Mucker1884

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This fixture was initially due to be played on Saturday 19th December but was postponed shortly before kick-off due to a COVID-19 outbreak in Rotherham’s squad. As a result, the match is still classed as a ‘weekend fixture’ for streaming opportunities.

Pay-per-view passes are available at the following prices, which are by the EFL:
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£5 - International countries

Please Note: Pay-per-view passes for the original match date in December which were purchased remain valid.

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2021/02/watch-from-home-rotherham-united-vs-Derby-county-live-on-ramstv-important-information-2

43 minutes ago, Curtains said:

Always liked Jack Harrison I think it’s because he’s my namesake. 
 

"Curt Harrison"?

How very Hollywood!   ?

1 hour ago, QuitYourJibbaJivin said:

Yeah you’re right, could have an extra £500 but would have had to endure another 5 mins of bum twitching. Stoke we’re down to 10 men and cleared off the line not long before I cashed, would have been distraught if they nicked one.

Well, even more understandable now then!  Nervy few moments!

Must admit, I almost put something along the lines of "... losing your nerve...", buy as I convinced myself I understood the theory behind it, I also put my imaginary self in the same position... and imagined me doing the same as you!  ?

Hey... it's a win, and a good 'un at that.  Well done again.  Enjoy.   ??

21 minutes ago, QuitYourJibbaJivin said:

I’ve been wanting to post one in here for ages ?

Nice!

I'm not a gambler in the true sense, and not sure I know (for certain) what I'm talking about here, but I "think" I do...

Am I right in thinking you cashed out pretty much with the Huddersfield/Stoke game being level, with 2 mins to go, and being the only realistic chance of it going wrong?

Am I right that by cashing out early, that's effectively "cost you" best part of £500?  (£2,102.50 pay out if you held out to full times?  Is that right?)

Or did the results change?  (I've not checked!)  In which case... Good shout!  ?

Either way, congratulations on your win.  Not to be sniffed at!    ?

I haven't found the time to drag my clubs out for probably 3 years now, but when I did, and due to my skill levels(!), the likes of Sinfin and Allestree were right up there as the most likely destination.

Consider me another signature added.  ?

2 hours ago, ram1964 said:

Anyhow wheres  the yute?

Erm... It's in my DNA, Yute!   

2 minutes ago, ram1964 said:

You need to lay off the stubbies mate,that would be my worse nightmare. Holidays for me are experiencing warmth, comfort luxury and opulence ,not waking up to a pair of frozen baalocks and frost bite?

If you don't mind, I don't appreciate you discussing my genitals in public... particularly alongside the word "stubbies"!  ?

11 minutes ago, Sith Happens said:

I think a change of scenery is what matters.

So far from all our cancelled holidays i dont think we are out of pocket at all. 

Everytime i get a bit fed up about holidays i tell myself people are dying, or losing jobs...my hardship is nothing. If all i get is a holiday in a nice lodge somewhere in the UK, then that will do.

 

A lodge, yer say?

 ? ?

I've still got a Eurotunnel voucher from our cancelled trip last year.  That has to be activated by 31/5/21, and can be booked for any date within 12 months thereafter.  I'll definitely make a provisional booking (as it's easy and effectively free to subsequently alter the date), but I'm not even hopeful of actually using it between now and May 22!

But, on the bright side, that's a max of only £180 wasted due to Covid, as nothing else was pre-booked last year.  (We tend to now just head over on The Tunnel twice a year, and head for the sun!  No pre-booking required!

Also on the bright side, at least we managed my birthday week in Spain 54 weeks ago.  I appreciate many haven't been abroad for even longer than that, 2020 being as it was!

As and when, our first main trip will be camping "Somewhere over the Channel", be that France, Belgium, or Holland.  Failing that, we just pray we can at least get away camping in UK.  Managed a fortnight last September in Dorset, and in all honesty, it was really rather splendid, and we won't be at all disappointed if "all we can do" is something similar, somewhere similar (We were lucky with the weather though, last Sept!)

