RadioactiveWaste

38 minutes ago, The_Sheriff said:

So what you are saying is its OK to bet against your own as long as you want your bet to lose

Seems to be the gist of it.

Betting's a mugs game anyway. You're better off getting you mug from Paul Warne after scoring a goal for him. Apparently they all have the names of different companies on them with a web address that usually says sales@-----.com.

11 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

Given the resources that we’ve had at our disposal I find it weird that Warne is being called out on recruitment. 

The rate the signings thread seems to think most of the signings have been good or OK, the main issue has been injuries, which were a calculated risk for several of them.

2 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

Lots of rumours that Adrian Newey is going to leave Red Bull - and that he may be heading for Ferrari!

That would be delightful.

Guess the whole toxicity and power struggle nonsense he can live without at this stage of his career. That and I've no doubt Ferrari are going to pony up many many many lira for his services.

Red bull going through a difficult cycle wouldn't be the worst thing.

MotoGP at Jerez this weekend as well.

Not proven beyond a reasonable doubt isn't necessarily didn't do it.

Indeed, in Scots law there is a verdict of "not proven" (although that itself comes with it's own set of problems).

My mum has a story about him when my grandad went to get the season tickets the season they got promoted to division 1, my grandad was "discussing" the unacceptably of the tickets being offered to him and Brian Clough walks past. The upshot was they had good seats that season.

I also had a uni lecturer who claimed to have been a drinking buddy of his when he was managing Derby. A uni lecturer with a reputation for boozing and unreliability it has to be said.

But I don't think we should paper over the damage the alcoholism did to him, his family and those around him. Addiction can be so destructive.

2 hours ago, Animal is a Ram said:

Summer window:

Curtis Nelson - 9.5
Callum Elder - 7
Joe Ward - 7
Sonny Bradley -5
Josh Vickers -7
Kane Wilson -8
Martyn Waghorn;-;5
Conor Washington - 5
Tyrese Fornah -4
Elliot Embleton N/a
Ryan Nyambe -8
Tyreece John-Jules - na

Winter:

Ebou Adams - 10
Dwight Gayle -8
Corey Blackett-Taylor -6
Max Bird*-8

*I've included Max, as I feel it was crucial we had him to the end of the season.

Extensions:
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing-9
Eiran Cashin-10
Jake Rooney  -na

 

Ratings out of 10, please. I might do some statistical analysis.

Ratings above.

I've been generous to a couple who've had injuries to deal with.

DeeToTheAaaToTheVeeToTheEyeToTheDeeMuthafahukers ?

Yeah, I mean all Al Capone ever did was evade a few taxes......

Carlisle are a professional club and they are professional players and coaches, if anything they'll be extra motivated to at least make a mark, for pride, defiance, etc.

We should be able to overcome that, but I fully expect a last "show them you can play" effort that just wouldn't be there if they had their last game with nothing on it.

46 minutes ago, Patrick Rams said:

As already mentioned your proposal is virtually copied and pasted from the National League rule book.Only two divisions below Derby County.

Serves me right for skimming the thread and not reading it properly.

11 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Missed out alleged match fixing and witness intimidation ( the ones that haven’t mysteriously died or disappeared ) 

There's no mystery. They've.....gone to live on a farm now. Can we go see them? No.

Why should a team that's spent the whole season proving they're not up to playing in the division above get a chance for a reprieve in a one off match? It's also just got the absolute worst vibes for hope, ambition, joy. Just hate the idea. So PL will probably implement it.

My preference would be:

3rd play 4th at home - winner is finalist. Loser plays winner of 5/6 at home.

5th play 6th at home - winner plays loser of 3v4 away.

Winner of that match goes to the final.

I like it because each place up you finish gives an advantage.

3rd has 2 shots at making the final, both at home.

4th has 2 shots at it, second of those at home.

5th has to win 2 games to get to the final, but the first is at home.

6th has to win 2 away games to make the final.

