Ram@Lincoln

2 minutes ago, On the Ram Page said:

One answer would be to always open the South Stand and alternate opening between West and East Stand. See which gets the best attendance. The West stand is always open to some degree as the Director’s Box is always open.

It'll always be the East stand for camera purposes, showing an empty stand wouldn't be a good look. The directors box doesn't need the same extent of stewards, security and match day staff as a fully opened stand would. 

2 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

Well they looked at elson who has heart issues even with pacemaker and is younger too.

Eriksen prior to his cardiac arrest had played 400+ top flight league games for Ajax, Tottenham and Inter Milan. Had over 100 caps for Denmark and had consistently played 40-50 games a season for 10+ seasons consecutively. 

Bielik only top flight experience is 4 games in Poland as a 16 year old. In his 7 seasons since breaking through in first team football on loan at Birmingham, he's played 129 games, that's 18 games a season.

Eriksen is a proven world class midfielder, who since his unfortunate cardiac arrest has proven his fitness with over 40 games again this season at Manchester United.

Bielik is 25 years old, should be in his peak career. He's nowhere near it due to constant niggles and major injuries.

As others have said, the only teams that I thought were actually any good and outplayed us we're Plymouth and Ipswich, then Wednesday were just solid and efficient doing their jobs well. All three are promoted so now aren't of concern.

Barnsley for me are the greatest threat to us especially after destroying us at their place. If they keep hold of their squad nucleus and strengthen they'll be up there. Can see it being us two for the top two. 

1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said:

I see the sponsorship was well worth the money.    

Nothing beats the milk cup for me!

6 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

Is that the away end mate

I wander if get over 3k derby fans.

The entire ground. Remember this is a non league club. 

3 hours ago, bimmerman said:

Ive paid £799 in June for the same thing,taking the in laws as its my FIL 60th,so that's for 7 of us. Not bad at all really

School holidays tax is out of control. 

2 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

A week away in June. 2 adults, 2 kids.

I can go on an all inclusive holiday to Spain, 4 star hotel and flights included for £1600. Add an extra £100 for taxi or parking... £1700

Or, I can go to Llandudno and pay £1000 for a 4 star hotel with breakfast, pay £100 for fuel and parking, spend £500 on food and drinks, waste £100 in the arcades and cheap tat... £1700

You could go on a caravan holiday with the likes of Haven and it'll be £200-500 cheaper for the week.

But, I'd still choose the holiday abroad for two main reasons. 
1. The weather
2. The convenience of not having to do anything

Looked at Centre Parcs for August. Granted this isn't the cheapest available, but still. Circa £5k for a week in Nottinghamshire. You don't even get meals included at that price. Scandalous!

21 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Also depands what time of year you go at.

Compare the cost of an average August family holiday in the UK and abroad. Despite the school holidays tax, going abroad can't be beaten. 7/10/14 nights, all inclusive, kids club, coach transfers, flights etc. 

8 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

You cant put a price on seeing Stephen Mulhearn though can you?

I'll pay you not to see him live!

After B4's inspiration from this thread I looked at swapping my all inclusive summer holiday to Turkey to Butlins in Skeggy.

Same dates, 2 bedroom apartment like I've booked in Turkey, food package and kids entertainment. Butlins comes in at £2700 which is even discounted from over £4000.

For comparison, I paid just under £1800 for Turkey when I booked in February for the 2 adults and 2 kids. UK holidays can be extortionate. Butlins or Turkey....I wonder. 

2 hours ago, Steve How Hard? said:

Take her to Torquay. That way you can claim she misheard you when she thought you were going to Turkey. 😉

She went down with me and the kids for the FA Cup game, it was vetoed as the cliffs are too steep to go down to the beach. 

We're meant to be off to Turkey this summer, I'll tell the missus I've swapped it to a caravan in Mablethorpe. Sure she'll love it. 

7 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

In fairness to Sharp, our fans were singing he was a sex offender for no apparent reason. I can understand why he might have been a little pissed off. 

It may not be the absolute origin but on a trip to Bramall Lane many years ago, the chant was being started by a group of drunk youths that had confused Sharp and Ched Evans together. To have this completely unfounded allegation and abuse targeted at me would really upset me too. 

On 12/05/2023 at 12:38, B4ev6is said:

Very very very much doubt that

But warn rang up every single pub in derby and derbyshire and notts not to seve these players any achole but if it is coffee it is fine.

Where's the quotes on that?

From the below links there's circa 2000 pubs in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/counties/derbyshire/

https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/counties/nottinghamshire/

Then what about Staffordshire for the likes of Bird being Burton based, or those in the West Midlands or Sheffield area? 

I find it incredibly hard to believe your claim.

While it's great to speculate here, there's too many unknowns. 

What we don't know:

What player sales had sell on clauses.

Which clauses the admins sold.

What percentage we had on relevant clauses. 

