Tamworthram
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8 hours ago, MaltRam said:
The job Warne has done, since Stevenage away, has been exemplary.
You cannot play one touch 50 pass moves with league 1 players. Not feasible. If we blow it, and have to face up to another season down here, Warne is definitely the man to rebuild us and go again.
If we go up, he will have earnt the right to build a Championship squad and have a go at keeping us up, as per his original brief.
I know he's marmite, with his off-beat personality profile, but he's clearly an honest and genuine man and it's hard to see a nice guy cop for abuse.
I wouldn’t quite describe it as “exemplary”. Our performances against Northampton and Wycombe (in my book, by and large, the management and players take joint responsibility for the poor performances and credit for the good ones) in particular are enough of blot to make such an accolade unjustified. Even most of the wins have been less than convincing but, I agree with your other sentiments.
whether he is the right man to rebuild and go again is uncertain (I do understand certain posters concerns) but I do think he’s got us close enough not to be sacked.
Again, I get the concerns voiced by some others if we go up but he will have earned the right to give it a go.
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8 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:
I used to love the thrill of finding out which number ticket to tear out of the little book when you arrived at the ground.
And the four cup vouchers at the back.
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7 hours ago, Ram1988 said:
How much do we think they will go up by?
Do you mean after next week’s deadline? I have no idea.
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24 minutes ago, WystonRam said:
Whatever we have sold, apparently we have 11000 on the waiting list willing to pay over £800 for one.
I think you’re confused. That’s just the waiting list for Cambridge tickets. 😀
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50 minutes ago, Chilwellram said:
We’ve had nothing through the post about renewing ours yet !
I’m not sure you’ll get anything in the post so, don’t wait.
To renew you just need to go online (your new price and confirmation of your seat will be there) or ring up. Hurry up though, you’ve only got just over a week.
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42 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:
You could level that at a number of the first team regulars - or Max Bird who definitely won't be playing for us next season.
True but I didn’t advocate putting any player on for a five minute cameo. But if we did, nothing personal against JJ, a player here on loan (that hasn’t appeared a great deal) would probably be bottom of my list.
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3 hours ago, Animal is a Ram said:
Would love for him to get a 5min cameo against Carlisle. Such a shame to see a good talent hampered by injuries.
Why, unless he's likely to sign for us next year
If we're looking at a 5 minute cameo when the result is safe, I'd rather it was youngster or some other first team regular.
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12 hours ago, Jimbo Ram said:
Just wondering what our approach will be. Go for the win or make sure we don’t lose. Interesting……very interesting 😊
I'm sure it will be somewhere between the two. Go for the win but not so gung-ho that we put ourselves too much at risk of losing.
On the front foot please but with control and composure.
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11 hours ago, De22Ram said:
I did mine last month but i always worry this time of year that it hasnt gone through or somethings gone wrong and i loose my seat lol!
You should be able to see it in purchase history.
Log on to the DCFC site.
Click on your profile at the top.
From the drop down options select "my match tickets".
On the left hand side select "season tickets"
That's how it looks on my Ipad anyway.
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13 hours ago, ap04 said:
If you -or anyone else- think so I strongly suggest you read something like this (not dismiss it, try and understand it)
From what I can make out, all this article tell us is if you run a random set of numbers many times you’re much more likely to get the spread of results you’d expect than if you only ran it once. That’s pretty obvious stuff in the same way that if you tossed a coin 6 times, the chances are that you wouldn’t get a 50:50 split between heads and tails. If you tossed a coin 10,000 times though, you would get much closer to half heads and half tails.
The author claims to have taken into account the fact all teams don’t start the league equal and has allowed for some being stronger than others when arriving at the random number that generate the results for each individual game. However, as far as I can see, he hasn’t explained what weighting he has applied nor how he has applied it. If the weighting is only marginal then you’d expect fairly similar variation to the completely random results.
I don’t think anyone is denying that the larger the sample size the more likely the results are to reflect expectation. But what I think we are saying is that, over the course of a full season, whilst there still be a few random results where a “weaker” team will beat a “stronger” team, the impact of these unexpected results will be dissipated to an extent that the league table, by and large, reflects the relative strengths of the teams competing.
and breath………
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6 hours ago, Bessie1 said:
Curtis Davies scored Cheltenham’s winner last night against Burton. He’s still got it in him! (No filthy memes please).
If only we had someone that could score from set pieces. 😀
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16 minutes ago, Keepyuppy said:
I hope the ideal scenario is an away win at Cambridge Utd on Sat - that would absolutely be a suitable outcome for the Away fans who’ve backed the team very loudly all season and then we either win or draw the final home game confirming promotion in front of a full house, where we can all give our gratitude to the players and especially to David Clowes who rescued the club for us all.
Whatever anyone thinks about the Manager, Coaches and Squad, they will have achieved promotion which not that many players or managers have achieved in the last 50 odd year - it would be a doe idk day for us all to come together and celebrate together. Here’s hoping !! 🐏🤗Totally agree with your second paragraph. However, whilst it would be more exciting to finalise promotion at home on the last day, for the sake of my heart, I’d be quite happy if we confirmed promotion at Cambridge. 😀
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30 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:
Was Paul disappointed they didn't come knocking?
