Love these threads, it’s almost like sports on tv hasn’t been invented
I kid, nice to see someone do a write up like this.
Josefzoon was a big negative today. I try to see the best in players but he seems so short of confidence. The speed and quick feet which we have seen in rare flashes this season are no use if he won’t take on a man, and his lack of physical presence means he offers no help to his full back and doesn’t retain the ball or even win a throw-in or foul. With Bennett injured I really hope that Lawrence is fit for Wednesday’s match.
Marriott looked sharp though when he came on. Wilson may have been fouled a bit but he isn’t contributing a fat lot at the moment. Bogle was tremendous and the centre halves yet again very good. We’re clawing our way back towards being a decent team again, mainly because Huddz and Johnson are at least preventing us being overrun in midfield. Like Ramdini I do wish we had a Bannan.
Good stuff Ramdini.
I was pleased to see us compete against a physical team today. Quietly putting ourselves back together again. Hindsight is 20/20 but I would have liked to have seen swing low exploit some of the spaces when we were 1-0 ahead.
Nice to see a few flames stirring out from neath the smouldering embers too.
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. Clickage is on hiatu... (U13926)
posted 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
It's "Duane" 👍
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Thanks Harper. Thought it looked a bit funny but the race is on to deliver early.
Good account Ramdini
Operating yesterday - and I enjoyed it - we looked like we playing the best we could and that we had no extra gear. Which is ok but our expectations are bigger.
This season accept mid-table, well I won't say mediocrity, because we are in the play- offs and may even fluke Wembley but until we are allowed to play Frank's way with Franks acquisitions, it will continue to splutter and mis-fire. We have superb individuals in the team but these individuals have strengths in different set ups, different formations and with different personal.
For example (and this is just an example), someone like Jozefzoon could excels in a middling/upper premier league team???
I agree - mid table most likely - let's hope above Forest. I just hope Mel doesn't sack Frank.
comment by ViewFromTheStudent (U1581)
posted 23 minutes ago
Good account Ramdini
Operating yesterday - and I enjoyed it - we looked like we playing the best we could and that we had no extra gear. Which is ok but our expectations are bigger.
This season accept mid-table, well I won't say mediocrity, because we are in the play- offs and may even fluke Wembley but until we are allowed to play Frank's way with Franks acquisitions, it will continue to splutter and mis-fire. We have superb individuals in the team but these individuals have strengths in different set ups, different formations and with different personal.
For example (and this is just an example), someone like Jozefzoon could excels in a middling/upper premier league team???
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I enjoyed it too Viewfrom after the disappointment of conceding two points so tamely. SW were a strong team though and well organised by Bruce and well marshalled by Bannon.
Good point under the circumstances, but terrible defending at a set piece has cost us again.
Vidal, how can you say the centre-halves were "very good" when the SW bloke had an uncontested header?
Scouse, I say it because I watched the game, all of it. SW were a team of mountains and two players can’t mark them all. I guess that Fletcher and Hector were likely to be the responsibility of our centre-halves but I don’t know. Lampard said that we failed to all drop back together as a unit when Bannan delivered the cross. On the replay it looked like maybe Tomori was sluggish which has been his weakness but overall I thought he was excellent.
Against a team that is very strong in the air you want to concede as few set-pieces as possible. Bogle had a terrific game but gave away an unnecessary foul that led to the goal. But no team, no matter how well organised and how good the defenders are, NEVER concede from crosses. When the delivery is perfect and half a dozen blokes are attacking the six-yard box it might drop perfectly for one of them.
Well done Ramdini, jolly good show.
View I know what you mean about how we will improve when FL gets his own team. But he was manager when Evans, and Josefzooom were bought and they are very poor buys. Zooom playing for a mid table premier team, have you been sniffing laughing gas? He is useless and I do not want to see him in a Derby shirt again.
Waghorn was far too much money and he really should have controlled that pass yesterday. 2-0 and we are winning the game. Marriott needs to do more and I think he should have come on when poor Mason went off and played on the left wing where he might get the ball.
Wilson is looking poor lately but I thought Tomori was excellent yesterday, he makes time for himself.
My biggest surprise is that we are 6th and might get into the playoffs.
VC, did you ever see Zoon at Brentford? He was a very good player for them, in a slick team playing the kind of football that Lampard aspires to. I thought he was awful yesterday and he has done almost nothing since we signed him but buried somewhere deep inside him there is a player. His confidence looks shot though so he may be past the point of no return.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
......... so he may be past the point of no return.
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Unless we sell him, he'd be bound to score against us.
No View I don't remember him from Brentford. I do remember Pritchard, Jota and Hogan who would obviously be better than Zoon. I'm sure there are other Brentford players who are better than him.
