ilkleyram

Be surprising if he wasn't linked with other clubs, lazily or not.  In form, pace, experience/success at higher level, physically strong - all qualities that would/will be attractive in the championship.

Whether he wants to go at this stage of a season and go through the whole settling in process again, possibly moving house, leaving behind a bunch of team mates he gets on with is another matter.  So too whether Derby have/want to sell him.  Takes three to make the deal. Any deal.

Deforestation 2

57 minutes ago, Returning ram said:

It's been brought in through to reduce the number of players time wasting. I like it to be honest, as many now just jump on and get on with it.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t like time wasting any more than you do, but the new tougher regulations this season - bookings for kicking the ball away, long periods of extra time etc - don’t appear to have done too much to stop something that is as old as football itself. Professionals have just worked out other ways, pushing referees as far as they can go (metaphorically). Goalies still fall over when catching the ball, still take an age over goal kicks, still have to clean their boots on the goalpost; players still roll around clutching their head at the drop of a hat, still move the ball away (just not so far) if they think they can get away with it, still ignore the ball as it rolls past them when the opposition want it back, still feign the seriousness of an injury to break up play or give their colleagues a break. Apparently it’s being professional as if being paid to play allows you to do all those things and more without rebuke.

But I still don’t see the fairness in penalising a team and player hurt in a tackle which was a foul against them but didn’t warrant a yellow card, by making them leave the pitch and not allowed to come back on for 30 seconds or whatever, when the perpetrator of the tackle stays on and their team is at full strength. It’s a nonsense. In that 30 seconds a goal could be scored. 

37 minutes ago, Srg said:

But that would mean teams like Wycombe would have to be honest when they're injured and need treatment or when they're not and just want to waste time... see the reason that isn't the case?

But that - faking injury - is a different issue. And football has always had an issue with footballers feigning injury to get an advantage. In these days of H and S worries referees (rarely medically trained) are always going to err on the side of caution, which is why a player kicked on the ankle will always fall down clutching their head nowadays

11 hours ago, Sufferingfool said:

Agreed, like any ref she may have made a couple of contentious calls but mostly she suffered from a home crowd unhappy that she rightly booked a number of Derby players early doors. So many supporters don’t know the rules re making an injured player leave the field…if they are injured because of a tackle that warrants a caution then they do not have to go off! She was getting loads of criticism for this when she was right!

She might have been right but it’s still daft that a caution has to be issued to avoid having to go off. The principle should be that the innocent team and player shouldn’t be disadvantaged especially now they have to wait an extra 30 seconds - if you get injured by a foul against you then you shouldn’t have to go off at all after treatment, caution or not. 

2 hours ago, one_chop said:

Not being sexist but that bird who was officiating was out of her league today.

 

Premier league rather than league 1. Apparently.

13 minutes ago, norwichram said:

Can’t understand why it’s not a straightforward - 

“yes really pleased for Louis and what a strike it was  .. we’ve played him in various positions and he’s always worked hard for the team but obviously enjoyed playing the 10/8 today. he was a real handful today and performed well
 

great to have selection problems and it’s that attacking intent we’ve been building on which has enabled us to go  on this run supported by what is currently the best defence in the league”

 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.

We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.

You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.

22 minutes ago, The Last Post said:

Pedantic mode on here 😉, I'd say...they're clear on goal as there's no defender, So it's two on 0, But then a Cob in Derby is a Bap, Barm cake, Bead roll or Bun in ilkley 😁 

To continue the pedantic mode, at the moment he made the comment there was a defender between NML and the goal, the goalie, so it was 2 on 1. At the moment Barks shot it was 1 on 0 aka an open goal.

We do have bread rolls though, it’s true. And a Bettys that sells them. 😘

I do hope that @Owen87ITK regrets the ‘it’s two on 0’ bit of his otherwise excellent (as usual) commentary during Bark’s goal. It’s a 2 on 1 Owen, 2 on 1. 

2 hours ago, MadAmster said:

approx. 15km to Schiphol. 540km to Brum airport. 65km to Derby. I'm 2 months short of 70 and hope to be making the trip for a fair few years yet. I hope it being no longer financially feasible arrives earlier than it no longer being physically feasible.

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. 

2 hours ago, Foreveram said:

Radio Derby stated last night that there were 71 Fleetwood fans in attendance but we could only count about 30 maximum, anyone else have a count up.

There is a fleetwood youtuber who did a report on the game that said (I think) 27.  Perhaps the others bought tickets but didn’t travel 

7 minutes ago, Scott129 said:

Watch it with the rest of us armchair supporters

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

14 minutes ago, angieram said:

Doncaster or Bradford, please, preferably at home. 

