Bournemouth 1 - 1 Derby County

Knight has been fantastic but he does give the ball away from time to time. Shinnie looks after it a bit better and he was savvy enough to draw a foul a couple of times today. I wish we could get Sibley into the team but it’s hard to see how at the moment with the current formation. Could he play as one of the front three or would he be limited to cameos when we are chasing the game and revert to a back four?

Vidal doing the mature thing and trying to drag the discussion back to football

Without success it seems.

Evening all 👍🏼
Arrived in Scotland, I managed to listen to most of the game on the radio, sounded a good performance!
We really need to be getting ruthless in both boxes!

I don't think we reverted to type.

We weren't hanging on. Just individual errors that allowed Bournemouth their very few openings. We went from Bielsa, to Simeone to Mourinho in the space of 90 mins. I think we more than competed using all three styles and could have scored playing all three of them. It also takes quite a skillful coach to get that out of a team. Most can only play one way.

If we can start strong and work out an attacking plan B maybe 4-3-3 that we can switch to in the games when we do concede/don't get the opening goal I think we're well set.

Cocu today, had substitutes in hand over Bournemouth who'd played all their cards on getting the goal back. Had we been at home I wonder if he'd have been more adventurous with subs.

Ideally I think I'd like to see us play with only four at the back but there is that "Mike Brearley" affect that Curtis Davies has on the team. Even if there are better players I'm not sure there are better organiser's.

Cocu said before TL's off the ball game is very impressive, I think we'll see him start ahead of Joz. Or Rooney for Waghorn but Rooney can't press as quickly and match Waggy's running.

Bielik maybe for Curtis Davies or the Wisdom/TW position. Rooney or Bielik could take Knight's place but I think Shinnie and Knight have been steadily improving each game so wouldn't want to interrupt that progression.

Like your analysis Wellies. Just a little bit more care and precision and we could have done a proper smash and grab.

Hard to fault the back six at the moment. Maybe Buchanan got drawn into the middle for their goal but he is progressing really well. I thought Holmes was guilty of showing their player the way forward on the left flank when he should have got goal side a few seconds earlier. 19 times out of 20 Buchanan’s shot goes in off their defender. Then it looks like a great all-round performance.

Yeah I noticed that from Holmes, just needed to scan the play a bit better.

Or have Byrne or Knight shout at him to get goal side.

I think if we can maintain this standard, the wins will come, then the confidence, then the luck. I feel like Cocu has sacrificed some of his principles too and listened to his players, which I respect. Even though I think I'm probably more in the Cocu camp for playing out of the back.

Maybe it's give and take though cos I do think we're playing his defensive game much more since Huddersfield.

Some lovely moves we're putting together though when in the ascendancy or under the kosh.

Bloody hell, you lot are blaming Holmes when he was the only Derby player in that part of the pitch surrounded by Bournemouth players. He was looking to intercept the back pass to make a scoring chance. Whatever happened Bournemouth were going to get past him. Had he gone to our goal side Bournemouth would just have passed back and then forward again to be in the same position to attack. Blame the lack of support he had from other players. Shouldn't Knight or Shinnie or the person playing wing back on that side have made themselves available. You can't expect one player to stop three when they are near the half way line.

As he ran across I was shouting at the screen for him to get goal side. If he did that then the player would have been forced to pass it back to the centre half. It’s less dangerous than letting him run unchallenged down the left wing. With ten minutes to go it would have been the more sensible choice. Rather like Buxton’s decision to try to spray it wide with a couple of minutes to go at Wembley, it contributed to a goal being conceded, though like yesterday it wasn’t the only factor.