Old Spalding Ram

The Dale Vince vanity project rolls on!
Forest Green Rovers (FGR), the world’s greenest football club, today announced a new partnership with Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award-winning rock band the Grateful Dead. 
The partnership will see the entire men’s first team at FGR kitted out with co-branded travel wear for the upcoming 2023/24 season.
…………...personally, I’d prefer The Clash we are DCFC.😃
 

Absolutely. I have never felt so besmirched in my life as the last couple of days.

Perhaps he wasn’t the real deal.

I suspect both Flint and Bradley are waiting at least till the end of this week to avoid Warne’s lung busting first week back fitness routine. It is no coincidence that Mendez-Laing is playing for Guatemala at the moment. Never interested him before, but when the alternative is coughing his guts up, and blowing out of his arse, whilst running 20 miles a day, I suspect old Nate would have been just as happy to have made his international debut for North Korea.

Yeah, I've watched the others too. Just saving server time obvs! 😄

Far too many stats being banded about with too little context. A number on a page means nothing without a hundred other variables that can’t be factored in 

Nah, exactly. We often have unrealistic expectations of loyalty as fans because the club is something fundamental in our psyche. It's no great surprise that he doesn't exactly bleed black and white though is it ? He is a modern footballer from another country who played for DCFC for a bit and has now moved on because he had a more attractive offer and his National Manager has strongly hinted that he wanted to see him play at a higher level than the 3rd tier in England. 
He's been ravaged by injury and despite that has been given a 3 year contract by a club in a higher division so obviously he is going to take that. Good luck to him. No hard feelings or much in the way of feelings either way really. We'll always have the 96th minute..

England play Portugal twice this weekend. England women v Portugal women friendly 315pm  Saturday itv.
England v Portugal u21 quarter finals Sunday 5pm.

Phew, good job he’d already signed then or he could have gone to the other clubs who offered more money init?

If yo haven’t seen this, watch it, made by a Blackpool fan…………magnificent 
 

Gonna get one hell of a reception when he comes back!
 
 

Gonna get one hell of a reception when he comes back!
 
 

He's a human off the pitch. Made some poor choices in his time but he clearly has off-the-field issues he has been struggling with for some time. Regardless of what he ever does on the pitch, I hope he finds some peace off it.

At what point does a player become good for the league they’re playing in?

43 goals in 85 appearances for Cheltenham
As someone said on the The Robins forum.
lf anyone has any ambition to get out of this league they can’t afford not to sign him.
Must be a target………..would send a strong message to League 1 contenders. 👍

43 goals in 85 appearances for Cheltenham
As someone said on the The Robins forum.
lf anyone has any ambition to get out of this league they can’t afford not to sign him.
Must be a target………..would send a strong message to League 1 contenders. 👍

43 goals in 85 appearances for Cheltenham
As someone said on the The Robins forum.
lf anyone has any ambition to get out of this league they can’t afford not to sign him.
Must be a target………..would send a strong message to League 1 contenders. 👍

Some of their contributions were minimal. I’ve raised this point many time before, regardless of his frustrating lack of finishing Dobbin had a direct hand in us collecting points last season. He scored 3 and assisted 4 in the league during his first season of men’s football. He had raw pace and the ability to panic defences. Whilst he definitely could have done more given the chances he wasted, there’s plenty of reason to believe a 20 year old with those raw talents could improve. 
We might find better loan options, or at least more consistently effective ones, but he wasn’t the disaster some people like to paint him as. 

Like several others have said it will be almost impossible to replace him like for like. I think the key to replacing his goals is to find a forward that is gonna be a physical presence in the box and get on the end of crosses now we have recruited some wingbacks. 
I personally have no idea who this mystical striker is. I just pray that PW has the answer otherwise we're in for a frustrating season.

If yo haven’t seen this, watch it, made by a Blackpool fan…………magnificent 
 

That made me quite emotional!

If yo haven’t seen this, watch it, made by a Blackpool fan…………magnificent 
 

Seen it, lived it. My grandsons first match, we’re on the front row.

Got a bit of time for their fans. They were very staunch in their support of us when times were darkest for the club. Even when we beat them at their place, they were applauding our lads and singing f*** the EFL with our lot. Good few online were hugely complimentary about our away support too. It was heartwarming and uplifting stuff when it was needed and it won't be forgotten in a hurry.

Bloody annoying UEFA TV, won't cast so either via an app which I haven't yet got our 'smart' tv to sideload I assume as it's not listed. Or via a web browser. Web browser it is then.
Goal-less at half-time. Noni Madueke looks great up front but is as accurate as Dobbin!