Latest news with #RamsDaily
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Warne delay allowed Eustace to take Rams job
Derby County chief executive Stephen Pearce says the club would not have landed John Eustace as manager if they had sacked Paul Warne Rams escaped relegation back to League One on the last day of the season having been seven points adrift at the foot of the Championship when Eustace came in on 7 delay in dismissing Warne was questioned by fans, who felt the club missed a chance to bring in Eustace - who had taken Blackburn Rovers into the play-off positions - earlier so he could have influenced the club's business in the transfer window."Would we have liked to do it earlier? If we had to, yes, but all of the signs told us John would not have come if we'd done it earlier and we wouldn't have got the same calibre of manager as we got in John Eustace," Pearce told the Rams Daily Podcast. Asked if he should be held accountable for the way things went wrong under Warne, Pearce replied: "The results speak for themselves. "I'm accountable to the board and to David [Clowes] but ultimately I would also say that when we made that decision with regard to making that change and appointing John Eustace, I have to be accountable for that because I was the one that put him forward, that said to David 'Let's go and get him' and that got him over the line."In terms of something going wrong, Paul got us promoted. We missed out on the last game of the season in the first season to Sheffield Wednesday to get into the play-offs."Second season we were promoted with our record points total. Paul wasn't a failure." Derby drew with Stoke City on the final day of the season to ensure safety, and now they head into the summer with a transfer budget boosted by the sale of centre-back Eiran Cashin to Brighton in of the fee received from the Seagulls went on bringing in replacement Sondre Langas from Norwegian club Viking, but the rest is still in the pot, says Pearce."David has been very open and clear on it, we have a budget every year," he said. "This is how much we'll put in, and anything you generate over and above that doesn't get taken out and goes back into the pot to build for the future."We don't want to get carried away. All I will say is that the base we have got, the way we finished the season from when John came in, post the week of the build-up to the QPR game when he hadn't had time to instil his way of working, is a massively positive base for us to go forwards. His points per game tally speaks for itself."We are going to strengthen the squad and we've got a bigger budget. Our ambitions are to finish as high as possible, we're not going to put a position on it, but hopefully it will be an exciting season."Fans are still waiting to hear the outcome of talks held by owner David Clowes with an unnamed investor, but Pearce says he has no intention of leaving if there is a said that he is not party to ongoing talks but added: "I will stay at this football club until the day it's decided I'm not. I love this football club."What we've built over the last couple of years and what we're continuing to build is genuinely exciting, I believe in, but ultimately I'm not naive enough to believe that in football things can't change on a sixpence, so let's see what happens moving forward."
BBC News
05-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 Eustace transformed Derby... what's next?
"A lot of people wrote off this team... but Derby weren't done for, weren't done for at all, because John Eustace has got the best out of these players."It took him a couple of games, three games in total; as soon as he knew what he needed to do with this group of players, we saw the transformation."The Rams Daily team are joined by former Derby players Malcolm Christie and Eric Steele to reflect on Derby's goalless draw against Stoke City, another year in the Championship and heap praise on the head coach that secured interviews with boss John Eustace, captain Ebou Adams and midfielder Harrison to the full episode and more on the Rams Daily podcast.
BBC News
02-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Important that we finish the job
Head coach John Eustace says Derby County have repeatedly defied expectations since his arrival in 45-year-old started his final pre-game press conference of the season by telling BBC Radio Derby that he felt the Rams have long been seen as relegation wins in the past 10 games, including a dramatic 1-0 victory against Hull City last week, means they can secure safety on the final day if they beat Stoke City."I felt like a lot of people had given up," Eustace said. "But it is still not over yet, we have one more huge game on Saturday."The amount of effort and work the group and the fans have put in to make sure we get to this situation has been there for everyone to see and it's important that we finish the job off."Eustace also went to great lengths to outline a 'keep calm and carry on' approach to the season-defining showdown with the victory would assure Derby's safety against fellow relegation-threatened Stoke, the final-day permutations for six sides in danger of having their Championship stay ended on Saturday are exhaustively mapped out in this can listen to all that Eustace had to say to BBC Radio Derby on the latest episode of the Rams Daily podcast on BBC Sounds.
BBC News
29-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Eustice 'absolutely' deserved recognition if Rams avoid relegation
Derby County boss John Eustice should "absolutely" have been in the conversation for Championship manager of the year if the Rams avoid relegation, according to former striker Malcolm has won 65 points from 44 Championship matches this season with Derby and previous club Blackburn Rovers, who were in promotion-chasing sixth place upon his departure in February and have since slipped to three consecutive losses after Eustice's appointment at Pride Park, a run of six wins and two draws in his past 10 matches has dragged Derby out of the drop zone with one game 19th in the table with a superior goal difference to the other relegation-threatened teams, the Rams will live to fight another day in English football's second tier by matching the final-day results of Preston, Luton or Hull with his exploits at Blackburn, who were tipped for relegation before the season began after narrowly avoiding the drop last year, that would be viewed by some as sufficient achievement to have earned Eustice consideration for the Championship coaching award recently won by Burnley manager Scott to a fan comment proposing as much, ex-Derby forward Christie told the Rams Daily podcast: "We're incredibly biased, but he's my manager of the season for sure. "What he's done, the transformation in everything. The way I feel about this team has changed tremendously. If you go back through old Rams Daily episodes, some of the performances under [former Derby, now MK Dons manager] Paul Warne were horrible. "There was no hope, nothing we felt we could grasp hold of, we weren't organised without the ball, teams were creating too many chances against us. It got me thinking about how much better, and how much [more] confidence I feel around what John Eustice is trying to do."Christie continued: "Of course we can all get carried away a little but if we stay in the league, thinking about the potential for next season with the squad he's got at the moment, what could he do with a really good recruitment drive behind him and a full summer to work with these players as well? It's fantastic - I think it's really remarkable what he's done with the transformation of the team, the structure, the tactics. "Every game I'm seeing little tactic nuances coming in and the way John is doing that, based on what the opposition are good at, it's brilliant."I think John prefers the game not to be exciting - for us that's fine, as long as we get the result out of it."Listen to the latest episode of the Rams Daily podcast with Christie, Dominic Dietrich and Ed Dawes in full.
BBC News
27-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 'We found a way to win'
"We know that we have it in our locker to find a way in moments when we're under pressure. We just found a way to win and thank God we did."Dominic Dietrich, Ed Dawes and Malcolm Christie dissect Derby's crucial 1-0 victory at relegation rivals Hull City which saw the Rams climb out of the relegation zone with one match of the season episode also includes post-match interviews with head coach John Eustace and Saturday's match-winner Nat to the full post-match reaction and more on the Rams Daily podcast.
