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18 minutes ago, DCFC27 said:

I’ve heard our business plan is really not very strict, it would be if you were trying to compete at the top of the championship but at the moment it’s not affecting the decisions we’re making. 

Can you define strict please? Because you could say that MM plan wasn't very strict...

and not very good either in the end!

4 hours ago, Rambalin said:

Just told the wife the footy is starting again today. 

Are you newly married? After a few years of marriage, your wife will be asking you when does the footy start?

A season ticket is a passport to marriage bliss, says the marriage councellor

There was a point when i thought will we see the Rams at PP again? 

We will and that is plenty for me, Football fans have got very short memories but we shouldn't forget how bleak it was off the field those past few months. Let's enjoy the season and see where it takes us

I have an ancient ipad ios 10.3.3. Since last quick the quote button has disappeared and when I press on reactions all I get is the like noting else. Is that the result of a site update? If it is is there a way against my profile to say run in antiquated mode for backward compatibility?

11 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

Here's the first James Webb Space Telescope image, what we call an ultra deep field:

The telescope is actually pointed at a galaxy cluster 5 billion light years away, but because of all the mass concentrated in those galaxies, space is warped and we can use this as a gravitational lens to see much further - in this case 13 billion light years away. Which means 13 billion years back in time.

The curved lines of light are a side-effect of the gravitational lensing process, as not everything in the image can be aligned to bring it to a focus orbiting Earth. 

Four more images to come tomorrow, including a spectroscopic analysis of an exoplanet, to be able to quantify the atmospheric composition of a planet outside our solar system!

Beautiful and marvellous isn't it?

Read in the times today that despite being something like 1.5M kms away from earth, the telescope could detect the heat signature of a bumble bee on the moon. That just blew my mind, how is that even possible?

17 hours ago, Dimmu said:

Abu Dhabi, China, Murdoch, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, oligarks, UEFA, FIFA... Take your pick. Elite football is corrupt to the core and is used as a propaganda, whitewash & money laundry machine.

For me, the real football still exists in lower leagues and women's football. Rest of it I mostly despise.

The very reason why i am looking forward to this season. 3pm kick off no dicking around at 12.30 or a bloody friday night because Sky says so with 2 minutes notice, w*****s

8 hours ago, Stripperg-ram said:

Hulking journeymen?

Rapid youngsters?

A mix of the 2?

3-4-3? 3-5-2? 4-4-2? 

Because we have mainly/some championship quality players, is that enough? Or does all form and quality go out the window when Fleetwood Town just decide to kick the cr*p out of you?

Should we buy players that know the league? 

Fittest team wins?

Biggest team wins?

Play like Brazil?

or Play like Allardyce?

Snatch it with a set piece and shut up shop?

Or play like Shteve Mc era 1 and score 4 if they score 3?

 

How the hell do we get promoted in a oner?

 

Answers on a postcard…..

??

Good players and a manager who knows the league and make them believe. Last season WR reallly make them Believe that despite ,the 21 poinrts deduction we could stay up and the team bought into it. In the end injuries, suspensions, squad size cost us. 

Just been on the werder bremen website they have signed Oliver Burke from the blades but nothing about Buchanan. It looks like they have been promoted to the bundesliga. If players like burke and buchanan are the level of players they are looking at it may not last long in the German topflight...

53 minutes ago, mrdave85 said:

Honestly I just hope the majority of our fanbase recognise our situation. We’re not gonna walk this league, we’re not gonna make star signings anymore. It’s going to be a long slog of a season and depending on who we bring in we could be looking down instead of up. 
The club is going to need at least a couple of seasons to steady the ship, think Nigel Clough era mark 2, and they may all be in League 1. 
I am excited for the change, our club is saved, L1 is new to me as a supporter, the format of the EFL Trophy is confusing, let’s go!!!!!

We are in the league, out of admin with the stadium part of the club. That to me is better than winning the league compared to where we were at a few days ago. 

Is it going to be signings super sunday or having a breather after yesterday evening?

Hoping for the former, followed by pictures of happy new (and not so new, Curtis...) players arriving in the car park on Monday for pre season to start proper. Feeling so much better.

