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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to angieram in End of season celebrations.   
    Assuming that's the whole gang, I'm interested in who is, and isn't, on holiday.
    Ward and Rooney probably have to stay back for treatment (is Rooney even old enough?) Robinson definitely isn't. 
    Pretty much the whole first team regulars are there, apart from that. Wildsmith the obvious omission. 
    Fornah we know, keeps himself apart. 
    Also missing are Washington, Fozzy, Waghorn, Gayle, TJJ, anyone else? 
    I love that Adams is there, even though he's a loan player. He's a Ram, for sure.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to inter politics in End of season celebrations.   
    Who else watches part of the game everyday?!
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Dimmu in How impressive is PW as a coach?   
    Bit of a contradiction there Bris. First, you describe a big part of tactics and in the next sentence, you dismiss it. 
    To answer the original question:
    I'm not sure if talking only about Warne is fair as coaching is strongly a team effort.
     I've seen Warneball being called physical, so why did he have a midfield of Hourihane and Bird for about half of the season? Or that Warneball is putting crosses in? What kind of tactics would you choose if you had Collins upfront? Crosses maybe? Or the other way around, did Didzy score countless goals because we put a lot of crosses in? Nope, we played to his strengths. If I'd describe Warneball to an outsider, I'd call it pragmatic, fluid, and mixable while using our strengths and making the most of our opponent's weaknesses. Attention to detail is a strength when we talk about football management.
    Just to highlight how fluid our tactics are: I've seen us defending with 5-3-2, 5-4-1, 4-5-1, 4-4-1-1 all in the same game. Well, we all have because it happened often when Bradley was brought on. 
    I think he has only two aims when setting his tactics. Firstly, how to get the most out of the striker (how much Didzy, Waggy, Collins, and Gayle have scored, I think he's got that right). The second aim is how to help our keeper to keep a clean sheet. (The least goals conceded in EFL is some achievement). If these two are not about tactics, then what is? And tactics need coaching. With confidence and some experience, I claim that is not an easy part of coaching. 
    So, tactics are a massive part of coaching and they have excelled. Another would be increasing the player's ability and that's tougher to measure. I haven't seen as fit team as the current one is in ages and it's part of improving the player's ability. Yes, it may have caused some injuries, but that's football. Also, they managed to teach Sibley to play as LWB. On the first try, he was horrible at it but played okay as fullback when he had a player in front of him. It's a testament to Sibbo and the coaching team, and during the run-in, his performances as LWB turned out to be one of the developmental highlights.
    It'll sure be an interesting summer ahead. Will we build a midfield like Hourihane-Bird or Adams-Smith-Thommo? They don't have much in common, but the question is, will they continue to be the ones who'll be sacrificed when we aim to be at our best in both boxes?
    I think Warne has shown to be an excellent manager, who seems to be able to build a bunch of individuals into a cohesive group and I really appreciate that. At the same time, my personal preference would be much sexier, quick short-passing champagne football. Maybe it'll come when we have the players for it.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Nuwtfly in How impressive is PW as a coach?   
    Oh come on, we wasn’t able to pay a fee for any players! You can’t tell me we were the big spenders
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to cannable in How impressive is PW as a coach?   
    When we had Clough he had us fit, with loads of good footballers, played nice football but were dog defensively and couldn’t defend a set piece for s****.
    Warne will have us fit, loads of battlers, set us up we’ll, battle hard and be god from set-pieces at both ends.
    I feel as though he’ll end up setting up the next manager for success, as Clough did.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Nuwtfly in How impressive is PW as a coach?   
    The football hasn't been too impressive at times, but getting four promotions from League One absolutely is.
    He's managed to get us up on a shoestring budget with a squad debilitated by injuries. We could have been stuck down in this division for years. 
    I appreciate people have an issue with the football that's been played on the pitch at times - I am one of these - but you cannot tell me that what he's achieved at this less isn't impressive. 
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from Comrade 86 in Underpass Painting: We are Derby   
    We met him later Kath,told him what a brilliant job it was and that we sit with you 😁

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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Caerphilly Ram in James Collins live now on the EFL Pod - talks the end of season & confirms Las Vegas   
    Ah, and here we are a few days removed from securing our promotion through a 46 game season in which we achieved a record points total for the club, broke the record for away wins, had the best goal difference in the league, had 19 different goalscorers scoring a variety of goals to see us finish second in the league and for it all to be reduced to “cross it and hope”…. 🤣 never change Roy….
     