Our life (and holidays) may be simple these days, but at least we don't have the hassle of pre-booking, or the stress of trying to chase up refunds or transferring dates etc.

... And let's face it, if worse comes to the worst, being campers, we can always pitch up in the back garden!  ?

Best of luck, everyone!  ?

8 hours ago, Stagtime said:

It was good to get some cooler weather compared to home, only 24 the last few days. Windy too so we sooked it and stayed in a motel the last few nights.

And here's me wishing we could have got away when the snow came last week!  Would be fantastic to replicate this, which we haven't managed to repeat since Feb '13...

20 hours ago, Rev said:

 

Milan is like most big cities, 90% poohole, 10% nice.

 

 

I call BS! 

Milan is nothing like Nice!  Marseille, maybe?

Oh... erm... 

10 hours ago, GboroRam said:

My old sensei was doing online yoga sessions and they seemed to go down well. 

You tend to find that to be the case generally, with these yoga sorts.  

#verybendy

Mods'll be on overtime.  Full time job just merging all the Frank threads!  ?

#inbeforethemerge

2 hours ago, Ambitious said:

I've just had a conversation with a mate about this, who mentioned he should've stayed with Derby. I massively disagree, it's not a problem with Chelsea, it's a football issue. He would've absolutely been sacked as Derby manager at some point and received a much lesser pay off. He will get a new job now and inevitably get sacked from that - it happens. 

The last five seasons, between all the English league clubs, there have been: 52, 60, 67, 63 and 74 sackings. 52 being an outlier due to Covid. We can consider roughly half the clubs in the English professional leagues will sack their manager each season. I find that absolutely barmy. I used to find it intriguing, but now I just find it boring.  

Anywhere else, and I'd agree with you, but this was his dream job.  The (only) one that really mattered how it will look, come his retirement.  Unless he gets a really lucky break, and gets another crack at it sometime in the future, his dream job will now go down as a failure.  His (overall) reputation, at his beloved club, a tad tarnished.

I thought at the time he shouldn't have taken it.  He needed experience behind him.  Far more than one season in the Championship could offer.  He needed to build his managerial CV.  Hey, even pick up the odd trophy, or reach a final or two?  THEN, take the dream job.  Older, wiser, and with a decade's worth of experience to fall back on. 
Yes, of course, he'd still get sacked eventually (almost certainly), but he'd have had a better chance of leaving after 5/7/10 years in his dream job.  Half a dozen trophies.  Maybe a Manager of the year award?

He would have had more chance of sitting in his rocking chair, telling his grandkids how he not only held his dream job, but was deemed a success too (Despite eventually getting the sack, but hey, that's football!)
But no... he went too soon.  That particular job was too big, at that particular time.

I still think he'll be a success, and in the football sense, he'll look back at a successful career in management (to go with the success as a player).  But from his own personal perspective, I reckon he'll now retire with regrets, what ifs, and if onlys!

I can see it now... sometime in the next 15 years... on the pitch, holding aloft the European Cup (Or whatever it's called!), and those immortal words...

"IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHELSEA"!   ?

47 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Was he Club captain or team captain because there have been times when both roles were taken by different players?

In all honesty, I'm not certain, and I must admit I did dither before posting that bit... for the very reasons you bring up... but decided to go ahead and risk it!  ?

I'll not be slow to hold my hands up though, If I was wrong.  ??

4 hours ago, Anon said:

... Then there's the nonsense about him being captain. I don't know how you lot treat captains of any teams you've been in, but if any of mine ever tried to pull rank on me away from a football field I'd have laughed in their faces. Lawrence and Bennett were 25 and 23 respectively at the time. Both plenty old enough to understand how the law works without the intervention of their captain.

It was an official club event (or rather, an immediate and direct follow on from one).  It wasn't a private function, or a night out with the lads.

In any decade prior to 2000, they would have all been in club blazers.

Keogh was club captain... on an official club event.  Club captain should not be limited to the pitch, on a match day, for a mere 90 minutes.

Not sure the level/seriousness of the offence(s) are/were too much of a consideration to the club?
 

