cannable

What about 

“It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere, we’re all alone, more or less…”

34 minutes ago, Yoxoram said:

We have won four games in a row in the league and yet there is still negative comments. I despair sometimes.

Not that I’ve made any negative comments 

But the McClaren team ruined football for me, I compare all subsequent Derby teams to it and I likely will until it’s bettered/I die 😂

1 hour ago, McArthur Park said:

Back from the match and what's not to like! 3 points, 4 league wins on the spin, a goal in front of the away end, and Waggy starting the  bounce! Going to bed happy! 

What’s not to like? 
 

The traffic? The s******* ground? 😂

41 minutes ago, admira said:

113. Year, opponents and memories. 4-1 home win.

Blackpool 2009

It’s a shame they weren’t often fit together but Commons and Hulse as a front pairing were transformative. Think I worked it out years ago that we averaged two points a game with them playing 60+ minutes together.

For all the pelters Commons got for being inconsistent as well, he scored 7 and created 17 in his first season with us in a BAD Derby side.

I don’t actually mind the Villa final

I don’t know if it’s because I was at Elland Road for the semi and knew nothing could top it 

He bollocked Bucko after his late winner against Leeds in 2013 because of his celebration!

6 hours ago, admira said:

108. Year, opponents and memories. 1-0 defeat. 

Not finished yet has it? We’re still at Wembley trying to break them down!

Australia winning that was worth it for the Indian tears.

Took AN HOUR for the trophy presentation. 

The drone display at the end featured the Indian flag and ‘Champions’ in India blue colour.

8 hours ago, littleover ram said:

Serves them right for Malcom Christie’s hat trick goal being disallowed against them about 25 years ago 

21*

Come on, let’s not make ourselves start feeling older than we have to 😂

2 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Not according to club accounts. Our wage bill for 02/03 (13 months) was £18.986m, Aston Villa's was £32.310m (12 months)

It would be 01/02

Is there still that rule that we can’t make wholesale changes?

And where do we stand if we’ve done so and still spanked a bunch of kids? 

On 03/11/2023 at 09:36, Premier ram said:

May 2018 home to Fulham, good goal from Jerome, played well on the night , 2nd leg a disaster, Rosetta too negative

Not sure that’s fair

That Fulham team were class, they were camped in our half from from half-time onwards.

Get Wood and Stokes on the plane home, no point risking them now.

Get the latter’s knee sorted.

2 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

This is a perfect example of when I’d like to see retrospective punishment for blatant diving. 
 

As it happened, it didn’t impact the game and despite how woeful the referee was we can blame him for the result but, this sort of thing really needs to be stamped out.

Meh

I genuinely don’t mind it

Is what it is

3 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

He’s entitled by contract but surely there comes a stage where professional courtesy comes in to play. 
 
Stinking out the joint and making everyone’s lives miserable just for an extra few pennies is poor form in my opinion.

You’d have to hire an absolute loser of a manager to think his position is worth resigning 

What an awful decision to field 

With the highly pressurised environment football has become and with how precise (and boring) systems and tactics are becoming… ever wonder what would have happened in his second spell if we just said “do what you want, have fun and skin a few full-backs”?

29 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

I agree we have a squad capable of winning. What we don't have is a manager with the cojones of Alf Ramsay who would drop a favourite player for the benefit of the team.

In 1966, Jimmy Greaves was the nation's hero, A superb goalscorer with pace and skill who could win you a game with a flash of brilliance. 

He was dropped for Geoff Hurst who was a decent player, but not explosive or capable of going past a defender, but who could hold the ball up and bring other players into the game. He could stop the other team attacking by keeping the ball, sticking his big arse into the defender and winning fouls, Chris Martin if you will........

The point is, Ramsay wasn't bothered about the press, the fans or the pundits, he picked a team to win a competition knowing the other teams will cheat, dive and foul to win a game so he picked players who were hard enough to cope with that. 

Imagine Kane for instance being dropped for a lesser player but who would give the team more chance of winning. Not that we've got a play like that, but if we had, Southgate would not pick him.

Could you not argue Southgate’s doing that in still picking Maguire, Henderson and Phillips?

6 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

England have a brilliant squad. We aren’t blessed with the best central defenders in Europe, or left-back or GK, but every other spot we have a player who is arguably top 5-10 in Europe in that position.

We can win Euro 2024.

But to do so, we are going to have to do something Southgate (or any other England manager in my lifetime) has never done before - beat a top team on foreign soil in knockout football.

