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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Match Thread: vs Bolton (A)   
    Yes I think so
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Match Thread: vs Bolton (A)   
    Last season, I parked at the premier inn next to the beehive pub. It was quite easy to get out after the match.
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Van der MoodHoover in Match Thread: (A) Peterborough United   
    Had a few, Waghorn and Collins had chances but fired over the bar 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from RadioactiveWaste in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Does Attwel own a bakery?
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from MarsdenRam in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Does Attwel own a bakery?
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to Premier ram in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Joe Worrall the gift that keeps on giving
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Reggie Greenwood in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Does Attwel own a bakery?
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from InstaRam in Match Thread: (A) Peterborough United   
    I noticed we tried a few different things at set pieces involving Hourihane and Waghorn although they nearly resulted in a goal, it was good to see some variety at set pieces 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from CBRammette in Match Thread: (A) Peterborough United   
    I noticed we tried a few different things at set pieces involving Hourihane and Waghorn although they nearly resulted in a goal, it was good to see some variety at set pieces 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Rammy03 in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Hardly a feeder club this is the first signing for 15 years. How do you know it will be our best player or are you a secret Derby fan, who watches us every week
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from TomG in Summer Rumour Mill   
    Try before you buy
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from 21CSchizoidRam in Summer Rumour Mill   
    Try before you buy
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from jimtastic56 in Summer recruitment, and how will it end?   
    Even his past recruitment of players other than ex Rotherham have been poor ie Springett, White, Osula
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to Jayram in Is Warne living on borrowed time?   
    That would see us finish in the lowest position in the 139 year history of this football club. Do you honestly think that would acceptable? I don’t. We have the players here to have a real crack at the top 6 and it’s only Warne and his s*** football that’s holding us back.
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to IslandExile in Is Warne living on borrowed time?   
    I want Warne gone, not because his jokes are poor, not because he's sarcastic, not because he thinks wearing a bobble hat will win everyone over.....
    I want him gone because of his tactics, because of his insistence on reverting to 3-5-2 when it clearly doesn't work with our players, because of his team selection and substitutions and because of his priorities for strengthening the squad.
    I do actually think he's quite a nice bloke but I'm afraid his management does not suit our club, with our traditions of football and the high expectation of the supporters. Sorry.
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to sage in v Burton Albion (A) Match Thread   
    Or...separate that side stand into 2 sections.
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to Leeds Ram in Drum in South Upper Block D   
    I like the drum and it's a shame it has gone. Thought when the lad was at the front of the stand it helped get people going and keep momentum when songs were becoming more sparse. It's a bit annoying as well given that the south stand is now essentially season ticket holder only that people are complaining. I'm now sitting in the east stand as I can't get a ticket in there now. It's very different and not really my cup of tea (prefer to stand, shout, and not feel self-conscious when doing so) so to see people actively harming the atmosphere or not joining in, when plenty would like to be there is a bit frustrating. 
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to RoyMac5 in Live football thread.   
    How on earth was that not a penalty? If any other player but the keeper had piled into a challenge and missed everything but the opposition player then they'd have given a foul and at least a booking. VAR is pointless.
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Reggie Greenwood in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    I see Scarpa is off to Olympiacos what a surprise ?
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to Ambitious in Away tickets 23/24   
    I'm not sure why there is so many people annoyed at the Bolton prices, £30 is on the expensive side but it's not egregious. I've seen people make comment that Premier League is capped at £30 so we should be a lot cheaper - understand the logic but it's important to remember that people aren't going Derby games based on the value of their tickets. It's also important to remember that clubs at this level aren't getting funded to the tune of £150m a year from TV rights and sponsorship money so that money does go a long way. 
    The only time I felt I had paid an egregious amount for a football game was Norwich away in 2015 where tickets were £40 - that was bad. Peterborough were able to charge £28 to no outcry so not sure why £2 extra has got people's knickers in a twist. 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Premier ram in Season tickets on sale   
    Over 22,000 season tickets now sold 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from The Scarlet Pimpernel in Season tickets on sale   
    Over 22,000 season tickets now sold 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from Carnero in Season tickets on sale   
    Over 22,000 season tickets now sold 
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    Chellaston Ram got a reaction from CBRammette in Season tickets on sale   
    Over 22,000 season tickets now sold 
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    Chellaston Ram reacted to StantonRam in Is Warne living on borrowed time?   
    hi all
    What most concerns me about PW is his inability to just shut up when necessary.  Rambling interview answers, accidental revelations of what should be confidential and kept within the squad - he does seem to be verbally incontinent TBH and this needs to change.
    In your workplace, if your boss (who after all is responsible for your career) wanted you plaster your cubicle with photos of your family and asked inappropriate questions about them all the time, how long would it be before you reported that boss to HR?  Players are entitled, as professionals in the public eye, to a private life and to confidentiality.  Some of the stuff he says on the radio makes even me squirm, so I wonder how some players must feel?
    At what point does concern for his employees well-being morph into just David Brent-isms?  I wonder if we have now passed Peak Warne?  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.  A footballer who has read a few Psychology books is also a dangerous thing.  This, remember, is a profession in which Roy Hodgson is regarded as a high level intellectual and Eric Cantona is apparently a philosopher by virtue of having a French accent and talking b******s.
    I'm not accusing PW of any malice at all, but I do accuse him of naivety in the extreme.  There is a reason why most managers choose their words carefully in interviews.  Also, an apparent lack of verbal and cognitive discipline in public makes one wonder if he isn't actually similarly disorganised in other respects and relying on his staff to make the difficult calls behind the scenes.  Note also the "election" of the team captain, which is actually a complete abdication of his own responsibility to decide who has the necessary leadership qualities to wear the armband, accept the responsibility for that choice, and appoint the right player.  A football team is not a democracy.  
    PW is very typical of the modern zeitgeist, in which everyone is all nicey-nicey on the surface, but underneath lurks a refusal to (a) grow up and accept the passing of time, (b) accept adulthood and the burdens and tough decisions that go with it and (c) accept that we can't be all things to all people all the time.
    At this club, bobble hats and bull***t will only take you so far.  He has adjusted badly to being at a larger club with much more press and public scrutiny, and the signs are that it's gone to his head.  Time to cut the c**p and focus on delivery IMO.
    "Popularity is a crime from the moment that it is SOUGHT".  No employer can ever keep everyone completely happy all the time, it just isn't possible, especially when you have 22 players competing for 11 starting places.  Gaining respect is more important to a manager than cultivating popularity, and respect lasts longer than popularity too.  In seeking popularity, my thesis is that PW has actually lost the respect of many people, hence the flat performances.  And a desire to be universally popular is nothing more than the manifestation of his own inner insecurity, and if he is to address that properly then he needs to take a sabbatical.  Failing that, just rig him up to a machine that delivers an electric shock if any answer to a question goes on longer than 30 seconds.  A few days of that should do it LOL.
    If PW lived up to his own hype, we should see (a) a team greater than the sum of the parts, (b) in an appropriate formation, (c) busting a gut for the manager and the club.  So what happened?  Last seasons' tropes are already evident again this season - lack of imagination, fragile under pressure, losing games in the last 15 minutes, wrong formation for the strengths of the available players etc etc.
    Warne lovers, by all means disagree or tell me I'm wrong.  However, when he was appointed we were 7th and we finished...7th.  Not a disaster, but not earth-shattering either.  
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