Derby County 2 - 3 Peterborough United

I agree that Pboro's was the best performance seen against us so far but I do wonder if for us it was a game too far at the wrong time. Would the result have been the same say three weeks ago when we were less tired? Same for them of course but they are a much younger squad.

Which raises again what I and VC said recently. P have been producing good sides at this level for years now without spending megabucks. They seem particularly adept at finding strikers from lower leagues. I hope our new scouting set-up can emulate the Posh and soon.

Back to Collo. He has been excellent recently and it's noticeable that his detractors have quietened down. His work rate and commitment are phenomenal and goals are starting to come. His first yesterday was the pick of them I think.

His detractors have been in Portuguese exile.

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about 3 hours ago
Hard to see a way back for Rooney as a manager after this. I have no I'll-feeling towards him, I thought he did a good job for us under the circumstances. He seems like a guy who needs gainful employment to keep him on the straight and narrow. I wonder what will become of him.
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Probably not a job in the media 🤔

Peterborough do seem to have had a bit of a conveyor belt of forwards. They also know how to talk them up and sell them on for a few quid over the odds. It's a good model but they haven't been able to establish themselves in the Championship.

Frank Lampard to Birmingham?

Love the symmetry

....Zola as assistant manager.

Would be hilarious but surely they can't be that naive, can they?

comment by Desicafu (U8481)
posted about 2 hours ago
....Zola as assistant manager.

Would be hilarious but surely they can't be that naive, can they?
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Rich Americans are not necessarily the brightest lights in the chandelier.

Rich Americans - I don't know any!

comment by Chicagoram (U22653)
posted about 2 hours ago
Rich Americans - I don't know any!
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One particular specimen comes to mind, but maybe its fake news?

Speaking of good business models, apparently there's a chairman of a Greek football club, who brought an English and Portugese football club to launder players between his parent club, Olympiacos.

Olympiacos have won 19 of the last 21 Greek Super League's and it should be noted that their owner was acquitted of any match fixing allegations.

I'm wondering if rumours of Mel Morris still having his finger in the pie are true, would a better model be for Mel to buy a Portugese and maybe a Belgian team, and with some financial acumen, support Derby with the odd loan or even sell a struggling Derby player for an undisclosed extortionate fee here and there? It's maybe not in the spirit of the game but it might be better than huffing and puffing like the rest of em.

I do know a tea lady, who's boffing a third cousin of someone who's quite high up in an internationally operating Greek company, and she offers a word of caution, however.

Apparently the English team he brought, accidentally stayed up due to the Premier League having their worst competitive season in history last year. The owner was hoping for a one season wonder, a lavish spending spree and a subsequent windfall of players and money that would filter down to the parent club, at the expense of the submissive club, and allow for the Quantitative Easing of Olympiacos' domination and the final nail in the coffin of Greek football. Now that the English club have stayed up albeit playing some of the worst football in English history, the business plan has gone a little awry.

I personally think Mel should go for it. The EFL has showed continued leniency to all clubs, especially those whose Directors serve on their board and can't imagine them making an example of a club. Maybe a slap on the wrists at the most. If one fails it all fails I'm sure is there mantra.

[It should be noted that any allegations of money laundering, match fixing and corruption would be unfair, as the owner of Olympiacos was after all acquitted of all charges, and the author of this post, is in no way whatsoever, suggesting that there is any criminality, skullduggery, fraud, cheating and/or foul play, involved. Just a small club being rinsed, whilst bizarrely ending up with a team of 80 players, languishing, listlessly in a lurid lake of launder and limbo; hoping hopelessly for the Nottingham experiment to end and Olympiacos to save them, for an undisclosed fee, from the nothingess ]