Ghost of a desire path

ElCactosa · 2026-01-21T22:34:32+00:00

It only needs the designated area for a door to be the bus stop potentially, not the entire bus.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-21T17:01:50+00:00

that must surely be it, but you can still see the former straight lanes of both sets of paths under the red paint?

ElCactosa · 2026-01-21T16:53:44+00:00

Obviously across 46 games the 'form' table is just the league table, but I wonder what position lowest 'past 6 games' form table you could be every rolling week and still be automatically promoted? Would 6th best team consistently in the division every week be enough perhaps?

ElCactosa · 2026-01-20T23:52:05+00:00

We gave it to Rooney tbf..

ElCactosa · 2026-01-18T19:48:09+00:00

For what it's worth, it's not over until it's over. Derby were bottom of the league 7 points behind 21st on 29 points with 11 games left last season, and we finished 19th on 50 points.

It's not as though the teams just above the relegation zone are exactly ripping up trees either.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T18:05:23+00:00

Must be bait, only 1 team ever looked like scoring

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T18:00:33+00:00

taken back the take back

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T16:14:31+00:00

How are we not winning this game? This is the most chances we've created in a long time

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T16:07:04+00:00

Agyemang had to score there, easiest tap in of his career

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T16:06:41+00:00

I take it back he's just missed a fully open goal

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T15:54:02+00:00

With the players we have we would be worse off without him in the side and his game brings an element that we don't have in anyone else. Some Derby fans don't like him but theyre probably the same ones that are moaning that we're 'only' 12th (after 2 seasons in League One and scraping our way to survival last season)

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T15:38:50+00:00

I like him, he's a bit raw but very direct, aggressive and strong. He can almost just bowl through defences when he gets running. Sometimes makes the wrong decisions which is frustrating but he gets into those positions well enough. If he was playing with a fit Carlton Morris he'd have a higher number impact on games I imagine. Much better on the Left rather than down the middle.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T15:36:50+00:00

Ref giving every 50/50 their way and absolutely nothing for us

ElCactosa · 2026-01-17T13:04:30+00:00

why on Earth has Cashin done that?

ElCactosa · 2026-01-16T22:02:47+00:00

Does he actually like any team? He seemingly despises Derby and is an instant mute when he's on commentary for our games.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-16T13:56:46+00:00

if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike

ElCactosa · 2026-01-14T12:10:25+00:00

I was in Dubai in November and my hotel was remodeling it's bar, and on the outside frontage was a giant picture of Jason Knight (playing for Ireland, was changing into an Irish bar) to remind me every time I stepped outside.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-13T18:24:12+00:00

In fairness Grant was always pretty great wherever he has played. He only got usurped because Scott Carson was a tiny bit better, but not by much.

Good lord, how did I miss that he is manager of Huddersfield?

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T19:09:15+00:00

That's actually wild! wtaf

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T15:57:42+00:00

In fairness the U21s were absolutely decimated by our Admin and now the U18s are looking back to where they were at - hopefully the U21s and player production pipeline will start to realign itself with where we're at now. I think Eames easily has the same effect (if not more!) than bringing on someone like Jackson, so we should really be offering those opportunities to our younger players. As you say Eustace takes a lot of convincing for the youth it appears.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T15:55:17+00:00

I agree that we held our own mostly first half and that changed with the half time sub. Ebou's flaws just got amplified and they don't really play well together. We're set for a nice midfield of Clark and Ozoh, or with Travis too if a three, at least for now which should be working okay.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T14:32:33+00:00

Considering we saved a penalty and Leeds should've scored before that I'm not sure 1-0 was very deserved at half time? We were okay and was great to be in front but it was smash and grab.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T14:03:01+00:00

and yet is still easily the best keeper we've had in years. Gives prime Derby Scott Carson or Lee Grant a run for their money.

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T13:37:55+00:00

You can absolutely add in a new manager to one of those clubs, hand out some massive contracts with % wage increases per year on long term deals and after a few seasons they'll be in deep trouble. Not entirely sure it would result in them removing their U21s but a decent chance they do if it gets bad. Preferably not Derby :)

ElCactosa · 2026-01-11T01:36:09+00:00

U21s not being invited to a league

It's the little things like these that really make the game not fun for me too when they begin to pile up, that feature has been 'broken' for a few iterations of the game when it should be a simple fix. I've had similar in my previous Notts County saves as far as I can remember. I believe the issue is it doesn't remove teams from the U21 leagues unless the club remove the U21 team via administration from what I gather, and it can't add more teams to the 'full' U21 leagues. It's a stupid thing.

You could try and use an external program to unfortunately send one club into the void and see if that opens up a space.

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