Given that the M1 and A1 are both roadwork ridden car parks at the moment you’ll forgive me wanting either of those, but away

1 hour ago, angieram said:

No, camera on the West Stand where it usually is so there was nothing our side to pick up the atmosphere.

I knew there would be people on here moaning about it from the comfort of their armchairs and I was right. 

But having read the rest of the matchday thread I couldn't even be bothered to add any thoughts on the game, which I was at and enjoyed.

It's getting harder to make any effort to post given the relentless chugging away of some. It's like feeding trolls.

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. 
It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next. 

6 hours ago, DiggerB said:

Someone can’t count. There’s 20 letters there.

1 hour ago, angieram said:

I've got a really "out there" idea.

How about we use the matchday thread to discuss the match and take the other tedious debates over to other threads? 

Don't suppose it will ever catch on! 

Nice try @angieram  I fear it wasn’t very successful 🤣🤣

5 hours ago, IslandExile said:

"Oi Warne, are you watching???!!!"

According to Radio Derby tonight he was actually at the match. Though I guess that doesn’t fit in with the ‘he hates the academy and young players’ mantra that some are trotting out.

10 hours ago, TimRam said:

One of Franny Lee’s favourite jokes 

One for the older reader

1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said:

... And they've left the keys in the ignition.  That's a sackable offence right there!  

I bet those ULEZ cameras have been lighting up like fireworks on bonfire night 

16 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

It’s not an away ticket but not sure which thread to put it in.

This has appeared on the home tickets website but with no explanation .

Anyone know anything about it.

Must be for the Final. Did Crewe field an ineligible player? 

17 hours ago, therealhantsram said:

Just saw this pic elsewhere and thought to share... what the approach to Wembley stadium looked like in 1948.

 

It’s disgraceful that no one is standing at the bottom of the ladder to make sure it doesn’t slip given that it’s on grass. There’s no cones keeping the public away, no hi viz jackets , the van is parked on the wrong side of the road with no visible warning signs and I bet no risk assessments were done. It’s an accident waiting to happen. 

45 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

To counter this my 12 year old grandson knows pretty much all the Premier league players, who they play for and how much they cost. His mates probably do too.🙄

I’m glad. And I hope he gets years of pleasure from doing so, just as I did.  But in the last 30 years I’ve steadily lost that feeling of fun and attachment. I couldn’t care less now about the England team or international football generally or that much about the EPL. I’ve watched more of Kane in Munich in the last 5 weeks than I have of the PL (probably about 20 minutes in total). 

I’m quite happy to be accused of holding on to the past - I don’t think I am or do, there were things about the football of yesteryear that were not good - but the pendulum has swung far too far away from what I used to watch, love and enjoy for me. And I hope that his grandad reminds him of the good old days 😃

3 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

The only reason I'm still involved is thanks to... or the fault of... one Mr David Clowes.

Heaven forbid, had the unthinkable actually happened, there's no way I'd be showing any interest in football now.
I truly couldn't tell you who played in the last game I watched (full, or even highlights) that didn't involve The Rams.  I'd imagine it was the last England WC (proper) game?

WC & Euro qualifiers... Champions League... Match of the day... Live Prem and/or EFL games... Local parks...small time amateurs... none of it interests me, and hasn't for some time.
I doubt I'd recognise any more than a dozen players names from the Prem, and I'd be amazed if I could match more than a handful of prem players to their current club.

Even my participation on here is based on 40% Love of DCFC, and 60% "banter with the gang"!

I don't even put this apathy down to "strong morals"... I'm just bored with the wider game, full stop.  Disillusioned, I guess! 
Diving, money, VAR, Rich v Poor, too many games played, too many live games on the various TV options, the over-analysis of it all.

I'll leave football forever, I'll leave football forever, I'll leave football forever... Should Derby County Die!  😢

 

This

I have sky but now for the cricket. I haven’t watched a non Ramstv game on the TV or the highlight shows for at least 10 years if not more. If the radio happens to be on with a PL match I don’t instantly know (with rare exceptions) who is playing nor which team has the ball. 
Though they don’t recognise it as such as they chase audiences from the far east and the Arab countries, I suspect that the football authorities are building themselves problems that may not show for a few years yet but will. The present system is unsustainable in the medium term. The football pyramid I grew up with is dying. 

10 minutes ago, WystonRam said:

Can of worms opening up here…

They’ll appeal too and then appeal the inevitable result. That should take at least another season to play out. It’ll be a right mess. 

Well, I guess we know the answer to his question. 

What do you guys think 

A lot of you B4. We think a lot of you. Rest peacefully.