DERBY COUNTY V QPR 2-0 FT

So annoyed! I put Vydra first on the predictions but then changed my mind! Should have stuck with my first instinct!

2- 0 Our defenders are awful.  No challenges just standing around like Statues.

Holloway has a lot to answer for with this selection.

Even usually level headed fans are labelling it a shambles.


They are confident now, we are playing long ball to Washington. Answers on a postcard. If it ends just 2-0 we will be lucky.

So 2-0 down. After 18 games we are still on 21 points and 16th.

Will have to see full 90 mins but seems as if the experiment failed (although could it have been the same score if the finishing 11 players had started..?).

We are still well clear of the bottom 3 and luckily Burton, Bolton and Sunderland are all shocking this season, but our travelling fans deserve better. Our next away game now is in December so we will be hitting 10 months without an away win and counting.

Just watched the highlights
We looked terrible and baptiste is still chasing the ball now he's so slow
Best player by far is smithies he's kept the scores respectable in both our last two games
No ideas,no belief,no confidence,we look so easy to break down and as we don't score many goals easy to beat
Holloway hasn't moved us on since hasslebaink in my opinion
There's no other option but Holloway,or is there
Warnock would of come in and month later away win and goals start going in
Karl Robinson was interviewed for the job and he's doing well at charlton now
Yes we're not near the bottom 3 yet but I'm hating the football we are playing,and lack of consistency in the team
I'm not calling for his head but he's not the answer to our future and long term plans

We are 8 points of the Play Offs and 6 points off Relegation. I have always said that these sort of figures do not really matter until we reach the New Year point, but that is now only 5 weeks away....

Regarding our defence, let's be realistic, we had a makeshift Back 3 in place tonight, so they were always going to be vulnerable. Knowing this and that we were going to be minus Luongo and Cousins may have prompted Ollie to pack the midfield rather than opt for two strikers up front. The past few games have shown there is no correlation between the number of strikers employed and the number of goals scored by them, so he needn't have worried about that! (Note we did not score when we had Smith/Mackie/Washington up front.) What have we learnt? Not a lot in my opinion - we still need a decent striker and we still need Hall & Onuoha back!

Final thought. If Lynch is unavailable because of injury will Caulker come out of the red box marked 'Use In Emergency'...?