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Lads I’ve tested positive. FOR CUP FEVER

Definitely mild. Personally I had intermittent fevers for the first 3 days, a bit of chest tightness.and coughing. Now I've got a headache and general lethargy. I don't know if the latter is just because I've been cooped up for nearly a week and just can't be arsed to do anything. Tbf I've always detested this month too. I think regardless of LFT results I am set free on Wednesday to which my reaction will be meh and I'll probably stay in! However, at least the house can get back to normal (living rooms, bed rooms, bathrooms, and eating together). And I'll be able to see my Dad who is clinging on in there.

I’ve got a bit of time for him on the basis we’ve had fuck all else in terms of someone who can beat a man / create something out of nothing. But the fact he fell over himself to praise the laziest fucking manager in the game speaks volumes imo.

Just back and fucking hell. Longstaff put in a performance barely above Sunday League level, £1m was about 500k too much. You could do a swap for him and say, Davies, with Everton and you’d end up with a much better side of the bargain. Enough has been said about ASM but the amount of loose touches and over hit passes was a complete embarrassment from everyone. At one point, Schar overhit a pass to Trippier by about 35 yards. Just basic stuff that is completely lacking in all of them. On the plus side, Trippier’s actual ability stood out like a sore thumb, he’s head and shoulders above this shower. It was like a Soccer Aid game and he was the one player playing who had only retired 6 weeks previous. As for the manager, I’m sorry like but if Steve Bruce sets that team up today, he’s getting pelters. Repeated crosses to nobody, players played wildly out of position, a left back brought on rather than your young striker at 0-1, all baffling decisions. Aside from Joelinton, he’s getting very little more out of this lot, if you ask me and I truly hope it’s because this lot are beyond help

LOOK! WE'RE IN THE HUFF, OK?!

on today's showing he wouldn't pass to them anyway.

Botman is probably silently deleting all his likes

Was out last night for a meal for the wife's birthday, me, her and youngest as the the eldest and her boyfriend tested positive on Thursday. On the bright side they're not too ill so far and it saved me a bit of money.

Kinky?

That’s like saying to a starving man ” Hey, it’s ok, I’ve got food. You can have some” Then eating it all, shitting it out in to a bowl and saying “Tuck in”

You have to wonder if our lot will move on from this one as getting nickel-and-dimed over miniscule details of add-on particulars potentially sets a dangerous precedent for other club hierarchies to follow if we're identified as a soft-touch in negotiations. (Or they simply pay what Lille want, agree to the strange add-on demands, and trust that everyone else will understand that the French are impossibly difficult assholes who don't impact upon everyone else's ability to get along just fine.) Updated Offer: £33million - previously mentioned add-ons, plus response to latest request as follows: - Dear Lille, not every transfer negotiation involving an English club needs to include a restatement of the English Crown's abandonment of its claims on Calais!

I don’t expect a manager to slag of his team in front of the cameras but it does my head in that managers always do as if everybody must have watched a different game.

Aye, just enjoyed having his ego pandered to and being the main man, by the look of it. Genuinely, if we had a fairly utilitarian winger, prepared to press, track back, play the easy ball, and capable of putting a good cross in, that would do for me over his endless fucking no end product nonsense. At least for the time being.

I think the size of the rebuild job has probably taken the owners by surprise. We literally can't defend, have no creativity in midfield and zero options up front. Joelinton, Wilson, ASM worth keeping. After that you've got the likes of Lewis, Almiron, Willock etc who have a player in them somewhere but are absolutely bereft of confidence. The rest of the squad is championship fodder

Nails it

Imo we need 5 at the minimum. Trippier, Botman, and Carlos is a very good start but it doesn’t change the fact we can’t get a hold on any fucking game or pass the ball well. We desperately need a striker with Wilson out and we are screaming out for a creative CM. Obviously we need more but I think that’s the minimum now to stay up, we just create fucking nothing and end up relying on either our full backs or ASM to figure something out.

He looks like someone has brought Bart Simpson to life, murdered him & reanimated him before giving him a lot of methamphetamines.