As an employer, surely they should have been concentrating on the consequences of said offences, and how they affected the ability of each employee to continue carrying out their work?

Surely the seriousness of the offences were for the courts to deal with.

That's what should happen (imo), and that's appears to have happened.

Did Keogh even get charged with an offence?  (Genuine question, as I honestly can't remember)

5 hours ago, Red Ram said:

...the principle of kicking people when they're down. That's what we did to Keogh - kicked him when he most needed support...

My understanding was that as he lay there, The club offered to pick him up, and try to make him a little more comfortable, by placing a cushion under his head.

He not only refused this offer of help, but apparently stuck his middle finger up in the air, and told Mel to shove it.

Absolutely, definitely, certainly, there was no kicking involved!

10 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Yes, I did detect your light-hearted note on that. I wasn’t trying to berate you. 

Oh.  I got that!  Didn't mean to infer otherwise.    ???

54 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Apart from the booing bit @Mucker1884this is absolutely spot on. 

Damn!  I only put that in for dramatic effect, anorl!  

It might not be a surprise to hear I haven't actually booed all morning... in fact, all week... not even on Saturday!   ?

9 hours ago, Red Ram said:

Personally the unfairness of way Keogh was treated led to me feeling less of a connection with the club. It just seemed like a totally ruthless way to treat a very good, dedicated player who'd been with us for years and always gave absolutely everything every time he wore the shirt. This outcome goes a long way towards redressing that historical sense of injustice.

 

Personally, the unfairness of the way the club was treated led to me feeling less of a connection with Keogh.  It just seemed like a totally ruthless way to treat a very good, honourable employer, who had treated him with rightful respect for years, renewing/improving his contract, promoting him to club captain etc, and putting their trust in him, not only as an individual, not only as a public face of the club, but also as "a leader of men". 
This outcome goes a long way towards my dislike of "the system", and "the man", and leaves me with a strong taste of injustice.

19 minutes ago, Red Ram said:

Employment law rightly requires that employees are treated reasonably and fairly. You're focusing on what Keogh did but the point is the contrast between the way he was treated and the way Bennett and Lawrence were treated for significantly more serious offences. The 2010 Equalities act is also relevant here - you can't sack someone just because they have a (temporary) disability!

Can't argue with that, as I know next to nothing about employment law.

Legally, yes, I'd fully agree that the other two acted worse than Keogh, but from an employers perspective... in how it affects their ability to do their job... I'm not so sure!

I'd also like to think that "he was sacked" because he couldn't do the job, not because he was "disabled".  A typist in a wheelchair is not the same as a typist without hands!  A footballer with "broken legs"?  Hmmm!

Either way, I'd like to think that morals alone would have played a bigger part in Keogh's reaction, under the circumstances.  Sadly, it appears not to be the case.

So he breaks the law, and as a direct result, puts himself in a position where he cannot fulfil his side of the contract, and the ensuing costs to the club cannot be claimed on insurance (Due to him breaking the law, one would assume, and not due to DCFC failing to take out adequate cover!)
We offer to tend to his injuries and rehab, plus offer to keep him employed for the length of his contract, albeit at a reduced rate, which he subsequently refuses.

And yet he has the gall to sue the club, and render them "In the wrong"?  How does that even work?  And how can he even sleep at night?

I've always been a fan of his, and any comments I may have made in the past to the contrary (I'm sure there will be some!) were always intended (at least) to be tongue in cheek.  Just japes. 
A player (and captain) who always got a thumbs up from me.

But right now, he is fast losing my respect.   

I'm probably one of the few who has never booed Keogh before... but I'm booing him now!   

31 minutes ago, ram1964 said:

Had hoped too shoot off...

8 hours ago, CWC1983 said:

Hacksaw Ridge. 

Really good story about an American medic who joined the army and ended up in Japan in WW2. He was a consciousness objector and refused to carry a weapon. 

Harrowing battle scenes. 

8/10. 

Shouldn't there be a coma after the word "objector"?