| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 08:16 - Jan 27 with 1824 views | paulredf58 |
I think we are at the end of the beginning. All the deadwood gone (more than 50), the Academy revived, the reserves doing decent, the first team working as a team and for each other, finances on a stable footing ready for the FFP (or whatever) - AND we didn't go down despite the damage left behind by Davies and Jewell. I shall be very surprised if we start to go backwards now that the hard work has been done - most fans seem to be loking forward to the rest of the season and if we can add a bit of quality here and there, dreams of play-offs (only a couple of points away) will come up. |  | |  |
| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 10:26 - Jan 27 with 1815 views | hemingway |
| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 08:16 - Jan 27 by paulredf58 |
I think we are at the end of the beginning. All the deadwood gone (more than 50), the Academy revived, the reserves doing decent, the first team working as a team and for each other, finances on a stable footing ready for the FFP (or whatever) - AND we didn't go down despite the damage left behind by Davies and Jewell. I shall be very surprised if we start to go backwards now that the hard work has been done - most fans seem to be loking forward to the rest of the season and if we can add a bit of quality here and there, dreams of play-offs (only a couple of points away) will come up. |
I think you've put it perfectly, paulred. The only trouble with our plan is that it's other teams' duty to try to foil it once or twice a week.
As someone once said: the devil laughs when we make plans. They must have been thinking of football. |  |
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| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 14:48 - Jan 27 with 1796 views | pkay_brum |
Yes, there is some redemption in what Derby have managed to achieve in these troubled times, without sinking down like the Trees, the Sheffield clubs, Charlton and others. Exciting, it isn't, but the alternative is even less so!
It's a moot point as to whether we will dwell in the shadow of teams like Leicester and Leeds, who may have progressed more rapidly to recovery than is apparent at Pride Park Stadium.
Apart from Southampton, most of the pretenders seem to be on shifting sands - and the tide might well catch up with them again...
West Ham *must* achieve promotion with their debt burden, the Foxes are running up vast expenditure too, DirtyLeeds have to confront the instability afoot with disquiet over both Bates and Grayson at the helm....
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| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 16:04 - Jan 27 with 1789 views | hemingway |
| SISU Shaft Coventry... on 14:48 - Jan 27 by pkay_brum |
Yes, there is some redemption in what Derby have managed to achieve in these troubled times, without sinking down like the Trees, the Sheffield clubs, Charlton and others. Exciting, it isn't, but the alternative is even less so!
It's a moot point as to whether we will dwell in the shadow of teams like Leicester and Leeds, who may have progressed more rapidly to recovery than is apparent at Pride Park Stadium.
Apart from Southampton, most of the pretenders seem to be on shifting sands - and the tide might well catch up with them again...
West Ham *must* achieve promotion with their debt burden, the Foxes are running up vast expenditure too, DirtyLeeds have to confront the instability afoot with disquiet over both Bates and Grayson at the helm....
Funny game, football |
Meanwhile, having eschewed boom and bust, the Rams plod on, progressing, as Johnny Cash said, about a half a mile a day. | |
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