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ramsbottom

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  1. Bear with me in this one. My memory isn’t what it used to be, so I may just be a massive brain fart, but… Didn’t we play a Spanish side in a (I want to say 89/90) preseason friendly, who held a record for either having not lost or conceding a goal in ages, and we beat them (I think) 2-0??? It’s been doing my head in for ages, so can anyone put me out my misery???
  2. As my Mrs was working weekends at the time, and I was on babysitting duties, I would've been sat in my folks' living room laughing hysterically as the action unfolded...
  3. As it was printed in The S*n I will consider it to be total and utter bull mud until told otherwise. The only national sports reporter I trust is Pearcy…
  4. Conclusive proof Sean McVay smokes crack
  5. if that is to occur we need a GIF of it to be pinned to the front page of the forum, so certain members' piss can be boiled every time they log in. Admin, make it happen 👍
  6. I forgot about Nyambe. I'm still on the fence slightly about Elder, would be a good back up I guess. As for Adams, I don't want to fall for an on loan defensive midfielder again after what happened with Gorgeous George. That one still stings 😢
  7. I would say NML & Nelson, bar injuries, have at least a couple more seasons left in them, especially Nelson at CBs do a lot less running. Wilson with more experience and playing in a settled position will be a very good player.
  8. You're right. But now he'll more than likely use that as an excuse to bash Warne's recruitment 🙄
  9. You almost feel sorry for the fans, enduring such a poo show, then I remember their chants and think
  10. I was going to reply to that but I lost the will to live, thinking I'd get another round of nonsense. But seeing as you've asked it, i'd say - Wildsmith, Wilson, Ward, Cashin, Nelson, Thompson, Sibley (at LWB) & NML would be consistent. Elder maybe, and at a push Hourihanne if the opposition aren't particularly athletic in the middle of the park. I'm about as far from religious as you could possibly get but, amen...
  11. I was going to ask the exact same thing 🤣
  12. Can you remind me how to do that please?
  13. A more advanced level of football that, for example, Bolton play?? To paraphrase Woody Harrelson in White Men Can’t Jump, would you rather look good & lose, than look bad and win?? This isn’t figure skating, you don’t get extra points for style. I’ve just been reading through Don Dietrich’s tweets from the fans forum and Warne has said that if we were to go up, the playing staff will have to change considerably. That tells me he knows what’s required for this team to improve. And maybe play a better brand of football.
  14. The tactics changed before half time. At half time, he changed personnel, but the tactics/formation remained the same. Hypothetically, if we overtook Pompey and finished top, would you still say he held the team back?? Throughout his relatively short tenure he’s constantly strived altered his tactics approach to ensure he wins games. His preferred 3-5-2 didn’t work at the start of the season, so he switched back to 4-3-3/4-2-3-1. Over recent weeks, having had time to work with players on the training ground, he’s tweaked his ideal formation into a 3-4-3. It was clear from the first game at Barnsley, that Nigel Pearson’s style was never going to work, yet he pigheadedly kept to the same blueprint. I’d much rather have a coach who’s open to try different things instead of sticking to an idea that doesn’t work.
  15. TBF Ward is very much like Beckham was. Get a yard then ping it in, and their left sided players didn't give him much space in the 1st half. Therefore Warne made the change and Wilson being more of a dribbler was able to get at them a lot more effectively. His goal came from a corner he himself won by going at their left back. My point is our head coach identified a problem, and solved it. I'd love for us to be like the Mac 1 era and blow teams out the water with free flowing, passing football, but let's remember that even Mac 2 failed to recreate that, and had no Plan B. Here we have a coach who's had Plans A through to H, and some fans still think he's just a PE teacher who just shouts "Hoof it" at every game. Is he perfect? No. Has he made mistakes? Yes. Overall is he doing a good job of getting us into a position whereby we could escape this league? Yes. Therefore he's well on target to reach the targets his employer set him...
  16. Catchy, easy to remember, short. Get it sung...
  17. The players changed, the tactics did not... He admitted in the Radio Derby interview that he got his initial set up wrong, as he wanted to impose the game we'd been playing since the Charlton defeat on them, but that didn't work, so he changed it. I can imagine that he would've done exactly the same at half time, but Gayle being forced off gave him the opportunity to do it sooner. And as soon as he did, we were the better side for the rest of the half. At 0-0 Bolton it was evens, Bolton had the better first 15 of either half but, funnily enough after both their 2 (and only) big chances we were more than a match for them. We know you don't like Warne as a man, he's not to everyone's tastes, but give him some credit for the job he's done since Shrewsbury. Or would you rather we lost every game til the end of the season, just to prove your point??
  18. It worked fine on my old Virgin contract no probs at all, but since I've been forced to switch to O2, it's terrible...
  19. Wildsmith - 9 Nelson - 8 Cashin - 8.5 Forsyth - 8.5 Ward - 5 Hourihanne - 5 Adams - 8.5 Sibley - 7 Barks - 6 Gayle - 5 NML - 7.5 Subs - Smith - 7 Thompson - 7.5 Waghorn - 7 Wilson - 8 Elder - 7.5
  20. Especially as my O2 coverage means that as soon as my gets within a mile of Pride Park, between the hours of 2pm & 6pm on a Saturday it becomes nothing more than a really expensive block of plastic... With the chasing pack having games against each other I reckon if we win our home games, and grab a draw or two on the road we should about scrape it. But it's us, it's Derby, so we're bound to do it the hard way...
  21. For me, you don't change a winning team, so bar injuries we stick to the same formation. As for personnel, if Gayle is going to be out then it's Waggy up top in his stead. Depending now Northampton play in the middle of the park, I'd replace Hourihanne with Smith or Thompson because he looked devoid of ideas, and the legs weren't there either. As for Barks & Ward, if their injuries are still not worth risking, I'd put Wilson in for Ward, and go with Blackett-Taylor for Barks, sink or swim time for him...
  22. Crowd-wise that was the only thing that got on my tits. It was obvious from the first time we did it that we were set up that way, yet everyone kept moaning to press him. Pretty sure we do the same in another game earlier on the season, can’t remember who though…
  23. Their fans really are a bunch of salty bar-stewards aren't they... Edged the possession, but other than the first 15, and stoppage time, it was evens. We scored, they didn't now piss off back to hovels!!! To be fair though, if/when we go up, Sheehan would be an ideal replacement of Hourihanne
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