Comrade 86

These commentators are absolute gash.

I think the burning question here is, who's going to bother watching the Champions League now?

Barney's a bit of a meat trumpet, isn't he! 🤣

I'd agree with him on that too, taking into account the injury roster. There are incremental gains to be made, but for us to take a significant stap forward, we need to sign a dynamic CAM and a Steve Howard type striker. If we do, we can finish top. If not, it remains somewhat in the balance. Just my opinion!

Not seeing it. I think he's a little weary as he seems a man who lives on his nerves and I think he's letting folk know how he feels with some honesty, nothing more. In fairness, would you not be somewhat defensive given the absolute pelters the man gets from some. I mean look at this forum - we're meant to be 'supporters' on here yet some folk can't even help the odd snidey even after 6 wins from 7. Why would he be happy? He knows he can't win, no matter how hard he works and it must be hateful and quite exhausting and while we all put our feet up, he has a tricky and hectic schedule to navigate with little or no time for him and the lads to rest and little or no thanks for doing it. Not referring to you btw the way, just addressing the 'odd' bit and you'll know whom I'm talking about with the rest.

Hark at Facty McFactFace, with your powers of rational observation. Well look here sunshine, as a relatively new member of the forum, you are afforded the one pass, but I'm afraid that's done now and I must now insist that you observe forum traditions for all future posts and stick to whingy hyperbole. Nit-picking is acceptable in the advent of us scoring 3 or more goals, but if you fail to identify something to moan about on all other occasions, you're not trying hard enough. FWIW, forum protocols dictate that you may loosely refer to 'feeling mildly upbeat', but the more tangentially you express such notions, the better as happy people make unhappy people even less happy and we can't have happy folk making unhappy folk even unhappier, can we? Top tip; try following any vaguely positive remark up with a negative conditioner, for example; "Yeah, I know that we won 4-0 today and we've won 6 from 7, scoring bucketloads, but Louie Sibley...." Works a treat! For future reference, if at anytime you fear that you are once again succumbing to any feelings of even mild positivity, please just consider that we'd never beat Man City with this lot of cloggers and you should find your yin instantly realigned with your yang. On the rare occasions this does not work, I usually try to visualise Margaret Thatcher in her undies as I find that a rage / nausea combo is a quite effective buzzkill. That said, I'd only advise using this technique when literally all else fails. A last word on your ridiculously positive end-note; please see my reaction to that below, as expressed through the medium of GIF. Ta, 86 x

Read, "19 from 21". Someone needs a coffee!

See ya!

This must have sounded much cleverer in your head than it does in mine. 20 points taken from our last 22. Read it and weep.

Yeah, my bad. I'm not really criticising them anyway, rather bigging up our support.

Rams 1 Lincoln 0 FRGS Nate

The Teams Derby County: Wildsmith (GK), Forsyth, Hourihane (C), Cashin, Barkhuizen, Bird, Collins, Mendez-Laing, Fornah, Ward, Nelson. Substitutes: Vickers (GK), Wilson, Bradley, Thompson, Sibley, John-Jules, Elder. Lincoln City: Jensen (GK), Sorensen, Jackson, Erhahon, Bishop, Hamilton, Mandroiu, O'Connor (C), Burroughs, Mitchell, Makama. Substitutes: Wright (GK), Smith, Duffy, Adelakun, Eyoma, Roughan, Vale.

Only 2,000 less than the Forest vs Spurs game on Sunday afternoon which is actually mightily impressive given the current standings of the two teams and the respective timings of the games. Hopefully the Rams faithful are rewarded with a professional performance and the club with 3 more points for the promotion coffers.

They're athletes mate and have been fighting that attitude for years. Bear in mind they are only fighting 2 minute rounds too. I understand your point, but when you've put the work in, you're entitled to take your chance and these lasses are not your typical girls anyway, in exactly the same way as the blokes are far from normal chaps.

The only man in Nottingham who has never missed out on the last pie.

BBC reporting that he's already been sacked so I don't think there's too much doubt. Probably quite relieved it's just him getting fired and not his house as well.

I always got away with it bud, but my bikes not so much 😩 In fairness, a couple were where cars have just not seen me and pulled out in front of me, so it's not always been me, just mostly!

Stay safe mate! 😯

Hope things settle down for you very soon mate. Hopefully someone like @sage can offer some sound advice and hopefully confirm that these are processes and will be done soon enough. It's a really courageous thing you've done and I'd hope there will be easier times ahead for all parties concerned.

Has he ever been right about anything? He gets so much wrong that in my head I refer to him as Shitscoop.

A little pre-Christmas update from the BBC: Israel has "gone beyond self-defence" and lost the moral authority in its war with Hamas, the chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee has said. Tory MP Alicia Kearns told the BBC she thinks Israel has broken international law and risks increasing support for Hamas among Palestinians. She said: "Bombs don't obliterate an ideology and neither can a stable state be constructed from oblivion." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67745408 Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US has spoken to Israel about making the war in Gaza more "surgical". Hard to imagine a 'less surgical' approach unless you can somehow overlook the small matter of 20,000 dead Palestinian civilians, 70% of whom were women and children. In other news, according to human rights advocates and aid groups, approaching 2 million Gazans have been forced from the area and as many as half of whom are likely to starve or be lost to disease. When will it stop?