| Oh calamity! 11:31 - Jan 27 with 932 views | owderrammy |
Outrun, out fought,out thought, out skilled and well beaten by a team below us. If that is what an Indian chicken can do for a club, can we have some. No, better not, after all we will soon have a magnificent shopping plaza that every away fan will drool over and ask, why haven't our club got such a wonderful facility?
As for the performance against Blackburn, all I can give is a 4/10. Best forget and concentrate on Huddersfield Town; a more defining fixture against a club with similar financial support to our own. This will really tell us where we are at.
Finally Will Hughes. I said in a previous thread that the boy was being worked too hard and needed to be rested for a couple of games and used as a substitute. Too much responsibility is being piled on his young shoulders say I and I think the Blackburn game prooved my point. |  | | |  |
| Oh calamity! on 19:52 - Jan 27 with 921 views | davram |
It's a remarkable situation for the lad Hughes, when you consider that he was also taking school exams in the week and then asked to turn in what the club called a "little cameo" appearance in the FA Youth Cup tie in midweek.
Some cynics might think that the junior match gave some high-profile scouts from other clubs a rather low-key opportunity to run the rule over this "box-office" player, as Sam Rush now calls our saleable assets.
January's not over yet..... [Post edited 1 Jan 1970 1:00]
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| Oh calamity! on 20:41 - Jan 27 with 918 views | pkay_brum |
| Oh calamity! on 19:52 - Jan 27 by davram |
It's a remarkable situation for the lad Hughes, when you consider that he was also taking school exams in the week and then asked to turn in what the club called a "little cameo" appearance in the FA Youth Cup tie in midweek.
Some cynics might think that the junior match gave some high-profile scouts from other clubs a rather low-key opportunity to run the rule over this "box-office" player, as Sam Rush now calls our saleable assets.
January's not over yet..... [Post edited 1 Jan 1970 1:00]
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It was also a little ungracious how Mr Clough virtually denigrated RD's Ed Dawes (a dyed-in-the-wool Rams fan) in his post-match interview, on the suggestion that Will Hughes was tired and perhaps others were carrying injuries or less than fully fit.
NC saying he was 'sorry for playing a 17-year old and a 20-year old' in the midfield against more expensive and experienced Blackburn players was shocking.
It's clear that some players need to have their batteries recharged and that (as ever) the alternative squad options are thin on the ground and and decidedly
average.
No-one's denying that Rovers have some costly and several very good players (you can list just 4 from their squad that cost £16m between them straight away) but Derby fans expected far better.
Another 'Cinderella' season for us, watching the exciting exploits of other teams - and giant killers - in the Cup, then. (We would have been away at Arsenal in Round 5...a stuffing, but a big payday?)
The sanctuary of 50 Championship points beckons, Derby treading the middle ground of the table as ever.
In January, when Sam Rush first met fans, he described the Championship clubs as being split onto 4 categories - and Blackburn were seen as being among those that are rich clubs which should challenge but are currently in disarray.
Venky's don't have a clue, Blackburn fans change their mood every week or two but it appears that Appleton has taken that expensive shambles and got them playing within a few weeks.
They beat us so easily; we were vapid, weak, effete, clueless. Average, utterly predictable, out-of-sorts, unthreatening. That'll do for a start.
Promotion, Mr Rush? Please don't just 'talk the talk' - we've had years enough of that.
First, you had better enable Mr Clough to loan in a couple of seasoned older heads so that the season doesn't dip badly - ominous signs are there at the moment.
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