Old Spalding Ram

Can anyone tell me why we are suddenly in crisis ahead of this game?
Seems to me that 
a) we have one extra body available for selection in an area of concern 
b) we will be very well placed if we win
I’m just looking forward to a good performance and hopefully a comfortable win. Think Collins and NML will re-find their form.

I don't understand what Bird's done wrong?
He had a contract, he doesn't want to sign a new one. He's got every right to choose what he wants to do. Stayed through the dark times and now he wants to play at a higher level. He has a manager who does not play to his strengths. Fair play to him. If people want to point fingers, go to the club for selling him at the last minute and causing a scene.

Pfft!  Luxury! 
Unfortunately, It was the 20:(something) from Euston to Lichfield...

I would have paid double to have been allowed to sit on the roof!  
 
The toilets weren't an issue, as nobody could actually move to reach them anyway!
I'll not go into detail, suffice to say beer cans do not retain liquid once they start rolling around on the carriage floor!  🙄

Returns on loan, but didn’t want to sign a new deal. I hope the lad plays a blinder for the rest of the season otherwise he’ll be getting dogs abuse from fans. 
We should’ve just taken whatever more we could’ve got and let him go. 

……………was it the 18.25 out of St Pancras?
 

 

City fans love Jason Knight.

Following a "Strongly worded email" to sometraincompanyorother@gmail.com (🤷‍♂️) after our very poor journey to, and absolutely horrendous journey from Wembley (v Villa PO final), we were reliably informed by said train company that trains are the only form of transport that are not governed by any "maximum number of passengers" mandate.
Just let that sink in for a moment!  The capacity is literally unlimited... (Unlike cattle trains, I'd assume?).
Suffice to say, our journey back seemed to back that statement up!  😲
Now, I hasten to add that I never checked that out for fact-finding reasons... partly due to shock, and partly as it was relayed via an official email communication from the train company's customer relations bod, (So why would I doubt it?), so if anyone can prove this to be incorrect, (I still cba to check!) then the train company's customer relations bod clearly lied to a disgruntled paying customer... which is only one step down from treating passengers worse than cattle anyway, so either way, it's shitty!
 
"Never again", we exclaimed... and never again it shall remain!
 
 
 
 
 

Boys corner (Normanton end) whilst me dad went with his mates in the Ossie end 1964/65.

Clough years through my teens, we were living the dream!
Favourite memory, 1981, played on it, won on it, got a winners trophy on it.................fantastic days!
https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/grahamstreetprims/photos/555681/14236647.html

Perhaps not,……….the locals reckon Brum have offered megabucks for 15 goal Mason-Clarke.

Standing ovation as the south stand sang his name.

Since you mentioned that Barnsley Stevenage Pompey all scored . 

Just need a goal for Lincoln, one for Port Vale and an equaliser for Carlisle against Bolton…………………….and we’re top! 👍🐏🕺

Just need a goal for Lincoln, one for Port Vale and an equaliser for Carlisle against Bolton…………………….and we’re top! 👍🐏🕺

Pinched from the Cheltenham forum.
Looks like a good time to play Derby.
Poor recent form, struggling to score and some major injuries to strikers and defenders.
They seem to be flogging the same players week in week out. 
High press and plenty of energy against them is the order of the day, me thinks.
 
Bloody hell…………….…….looks like we’ve been rumbled! 😁🐏

 

Pinched from the Cheltenham forum.
Looks like a good time to play Derby.
Poor recent form, struggling to score and some major injuries to strikers and defenders.
They seem to be flogging the same players week in week out. 
High press and plenty of energy against them is the order of the day, me thinks.
 
