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Thinking he must have peed in someone's porridge.  This is the way to ruin someone today, cast accusations by way of the media, make them deny it, cancel them where possible, all before or even instead of filing criminal charges.  i don't like Brand very much, but this smells.

I’d put my money on Mohammad Amir being leading wicket taker if he's here for the whole season.
We’ve been a bit unfortunate with the bowling attack this season. It felt a bit short to start with, but Lakmal never got going (again), Aitchison got injured, Conners got injured and has only recently started looking good again, Chappell’s been carrying an injury for a while, Lamb got injured and still can't bowl. The home pitch giving the bowlers absolutely nothing to work with doesn't help either. 

2014 against Brighton play off semi final, brilliant display from the Rams , seemed we were unstoppable that day

It was 97, one of my favourite games. Ian Wright getting a load of stick when he missed a penalty "Ian W***, W***, W***" (reported in a national paper on Monday we were singing Wright and praising us), David Seaman getting stick after the 3rd, who gave a cheeky V sign, to get a round of England's number 1. Sturridge's goal would still be talked about if it was by someone fashionable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66793217
Aw diddums Gareth. God forbid anyone should upset your special boy by criticising him. You want to know what is actually a joke, you continuing to pick Maguire, despite the fact he can't get a game for his club team and despite your previous claims that the England side would be picked on form, not reputation.

Believing in astrology is typical behaviour for a Virgo.
The timing of this is rather interesting. This info is leaked just after Stimac takes ISL clubs to task for not releasing national team players.
https://www.sportingnews.com/in/football/news/club-vs-country-igor-stimac-requests-isl-clubs-release-players-asian-tournaments/kcuvudsxd3rxlxbpk6rj4l9n

It's difficult to comment without being able to see the conditions. In my opinion common sense dictates that you play out those final minutes unless the conditions are extreme. I really struggle to see how it could be so dangerous that they couldn't make it through an extra 10 minutes on the day to avoid all this rigmarole.

It's difficult to comment without being able to see the conditions. In my opinion common sense dictates that you play out those final minutes unless the conditions are extreme. I really struggle to see how it could be so dangerous that they couldn't make it through an extra 10 minutes on the day to avoid all this rigmarole.

Rooney gets away with a lot because people were and still are star struck. If his name had been Joe Bloggs instead of Wayne Rooney there's no chance his tenure would be viewed with even a fraction of the same positivity. I resent how we're supposed to see it as some kind of privilege that Rooney is connected to the club. He's struggling at DC because he isn't a good manager. He wasn't a good manager at Derby, and I doubt he'll be a good manager at whichever club is the next to decide they value publicity over skill.

I went to see Wilco in London last week. I love their music and they make their songs even better live.
They are headlining at Moseley Folk Festival on Sunday and now Billy Bragg is on before them too. A good use of 50 quid if you live close.

For the most part I try to remain positive, but this is incredibly frustrating. Lamb may be the worst allocation of funds since Lakmal.

He has bulging discs in his back. I know your supposed to stay active, but I’m not sure standing on a cricket field all day is doing it any good. 
 
if it wasn’t still a problem he would have bowled yesterday.
Lakmal is 10 years older than Lamb and probably about to retire.

Some dodgy deaths in that link. Good job that never happens over here.
<cough> David Kelly <cough>

We’re going to have to bat well to win this one...😎

OK, forgive the shorthand 'forget'. We should move on though.

I got my electric bike over a decade ago and it has been a Godsend!
When my wife was in hospital for ten weeks I used it to visit every day rather than pay through the nose to park.
When Sir Clive invented the C5 I thought the concept was brilliant but that it would be suicide on public roads!
I said at the time that if he converted it to a bicycle or similar I’d be interested.
Sir Clive was treated like IKB (Brunel) who was also a genius but lacked the common sense to realise that:-
An atmospheric railway would be scuppered by rats!
You don’t build the world’s largest iron ship without first making sure you can get it in the Bristol Channel!
Both we’re ideas men who lacked business acumen leaving others to rake in the financial benefits.
And both were uniquely brilliant men!

This is the same Stuart Atwell that robbed us of victory against Forest when he disallowed 2 clear goals by Miles Addison in the last couple of minutes. 
I'd say that he owes F*rest nothing at all.

I must admit I liked the way he galvanised the team with a "them against us" mentality during our relegation season. He gave us real hope. But after saying "I'm no quitter" .... he did quit... so I think  we probably didn't see the real Wayne Rooney. 
I've pasted below some info again off this site which also gives a feel for his tenure.....
Underpinning some of Cocu’s demise was the presence of Rooney. Talk of Cocu not particularly wanting Rooney at the club and the signing being thrust upon him was doing the rounds amid the squad in earnest. Rooney had been brought in as a player-coach, but did little in the way of coaching outside of sitting in on video sessions and passing on some advice to several players.
‘If he liked you, he’d offer you advice,’ Max Lowe remarked. ‘[Max] Bird, [Jason] Knight – they were his boys. I think he saw some of himself in them. He liked them. Waggy [Martyn Waghorn], too. But for some of the lads it was a bit hard to integrate with Wayne. Obviously we were at a different level from where he’d come from. I think it was hard to find a bit of common ground with him sometimes.’
Whispers had also spread through the squad that Rooney had a clause in his contract that he was going to be the next manager – something which created somewhat of an uneasy tension within the changing room.
‘Sometimes you didn’t feel like you were just playing with Wayne the player. You felt like it was an audition to see if the next manager wanted you there,’ said Lowe.
‘You’d come in on a Monday and we’d break out into our warm-ups and people would ask where Wayne was,’ Lowe said. ‘I think Waghorn would get a bit annoyed especially as he and Wayne would play on the PlayStation together and stuff – they were pretty close – then Wayne wouldn’t show the next day.
‘We never got told if it was a day off or if he was injured or excused for personal reasons. None of that. He just wasn’t there. Then obviously he’d come straight into the team at the weekend and it meant guys like Duane, or Graeme [Shinnie], or Knight, or [Krystian] Bielik had to drop out of the team.’

Rooney when he first came in as a player was a good addition but I think we were on our way up as a team anyway. He let himself go during lockdown and came back in such bad shape it was very poor. We would have been far better to have got rid once that season finished. But we didn't and we couldn't. His presence ultimately undermined the manager. I have no respect or love for his time here as player.
As a manager I also don't think he was very good at all. However, as a figurehead when we were really in the crap he was excellent and he showed everything he should have shown as a player. He held it together. Of course all of that is nearly undone by him happily riding and backing the Kirchner horse. I dread to think of that outcome.

I don’t buy into this Rooney did amazing things for Derby. 
 
He jumped ship as soon as we went down. 

He only went to get a publicity boost for his shitty podcast anyway.
"He built memories I'll never let go of for as long as I live. I love this guy. Thank you for everything, Ben."
You can tell Ryan Reynolds is a Hollywood actor with such vomit inducing tributes. Foster played about a dozen games for Wrexham.

Looks like the cat's out of the bag about the new signing, then

Fair point. Tone can be very important. I just think the words are fairly unequivocal in this instance.