Woodley Ram

49 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Why would he not play in any of the other 4 games.

good point but his time playing for us will be over (I think) at the end of the season

2-0 NML FRGS (how does that score at scrabble) 

Probably the last time we will see him play on Saturday. I hope he stays in some capacity, as I feel he is one of us.

10 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Odd team. Stinks of someone picking a team without actually watching games.

Keeper been injured since Jan.

LB in at CB

CB at LB (who has barely played 50% of the games this season)

Chaplin, an AM, selected at LW

Collins, who predominantly plays LW, CF and occasionally at AM, selected at RW

Clarke-Harris, a CF, selected at AM

Windlass supposedly the best CF in the league? Arguably not even the best CF at Sheff Weds

Who cares, let’s get in the playoffs 

8 hours ago, Millenniumram said:

They’ve only got 3 pages on their match day thread. Tells you all you need to know

I thought their comments on the game were fine and fair. They should have scored early doors and then it would have been a potentially different game. They defended well and I thought were a decent side. I thought it was a penalty and we were the better side.

I have never had an issue with Burton and I guess I don’t see them as a rival bar playing in the same league. 

2-1 Rams FRGS Knight

On 10/04/2023 at 17:10, LN747 said:

Small squad looks tired and running out of steam 

Even if we make the playoffs I can’t see us beating any of the top 6 

Actually reckon we could be Bolton over 2 legs but not the way we playing 

we would have taken this at the start of the season and its probably where we should be. Am I bad in wanting a little more?

The big one for me this season is that we have a club to support and one point we nearly didn't.

The EFL should have an owner of the season, we would win that one 

1-3 Derby FRGS NML 

20 hours ago, Ramarena said:

Unless there’s an injury or fitness issue, Warne will probably give the same team a run out. Personally I’d go for:
                       

                       Wildsmith

         Chester   Cashin    Roberts

NML                                              Sibley

            Knight  Smith Hourihane 

                  Barks       McG

            

I’d love to see us try something a bit different that boosts our attacking options like:

                       Wildsmith

         Chester   Cashin    Roberts

Smith                                             Sibley

              Knight     Hourihane 

            NML                   Barks
                        
                          McG

Play NML and Barks in the channels with instructions to get beyond McG and into striking positions when McG drops/ has the ball.

Doubt Warne would go for something like that though.

Not sure Chester will play, two games so soon after a a long layoff might be too much. I think we will keep McG and Collins up front. MK Dons are playing well at the moment, this will not be a walkover but I expect to continue from FGR's and win

34 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

I agree the game yesterday was not a feast of footballing skills.

I wonder what the ratio is for managers being sacked because of a lack of results against those managers sacked for not playing pretty football! 😂

 

 

Warne is going no where, we need to build and give him the time to build a team (not intended for you @Elwood P Dowd, a general comment). None of this changing every five minutes, we are not Chelsea. 

An evolving fact, by 2025 we will be stood no more than 10 feet from a former Chelsea manager......just saying  

2-1 Derby NML

9 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

How was the ref today, seen very few comments 🤣

I only saw it on TV, which gave a very limited view but he seemed OK

Big Duncan had a different view of things. The penalty was lucky how was the player supposed to get his hand out of the way when the ball was hit towards him at pace (absolute Rubbish). The second goal was just unlucky (I thought it was good closing down).

We have very few shots (I thought their goal keeper kept a few out to be fair, I was impressed by him). They had loads of chances (missed them if they did). 

WE time wasted, even mentioned Wildsmith going down. (I actually think we are poor at time wasting, the worst in the division, and what I mean is we don't really do it. Wildsmith had a ball to his nether regions but was down what 30 seconds). 

Big Dunc another very bad loser 

10 hours ago, Ram Logan Josh said:

My fave is the Prince Albert at the top of the steep climb out of Stroud towards Minchinhampton Common.  Proper pub. Great community vibe. Even featured in a Tom Kerridge 'help the local pub' series.

https://www.theprincealbertstroud.co.uk/

 

Prince Albert that could be painful

16 hours ago, ilkleyram said:

I’m not sure that you mean that, or perhaps you do.  Our income is about £30m very roughly with, I think, player sales on top of that. Our outgoings have been much more than that for many years - in common (to different degrees) with almost every other club in the country. I don’t think that you mean that we should be able to spend £30m a year on players.

If you mean that we can only spend any profit we generate, and exclude player sales income, then we will probably never pay a fee for a player again. We’ll largely be dealing in the loan and free market unless the price of players plummets. If you mean that we can only use money we get from trading players by itself then the outcome will probably be largely similar whatever B4 may argue.

At the moment the EFL are preventing us from trading normally in football terms and potentially will do so for another 18 months unless we can negotiate a change to the deal. The quicker we can get back to football normal and hope that Clowes and Warne can find the answer to balancing football expectations/success and financial control the better, including generating income from player sales. Arthur used the £300k he got from Ipswich for Kevin Wilson to great effect and we got promoted as a result, twice in quick succession.

 

Nearly what I meant. I think when you have a business plan you should only be able to spend what you earn. That is because the reason for that plan is because you have already breached the financial limits. In our case we spend less that what we earn (due to the plan).

Reading chose the only option they could in agreeing to sell players otherwise they would have been relegated last year. They didn't for what ever reason but they brought in other players. 

I think the EFL were wrong to force a club to gamble on player sales as a way out of debt but Reading were also wrong to sign players when they could not balance the books.

Peterborough should take legal action against Reading. 

I agree with you re getting back to normality or the new form of normality (thank god) and COYRs 

I feel very positive about this and the MKDons game. COYRs

On 04/04/2023 at 15:41, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Surely the EFL can appeal the previously agreed 6 points and double it to 12?

The Reading fans feel hard done to as apparently they had to sell players to satisfy the business plan. I think the EFL were over generous allowing that as it helped keep them up.

Of course the other part of this is that they also signed players and would have to pay wages (Ince would not join for peanuts)for them. If they had not signed players perhaps they would have met their business plan?

My thoughts are (not just Reading) that all clubs that have a business plan should only be allowed to spend what they have in income. The reliance in selling players to keep your head above water is akin to having a bet on the National, you are probably going to fall over at some stage.

0-2 Derby FRGS McGoldrick

Thinking of our set up for this game, my thoughts are that we should consider a back 3 what do others think

1-1 McGoldrick

Aaaahhhhh

               Wild smith 

Smith Fozzie. Cash.  Roberts 

NML Bird Hourihane Barks

                White

                McGoldrick 

0-1 McGoldrick 

just got back from the match, its important not to go over board. however it was a stinker, especially first half.

They worked us out and put pressure on our full backs, that meant our midfielders dropped deeper so were not there for the second balls when we went forward.

I have listened to Paul Warne. I accept his points about ditzy and Knight not having trained for a week hence why they didn't start. I do not understand why we changed the back four. Fozzy has been doing well all season alongside Cashin, so why change it, this meant 50% of the back 4 changed, not good.

I like Cashin but he needs to work out when to put it into row z and when and how far to take the ball into the midfield, they targeted him today and caught his a few times.

I thought Roberts and Dobbin looked good when they came on.

They deserved their victory and we never looked like scoring.

First home defeat in months, we are heading in the right direction, it's inevitable that we will have bumps on the way. Still think we will be in the playoffs and think we will make Wembley 

keep the faith

Just left Woodley Berkshire for PP lots of rain and lots of hope for a win