Anon

Left back.

Celebrating doing your job is for show offs. A low five for anyone who provides an assist and a single fist pump for a late winner/equaliser.

Foster did say that the ball was doing plenty and there was a good deal of moisture in the pitch early doors. Even if that was the case, Derbyshire need to not fold like a pack of cards every time we face adverse conditions. Someone has to stand up and see out that first hour. 

Thanks Piers and the BBC for giving this guy a national platform. This is bound to disincentivize obnoxious attention seeking behaviour.

On 29/05/2023 at 23:21, GenBr said:

I have no idea why you are trying to make out once again that nobody ever got close to our points total by once again quoting your percentages, but crack on if you can't see why that is intentionally misleading.

I'd argue that percentages are valid here. Without context a 5 or 6 point gap seems like nothing, but we have to consider that we're dealing with sides who are so bad that every point is weighted with far more significance.

An extreme example would be that a 3 point basketball game would be considered extremely close, whereas a 3-0 football game is a canter for the winners.

On 28/05/2023 at 17:05, Stive Pesley said:

I think Aldous Huxley was nearer to the mark than Orwell, sadly

Orwell envisioned the masses subject to forceful suppression with those who tried to question it being crushed by the state. Not many rebels about and when they do show up, they are dismissed as idiots.

Huxley, on the other hand, described a society where the masses were mostly docile. Soothed by modern pleasures, mollified and amenable to control. He said that the pacification of the masses would be gradual with people blissfully unaware of their own complicity. Seduced by technology’s shiny baubles. 

What do you reckon?

Huxley was eerily accurate on lots of things in that novel. The promotion of rampant promiscuity and the sexualisation of minors seems quite prescient too.

I always wondered whether Huxley genuinely intended for John to be a noble savage or whether he was poking fun at some of our more "higher minded" pursuits with John's descent into madness. A diet of Shakespearian tragedy and religious dogma renders him just as unable to cope with the strong emotions evoked by death and love as the docile and placid Lenina.

22 minutes ago, Srg said:

How is it revisionist history? Those players, at the time, were that good for that league. Lampard couldn't buy a result when Mount got injured. Told you all you need to know about how he was being carried by talent.

Yes, good enough for that league, not the league the league above and not necessarily good enough for promotion. I'm not claiming Lampard was some kind of genius, he had obvious tactical limitations. I struggle with the idea of writing off 6th place as a failure. Are you genuinely telling me that at the start of that season you would've regarded anything less than promotion as a failure?

29 minutes ago, Srg said:

He took a team that finished 6th, added 3 future internationals and 3 of probably the top 5ish players in the league, and finished 6th - just.

I can't stand this revisionism regarding that season. It comes up all the time. Of those 3, only Mount came with a big reputation. How is it a fair assessment to look at where those players are now and retroactively base judgement on a manager that had them when they were teenagers? Do you think losing Vydra, who'd scored 21 goals the previous season, might have had an effect? You say top 5ish players, but our forward line for that season in Marriott, Waghorn, and Bennett aren't and have never been close to being top end championship players.

21 hours ago, ziggyram59 said:

I really hope I never see him managing another football club in England. Maybe USA soccer or god help us he becomes a pundit. As a manager I would rate him about 2/10. Been a failure at every club he has been at I noticed yesterday he tried to put all the blame on the Chelsea players I know the haven't be great but come on Lampard take some responsibility whilst you have been there this season. 🤬

How was his stint at Derby a failure? His first stint at Chelsea shouldn't be regarded as a failure in my opinion either. I agree that he's looked clueless in his last two jobs though. This current disaster at Chelsea has severely damaged his job prospects and I think the best he can hope for is a mid to lower table Championship club. I think saying the Chelsea players haven't been great is vastly underselling the situation. They are a squad of lazy, overpaid, prima donnas, robbed of motivation by the ludicrous contracts handed out by Boehly. Lampard can't have too many complaints because it was clear what was happening before he took the job, but he's the third manager these players have hung out to dry this season alone. They are the only constant in this situation and I'd be fuming with them if I were in Lampard's shoes.

He's a horrid little scrote, but that's nothing new. I knew people like this growing up. They'd eventually learn a harsh lesson and get filled in after picking on the wrong person. The country, and London in particular, has changed since then. The chances of a kid like this carrying a knife and being willing to use it are massively higher now. People are far less likely to properly defend themselves or step in to assist others because the risk is so high, and that's not to mention what the police would do to you if you did give this kid a deserved clip round the ear.

16 minutes ago, vonwright said:

He has always said the players that got bought were not the ones he wanted. That because Gadsby was looking to sell the club they didn't want to spend the kind of money we needed to spend to have a chance of staying up.

Davies barely played Earnshaw and do you really think he went into pre-season meetings demanding Eddie Lewis?

It was something of a miracle we went up with the squad we had - players like Leacock and McEverley started the play-off final. We needed massive investment to have any sort of a chance and it didn't happen. 

