WystonRam

35 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

The even better news is, you can.  Thanks to the clever people at the world wide interwebby thing you go on that and then to the BBC sounds app whotsit, scramble around a bit for local radio stations until you find Radio Derby, press a button or mouse thingy and Bob’s your uncle. Wall to wall Radio Derby.
You do have to slap DCFC a chunk of money if you want to listen to actual RD match commentary though, but even that’s possible, even from London.  Even better you can catch up and replay all those programmes you might have missed because you were doing something pointless. You can even do it in the car or when walking the streets paved with gold, if you are a streetwalker that is.
Hope that helps.

But you can’t listen to match commentaries.

Top three by christmas …

We were not far off scoring as many as Peterborough away, just the final pass/cross in a few good situations let us down. We got luck with the two that hit the woodwork, but overall i’m happy enough, we are improving. (Currently in the brewdog pub in carlisle cc 😂).

22 hours ago, DerbyAleMan said:

Got to the ticket office at 10AM, and got 3 tickets for Cheltham away, so happy as I missed out on tickets for Carlisle, first trip to Cheltham, so looking forward to it. Up the Rams 

Deya brewery (and Tap Room) is 100M from the station.

Quite an unlucky deflection for their goal i thought.

3 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

That's not right. The club's policy always resulted in a £0 'value' at the end of the contract, with the majority written off in the final year.

The initial panel stated we needed to adequately describe our policy in the accounts.

Upon appeal, it was decided that we needed to use a better model  rather than using values based on a wide range of parameters including Transfermarkt.

It was only upon administration that the club (or more accurately the administrators), drew a line under the fiasco and accepted the use of a standard straight line method and took the points penalty. Prior to this, the club were still working on an alternative non-linear amortisation policy which would have met the criteria set by the LAP.

Later that season, the EFL introduced new P&S rules which prohibited anything other than a straight line method.

Every club "has the option to extend". It's a standard practice, but the straight line method is still applied based on remaining amount to be written off and the new length of contract.

Unfortunately we did not assign a zero value at end of contract and had a “residual value”,.

2 hours ago, Loughborough Ram said:

Let's not forget that the amortisation plan was not wrong, the EFL accepted it until that Middlesborough tw*t complained.

It's akin to what Chelsea are doing with their 8 year contracts, the difference is that they aren't going to be punished retrospectively like we were.

Derby’s issue was we backloaded the final year of the players contract with too high a value , when a football player asset ends up as zero value at the and of their final year, as they can walk away from their contract for free. The policy itself is completely acceptable in financial reporting, but assumes an asset has a value at the end of a contract term, like a medical dwvice for example, but for X and after a 5 year depreciation it could be sold for Y, as it still has a financial balue.  The panel that decided our eventual punishment was scathing that we were not clear enough we had changed our amortisation policy, to have a players value disproportionately loaded to the final year of said contract. This is how we we were able to spend big money on so many players, and had them on long term contracts, some shorter but with the club having the “option to extend”. Kieron Maguire was the person who exposed us as afar as i recall.

Chelsea are doing similar to us  but i am sure their end of year 8 asset/player valuation will be near zero. 

1 hour ago, MadAmster said:

Seen several people online saying the verdict was he didn't prevent a goalscoring opportunity and there was no mention of hands. On this forum too.

The question then is... what did he do (or did they think he did) to prevent a goalscoring opportunity? It can only be hands as nothing else he did was against the Laws of the game. I'd like those people to explain how he was deemed to have prevented... ? If it wasn't handball, what was it?

This is exactly my point, the FA have not been clear in how the red card was overturned by stating “did not deny an obvious goalscoring opportunity”. Was it the tackle ? Was it the  “handball”? The FA statement does not explain clearly. 

14 hours ago, bcnram said:

In the heat of the moment in real time it looked like it had hit his hand. I would think the conversation with the Lino was more about was it a clear goal scoring opportunity. 
These things happen, that is just the way it is. 🤷🏽

This is correct, his card was overturned as it was deemed that Wildsmith did not deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity. No mention of handling the ball outside the area was made by the FA review statement. The issue is as the statement is so woolly we do not really know what he was originally dismissed for.

Carlisle purchased, now hoping Mick Lynch doesn’t ruin my train booking.

