CWC1983

Learn from the good stuff Wigan have done, and learn from the mistakes Sunderland and Sheff Wed have made. 

A good manager and scouting for League 1 players will be crucial. 

37 minutes ago, sage said:

Just watching Azeem Rafiq give evidence to a House of Commons committee. Some shocking stuff coming out. 

As an aside i was talking to someone at the first Derbyshire game of the season, a friend of a friend, who was coming out with some pretty racist stuff. First time I can recall hearing that at the ground.    

Im watching it as well. 

I don't think it's going to stop at Yorkshire.

10 hours ago, Wistaston Ram said:

Great night out in Glasgow even for an Englishman and his Danish wife. Although the quality of the game was little better than Championship standard, the atmosphere was electric.

Nothing like Hampden when the team plays well and gets the crowd behind them. 

Definitely a feel good factor around the team at the moment. 

Helps having a sizable away support as well, there looked to be plenty of Danes in attendance. 

10 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

You might be right. I don't, however, know many people who think winning the league in Scotland with one of the only two teams who have a realistic chance of doing so is any great shakes.

In the wider picture, 1 trophy in 4 years is a pitiful return for a Rangers manager and would normally lead to the sack long before now. 

He's majorly underperformed with the resources at his disposal. 

10 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said:

I believe the no surrender came back in the 80’s when English fans were running riot across the world. Some Rangers fans were looking at setting up a Scottish firm but had two problems. 1. They hardly qualified for any tournaments and 2. When they did they ended up taking a load of blokes wearing tartan skirts and ginger wigs and no one could take them serious. So the Rangers fans decided to do what could only be described as an act of treason and sided up with the English. That is where the chant came from.

Correct, Scotland didn't qualify for anything apart from 82 World cup, 86 World cup, 90 World cup, 92 Euros, 96 Euro's, 98 World cup

In the 90's there was a brief East Coast firm following Scotland, Aberdeen/ Hibs/ Dundee and Utd. 

Lack of squad depth was always going to be a struggle playing Saturday / Wed / Saturday in the Championship. 

Especially when some of those players are 30+. 

Should have scored that header at the end, and both goals conceded are poor defensivly. 

Last night in Soho. 

Meant to be a horror. It wasn't. 

60's London music vibe, glamorous cast. 

All style, very little substance. 

Jacob Butterfield/ 10

He was Jim Mcleans right hand man when Dundee Utd were sweeping aside the great and good of Europe. 

A great manager who took the baton from Souness and gave Rangers their 9 in a row. 

In his short spell as national manager he gave us hope after the Vogts disaster. 

Lots of people today paying respect by taking about him as a person, and lots of good clips doing the rounds of his wicked sense of humour. 

The one of him carrying Tommy Burns coffin sums him up as someone who crossed the great divide in Glasgow. 

40 minutes ago, TexasRam said:

Just watching the new Never Mind The Buzzcocks…….it’s ducking dreadful 

It's not that good. 

All the gags seem setup so that the female team captain can fake laugh and bang the table as loud as possible. 

From a Scottish point of view I'm supporting whoever Rangers or Celtic are playing Europe. 

The bigger the hammering the better, especially at Ibrox or Parkhead. 

It's even funnier when it's done by relative minnows. 

The only time I waiver is when they come up against English opposition. Then I'm happy for the spoils to be shared. 

One of the best games I've been to at Hampden. 

I honestly can't remember a stadium bouncing like that for a good 20 mins after the final whistle. 

On nights like last night,  international football > club football. 

Heading upto Hampden. 

It's the first full house in a meaningful game for ages. Let's see If the Hampden Roar can make a difference. 

Really looking forward to it, 5pm ko so plenty of time for the crowd to lubricate their singing voices. 

2 hours ago, swansea ram said:

Don't you get to watch the games on Alba tv or similar up there, In Wales we get to watch the games on S4c, with a 10 min delay to Sky for free.   I don't pay for Sky.

