Carl Sagan

I said in the Morrison thread we were gambling in the last-chance saloon. Now we're going all in.

My guesses are Sone Aluko and Sam Baldock

Who are these 2?

No comment on Owen's shirt?
Does he have them made himself? Do RamsTV have their own kit? Or has he let the cat out of the bag?

This is the best highlight reel ever:
Puts Abdul Camara’s to absolute shame. Trots around doing sideways passes or back to the keeper, reacts badly to getting brought down then skies a free kick. Sign him up! 
 

Carl’s opening line says it all
Same reason we gambled on Ibe, same reason we’ll gamble on Morrison, probably similar reason we are trying Duncan. We know there is talent there, it’s whether circumstances or luck can cajole it out in our favour. There’s a player there, but at face value a fair degree of baggage. We’re gambling we strike lucky.

This shows how completely desperate we are as a club, without a pot to piss in and gambling in the last-chance saloon.
We've been linked with him over the years and I've always been pleased we've never been so at rock bottom we've gone for him. I can no longer say that.
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly. In this case it won't end well.

This shows how completely desperate we are as a club, without a pot to piss in and gambling in the last-chance saloon.
We've been linked with him over the years and I've always been pleased we've never been so at rock bottom we've gone for him. I can no longer say that.
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly. In this case it won't end well.

This shows how completely desperate we are as a club, without a pot to piss in and gambling in the last-chance saloon.
We've been linked with him over the years and I've always been pleased we've never been so at rock bottom we've gone for him. I can no longer say that.
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly. In this case it won't end well.

Every club he's ever been at has banked on this...Fergie has made a career for him by saying this. Let's not be another club to fall for it. He's 28... and there's a reason why he's failed at every club he's ever been at. 

Nor me now you mention it. I have just kicked the Mrs out of the house and told her she has had her last chance after yesterday’s arson incident. Romantic candles my arse.

Would love to be wrong, but can only see this going the same way as Ibe. Different circumstances obviously, but has failed to sort himself out at any club he’s been to. 
 
Clearly a talented player but doesn’t have his head in it at all. 

Where has he done well ?

This is exactly right. At half-time I was pointing out the Croatia comparison. I also remembered the Euro 96 semifinal defeat where Ruud Gullit pointed out that England "scored too early" and it was the same all over again. Of course you want to score at any point, but if that goal come in the first couple of minutes you cannot defend for the rest of the game.
I criticized Rooney heavily last season for never using subs when there were five at his disposal, but the counter argument with some validity was that he had a very weak bench. That does not hold with Southgate. It's a failure of coaching not to use all the players at your disposal in an era when such high athleticism and fitness levels are required. And England had the acknowledged strongest bench in the tournament.
The penalties were also a failure on the coaching side. The sports science is that you gain the best chance of winning the shootout by putting your best penalty takers later in the shootout. We must think Kane is our best penalty taker as he's the designated person during the game, yet he went first. What was Southgate thinking? Also, the best penalty according to the science is blasted into the top corner, which is unsaveable (sp?), like Harry Maguire's. This is what we should have practised for hour after hour over the last month. How come we hit three soft penalties instead, none of them being scored?

This is exactly right. At half-time I was pointing out the Croatia comparison. I also remembered the Euro 96 semifinal defeat where Ruud Gullit pointed out that England "scored too early" and it was the same all over again. Of course you want to score at any point, but if that goal come in the first couple of minutes you cannot defend for the rest of the game.
I criticized Rooney heavily last season for never using subs when there were five at his disposal, but the counter argument with some validity was that he had a very weak bench. That does not hold with Southgate. It's a failure of coaching not to use all the players at your disposal in an era when such high athleticism and fitness levels are required. And England had the acknowledged strongest bench in the tournament.
The penalties were also a failure on the coaching side. The sports science is that you gain the best chance of winning the shootout by putting your best penalty takers later in the shootout. We must think Kane is our best penalty taker as he's the designated person during the game, yet he went first. What was Southgate thinking? Also, the best penalty according to the science is blasted into the top corner, which is unsaveable (sp?), like Harry Maguire's. This is what we should have practised for hour after hour over the last month. How come we hit three soft penalties instead, none of them being scored?

