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2 hours ago, VulcanRam said:

With respect I'll be saving all this for when, or if, we ever get promoted to the Premier League.

With respect...

😉

Almost time...

19 minutes ago, VulcanRam said:

... Don't get me wrong, I'll be delighted come 5pm when we're out of this lousy league...

 

Good news for yer... should all be done & dusted by 14:30!  👍

#Don't be late

At 61, my life is very much geared to a happy/successful retirement... Marriage and hobbies in particular, but also health, social life, family etc. 

The problem for me lies solely on the financial side.  All the above can only continue with my current income (and a bit of savings), so I really don't envisage retiring any time soon!
(House is basic at best, but has been long paid for, and tidy enough, so we have that security at least, I guess.)

I was always very blasé about private pensions etc... In truth, with my family history/genes, I truly didn't expect to be here this long!  (Both mum & dad failed to reach their 50's!).  Just my luck I'm as fit as a fiddle!  🤣

Hey.  I'm very much a "Take each day as it comes/what will be will be" kind o' guy, and that ain't gonna change now, so I'll plod on, and see what happens.  

Best of luck to all of you who have retired recently and/or are about to. 
I won't call you lucky, as I'm sure you've earned it, but I won't deny there's a teeny bit of envy/regret creeping in now I'm almost "at that age"! (But only on this subject... no regrets elsewhere!) 

Enjoy... yer owd buggers!  😁🍻

3 hours ago, ram59 said:

How much 'compensation' would make up for suffering another year in league 1?

13 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

I'm going to sign up for Sky Sports and then cooling off a few days later as per my legal right and will be watching at home here in Cornwall with Mrs Badger.

I was tempted to drive up and spend time with @Eatonram and some other mates before and after the match. But watching them go off to the game would just result in some unseemly begging and offering favours in the toilet for tickets, again.

COYR!

Wait!  WTF!  You offer tickets to watch you and your mates "exchanging favours in pub toilets"?  😲

...Or do I need to go back and read that again? 🤷‍♂️

4 minutes ago, CapeTownRams said:

Gonna be interesting on the pitch at the end of the game (irrespective of the  result) as there will be many ‘goodbyes’ to the crowd…. Max leaving, Ebou last game (and possibly no return), lot’s of out of contract players who will know they won’t be offered new deals (Hourihane, Waggy, Smith etc).

Emotional times.

Think they may have to tweet their goodbyes after tea, mate.  There's an illegal pitch invasion afoot, from what I'm reading!  👀 

Same old Eurotunnel now booked for 1st June.
Same old France the expected final destination.

... But a whole new, previously unexplored region... Alsace!  Chocolate-box villages and all!  

*Unless the last minute weather forecast is crap, (and better elsewhere).  In which case, we'll head somewhere else!  Gotta love semi-planned and unbooked campsite holidays in France, where you can just rock up, pitch the tent, and do whatever yer want!

1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

You know if you watch slowmo footage of someone kicking a ball, that the foot touches the ball, the ball compresses at the point of impact and then the momentum force transfers into the ball and the ball, uncompresses and changes direction, and then contact between the foot and the ball is lost. This process all takes about 0.2 seconds. Depending on the frame rate of the video footage, you could be looking at anything from 5 to 10 frames in that time.

There is no way at that distance that you can see the precise moment that a gap appears between the foot and the ball, so you can't possibly choose the "correct" frame. At which point you can argue that sub-conscious bias has to come into play. That Coventry decision could have been interpreted either way but it went the way of the "big" team

For me, the only solution is to introduce a rule that says, where there is doubt/borderline footage - just give the advantage to the attacking team and accept that VAR can never be a precise science. As the saying goes "it will all even itself out over a season"

That's the only way to preserve the entertainment factor. Otherwise you just kill the game and goal celebrations become a thing of the past

 

I see you refer to "the precise moment that a gap appears between the foot and the ball" (i.e. when contact twixt foot and ball is completed.)

I'd argue it needs to be when that gap first disappears... when foot first makes contact with said ball, and thus before all compressions are effected.
Firstly, that would occur sooner, thus giving the "advantage" to the attacker.  And secondly, I'm a complete arse, and just wanted to pooh-pooh your theory for the craic!

Either way, we need to add more cameras, more eyes in the shed at the bottom of the garden, more monitors, some "infra-red tangent threads" (Patent pending) on the ball, and some sort of beeper that marries the ball contact with the attacker's position.
Oh... and more time for the experts to digest the given information before confirming to the excited audience whether they have just witnessed a goal... or not!

Simples!  

Just so you know, it ain't cool to bear grudges.  It ain't mature to swear in public.  It ain't uplifting to dwell on previous negatives.  It is not sagacious to disrespect the hierarchy.  

