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I used to do a bit of nude modelling, it was ok till I glued a spitfire to my knob .

If we lose today, I think we are looking at 6 or 7 consecutive relegations. A draw, maybe 4?

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I'm quite concerned at some fans over-reaction to our first two results of the season.
"Yes, we nearly went out of business, blah, blah, blah" some say "but that doesn't excuse everything", but I do see the same old sense of entitlement many of our fans exhibit, thinking we're too big for this league.
We're NOT as this precise moment in our history. The rebuild won't be as quick as the Harry Enfield character shouting "28,000 crowds" in a "loadsamoney" fashion. 
We're under financial restrictions which non of us are privy to.
Just rein it in for now. Allow the manager and team to develop and work out the myriad challenges that we need to wade through this season to get us where we need to be.
Remember Cloughie's first games and our renaissance post Igor. Success doesn't come quickly or easily.
It's a graft. We've not started as we wanted. But it's just ONE league game. There's 20 odd pages discussing whether Warne is on borrowed time!
Reality check. Please!

Its not party political at all. I believe the power of the old families who own the oil and gas corporations is immeasurable. In the UK and USA both major political party's are fully owned and controlled by them. The vast majority of so called protest groups are also funded and controlled by the same people - controlled opposition i think its called.
Follow the money - it always leads you to the true power.

At least the football isn't the worst thing about tonight, some of these posts man, Jesus Christ.
Obviously it isn't good, but you get s*** results in the first round of this cup every season. Gillingham are 3-0 up vs Southampton. There's also another 7 Championship teams who aren't beating lower league opposition.
We've played one league game where we shot ourselves in the foot twice but could've taken the 3 points on any other day. The transfer window has 3 weeks left. Of course I'm not happy with the start of the season but I don't need my nappy changing just yet. Some have been through a whole pack of Pampers this evening alone.

I don’t think it’s just us and we shouldn’t lambast ourselves. It’s been going on at one level or another since the start of the industrial age. Population and therefore effect  (regardless of our individual contribution) has vastly increased. 
I don’t buy this “baby boomers” mass consumption blah blah. We are a filthy lot, ALL of us including the kids. Thing is there are 3 times more of us than when I was born and a greater proportion of those have consumption demands . That is inescapable. It’s a numbers game not a generation game. 

Lost someone close to me recently.  
Mad keen football person. They loved it.
We have to enjoy it wherever possible.
It’s footy.
It’s fun.
Be passionate/angry/frustrated/delighted/ecstatic whatever. But enjoy it. Enjoy being part of something that is bigger than us as individuals. 
Its Derby County. 

P*ssed not to do better today. But there's always hope, plus the feel good factor seeing what the club means to others.
 

Biggest EFL crowds of the weekend so far. Derby higher than every Championship club 

Ryan Woods has been s**** for years.  Show us the dollars.  Drives me mad .  We'll buy this player at less than he's worth, by giving you a player we don't want. This dumps there wage on you to give us room to offer the player you want to keep more wages to secure the move.  Feck off.

The Max Bird who has been Man of the Match in nearly every pre-season game?
This would be very disappointing and our last hope of actually seeing some finesse this season gone.  

Utter nonsense. 

Having seen this club very close to extinction on several occasions, I find it quite incredible that certain individuals are advocating spending large amounts on transfer fees, wages etc just because sanctions may or may not have been relaxed a little, or that we might have a little spare cash.

I'm prepared to spend £13.40 a game to watch a strong, competitive team that contains a mix of talented young players who have come through our academy and good pros who have been brought in for their ability to get us out of this division and at least give them a chance to do so  before I throw my toys out of the pram.
I saw no chunk of the fanbase missing last season and the attendances at this season's friendlies and early demand for tickets suggests there won't be much change this season.
If some of the occasional big game only fans stay away because we haven'tgot a star striker in yet, then I think we'll barely notice  tbh.
If and when Clowes and Warne's approach doesn't work, I will say so, but can we give the season a chance first? 
 

Martin definitely, regardless of any fanboyism or hate now, was not exceptional when we signed him. He was rubbish on loan and most wondered what on earth we kept him for. 

Agreed
And totally illogical for someone who claims to be some sort of scientist
Pressure the UK government to get our own house in order, and then our government  can quite rightly pressure fellow governments to follow suit. That's the only logical path
Every other path leads to absolutely nothing meaningful happening to halt man-made climate change
Unless we're literally just resigned to it being an unsolveable problem and therefore we should just enjoy the warm weather while we can and welcome the extinction of the human race as a blessed relief?

That's a particularly jaundiced and unhelpful take if you ask me. Ironically the actual Carl Sagan was on of the original climate change campaigners. 
Every country needs to concentrate on itself first when tackling climate change, so it's perfectly reasonable for citizens of the UK to protest in their country or target their own elected representatives.  We can also make it clear that we expect the politicians, of our respective countries, to put pressure on other countries to meet climate change standards at the relevant international gatherings such as COP.  
The UK's carbon footprint is not as low as some people might believe.  Yes, the GHG emissions from the UK's territory have dropped steadily over the years as coal was replaced by gas, manufacturing largely moved abroad and some renewables came online.  That's all true, but if you look at the carbon footprint of the products that are consumed in the UK, rather than the emissions actually produced on the landmass itself, then the picture is a far less rosy one.  Also the UK classifies much of it's imported biomass as carbon neutral.  In reality it's anything but, however the trick helps make the UK's carbon footprint look lower than it is in reality.  Although, I guess, other countries may be using similar dodgy accounting practices to massage their own CO2 figures. 
I think many climate protests can actually be counter productive and I agree with some of the criticism levelled at them, but I don't believe that climate protests are in principle a mistake, they just need to be properly targeted.  And I wouldn't presume to know the intentions of all those protesters concerned. Perhaps some of them are professional protesters, but it's seems highly likely that a great many of them are motivated principally by the obvious climate crisis that is unfolding all around us.  
As for other countries, let them worry about themselves internally, and our governments can put pressure on them (or incentivise them) internationally. Now that China has recorded at temperature of 52.2 C, I think that might encourage it to redouble it's efforts to hasten it's conversion to renewables. This recurring and recalcitrant notion that we shouldn't bother doing anything because bigger countries aren't doing enough, is a hopeless cop out in my opinion and a complete abdication of our own responsibilities. 
 

I always understood the reason why interest rates are increased, was to stop unneeded spending and encourage people to save their spare cash.
The problem with this is, while the rise may stop people using credit cards and spending their money frivolously. Unfortunately people are now using all their money and in many cases money they haven't got,  just to keep a roof over their head and feed their family. Meaning they have no spare cash to save. If people do have some spare cash what incentive have they got to save? While the banks are quick to pass on the interest rate rises to mortgage borrowers, they seem to be slower in increasing the rates being paid to people with savings accounts.
I'm definitely no economics expert, hell I struggle to work out the differences between the various types of interest rates. But I think just raising interest rates isn't going to work on bringing down inflation like it as done previously. There probably needs to be an entire new way for how our economy is run and regulated. What that would look like, I have not idea, I'll leave that to the appropriate experts.
It may require some radical economic agreements with numerous countries,  hopefully starting with the control and taxation of the multinational companies that seem to ride roughshod over individual country's tax laws.