Earlier this season my son said the Zoon was the worst Rams player he had ever seen. I thought at the time it was harsh and wrong, but now I see he was right. Why does Frank play him? Surely we have better in the U21s.
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
......... so he may be past the point of no return.
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Unless we sell him, he'd be bound to score against us.
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Sell him Scouse??? He's another free transfer at the end of his large contract.
I feel somewhere in there, is a good player waiting to get his boots on. I have not a clue, at this critical stage of the season, how we could bring him out. The under 23's does not do it. But he certainly does let us down on a regular basis.
I wish we hadn’t sent Luke Thomas on loan for the season. He’d be far better than Zoon (and several others?) at the club.
Think he’ll be featuring next season.
.... I do worry about our general lack of height and physicality though. It’s very noticeable what a tiny team we are.
... there’s more. Anyone notice how shocking our corners are, still. I like Holmes but his corners are often terrible.
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 27 minutes ago
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
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I know I'm a moaning barsteward at the best of times, but how hard is it for a professional footballer to take a decent corner. Its like the equivalent of a window cleaner not being able to climb a ladder.
As 666 would say, JFC.
You certainly are, Scouse. I don’t think our corners are worse than any other team. It’s surprising how often even the very best teams take poor corners. Maybe it’s harder than it looks. We only tend to remember the crap ones, in the same way as with crosses coming into our box from set pieces we only remember the ones where we concede and not the many more which are successfully defended.
It was Holmes who took the corner from which we scored. He didn't quite miss the first defender but that proved fortuitous as Johnson was on the end of it to place a lovely header with a certain inevitability about it.
I think Waggy takes our best corners but we need him in the middle with a little fella to take them. Like Holmes or Wilson why surprisingly doesn't make the most of his great left foot.
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 27 minutes ago
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
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I know I'm a moaning barsteward at the best of times, but how hard is it for a professional footballer to take a decent corner. Its like the equivalent of a window cleaner not being able to climb a ladder.
As 666 would say, JFC.
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JFC??
FFS, Ramdini. Clue: first word Jesus, last word Christ.
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posted on 9/3/19
Love these threads, it’s almost like sports on tv hasn’t been invented
I kid, nice to see someone do a write up like this.
posted on 9/3/19
Josefzoon was a big negative today. I try to see the best in players but he seems so short of confidence. The speed and quick feet which we have seen in rare flashes this season are no use if he won’t take on a man, and his lack of physical presence means he offers no help to his full back and doesn’t retain the ball or even win a throw-in or foul. With Bennett injured I really hope that Lawrence is fit for Wednesday’s match.
Marriott looked sharp though when he came on. Wilson may have been fouled a bit but he isn’t contributing a fat lot at the moment. Bogle was tremendous and the centre halves yet again very good. We’re clawing our way back towards being a decent team again, mainly because Huddz and Johnson are at least preventing us being overrun in midfield. Like Ramdini I do wish we had a Bannan.
posted on 9/3/19
It's "Duane" 👍
posted on 9/3/19
Good stuff Ramdini.
I was pleased to see us compete against a physical team today. Quietly putting ourselves back together again. Hindsight is 20/20 but I would have liked to have seen swing low exploit some of the spaces when we were 1-0 ahead.
Nice to see a few flames stirring out from neath the smouldering embers too.
posted on 10/3/19
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. Clickage is on hiatu... (U13926)
posted 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
It's "Duane" 👍
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Thanks Harper. Thought it looked a bit funny but the race is on to deliver early.
posted on 10/3/19
Good account Ramdini
Operating yesterday - and I enjoyed it - we looked like we playing the best we could and that we had no extra gear. Which is ok but our expectations are bigger.
This season accept mid-table, well I won't say mediocrity, because we are in the play- offs and may even fluke Wembley but until we are allowed to play Frank's way with Franks acquisitions, it will continue to splutter and mis-fire. We have superb individuals in the team but these individuals have strengths in different set ups, different formations and with different personal.
For example (and this is just an example), someone like Jozefzoon could excels in a middling/upper premier league team???
posted on 10/3/19
I agree - mid table most likely - let's hope above Forest. I just hope Mel doesn't sack Frank.
posted on 10/3/19
comment by ViewFromTheStudent (U1581)
posted 23 minutes ago
Good account Ramdini
Operating yesterday - and I enjoyed it - we looked like we playing the best we could and that we had no extra gear. Which is ok but our expectations are bigger.
This season accept mid-table, well I won't say mediocrity, because we are in the play- offs and may even fluke Wembley but until we are allowed to play Frank's way with Franks acquisitions, it will continue to splutter and mis-fire. We have superb individuals in the team but these individuals have strengths in different set ups, different formations and with different personal.
For example (and this is just an example), someone like Jozefzoon could excels in a middling/upper premier league team???
