Help me understand...

why a team that had just gone through a patch of relatively good performances and ground out some really great results, has one personnel change and performs so badly in game that all must recognise could have a massive impact on our season! Why?

 

Simply because it was not only about one team, Derby were back to full strength , Rooney had done a job on the officials, Derby played extremely well & we were poor, we are not where we are because we are a good team, we are down there on merit , Derby are a mid table side , we are a bottom three side & that was evident yesterday , both teams got what they deserved but it was not all down to us .

 

Prior to yesterday we'd played 33 league games and lost 20 of them. Describing our performance as rubbish in a lot of those games would be flattering us. A defeat yesterday was by far the most likely result. A poor performance, while not guaranteed, wasn't far off. You'd have to ignore 90 per cent of the games this season to believe otherwise.

 

Last eight home games they have won 6, drawn 1 and lost 1. The fans are getting behind them like our own fans did the team when Flicker was trying to do a great escape and the old saying home advantage is working for them.

 

His head is offside. And his foot. And his knee. I've seen the analyst's side-on angle, and it's slightly clearer, naturally. The sort of view the lino had. I don't hold a grudge on this one, because it's marginal as **** in real-time, without the benefit of VAR etc. And, let's be honest, we were **** yesterday and we'd have still lost.

I was more angry at the disallowed Leya Iseka goal against Cardiff to be honest. Because he was half a yard on, and we definitely didn't deserve to lose that.

 

Plus we have a coach that thinks defending and not attacking is the be all and end all . despite being proven in the few games previous attack does work. Verdict asbaghi is not good enough

 

I'm not sure about not good enough. However, what disappoints me is that lessons weren't learned after Coventry game. I thought we were over that especially what I witnessed at Hull. We need to be braver and more attacking to get out if trouble

 

I am not sure what match you were watching but a booking for Wolfe was right and never a red in a million years but we got nothing off the officials at all in the first half although I thought they were more balanced in the second, however Rooney complaining to the National press & TV during in the week about how Officials were giving them a hard time etc etc certainly bore fruit with the first goal , but in my comment I said both teams on the day got what they deserved , we deserved nothing .

 

Don't forget that we also have a media team, a CEO, a group of owners who the media wants to talk to and a manager with a mouth. We chose not to make the same comments that Rooney did

 

I know this might be a stupid question but if the club has footage that shows him clearly offside why would we not use that in the match recap rather than showing a freeze frame where he looks onside?

 

Can’t tell if he’s offside from those stills but can tell that either Gomes or Styles should be closer to Lawrence, Morrison has made a run that hasn’t been tracked and Mads is ball watching.

Dreadful defending

 

the thing is this isn't the season that's behind us, this is our immediate future. We now have midfield that has shown signs of life and a team that has displayed a little bit of 'go at them' attitude. I get there are two teams in a game but that is why we need to go for it from the off, to set the agenda and tempo for the game and get in faces. I'm just baffled that we change a winning mindset in a 'must win game'. Was it the players, the manager, absence of Williams, or what. We're in boom or bust territory, we must set up to win and play like we mean it - whoever the opposition. If we don't have the right mindset we haven't a chance. So frustrating when we've shown glimpses!

 

Because it’s analyst footage and not great quality. They don’t shoot in HD. And the footage used shows him offside regardless. And as I’ve already said, whilst it’s a worthy topic for discussion, it’s not really relevant to the result of a match in which we were distinctly second best.

 

You should know by now that when we lose it’s because the players/staff are ****. That goes for most football fans, not just ours. It’s very rare that someone - like yourself - points out just how good the opposition were.

I said to my colleague after 10 mins “we’re getting beat today” because it looked that obvious to me. Derby were quicker, had more energy, were winning all the seconds and it seemed a matter of time until they took the lead.

In fairness, it took an (admittedly well-crafted) dubious goal to break the deadlock and then an error and a bit of fortune to double the lead. And, we had two or three opportunities that we should have scored from. So it didn’t end up as bleak as it may have.

They played in midweek, away in Cardiff, we had a full week to rest and prepare. But it looked like the opposite. Not great at all and saddening, as I said last night on here.

We clearly need to start well in games else we are getting nothing. We can’t play from behind. We need positive momentum.

Huge 10 days in front of us. I hope to see fast starts and more ambition to be first to things. Too many occasions yesterday we made 50/50s look like 70/30s in their favour.