May Contain Nuts

Anyway, giving out good vibes...

I sealed the deal today
I brokered controllers with my best poker face
A rubber stamp for summer camp for the entire human race
I sealed the deal today

I worked out the way to be blessed
A future that suits us and not just the well-dressed
A utopia, an adventure, and a playground for the best
I worked out the way, hooray

I sussed out the steps to success
That no-one is worse and that no-one else the best
You are just the same as me and everybody else
I sussed out the steps myself

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
We're going to the future
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
We're going to the future
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
We're all gonna win
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah

I was enjoying it until I read this forum.

It's been brief, but it's been nice to know ya

16 minutes ago, davenportram said:

No fit strikers

but we still managed to be the better team and have a threat in front of goal 

 

he’s a crap manager

He's a good Lague One manager with serious limitations which stop him being anything more than a League One manager, unless he proves otherwise.

At ths point though, if you dare mention his past at Championship level you're a Warne-hating outcast.

1 hour ago, cannable said:

Directly contributed to 22 goals in the league (24 all comps).

He’s potentially the league’s POTS not just ours.

When this elicits an angry response you have to wonder whether this forum is worth the effort.

37 minutes ago, Archied said:

Perhaps we just went for the old rope a dope trick ,,,, worked a treat 😀😀😀😀

Perhaps, if you want to take Warne's place and present a vainglorious attitude toward today's game and wish to expel any doubt whatsoever that there were any faults in our initial lineup.

Unfortunately it seems you're the sort who would read Warne pointing out why it went right/wrong and congratulate him for acknowledging it, while reading the same reasons it went right/wrong from 'anti-warne' posters and castigating them for their opinion.

3 minutes ago, jono said:

Be careful someone will say your being condescending 

*you're, thicko 😉

25 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I’m relaxed, we won 😁

I am however, perplexed by the notion today was “luck”.

I understand the well balanced points many people raise around our tactics in general, Warne’s approach (or lack of) to utilising the academy, the long term prospects of him being manager. But taking this game in isolation, and also considering the season so far, he surely at some point from some of those particularly opposed to him with less reasoned arguments than others articulate, surely deserves the slightest acknowledgment. 

Put it this way, even my mate who sits next to me and challenges my opinions about Warne who questions everything I say about our tactics and play, said he didn't understand what we were aiming for for the first hour and a bit, want sure that the subs were right  and fully expected Sibley to come on to replace Elder and was of the opinion Hourihane should have come on before  Smith.

FFS it's gone red again.

ie... even someone very positive thought we got it wrong for the most part.

I even asked him (even after Sibley came on) would he attribute a potential victory to Warne's changes? He said no not really.

...but the way Warne has some people so wrapped around his little finger I struggle to view their opinions objectively.

See my earlier post which was laughed at... despite being pretty well balanced - by one of the regular 'absolvers' who think they can bully people into sharing their opinion of Warne.

As always I hope you don't think I'm counting you in this rant! I just think there are certain posters on this forum who are absolute w******.

Getting it wrong for 70 minutes but recognising that and changing it deserves some credit, but not getting it wrong in the first place would deserve far more. Warne learns but he learns slowly.

They key difference was having an actual RWB at RWB, before we changed there wasn't anyone aside from the 3CBs who looked comfortable in their role.

Bradley was excellent today against a team who never ran at him, and with a proper midfield infront of him.

That said I'd have been happy with a point today given the circumstances so I'm delighted we won 

ALWAYS had a feeling about this guy, and can't really think of a time his signing wouldn't have been perfect for our needs.

With Collins out I'm fairly certain he's already secured the POTY vote 

4 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

The whingers a bit slow off the mark this afternoon - it's over 15 minutes since the team was announced!

The defend everything and make out that anyone dissatisfied in any way  is the enemy lot though, never miss an opportunity to get in there ahead of criticism.

...and I'm not even critical of today's team.

I also don't understand why away fans are still walking down Shaftesbury Street and getting their heads kicked in? The Baseball Ground hasn't been there since 2003 and we stopped playing there in 1997. What exactly are they doing?

I'm still waiting for us to show exactly why we're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.

44 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

I thought that was what you referred to as paraphrasing?

31 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

He went to QPR when we needed a centre forward last season in January 

For 3 months, yes, but he / his family were still Bristol based and funnily enough he ended up at.... Bristol (I meant Rovers, not City, obviously. Slip of the tongue)

2 minutes ago, valakari said:

Should have signed Chris Martin...he was free...and oh look, he has scored 8 in the last 8 games!

Chris Martin was never going to go anywhere other than Bristol City or another team in that area.

29 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

It is too early to judge but if it were me I'd be busting a gut to impress..... On that basis I'm more than slightly worried with the two brief appearances we've seen. 

Question is, is he injured and is that stopping him busting a gut?

Nobody seems to know what the truth is, we get mixed messages from the management in both words and action.

55 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

Warne Haters: 'We've got the best squad and biggest budget, we should be walking this league'

Also Warne Haters: 'We should have signed more players'

Yawn. More divisive b******* that completely (intentionally) misrepresents people's arguments.

Collins being out would only really be a problem because every other striker we signed ended up crocked, but then you can hardly have expected Waghorn & TJJ to last the pace, and some of our other signings may not represent VFM until next season.

The end of the January window was well explained and understandable, though.

I guess you could question when talking of the need for a player to improve just us how well judged that criteria is.

5 hours ago, Taribo said:

My gut feeling is that we've got zero chance of signing him permanently unless we pay through the nose (not going to happen).

I know zero about Cardiff but I'm guessing they have only let him go out on loan to prove his fitness after a couple of big injuries and he will be their first choice DM next year - unless Cardiff are blessed with a wealth of better-than-God midfielders? 

 

 

Perhaps they see him as a walking yellow/ red card risk (I mean, he sort of is) and want a different sort of midfielder?

10 minutes ago, Eatonram said:

Told by?

The man in the mirror

2 hours ago, InstaRam said:

That Morgan W in Plymouth looks ok.

Got a spare £20m?

10 minutes ago, On the Ram Page said:

That’s why I tend to laugh at your posts, which come over as factually based most of the time but are just your ramblings.

As has already been said - EVERYTHING on here is opinion. Some opinions are stronger than others. Everybody (well... mostly everyone)  expresses their opinion differently.

My opinions are based on things I've observed when watching Derby play, arguments and analysis I've either done myself or seen other reputable posters put forward in a clear and concise manner. When I'm writing a post I try to put things in an order I can understand, a logical and analytical path I can follow. It's a process to help me keep things clear in my head.

Sometimes I write and re-write things so often, trying to cover as many bases as possible while keeping things 'straight', that it actually ends up making my posts into a bit of a jumble.

...and sometimes I just think f*** it, I can't be arsed to spend 15 minutes turning it over and just post on the fly.

I'm sorry if it doesn't meet your pre-approved idea of how someone should type out their opinion on a football forum.

42 minutes ago, On the Ram Page said:

No. People’s personal opinions (foresight) stated as being factual, is unwelcome. Hindsight, wisely interpreted and argued is welcomed. Where do you sit within these 2 rules?

I don't sit anywhere within your rules. You're not my boss and I don't answer to you.

1 basic rule for posting on this thread now and in future:

Foresight is unwelcome, and hindsight will be dismissed.

(Or is that 2 rules?)