The fact he didn't bring players on sooner possibly cost us the game. Italy changed formation and Southgate didn't have an answer. The worst thing is the match played out almost exactly the same as the Croatia semi-final. The game was there for England to win but he decided to try and hold on to a 1-0 for 45mins and it was the wrong decision, I wish it wasn't but it just was.

If there is an (unspoken) agreement that the EFL will accept the new accounts when resubmitted and drop their vendetta against the club, then this is just about an OK price to be paid for that. But if no such agreement is in place, then this is ridiculous. And should have been contested.

Well that was underwhelming, to say the least.

I've posted a lot on here about how Elon Musk is working towards a future for Humanity among the stars and is building his Starship factory in Texas. Meanwhile Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are in a spat about their space tourism businesses, which would take people to the edge of space for up to four minutes, to get a taste of it.
Bezos has a company called Blue Origin (founded before SpaceX but which has never reached orbit with anything) and they have a little rocket called New Shepard that is going to fly the Amazon founder and three others to 105km altitude on 20th July. It's flown 15 times before without people on board for test flights and does look pretty safe.
Desperate to beat him, Branson has moved his own flight in Virgin Galactic forward to today. You can watch this afternoon on https://www.virgingalactic.com/. Branson's rocket has flown only flown three times, but with test pilots. That's since the previous one blew up seven years ago killing one test pilot and leaving the other with horrendous injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
Bezos's Blue Origin posted a very bitchy graphic a couple of days ago claiming Branson isn't really going into space:
The problem for both Bezos and Branson is that they have a very short window to make money out of this. SpaceX already flies people to the International Space Station and later this year start sending people on three-day space trips high in orbit, rather than four minutes in low-Earth orbit of the other two. Plus once Starship is ready you'll be able to buy a return ticket to Mars for the same price as the Branson/Bezos flights. Starship will be ready soon, and the launch cadence of the other two companies is so slow they will lose their market before they've had much chance to profit from it. Long before Mars, SpaceX will have regular flights around the Earth and also around the Moon for real space tourists.
Elon Musk would love to go into space, but if something went wrong and he died then SpaceX might not continue its (highly unprofitable) mission to build a Human city on Mars, so he's said he's not prepared to take the risk.
 
 

I've posted a lot on here about how Elon Musk is working towards a future for Humanity among the stars and is building his Starship factory in Texas. Meanwhile Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are in a spat about their space tourism businesses, which would take people to the edge of space for up to four minutes, to get a taste of it.
Bezos has a company called Blue Origin (founded before SpaceX but which has never reached orbit with anything) and they have a little rocket called New Shepard that is going to fly the Amazon founder and three others to 105km altitude on 20th July. It's flown 15 times before without people on board for test flights and does look pretty safe.
Desperate to beat him, Branson has moved his own flight in Virgin Galactic forward to today. You can watch this afternoon on https://www.virgingalactic.com/. Branson's rocket has flown only flown three times, but with test pilots. That's since the previous one blew up seven years ago killing one test pilot and leaving the other with horrendous injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
Bezos's Blue Origin posted a very bitchy graphic a couple of days ago claiming Branson isn't really going into space:
The problem for both Bezos and Branson is that they have a very short window to make money out of this. SpaceX already flies people to the International Space Station and later this year start sending people on three-day space trips high in orbit, rather than four minutes in low-Earth orbit of the other two. Plus once Starship is ready you'll be able to buy a return ticket to Mars for the same price as the Branson/Bezos flights. Starship will be ready soon, and the launch cadence of the other two companies is so slow they will lose their market before they've had much chance to profit from it. Long before Mars, SpaceX will have regular flights around the Earth and also around the Moon for real space tourists.
Elon Musk would love to go into space, but if something went wrong and he died then SpaceX might not continue its (highly unprofitable) mission to build a Human city on Mars, so he's said he's not prepared to take the risk.
 
