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You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

You’re going to get pelters for this, ignore the haters.
Be yourself, never change.
You are carrying this team to promotion, same again Saturday please.
If I could vote you for the Jackie Stamps trophy, I would. 🐏

Damn that Sonny Bradley and the formation eh? 

Great memories of the team playing in Puma kits.
However the quality of those shirts were awful, more pulls and ladders than a lady of the nights stockings.
I hated the black collar which turned grey after a couple of washes and said D rb  ou ty on the back as the writing fell off.
I also hated the yellow accent colour, how it was installed as the seat colour on the top and bottom rows at Pride Park.
I also hated the scarf under the Ram and it being trapped in the diamond.
I hated the fuzzy feel that attracted all kinds of fluff on the badge and puma sponsor which made it look dirty.
Most of all I hated and still hate that maroon kit which so many appear to love, every time I see it makes me ill in the eyes.
Saying that, some of the modern funky training gear they’ve done for Arsenal in particular and Man City has been alright. 
Great memories though like I say, although I’ll be sad to see Umbro go, they have created some of the best designed kits around for us. 

Great memories of the team playing in Puma kits.
However the quality of those shirts were awful, more pulls and ladders than a lady of the nights stockings.
I hated the black collar which turned grey after a couple of washes and said D rb  ou ty on the back as the writing fell off.
I also hated the yellow accent colour, how it was installed as the seat colour on the top and bottom rows at Pride Park.
I also hated the scarf under the Ram and it being trapped in the diamond.
I hated the fuzzy feel that attracted all kinds of fluff on the badge and puma sponsor which made it look dirty.
Most of all I hated and still hate that maroon kit which so many appear to love, every time I see it makes me ill in the eyes.
Saying that, some of the modern funky training gear they’ve done for Arsenal in particular and Man City has been alright. 
Great memories though like I say, although I’ll be sad to see Umbro go, they have created some of the best designed kits around for us. 

You were lucky!
Mine ended up as "D R Y  C UN Y"
Thank God that T fell off, and not the Y!  😲
Phew!  

It looks as though RamsTV will no longer be able to show our games live next season, unless you are willing to take a short holiday abroad.

Great memories of the team playing in Puma kits.
However the quality of those shirts were awful, more pulls and ladders than a lady of the nights stockings.
I hated the black collar which turned grey after a couple of washes and said D rb  ou ty on the back as the writing fell off.
I also hated the yellow accent colour, how it was installed as the seat colour on the top and bottom rows at Pride Park.
I also hated the scarf under the Ram and it being trapped in the diamond.
I hated the fuzzy feel that attracted all kinds of fluff on the badge and puma sponsor which made it look dirty.
Most of all I hated and still hate that maroon kit which so many appear to love, every time I see it makes me ill in the eyes.
Saying that, some of the modern funky training gear they’ve done for Arsenal in particular and Man City has been alright. 
Great memories though like I say, although I’ll be sad to see Umbro go, they have created some of the best designed kits around for us. 

This doesn't really make sense. A team can't achieve consistent success over the course of a 46 game season by going against the tactics implemented by the manager. So any success achieved by the team as a whole, by proxy, also includes the manager.
Valid criticism of Warne is perfectly fine, but stuff like this I find baffling. You can't just overlook or dismiss the part Warne's played in our success, whilst simultaneously attributing most of our failings on him. Credit has to go both ways.

I don't believe in curses. I just thought it was odd that no-one has posted it. 
A well-deserved nomination for both of them, imo. 
@HorsforthRam, I know they are just nominations, it says so in the first sentence!

