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    ram59 got a reaction from cstand in Electric Vehicles   
    In answer to many of those panicking about EVs, after listening to all the scare stories.
    In the next 4 or 5 years, the cost will come down as more are produced, just look at history, only enthusiasts or the very rich could buy the first tvs, colour tvs, video recorders, cd players, transportable phones (the size of a briefcase for the latest battery to power it), microwave ovens, etc. MG already have the MG4 for well under ยฃ30k with a 7 year warranty.
    Charging and range, Toyota have told us they will be producing mass produced cars with over 600 mile range and 20 minute charging in 4 years time. So, you will get 3 weeks charge on your car, while you're in the supermarket doing your weekly shop.This is in addition to all the other charging opportunities.
    The biggest problem will be generating the electricity required.
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    ram59 got a reaction from kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong in Electric Vehicles   
    Before we had EVs, every single car had to go to a petrol station to refuel, when the change to EVs is complete, they will be able to refuelled at a good proportion of homes and work places, in addition to charging points at dedicated charging stations, supermarket car parks, lamp posts etc. Wireless charging will soon follow, which will make it even more convenient.
    Just imagine if it was that easy to fill up with petrol or diesel.
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    ram59 got a reaction from StockholmRam in The Rugby Union Thread   
    I blame Warne.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 reacted to G STAR RAM in Donโ€™t be too dismayed Rosenier ball is still painful   
    We beat Fleetwood.
    Leeds are 9th in the table having won 2 of their opening 7 games and had 10 men for the last 30 minutes.
    I didn't particularly dislike Rosenior and would have been fine had he stayed.
    Just adding a bit of balance to the discussion. If Warne is lambasted when we don't have a shot on target in a home match then the same should apply to Rosenior.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Tamworthram in Derby v Lincoln Match Thread   
    It's highly unlikely that we'll see Barks and Sibbo starting on Saturday, they've only just come back from injury and have had no pre-season. To play them for 2 and a bit games in one week after a couple of weeks training in the last 4 months, is asking for trouble.
    It's not worth risky a long term injury just for one game, give them some minutes towards the end and let them build fitness.
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    ram59 got a reaction from DCFC1388 in Derby v Lincoln Match Thread   
    It's highly unlikely that we'll see Barks and Sibbo starting on Saturday, they've only just come back from injury and have had no pre-season. To play them for 2 and a bit games in one week after a couple of weeks training in the last 4 months, is asking for trouble.
    It's not worth risky a long term injury just for one game, give them some minutes towards the end and let them build fitness.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Derby v Lincoln Match Thread   
    It's highly unlikely that we'll see Barks and Sibbo starting on Saturday, they've only just come back from injury and have had no pre-season. To play them for 2 and a bit games in one week after a couple of weeks training in the last 4 months, is asking for trouble.
    It's not worth risky a long term injury just for one game, give them some minutes towards the end and let them build fitness.
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    ram59 got a reaction from cstand in The Rugby Union Thread   
    I blame Warne.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from metalsheep02 in Formula 1 2023 and general Motorsport   
    It'll be interesting to see if RB's problems are circuit specific or whether they continue for the rest of the season. If they do continue, it will be similar situation to when Ferrari were caught out a few years back.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Premier ram in Derby v Portsmouth Match Thread   
    Whilst I'm not impressed with the standard of football atm, yesterday I lost count of the number of times simple passes and attempts at ball control failed, maybe the pressure of playing at home in front of nearly 30k is affecting them. I do find your comments a tad harsh, you seem to be criticising PW for letting the likes of Knight, Didzy and Bielik go, whilst not replacing them with better players. I can't think of many managers who after being forced to sell players for millions of pounds, then replace them with better players for nothing. Even relatively unknown good players from the lower leagues will require a fee to be paid.
    Whilst the football and results are disappointing atm, we need to give PW a bit of time with a nearly full squad, to achieve some kind of consistency, before hounding him out of the club.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Tamworthram in The Rugby Union Thread   
    I blame Warne.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from DiggerB in Derby v Portsmouth Match Thread   
    Whilst I'm not impressed with the standard of football atm, yesterday I lost count of the number of times simple passes and attempts at ball control failed, maybe the pressure of playing at home in front of nearly 30k is affecting them. I do find your comments a tad harsh, you seem to be criticising PW for letting the likes of Knight, Didzy and Bielik go, whilst not replacing them with better players. I can't think of many managers who after being forced to sell players for millions of pounds, then replace them with better players for nothing. Even relatively unknown good players from the lower leagues will require a fee to be paid.
    Whilst the football and results are disappointing atm, we need to give PW a bit of time with a nearly full squad, to achieve some kind of consistency, before hounding him out of the club.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Derby4Me in Derby v Portsmouth Match Thread   
    Whilst I'm not impressed with the standard of football atm, yesterday I lost count of the number of times simple passes and attempts at ball control failed, maybe the pressure of playing at home in front of nearly 30k is affecting them. I do find your comments a tad harsh, you seem to be criticising PW for letting the likes of Knight, Didzy and Bielik go, whilst not replacing them with better players. I can't think of many managers who after being forced to sell players for millions of pounds, then replace them with better players for nothing. Even relatively unknown good players from the lower leagues will require a fee to be paid.
    Whilst the football and results are disappointing atm, we need to give PW a bit of time with a nearly full squad, to achieve some kind of consistency, before hounding him out of the club.