Davies is not a likeable man and he didn't handle that season well. His limitations as a tactician and man manager were clear for all to see. But it's ridiculous to put all the blame for that season - and those signings - on him, while apparently giving him no credit for getting us promoted in the first place.

Billy Davies has proved himself to be a serial liar and relentless self publicist, so whilst I appreciate that money was tight and he wasn't able to sign exactly who he wanted I simply don't believe that he had 0 input on transfer targets. He played Earnshaw at Forest, so he can't have thought he was that bad. He played Davis at Preston. Also, given that he once threw a tantrum because Doughty wouldn't sign Gareth Bale, I would absolutely love to see his original list of targets for our Premier League campaign. I suspect they would've been laughably ambitious.

I read some Charlotte FC forums to see what their fans make of Jozwiak. He was garbage in his first season, but seems to be winning people around now. Interestingly they all think Byrne is vastly overpaid and a waste of salary cap.

36 minutes ago, angieram said:

Thanks to ramsreview for this.

I wish we did the same in the UK. Would save a lot of wild speculation.

Russell I can understand, senior pro and club captain at SKC. But Jozwiak? 

And as RR says, Byrne might have been better staying put.

I agree. Wages are just as, if not more important, than transfer fees when judging players in the modern game, especially when clubs are working to restricted FFP budgets. It's impossible to accurately and fairly asses how important a player is to the club without knowing what they're paid.

10 hours ago, ramit said:

David Bowie

Billy Joel

Marvin Gaye

Johnny Cash

Bob Marley

 

Nina Simone

Karen Carpenter

Nina Hagen

Dusty Springfield

Linda Ronstadt

 

The Beatles

10CC

Badfinger

Pink Floyd

Blue Oyster Cult

I can't believe I forgot Billy Joel. He's definitely one of my favourites.

Scott Walker

Chet Baker

Sage Francis

Ronny Rothe

Kalle Mattson

Caitlin Rose

Mariya Takeuchi

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Dorothy Dandridge

Morgan James

Kyuss

Soundgarden

Free

Less Than Jake

Refused

22 hours ago, TomTom92 said:

My initial opinion is that Cardiff should've paid the fee and moved on. But i believe their argument is that they booked Sala a flight but he had some personal matters to resolve and therefore Nantes organised the flight that he ended up on. 

The more it drags on the more i think they should just wipe the debt and move on. Harsh on Nantes but ultimately this issue is becoming more distasteful by the day. 

Willie McKay booked the flight though. Willie McKay was not employed by Nantes. He was, one of a number, of intermediaries that had a stake in the deal. I don't understand how Cardiff intend to hold Nantes liable for a decision made by a third party.

On 14/05/2023 at 15:03, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Be good to try and do this where (worst 11) players would have cost at least £500k or more.

Some of the bad player options cost us note so it’s a bit so what. The infuriating ones are your Blackmans of this world who were sh1t and cost a load.

Cant be too mad at Connor Salmon for being what he was.. We got out of him what he was capable of doing.

I wondered what would happen if we tried to adjust transfer costs by inflation. I took the inflation figures from https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/data/#filters?/options?order=4|asc and calculated what we paid, minus any fee we received and divided by the number of appearances we actually got out of the player. The higher the bindex number, the more relatively useless the player was to us.

Yes, I lead an incredibly exciting life.

*Jason Shackell - second spell only

*Bielik - working under the assumption he sees out his contract and leaves on a free.

12 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Lingard, the gift that keeps giving. Rashford must have done one of his school dinner visits too, and come home with some 7 year old’s coat.

I wouldn't mind, but he's probably paid thousands of pounds for an outfit that looks like he's been rummaging through the discount bins at sports direct.

Once a bluebird, always a bluebird.

Unless we have to pay any money.

2 hours ago, TuffLuff said:

There was something about that night pre game where I just fancied it a bit. Can’t describe what that feeling is but ‘the stage was set’ for a special night.

I've never been happier to be wrong, but I didn't think we had a prayer going to Elland Road. We'd been battered in the 3 other games we'd played against the dirites that season and I just couldn't fathom how we'd find a way to win.

4 minutes ago, ziggyram59 said:

Anon what would you choose as your dream job? 

I'd prefer no job, so it would have to be something that required me to do absolutely nothing where nobody would care about my lack of results. Probably a position in the civil service.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56822571

Dream job = no job.

I think that almost anything would become mundane if you had to spend 40 hours a week doing it. Maybe some radio DJs do actually really like their jobs, but I feel that the chummy "banter" that goes on in the studio often sounds forced and not at all genuine. Also, being required to play the absolute guff that my audience of philistines wanted to hear would anger me greatly. The audience engagement too, I don't think I could read Jeff from Belper's tweet about a town bypass without falling asleep.

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13 hours ago, europia said:

Or stupid. The transfer fee (allegedly) paid for this player was ridiculous. 

Absolutely. Looking back, I can't believe more wasn't made of this. I suppose it's because the fee was undisclosed and we can't know how much was dependent on performance related clauses, but the 8 million reported is insane for a player who'd had a single good season in league 1.

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