MadAmster

Been there, done that, T shirt dunt fit...
Friday to Sunday for a home game can cost me up to £500 with flights, hotel, train, ticket, food and drink. 6 to 8 games a season max is the most I can afford. Last season and this I've tended to save by not flying in until the Saturday morning.
March 2024, 3 of us over for the Reading game and staying for Bolton, 3 more arriving Friday for the Bolton game. We've decided to push the boat out and do the Toyota Package making this trip extra expensive. Come on Ewe Rams!!

Truth is, the days of spaffing megabucks up the wall in the hope of promotion and/or winning something are, hopefully, behind us. Many clubs will have learned from our experience. Others haven't been so lucky and either don't exist or they are no longer in the top 4 divisions. Others currently struggling include Everton -10 points this season. Citeh facing something like 115 charges. Chelski in the deep dark and sticky. Reading in deep trouble. Wigan still struggling. DCFC will, for the foreseeable future, only spend money it has. DC has made that clear. Right now we aren't, IMO, attractive enough for a billionaire wanting to turn his billions into millions...
Abroad you see Real and Barca a billion each in debt. It simply can't go on.

Truth is, the days of spaffing megabucks up the wall in the hope of promotion and/or winning something are, hopefully, behind us. Many clubs will have learned from our experience. Others haven't been so lucky and either don't exist or they are no longer in the top 4 divisions. Others currently struggling include Everton -10 points this season. Citeh facing something like 115 charges. Chelski in the deep dark and sticky. Reading in deep trouble. Wigan still struggling. DCFC will, for the foreseeable future, only spend money it has. DC has made that clear. Right now we aren't, IMO, attractive enough for a billionaire wanting to turn his billions into millions...
Abroad you see Real and Barca a billion each in debt. It simply can't go on.

Truth is, the days of spaffing megabucks up the wall in the hope of promotion and/or winning something are, hopefully, behind us. Many clubs will have learned from our experience. Others haven't been so lucky and either don't exist or they are no longer in the top 4 divisions. Others currently struggling include Everton -10 points this season. Citeh facing something like 115 charges. Chelski in the deep dark and sticky. Reading in deep trouble. Wigan still struggling. DCFC will, for the foreseeable future, only spend money it has. DC has made that clear. Right now we aren't, IMO, attractive enough for a billionaire wanting to turn his billions into millions...
Abroad you see Real and Barca a billion each in debt. It simply can't go on.

Oh me too, @MadAmster, me too.  We are similar ages and I hope that I can carry on with my season ticket for many years yet. I just recognise though that that does depend on what happens to me and/or my (slightly older) wife if I can’t drive safely or she can’t be left alone, for example. Things start falling off in older age, sadly, often beyond control. 

Been there, done that, T shirt dunt fit...
Friday to Sunday for a home game can cost me up to £500 with flights, hotel, train, ticket, food and drink. 6 to 8 games a season max is the most I can afford. Last season and this I've tended to save by not flying in until the Saturday morning.
March 2024, 3 of us over for the Reading game and staying for Bolton, 3 more arriving Friday for the Bolton game. We've decided to push the boat out and do the Toyota Package making this trip extra expensive. Come on Ewe Rams!!

Been there, done that, T shirt dunt fit...
Friday to Sunday for a home game can cost me up to £500 with flights, hotel, train, ticket, food and drink. 6 to 8 games a season max is the most I can afford. Last season and this I've tended to save by not flying in until the Saturday morning.
March 2024, 3 of us over for the Reading game and staying for Bolton, 3 more arriving Friday for the Bolton game. We've decided to push the boat out and do the Toyota Package making this trip extra expensive. Come on Ewe Rams!!

Been there, done that, T shirt dunt fit...
Friday to Sunday for a home game can cost me up to £500 with flights, hotel, train, ticket, food and drink. 6 to 8 games a season max is the most I can afford. Last season and this I've tended to save by not flying in until the Saturday morning.
March 2024, 3 of us over for the Reading game and staying for Bolton, 3 more arriving Friday for the Bolton game. We've decided to push the boat out and do the Toyota Package making this trip extra expensive. Come on Ewe Rams!!

