richinspain
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5 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:
Who's up for a semi tomorrow?
Don't think I'll be able to manage it
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39 minutes ago, Returning ram said:
The principle is the same with every club though. Would you go out next season and replace Cashin, no but you might bring in a back up if you felt it was required.
To say he has brought in 12 players, when 3 were strikers for example and then say only a few are playing, is once again playing with numbers to make a point. RB we had no one last season, so it would make sense to bring more than one in but you can't fit them all in your starting 11. Your building a squad, for the season.
Of course if you had an unlimited budget you would look to improve on every player, but there are always going to be certain ones that you say, they are doing a good job I'll spend my money elsewhere.
No, I personally wouldn't replace Cashin next season, but I would replace Nelson (although he has been excellent this season and possibly my player of the season). As I said, ALL players are replaceable, but we can only do it within our (real) financial restrictions. I don't doubt for a secon that if Pep felt that he could replace Haaland with someone better then he would do. He also buys squad players, but those players are costing him what, 50 million quid? We aren't able to spend even a tenth of that sum on the whole squad, but we certainly should be replacing current players with better.
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On 03/02/2024 at 21:55, Returning ram said:
So you'd replace Halland at City for example, or you'd bring someone in elsewhere that's needed 😏 Not difficut to understand.
Also seems his scattergun approach wasn't to bad today....
For me Man City are the worst club you can compare us to. They're one of the best teams in the world. We're a third division club, with third division players. We should be looking to improve on ALL of players. Obviously there should be priorities, but there isn't one player who couldn't be improved upon.
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20 minutes ago, Returning ram said:
League position ❌
Bradley ❌
Academy ❌
Recruitment ❌
Never mind lads, there is always....
Bobble hat ✅
Perhaps if we are already up by the last home game he could wear a Mexican hat?
Has anyone got any spare ones?
Someone should let him know.
cough @Mucker1884 cough
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7 minutes ago, ramit said:
Isn't that the Kirsh?
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35 minutes ago, Returning ram said:
You need to look at his signings by position and building a squad, not by numbers. Same at most clubs, look at Pep, he builds on top of what he has got for a squad. It's no longer about the first 11, but managing the game throughout the 90.
How many of his signings have contributed to the game when not injured, you don't bring in players to replace your better ones, no point.
Judge them at end of season, not half way through (yes stat man I know we are slightly more 😏) based on where we end up in the league, not on how many out of 12 start.
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
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38 minutes ago, Chester40 said:
Society of the Snow
Not totally sure what a remake of the 'Alive' film does differently, except not 'white-washing' the cast and so feeling a bit more authentic.
Can't go wrong with the story, fascinating and well-handled. Otherwise pretty similar to the previous version.
Good solid,Darryl Powell/7
Although I agree with you, I will only say that it is less "Hollywood", which can't be bad.
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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.
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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?
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We (or at least someone) had to pay a small amount to Alzira CF when we signed Albentosa.
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12 hours ago, Curtains said:
Radio Derby are saying tonight that it’s restrictions Derby agreed with the EFL .
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.
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22 hours ago, sage said:
Also watched the first 2 episodes of Masters of the Air, from the team that made Band of Brothers and The Pacific, which were great and good respectively.
If you like poor acting, bullpoo bravado, historical inaccuracy and rampant anti-English sentiments then I'd heartily recommend it.
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.
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2 hours ago, oldtimeram said:
If so, another one bites the dust
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!
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6 hours ago, WystonRam said:
1985/86 we won 3-0 away
Score 3-0 to Derby County CompetitionLeague Division Three Attendance 13,086 https://www.11v11.com/matches/notts-county-v-derby-county-08-march-1986-140607/
I cannot find the match report but Notts were averaging around 3000 for their home games and 13000 against us. https://nottinghamshirefootball.com/carousel/ncfc8586.html
From memory we had around 9000 there, I stood on the terrace behind the goal.
PS it was a Saturday not Tuesday.
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.
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11 minutes ago, Simmo’s left foot said:
Bloody autospell 😁
Doesn't auto spell predict what you want to put through your past usage? 😉
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1 minute ago, Crewton said:
That'll be a breeze compared to being the owner of DCFC.
He doesn't know how lucky he is.
At least they'll use the soap in the prison. Some on here go straight in!
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1 hour ago, ramit said:
Just thought of something while tossing and turning unable to sleep. Some of the trickier questions in certain tests can best be solved if worked from back to front, or it's opposite. We are all familiar with the statement nothing will come from nothing and it does make sense that it is factual, as we cannot extract something from nothing, well, in this perceived reality anyway. In itself it is an observant statement but not really inducing extrapolation at first consideration. That's where insomnia helps, one keeps pondering, stuck in a thought and voila a new idea emerges thereby insuring one gets no further sleep.
Yes, I am getting to the point. If indeed nothing will come from nothing, then asserting that something will come from something should also be a valid statement. That is a much more interesting idea really, for that means every thing has an origin and therefor that origin after origin stretches into infinity, for if not, it would begin with nothing, which it obviously cannot. Now, this means one of two things to my warped mind, either origin stretches out endlessly, or it forms a circle, biting it's tail so to speak and of course also has an origin. Either way, that reeks of programming, ergo a simulated reality in a simulated universe.
Don't eat cheese before you go to bed.
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7 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:
I think this would help.
Mark Thomas gets a bit of flack, but if he is presenting Paul with potential signings and he refused them, what can he do?
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 ".
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33 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
That's me at the top of the cherry picker
You're Igor Stimac 😱
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4 hours ago, richinspain said:
Rob Hindmarch?
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.
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The Derby Debrief
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I normally get an excellent quality, but it is true that on Saturday the picture was a bit blurry.