MadAmster

I bet that tastes of Promotioooooooon 😉

That Ted McMinn chant based on the Manfred Mann song "Mighty Quinn" is a rehash of one of the 70's Kevin Hector chants.

Here's another. Would be allowed these days. 1st game season 84/85. Thousands of us away at Bournemouth. Great crack with the constabulary. Then a very good looking blonde WPC appeared. She was serenaded with "GYTOFTL"... if you know, you know. She took it in good part and burst out laughing.

You mean like dcfc.co.uk? I find that the most reliable site of all when it comes to DCFC news.

I thought Hourihane was full time coaching at Villa next season...

One relegation season, oppo fans singing "going down, going down, going down" swiftly replied to with "so are we....." Fans of a certain age will remember "Leeds reserves were better" He's here, he's there, he's asked us not to swear, John O'Hare, John O'Hare Blackpool away, their lot started "jump around if you're staying up" which was very quickly taken over by 4000 Rams voices "jump around if you're going down" THAT season "Let's pretend we scored a goal"

Not graced the Athletic with a visit for ages. Had a look when it started but there were far too many articles lifted from the club site or elsewhere and reworded without dcfc or whichever site it had been blagged from being quoted as the source. Lots of made up stuff littered with could, would, should, ifs buts and maybes for my liking and a distinct lack of real news. Has it changed? Don't know, don't care. I trust dcfc.co.uk and the rest can do one, in all honesty.

Absolutely. I don't get why so many look at his two first season relegations but ignore that start to the 22/23 season. I've posted a few times that those relegations are likely to have more to do with the club than PW. After he left to come to us they plummeted to 19th that season and now they've been relegated the season after. The common denominator being RUFC. Fans were saying in 22/23 that both the results and the football was better than their previous 2 SBC seasons. Here's to us getting good results and varied football. Wingers going down the outside and crossing AND also cutting inside and shooting. Some playing the channels and, of course, playing through the middle. All valid tactics and you use them at the correct time in a game. Simple intit?

1972, that's the one. Smith said he'd never been hit that hard,

8th after 9 games but with a game in hand on the top 7. Win that GIH and they would have been 5th...

When not injured, GT could put himself about a bit... and did.

Wasn't that when he was 16? 50/50 ball and he left Smith on the floor wondering what the hell had just hit him?

This list says he's on £8K a week. How true? No idea... https://salarysport.com/football/league-one/derby-county/

Knight going out of contract and we needed the money to survive. Bird going out of contract looks like he'd decided to spread his wings.

Partly jollies, for sure, as he stopped by my mate's pub in Henlow for a couple of beers. Combining work and pleasure on his trip? Whyever not?

I'm struggling to get my head round the "get rid of CBT" posts. Agreed, he hasn't apart from Pompey and one cameo sub appearance, done much for us, YET. However, the lad was carrying an injury when he joined us. How do you expect a player who's not 100% right, physically, to be brilliant?

Impressive Foreveram

I've not had an email so I can't comment on what the club thinks my stats are. Any road up, I've seen 8 games at Pride Park during the 23/24 season. That's around 750 minutes. Seen 7 wins and a draw for a total of 22 points from a possible 24. Travelled some 4500 miles in the process. I did have a balti pie at one of the games so I helped that stat along. Also had a cheeseburger in the concourse at another game, not an experience I'm likely to repeat. Hopefully, I can equal the above next season... minus the cheeseburger, of course.

Adams (hopefully) and Tommo? It will be interesting to see what formation PW goes for in the SBC. 352? that would likely see NML in the "2" alongside Collo or Collo's replacement. Did NML's downturn in form coincide with playing up top rather than out wide? If so, will he improve up top in the SBC? It would likely see Wilson/Ward as RWBs and Sibs/Elder at LWB. Would we need NML/CBT playing a winger role? So many questions to be answered.

Back to the title of the thread, it seems the retained list will be published either later this week or early next. Once the lads get back from Vegas, those being let go will be told exactly that. Those PW wishes to keep will be offered new contracts. Once it's all sorted, the list will be published. Quite likely the let go list with the addendum that players x, y and z have been offered new contracts....

He was carrying an injury when we signed him. Played well against Pompey giving us a glimpse of what he can do. Given rest now to get fully over the injury and then a full pre season should see him back to his best. If he's as good for us as he was for Charlton, no way should we let go.

Me 2. Next season would be totally amazing if we were to be up there but it's a tad early for that IMO

NML off to Guatemala games shortly. Will Adams have any summer international games or Nyambe if he's fit?

CBT was out of contract this summer at Charlton. We had no money in the "buy" pot but did have some in the "loan fee" pot. We paid a £300K loan fee and he's a DCFC player from July 1st when his CAFC contract has expired.

I actually think, from what I observe in games, albeit 80% via RamsTV, and from snippets they show of training that Barker does more of the "hands on" stuff and PW is more the management type, an enabler. Deciding on the direction, making everything necessary to the coaching staff, doing the HR stuff etc. He does do some of the coaching but I get the impression that Barker is the main hands on guy. I'm not applauding or decrying PW, more looking at it as a team effort. A gaffer who decides who, what, where and how and a staff who implement it.