Out of admin, stadium sorted, what looks like a sensible owner, players he lined up signing contracts today, it makes his decision very difficult to understand. Especially nailing his colour to that chancer. Shame, onward and upward.

Magic!

20 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

I still get shinnie back will add that steel in midfield.

The only Steele we need is on radio Derby. ?

8 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Yes, we've agreed to disagree on RBR team culture - like we're grown ups ?

Drive to survive has overall been a great thing for the sport, however I do wish it didn't have so much "reality TV drama" to the editing and way it presents narrative - there's always been enough of that bubbling away under the surface anyway (for me the skulduggery has always been a part of it)

I hope you have a fantastic time at the grand Prix.

To be clear i am with you on RBR, it's just my lad who does not find them annoying, working on it

19 minutes ago, alram said:

I hope we hear from him today, we have no idea what his plans for the club are yet

Not bothered if we dont. He seems to be a private man so we should just be thankful and let him get on with it quietly with his plans whatever they might be. I am just relieved this nightmare is over. Enjoy the w/e

5 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

There might low fees added to it but I would try get shinnie back at derby.

If Thompson can stay (unless he's gone and i missed this) no need for Shinnie, little Liam is a much better player. Keep the money and spend it elsewhere, keepers to start with.

3 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

It's a real drag for liberty media to try to make F1 inclusive, wide appealing sport with engaging characters and drivers to get behind...but the F1 world containing miserable rich old gits like Bernie "I'd take a bullet for Putin" Ecclestone and Nelson "was a horrible git even when he was racing" piquet sr.

In some respects F1 is a generation (if not 2) behind modern sports in terms of its attitudes. It's been improving under the post-bernie era, although liberty do seem a bit forced at times (I get the good intentions just feels forced IMO) 

You are right in terms of generation but there is hope because the Netflix fan generation will help. I have allways loved the sport but my lad never really showed much interest until lockdown and he started to watch DTS. Last year we went to Silverstone to see the real thing  and he loved it, when i suggested French GP he was properly made up. Going back to your point, his generation, a millenial, racism, sexism, homophobia, prejudice in general, is not something they want to be associated with and will let it known as well, and rightly so. This being said our opinion differ on Reb Bull, there is always something isn't? Something to work on?

Just received my tickets for the French Grand pr!ks, can't wait!

Has to be

THE CHEQUE IS IN THE POST

47 minutes ago, DraycottRam said:

Not bothered. Me and football have fell out. Trying to get into cricket 

I 'll try to help. Cricket where I come from is an insect so we started from a low base. After arriving in blighty, i thought i'll found out what is this sport played in pyjamas with lots of standing around is about. Someone tried to explain it to me, did a reasonable job, but he killed it with his closing statement.

"they can play for 5 days, it ends up in a draw and it can be a good result". I thought that cant be right, 30 years on still trying to get into it, not very hard though...

(back then no T20 or IPL of course)

Jonathan Norcroft in the Sunday Times this morning says no agenda behind WR leaving DCFC, as in not tied to CK's failed bid

(Norcroft has ghost written a few columns WR has had in The Times)

timing still Cr@p though

7 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Lets hope it's with us! True (football) legand.

Legend and  Leg end but not Legand

15 minutes ago, Chester40 said:

Has the most annoying voice ever.....drives me to distraction.

Have you ever listened to Micah Richards laughing in depth analysis?

it is the words and knowledge that matter most.

If we werent in such perilous situation, i would go for a very left field suggestion, Emma Hayes, proven manager at the highest level and a winner. when on the tellybox as a pundit, she's very good, clearly knows what she's on about unlike the majority of her male conterparts.

The reason i say perilous is because if the "experiment" did not work out, it's never been done in this country afaik, the fact that we are in such a bad way before the appointment of a female boss may be somewhat forgotten and would not give the new gaffer a level playing field. 

This appointment needs to be right. Whoever that might be, this is a rebuild on an epic scale, the new manager will need very good knowledge of the league and good contacts to beg and borrow and WR would have had many to call upon. A season to build the team and stabilise will do for me.