OK" but not of the standard of performance or results we would like to think a club like ours should be having. Midtable in the Championship is not "doing well" for a club like ours. The play was that of a siege mentality and not very entertaining despite an average goals for and against total of just shy of 3 a game. That siege mentality was needed when he arrived and I have always thought he got stuck in that rut and couldn't get out of it.

    The good thing about NC was that he put a good squad together but was unable to put the right pegs in the right holes and in the right shape with the right mindset to create a top team. It took Stevie Mac to do that.
    This presumably is the same Nigel Clough who after Derby went on to have a very successful managerial career, finally reaching the pinnacle at Mansfield Town?

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    Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
    This presumably is the same Nigel Clough who after Derby went on to have a very successful managerial career, finally reaching the pinnacle at Mansfield Town?
    Only Rats knows if it's the same one he's referring to..........

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    Looking through this and other sites it seems there is a suggestion that the EFL are vindictive!! I mean, how could such an upstanding and honourable organisation do with a thing??!! What a suggestion!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Edit: Do 'SUCH a thing'!!!!

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    Mac..... if it walks like a duck........

    Take the amortisation issue the EFL is appealing. DCFC has been using that method for years and it was never questioned. The EFL signed off on the accounts every year. Then, all of a sudden they decide it's against the rules. No warning to Derby. No, we've accepted it so far, will do so this season too but in future you have to do it the same way as everybody else...... Even then, they have (or had, at any rate) no rules or regs in place saying that amortisation has to be done a certain way.

    The sale of the ground. They were kept in the loop on everything involved with sale. Even to the point where they were sent an independent valuation to back up a particular sale price. The EFL, asked the club to reduce it to £80M and then they would accept it.

    Then you know who complained and the charges were born.

    Then a string of refs who appear to be certainly not biased towards the Rams, not just this season either......

    Just because we're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't still after us.......

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