A one off

[borat]

Before everyone says get rid of him get rid of blah blah blah, we weren't too bad 2nd half, 1st half poor yes. Onwards and upwards.

[chuckrocky]

We were shit second half too.

[canadianmoose]

To a certain extent, I agree.

However, the same old problems keep coming back.

Too slow in mind and action, lack of control, lack of passing ability.

It’s been like this for 3 years now.

We always look like we are playing half speed compared to the opposition.

[mrcoke]

Derby stopped playing when their third went in.

[Deleted]

We were shit but we're not going to be good every week. See what happens next Sat. Hopefully Chester makes a difference.

Just a reminder for us that we're still a relegation-battling side.

[samstokie1]

Jan 31, 2020 21:48:19 GMT mrcoke said:

Derby stopped playing when their third went in.

and they still scored another

[sheikhmomo]

We've been battered by a remarkably average side. It can happen in this division but an exceptionally worrying evening.

[neddy]

They played Tuesday as well....shocking beyond belief!

WTF is going on down there...

[Deleted]

You can't win them all.

The worrying aspect of tonight was the performance. There are ways to lose a game and that certainly wasn't it.

[Deleted]

Now the transfer window has closed, a few will revert to type.

[onyourbonce]

Terrible performance tonight. But the same issues rearing there heads in the main. Both centre half’s are completely shit, no left back. Midfield don’t show to receive the ball from the defence, hiding all the time. When they do get it they don’t want to turn and try make something happen they just lay it first time then hide again. Absolutely no movement what so ever anywhere in the pitch. No1 getting in between the lines or finding pockets of space. No pace. And apart from Campbell ours strikers are hopeless. Fair play to MON for getting what he has out of this bunch of shit so far.

[sheds1862]

Just need to be balanced

People wanking off after we played WBA at exactly the right time, they are dreadful at the moment.

Likewise people suicidal tonight.

We are where we are on merit.
Poor team and O'Neill knows the job in hand I'd imagine.

[19notbeaten72]

We are still very much in a relegation battle & i can see it going right down to the wire. You after laugh at the idiots who keep saying the play offs are still possible. Those 2 wins over the Baggies & swansea were very nice but tonight was a real reality check & just shows how poor this side can be.

[OldStokie]

Jan 31, 2020 21:49:34 GMT sheikhmomo said:

We've been battered by a remarkably average side. It can happen in this division but an exceptionally worrying evening.

I agree but I don't think it was 'exceptionally worrying'. Perhaps a reality check after so many of us have been carried away a little too much by our form since O'Neil arrived? The next game against Charlton will be a better gauge as to how we're progressing. As TC said on the wireless, these things happen sometimes and he thought it certainly wasn't a real reflection on the game.

OS.

[crouchpotato1]

I’ve had loads of Derby fans say that was their best performance of the season and the bastards saved it for tonight🙄

[stiggerstackle]

I hope it was a ‘one off’.

For me, the performance reeked of 11 individuals who thought they were safe and the hard work was over...

[The Toxic Avenger]

Jan 31, 2020 21:42:59 GMT borat said:

Before everyone says get rid of him get rid of blah blah blah, we weren't too bad 2nd half, 1st half poor yes. Onwards and upwards.

1) Nobody is saying get rid of him or even especially blaming him.

2) It was fucking atrocious

[stokeykez]

2 top class strikes and a great free kick, shit header to concede though.
Thought we bossed the 2nd half until they scored

Brings us back down to earth, just pray the results dont punish us tomorrow

[discokaraoke]

Jan 31, 2020 21:49:34 GMT sheikhmomo said:

We've been battered by a remarkably average side. It can happen in this division but an exceptionally worrying evening.

No we didn't get battered at all. Derby just put there chances away.
We were not as bad as score may suggest.
But stoke lose by 4 goals and it's the end of the world and every stoke player is shit 😠
Pathetic!

[sheikhmomo]

Jan 31, 2020 22:52:43 GMT discokaraoke said:

Jan 31, 2020 21:49:34 GMT sheikhmomo said:

We've been battered by a remarkably average side. It can happen in this division but an exceptionally worrying evening.

No we didn't get battered at all. Derby just put there chances away.
We were not as bad as score may suggest.
But stoke lose by 4 goals and it's the end of the world and every stoke player is shit 😠
Pathetic!

We were battered in every metric of the game and deserved not a jot. That's a battering.

[chiswickpotter]

Jan 31, 2020 22:39:55 GMT OldStokie said:

Jan 31, 2020 21:49:34 GMT sheikhmomo said:

We've been battered by a remarkably average side. It can happen in this division but an exceptionally worrying evening.

