Carl Sagan

Seems weird that they would even persist with star liner then. Even if they successfully conduct this test, space x are light years ahead and pretty much proven their concept, so what’s the point of star liner. It’s just a massive waste of money at this point. 

It's time for Test Flight 4. Road closures have been approved for June 1st. The main goal will be to improve on Flight 3. Hopefully that means:
SuperHeavy booster "soft lands" in the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico. 
Starship performs a deorbit burn while in orbit. 
Starship makes it through the bulk of the atmosphere, ideally all the way to sea level. 
Here's a real video (not a render) of Starship being "stacked" by the "chopsticks" above SuperHeavy to test all the systems in the Wet Dress Rehearsal earlier in the week. 
If they meet these objectives, Flight 5 will likely see the chopsticks try to catch SuperHeavy on the launch tower as it returns from space (which would be wild!). In case that destroys the launch tower, they're quite far advanced in building a backup elsewhere on the Starbase site. 

Musk's SpaceX is what is known as a "New Space" company, completely disrupting and revolutionizing the industry, while Boeing is the epitome of "Old Space". Back in 2014 NASA made history with the award of its first Commercial Crew Contracts when, for the first time ever, private companies and not national space agencies would send astronauts into space, all the way to the International Space Station. They awarded $4.2bn to Boeing to build a spaceship called Starliner, and $2.6bn to an upstart company called SpaceX to build a spaceship called Dragon. Both were to take four astronauts at a time to the ISS. Boeing were seething. They said it was ridiculous for NASA to give money to SpaceX, and all of the pot should have gone to them.
Ten years on, Dragon is the first 21st-century spaceship, with touchscreens and ethernet, lots of space for its astronauts and a large cargo capacity to boot. Nowadays there are four Dragons in operation which, between them, have so far taken 50 astronauts into space, mostly to the Space Station. Ten years on the Boeing Starliner still hasn't flown anyone into space. It is much more like the 1960s Soyuz capsule, or what the Americans did with their early space programme, with rather cramped conditions and lots of knobs and levers. And the reason I am writing about it here, is in honour of our very own B4/Daniel - because it has a flange. And a flange that has gone wrong.
The latest attempt to try to fly test pilots aboard Starliner went wrong with this leak, and the date for it has gone back and back. And today it was announced the will try to fly it on June 1st, the very same day that SpaceX are attempting their next Starship test! It's an  amazing juxtaposition of old vs new space. Get your scraves and flanges out to celebrate!

I’d love to see sibley more as an 8 in a 433 where he can pick the ball up face to goal I hate him in the ten where he has his back to goal he’s better when he runs from deep with space to go past people 

I agree. He for me would be a upgrade on Korey Smith and has only this season played Premiership football. His connection to the city will help us attract him to the club which we may otherwise not be able to do.
Not sure why. Or if the two signings are even related.

You cannot be Sierhius !

Some internal news, Tyrese Fornah has just signed with a new agency group meaning only one thing. 99.99% of the time when a player does that unless they’re signing a new deal at the club they’re leaving their current club. Hasn’t worked out for him here and would leave Tommo as our only central midfield option.

I want a ton of unsubstantiated rumours from players I’ve never heard of from all corners of Europe. I think we all do. It scratches an itch. 

To Spondon, everyone!

And Daniel Iversen from several posters on here 

can we have a separate thread for rumours - instead of suggestions (not in media so not worthy of a thread in the transfer section of the forum)? 
 
I don’t want to wade through chatgpt transfer suggestions to see whether any of the usual suspects have heard about anyone being shown around moor farm. 
 
MODs feel free to delete if you think the suggestion thread already does this fine. 

Musk's SpaceX is what is known as a "New Space" company, completely disrupting and revolutionizing the industry, while Boeing is the epitome of "Old Space". Back in 2014 NASA made history with the award of its first Commercial Crew Contracts when, for the first time ever, private companies and not national space agencies would send astronauts into space, all the way to the International Space Station. They awarded $4.2bn to Boeing to build a spaceship called Starliner, and $2.6bn to an upstart company called SpaceX to build a spaceship called Dragon. Both were to take four astronauts at a time to the ISS. Boeing were seething. They said it was ridiculous for NASA to give money to SpaceX, and all of the pot should have gone to them.
Ten years on, Dragon is the first 21st-century spaceship, with touchscreens and ethernet, lots of space for its astronauts and a large cargo capacity to boot. Nowadays there are four Dragons in operation which, between them, have so far taken 50 astronauts into space, mostly to the Space Station. Ten years on the Boeing Starliner still hasn't flown anyone into space. It is much more like the 1960s Soyuz capsule, or what the Americans did with their early space programme, with rather cramped conditions and lots of knobs and levers. And the reason I am writing about it here, is in honour of our very own B4/Daniel - because it has a flange. And a flange that has gone wrong.
The latest attempt to try to fly test pilots aboard Starliner went wrong with this leak, and the date for it has gone back and back. And today it was announced the will try to fly it on June 1st, the very same day that SpaceX are attempting their next Starship test! It's an  amazing juxtaposition of old vs new space. Get your scraves and flanges out to celebrate!

It's like signing someone on the back of a couple of half-decent World Cup games - something that should never be done. All the EFL saw Murphy have a decent game at the weekend. We need to be way cleverer about where we're looking for our players. 

