Scott129

3 hours ago, Ram Logan Josh said:

Got my tickets and got my sombreros! (£5.89 on ebay including delivery)

See you there!

COYR

Just out of curiosity, how is a sombrero packaged?

Went for Byrne and Bird.

16 hours ago, GenBr said:

Ok. Lets wait until you calm down a bit.

He's not putting his entire career at risk just to stick with a club that may or not exist at the end of the season. Simple as that. 

I'm sure he'll be reassured by your belief that he will walk into any championship team next season, but he'd be insane to take that risk.

 

 

Couldn't give a crap about him leaving - I agree that he's got to look out for his future first and foremost. But I would absolutely expect him to put 100% in for every single one of the remaining games, especially when you have the examples that were being set by the rest of the squad (including other youngsters).

He won't make it to the top either way. The 'great' players thrive in adversity and still manage to do the business, and any half decent manager would sniff out this kind of attitude from a mile away.

1 hour ago, Kathcairns said:

If ck takes over and rooney stays i think we will get a good crowd, especially if we win alot of games. Seeing your team play well and win games is what football is all about no matter what league you are in.

Season tickets should be a bit cheaper in League 1 too ?

35 minutes ago, Ram1988 said:

Would anyone consider Wisdom as a sqaud player? trained with Sheff Utd recently but still doesn't have a club

Weird one that, isn't it?

A solid player on his day. Makes you wonder why he's not been able to find a suitable club.

36 minutes ago, TomBustler1884 said:

Thanks for the shoutout @Rev! 

A few years ago, we had a meeting with DCFC and were showed plans for a Pop Brixton-style fan park with shipping containers surrounding a central courtyard seating area, with seats on top of the containers too. All of them had food or drink offerings, music, etc. It looked BRILLIANT.

The problem we quickly found was that the club has contracts with, I think, DNC and whoever runs the food vans currently there, so if they put something new in, they have to use the same old contracts. Until that is sorted, there is no opportunity of getting independent or local operators doing something different. Perhaps that can change with new ownership?

On another note, its interesting when the stars align and Bustler is on the same day as a home match. We often get quite a few Rams fans coming in on their way to or from the match, but I know from experience, routine is a big thing for people.

If I was CK and looking to change things up, I would be speaking to whoever owns the underpass going from Siddals Road to Pride Park. Once you come through the underpass there is a huge concrete plaza under the PP flyover that would be perfect for music, food, drink and as a gathering area. You could even paint it up with DCFC murals. Put a few permanent containers down there with bar and kitchen equipment so that traders can change every match on a "guest" basis. Get people coming from town to meet there, get the atmosphere going (a la Ajax vids) then march all together to the match through Pride Park. It wouldn't change routines too much for people, improve pre-match atmosphere and get people up for it.

If the club could provide the permissions and infrastructure needed for that, I'm sure there would be interest in running it for them, whether that is from somewhere like Bustler, or whether you hand it to a fans group to manage if they are trusted.

That sounds so good ?

Not bloody relegated yet, Chris...

He's answering quite a few concerns over on Twitter.

I'm not sure if it's just blind optimism on my part, but I'm warming to him. He seems like a straight shooter and he's saying all of the right things this time around.

2 hours ago, thelovebelow said:

How rich is CK? 

Varying reports of between 5 million and a billionaire.

Although, if I remember correctly when he first came on the scene, he did reply to someone on Twitter and confirm that he wasn't a billionaire.

But he has shown proof of funds to the EFL, and I think they wanted to see close to 100m (someone might correct me on that).

8 minutes ago, Oldben said:

I didn't count the current squad, because I don't rate many of them.

Now I'm concerned about who can be found to buy the stadium as that's not included in Kirchners bid.

16 minutes ago, belperram9 said:

Whole thing smells of desperation to me. Administrators said no to him originally due to better offers, now they’ve gone crawling back to Kirchner begging him to bail them out?  Be interesting to know what kind of deal he has achieved.

I can’t get excited about Americans involved in football over here either. Remember last time we had yanks at the helm and they tried changing all the food items at the stadium, ‘long Albuquerque Chicago Rams mega XL hotdog’. Was so cringe how everything was Americanised. I can see it happening again. 
 

The administrators have demonstrated their absolute ineptness as well. I remember that useless Hoskins going on Talksport last September with his pal Simon Jordan, both waxing lyrical about one another and Hoskins somewhat proclaiming everything will be sorted by Christmas. Why make statements like that when you haven’t even looked at the issues to begin with? The deeper they’ve delved they’ve been out of their depth. 
 

oh well, hopefully it’s over now. Fight and win…. 

The concourse could do with a shake-up to be honest.

Awful selection of food and drinks, and the queues are always terrible.

Right, what's the next step?

When can we start offering contract extensions?

This is my favourite one yet...

Meanwhile, 10 years ago, the same guy was getting called out by CM Punk of all people.

2 hours ago, Sean said:

Would like to think the following would stay in L1

Forsyth, Morrison, CKR, Stearman, Sibley, Cashin, Allsop, Ebiowei, Davies, Stretton, Watson, Thompson + Jagielka back?

So possibly not as awful as first thought, still a hell of a lot of new singings needed though

Allsop

McDonald / Davies / Cashin / Forsyth

Bird / Thompson

Ebiowei / Ravel / Sibley

CKR

Looks strong for L1, but can't see all of those hanging around for much longer. Needs to get wrapped up quick IMO.

Does anyone know at what point we can start to offer new contracts? Is it once we have a PB, or is it further down the line?

Time to bring out this classic again...

2 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said:

Why doesn’t someone get Coleen on the case to fish them out.

It was....

Stephen Pearce.

This would fill me with hope that Rooney sticks around next season. That would be huge.

17 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

For anyone who hasnt seen it, lovely message on Instagram from Ravel. He seems happy here

Wasn't he supposed to have a bad attitude? ?

I've seen nothing of the sort while he's been here. In fact, I'd say he's been setting a very good example for the youngsters.

1-0 Bird.

12 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

We need to make a bit more of naughty tackles than we do.  Lying there for a few seconds and holding a leg gets us nowhere clearly.  Loud screams and fist banging with a side to side roll is needed, preferably 3 others pushing over the offending player as someone else screams in the refs face, based on what I saw the opposition get away with at the weekend.  

 

I thought this about the red card challenge in the Boro game.

Any other team would have had several players sprinting at the ref - for us, it was just Allsop waving his hands about 50 yards away.

6 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Will pin this comment.

Problem with your logic is that the season isn't played over 10 games so there's nothing to say the form we've seen will be replicated over the next 10 games and so on. And conversely that the form Barnsley etc have demonstrated will be continued over the next 10 games.

Wish it were that simple just to draw a straight line from now until the end of the season using our last 10 games as the starting point but it's not unfortunately. 

Doesn't mean that we won't escape though. 

Go for it ?

I would say that current form is the best metric here and, as we saw at the end of last season, it can be incredibly hard to turn things around when things aren't going your way and confidence is low.

12 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

We will never know how it was settled . And I frankly don’t much care. 
 

Hopefully today will pass without incident off the pitch .. but even more hopefully some good incidents on the pitch for the Rams.

Either way the Great Escape is unlikely but still a real possibility. 

Assuming you're referring to staying up, do you really think it's unlikely? I genuinely think the ball is in our court.

In the last 10 games, for reference, Barnsley have picked up just 3 points. Peterborough and Reading have picked up 5. And then there's us earning 17 points in the same timeframe.

It would take a drastic turnaround in form - us faltering and one of those poorly-performing club's having a major upturn - to relegate us. Call me optimistic, but I just can't see it personally.