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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???
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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...
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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…
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10 minutes ago, Scott129 said:
Also didn't have this on my bingo card for the year...
Conclusive proof Sean McVay smokes crack
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2 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:
Most importantly PW has pledged to start the bounce if we get promoted 😁
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 👍
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1 hour ago, Foreveram said:
If you want to take things out of context, Warne said he’d like to sign Jude Bellingham 😂
Jude who??? We've got Sibley remember...
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44 minutes ago, On the Ram Page said:
Elder and Nyambe certainly. Collins has scored a lot of goals in Champ - age not on his side. Rooney should be ok. Hopefully Adams, if we can get him. There’s 4/5 more
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 😢
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2 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:
It could also be argued that 2 of the 9 listed have been at Championship clubs and failed to break into the team.
The rest have form at Championship level although 2 of the named are clearly in the twilight of their careers.
I'd say that leaves 5 out of our 21 man squad.
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.
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10 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:
Ignoring Hourihane as he's already said he is retiring next season apparently - that's 9 players
I'm not great at maths but in a 21 man first team squad, I'd probably describe 9 as "less than half" rather than "the vast majority"
You're right.
But now he'll more than likely use that as an excuse to bash Warne's recruitment 🙄
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19 hours ago, JfR said:
By my count, that'll make him the 6th person to have managed them this season
Eustace > Rooney > Spooner (interim) > Mowbray > Venus (while Mowbray's been on sick leave) > RowettYou almost feel sorry for the fans, enduring such a poo show, then I remember their chants and think
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23 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:
care to list them?
Some - yes, but "vast majority"? really? Behave
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.
2 minutes ago, DavesaRam said:I think it would be better to say that with the players we have we should have been making a much better job of getting out of this league. It is possible that much of the discontent is a left-over from last season and much of this one, as opposed to our current performances.
I think following the watershed moments of Stevenage and Crewe when the fans turned on Paul Warne he has shown a much greater ability to change, and has produced a better form of football, with the last 3 matches looking more like football than ever before.
I was in the “critical of Paul Warne” camp, but instead of bemoaning that we should be several points clear at the top, we should draw a line in the sand and give our full backing for the remaining few matches.
There is a passage in the Bible that says “Forget the former things, do not dwell in the past, for I am doing a new thing, and it is springing up all around”. Given the change since that watershed period, I think the words are quite appropriate.
COME ON YOU RAMS - LETS GO FOR IT!!!
I'm about as far from religious as you could possibly get but, amen...
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20 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
For clarity purposes, is that nice, or nonce?
I was going to ask the exact same thing 🤣
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9 hours ago, Wolfie20 said:
Just going to report that the 'ignore' function isn't working but just got it sorted - thank heavens!
Can you remind me how to do that please?
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44 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:
didn't he sub on smith a defensive mid for gayle though
yes i would still say that, because we could of absolutely walked the league this year. My main problem is that these players are capable of playing a far more advanced level of football than this
I'm not bothered whatever formation we play. Warne can pick any formation, the style and tactics will always be the same though.
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.
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19 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:
don't them 2 statements contradict each other😅 You said 'the tactics didn't change', then 'he changed it'
I've no problem with warne as a man, think he seems like a decent bloke. I just don't like or agree with his football.
I've said previously that he's acheiving the bare minimum expected with this squad of players so theres some form of credit for that. My veiw is that he is holding us back still though. Of course i don't want us to lose every game, why would any fan want that
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.
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27 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:
I think our issue is that 3 at the back and wing backs works fine against lesser teams but the better teams force the wide players back so they become ineffective.
Ward in particular could rampage forward against Bristol Rovers but Bolton didn’t allow that.
Whilst it’s great to keep a settled side, you sometimes have to play the best system for the opposition.
We do just about have the personnel to do that. Our challenge will be where the goals come from. We have to hope that NML re-finds his form and that Collins’ return isn’t too far away.
Can’t see Waghorn producing much more than bruises.
But you never know!
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...
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2 hours ago, Ted McMinn Football Genius said:
Ebou Boo Boo,
His name is Ebou,
Adams!
Ebou Boo Boo,
His name is Ebou,
Adams!
in the style of Boom Boom Boom by The venga boys
Catchy, easy to remember, short. Get it sung...
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17 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:
If warne got his tactics spot on, then why did he have to change it so drastically at half time?
The players changed, the tactics did not...
12 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:He knew that already then why set up that way to start with?
At 0-0 Bolton had played the better game. They should have been ahead but for some great saves from Joe. Why would Evatt change something that was clearly working?
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??
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9 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:
Ahh. So you have an IPhone 😀
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...
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40 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:
I just hope that whatever the outcome, (Auto preferred, obvs!) we don't need a result on the final day to achieve it. 😲
I want to sit and chill... even if that means the players are pissed up, and we witness a drab 0-0, as tradition dictates when playing at home to Carlisle last match.
Let's have none of this looking at other scores elsewhere with 'phone in one hand, whilst chewing off the fingernails of the other hand please... Pretty please!
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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...
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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...
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22 hours ago, S6 boy said:
I thought he looked like a beast in the first half and was thinking he'd slot in nicely between Cash and Nelson in a back three. However it was obvious he is not great on the ball as our staff had devised a press which completely ignored him. Some of the fans were not happy we were letting him have the ball with zero pressure, but to me it must have been deliberate. It seemed to work too, as I don't remember him doing anything with the ball at his feet all match.
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…
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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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Even though I'm an avid follower of Wrexham nowadays I had no idea he'd signed for them until I was walking out their club shop yesterday and came face to face with him, so I'm assuming he hasn't done much since he signed...