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3 hours ago, Betty Swollocks said:

There are still over 7000 tickets available for this.

Hopefully as its payday for a lot of people on Friday and Jan has been a long month lots of fans will buy tickets over the weekend as anything less than close to capacity for this is a bit disappointing imo.

The "Its on TV" argument doesn`t really wash with me either unless you live miles away. It certainly hasn` put W Ham fans off making a 300 mile round trip on a Monday as they have sold out of their 4500 allocation

The replay will be on TV as well and we would take thousands there as well 

I have purchased my ticket but re to watch is free to watch and bills need paying

I will just do it on players we owned 

Bogle - would suit us 

Ebosele - what a waste signing for that lot - his development here would have been very good 

Williams - again he would be playing and developing 

Delap or Jakobson based on what he has achieved in the championship as centre forwards 

1 hour ago, Magicman said:

Hope this thread can be locked soon. 

Don’t look at it then is the best solution I suspect 

Can’t blame him for a 3.5 year deal 

1 hour ago, Tamworthram said:

Do you not think, playing like we did last night, we’d be at risk of losing our away games at Plymouth, Sheffield Wednesday or Barnsley?

I reckon last night was a classic case of not playing particularly well but somehow finding a way to win. I’m not sure we’d be able to pull it off against a better team.
 

Port vale not having a game Saturday made a big difference but second half we were excellent attacking wise - I just watched the highlights and we created two excellent chances in the first half, which being right behind the net I hadn’t realised 

10 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

All that tells me is that Cashin needs a big payrise

Yes a hundred times - that’s why Belick wasn’t brought back then 

2 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said:

I work with someone who lives near Warne and although he doesn’t know PW he says he talks to some people who do and he claims Warne was asked to come earlier but he held back to stop with the team that he got up.

I heard the same - he turned us down ! 

1 hour ago, David said:

Played the full 90 of the first 3 games, scored 1 then fell out of favour. He’s only played 90 minutes once in November since….I would suggest that says he’s just not been in Pearson’s plans for whatever reason rather than money.

Doesn’t make sense not to play him if you’re paying him anyway, especially when near the foot of the table if he’s still as good as some of you are suggesting….unless he’s on some ridiculous appearance fee and bonuses.

Out of contract in the summer as well, so not like he has 2 or 3 years to run and been told by upstairs he really needs to be pushed out, if that was the case, would have done it in the summer and not started the games. Was well documented back then they may struggle with FFP. 

Doesn’t make sense not to use him but it’s Pearson we are talking about 

Right here goes - my first away league game of the season ?

port vale are a horrible niggley side who hadn’t played at the weekend and it showed in the first half but the last half an hour of the second half Derby threw everything at them with Dobbin changing the game in our favour - yes if he was scoring Everton would have had him back by now but his pace Killed Port vale. 
great three points and it wasn’t cold either 

Can’t blame the lad - 3.5 year contract is very decent for someone his age 

4 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

My back lawn is still like concrete after quite a lot of sun today. It’s not far to Port Vale but I hope it is not called off at about 7 o’clock tonight.

I am going as well, if it got called off at 8.00 pm it would be worse! 

Port vale 1-2 Derby county frgs knight 

16 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

If he's still 'got it' and his physical attributes don't really matter because they're outstripped by his technical ability and overall nous, then why don't Bristol want him anymore? Anyone know? They haven't changed manager, and Pearson seemed happy to play him to good effect previously.

Pearson wants 3-4 players out to bring some in and has told them they will not be selected no matter what ( foolish I say) - he is out of contract in the summer - we would need a loan I assume that is discounted in wages - would he he want to return who knows  can he play football, er yes 

1 hour ago, YorkshireRam said:

You can't have been paying much attention to Shef Utd in the last few years then... Top scorer in their final season in the Prem (20/21) and voted Player of the Season the year they initially got promoted (18/19), and remained a firm fan favourite throughout his tenure with them.

Similar the Martin with us then 

8 hours ago, Minneapolis American ITFC said:

Few weeks back Derby were like mid-league and we ourselves at the top, and now look at it.   I mean seriously, what the hell.

If you beat Port Vales tomorrow and we lose to Morecambe then the distance will be reduced to just one point, unbelievable just a month or two back.   Yeah, I'm worried.  It's got to be said.    You got a game in hand over us also.  

