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Reply | Manager
at 12:34 31 Aug 2025
I'm such a tvvat in that I keep resetting my div list. |
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Reply | More positives than negatives yesterday.
at 10:36 31 Aug 2025
Yes, agree with all of that.
I think there's little doubt that Hirst, Szmodics, Clarke and Philogene particularly are feeling the pressure of expectation from the start of this season, and all are struggling with it a little.
I like what I've seen of McAteer as you say, and he's bigger than I thought too. With the new intake of Ivan and Egeli too we're going to have forwards who aren't under immediate pressure but who are just the types to get the goals against packed defences I think. Once that happens, the whole front unit will be under less pressure and I truly think we're going to have a field day, with what we have at our disposal. Well, a field season.
Matusiwa and Cajuste looked fantastic at times and Nunez is another quality option there too. |
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Reply | Manager
at 10:22 31 Aug 2025
But you don't believe in developing a team - that's a T-E-A-M - where players learn how to play together in a system? |
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Reply | Can they applaud McKenna all the way to league one ?
at 10:20 31 Aug 2025
I'm actually getting quite angry with the number of apparently genuine Town fans (there's an awful lot who obviously aren't Town fans chiming in too) who seem to either not understand the patience required for a few weeks as we get the new squad ticking nicely (it's not bloody difficult to understand even if you've never played the game before or understood anything about team dynamics) or who do understand but want to throw their toys around anyway!
I do realise that it's on me, the getting angry bit, I guess that's what some of these 'fans' want. Can't fathom why. Maybe I should take a break. |
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Reply | Manager
at 09:28 31 Aug 2025
Clueless.
Absolutely clueless.
How do you think these players 'acquire' their supposedly 'correct' positions in the first place if it isn't on the training ground, mate?
Perhaps it's randomly allocated by the computer, or by trading up and down skill points in the category you favour after starting or re-starting the game.
Clueless. |
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Reply | Mckenna out!!!
at 08:00 31 Aug 2025
Hi Denny 
Sargent's off to Leeds. |
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Reply | Will take a few weeks still
at 07:57 31 Aug 2025
We were certainly dominant. Up front, we look like all of our forward players, particularly Hirst, but all of them really are feeling the pressure of not getting off to a fast start in the league. Mostly they just need to relax a little and enjoy the flow and let their capabilities come through. |
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Reply | Will take a few weeks still
at 07:50 31 Aug 2025
As others have alluded, the sharp passing exchanges with a lot of movement to rip opponents defensive structures apart that KMc is teaching this new group, is going to take a bit more time than your bog standard Championship discipline to get working smoothly.
There were some patches of play first half yesterday which showed what we will become. Just as with the transfer window, we need to have a little patience, hard as that might be for some. |
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Reply | "The Norwegian lad"
at 07:44 31 Aug 2025
I quite agree with you, as always. I'm was only saying to my mate yesterday how much I always agree with the churchy fella who got kicked up the erse. |
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Reply | How long do we keep going with the ‘new team has to gel’ gimmick?
at 07:39 31 Aug 2025
Until a few more people understand it, I guess?
Amongst the clunky, nervous and uncoordinated bits yesterday there were some beautiful little periods of football where we moved Derby around and looked very, very good indeed. When Matisuwa, Cajuste, Davis and McAteer, with input from O'Shea and the forwards were really orchestrating things just before half time, there was the image of the team we'll see in the next couple of months, which was way beyond what most Championship opponents will be able to cope with.
It really isn't hard to understand that the advanced football we aim to be playing takes a little longer to knit together with half a new squad. |
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Reply | Will take a few weeks still
at 18:11 30 Aug 2025
There were some really nice little patches in the first half, signs that when we do get it flowing consistently - which we will - we'll be very hard to stop.
Such a turnover of players will take a few more weeks to really 'gel' (as much as that word seems to trigger the hard of thinking.)
I'm getting really sick of the lack of understanding on here. |
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Reply | Much, much, much better from the boys
at 15:56 30 Aug 2025
The confidence is starting to come, and there were some flowing moves in the last ten minutes of that half that looked a couple of leagues above what Derby could comprehend.
I think that as time goes on this season, probably fairly quickly with our new options and variations, we are going to become a very, very dominant force in this division. A bold statement maybe, but that's how I'm seeing it. Some great play in that half from McAteer, Cajuste, Matusiwa in particular, but others like Philogene and Chappers look about to catch fire too.
I'm loving this. |
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Reply | Budgies showing true class
at 12:30 30 Aug 2025
Absolutely this.
Our club, our forums and our podcasts are absolutely light years ahead of them. |
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Reply | Budgies showing true class
at 12:28 30 Aug 2025
Are they still wailing and thrashing around about Nunez? We've had a proper big signing since then, so I'd kind of forgotten about the Nunez affair. Looking forward to seeing him contribute in a couple of weeks now, is all.
Haven't they got a game today to think about?
When I was reading the OinkUn yesterday a lot seemed to have moved onto the next (irrational) stage of denying that he was one of their most important players (probably their second most important) and making up a load of incredibly, ridiculously, childish, jealous anti-fantasy stuff about ITFC.
So now they've moved on to nasty, vicious, lowlife bile then?
Be glad when one or both of us has left this division. It smells. |
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Reply | According to transfermarkt
at 10:46 30 Aug 2025
Looking at their individual valuations, McAteer £2m???, I'd take it with quite a large pinch of salt. |
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Reply | Sindre Walle Egeli = Seven Nation Army chant
at 09:28 30 Aug 2025
Is that the one where he moans about his split ends? He went to the Midlands to repair them using dried grass, but was robbed by an insect?
Something like: "I need Leicester's hay, I've got split ends, but a bee stole it away..."
Pretty sure I've got that right. |
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