Nigel Clough: We may suffer due to a lack of know-how

“Tadley: "Clough chooses to put a young team out there, no one else".

I can't work out whether you are being contrary or are as thick as two short planks?

Tell me where the older, experienced players are in our squad or (as we know they're not there) the money to buy them is going to come from?”

“Norwich just nudged it over Burnley I would think! A fine city!”

“And who could possibly resist the allure of living in Burnley.”

“JohnZFish
I have it on good authority that Shackell was approached by the club to see if he was interested in discussing an extension to his contract however his representatives turned them down and stated that they were not interested.
Therefore when the club received what they saw as an acceptable offer they sold a player that they saw as not being committed to the cause and replaced him with someone (Keogh) who had choices but wanted to be part of what NC is trying to build.
Our problem is that whether it be Keogh or Shackell we would still be struggling with who plays beside them and have tried O'Connor, Buxton, O'Brien in that position when in reality if Barker was fit then all 3 of them would be little more than squad players.”

“There are two factions with comments on this subject. One faction always claiming to know everything about DCFC from the admin,finance to the playing and coaching which is driving the club at slight incline upwards. The other faction state their opinions and are treated as 'the other side' or other titles of ill repute because they do not agree. Often recurring replies described as broken records and childish retorts from the first faction are inflammatory so those of the other factor chill out as the main man says and go with the flow. You know it makes sense as Derby supporters are the best and we all want to succeed and watch premiership football at PP sooner rather much later!”

“We are not blaming the manager but we are short of defensive players?

Who was it signed all of our defenders (Except O'Brien)?

We had a really excellent centre half last season -Jason Shackell.”

“You could just try and enter into the debate and answer the points Stimac. I always find that people revert to insults when they don't have an argument worthy of the name.

You have made my point very nicely, thank you Tadley. Yes, we could have been out of sight before we started to play at Leicester but why did we 'start to play' as you put it? Because we put an extra man in midfield and abandoned the 4 4 2 that you and stimac clearly believe could be our salvation.

Just face it boys, playing 4 4 2 isn't going to increase our points tally away from home because we are short of two or three defensive players. Its just so easy for you to ignore that and blame the manager for not playing the system that YOU believe is right. We can play with four strikers if you like but until we can defend against routine crosses it won't make a blind bit of difference.”

“NC is probably about a 5/10 manager. Unfortunately some of his recent predecessors were 2/10 which accounts for the state we are in.”

“Ibelievido - fact, we are mid table, fact, we have been mid table to low mid table for 4 years.

Hail hail the future is Clough, the future is mid table, whilst the young players move on to progress..... very good you Muppet.”

“We are not very good defensively -period. The more possession we concede the more likely we are to give away soft goals. At home we are more attacking and have a greater share of the ball, therefore concede less goals. Away we cede more possession and are thus far more likely to concede and thus lose. There is little chance of overall improvement unless the defence improves. The question is: Will this come about with experience and coaching? If not then repplacements are the only answer, of which next season Shaun Barker may be one.”