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Probably not but I’m sure a few posters on this forum are. 😀
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6 minutes ago, StantonRam said:
As someone said above, Posh can't finish with more than 89 points, same as Bolton, and we still have GD advantage over both.
So - if we reach 90 points it doesn't matter what either of them do.
Bolton's result last night puts them behind what I predicted, and makes it unlikely that they can now overtake us unless bizarre things happen on the final day.
Possible scenarios Rams v Trotters:
We win the last 2 games and we are 2nd no matter what.
We win and draw the last 2 games and we have 90 points and are still 2nd no matter what.
We draw both games, and if Bolton win both theirs then they are 2nd (89 points to our 88). Same thing would also be true if Posh won their last 3. However, since Posh play Bolton BOTH of those scenarios happening at once is impossible, it would be either one or the other above us but not both, and we would finish 3rd, with all the playoff advantages that brings. Let's hope however that it doesn't come to that.
That seems to me to be a reason to really go for it on Saturday, as a win would really take the pressure off. No point accepting a point on Saturday, as this would only increase the pressure to win on the last day.
If we won on Saturday and got to 89 points then GD would kick in, and we would still finish 2nd no matter what happens on the last day. Or at the very least we would go into the last day knowing that only the combination of both a heavy loss for us and a big win for Trotters or Posh (possible but unlikely) would change anything.
That depends on what Bolton (or Posh) do on Saturday. It isn’t inconceivable that Bolton beat Port Vale by 3 or 4 goals. Meaning, if we say only beat Cambridge by a single goal, we’d go into the final game with a 3 point advantage but our gd advantage cut to 3 or less. If that happened it wouldn’t require a combination of a heavy defeat for us and a big win for Bolton for them to overtake us.
The only certainty is, if we get better results than both Bolton and Posh on Saturday then we’re up. Anything less (other than a defeat for us and a handsome win for either Bolton or Peterborough) probably leaves us as favourites going into the last games.
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3 hours ago, hydraulic ram said:
Can't see Warne thinking it's done and dusted, not the mentality he's shown so far.
I think he will want 2 wins and expect the players to commit to 2 wins no matter what.
I reckon there’s no manager in the entire league that would think it’s done and dusted yet or indeed if we still have a three point lead (and six points on Peterborough) after Saturday. They would be insane to think so.
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8 minutes ago, tomsdubs said:
True but they have been saying he needs to go, shows that there is nothing unusual about our fanbase. You always get that wide spectrum of views.
That’s what I’ve been preaching for a long time and I rather suspected that we wouldn’t have to look too far to find possibly a noisy minority wanting the manager out regardless.
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40 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:
My only comment about the comparisons with the Reading match was at the time we were on a downward spiral with a defence that leaked goals for fun. Neither are the case this time.
You’re right. Along with many others on this forum, I was at that game and seem to recall a sense of inevitability about the result rather than surprise.
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19 minutes ago, Charliegeorge1962 said:
Yes, but that all irrelevant if we win on Saturday or even both our games its promotion.
Posh can max out on 89pt
We beat Cambridge 89pt with plus 10 GD - I cannot see us losing at home to Carlisle.
Not the same as getting into the playoffs in 2015 ....this is promotion!
It’s not “irrelevant ”if we win on Saturday (unless both Posh and Bolton drop points). It means the chances of us failing to go up would be very remote but, still possible. That’s all I’m saying.
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19 minutes ago, Charliegeorge1962 said:
I can see their last game against Bolton going for a draw at that will be their 3rd game in a week.
Either way the win against Cambridge and its promotion because I cannot see relegated Carlisle putting up a fight in the final game with 30,000 plus screaming in their faces.
I agree but I'm just saying, don't count your chickens. As has been mentioned previously, it's not that long again that we only needed a draw at home to lowly Reading (admittedly, a different proposition to playing Carlisle - I hope) to make the play offs but we ended up losing.
I'm also predicting a draw in that final game Posh v Bolton but who knows what will happen. One team may be resting players for the play offs whilst the other is going all guns blazing in order to overtake us. Look at last season. Barnsley, already in the play offs and 12 points ahead of Posh, end up losing 2:0 at home to them on the last day.
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16 minutes ago, Charliegeorge1962 said:
Automatic promotion for us this Saturday.
Us getting a few goals against Cambridge. And I can see Vale getting a draw at Bolton.
COYR
Don't forget, we also need to better Peterborough's result as well to be absolutely certain on Saturday. They've got a big goal difference to make up (probably most of it over their next two games as I can't see either Bolton or Posh beating the other by more than a goal or two) but, you never know. We may need to keep the champagne on ice.
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10 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
Glad your happy. 👍
As I replied, yes an achievement. Done with some of the League's best players and best paid players. Oh, well not yet done, so probably scraped in. An achievement though.
Is this you confessing that you’re not happy if we get promoted then? 😀
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Imagine what that grassy bank behind the ground would look like if we were playing Northampton instead of Cambridge tomorrow? It would be a site for sore eyes, numerous flags and hundreds of Rams fans (until/unless the police moved them on).