Does Hendrie still look like he should be on one of those 80s government "say no to drugs" posters?

Although...

"......and the office in Derby has a nice little black and white inbox which is just like the one I had in Newcastle......which is nice."

Hi Mehrdad Thanks for buying us. Out of interest, does Amanda like it up the wrong’un or nay?

Youre not a patient man are you?

At first I felt sorry for them, but I started seeing a ton of the type of comments where they slate us for disliking him as he sorted us financially etc. I don’t particularly wish him on them but if that’s how they feel they’re welcome to him. While the debt won’t be as pressing and scary as it is for them now anything he has to clean up doesn’t go away and they should know that. Fucking 14 years of bleeding our club yet that initial debt he ‘cleared’ was still owed to him. He’s a fucking parasite and I’m beyond relieved he’s gone from our club. I agree it would mean they avoid further punishment, which might be good but it fucking throttles any hope of them doing anything as a football club for as long as he owns them. While they’ll make the argument that they’re shit now and have been shit for a long time, I agree again but the problem comes 7 years down the line if they find themselves in the PL dreaming of kicking on and nope the only reason your club now exists is to finish 17th, forget about hoping or dreaming or enjoying football. Even when your club is crap there’s hope and trying but not with Ashley as owner and that’s the difference imo. Aye there’s Derby fans that will read this and laugh and think it’s all nice problems to have compared to where they are right now but tbh unless their club legitimately ceases to exist I think basically any other option is better than him being owner.

Willock is second season Kenedy.

That’s why they’re where they are now. They put up with and ignore the obvious signs of the club being absolutely rotten to the core because they won some derbies and they’re still reaping the rewards.

Why the fuck do we have no goal scorers? Remember when…..? 8 Peter Beardsley 9 Alan Shearer 10 Les Ferdinand 11 Faustino Asprilla And aye that was a rhetorical question, we all know why.

precisely this. we need a striker in the next couple of days or we get nil v whatever watford score next weekend. I've been the eternal optimist up to now we'd get out of this, however anything other 3 points on saturday and I think I'll be chucking the towel in. fucking woeful that was.

CT should have gone to the pub tbh

I mean we definitely could do without being in the cup. But this just feels shite.

Him and the Scouse lass they have on, separated at birth.

How old are they? Just let them wait outside.

I've said it before. Most of the Premier League owners are somewhere on the spectrum of "billionaire cunts". Abramovich has a whole section of his Wikipedia page dedicated to his wrongdoings. Bribing the government, industrial pollution, funding Israel, loan fraud etc. Sheikh Mansour paid for his yacht with stolen money via the 1MDB scandal. The Thai bloke he bought the club off did 3 years for fraud. Ashley effectively ran sweat shops in the UK Aye they haven't ordered a beheading (that we know of) but the ship sailed decades ago on the premier league and the press trying to claim the moral high ground with this sort of stuff. And the last people who should be expected to answer questions on it are the fans and players

Think yourself lucky your wife is just wearing a mask, @Renton.

To the point where people who’d gone to matches through thin and thinner turned their backs on the club and refused to walk into SJP and put a penny in his pocket. Quite an achievement to alienate people who’ve supported the club since they learnt to talk, to the extent that they’d rather go shopping with the missus on a Saturday than watch an Ashley clown show going through the motions.

Bonesaw irritated?

If we win tomorrow I'll be isolating due to a chronic case of fuckin cup fever

That’s one way to make sure not to be the last game shown in MOTD

Wow, talk about managing expectations

Why the fuck isnt Anderson on?

Sean Longstaff is like a bloke that’s never played football in his life. On the balance of this £1m is an absolute bump. Desperately need central midfielders, the ball just goes between our defence and our front line which gives Cambridge breathing space each time they repel an attack.

Strong Colin Robinson vibes from Charnley now I think about it

Like 99.9% of our fan base, id never heard of Botman before last week. But I can say with absolutely no certainty whatsoever that he is 100% worth the fee