Jamie Ward injury adds to Derby County pain after frustrating loss to Crystal Palace

“Agree with you longeatonrams Ward is our only goal threat at the moment so it is a worry. I think you're a little harsh on Buxton, Roberts and Davies as I think they are reasonable squad players who can do a job throughout a season albeit not as main first choice payers, especially considering there is no money to bring in better. Not sure what Doyle remains at the club, he is never brought on and seems to have a permenant job of warming the bench! Time to give Sammon a break and put young Mason in to see what he can do alongside Martin and keep our fingers crossed that we can scrap out those remaing 6 - 10 points to make sure that we're safe! I think Clough needs to start looking at his best TEAM rather than trying to fit his best players into a formation, not so relevant at the moment due to Hughes' injury and Wards last night but I sometimes feel he looks at individual players rather than the team as a whole. I still remain positive though as long as we keep the younger players and can somehow get some money together for Clough to bring a little bit of quality in, we don't need millions just enough to give him something to work with! Let's face it all managers make bad signings at times no mater how good they are but with Clough he has 20p to spend on if he gets it wrong that's it, which is why Sammon could become a bit of a weight around Mr Clough's neck unless he starts to get some goals very soon.”

“Agree with you longeatonrams Ward is our only goal threat at the moment so it is a worry. I think you're a little harsh on Buxton, Roberts and Davies as I think they are reasonable squad players who can do a job throughout a season albeit not as main first choice payers, especially considering there is no money to bring in better. Not sure what Doyle remains at the club, he is never brought on and seems to have a permenant job of warming the bench! Time to give Sammon a break and put young Mason in to see what he can do alongside Martin and keep our fingers crossed that we can scrap out those remaing 6 - 10 points to make sure that we're safe! I think Clough needs to start looking at his best TEAM rather than trying to fit his best players into a formation, not so relevant at the moment due to Hughes' injury and Wards last night but I sometimes feel he looks at individual players rather than the team as a whole. I still remain positive though as long as we keep the younger players and can somehow get some money together for Clough to bring a little bit of quality in, we don't need millions just enough to give him something to work with! Let's face it all managers make bad signings at times no mater how good they are but with Clough he has 20p to spend on if he gets it wrong that's it, which is why Sammon could become a bit of a weight around Mr Clough's neck unless he starts to get some goals very soon.”

“Agree with you longeatonrams Ward is our only goal threat at the moment so it is a worry. I think you're a little harsh on Buxton, Roberts and Davies as I think they are reasonable squad players who can do a job throughout a season albeit not as main first choice payers, especially considering there is no money to bring in better. Not sure what Doyle remains at the club, he is never brought on and seems to have a permenant job of warming the bench! Time to give Sammon a break and put young Mason in to see what he can do alongside Martin and keep our fingers crossed that we can scrap out those remaing 6 - 10 points to make sure that we're safe! I think Clough needs to start looking at his best TEAM rather than trying to fit his best players into a formation, not so relevant at the moment due to Hughes' injury and Wards last night but I sometimes feel he looks at individual players rather than the team as a whole. I still remain positive though as long as we keep the younger players and can somehow get some money together for Clough to bring a little bit of quality in, we don't need millions just enough to give him something to work with! Let's face it all managers make bad signings at times no mater how good they are but with Clough he has 20p to spend on if he gets it wrong that's it, which is why Sammon could become a bit of a weight around Mr Clough's neck unless he starts to get some goals very soon.”

“Hopefully Ward will only be out for 7 to 10 days. Who on earth is the goal threat going to be? Who on earth is going to score?! Played well at times last night but our keeper had as many decent saves to make as theirs and they looked just as dangerous on the counter attack as we did with the more territory and possession. If Clough honestly believes Buxton, Roberts, Sammon and squad players like Doyle and B. Davies are consistently good enough to mount a top 10 challenge then he is more deluded than I thought. I try to stay positive but the lack of investment, average/poor signings, Clough's often strange formations, starting XI, substitutions and appalling away record mean we are sliding down the table. We rely too heavily on our away home form and it has caught us out in the last 3 home games.

Also, we have played Watford, Blackpool and Huddersfield all 'at the right time' at home this season. We are steadily sliding down the table and could be 16th or lower after the Leicester home game. Please go into loan market again to give the club a boost!!”