Oops! They need 3 wins to get there. All Luton aren't we? 😉

I'll be here in NL having watched that Nigeria Lawson's cooking show in the morning  and then doing the Congo when we score.

Shouldn't be too hard provided we get the players in we need (striker, NML-like wide player and a MF general) AND adequately replace any players who leave.

Spot on, Van der MH. We will stand or fall, this season, on how effective we are in January. My list was what I perceive to be what we need to storm the 2nd half of the season. I hope we get them all but I won't be holding my breath.

Love the nomination. I sincerely hope Stevenage's Steve Evans gets it.... and the obligatory accompanying curse as well.

Vickers - 6.5 - Called into action twice. Pretty much a spectator for much of the game.
Wilson - 7 - took an hour to get on top of their left back
Nelson - 6 - Short cameo
Forsyth - 6 - Not one of his better perofrmances
Hourihane - 6 - Has lost the speed for the role
Fapetu - 7 - A nice cameo. Came close with a good header
Bradley - 6.5 - Good distribution and solid defensively
Cashin - 7- doing what Cash does
Barkhuizen - 5 - Mr inconsistency. A couple of good moves that didn't mask his deficiencies in this game
John-Jules - 7.5 - if only the lad wasn't made of glass. The right move was to pass to the unmarked Weston but he's a striker and saw a chance and took it with a very well placed shot. Here's to an injury free rest of the season for the lad.
Bird - 7.5 - good defensive work. Going forward he showed on several occasions he sees things his teammates don't. He is on a higher wavelength
Collins - 8 - 2 goals, could, with a bit of luck had more and his work rate was, as ever top notch.
Weston - 6 - a couple of good rune where the ball never came his way. The one where it did he'd strayed just offside. He has a good future.
Waghorn - 6 - On a different day he would have bagged a couple. Work rate, covering and tackling (except for the card) good
Mendez-Laing - 7.5 - excellent work-rate and tracking back
Ward - 7.5 - A better dead ball taker than Sibs which puts him well ahead of the rest. Worked well together with Wilson.
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Love the nomination. I sincerely hope Stevenage's Steve Evans gets it.... and the obligatory accompanying curse as well.

Love the nomination. I sincerely hope Stevenage's Steve Evans gets it.... and the obligatory accompanying curse as well.

With regard to the time it takes to reach a VAR decision at times, I have long held the view that if they can't find a reason to overturn a decision within 30 seconds then any mistake by the officials is neither clear nor obvious and the original decision should stand.

Yet, should we get to Wembley in this competition, there'll still be 40K wanting tickets. Me included and, as an expat, I will have only seen the lead up games on #RamsTV using my subscription.

I don't mind if people don't want to attend this competition but I wish they'd respect the feelings of those of us that do a bit more.
 

I think you missed a block off, I make it 3,361 plus the other blocks that they could easily open up if needed.
1,282 home tickets sold.

My thoughts entirely. A net improvement getting 1, maybe 2 strikers in, a speedy wide player, and a proper solid Seth/Hudds-like midfielder plus adequately replacing any players exiting is what is needed.

We've conceded as many as this time last year and scored more. Not sure if folk will see that as a success or failure. Considering the turnover in players and the injuries and having to assimilate a dozen new players. I see it as an improvement. A net improvement in the squad over the January window should see us get more points in the 2nd half of the season than we will have in the 1st and put us in a good position for 3rd prize (top 6) at worst, 2nd prize (2nd place) or the 2st prize, going up as Champions.
That's the theory and logic but, this is football and, more importantly, it's Derby, it doesn't work that way. We shall see what we shall see. UTR!

Personally think it should work like cricket, captain can call for a VAR review if they believe there was an offside or foul in build up etc.
Human error happens, we all know that. The concept of VAR works, just currently the implementation is what is not working.

With regard to the time it takes to reach a VAR decision at times, I have long held the view that if they can't find a reason to overturn a decision within 30 seconds then any mistake by the officials is neither clear nor obvious and the original decision should stand.

With regard to the time it takes to reach a VAR decision at times, I have long held the view that if they can't find a reason to overturn a decision within 30 seconds then any mistake by the officials is neither clear nor obvious and the original decision should stand.