 

I've posted a lot on here about how Elon Musk is working towards a future for Humanity among the stars and is building his Starship factory in Texas. Meanwhile Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are in a spat about their space tourism businesses, which would take people to the edge of space for up to four minutes, to get a taste of it.
Bezos has a company called Blue Origin (founded before SpaceX but which has never reached orbit with anything) and they have a little rocket called New Shepard that is going to fly the Amazon founder and three others to 105km altitude on 20th July. It's flown 15 times before without people on board for test flights and does look pretty safe.
Desperate to beat him, Branson has moved his own flight in Virgin Galactic forward to today. You can watch this afternoon on https://www.virgingalactic.com/. Branson's rocket has flown only flown three times, but with test pilots. That's since the previous one blew up seven years ago killing one test pilot and leaving the other with horrendous injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
Bezos's Blue Origin posted a very bitchy graphic a couple of days ago claiming Branson isn't really going into space:
The problem for both Bezos and Branson is that they have a very short window to make money out of this. SpaceX already flies people to the International Space Station and later this year start sending people on three-day space trips high in orbit, rather than four minutes in low-Earth orbit of the other two. Plus once Starship is ready you'll be able to buy a return ticket to Mars for the same price as the Branson/Bezos flights. Starship will be ready soon, and the launch cadence of the other two companies is so slow they will lose their market before they've had much chance to profit from it. Long before Mars, SpaceX will have regular flights around the Earth and also around the Moon for real space tourists.
Elon Musk would love to go into space, but if something went wrong and he died then SpaceX might not continue its (highly unprofitable) mission to build a Human city on Mars, so he's said he's not prepared to take the risk.
 
 

I've posted a lot on here about how Elon Musk is working towards a future for Humanity among the stars and is building his Starship factory in Texas. Meanwhile Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are in a spat about their space tourism businesses, which would take people to the edge of space for up to four minutes, to get a taste of it.
Bezos has a company called Blue Origin (founded before SpaceX but which has never reached orbit with anything) and they have a little rocket called New Shepard that is going to fly the Amazon founder and three others to 105km altitude on 20th July. It's flown 15 times before without people on board for test flights and does look pretty safe.
Desperate to beat him, Branson has moved his own flight in Virgin Galactic forward to today. You can watch this afternoon on https://www.virgingalactic.com/. Branson's rocket has flown only flown three times, but with test pilots. That's since the previous one blew up seven years ago killing one test pilot and leaving the other with horrendous injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
Bezos's Blue Origin posted a very bitchy graphic a couple of days ago claiming Branson isn't really going into space:
The problem for both Bezos and Branson is that they have a very short window to make money out of this. SpaceX already flies people to the International Space Station and later this year start sending people on three-day space trips high in orbit, rather than four minutes in low-Earth orbit of the other two. Plus once Starship is ready you'll be able to buy a return ticket to Mars for the same price as the Branson/Bezos flights. Starship will be ready soon, and the launch cadence of the other two companies is so slow they will lose their market before they've had much chance to profit from it. Long before Mars, SpaceX will have regular flights around the Earth and also around the Moon for real space tourists.
Elon Musk would love to go into space, but if something went wrong and he died then SpaceX might not continue its (highly unprofitable) mission to build a Human city on Mars, so he's said he's not prepared to take the risk.
 
 

I am not in principle against this suspended sanction, and it just serves as a reminder to ensure we don't let it happen again.
However, I fail to see how it is fair for us to be deducted three points for a second breach, when Sheffield Wednesday have not been deducted any points for four consecutive breaches. Where is the consistency in that? 
I don't want to see SW being deducted points either, but this does seem to me like Derby being treated more harshly than another club.

If there is an (unspoken) agreement that the EFL will accept the new accounts when resubmitted and drop their vendetta against the club, then this is just about an OK price to be paid for that. But if no such agreement is in place, then this is ridiculous. And should have been contested.