Bloody hell…………….…….looks like we’ve been rumbled! 😁🐏

 

Not sure I can properly articulate how much I love this man. The waiver against the Wendies, signing a blank contract that summer when Morris was playing his games, mingling happily with fans at Wembley 2019 even though he wasnt playing & must have been hurting, leadership on & off the pitch during the dark days of admin....amazing that a man with such a career as him thought so much of us to do all that.
Much derided as a 'kick it, head it' centre half by outsiders, he improved massively technically when under Rooney/Rosenior. Set his fastest bleep test I believe in training whilst with us during the admin season...he wanted to be the best version of himself at all times.
He deserves & will get a rapturous reception tomorrow. I hope he returns back home to us in some capacity very soon 🖤🐏

Once a Ram...
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/curtis-davies-interview-derby-cheltenham-retirement-b2485335.html

Pinched from the Cheltenham forum.
Looks like a good time to play Derby.
Poor recent form, struggling to score and some major injuries to strikers and defenders.
They seem to be flogging the same players week in week out. 
High press and plenty of energy against them is the order of the day, me thinks.
 
Bloody hell…………….…….looks like we’ve been rumbled! 😁🐏

 

Pinched from the Cheltenham forum.
Looks like a good time to play Derby.
Poor recent form, struggling to score and some major injuries to strikers and defenders.
They seem to be flogging the same players week in week out. 
High press and plenty of energy against them is the order of the day, me thinks.
 
Bloody hell…………….…….looks like we’ve been rumbled! 😁🐏

 

Taken from the DCFC banter page………..Footy Namibia.
Marked as injured.
 

Wins my post of the day………………….and it’s only 9.30 in the morning! 👍🐏

Wins my post of the day………………….and it’s only 9.30 in the morning! 👍🐏

I appreciate Warne get's a lot of stick... and at times like this it's difficult to argue against... But there's a particular trait I like... have always liked... in a player.  And that's passion!
Not for the shirt, per sé.  Not for the badge specifically.  But for their craft.
There's a distinct lack of that right now, and it seemed to be massively magnified last night.
Masses of mistakes last night, and yet I don't recall one single hint of a player reacting in a frustrated "must do better" kind of way.  No kicking hoardings.  No thumping the ground.  No heavenwards screaming out in frustration.  No bollockings from team mates.  No fist pumping encouragement.
Even young Cashin was doing this a few weeks back... and it was truly wonderful to witness... but that seems to have gone now (And no, I'm not singling him out intentionally.  No effing way!)  
All we got last night was meek acknowledgements of apology.  Lots of stooped shoulders! A half-raised hand of patheticism. (*Looks like I just made that word up, but it's staying in!  Fuckem!) 
If I was the cynical sort (I'm not!), I'd be wondering if they actually cared!
 
Now... I hasten to add... My support of DCFC is currently going through a similar phase.  I can laugh it off.  I can shrug my shoulders.  I can slouch back in my NE Corner seat and not bother singing.  (I won't boo, but my silence alone should be deafening to the players!)  I can almost appear to those that don't know me as though I don't care.  That's not the case, but I certainly don't care as much nowadays as I have done in the past.  Of course I've lost SOME of my passion.  But that comes with age.  That comes with having "Been there before... numerous times".  In essence, I've "got an excuse".
These players don't have that excuse.  They are the now.  They are as close to being in their prime as they're likely to be.  They should care.  They ought to care.  They should be taking pride in their craft.  They should feel the passion.

They ain't clocking in at Royces at 07:40 every morning, to stare at the same old computerised CNC milling machine hour after hour.  They ain't driving the same old dirty bus around the same old dirty streets of Derby day in, day out.  They ain't staring at spreadsheets shift after shift.  Those guys and gals are (arguably) entitled to "plod on".
These guys are craftsmen.  They are entertainers.  They are professional athletes. They have either been gifted with a talent, or indeed they have worked bloody hard to hone themselves that talent. 
So where is their pride?  Where is their passion?  Why are they letting their peers down?  Why are they letting the supporters down?  Why are they LETTING THEMSELVES DOWN? WTF does it look like they don't care?
I just can't get my head around that.

The team are not coached to have any control. Another midfielder will not help if Warne continues to employ the tactics he wants us to play football.
I say football. It’s pinball. Players must be being encouraged to move it as forward as quickly as possible, taking no more than 3 touches. Chaotic, gas out type football.
I thought we might go up with our squad automatically, even with him in charge. I am beginning to think not.

Any attempt, really, we went through horrendous times and never once threatened to get a game abandoned.