Congrats Sam

Sacking Clough his low point, I'm shocked you never mentioned this before Ramdini!!!

Think the fact that they had a replacement management team up and running within a few days shows that the sacking was somewhat planned and Rush has a Machiavellian side to go with his pantomime villain looks. Ends seem to have justified the means.

Igor.
It was the manner in which Rush carried out the deed. Clough did a great job for DCFC and deserved a much better termination. I am NOT saying Clough should have stayed.
I acknowledged the improvement Rush brought about but the Clough phase was a very necessary transition from a state of complete shambles left by Jewell and Davies to that in which we had got rid of the expensive and mediocre signing and introduced great young players such as :-
Brayford
Keogh
Buxton
Coutts
Ward
Russell
Bryson
Grant
Eustace
Forsyth etc. and developing Academy youngsters like Hendrick Hughes OBbrien

The quality of whom speaks for itself even now.

I have no doubt that, if McLaren had come in at that point, he would most likely have been no where near as effective as Clough in providing what was then needed.

Ramdini - not sure anyone could call Eustace "great" or "young"but I'm with you on the rest

Yeah well, it sometimes gets too elaborate. We certainly miss Eustace if he doesn't play and it is taking a while for Omar to fill his place.

Some dross signings too

http://derbycountyfan.com/2013/06/16/nigel-cloughs-best-worst-signings/

Bush, if you know of a manager who has never made dross signings, including Alex Ferguson and especially Harry Redknapp, billy Davies, Paul jewell etc please let me know. There were few enough of those for Clough.

I should have added Chris Martin to the long list of great signings.

The dross you mention were mostly loans. Loans a a wise and legitimate way of checking a player out.

Glad to see Sam's instigating of 666's masterplan is being recognised

Slick Turpin wasn't even on the same plane as Sam Rush!
Our biggest challenge now is keeping hold of Sam.
He'll be in demand but I suspect he will want to see the job finished.