Final because it's a good money spinner. The games to get there are not two legs.

It's still balls because we all know top 3 should go up by right, but the entertainment value of the play offs is a good thing overall.

31 minutes ago, SamUltraRam said:

The footage is often back to front, probably to get around copyright issues.

They seem to refer to him as El Torro which I assume is 'The Bull'

I will now think of him as El Torro for ever more.

13 minutes ago, Shipley Ram said:

They were going to tweet at half time, that would have been mad.

 

"Managing upwards" is stressfull in any job when it's needed as I'm sure many of us have had to deal with at times, but this sounds like a really not fun task for the media person to have to deal with.

"but Mr Creosote this is probably libellous and will utterly ruin the clubs reputation in the eyes of the league and many fans...no don't eat me...don't burn my family...give it the second half to even out...please...."

2 minutes ago, Day said:

I had hair back then. I added the o to make it sound more cool. 

Name Variations to consider:

Dafydd (Welsh)

Daihbi (Irish)

Daividh (Scottish)

Daoud (Arabic)

Dauf (Arabic)

Davide (French)

Davidde (Italian)

Davito (Spanish)

Dave (but essex)

Dave (but brum)

Derby 3 - 0 Carlisle

Collins.

"Obviously, we're delighted, myself, the coaching staff, the squad, to a man, have been outstandingly responsive to the power of the bobble hat. All hail the bobble hat, for it is the bobble hat we all have to thank for this day."

2 hours ago, Day said:

It’s time to change my username. There is only one David round here and it ain’t me.

David

Break that into 2, Day vid

Keep it short, Day

Why not Dave? I hate it.

Hope that explains that.

Anything you Dai.

I don't gamble anyway but I'm tempted to put a nominal amount on Bolton going up because our ability to find ways to blow promotion is quite astonishing really.

2 minutes ago, JfR said:

Might explain the W8 D2 L2 record we have under games he's officiated, then

Is the football deep state trying to return the Brian Clough trophy to it's rightful home? All this and more on lee camp's podcast.....

Just now, jimtastic56 said:

This could be the first time in his life that Paul Warne has been given a big lump of cash to spend on players . Not having to trawl round the bargain bucket for players . I would imagine young players in the mould of Knight and Bird would come as part of a medium term strategy.

Agreed. I think Adams or very similar to Adams and the new Jason Knight will be on the shopping list, as will a championship version of James Collins. And hopefully a version (replacement) of Sonny Bradley that is what he thought Bradley would be for us this season.

15 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

This is the one of the things that worry some fans. How often will we fail to 'pinch a win' and against what quality of opposition? We'll still have the ethos of a 'middling fish' or at least trying to be a 'middling fish' pinching wins in the Championship pond.

It's a fair enough question.

I think he's earned the chance to answer it.

I suspect his situation is dependent on what division we're in, if we go up I think we'll try to sign a new keeper and either offer him the back up job or let him go.

I agree,he's been a good keeper for us and I wouldn't just throw him out but I suspect he's not really got the Paul warne love. I think Angieram mentioned he's not been offered a new contract yet.

He deserves his chance with us next season, the squad will be rebuilt through necessity.

I imagine we'll be recruiting better, younger versions of some of the older and departing members of the squad.

I don't think we'll play a radically different style, we'll just be playing it better with better players, but, also, against better quality of teams.

I think a lot of folks aren't really appreciating we're going to go from a big fish in a small pond to a medium sized fish in a much bigger pond.

PWs style partly drives some mad in league 1 because we're supposed to be dominating a lot of games and winning a lot of them a lot more comfortably than we have been. Making top end championship teams look like top end championship teams as we pinch wins is a lot more forgivable than making middling league 1 teams look like top end championship teams as we pinch a win. But we've got the results needed by doing it.

Cardiff are not looking like the good guys in this. He'd completed the transfer, he was their player, they should pay what they owe.

2 noe. Posh taking time off before the play offs