50. Newcastle 0 Derby 2 (Davies 2) was our wedding day. We honeymooned in Scarborough and returned the day Davies scored all 5 in the next game.

A&E patients wade through 14 PAGES of touch-screen questions before being asked: Are you losing lots of blood?
 
Everyone expects a lengthy wait in A&E these days, even if you are in pain.
But a new scheme threatens to add to the agony – with an iPad check-in system that even asks if you are 'spurting' blood before summoning a doctor.
Astonishingly, there are 14 pages of multiple-choice questions before patients are asked: 'Have you lost a lot of blood?'
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13150125/A-E-patients-wade-14-PAGES-touch-screen-questions-asked-losing-lots-blood.html

Jamie Vardy on loan.  Scored 20 in Championship this season
 

Dark, dark days

I’ve found it difficult to find good potential loans and frees to recruit for our striking department. Not sure how much we have to spend but can imagine a large % of it will be used on our strike force. I’ve found 4 options which I think would suit our style of play, 2 from Scotland and 2 from Europe. All in a good age bracket and with a range of positives and qualities. 

Moussa Sylla (24) at Pau on loan in Ligue 2 from Caen another Ligue 2 side. Plays up front or on the wing and got 16 goals and 7 assists in 37 games. As Caen failed to be promoted from Ligue 2 and Sylla has one year left on his contract I think he could be available on a cheap deal. Fast and creative with good pressing stats. Perfect for a front two or on either wing in a three. 
 
Thelonius (Theo) Bair (24) Suggested him before and still think he suits us perfectly. A 6 foot 4 mobile striker with an eye for goal and good hold up play. 15 goals and 6 assists in his 41 games this season in Scotland. Only a year left on his contract also. Also has 2 Canadian caps with 1 goal. Took him a while to settle in Scotland but once he played to his strengths he’s been unbelievable. 
 
Zan Celar (25) Slovenian international, 6 foot 2 and loves goals. Playing for Lugano he has 51 goals in his 114 games there, with 21 of them coming in 46 games along with 4 assists. He is another with only a year left on his contract. The Swiss league does have some quality and I can’t see how he wouldn’t score goals for us. No idea what fee he would require, he is definitely the most unknown out of the 4 I’ve looked into. 
 
Bojan Miovski (24) Left footed Macedonian who impresses me whenever I see him. Would imagine he’d cost slightly less than Lewis Ferguson who Aberdeen sold to (champions league qualifying) Bologna last season for roughly 1.65 million pounds. He is probably the most expensive option on the list but he would definitely be worth it. He has 26 goals and 4 assists in his 53 Aberdeen games this season with 4 of them being in Europe. That is following last seasons tally of 18 goals and 3 assists in 42 games. He can score with both feet and good in the air standing at 6 foot 3. 

He will do well to catch Carson for medals though 

It's a good point, but even if we're struggling I don't think Clowes will get rid of Warne. Even if we're going down, he could well say Warne's the most likely manager to bring us straight back. 
If Sibley wants to play in midfield, or as a 10, I think he has to move. 

Paula Vennells must absolutely delighted that a General Election was called yesterday as it kept her out of news.

Hope a lot of the senior staff go to jail for what they've done. Crocodile tears again at the hearing today. Of course it will never happen but I would love to see it, and for it to be a sign that we will not put up with this as a country any longer. Heads of the water boards should come next.

In addition to those mentioned in the article and in the posts above, the following also played for both clubs:
Shane Nicholson, Gordon Cowans, Nigel Batch, Mark Lillis, Nick Chadwick, Marc Bridge - Wilkinson, Andy Crawford, Martyn Chalk, Marvin Robinson and Steve Devine.
As regards Brett Angell, he never made a first team appearance for Derby. The legendary Micky Quinn falls into that category too; Tommy Docherty booted him out of Derby as an apprentice and he played for Stockport later in his career.

Why punching above our weight? 
We’ll be one of the top six supported clubs, in a fine stadium, pretty fanatical support. Great history. 
We’ve had our issues, but so have other clubs. We have a wonderful owner and are on an upwards trajectory. 

Brentford incrementally hoisted themselves from relative obscurity by recruiting players on a data based model of analysing player attributes, buying those that excel in footballing stats in relation to their playing positions and then selling them on when, surprise, surprise they repeated their statistical strengths at a higher level. 

Whilst some may scoff at this data-based approach, they got far more right than wrong and they're now in the Premier League and have made a profit on players of well north of £100m.

Bigger Premier League teams can afford to buy "off the peg" and mostly need instant results. We need to learn some lessons from Brentford if we want to slowly work our way back to the promised land. Mel mostly messed up by cherry picking some of the best players from our rivals, then trying to crowbar them into our team, ignoring the fact that we played a different style from the team we bought them from.

We've a long way to go before we can dream of a similar renaissance, but be more Brentford. Player stats are by no means perfect, but can lead you to spend your money wisely, and hit the jackpot of resales on a fairly frequent basis.

The first stat we should concentrate on is players who regularly are able to play 40+ games a year consistently.  At least you're not buying a " Maradonna for 5 games a season ".

Every penny will count this season. We're fairly lean now, with little debt. Not a time for risks.....