ilkleyram
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Me and young Ilkley will renew sometime in April.
I’m obviously the only one. I’m enjoying this season - goals (some very, very good ones), mean defence, second in the league with a chance of going up automatically or the thrill of the playoffs, but challenging at the very least. So sometimes we misplace passes, sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we lose games we should win - welcome to human beings playing in the third division. Exactly the same when Arthur was our manager playing an effective style that scraped us up due to a dodgy penalty. I enjoyed that season too.
And we have a club, a team to support. Not so long ago I thought I was going to our last ever match. Can’t get that feeling out of my mind. Anything, anything is better than that and worth a season ticket -
He’ll be 39 in a couple of weeks time.
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14 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:
I want to say to my sister-in-law, who had her two kids of 14 and 9 tested for food intolerances by a total quack, and now announces proudly in restaurants that they have allergies to gluten and dairy, respectively:
Stop sending kitchens into a panic for no reason. Especially when you give them both items when you can't be arsed not to, and NOTHING bad happens. And guess what? Nothing happens when they stay with us we cram as much gluten and dairy down them as we can lay our hands on. Go and buy Food for Life by Tim Spector, and stop setting your kids up for food issues later in life when they actually develop intolerances because of how you restricted their diets.But I daren't.
She's 'arder than me.
A lot.
Hopefully Mrs Badger the second lurks on this forum and will recognise your description and take the hint. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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13 hours ago, WestKentRam said:
The 45% on player wages to turnover stat interests me and what this means for the future, if the standard EFL financial rules apply from next season rather than having to submit and then abide by a business plan that was the case this season different to how other clubs had to operate in the league.
If anyone on here has football financial knowledge, the (lots of) questions I would have are...
1) How does 45% compare to other League One clubs? If we were to stay on L1, would this figure stay the same for next season or be cautiously increased?
2) Is it all too complicated due to transfer fees, loan fees etc having to be factored in next season? If so, why was the 45% figure repeatedly mentioned in the interview as evidence of our good financial management now?
3) If promoted to the Championship, would 45% be the aim? Is the only difference then the TV money as increased income?
4) As we get bigger home gates than all other clubs in L1, does this translate to increased income compared to other clubs that is available to spend on players? Our average home gate this season is 1.29X that of Bolton who have the second largest, and 2.79x the league average.
Going to away matches at clubs with much smaller attendances and worse facilities, it makes me think, surely we must have a much greater income than them? Of course spending money on players is often a road to ruin as we know, but if done properly with the right players who are managed in the right way, given that league position is hugely related to expenditure, should we effectively be 'expected' to get promoted next season if it doesn't happen in this one?
What wasn’t clear was what he actually meant by the 45% stat. Presumably it is 45% of turnover but over what period? And does the 45% refer to all wages (ie including him, the back office staff, the academy coaches and players, the management team etc etc) or is it just the first team squad?
How then does the 45% figure affect our FFP figures/performance? Hopefully it will put us in good fettle but how many other costs will have an impact on FFP that aren’t included in that 45%?
The question I’ve never heard asked or answered is what David Clowes actually means by our being run sustainably. If it means ‘within FFP limits’ then that is potentially (at its maximum) at a considerable, allowable loss every year. If he means ‘within our annual income/turnover’ then that’s a considerable reduction in spending from years gone by that will have a significant impact on players salaries and transfer fees in particular. Or is it somewhere in between? I wouldn’t expect him to define that publicly but setting a budget for transfers and wages every year must mean that they do so internally and the 45% is of major importance.- WestKentRam and RoyMac5
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10 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
"A dream day out" should be a meet & greet with Rammie and his better half/sister/secretary/pretty young niece(🤷♂️), and maybe a tour of the facilities, before retiring for pre-match juice and microwave pizza in the community hub.
Gone should be the days of including them to dither about trying to retrieve a ball for a professional sporting club with ambitions of conquering the world (or evening Middle England, for that matter!)
There's plenty of other opportunities to entrap the poor little mites into the grasp of DCFC.
And good evening to you too @Mucker1884. Very good of you.
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1 hour ago, Scott129 said:
Bloody hell, get him in the House of Commons. Proper politician's answer.
I think, but may be wrong, that this is the first time we’ve heard publicly from SP to any significant degree since September 2023 and the fans forum. @Owen87ITK’s advice back then was to watch the whole forum on ramstv before commenting (he referred to twitter comments more specifically) but it’s probably relevant now given that Radio Derby are most interested in gaining a sizeable listening audience on Tuesday night. This will be well trailed.
But this clip does suggest that there were/are legal agreements in place as part of the sales process that limit what SP can say. If that is so - and we have no reason to disbelieve SP now even though @Owen87ITK said back in September that he had no knowledge of any NDAs in place - then we are never going to get any comment from SP about his time with Mel, and certainly nothing that amounts to an apology or description of his side of the story. Every answer he gives on the topic will be evasive. Perhaps he was at fault; perhaps he wasn’t. We’ll never truly know.
