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Yeah thanks for doing this @Ellafella as a season ticket holder I'll rate all the home games on the day, as @Carl Sagan says though I can't rate players based on what the radio tells me. 
Fortunately, I've recently picked up RamsTV to watch all the away games as well ? I did miss the cut-off for Charlton though by half an hour as I didn't get chance to sit down and watch it until Monday night.  I realize I'm probably in a very small minority that watch full games despite knowing the result (especially after a defeat!) but I'd rather do that than go on what the commentators think.
I'll try and watch this game in time to submit my ratings!

Yup, hope @Stive Pesley is on the mend ?
Its not just the UK thats suffering, its worldwide.  You only have to look at the much lauded New Zealand and Australias approach to covid for example to find that their health systems are in just as much chaos as ours.  And without getting into the politics of whats going on elsewhere in the world Klaus Schwab might just get his great reset, only it might not be the reset he envisaged - although thats not a conversation for this forum.  We'd be venturing off-topic in the covid thread and this is the Paul Ryder RIP thread!

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

During the pandemic we were told daily how many people were dying, over the past 3 months there have been over 10k non-covid related excess deaths - thats more than 1000 excess deaths per week, yet the media is mostly silent and there seems no urgency to understand why.
200k people have died with covid during the past 2 years, we should be in a period of 'negative excess deaths' as many of those that died would have been expected to live until now (and beyond) so 10k excess deaths is highly likely not be the whole picture, regardless, don't the families of those 10k deserve an answer?  Don't we as concerned citizens deserve to know why? 
I am sure delayed diagnosis and the insane waiting lists/waiting times are playing their part - in which case, serious considerations should be given to any future mention of lockdowns.  There also seem to be an elevated number of younger, healthier people dying in their sleep or whilst doing regular daily activities.  Without a proper investigation its difficult to draw conclusions and therefore impossible to take any preventative or mitigating actions.

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62377986
They managed to compress it into one short page.  How?
 
Bill

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

I'd not seen this. Thank you.

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

Thanks to those of you who provided ratings this week. ?
Your average Player ratings for the Charlton Athletic game are illustrated below.
A Summary
Mendez-Laing was voted the {statistical} MOTM with an average rating of 7.1  
15 raters submitted ratings this week compared with 26 V OUFC. The average rating for the team was 6.34 compared with 6.75 V OUFC. 
The Team Average Aggregate rating for CAFC was higher than for OUFC (82.88 compared with 80.98) despite the potentially confounding effect of the result (0-1 loss compared with 1-0 win). 
The red dashed line shows the average for the team so players above the average rating {Collns, Bird, Wildsmith, Sibley and Mendez-Laing} are the early season top performers. 
Smith & Barkheuizen are starting to be "outliers" after 2 games - both received lower average ratings from the OUFC game too.
I will start to build more and more statistics into the infographics as the season builds including statistics based on the raters. 
Any suggestions  or questions - please don't hesitate.
 
 
 

This is a couple of days old and if its on the forum already I've missed it - a short video with a few nice behind the scenes shots ?
 

I thought he was a bit s41t ?
 
 

I thought he was a bit s41t ?
 
 

We've got wooden floors throughout the house and a few nice rugs.  Guess where the dogs choose to throw up...

We've got wooden floors throughout the house and a few nice rugs.  Guess where the dogs choose to throw up...

Cats are the same. 
They'll move heaven and earth to make sure that hairball lands on soft furnishing rather than hard floors.

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We've got wooden floors throughout the house and a few nice rugs.  Guess where the dogs choose to throw up...

Our dog was outside soaking up the last of the evening sun on the lawn. 
He came inside to throw up his stomach contents. 
That was more than annoying! 

Just when I thought I couldn’t love him any more…
We were getting the train back from the Commonwealths last night and the train stopped at New St. My son was sitting facing the door, wearing a Derby training top.  This guy walked past George and patted him on the shoulder and said hi, then sat on the seats behind. I whispered who was that? and it was only Curtis bloody Davies.
So I popped my head round to ask if I could say hello (he’d signed a shirt for George recently and I wanted to say thanks) and he was unbelievably friendly. It’s 25 minutes back to Sutton and we chatted the whole way. I backed off and sat down initially as he was with his daughter, but he was leaning over the seats and really happy to talk.
I can’t remember everything we talked about (I was a bit giddy!) but he said Netflix should have done a documentary on us and listed all the dramas since he’s been at the club. One thing I didn’t know it had forgotten is 8 or 9 people got food poisoning in America on the pre-season when Cocu joined. Apparently the food was inedible and they were ordering McDonalds on Uber Eats.
He seemed put out that the existing players’ deals were last to be sorted out. His words were that the club sorted out the new signings and there was this much left over for us. Didn’t seem salty though and said other clubs wanted to talk to him but he always wanted to stay, so made excuses to avoid speaking to them. He would like a final year at Orient though.
Interestingly he hopes DC will appoint football people for football roles, rather than finance people. I asked if he meant Steven Pearce and he did, doesn’t seem happy that he’s still there.
There was loads more, I might post again if I remember anything interesting. But I was blown away how friendly he was, he’s a lovely man and I’m pretty sure we’re now best friends. I’m definitely going to invite him to my birthday party!

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