Rooney Quits

Can we just nail this did a good job nonsense. Year 1 stayed up on goal difference year 2 took them down( yeah I get the points deductions) but even so what kind of resume is that?

So in both years earned enough points on the pitch to survive, whilst managing a club in turmoil and with a threadbare squad.

That's the other way of looking at it.
 
So in both years earned enough points on the pitch to survive, whilst managing a club in turmoil and with a threadbare squad.

That's the other way of looking at it.

They weren't in massive turmoil in his first season, and they only stayed up because Sheffield Wednesday had a points deduction.

Last season he did a decent job under the circumstances, but he did not in his first one.
 
"I understand that Rooney's assistant, Liam Rosenior, will take training on Monday morning when the club's five remaining contracted players return for pre-season."

How sad a scene does that line paint? 5 players at training. I am starting to feel sorry for them now.

 
Much as the club was vile.... He was superb there

Some poisoned minds on here....... They forget the bile v us about the 3 pts *****

Div 1 let em start again........ We went there!!!
 
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They weren't in massive turmoil in his first season, and they only stayed up because Sheffield Wednesday had a points deduction.

Last season he did a decent job under the circumstances, but he did not in his first one.
He went through a spell of 1 win in 15 at the end of that season. Really lucky to survive.

His win rate was marginally worse than Gordon Strachan for us, I hope that puts it in perspective.
 
He went through a spell of 1 win in 15 at the end of that season. Really lucky to survive.

His win rate was marginally worse than Gordon Strachan for us, I hope that puts it in perspective.
It surely doesn't at all - you just cannot compare the resources Strachan squandered with the pressures and total lack of money etc Rooney had to go against. He built a siege mentality but the fact that it went on and on and the uncertainty grew to certainty that the club was totally done for must have been devastating for a squad of kids that was had too many kids and well past their best, players.
It was an impossible job like Phil Parkinson at Bolton. They put up a fight at one point before falling away when the odds were stacked toon heavily against them.
I think Rooney did a valiant job at Derby.
 
It surely doesn't at all - you just cannot compare the resources Strachan squandered with the pressures and total lack of money etc Rooney had to go against. He built a siege mentality but the fact that it went on and on and the uncertainty grew to certainty that the club was totally done for must have been devastating for a squad of kids that was had too many kids and well past their best, players.
It was an impossible job like Phil Parkinson at Bolton. They put up a fight at one point before falling away when the odds were stacked toon heavily against them.
I think Rooney did a valiant job at Derby.

He's on about the 2020/21 season, not last season.
 
He went through a spell of 1 win in 15 at the end of that season. Really lucky to survive.

His win rate was marginally worse than Gordon Strachan for us, I hope that puts it in perspective.

Yeah, the turn around in results in the next season surprised me considering just how badly it was going under him when they had a stronger squad.

But the circumstances probably galvanised the whole squad.
 
It surely doesn't at all - you just cannot compare the resources Strachan squandered with the pressures and total lack of money etc Rooney had to go against.
I get that, but I don't see how achieving Strachans record could be seen as an achievement regardless of what you had available to you. In that first season with that terrible run he had the following players available to him: Bielik (7m), Bird, Buchanen, Nathan Byrne. Matt Clarke, Curtis Davis, Craig Forsyth, Lee Gregory, Jozwiak (Polish international 5m), Kazim-Richards, Jason Knight (Irish international), Tom Lawrence (35k/week), David Marshall, Patrick Roberts, Kelle Roos, Shinnie, Sibley, Waghorn (7m), Andre Wisdom.

That's 19 senior players that commanded one of the biggest wage bills in the championship bar the parachute teams, lots of experience and championship quality, and still he went 15 games with 1 win. Second season, fair enough, the squad started to get striped down, but no excuse in that first year, and if Derby were not in such a financial mess he would have been sacked at that point.

For what it's worth I think he did about as well as he could last season. But over all, hands tied or not he failed. Even last season he had players that would have walked into Lutons squad and he was miles behind them.
 
Really dislike him but he has been nothing but class last season. Not many would have stuck with that. Never thought I would say this but he is looking like a very good manager
 
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