But come Saturday, from 90:00 and throughout the additional minutes... with the resuscitated Rams on the verge of a new life... throw all that in the bin, and let's give 'em the rousiest, passionest, Black & Whitest, most heartfeltest rendition of "They docked us 21 points..." British football has ever... EVER... witnessed.

To hell with dignity!  🐏

Paramedics called.  ✔️
Rushed to A&E.  ✔️
Transferred to ICU.  ✔️
Went into a coma.  ✔️
Had the last rites read.  ✔️
Switching off life support considered and rejected.  ✔️
Miraculous recovery evident.  ✔️
Derby County Death Party cancelled.  ✔️
Recovery continues to improve at a quite remarkable rate.  ✔️
Currently sitting in the despatch lounge, awaiting transport home.  ✔️

Bit of delay... should hopefully be home by Saturday... TBC.  🙏
Welcome home party provisionally booked for Saturday evening.  All welcome.  Bring several bottles. 🍾🍾🍾

#we're on our way

5 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Surprised we didn't get the whole "shiny thing paraded round the pitch" story! 

Doesn't get boring tbf.

I did consider it.

If I have more time later...

🤣

Oh!

Happy birthday to my Derby County fan career.

#my first game.  🐏
#I woz conned 🤣

Well, I bet you feel a right tit now!  🙄

🤣👍

2 hours ago, Chellaston Ram said:

Before the game there was only one point difference between them and Everton, so even if Attwell was a Luton fan then why didn’t Everton raise concerns as well…….whinging Treetards 🤣

Word on the trentside guttervines is that Everton had already bunged the on-pitch ref, so no need!  👀

I initially thought (before seeing replays later) that that bamford Bamford (before he was a bamford) dived in the deforestation game.

I'd let them have that one back if it wasn't for the fact it would take Bryso's hat-trick away... and 5-0 has a certain ring to it... and meh, feckham anyway!  

On 21/04/2024 at 10:17, Steve How Hard? said:

Is this some weird kink where you make love to a bread roll? 🍞 🍆

Bread roll for you maybe.

Some of use a baguette!  🤓

EDIT:
No, not baguette... the other french one... petit pain, is it?  😕

6 minutes ago, ram59 said:

Technology is already available to make offside decisions almost fully automated.

Every player already wears device that tracks his movement on the pitch, put an accelerometer in the match balls which detects every time the ball is struck. Every time the ball is struck, an instant map of every player's tracker is produced, the decision is made from the player's tracker and will always need to be worn the same position on the body. The human element will still need to decide whether the player is interfering with play.

Obviously, all players wearing the tracker in the same place will give an advantage depending on which way the players are facing, but it would be consistent and the same for both sides.

They could get around that last problem by actually implanting the tracker to the precise centre of the player's body.

A bit like A fantastic voyage, but without the "4 men and a beautiful girl"...

https://www.google.com/search?q=fantastic+voyage+film&source=lmns&tbm=vid&bih=742&biw=1536&hl=en-GB&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqlubylNSFAxXKTaQEHbYBDNAQ0pQJKAF6BAgBEAQ#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:27e70649,vid:dO5E4wkg0hA,st:0

10 minutes ago, MarsdenRam said:

I always feel sorry for Dave Fletcher having to cover them on medium wave. Is anyone even listening?

Sorry mate, was miles away...

What did yer say?  

24 minutes ago, SSD said:

I know he might cringe at the thought, I'd get a big flag with him front and centre.

Absolute hero.

They've beaten you to it...

Just seen the neville reaction... was gonna post similar thoughts on these so-called "options" that florets are apparently considering.
I'm assuming there's also an option to resign/withdraw themselves from the EPL with immediate effect? 

Regardless of my own allegiances, I would stand shoulder to shoulder with red dogs world wide, if this is the stance they wish to take.  Bring it on, brothers!
That'll learn 'em!

9 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

I bet he told you they would do it every year though.😂

Was just about to post similar… and I don’t apologise for laughing about it…

But neither am I ashamed to admit he’s been in my thoughts rather a lot this past couple of weeks, and I’m pretty damn well gutted that he’s missing it all. All quite disturbing really, seeing as I never even met him!

Soppy or just weird I know not, but I’ll be giving him more than a passing thought next week. That I do know!

🐏❤️

1 hour ago, Rambam said:

That’s a few weeks before I moved to Derby. Didn’t start supporting them til 1987. 
Surely the ref should have stopped the game and insisted the fans get back in the stands. 

I think he tried wagging his finger at them, but that was clearly never going to suffice  

In hindsight, It’s as clear as day that he should also have peeped on his whistle a couple of times! 

1 hour ago, David said:

Just had this vision, @DarkFruitsRam7 walking around with his arm round his mate belting out this classic, I don't know how I feel about it yet. 

 

Ha!  That was my immediate thought when I first read the thread title yesterday... but I got waylaid, and totally forgot to come back and tek the pi55!  🤣