Will Derby finish above us without another points deduction?

[Trigger]

Re: Will Derby finish above us without another points deduction?

On current form almost certainly. They are clearly a better team and now have hope.

[LeningradCowboy]

Re: Will Derby finish above us without another points deduction?

If the Derby squad of the second half of the season is the same as the first half - just maybe.

But it won't be.

Jagielka has gone and Derby have accepted a bid for Shinnie (from Wigan). Offers will come in for other players before the window closes. The administrators are not there to protect Rooney's squad. The mood music is getting worse. Rooney may be in the Everton dug out before the end of the window.

They have done very well so far this season - but the wheels are coming off.

So our best chance of avoiding relegation is for a club that has already been deducted 21 points being forced to sell their best players? What a mess.

[jon1959]

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So our best chance of avoiding relegation is for a club that has already been deducted 21 points being forced to sell their best players? What a mess.

If your original question had been 'are we in a mess' I doubt anyone would have disagreed.

But Derby aside, I think we will finish the season above Barnsley, Peterborough and Reading. I have some confidence that we will also end up above Hull, Bristol City and Birmingham. That is not even 'mid table obscurity' and represents a woeful season - but I think we have enough to get safe - eventually. We will have a much better idea when the window shuts and we have played the next set of four league games.

[WJ99mobile]

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I still hate Marlon Pack for scoring that late equaliser against Rotherham

[Gofer Blue]

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Derby v Cardiff on the last day of the season already has a feeling of being an important fixture.

Derby’s fate going to the last game for the second successive season?

Derby to take their revenge over Cardiff for all the abuse over the snow scandal?

Marlon Pack to score in the last minute of the season for the second year in a row, but this time to relegate Derby?

A classic position for CCFC. Memories of Preston in 2009 come to mind....for slightly different reasons of course!

[LeningradCowboy]

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If your original question had been 'are we in a mess' I doubt anyone would have disagreed.

But Derby aside, I think we will finish the season above Barnsley, Peterborough and Reading. I have some confidence that we will also end up above Hull, Bristol City and Birmingham. That is not even 'mid table obscurity' and represents a woeful season - but I think we have enough to get safe - eventually. We will have a much better idea when the window shuts and we have played the next set of four league games.

Really? What makes you think that?

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: Will Derby finish above us without another points deduction?

If the Derby squad of the second half of the season is the same as the first half - just maybe.

But it won't be.

Jagielka has gone and Derby have accepted a bid for Shinnie (from Wigan). Offers will come in for other players before the window closes. The administrators are not there to protect Rooney's squad. The mood music is getting worse. Rooney may be in the Everton dug out before the end of the window.

They have done very well so far this season - but the wheels are coming off.

£30k for Shinnie. Don't know much about him, but £30k for a championship regular is peanuts. Maybe that's where we should be shopping!

Jason Knight supposedly leaving next, and Sam Baldock's contract expires tomorrow.

[City123]

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£30k for Shinnie. Don't know much about him, but £30k for a championship regular is peanuts. Maybe that's where we should be shopping!

Jason Knight supposedly leaving next, and Sam Baldock's contract expires tomorrow.

Louis Sibley has been linked with Millwall, we should be looking at him

[PontBlue]

Re: Will Derby finish above us without another points deduction?

With a bit of luck they'll loose Rooney to Everton and someone like West Brom will take Lawrence off their hands.