Why do Derby do this every season? Bottling promotion seems to be in the DNA of the club. There has to be some serious questions asked from top to bottom of the club.
I don't mind it as much this year, even when we were on that good run pre Christmas we weren't playing well and most said as much. The amount of fans on here alone that have said things like "how are Derby in the top 6" speaks volumes.
The previous years we've actually been a good to really good team with loads of variables affecting the individual seasons. The killers being top under Clement to finishing in the P/O and missing out, the QPR final loss and the McClaren top in March 8th in May season. All much worse than this one but it is getting tedious.
If we make the play offs this year we've done really well because we're not one of the top 6 teams in this division at all IMO.
We had a good run that somehow got us to second. Our drop off in form seems to infer we’re imploding again, but in reality we’re just getting back to where our squad deserves to be.
There’s still a lot of work to be done by Rowett to get the squad more how he wants it. Desperate for some youth, vigour, tempo, increased work rate and passion.