DarkFruitsRam7

3 minutes ago, Spanish said:

I think it was actually a lot longer than that originally

I think @Rample touched on it in his excellent tribute.

This is from Palace away in the FA Cup just before Covid. I think it sums the great man up.

2 minutes ago, Spanish said:

That’s awful news and knocks you back on your heels in shock, what was his original ‘handle’ B4ev1s etc something like that

@B4ev6is

RIP to the most passionate Ram I’ll ever know.

Quietly impressive. Good player.

Bobby Duncan

3 minutes ago, Mihangel said:

Maybe they should have asked first? Twonks.

I would have thought they had to ask in order to get access to the ground on a non-matchday?

Edit: They did 

58 minutes ago, Archied said:

It’s really quite scary, people out on the streets protesting and not the slightest clue of events to even base a judgement on 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sounds familiar👀

1 minute ago, Ram@Lincoln said:

That's the Derby way thought? Reject players when they're cheap/free, sign them for big money, then give them away/pay them to leave. We need to learn how to play the market like Brighton, Brentford or Peterborough. Buy low, sell high.

I completely agree, but we're a million miles away from being able to do that with our current setup. We need a complete restructuring of the club IMO, as we're currently being run like something from the 90s.

Of course, the most important thing is that we're being run as sustainably as possible, and I have complete faith in Clowes on this. But if we're going to progress, we need to modernise. There were some positive noises around this at the recent fans forum, so fingers crossed.

36 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Wasn’t too long ago we were smashing these to pieces under Steve McClaren.

Now we are in League One playing their U21s in an official EFL fixture.

 

Was it Wolves that Lee Grant had an absolute stinker against? When they had Dicko and Afobe up front?

54 minutes ago, KBB said:

Manning is a strange one. Pompey had a look at him as their potential manager about a year or so ago I think and basically said "he wouldn't stay long enough for us to appoint him" ie. He would jump ship for a higher job the second it was offered.

Gets teams playing decent football, although his mk dons side were comical trying to play from the back, gave away a goal easily every single game and were very very soft centered.

He strikes me as someone who has ambitions to get "to the top quickly" almost a pound land Graham Potter and realised early on that a style of play was very very important to this and getting the media in particular to parrot this information is important to building a profile.

He has certainly left Oxford in a much much better place, with a stronger squad and infrastructure in place so he must have been doing something right.

If he does well at Bristol fully expect him to jump to a lower prem team/ fallen giant in the championship in about 12 to 15 months.

Tbf, I saw an MK Dons fan on Twitter saying that he had the chance to jump ship when he was managing them and didn't take it, then things turned to poo.

Aside from all the Rosenior vs Warne discourse (which is pretty boring), anyone else just really pleased that a top bloke who was nothing but brilliant with the fans seems to be doing really well in his career?

42 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

99% based on what exactly?

Hold up let me dig out an academic study.

One of my pet peeves. 99% of people don't care, and most find it funny.

5 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

....... and?

 

Was a bit long mate.

53 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Graham Potter played expansive football at Brighton. His first two seasons there wielded similar points and position to that of Chris Hughton (41 points and 16th spot), but the GD was much better and the foundation were then built for their top half finish in his third season. Potter’s football got him the Chelsea job.

Pochettino was similar at Southampton. His football got him the Spurs job.

Eddie Howe’s football at Bournemouth got him the Newcastle job.

Nobody is going to look at Forest under Cooper, getting 25% possession at home, having the worst XG in the league and thinking yeah this guy looks a good fit for a Tottenham or Chelsea. He is doing brilliant at Forest in the same way Hughton did at Brighton and Dyche did at Burnley, except Cooper has had a far bigger budget than those two.

I’m not advocating for Forest to sack Cooper. From a business sense, you could argue he almost guarantees PL survival (similar to Hodgson, that’s why Palace went back to him). 

But there is no future for Cooper above this current level and the same goes for Forest while Cooper is in charge. So yeah, get used to percentage underdog football, lower PL finishes, only 9-10 wins every season and negative GDs.

Different times I know but I guarantee Forest under Cooper won’t reach the heights of Derby under Jim Smith. No chance.

 

What kind of football were his England kids playing, do you know? Genuine question.

Killers of the Flower Moon. Very, very long.

19 hours ago, Chester40 said:

Interstellar 

Watched it with the kids, their first time.

Chuffed that they loved it.

The narrative gets lost occasionally and you have to suspend belief to enjoy it completely... but bloody hell it's an epic film that is just jam-packed with ideas and emotion.

Ironically it seems to bend time so that it feels very slow-paced as you watch it and then it ends... and you realise you have experienced and felt so much that you can't quite take it all in. 

9/10

Best film I've ever seen. Incredible.

10 hours ago, admira said:

I'm doing Y-Not (Derbyshire) and Bestival (Shropshire) next year. Anyone done either before?

Thought we'd try something different.

Did Y Not when I was 18 in 2018. Nice little festival with good bands, and not as druggy as some of the bigger ones if that sort of thing puts you off.

Sorry @Mostyn6!

1 minute ago, Foreveram said:

Wigan on Boxing Day will definitely reach sales to season ticket holders.

I live in Canada so would be a stretch to get a season ticket 🙂

18 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Simple answer, no.

Excellent. That's my festive away day plans done for!

Do they sell away memberships mid-season? Nothing showing on the website - was going to call in a few days. 

3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Surely the harmful effects of nicotine are already well known though?

Nowhere near as bad as the effects of tobacco though, presumably?

10 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

does make you wonder, how, in this day and age, with the knowledge around, how do kids start smoking and vaping? 

Kids don't smoke cigs anywhere near as much these days. It's bordering on socially unacceptable.

The rise of disposable vapes has been ridiculously quick. There also isn't as much concrete knowledge on the harmful effects.