Derby County administration

Aside from the owner's/clubs financial problems (and all the staff losing their jobs because of it), is it just me or is Wayne Rooney doing a decent job based on all the restrictions they've had to deal with over the last 18 months.

As far as I can see they've got rid of nearly all their high earners and have only been able to sign free agents (with huge restrictions on the wages they can pay and obviously many players won't want to take the risk of joining them for financial and/or sporting reasons)...

...despite all of that, without the points deduction they would currently be in 15th in the Championship, undefeated in the last 5 league games (including two draws against teams in the top six) and last season despite ups and downs in form he took them from bottom (and 5 points from safety) to safety on the final day.

If five years ago you'd have been asked to pick which current Man Utd or England player would i) take that job, ii) keep that job and not walk away and iii) get the results he's got (and to clarify, they're not a great team, not even a good team, I'm talking about the results vs all the problems out of his control) I doubt any of us would have picked Rooney.....