11 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

The only way you'd get better refs is by appointing ex-professional footballers.

Most ex players who are now pundits have near zero understanding of the laws of the game. 

Interesting that the FA statement does not exonerate Wildsmith from the handball decision but states

“The FA has now confirmed that Wildsmith did not prevent a clear denial of a goalscoring opportunity”

This clearly is in my opinion to prevent thre referee from being highlighted as wrong in his decision making. It would be a lot more useful to the game in general for them to just state the referees decision was wrong.

Frank Lampard has a large slice of blame too. I’ll never understand his Wembley line up and how that probably cost us a very good chance to go up 

End of October is the decision time in my opinion .

7 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Really? Really? What on earth did he mean? 

He's losing touch with reality, interview by interview, it seems.

Astounded, if he thinks Bradley doesn’t make us worse than playing Cashin, then he may be at the beginning of the end of his tenure.

“We aren’t any worse without Cashin” was a weird comment from Warne in his BBC interview.

2 hours ago, Wignall12 said:

That's all Vaulkes !!

On 24/08/2023 at 23:35, Neil Giannoni said:

The keeper was Marc Stanton.

He did not score directly from a goal kick.

St. Martins did actually take the lead.
 

My daughter was a mascot for the Rams

Are you Neil the chef who used to come into the Brunswick ?

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

So tell me how this works when you buy a ticket straight to your phone like several clubs do now.

 

For your example then there are of course no ticket stubs and also no printing by the club. I missed Torquay away last year which was an e-ticket, and for my 19 away league games I had paper tickets, issued by the club. When we do have physical tickets, any remaining tickets and the ticket stubs from the sold tickets are returned to the opposition ticket office on the day of the game.

12 hours ago, rammieib said:

I’m sure they don’t print them. 
 

That’s why so many times in the past we’ve had to wait for the home team to deliver them before we start selling them.

Its their own bar coding system and so on - you’d need our own software compatible with their ticket system to even do this.

Correct, and all stubs have to be returned to the opposition ticket office on the day of the games, along with any unsold.

5 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

Then, we all know Mendez-Laing is spent after 55 .

Everyone in the ground apart from the entire coaching team could see this last Saturday.

34 minutes ago, Mick Harford said:

Personally I think Brighton are an excellent example of how to recruit and run a football club, obviously I have no idea of wages but they get youngsters with potential in and develop/loan them out either for their first team or for a profit. Read articles with their scouts about the recruitment of Ferguson and Moran, two Irish youngsters and their recruitment and development, they also have a plan for development which involves loaning out as part of a players development, not to mention at first team level they sell high and have succession planning for every role at the club in place.

Latest thing they are doing is signing young English keepers, as the Chairman/club have decided that that is where the next big value in the market is, Rio Ferdinands lad is there, they have 2 age group England keepers and one Canadian (previously English, but switched) 

Taking my Derby glasses off for a second if I was a Derby player playing in the 3rd division on a restricted contract and Brighton wanted me, then I'd be off both financially and professionally, if it doesn't work at Brighton then a sale to the Champ looks a good bet, would you risk that against us rising up the leagues at the moment (no slight on where we are, it is what it is) 

A sale with loan back sounds great in my view, especially if as Eric Steele says there are possibly add ons, and may help us get more quality (midfield) in the side.

I'd love Cash to stay, but a deal away may suit everyone really.

All my opinion of course.

 

Listened to an interview with their Chief Exec on Saturday. He said they look to buy young players ahead of when they need them (planning ahead) and then develop to sell at profit. Interestingly he made no mention of developing any home grown talent. But equally contradicted himself with the statement about buying ahead before they need the players, but they try to sell them anyway.

On 17/08/2023 at 16:43, jimtastic56 said:

Is Cashin struggling due to the form of Sonny B or is he a player that has had his “Head turned”? There seems a growing feeling that Brighton want him for £3 m. They will do what they did with Clarke - leave him in the lower leagues until such time they can make a profit on him. Brighton always think of the cash coming in.

If his head has been turned , don’t play him until it is unturned.

Certainly up there, but probably the team that lost 6-0 to non league Boston in the cup, in the 3rd division north days might be close ?

8 hours ago, Srg said:

Fleetwood could put out a walking football over 60s team and outpace that team. 

No they couldn’t.