EranioIsGod

Yes.. we’re back!

I’ve heard new sponsor is already sorted. Prototype shirt below:
 
 

Thought you scab army would use a gif of 30p Lee 

Think he spends time with his sister on a Sunday 

I touched on part of this in the match thread, and I am gutted to miss out although I feel like I'm less disappointed because of the circumstances. It's strange, if we'd completely capitulated and looked gutless, then I'd be fuming, but because it was down to an individual error/officiating error (again), it almost feels like well what could we do... We actually played really well, given the circumstances, deserved at least a point and showed a lot of fight. For me it's a lot different to previous seasons where we've just missed out on the top 6. I don't think "bottling" it comes into play this year. We just couldn't finish our chances, we could've won a hell of a lot more points without playing any better or any worse, just by putting away our chances. I also don't care what people say about bad decisions evening themselves out over a season, I think if someone did a case study on our season, it would show that's very far from the truth...
But other reasons to be positive:
- We'll have our first season in a long time where we can go into the pre-season with a bit of stability and certainty. We can look to build on the squad we do have with a manager who has had long enough to decide what we need to go up a level. It's not going to be perfect because of the circumstances we find ourselves under, but I think we should be in a much stronger position come August than we were last year. At least we won't have to wait another 2 months to know if we're going to be taken over, and start from scratch then. We won't have to miss out on signings and we can get started right now.
- The circumstances... we'll still be under the business plan, but we'll be into our last year. There's talk it'll be 'relaxed', Nixon (yes I know) has linked us to actually spending Great British Pound Sterling on a player, whether we will or not, when was the last time we even could?
- We're still a bigger fish in a smaller pond. I know we can't take anything for granted and big teams get 'stuck' down here. We have to take any opportunity we can to get out of this league BUT, we will be in a position where we are going to be a much bigger draw for players at this level than 90% of the opposition, and will be able to afford to pay them more too. In the Championship where we still have restrictions, I think we'd really struggle to build a squad and pick up results at the same time. I hope that just one more season at this level will set us up to have a much stronger future than a season of probably scrapping to stay up.
- Experience at this level. The novelty will have worn off a little, for us, and for the opposition, the first trips are mostly out of the way. We can learn from naivety, errors and mistakes made this season where we've dropped silly points. Wigan, Reading and Blackpool shouldn't pose as much of a challenge, the competition this year has been fierce. Wednesday getting 96 points and only finishing 3rd is crazy, the top 3 in League 1 are far stronger than the bottom 3 in the Championship this season in my opinion.
It's naturally disappointing to miss out however it happens, but I'm already looking forward to a busy summer and August rolling around again. It's been a long time since we've finished higher than 3rd in any division, wouldn't it be nice if this time next year that changes.

5 minutes to save your job warne

Rasiak, Idiakez, Smith and Bisgaard was a fantastic summer.
Saying that, our L1 equivalent is McGoldrick, Hourihane, Mendez-Laing and Smith. Not too bad.

I think teams have realised that doing this is the best way to stop us as it stops our momentum and winds the players and fans up

All this over a broken jaw... RIP.... 

It’s the first real injury of the season rather than the convenient ones 😉

Great pic 👏 

I was part of the set up for the EFL awards yesterday and it really struck me just how wonderful our Club badge is. We are the Rams, it's a Ram. It couldn't be any more recognisable ...Just look at it compared to the rest of the EFL. Love it!

let them have their celebrations ,its been a long time coming , Wrexham hit rock bottom, nearly folded, its a good football story

Getting in good areas just not enough quality Infront of goal, hopefully they're saving them all for the playoffs 🙏

*unless things aren't going quite so well.

25 year old building in showing it’s age compared to modern buildings shocker

How did we score then?

f*** me. Recovered from Leeds and Villa have we. If you want the the Titanic, get some videos of Worralls defending to go with your Betamax collection of your last time in the top division.  Have you still got the one where Carbonari scored in the 90th minute to send you into a quarter of a century of oblivion.  That's a proper blockbuster.

Brennan Johnson stole the last pie.
 

No fist pumping tonight for Cooper