richinspain

I agree with your first paragraph, but only when you're in the position Pep is in should your second paragraph apply. As I have quoted many times - King Arthur Cox, "I was looking for Ted McMinn's replacement 5 minutes after he signed for me"* You should ALWAYS be looking to buy better than what you already have. What you have then becomes your reserve player (yes, I know, you also need to keep those now reserve players happy). *contextual

Although I agree with you, I will only say that it is less "Hollywood", which can't be bad.

I can't help thinking that if it had been the opposite and Bird had signed a new contract and Cashin been sold and loaned back, then the reaction of a very vocal few would have been very different. I admit, I find it a strange operation all round considering Bristol apparently have been trying for a while to get the signing done. Surely it could have been moved on quickly, giving us a chance to sign a striker? With the deal that we have come to it is obvious that Bristol really wanted to sign Bird now rather than wait until the summer, or they could have just waited and if needs be increased his wages to get him to sign. Anyway, thanks Max for all you've given to the club. Thanks for sticking with us when others took what looked like the easy way out. Now show the idiot element what you feel for this club and help us get promotion.

I take it that paddle is not very popular in England, with someone who works in and possibly lives near Stoke having to go to Derby to get a game? I have probably 100 courts within a 20 mile radius, and that's probably guessing on the low side. I've played a few times, but I don't really like tennis and don't enjoy it as much as squash. Anyway, this Dwight Gayle fella, is he any good and are we going to sign him? What do our main stalkers think?

We (or at least someone) had to pay a small amount to Alzira CF when we signed Albentosa.

But that doesn't mean that they are restrictions that Derby wouldn't be willing to exceed. Hopefully we will be sensibly run, but our current restrictions may be the absolute maximum that the EFL allow.

I was really looking forward to seeing this, but you're dead right about the acting. I thought that Austin Butler was excellent as Elvis, but here he's just doesn't shine. He's still one of the most convincing however. It also seems very anti-English at the moment, but perhaps we'll come riding in like the 5th Cavalry later on to save the American bombers and we'll all be best friends.

So a team in the third division that hasn't got two pennies to rub together loses out to a team pushing for promotion from the second and probably with a sack load of wonga. Who'da thunkt it!

Once a Ram always a Ram 🥷

It was absolutely bonkers when we scored the first. The whole ground erupted, with just small pockets here and there that didn't move. The Forest fans to our left who had been giving it the big'un until then soon skulked away.

Doesn't auto spell predict what you want to put through your past usage? 😉

At least they'll use the soap in the prison. Some on here go straight in!

Don't eat cheese before you go to bed.

I don't think that he's going to go on a podcast and say that he had presented a list with x, y and z on it but Paul Warne said "nah, I think I'll sign so and so instead because he's available and played for me once ".

You're Igor Stimac 😱

I knew that we signed him from Sunderland around that time and also that from us he went to Wolves. I had no idea where he had gone after that either as a player or coach. It was years after his death that I heard about it. Very sad news. Not fantastically gifted as a footballer but with the heart of an ox. A true leader, and in my eyes a Rams legend.

Rob Hindmarch?

I don't think they'll let us take Barks off and bring 2 players on for him

Spam emails where someone claiming to be an African prince asks for money

Is one of them a prince?

I got married in 96. I'm saying no more. She doesn't read the forum, but just in case "te quiero muchísimo mi amor"* * no not you @Mucker1884, wearing a Mexican hat doesn't make you Latin.

Surely if they play a very pass heavy style it will be of benefit to him? It will help his close control, his first touch, and his awareness of what is around him. Playing a very heavily biased game could well do the opposite. The ball would be being thumped up to him and he could very easily lose confidence.

Didn't he go through their academy? One of their previous owners was also his godfather .

Oh, I thought that you might be taking the Luke Littler approach. One does have to think about the future of our family.