Pull up a chair, this will be a long one.
Me and my wife Leanne have been together 8 years and 5 months, we have been trying for a baby for around 6/7 years. Nothing happened. Leanne has been desperate for our own little baby and seeing friends around us start families has been hard for her.
It’s been hard for myself as I later found out it was probably my fault following a sperm test.
Just before Covid we went to explore IVF options where I was given a sperm test, the results were basically I have swimmers, just not enough to put me in the “normal” range. Not impossible I could get Leanne pregnant, just harder than it would be for others.
Covid landed, lockdown, all non essential treatment and hospital appointments were cancelled, so our doctors asked us to come back once life returned to normal.
Fast forward to August 2023, we returned to the doctors knowing the clock was ticking, Leanne turns 40 this year and would already be classified as a “geriatric”, whilst myself a slightly younger Des O’Connor.
Anyway, they started testing Leanne, she was all clear, I was given another tube to fill and arrange an appointment with the hospital. Contacting them I was told there is such a backlog, we would be waiting until the new year, side note, we’re almost April and I’m still yet to receive a call back.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, October 27th our great nephews moved in with us under an emergency kinship fostering placement, since then we have been undergoing various assessments and training.
We go to the fostering panel to be confirmed foster parents on April 11th.
We was also willing to go down the SGO (Special guardianship order) route which would see them stay with us until they were 18.
Now, this is an important bit. We live in a small 2 bedroom house, me and Leanne looked at it and said maybe this is our calling, maybe we just weren’t meant to have our own and threw ourselves into the boys creating a special bond.
Monday 12th February, 2024, Leanne woke me up in tears saying we need to talk. My eyes had barely adjusted to the daylight before a positive pregnancy test was thrust into my face.
What. The. f***.
We quickly went to Morrison’s to buy another one, just to double check, this time a digital one. Both ClearBlue so super accurate.
The pregnancy was confirmed, 2-3 weeks it said.
We hadn’t bothered to be “careful” as we figured it was never going to happen naturally, but it had so now we was left with a huge dilemma. The boys were meant to be our future now. But it’s a 2 bedroom house.
It completely took the shine off what should have been the happiest time of our lives, Leanne’s family were also not fully invested into the joy with concern over what would happen to the boys.
After a few emotional discussions into the early mornings, exploring all possibilities, we ultimately decided to let social services know that we cannot be considered as long term placement if needed.
At this point and to this day, their mum is still waiting on her assessment to see if they can ever be returned.
We could not abort, we could not move as we have a small amount of debt that would prevent us getting a new mortgage for a much larger house.
March 9th, we visited the midwife who dated the pregnancy from Leanne’s last recorded period December 18th. A 12 week scan was booked for 21st March however she was told that she would be 13 weeks by then.
Sickness, tender breasts, the lot, this was all very real.
The wait for the 21st March seemed like forever.
The weekend prior, Leanne had very very light spotting and discharge which freaked us both out, quick call to the midwife and told not to worry, just come in if it’s heavy bleeding and she’s in pain.
On the 20th, I had a tattoo appointment, super excited and determined to bring some positivity to a stressed out wife, I get “Daddy” inked on my neck, at the neckline of a t shirt.  I was uncontrollably excited by this point.
Next morning we go in, soon called into the Ultrasound room, I bounce in rubbing my hands joking just the one please.
Monitor boots up, Leanne laid back with the biggest smile on her face unable to see the monitor.
I look up and the gestation sac is empty.
All life inside me just melted.
The midwife asked when we last took a pregnancy test, to which Leanne responded and was then asked if she would be happy to have an internal scan.
Whilst the midwife left the room I was in a daze, taking pictures of the screens.
Internal scan complete, we was simply told to get ourselves ready and we will be shown to the counselling room.
Both in tears, we was led away and left to sit in this room for half hour or so before another midwife appeared giving us 3 options.
Let it come out naturally.
Take medication to force it out which can be super painful.
Or surgery, which is a vacuum basically which sucks it out.
Period of silence followed and we was shown out the side door, absolutely devastated.
We sat in the car park at a complete loss. I had the announcement board ready to go, bought the little lamb rattle, we had it all planned and it was over.
After an hour we went home, packed our bags and basically ran away for the weekend leaving the boys with their Nan. We couldn’t face being “parents” surrounded by toys at this time.
Work were great, signed us both off with paid leave.
The weekend was spent crying, drinking, walking, crying.
We returned Monday, still an emotional mess but able to function at least.
The hospital rang asking if we had made a decision, on Tuesday Leanne booked the surgery for the Wednesday. That Tuesday night went to visit a friend who was questioning the dates, could they be wrong, is it earlier than we think, ask for a second scan to confirm.
On looking at the scan, the gestation sac was 1D 25mm, 2D 29mm and 3D 29mm. I’m googling sac sizes at 1am and see that is 8 weeks. 5 weeks earlier than what we was told.
Leanne’s now questioning if she forgot to record a period I said look, we’ll ask for a confirmation scan to be sure.
That morning, we go into SDEC (Same day emergency care), nurse calls us in, Leanne breaks down so I take over asking for a confirmation scan. They were great and said of course, booking us in for April 2nd.
I would have declined the 1st for obvious reasons.
We’re sat here now 99% believing we’ve lost the baby, however we need that 1% of doubt clearing away with this confirmation scan on Tuesday. Even a scan at an earlier date should have shown more than just the gestation sac and yolk sac.
I’m back to work on Monday, needing some normality back in my life, although Tuesday after the scan won’t be much fun.
This week that’s just gone, Wednesday 27th, the Boys mum had her assessment heard at panel, we’re now just waiting to hear from the social services to see how that went and would they be returned or not.
We have some difficult decisions ahead if she doesn’t, as now Leanne’s “oven has been warmed”, we’re desperate more than ever for our own little baby, yet fully aware Leanne turns 40 in a couple of months and I’m 42 myself.
It really needs to happen now, or not at all. Seeing Cameron Diaz having her second at 51 years old the other week, not sure how I feel as the old you get the more our bodies begin to tire and develop issues where running after children becomes more difficult.
All family options for the boys have been exhausted, so it’s either us, their mum or adoption. Being 2 and 3 they are the prime age to be adopted yet we would never see them again and that would f’in hurt, especially if me and Leanne are not successful in having our own.
I'm sharing this as men don't like to talk and when 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, many men will have been in similar situations and struggle in silence. Whilst the woman will ultimately bare the most pain and need the most support, it still f'in hurts....a lot.
So yeah, coming on here reading how Paul Warne is a terrible football manager, being 2nd is pure luck and all the rest of the negative hyperbole just hasn’t been at the top of the list to absorb. 
More to life than football has never been more true.
You know the old saying though, behind every successful forum owner, behind him is a team of amazing moderators. Big thanks to them for carrying the load whilst I spend time supporting the wife.

