EtoileSportiveDeDerby

45 minutes ago, SSD said:

Most of my life I've lived in Derbyshire and I love the county. Beautiful scenery, wonderful people and the football team isn't bad either. Decided to move to Derby for ease of work. I'm not sure whether it's because I've lived in the city awhile now, the place is getting worse every year.

The main streets are full of drug users who don't seem to be getting any help by the local authorities. A night out is a no go in a couple of areas, there's been so many stabbings recently in bars and I only stick to the pubs I know nowadays. The shopping centre ruined the city. Far too big for the city population, meaning other areas receive hardly any footfall. The council have wasted so much money on projects and buildings that we don't need. Instead of rebuilding the Assembly Rooms, they've let it rot yet greenlit a project to build a new performance centre. Where was the logic in that? What's the plan for the old building? Boggles the mind.

Derby Arena I can't stand either. They couldn't even build a velodrome track big enough to host actual competition events because it's too small. Hence having to use it as a events arena to claw back some of the investment. The best thing it has been used for was the COVID vaccines.

The council have tried to make the city too big and grand for years and sadly it has backfired, meaning we have all these social problems and empty shops. And when they have money, they always spend it on the wrong project that nobody asks for.

Very harsh on Derby city council,. Name any other council who had the foresight of building a 20M squid vaccinodrome, ready a pandemic.

It is news to me that you can cycle in it as well, very clever design. I sleep easy at night knowing that my council tax is always well spent

What has always puzzled me is why the UN is absent. Take Cyprus, there is a no man's land border separating northern Cyprus from the south. Why can't they have something like this around Gaza. Israel have made Gaza a 21miles long prison for years. Hamas are a proxy for the Iran nutters as I understand it. Two wrongs have never made a right, simple as that. As several posters have said it is one hell of a s*** show.

4 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Mine too, but why would he stay?

Playing for the L1 Pep, what else does he need? 👀

Wayne who? Is he related to Jake?

6 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

I understand all of that but the question I don't understand is how they can build a similar length project in France for €8bn in five years and ours cost five, six, seven, eight times that and will not be ready for another ten years. I just don't understand the reason for the huge differential.

My uncle was quite high up in the SNCF, the French state railways. Every time there were budget reviews and cuts were discussed or a sniff of privatisation, his stock answer was always if you want to make it more expensive and not working,  look at how it's done in England. 

The away form. As they say win away and draw at home and we won't be far off.

Or is it the other way around?

Either way

Rational head on, Portsmouth and yesterday are 4 points dropped then we are 3rd on 18 points and we would be a happier camp, so not all terrible. This bring said, this season  is not an easy watch for me

13 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

No quality up top, other than that its not much different to anything else you've watched in the last 5 years

Agree. As soon as Didzy departure was official, I thought no quality left. Last year he sprinkled some magic and this is what got us near top 6  this year nothing there and we are nowhere near top 6

45 minutes ago, The_Sheriff said:

We've got the league one guardiola!

He's got the hair cut, not sure about the rest

10 hours ago, Sparkle said:

What exactly were you expecting?

The messiah. One day, it will come.

Bang average

10 hours ago, Justa said:

What ?!?! One of the best sets of fans I’ve ever heard !!!

Even when we scored they didn’t shut up !!

Good set of fans, best ever may be not. The exception being the first class idiot who jumped over the barrier on the south stand to throw a couple of missed punches , missed their equaliser and ended up in handcuffs.

That and the pen are the most memorable bit of action. It wasn't an easy watch, the match that is.

8 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Urgh. Another red card inbound. After the 4/5 that got missed on the weekend, they've got to give this one now, I suspect.

EDIT: Phew. Common sense prevails and it's still 15 vs 15. Uruguay playing out of their skins. Disallowed try but they are flying 🙂

We (France) need a strong second half. Uruguay are up for it. TMO still works a lot better than VAR. The players reaction to referees decision is great to watch, footballers watch and learn.

21 minutes ago, sage said:

@Eddie drinks this regularly already. It's decent stuff

Not really looked into it as i only found out about it tonight. but do they have a shop or is it available anywhere?

When in France a friend of mine told me his mate came back from Belgium and brought a box full of trappist beer. He told me try this one, Tynt Meadow, 7.4%, absolutely stunning. It's made in Leicestershire. That might save @Eddie a few quid on the import duty.

Scrap VAR Get more ladies refs. See how it goes

18 minutes ago, Red_Dawn said:

Wait. You’re saying we’re not friends? 🥲

4 minutes ago, 8Leeds said:

This ref is terrible. League one quality.

Not that bad.

Neutral fan here, the chicas are the better side. James to the rescue is required

9 minutes ago, Skin em Ted said:

Derbyshire lass too, born in Chesterfield 

Harry Maguire twin sister?

Good game this is

Have you tried to turn off some of the services that always get started at startup?

If you do get a Windows11, the more memory you can afford the better

El Nino innit?

When you see the amount of energy required to bring a kettle to the boil, I wonder how much more energy was required/absorbed to raise the ocean temperature by that much.

Scary stuff, the sh!t we have left for our kids to sort out is unreal.

I went today and it's the only friendly i have seen so can only judge by what i saw.As we stand problems we had last year with wing backs remain. PW favoured system is going to be difficult to implement, 1st half it just did not work. Only when Forsyth was introduced that it looked better. The thing is we can't rely on him to play a full season in that position. It may not be easy, again.

2 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

I'm pretty sure footballers love the pressure, that is why they get into it. He could still possibly win Champions League/Premier League/Euros medals. Or he could get yet more money. I'm sure his family and close friends are already comfortabley off. 

And they are just the footballing reasons too, before considering the moral concerns vs yet more money.

There is also the pressure they feel when seating on top of a fat wallet. I would have thought that this lovely feeling eases the moral concerns. Short career and all that

9 hours ago, Kernow said:

If that’s the genuine offer, then I struggle to see how any involved can reject it. Mbappe. Insane amounts of money, Mbappe ends up at Madrid anyway, PSG avoid any FFP sanctions and Saudi soaks up the financial burden whilst getting a one year reputation boost for the league.

Mbappe has won everything except for the Champions League, which probably won’t happen until he goes to Real Madrid anyway.

More money than sense has never been so appropriate for the Saudis.

Mbappe and his family who advise him are very smart. If they accept the offer I have no doubt that they will be seeing a way out to a big European club shortly after the move to Saudi kingdom