I agree but I don't think it was 'exceptionally worrying'. Perhaps a reality check after so many of us have been carried away a little too much by our form since O'Neil arrived? The next game against Charlton will be a better gauge as to how we're progressing. As TC said on the wireless, these things happen sometimes and he thought it certainly wasn't a real reflection on the game.

OS.

Definitely. Everything dropped for them especially the third and fourth goals. If we had not given the second so quickly we would have had a shout. But good to bring some reality back to the players. Signing a defender shows what MON thought anyway

[The Toxic Avenger]

We were battered. We were second to everything, lost every key battle and didn’t create a chance worthy of the name.

[mrcoke]

Jan 31, 2020 21:54:05 GMT onyourbonce said:

Terrible performance tonight. But the same issues rearing there heads in the main. Both centre half’s are completely shit, no left back. Midfield don’t show to receive the ball from the defence, hiding all the time. When they do get it they don’t want to turn and try make something happen they just lay it first time then hide again. Absolutely no movement what so ever anywhere in the pitch. No1 getting in between the lines or finding pockets of space. No pace. And apart from Campbell ours strikers are hopeless. Fair play to MON for getting what he has out of this bunch of shit so far.

I totally agree apart from Tymon who I watched closely.

Although he made some errors, but he got stuck in and was not phased by his first run out in a long time. We were weaker down the left side after he went off injured.

[rorystowel]

Jan 31, 2020 22:43:11 GMT stiggerstackle said:

I hope it was a ‘one off’.

For me, the performance reeked of 11 individuals who thought they were safe and the hard work was over...

Can’t win ‘em all, but the manner of our defeat was alarming. Not one decent performance last night, from Butland all the way though the team to Vokes. We could have still been playing now and not scored.

[stiggerstackle]

Feb 1, 2020 9:30:49 GMT mrcoke said:

Jan 31, 2020 21:54:05 GMT onyourbonce said:

Terrible performance tonight. But the same issues rearing there heads in the main. Both centre half’s are completely shit, no left back. Midfield don’t show to receive the ball from the defence, hiding all the time. When they do get it they don’t want to turn and try make something happen they just lay it first time then hide again. Absolutely no movement what so ever anywhere in the pitch. No1 getting in between the lines or finding pockets of space. No pace. And apart from Campbell ours strikers are hopeless. Fair play to MON for getting what he has out of this bunch of shit so far.

I totally agree apart from Tymon who I watched closely.

Although he made some errors, but he got stuck in and was not phased by his first run out in a long time. We were weaker down the left side after he went off injured.

I agree, for me Tymon has come back different player - he was far from the weakest link last night.

[fca47]

It's pretty obvious that these players as a group will never gel as a team, they will constantly lapse back into these type of performances, because they lack a backbone, we are kidding ourselves if we think they will ever be transformed into aside that can ever be challenging to get out of this division. There is still a lot of work to be done.

[OldStokie]

Having just watched a vid of the game, we can be blamed for some poor defending and closing down but they were four well-taken goals. We didn't deserve to win but it will be a long time before things click for Derby as they did last night. Paradoxically, I'm more concerned by our lack of attacking skill than conceding those goals.

OS.

[terrorofturfmoor]

Jan 31, 2020 21:48:19 GMT mrcoke said:

Derby stopped playing when their third went in.

We stopped playing when their first went in!!!

[Linx]

Jan 31, 2020 22:46:41 GMT stokeykez said:

2 top class strikes and a great free kick, shit header to concede though.
Thought we bossed the 2nd half until they scored

Brings us back down to earth, just pray the results dont punish us tomorrow

Looks like Charlton are going to dump us back to fourth from bottom.

[sd22]

Feb 1, 2020 9:30:49 GMT mrcoke said:

Jan 31, 2020 21:54:05 GMT onyourbonce said:

Terrible performance tonight. But the same issues rearing there heads in the main. Both centre half’s are completely shit, no left back. Midfield don’t show to receive the ball from the defence, hiding all the time. When they do get it they don’t want to turn and try make something happen they just lay it first time then hide again. Absolutely no movement what so ever anywhere in the pitch. No1 getting in between the lines or finding pockets of space. No pace. And apart from Campbell ours strikers are hopeless. Fair play to MON for getting what he has out of this bunch of shit so far.

I totally agree apart from Tymon who I watched closely.

Although he made some errors, but he got stuck in and was not phased by his first run out in a long time. We were weaker down the left side after he went off injured.

I actually thought he played well. At one point danced through 3 players then for no one to show for him for a pass, which led to a two player sandwich on him. Always looked tidy and looked forward, some nice tackles put in. Let runners go at times and got drawn into the centre a few times, but for me the standout player in that shower last night.