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to On the Ram Page in Paul Warne   
    A good and more positive post than some you have made. I think some fans over-credit themselves with the view that they changed the way the team played following the defeat at Stevenage. Paul Warne and his players would have known that their performances weren’t good enough to achieve their pre-season goal of automatic promotion. The team weren’t helped by the number of injuries they had, forcing some players to play out of position etc. Warne was also not able to get some of the new players he wanted e.g. an “Adams” type player and he first spoke to Nyambe at the start of the season, but he didn’t want to sign at that stage as he thought someone higher in the pyramid would come in for him.
    The team and manager fixed their form, not the irate supporters. 
     
    I sincerely hope he is able to sign the players he wants this summer, as I am keen to see how Warne plays next year. We do still need more aggression, athleticism and pace in the team. Make no mistake their will still be plenty of “roll your sleeves up” encounters next season but hopefully some very good football to go with it.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Archied in Paul Warne   
    Not really , that thread , that thread ?,
    this forum was made pretty much unusable for a fair time , a new Warne out thread every ten minutes , every other thread invaded and turned into a Warne out thread by a very determined few posters ,brow beating , swamping people who just wanted to support and read about derby county and happy to be patient with the manager, eventually people got sick to death with it and started to fight back against this aided by the sterling job it was becoming clearer and clearer Warne was doing ,,,then what ? A rewrite of history and veiled accusations of bullying ,,, really ? 
    some really need to take a long hard look at the state this forum was becoming and the behaviour of some posters who were brow beating the hell out of people on virtually every thread🤷🏻‍♂️
     
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from TimRam in Electric Vehicles   
    There's lots of information out there but here's a link to a reasonable article.
    Just in respect of the batteries following an accident...basically insurance companies are being ultra cautious and instead of replacing individual cells which have been damaged in an RTC,they are replacing the whole lot which is unnecessary and expensive.There are companies out there that already repair damaged batteries.It will just take time for insurers to catch up.
    Also you can't really compare EV batteries to mobile devices batteries,they are completely different.
    https://www.evconnect.com/blog/how-long-does-an-electric-car-battery-last
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from RoyMac5 in Electric Vehicles   
    Batteries are proving to be outlasting the rest of the car with very few failures being revealed.
    Every EV comes with an 8 warranty at the very least but they are expected to last much,much longer than that.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from RoyMac5 in Electric Vehicles   
    There's loads out there,mini EV,fiat 500 EV,Mazda mx30,mg4,id3,cupra born....
    All great small cars and reaching price parity new but especially 2nd hand with traditional ice cars.
    The mg4,which is a superb car,is already cheaper new than a new ford focus or golf but is similar size and with a 7 year warranty against their paltry 3 years.
    No brainer if you can charge at home (around 250 miles of range for £5 of electricity on the cheap tariff we have)
     