SP is our CEO. We can like it or not individually or collectively but Clowes is the only one that can change it.
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6 hours ago, Rambalin said:
Which might suggest that he could play for us next season.
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7 hours ago, David said:
Thanks and yeah we’re getting there with social services and fostering, edging closer to completion.
The Mrs has her personal assessment next, just done mine where they build your autobiography. Couple more after together.
3 more Solihull parental course sessions and we’re off to panel.
All pointing towards being approved as foster parents as the backup plan, with the SGO order being plan A.
The boys are great, settled right in and now pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with 😂
Been a real into the deep end with a 2 and 3 year old with no parental experience. We’re doing alright though, they are happy, healthy and heading in the right direction.
Good luck - especially with House Rule 1 😉 - and well done to you both.
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53 minutes ago, Grimbeard said:
You'd think that knowing how to spell licence properly would be a key skill for the Rotherham H.R. Dept.
Perhaps they want an American analyst
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On 29/10/2023 at 13:06, David said:
I'm hiding in here from 2 kids.
Very long story short, we are the great aunt and uncle of 2 young boys, Noah (3), Logan (2).
We was approached about becoming guardians for them as their parents are separated and neither in a situation to offer them a stable home.
Was no way we could see them go into care so here they are. Currently with us under a section 20 agreement although we expect it to go through to a SGO order in time where they will stay with us until they are 18.
Last few weeks been a whirlwind, through work and these I've missed the last two games, so I'm in here hiding from those pair that are giving me full calorie burning sessions. 😂
This isn’t a bit of the forum that I’ve visited very often, not least because we’ve been doing really well on the pitch, so I’ve only just read this. Firstly, I’ll join the widespread praise you’ve both got @David and secondly, how’s it going (if you want to share)?
- Carl Sagan and Miggins
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2 hours ago, CapeTownRams said:
His ‘song’is gonna be an obvious version of the one for ‘Pppopoooooooooommmmm’ I can feel it..:😎
Something like Adaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaams then.
Different.
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Can we sing about his tackle, or won’t people like that?
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What is wrong that Ronnie needs our support?
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On 25/01/2024 at 14:44, alexxxxx said:
I think stuff like chat gpt etc is pretty powerful. I've been using MS autopilot to help me this week write parts of reports and presentations. We aren't permitted to use chatgpt as it harvests your data.
It's not perfect but it's a good start and edit it to add details, reword etc.
I can see how it impacts jobs though, this is a task that I may have given a junior member of staff..
Serious/not being critical question: so why didn’t you give the task to a more junior member of staff?
I’m old enough to remember computers first coming into the workplace. The chat then was the same as now - we’ll all be redundant/on the beach. What has happened is that jobs have changed and the workplace has changed and skills required have changed in many places but the overall number of jobs have not. Might not the same happen with AI?
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Presumably Thomas Clowes is a relative of David. Is he a fan too? Has he been added to our board instead of Ian Dickinson?
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2 minutes ago, David said:
Probably open again now, but I’m in bed….drunk.
I appreciate the thought though x
How do you get drunk on a jug of cranberry juice?
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7 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:
I'm going to take a wild stab at this one....
I’m not on x but if I were I think I’d choose the last option.
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1 hour ago, jimtastic56 said:
I was at the game and the 2nd half was much worse than the first .Vickers kept the score down whilst Bird and Hourihane were our soft underbelly.
I went too , and disagree. The second half was better than the first - very low bar admittedly.
None of the first half midfield (all youngsters being given an opportunity to press their case) offered anything much apart from a couple of bits of skill from Fornah; Collins worked hard as usual and got no service; Barkhuizan flattered occasionally but had one of his frustrating games; Bradley and Nelson were mostly ok, Elder too. At least in the second half we created some opportunities (Hourihane had a shot charged down) NML created a bit of panic in their defence periodically, as did Wilson before he was withdrawn.
It was a poor game on a frozen night with a bobbly pitch with not much to warm the cockles.- Comrade 86, angieram and SKRam
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On 11/10/2023 at 16:06, Gee SCREAMER !! said:
No. He'll have stepped down by then after an 'All for one, one for all' speech' stating he want's some family time before moving to Auckland to manage some random Kiwi team on 100k a week.
Remarkably accurate (bar the Auckland bit, which might not be too long)
- Zag zig and Gee SCREAMER !!
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1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said:
Bit harsh that description of louis Armstrong’s singing.
What are you reading? 📚
in The Jim Smith Room
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If you enjoyed that you might like When the dust settles by Lucy Easthorpe - a really enjoyable read by someone involved (seemingly) in every disaster’s aftermath for the last 40 years. I know it doesn’t sound interesting but it was!
I’ve just started Essex Dogs by Dan Jones which is historical fiction - well written and researched - and just finished Ryan Conway’s Pride before the fall - well written but nothing of too much note given all the NDAs in place. What was most interesting was the number of people who wouldn’t talk to him, far more than just Stephen Pearce.