Blooms may or may not be "Dan's guy" but the ownership group is very much results driven, by their own admission & Bloom's & his team are clearly delivering beyond expectations of all of us.
All the talk from the ownership team at the start of the season was about consolidation & building a platform for the future & Bloom's has got us way beyond that in the first half of the season. Of course, he needs to keep that momentum up; but no-one realistically expected us to be in the top 2 at Xmas, so I think a play-off place finish secures him a contract extension.
If previous experience in sacking managers is anything to go by, when the manager is referred to by the owners as "Mr Bloomfield" then it's Goodnight Vienna.
It is also noticeable the little reminders of what the club means to Blooms & his service to the club thta get regularly dropped into interviews with Phil...
Personally I think he’s done enough to warrant an extension now, particularly given interest from Championship clubs. Is he currently only contracted to summer 2026?
No idea on the relationship, unless you work with them day to day how would anyone know? I suspect as an ownership group they had ideas of who they might want as manager but Blooms has done a great job, therefore they are sticking with him and rightly so.
I work with a lot of Derby supporters. The general consensus is that Liam Rosenior was the brains of the operation. Poor old Wayne’s not done much since they went their separate ways.
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I'm in full agreement with you there, @eric_plant.
Wow that is a pretty negative post @eric_plant . It seems to me that Dan and Matt work pretty well together up to now.
Blooms' brother was pretty negative too, to be fair. That's pretty close to home.
@Shev is there no chance you can expand on your insinuations on this post?
Some of us need to take a deep breath.
I'm not sure what evidence I've seen of them working together
Blooms may or may not be "Dan's guy" but the ownership group is very much results driven, by their own admission & Bloom's & his team are clearly delivering beyond expectations of all of us.
All the talk from the ownership team at the start of the season was about consolidation & building a platform for the future & Bloom's has got us way beyond that in the first half of the season. Of course, he needs to keep that momentum up; but no-one realistically expected us to be in the top 2 at Xmas, so I think a play-off place finish secures him a contract extension.
If previous experience in sacking managers is anything to go by, when the manager is referred to by the owners as "Mr Bloomfield" then it's Goodnight Vienna.
As long as Dan Rice doesn’t tell Blooms to tidy his office we should be fine.
Didn't Rice/Sauer refer to him as "the manager"?
It is also noticeable the little reminders of what the club means to Blooms & his service to the club thta get regularly dropped into interviews with Phil...
Owners don't sack popular managers doing a good job do they?
(If Rooney comes anywhere near us I'm ripping up my subscription...)
“We’ve got old Wayne Rooney, and Lampard’s number two.
Ricey likes them better, than Matty from Col U”
I know you can pretty much present data to prove whatever you want, but the exception to that has to be Rooney. Shocking.
Personally I think he’s done enough to warrant an extension now, particularly given interest from Championship clubs. Is he currently only contracted to summer 2026?
No idea on the relationship, unless you work with them day to day how would anyone know? I suspect as an ownership group they had ideas of who they might want as manager but Blooms has done a great job, therefore they are sticking with him and rightly so.
Very true! People laud his Derby efforts, but he still had a terrible win % with them, even though it is his best.
Nothing personal, but glad someone with coaching talent may get a chance now.
I work with a lot of Derby supporters. The general consensus is that Liam Rosenior was the brains of the operation. Poor old Wayne’s not done much since they went their separate ways.
I don’t understand the downvotes for this, it’s pretty much fact with a little opinion thrown in at the end.
We should know by the end of January whether his methodology can do as well as Scott Mitchell did.
I know Manning rated him but wasn't it Pearson who signed him?
Correct. He was tipped off by his best mate and super scout Steve Walsh.
Not by their chief executive?
Think Pearson was in charge of transfers. Walsh watched Mehmeti.