Are clauses on transfer profit or full fee. 

Do the clauses expire expire set time.

Are they paid in instalments or one off payment.

What Warne's budget is this season.

What we know:

We sold players. 

Admins cashed in some clauses.

Warne has some money to spend. 

7 hours ago, sage said:

He is a good young player whose maturity helped him to reach closer to his potential at a young age than most other players do.

I do think we would have missed him in comparison to Rooney.

With one year left on his contract we'd struggle to get more than £2m.

In 6 months, unless he's winning to extend contract further he can sign pre contract agreements with foreign clubs. The route for a lot of Irish players is to end up at Celtic. 

Looking at his seeming goodbye reaction on Sunday, it appears he isn't signing a new extended contract. That means either sell him now, or risk losing him for limited compensation next summer. 

As you suggest, £2m does appear the max really we'd be able to achieve on him. I'd say that's pushing the limits too sadly.

1 hour ago, B4ev6is said:

Because they know he is threat.

Jensen Weir for Morecambe got 10 goals and 5 assists playing CM, aged 21.

Scott Fraser for Charlton and Lewis Wing for Wycombe, 9 goals and 5 assists each. Brannagan got 9 goals and 2 assists for Oxford. Luke Leahy 9 goals and 4 assists for Shrewsbury. 

Sure, he played full back for a part. Bali Mumba got 6 goals and 7 assists for Plymouth playing full back. Bobby Thomas got 6 goals and 3 assists in defence for Barnsley. Shaun Rooney for Fleetwood playing full back for 6 goals and 4 assists. Connor Bradley for Bolton playing full back for 5 goals and 4 assists. 

Jason Knight scored 2 goals and assisted 3. That's a very poor return for a multi million pound player, especially one you say is £15m. Sure he runs around but there has to be more.

As folk have said, he's 22 now, no longer a "wonderkid". He's just had a below average season in League One and didn't stand out at all, as shown by not nailing down a position. If we didn't have Knight this season, we wouldn't have missed him. Rooney just would've played more. If we didn't have McGoldrick or Wildsmith, we wouldn't be anywhere near the play offs. 

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Good job he's still got 1 year on his contract...

Even with the extension activated, does he want to be playing in League One as a full international? I hope I'm wrong on this front but to me, he's clocked out of Derby now in his mind. Although gutting, I totally understand it for his career progression.

If he doesn't have any intention of agreeing a longer contract, then we have to sell this summer to avoid foreign clubs like Celtic signing him on pre contract agreements in January for little compensation. 

Is Jason Knight the difference maker in the team that would propel us to promotion next season then let go on a free/compensation? Or is it better to sell now for whatever we can get, then reinvest in new longer term players to fix the issues we have with the overall squad. 

Thomas and Warne are paid the big bucks to decide on that. 

Knight will most likely end up at the likes of Celtic and will go for a tuppence under the FIFA compensation scheme. We haven't got a hope in getting anything major for him. As all there on Sunday saw, he seemingly said his goodbyes to the Derby supporters with the tears and fist bumping to his heart. Good luck to him, it's just gutting to see things end this way. 

57 minutes ago, enachops said:

Excellent shout. Lincoln fans rate him highly. Captain too. A lot of Lincoln fans are gutted he’s leaving them, similar to us about Curtis, seems a really good character and a good age. Wing would be decent too. There is plenty of talent around without breaking the bank.

An absolutely fantastic talent. My Lincoln supporting colleagues frequently rave about him. 

Academy retained lists:

I'd be looking at Tom Hamer from Burton for one of the full back slots. Also a great usp with his mammoth long throw that's been such an effective weapon for Burton with countless goals directly/indirectly from them. 3 goals and 9 assists in 44 games in all competitions this season, will be 24 in October. 

Barnsley were on for him in January, fee circa 100-200k. He's now out of contract according to reports. 

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/barnsley-make-six-figure-offer-23-year-old-centre-back/

I'm unsure for next season, made more away games than home this season. My lad made a handful at best.

Been chatting to a friend in a similar boat, we're thinking of putting the season ticket money towards a few hospitality days. Make it a special event when we do go.

Bit of hearsay so might be wrong, but I've heard that the academy have had loads of ex Prem academy trialists in at all age groups. Then for the impressive ones when contracts/scholarships are discussed, they demand first team level money so conversations die very quickly.

Sure things haven't worked out for Nunn or Lo-Everton but for the likes of Ebiowei or Plange, big rewards. 

1 minute ago, B4ev6is said:

I just feel I tried get player fired up and failed so it mean I failed them.

If the players only get fired up by a random person on a internet forum then they aren't a professional. I'd be incredibly surprised if any player or football staff have seen any posts on here all season. The ticket office assistant who's on zero hours as a regular fan might.

You vastly overestimate any influence you think you have. You're just like the next person on the terraces.

It's bitterly disappointing but nothing you have or haven't done this season, has any influence on the results.