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from Stive Pesley in Electric Vehicles   
    I wouldn't bet against him,I know I haven't got a space rocket program!
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Electric Vehicles   
    There's lots of information out there but here's a link to a reasonable article.
    Just in respect of the batteries following an accident...basically insurance companies are being ultra cautious and instead of replacing individual cells which have been damaged in an RTC,they are replacing the whole lot which is unnecessary and expensive.There are companies out there that already repair damaged batteries.It will just take time for insurers to catch up.
    Also you can't really compare EV batteries to mobile devices batteries,they are completely different.
    https://www.evconnect.com/blog/how-long-does-an-electric-car-battery-last
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to BaaLocks in Electric Vehicles   
    Yeah, our thought it is to keep one of our two cars as petrol so we can do the occassional long run without having to charge and then have the other electric. Your point on driving experience is a very good one for two reasons - plug in hybrids are terrible in petrol mode (ours makes all sorts of noises unrelated to the speed of the car as it charges the battery to the needed level - not sure if it is the same on all plug ins but for the Volt you never actually 'use' the petrol engine to drive the car, the purpose of the engine is to then charge the battery - if that makes sense). Second point is that the drive experience of an electric car - torque, no gear change, response - knocks any petrol engine into a cocked hat.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from cstand in Electric Vehicles   
    Batteries are proving to be outlasting the rest of the car with very few failures being revealed.
    Every EV comes with an 8 warranty at the very least but they are expected to last much,much longer than that.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from Kathcairns in Games That Aren't Talked About Enough   
    Beating wolves 5 nil back in 2014...some stonking goals and my wife's family are all wolves fans and we're over that day for lunch which made it all the sweeter.
    Gets overshadowed by our deforesting of the treetards that season but was on a par for me 
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to BaaLocks in Electric Vehicles   
    I've got a Chevrolet Volt - gives me about 35 miles of electric charge and then a petrol engine. Run it locally, largely, and ten years on two points to note:
    - Currently tracking at about 96mpg, we use it for long trips but happily use only electric on most runs
    - Ten years / 80k miles on I see very little fall off in the range or charging time. It might drop off to nothing one day soon but seen less to nothing worth writing home about to date
    Definitely thinking about the BYD Atto for our next car, they get a bit beaten up for having a limited distributor network but if you live near one that becomes a moot point. I'm not too deflected by YouTube clickbait warriors, or about the reports that Tesla Cybertrucks are being withdrawn because the accelerator is sticking on many.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to cstand in Electric Vehicles   
    Tesla and Lexus are top when it comes to customer satisfaction in the luxury brand of cars. 
    That’s an incredible achievement in a short space of time to be up there with Lexus.
    One my neighbours just bought a Tesla she loves driving it, she is a driving instructor so loves driving cars.
    https://insideevs.com/news/683064/tesla-lexus-top-customer-satisfaction-study/amp/
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong got a reaction from Reggie Greenwood in Games That Aren't Talked About Enough   
    Beating wolves 5 nil back in 2014...some stonking goals and my wife's family are all wolves fans and we're over that day for lunch which made it all the sweeter.
    Gets overshadowed by our deforesting of the treetards that season but was on a par for me 
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Kathcairns in Games That Aren't Talked About Enough   
    1968 chelsea cup match.Who could forget  night matches at the Baseball ground, smoke swirling round from Leys. It was my first match, we won., loved the rams eversince.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to DarkFruitsRam7 in Games That Aren't Talked About Enough   
    We all know the legendary Derby games that will never be forgotten. Real Madrid, Deforestation, Leeds in the Play Offs, etc. 
    But what are some of your favourite games that don't get talked about or remembered enough?
    For me, beating United at Old Trafford in the cup under Lampard was unbelievable and doesn't get spoken about enough.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Wolfie20 in Paul Warne   
    What really bugged me through the season wasn't so much the post-match comments but some of the tripe being spouted as soon as the starting eleven was announced. After a poor display it's totally understandable that there's going to be some flack flying around but instead of waiting to see the actual match outcome and then commenting, it was as though a handful of posters (and I'm sure most of us can guess who) were champing at the but to stick the knife in.
    For now (apart from the occasional laughingi imoji) they've mostly gone silent and I for one am enjoying the peace and serenity that a successful promotion brings.
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    kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong reacted to Crewton in Paul Warne   
    I've always believed in giving manager's time. The only manager I can recall actively calling for the removal of was Tommy Docherty. I agreed with the removal of both John Gregory and Phil Brown because the situation was desperate at the time, though I had sympathy for the latter because of the difficulties of working under that particular regime. I always thought that calls for Warne's sacking were shortsighted and that some posters went well beyond reasonable criticism, and I think I made my views pretty clear along the way. The proliferation of anti-Warne threads were spoiling the forum. Some posters seemed to be on personal missions to get the manager out, fortunately few of them were "regulars".
    The only thing that really matters is that David Clowes stayed loyal to his man, a quality I greatly admire. There's always room to improve some aspect of performance, style and results, and I appreciated the contributions of those who have identified those aspects and put their arguments across thoughtfully. I'd like to think that within the management team those aspects have also been identified and will be addressed, budget permitting in some cases, but for now let's just enjoy stage one of "mission accomplished".
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