Derby County will wait to assess fitness of defender Jake Buxton before entering the emergency loan market

“I respect your views Thairam and there are many that share your thoughts on the subject. Having watched all home and away matches this season there have been some frustrations on the long haul home occasionally through a lack of the right tactics and the side apparently not being "up for it".
When you are in a learning curve as Rams are this season however it has to be understood that the entertainment will be much better when we have gained the know-how of handling so many physical teams which predominate in this division and the youngsters have the knowledge and experience. My first worry on that score is if GSE/NC let these talented lads go at the same time that happens. I do still feel that a good rugged midfielder, to disrupt/prevent the home side playing, would stop the rot away from home especially if Shaun Barker is able to return fit and well to a defence which has been extremely vulnerable to conceding poor goals mostly from free headers/crosses not being cut out.
But if you look at the Balance Sheet that tells it's own story, two consecutive seasons of £8M trading losses, as to why there are no recruits coming in unless others leave. The frustrations of that of course is in the fact that our saleable assets are the only ones other clubs want. I too see the Foxes getting Chris Wood and David Nugent in their forward line but of course they are hoping that they can get up to counteract the impact of their considerable wages. When we tried that previously it has never worked out for us. I guess there are no real answers to this conundrum except revenue coming in and that is a long and often tricky road as we all know. Hope we can turn The Trotters over tonight.”

“60years I respect your posts but
As I maintain there are few better sides than Rams in the division. As of right now there are 9 better sides
NC he does get his tactics wrong now and then. Yes every away game and most of this months home games as well.

GSE No one wants millions spent but give us a few new faces that were promised if your not going to spend dont tell us you are...”

“It really is great and very entertaining at times on these threads. Some really good posts with common sense prevailing and I personally thank you all for that as varied opinions make for great debate.
I think on Saturday it only proved that we still have some distance to travel as a team before we can be confident of getting results regularly. The talent is there but just needs supplementing slightly however of course we have this £34M debt hanging over us like the Damocles Sword and this is worrying from the point of view of potential outgoing players. Like most sides the players we don't want to lose are the ones that others covet.
With the experience of this season in their pockets the youngsters can only improve and, if we can get in a combative defensive midfielder in the summer, we could be set up for next term and have a real tilt at the title. As I maintain there are few better sides than Rams in the division but we haven't showed our superiority on enough occasions this term. It is still a learning curve for Nigel also as he, like Billy Davies before him, has never managed in the top flight so once again he does get his tactics wrong now and then. I have yet to meet the perfect human being so he makes mistakes like we all do on occasion consequently we need to make allowances for those occasions.
Forever Derby, you hit the nail right on the head by citing Portsmouth and Coventry as the latest two clubs to show us how NOT to do it financially and if some think that big clubs don't get in trouble just look at Leeds with friend Ridsdale some 10 years ago who was constantly on TV many times telling us how it should be done!
We have been there and done that over the years as you rightly say. I had the dubious privilege of being the one to pick up Stuart Webb from Derby Midland station in 1984 when he had been in the High Court that day saving our club from extinction -and the same night we lost a cup replay to Plymouth 1-0 at the BBG when Steve Cherry put a corner in his own net. It is those sort of memories that makes you realise why GSE are running the club so frugally and why football in general cannot go on losing millions of pounds to overpaid foreign players particularly and charging the genuine fans a fortune to watch the process - Michel Platini realises that too!!
So I hope that, for all you genuine Rams fans, our lads can get the consistency to make it a memorable season next time as most of us remember Wembley six years ago but don't wish to remember the aftermath of the past few seasons!”

“N.C will only move if the right player is avail ,simple as.”

“What concerns me about the above article is that Clough once again has implied that we need to go into the loan market yet fails to deliver. Hoganson had a great debut at left back on Saturday against a very physical team however we could do with a bit of experience and know how in our defence - which Keogh is effectively holding together. What makes this article even more dispiriting is that Jack Robinson went to Wolves yesterday on loan & Clough blames Jacobs for the draw. Sammon too took a shot in the 2nd half when squaring it would have been easier.... enough said”

“What concerns me about the above article is that Clough once again has implied that we need to go into the loan market yet fails to deliver. Hoganson had a great debut at left back on Saturday against a very physical team however we could do with a bit of experience and know how in our defence - which Keogh is effectively holding together. What makes this article even more dispiriting is that Jack Robinson went to Wolves yesterday on loan & Clough blames Jacobs for the draw. Sammon too took a shot in the 2nd half when squaring it would have been easier.... enough said”

“Oh, and by the way, check out the green and red arrows and think about that with some semblance of an open mind.”

“Derwentx,

''Thank you for a bit of common sense, there are plenty of people who don't like to read it because it doesn't fit in with their jaundiced view."

Eerrr, pot kettle black, kettle pot black, err pot black kettle.

And against a reasonable poster like 60yearramsfan?

Good grief....Goes to the foot of his stairs and looks up in total astonishment.”

“Thanks derwentx.
Nice to know that there are some with an open mind and a bit of common sense.”

“You know you are on a loser foreveverderby when people give you red arrows for an apology! Thank you for a bit of common sense, there are plenty of people who don't like to read it because it doesn't fit in with their jaundiced view.”