No, it's sky or nothing. 

Bbc scotland will have highlights at 1030pm. 

Taking cricket as an example, I think Alison Mitchell, Emily Rainford Brent and Isha Guha are excellent and are easy to listen to. 

I'm yet to find a female football commentator or Co com that I can say the same for. 

12 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

 

But I guess it's like political commentators.. plenty of Scottish ones commenting on the UK Parliament (Kuensberg for example)  ... are there any English ones commenting on the Scottish Parliament?    

 

 

Scotland is part of the UK, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't have a Scottish commentator speaking about UK politics.....

23 minutes ago, Alpha said:

Come on AJ, lad!!!

 

Usyk at 2:1 is decent odds. 

Enjoy. 

5 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

There'll doubtless be plenty anti the Premier League, but I'm enjoying the Fever Pitch documentary on the BBC. Don't they all look so young!?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mqv7k

Great nostalgia. Les Ferdinand comes across really well, and there's a great interview on BBC sounds with Colin Murray and Keith Gillespie regarding his career. 

For me, it was the most watchable era of English football.

The game was a hybrid of the old route one and the current 20 passes before it reaches the halfway line. 

Also, you had heard of the majority of foreign signings, nowadays its quantity over quality as some bloke turns up from the French 2nd division. 

15 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Not exactly an ex-Ram but son of one...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58533922

 

Ironically, who was the keeper who should have saved it? Adam Ledzgins. 

Re Covid 

Hypothetically, If Mel had said at the start of the season that the club was in dire financial straights and asked people to forgo their free season ticket from last season and pay for it instead, how many would have helped the club out? 

 I wonder if that was ever an option? It might have plugged some of the covid lost revenue. 

17 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

I'm really struggling to understand why we are going into admin.

We gambled too much on promotion and tried to find loopholes to escape the FFP rules. Whilst it was a stupid thing to do, it made some sort of sense. If/when it failed, it means points deductions and probable relegation. But it's not because the club ran out of money, it's because we spent more money than we were allowed.

How have we suddenly reached the point now where we don't have enough money for the club to continue functioning? Has Mel literally got no money left to keep the club going? If not, why has he now decided to stop funding the mess he created. Can't he just carry on paying the money until Jan, sell any high earners, sell the whole first team, and have a cheap team of kids? Or are most of the outgoings now just servicing debt with no end in sight? Just hope there is something else going on and this is necessary to push it through.

All about cash flow. Apart from maybe 3-4k fans every 2 weeks per game buying a ticket there can't be much more actual cash coming into the club. Maybe some cash for Lowe and Bogle.

On the flip side, there are wages to pay monthly, HMRC bills, and daily running costs. 

That's before any previous debt for transfers (Kamal and Bielik circa £11m), HMRC etc have to be paid. 

6 minutes ago, IronRam 140.6 said:

. New investors can invest in the team not historical debt. In a years time the ground gets sold back to the club for 70million and Mel gets his sale price. 

 

A very shyster way of doing it. But I would probably do the same if that's what I was left with.

Sounds like the company that owns the ground is also going into Admin. 

The standard of tennis by both players is unreal. So much faster than even 5 years ago. 

43 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Buy 19, get one free. Seems reasonable.

I allow myself one can per week. It is very moreish.

?, well calculated. 

I'm holding out for it to go to £4, then I'll swoop.....

One a week? I'm not sure I have that self control. 

I view another clubs forum that let "anything go". 

It's brutal, and can't be good for people's mental health. 

There are a few posters that have had a knock on the door from the local plod and taken in for questioning regarding some of their posts. 

14 hours ago, Kinder said:

This is flippin’ delicious.

I had a look for it at my tesco this morning but the shelves were bare on almost all craft beers. 

Has to settle for Clockwork orange and some old school Hoegaarden. 

The vocation cherry stout was 'reduced to clear' at £4.75.  A whole 25p off the price last week ?