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I enjoyed it too Viewfrom after the disappointment of conceding two points so tamely. SW were a strong team though and well organised by Bruce and well marshalled by Bannon.
posted on 10/3/19
Good point under the circumstances, but terrible defending at a set piece has cost us again.
Vidal, how can you say the centre-halves were "very good" when the SW bloke had an uncontested header?
posted on 10/3/19
Scouse, I say it because I watched the game, all of it. SW were a team of mountains and two players can’t mark them all. I guess that Fletcher and Hector were likely to be the responsibility of our centre-halves but I don’t know. Lampard said that we failed to all drop back together as a unit when Bannan delivered the cross. On the replay it looked like maybe Tomori was sluggish which has been his weakness but overall I thought he was excellent.
Against a team that is very strong in the air you want to concede as few set-pieces as possible. Bogle had a terrific game but gave away an unnecessary foul that led to the goal. But no team, no matter how well organised and how good the defenders are, NEVER concede from crosses. When the delivery is perfect and half a dozen blokes are attacking the six-yard box it might drop perfectly for one of them.
posted on 10/3/19
Well done Ramdini, jolly good show.
View I know what you mean about how we will improve when FL gets his own team. But he was manager when Evans, and Josefzooom were bought and they are very poor buys. Zooom playing for a mid table premier team, have you been sniffing laughing gas? He is useless and I do not want to see him in a Derby shirt again.
Waghorn was far too much money and he really should have controlled that pass yesterday. 2-0 and we are winning the game. Marriott needs to do more and I think he should have come on when poor Mason went off and played on the left wing where he might get the ball.
Wilson is looking poor lately but I thought Tomori was excellent yesterday, he makes time for himself.
My biggest surprise is that we are 6th and might get into the playoffs.
posted on 10/3/19
VC, did you ever see Zoon at Brentford? He was a very good player for them, in a slick team playing the kind of football that Lampard aspires to. I thought he was awful yesterday and he has done almost nothing since we signed him but buried somewhere deep inside him there is a player. His confidence looks shot though so he may be past the point of no return.
posted on 10/3/19
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
......... so he may be past the point of no return.
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Unless we sell him, he'd be bound to score against us.
posted on 10/3/19
No View I don't remember him from Brentford. I do remember Pritchard, Jota and Hogan who would obviously be better than Zoon. I'm sure there are other Brentford players who are better than him.
Earlier this season my son said the Zoon was the worst Rams player he had ever seen. I thought at the time it was harsh and wrong, but now I see he was right. Why does Frank play him? Surely we have better in the U21s.
posted on 10/3/19
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
......... so he may be past the point of no return.
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Unless we sell him, he'd be bound to score against us.
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Sell him Scouse??? He's another free transfer at the end of his large contract.
posted on 10/3/19
I feel somewhere in there, is a good player waiting to get his boots on. I have not a clue, at this critical stage of the season, how we could bring him out. The under 23's does not do it. But he certainly does let us down on a regular basis.
posted on 10/3/19
I wish we hadn’t sent Luke Thomas on loan for the season. He’d be far better than Zoon (and several others?) at the club.
Think he’ll be featuring next season.
posted on 10/3/19
.... I do worry about our general lack of height and physicality though. It’s very noticeable what a tiny team we are.
posted on 10/3/19
... there’s more. Anyone notice how shocking our corners are, still. I like Holmes but his corners are often terrible.
posted on 10/3/19
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
posted on 10/3/19
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 27 minutes ago
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I know I'm a moaning barsteward at the best of times, but how hard is it for a professional footballer to take a decent corner. Its like the equivalent of a window cleaner not being able to climb a ladder.
As 666 would say, JFC.
posted on 10/3/19
You certainly are, Scouse. I don’t think our corners are worse than any other team. It’s surprising how often even the very best teams take poor corners. Maybe it’s harder than it looks. We only tend to remember the crap ones, in the same way as with crosses coming into our box from set pieces we only remember the ones where we concede and not the many more which are successfully defended.
posted on 10/3/19
It was Holmes who took the corner from which we scored. He didn't quite miss the first defender but that proved fortuitous as Johnson was on the end of it to place a lovely header with a certain inevitability about it.
I think Waggy takes our best corners but we need him in the middle with a little fella to take them. Like Holmes or Wilson why surprisingly doesn't make the most of his great left foot.
posted on 10/3/19
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 27 minutes ago
Has Duane only just taken over corner duties ?
He admitted post-match that he was disappointed with his delivery, but said he was working hard in training to improve them
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I know I'm a moaning barsteward at the best of times, but how hard is it for a professional footballer to take a decent corner. Its like the equivalent of a window cleaner not being able to climb a ladder.
As 666 would say, JFC.
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JFC??
posted on 10/3/19
FFS, Ramdini. Clue: first word Jesus, last word Christ.
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