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    ram59 got a reaction from FlyBritishMidland in Derby v Portsmouth Match Thread   
    Whilst I'm not impressed with the standard of football atm, yesterday I lost count of the number of times simple passes and attempts at ball control failed, maybe the pressure of playing at home in front of nearly 30k is affecting them. I do find your comments a tad harsh, you seem to be criticising PW for letting the likes of Knight, Didzy and Bielik go, whilst not replacing them with better players. I can't think of many managers who after being forced to sell players for millions of pounds, then replace them with better players for nothing. Even relatively unknown good players from the lower leagues will require a fee to be paid.
    Whilst the football and results are disappointing atm, we need to give PW a bit of time with a nearly full squad, to achieve some kind of consistency, before hounding him out of the club.
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    ram59 got a reaction from uttoxram75 in Referees   
    It was unusual for the club to reveal details of the assessor's report for the Bolton game, I wonder if we've broken a rule here? It would be nice if we could see all assessor's reports, but would lead to less critical reports in the future?
    The outcome was what we all suspected at the time, should have been a penalty for handball, shouldn't have disallowed a goal for our penalty, shouldn't have been a sending off and shouldn't have been a penalty against Smith. The only thing that I would say in his defence, is that his assistants didn't assist, the last 2 decisions should have been the assistant's call.
    A pretty damming verdict against the ref, who's poor decisions ALL went against Derby. His integrity after this and the Plymouth game last season needs to be seriously questioned and he shouldn't officiate at another Derby game this season, out of fairness to himself and Derby. He will be under so much pressure in the next Derby game, it would be impossible for him to perform properly.
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    ram59 got a reaction from DavesaRam in Referees   
    It was unusual for the club to reveal details of the assessor's report for the Bolton game, I wonder if we've broken a rule here? It would be nice if we could see all assessor's reports, but would lead to less critical reports in the future?
    The outcome was what we all suspected at the time, should have been a penalty for handball, shouldn't have disallowed a goal for our penalty, shouldn't have been a sending off and shouldn't have been a penalty against Smith. The only thing that I would say in his defence, is that his assistants didn't assist, the last 2 decisions should have been the assistant's call.
    A pretty damming verdict against the ref, who's poor decisions ALL went against Derby. His integrity after this and the Plymouth game last season needs to be seriously questioned and he shouldn't officiate at another Derby game this season, out of fairness to himself and Derby. He will be under so much pressure in the next Derby game, it would be impossible for him to perform properly.
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    ram59 got a reaction from Gritstone Ram in Referees   
    It was unusual for the club to reveal details of the assessor's report for the Bolton game, I wonder if we've broken a rule here? It would be nice if we could see all assessor's reports, but would lead to less critical reports in the future?
    The outcome was what we all suspected at the time, should have been a penalty for handball, shouldn't have disallowed a goal for our penalty, shouldn't have been a sending off and shouldn't have been a penalty against Smith. The only thing that I would say in his defence, is that his assistants didn't assist, the last 2 decisions should have been the assistant's call.
    A pretty damming verdict against the ref, who's poor decisions ALL went against Derby. His integrity after this and the Plymouth game last season needs to be seriously questioned and he shouldn't officiate at another Derby game this season, out of fairness to himself and Derby. He will be under so much pressure in the next Derby game, it would be impossible for him to perform properly.
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    ram59 got a reaction from ImARam2 in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from Curtains in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from Iniestagram in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from Carnero in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from jimtastic56 in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from Eatonram in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from hintonsboots in Will Lady Luck Ever Shine On Derby Again?   
    There are a number of things that you need to have success, lady luck being an important one. Over the last 10 years, we've had more than our share of bad luck.
    It seemed to start with that play off final, the most one sided final that was won by the 'wrong' team. Then we made our key signing in Thorne, who was forever injured, who knows what could have been with a fit George. This was to be repeated with Bielik, again another key player who could have made a difference. We then lost 3 managers due to 'interest' from other teams, SM, who's head was turned by Newcastle, Rowett poached by Stoke and the drawn out saga with Frank going to Chelsea. None of them went on to succeed at any of those clubs, as we could have told them before hand.ย 
    Constant new managers required constant changes to playing personnel and MM was only too happy to fork out the club's money, to back them, in doing so, trying to be clever with EFL rules. Then on top of this, we had Covid, an unforeseeable occurrence which it could be argued affected Derby more than any other club, having the biggest gates outside the premier league and parachute teams.
    To compound these problems, MM decided to pull the plug, instead of following through with his promises, no administration would be no 12 points deduction, in fact he should have stuck to his guns and challenged the other 9 points in court. Without these deductions we should still be in the championship and not lost a generation of young talent that our academy had nurtured. It's a crying shame when you thing of all those young players that we lost for nothing or next to nothing. Other 'bad' owners have not let this happen to a big club, they've either continued to back the club until they could get shot of it, without pulling the plug. It doesn't help that the EFL seem to be more vindictive against us when compared with other clubs' misdemeanours.ย 
    We are at the start of a new era, but have been dogged by poor refereeing decisions over the last 14 months and now we have suffered 5 long term injuries to our small squad, only 6 games into the season.
    It's about time we got some good fortune, even average fortune would do.
    I'm trying my best, I'm already on my third 'lucky' shirt for home games and my second for away matches.๐Ÿ™„
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    ram59 got a reaction from Premier ram in Who enjoys Warne's football poll?   
    What is the definition of Warneball?
    Is what we're seeing on the pitch, the type of football PW, wants us to play? I know that ultimately, it's his responsibility for what happens on the pitch, but if you listen to his after match comments after a poor performance, he complains about the players aimlessly lumping the ball forward. He seems to be as unhappy with their style as we are.
    From these comments, I would suggest that we are not yet playing the way he wants us to, but it's up to him and the coaching staff, to change that.
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