I started watching football in the 90s so I’ve seen us lose to Brazil, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Croatia and Germany. 

The best teams we have beaten in knockout football is Denmark in 02, Ukraine in 2020 and Colombia in 2018. 

Ooooooooo don’t be controversial, it was a bad Germany but it was still Germany, even if they’ve been s**** for years at least we’ve beaten a traditionally big team 

I get what you’re saying, we’ve not beaten one of the best but that felt like a significant hurdle

46 minutes ago, Ken said:

100%,

Players should be picked on form.

I had a chuckle the other day, I read that Jadon Sancho would be looking for a January transfer in order to 'get first team football and give him a chance of getting in the England squad' next summer.

He has only got to look across the training ground to see Harry Maguire who gets in the England team despite barely playing a game 🤣

I'm not a fan of Gareth, he's done a good job but I firmly believe a lot of other managers would have done too given the players at their disposal, over the past 2 years the pool of England players has grown in depth, all over the pitch, lots of those players will develop and get even better.

The next 5 years should be very exciting for us England fans but with Gareth's constant picking of the out of form Maguire while ignoring the inform Raheem Sterling makes me doubt that someone who isn't choosing players on form and clearly can't manage something in Raheem Sterling's personality has the know-how to guide us to glory.

The choice of penalty takers for the Euro Final against Italy shows he wasn't aware of how the youngsters would cope with the nerves etc but of course Gareth wouldn't know that as he didn't regularly compete for or win major trophies as a player or as a manager.

To kick on we need a manager with a bit of personality and charisma, not a media darling and to be honest I can't think of a single English manager out there who has those personality traits let alone experience of competing for big trophies.

This is the most compelling argument for Sven I’ve ever seen

19 minutes ago, Andicis said:

Hughes and Winks aren't close to that level.

I actually back Ward Prowse to be near and tidy in tight spaces, nothing special. Trent has the technical ability to do it.

Yeah, exactly, they’re not close to that level and yet, in my opinion, they’re the best we have of that mould!

Ward-Prowse might help in not giving the ball away and helping screen with Rice, but isn’t that what Phillips and Henderson do anyway? 

We just don’t have the player we need.

Trent may well work but we can’t say for certain. It’s not just about technical ability. It’s the positions you’ll find yourself in. Looking over your shoulder, receiving the ball on the turn, on your left-foot, knowing when to make yourself a wall to bounce off, passing across your body instead of inside all the time. 

I’m not saying he can’t do it, I’m saying none of us know until he plays there every week.

16 minutes ago, Andicis said:

That is not a good take. Even Trent in midfield is a better option, and Ward Prowse definitely is.

Eh? Ward-Prowse isn’t the type to receive the ball in tight spaces but still keep things ticking over.

Trent definitely isn’t. If he’s going to develop into a midfielder he’ll end up a the type to zip passes forward from deep. That’s no guarantee though. It’s totally different drifting in-field and coming onto the ball then zipping one forward than it is receiving it on the back-foot half-turn and doing it.

5 minutes ago, abertawe_ram said:

You’re joking (I think), but he and Winks are the two best we have for the role, which is a bit of an indictment.

1 minute ago, sage said:

Deserved equaliser. 

We desperately need another CM to play with Rice. Now Bellingham is playing so far forward, it needs a CM not a CAM like Maddison.

It’s the missing piece. For all the attackers we’re producing we still don’t have that type of playmaker. Where’s our Our Xavi? Our Modric? Our Kroos? Even Griezmann’s reinvented himself for France.

Even a Xavi Alonso or Pirlo type would do.

We criminally underused Carrick and misused Scholes. We’re crying out for either now.

6 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

Is that the right approach? It could be the perfect approach for international football. Or maybe an elite manager would see us playing that prime Spain and blowing opposition away. Do you stick on 19 or do you twist, and hope you get 21

Think it’s lost with how revolutionary they were at the time, but that Spain team was pretty attritional. 

They would pass you to death without really carving you open. Their last four games in 2010 were 1-0.

In a funny sort of a parallel, Del Bosque favoured two sitters in Alonso and Busquets, Xavi was pushed up to #10 and Iniesta was punted left wing. One of Torres or Villa would miss out, sometimes even both in favour of Fabregas as a false 9.

If memory serves me right, Euro 2008 was even David Silva wide-left, Marcos Senna, Xavi and Xabi Alonso as a three and Iniesta wide-right.

International football’s pretty much whoever can keep the ball best - with your odd attritional Greece thrown in.