Thanks and yeah we’re getting there with social services and fostering, edging closer to completion.
The Mrs has her personal assessment next, just done mine where they build your autobiography. Couple more after together.
3 more Solihull parental course sessions and we’re off to panel.
All pointing towards being approved as foster parents as the backup plan, with the SGO order being plan A.
The boys are great, settled right in and now pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with 😂
Been a real into the deep end with a 2 and 3 year old with no parental experience. We’re doing alright though, they are happy, healthy and heading in the right direction.

I was at Pompey the other night. Still buzzing from it; pure theatre. My lasting memory though will be the support in the Away end. Got to my seat 10 minutes pre-ko & the Rams were in full voice with a new song that was mesmerising & unusually had zero references to penises. The singing never stopped for the 98 minute duration and it was at times transcendental. Or summat. Made me feel very proud of Derbyshire. Hope we can keep that up in the last 4 fixtures. We really need those flanges…almost like @B4ev6is is conducting events - because it’ll be a fantastic day if we do the …<fill in the blanks>. 

Pompey fan in peace, I personally think you boys will win all your remaining games from what I saw the other night you have enough to do it and you won’t need to sit back like you did in the second half. I personally like Paul Warne he comes across as an honest guy not like that arrogant Ian Evatt really praying that they stay down. Wycombe losing today was your best result but they are no great shakes. I was worried when we went there on Good Friday as they were on a bit of a run but we won comfortably. Teams that  play on the front foot against us we usually beat as we did against Peterborough the previous week who also were on a run of 5 straight wins. Teams that park the bus we struggle to break down like Shrewsbury yesterday we huffed and puffed all game and were fortunate to come away with 3 points. Most of us still are not taking it as given that we are going up, lose to Bolton then we have Barnsley on the Tuesday lose that and it will be twitchy bum time definitely do not want to go to Lincoln on the last day needing 3 points. Anything can happen this Saturday against Bolton but we won comfortably at Fratton 3-1 so it would be good to win that will give us 2 home games to seal the Championship. Anyway good luck Derby are to big a club like us to be stuck in Div 1.

Good job every manager he has had since has brought this out of him then?
I've seen lots of players with flashes of quality and who have looked good at one time or another. It takes more to be consistent. He didn't have it in him.
He had 1 amazing season at League One for Posh, 1 or 2 "okayish returns" seasons, and the rest has been dross. I'm sorry, that's Conor Sammon territory in terms of return, with none of the tenacious workrate

Don't make excuses for him. He was completely workshy and nowhere near as good as he thought he was. His career since demonstrates this

On here, most are probably still drawing a willy on the newspaper front page and colouring in their teeth.
Wouldn’t expect much at all.

Really sorry to hear this David. All you can do I guess is keep your head up and try to enjoy the positives. You can't know what the future will bring but I hope it is full of happiness.