Jon

Feels like a 'must win' today. COYR! Performance like Monday please lads 🤞🏻 #dcfc #dcfcfans

Worst performance under Eustace. One of the worst this season even. Shame it had to be this one after our recent run. Felt like the magnitude of the game in front of the cameras got to them. #dcfc #dcfcfans

YouTube video by COD (Crabby Old Dude) Classic Movie Line #54

Me after hearing the team news...
youtu.be/WQZqJ_-WAO8?...

☹️

Expectations so low for this game given 2025 so far, surely Derby can't disappoint today?! 🤣 #dcfcfans #dcfc

Speechless.

Maybe it'll start in the second half...😬

*I'm ignoring last Friday 🤣

🎶Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For m̶e̶ the Rams
And I'm feeling good..🎶*
#dcfcfans #dcfc

Also think we need to stop viewing how good players were in L1, like Wildsmith, and assuming they would be the same in Champ. Different levels. Evidence is there to be seen in others.

All good points. Left loftus road last night a bit stunned. Was somehow enraged and deflated by the score but not at the players, which is odd as many had an unusually bad game. watching the highlights bears this out with many having the opportunity to prevent or score goals and not doing it.

Is it excitement or nerves I'm feeling for tonight's match?! #dcfc #dcfcfans

Difficult to excuse excitement at the prospect of a change in style and what you see on the pitch though.

Indeed.

Like this take. Good leaders always influence others to achieve objectives. However, the strategy is interesting. For me, that part should come from club/execs. It's why many have sporting directors or similar to ensure all depts are aligned. It's not a HC job to set it, only tactically deliver it.

My checklist for the new head coach:
Previous champ experience ✅
Steering clubs away from relegation experience ✅
Modern coaching and tactics ✅
Man management of available players ✅
Pragmatism to use what you've got / get given ✅
Honours ✅

Good assessment of the situation, and sounds like a good choice going forward. Third time with the club has to count for something too.

On the train to Norwich. Party atmosphere or sombre atmosphere for the first game after the Paul Warne era? #dcfc #dcfcfans

...who's to say he went with those over other recommendations?

It was the "sending" him into the season part. Seemed to suggest that others had decided that strike force and not him. As for no recruitment team recommending Yates and Jackson, who can say if they did. One played for Warne at Rotherham, the other he tried to sign for Rotherham...

Why so quick to absolve Warne in all of this? He has final say on signings. Yates and Washington as ex Rotherham look like his choices, Collins new contract had to be his decision. Who had Warne said no to in windows as he preferred to wait to see if he could get Smith from Wednesday?

Since the introduction of the recruitment team. It would be interesting to know who have we passed on because the top suggested target was not Warne's preferred player. Or who we missed because, Warne wanted to wait for a preferred target lower on the list. Could explain why no deals in early Jan.

This thread pretty much captures much of what I think and feel right now.

Well, that positivity drained away in the second half...

I'm going for
JWZ
Nyambe, Cash, Fozzy, Elder
Ozzie, Ebou
Kenzo, Yates, CBT
Salvesen

Feeling pretty positive today all things considered. #dcfcfans #dcfc

I thought it was harsh him not starting after Tuesday's performance, and his appearance today only reinforced that opinion.

Not a lot of positives to take from today. Losing is always horrible, but made slightly palatable if you can see some good in the performances. Or the opposition is a cut above. Not seen much of either recently and the losses keep coming. #dcfc #dcfcfans

Gonna need his energy.

Sensible decision on a back four after Wednesday but midfield looking a bit light today! #dcfc #dcfcfans