 I take the opportunity to congratulate Rams on moving up from mid-league to the verge of an automatic promotion opportunity, there's no malice or ill-feeling or why should there be, but a lot of our fans are getting mighty antsy about the time ahead having lost a number of valuable points in recent games.

I think teams like us, you look at the top two automatic promotion places and question can we really make it, you know, invade that territory and stick with it.    In truth I answer for my own team No, not sure how you feel about your own club endeavors for the months ahead, but you got to realize, it's a tough ask for sure.   

Probably said before teams like us, of previous stature and accomplishment, don't really belong in this league.   You know what the worse thing is, being at the very top for certain stages sure that you're going to do it, only to see your team fall away and people are asking questions is the play-offs the best thing to accept even at this stage of this season.   

It's going to be an interesting round of games tomorrow for sure.     Mentioned on a Town forum to our own fanbase (that) only the strong and whoever holds their nerve most  (from Plymouth to all top six club names) can, or will, only succeed in terms of a promotion.   

 

 

Let me help you - last August we had a 5 player squad ! - we can’t spend any transfer fees, we can’t pay loan fees, we can’t pay agent fees. So we can only have free kids and old professionals in football terms - we have no one between 22-29 years old. Our interim manager did well enough early on considering everything and has moved on to Hull city our current one is rather experienced in this league. We are getting fitter and a bit more organised. In this league I’d expect the teams at the top to basically stay there because it’s hard not to win matches in this league.

id expect us to make the play offs which can ultimately be the lottery we know so well but it’s nice if the three clubs above us get a bit nervous and if they bottle it, if they do it’s because they aren’t good enough to go up. 
in an ideal world Derby county Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich town should all be at least in the championship and we didn’t get relegated because we were crap on a football pitch. 
I hope that helps and by all means feed it back to your own fans forum?

Worth revisiting a lot of comments made on here about McGoldrick signing when he did or was about to, last season he couldn’t run fast, wasn’t getting selected when available etc etc but he seems to be rather streetwise for a lot of the defenders in this third division that we are in currently. How he can’t help us I don’t understand? Especially if we can’t get anyone better?

2 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:

West Ham finished 7th and made the semi-final of the Europa Cup.

The season before they finished 6th.

And they have some very good players.

I'd day they were a top club.

Ok - I consider top clubs as ones that win things 

1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

I think Jason has only recently hit the sort of form we'd hoped. Maybe he was taking a while to get back up to speed and understand the Warne way. I'd still much rather have both him and Sibley in midfield, who would complement each other so well. And be terrifying for the opposition. But it's good that Hourihane is being more involved and we're seeing better form from him too. I'm sure the two of them are helping each other, with the Irish connection a big plus too. 

Such a good player that has constantly been played out of position to help the side have some balance - central midfield gives the side so much more 

17 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

 

Cough- we are not on fire - we are effective - West Ham are not a top club - they are in the premiership where they exist and never try to do anything more 

Not his fault - you can only select the players you have - desperate move by Everton 

How dare West Ham recall him - do they want us to play him or something 

3 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:

Love Chrissy Martin although I fiercely advocated against his signing when Clough got him from Norwich. I just couldn't see where the goals would come from and boy was I wrong. I think he'd fit Warne ball very nicely tbh. He'd hold the ball up, win free kicks, and he has that sneaky streak which his teams occupy. Defenders generally hate playing against him and given Warne loves to cross his aerial presence would help. 

Given that we can't pay fees and are limited in wages maybe bringing him back would be a good idea. He could alternate with Mcgoldrick giving us something a bit different. Yet, people will be wanting prime Martin which inevitably he is not now. He does seem to have a problem if he isn't getting first team football all the time which could also be an issue. It'd be very romantic if nothing else but am not sure if we'd be better off trying to get someone just a bit younger in.

Bristol want him off the wage bill which is why he isn’t being selected so they are actively encouraging him to move on - if it was subsidised we ought to be interested loaning him for the rest of the season but some folks have a strange view. Warne and martins view is what matters but I can’t see a particular down side

14 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Boro finished 7th last season, 5 points behind Sheff Utd.

3 points behind is worth a claim of between £3-40 million 

On 21/01/2023 at 09:50, Chellaston Ram said:

I’m surprised Everton are letting him go to a relegation rival….they not rate him 

They can sense being given a lot of money for something that will ultimately disappoint 

I prefer actual goals 

over a season with a positive goal difference of about +50