DerbyshireFox

Was a slow one down on the buses, no stop for our coach, took 4h30 mins from the KP and we were still here by half 12 🤣

Copenhagen in May, hopefully go over to Malmo and or Lund for the day when there. Family trip to Palermo in September and looking at Split for October hopefully 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thankfully at work, can give myself a ten day mental break before enduring Brighton!

Thoughts? Any of the remaining games, Ipswich or Southampton perhaps, Wolves away? Or are we looking at the championship!

I wondered that as soon as I bought the ticket 🤣. Stupidity, or more likely booked the time off ages ago and thought I may as well. Rinse and repeat for Brighton

Stood there for 90mins feeling completely detached from it. Just eleven blokes jogging around attempting to show effort without exerting any. Certainly didn’t clap them off. Can take loosing, but we don’t even try to compete. Get relegation confirmed and get this sorry season over with. Hierarchy need to take some responsibility, and apologise, but I won’t be holding my breath

Expecting the worse, wondering why I’m going, but booked it off work ages ago! Just hope for some of the youngsters in the squad, but imagine it’ll be Reid and Ayew to offer ‘protection’ .

Can’t wait for Wrexham away as a Friday night opener to the championship and the inevitable 1-0 defeat!

Leeds at home on Boxing Day - the year escapes me, but Kasper was in goal for Leeds, Kingy scored with a dipping volley. Newcastle away 2018 I think it was, 3-2 win. Half five kick off, was around -4 up in the gods!

I’ve got mine up on the resale platform but I’m not holding out much hope 🤣

Run out of words, it’s the same every week. Just stick the R by our name already and get the embarrassment over and done with. 13 goals conceded to that Man United side in 4 meetings this season says it all

Usually makes All season tickets from personal experience, & given current form I think you’ll be fine, especially with Wolves result currently at Southampton!

Really interesting week in Bosnia Herzegovina so far! So much history and places to see. Sarajevo has been a great base. Friendly people, cheap accommodation. Weather has been cloudy, got soaked in Travnik on the way to Jajce! Visited Mostar and the towns on the way/way back. Doing an Olympic Mountain tour tomorrow morning before flying back on Friday.

Was always Derby for me growing up. Same league most of the time, took plenty of stick at school when Savage ‘won’ a penalty at pride park to win late on the year we both went down. Forest were irrelevant to me until we faced them more regularly in the championship, and I don’t have any feelings for Cov at all to be honest. Have a couple of mates who are Derby season ticket holders, certainly hostilities have died down over the years compared to where it was in the 90’s/early 2000s.

I assume in case there was a lack of interest and they’d return some of the allocation. I got one in the corner this morning - still questioning my sanity buying for this and Man City! Will be a reasonable view wherever at the AMEX. View from my seat will give you an idea of the block you’ve booked 👍

Fully digital ticket trial for this one, email sent out by the club. Premier league aiming for fully digital by 26/27 (probably won’t effect us long term then 🤣)

Estadio Da Luz (Benfica) was fantastic. The museum there is incredible!

Disgraceful, but not surprised. Been going since 97, never left before 90mins before. Tonight I surprised myself I stuck it until 85. Utter shambles, and so predictable

Yes! We were charged! We got off because the leagues failure to word their rules correctly. Doesn’t mean we did nothing wrong or completely mismanaged our wage bill and recruitment

Brentford on 3 consecutive away wins in the league coming into this. A club that has a strategy and strong recruitment. Wissa and Mbeumo against our backline: 0-2/0-3. It’s all too predictable

Some, but nowhere near enough. The squad is overstocked with ageing ‘experienced’ pros on big money that are underperforming or past their prime. Our front three yesterday against Arsenal were 34, 33 & 38. Again, you could come back the reason we find ourselves in the position we do with a lack of quality in the first place - poor recruitment, and overpaying on wages. The major concern is that those at the top do not appear to have learned from their mistakes. Agreed there was hunger and desire yesterday, but where was it against Everton, Wolves, Palace, Fulham, Newcastle et al. Yes we lack quality, but to often this season, we’ve lacked the desire to keep the ball out of our net. Yes we were going to have a tough season, but 17 points is quite frankly awful. We’ve been fortunate with some of the ones we’ve got, and on current form, it’s hard to see us hitting anywhere close to 30pts at the moment.

I respect your view, maybe it is too early for the comparison with Stoke and Blackburn, but all the warning signs are there. I do however think it’ll be much harder to do what we did last campaign. Going down with a much weaker squad, with fewer sellable assets - Mads and Bilal will undoubtedly have suitors, more likely to keep Fatawu given his injury this campaign. Given the QPR fixture in the cup, it’s fair to assume we could have a reasonable season, albeit a weakened QPR side. We don’t know what the EFL has in store for us of course. Regardless of division, I want to see sensible recruitment, a plan and a strategy for the future, and a young hungry side. I fear a lot of the big earners will be hard to shift. The way the hierarchy has acted over the last 3-4 years, I just don’t see that happening - and I’m usually an optimist 🤣

It is something we need to get back to doing more than we have done for quite a while. You make a valid point, a blend of youth and experience is needed, but in the right areas. Buonanotte is a very generous shout given he isn’t ours and won’t be in the future. Having Ayew and Reid wide of Vardy yesterday shows where we are going wrong and haven’t seemingly a structured plan going forwards for the future. Granted Ayew has been better than expected, it could be argued we had plenty of top flight experience in place already, with the likes of Coady, Justin, Vestergaard, Vardy, Winks, Ricardo, Ndidi - granted a lot of them not good enough anymore. With Fatawu out (even when fit to be fair), other than him, we have absolutely no pace in this squad. We have one creative midfielder suitable for this level in Bilal who has had to learn on the job, and is the only shining light in this sorry season. Instead of bringing in another creative player, we put down £20m+ on Skipp, a player who you could argue we didn’t need, and £5m on a loan for a striker in Edouard, who we didn’t really want. We’ve given Palace £10m of the little money that we could spend, and look what they have done with it. It goes towards bringing in a pacey, young, talented attacking midfielder in Esse, who they can develop, and likely sell for a big fee in future. Yes we knew this season would be a struggle, but with proper planning and strategy we could have used our resources so much better. A well run club nowadays will have a profile of manager in mind in the event the managerial incumbent leaves/is dismissed. This doesn’t even seem to be a thought, beyond using the same agency we seem to use for players/managers. Cooper shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place. Yes attracting a manager may have been trickier given the threat of a points deduction - a situation of our own making. Yes we can move forward in the future, but a hell if a lot has to change if we are to do so. Currently, we are heading in the direction of becoming the next Stoke or Blackburn.

Pleased there were good numbers putting the point of view across that so many are feeling. Not interested in this I’m a better fan than you nonsense. Everyone of course is entitled to their opinion, but the assertion that the club is in a relatively healthy state is a wild statement to anyone either side of the debate! The money wasted on substandard players on ridiculous wages, the deviation away from what made us successful in the first place, the fact that despite selling hundreds of millions of pounds worth of players in the last decade, we find ourselves making multi million pound losses every year - the reason now that we cannot strengthen a weak and underprepared squad. The lack of communication or accountability from anyone at the club about the needless mistakes that have been made over the last 4-5 years, and the lack of vision and strategy for the future. There is no denying we have had the most successful period in our history under this ownership, and yes they have more than played their part, plus what they have done in donating to local charities. However that does not give them a free pass for what is happening now. Rudkin is a big problem, but not the only one clearly. We do need a new sporting director/director of football, but there needs to be a change in thinking at the top as well. The majority of City fans do not expect to be a top 6 club, we do however have the right to expect the club to be run properly. Whether these protests have any impact remains to be seen, but the fact some of the spotlight is now on the hierarchy about the mistakes that are being made can only be a good thing.