TF Ram

The photos must be recent, the one of him asleep he was watching back our highlights from last season.
 

The photos must be recent, the one of him asleep he was watching back our highlights from last season.
 

The photos must be recent, the one of him asleep he was watching back our highlights from last season.
 

Not surprisingly support increases when a team is doing well, just remember the heady days of 2014 when Pride Park was filled to the rafters...."Since I was young" bouncing off the roof.......
Ironically we are in a hole, the polar opposite situation and I suppose many supporters will...."stop supporting"
 
As a fan base, have we got the metal and love for the RAMS that the club is going to need over the next year or two. We often talk of our fantastic support, well we'll see. I rather suspect it will turn out not to be as solid or loyal as we often believe.

Unbelievable that anyone could point the finger at the manager right at this moment..its an impossible job for anybody..he hasn't got a team to put on the pitch ffs..the ownership is 100% to blame total embarrassing shambles..destroying this club..the only light is the possibility of proper professional owners stepping in..but when??..I give Rooney credit for trying to fight through this situation..but to say he has the cards stacked against him is a massive understatement..

I'm having myself one of those beautys. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For a tenner in April 

Apologies if mentioned earlier……. 5Live this morning, the psychology of the build up, and how us fans, from all corners of England are willing the national team to victory…..
‘Only a few clubs achieve success in the modern era so for all us supporters starved of any success this is a chance to support superstars who have the ability to win big’. 
So let’s embrace this and cheer on our national team. 

Her Maj rallying the troops...
 

Lemme guess, Denmark deserved better, we were lucky, not a penalty, shouldn't have taken Grealish off....
If you can't enjoy this I feel sorry for you. 
Denmark created very little and scored from soft free kick. It wasn't a penalty but the one on Kane was. Sterling Still shutting people up! Grealish off and we still created a great chance and it was a walk in the park at the end
Denmark ain't bad but they were never winning that. Didn't do anything like enough 

Our defence.

Have to say, some players are stepping up and showing what Southgate must have seen in them. 
Rice is really owning his position more and more. Allowing Phillips (is it OK to love a Leeds player) to put pressure on the ball. 
And Phillips is no Pirlo. Nothing like. But he is a horrible player who looks like he'd take on Denmark on his own if he had to. 
Kane, at last! Finally arrived and is making the runs and dummy runs we needed. Taking his marker on a walk. 
Always love Sterling. A lot rests on his shoulders and no, he doesn't always deliver but he carries the pressure on as you'd expect from a captain/leader in the body of Igor Stimac. 
Harry Maguire is the boss. He is the human form of English spirit. 
Yeah, I just think Southgate might deserve some love now. It's an England team that has always looked like it lacked a gear. But it might be time to make peace with that and accept his solid unit sprinkled with very good attacking players gets results where better England sides didn't. 

Spare a thought for Morecambe, who are now unable to sell their £80mil stadium. They should have taken the opportunity quickly when it was revealed that the EFL's 'expert' valued it the same last year.

Can i just take this opportunity to commiserate with the directors of Wycombe Wanderers on this breaking development

Shout out to Pickford and Stones. Quality.

I can't imagine he'll be too Keanu to come here.

Why are some folk so unable, unwilling or both, to assimilate a few simple facts concerning these charges? It's no small wonder that fans from other clubs have a poor opinion of us now, when some of our own fans, who ought to be better informed, are themselves the first to jump on any sniff of perceived wrongdoing. What possible benefit is there in wilfully ignoring what we know to be true in favour presupposing guilt at every corner? We've even got folk using the fact that we've not submitted the new accounts inside 48 hours as the latest stick with which to thrash the club. It simply beggars belief.
For the umpteenth time, there were two charges; one related to the valuation of our stadium and was summarily dismissed by the DC; the other related to our amortisation policy which was signed off on and approved under legal accounting standards by independent auditors, the auditors regulatory body, the DC and the ducking EFL themselves, the latter several times over a period of years. The amortisation policy charge was also initially dismissed by the DC for the aforementioned reasons. This left the EFL so desperate to save face that they appealed the decision, the outcome of which was predicted by myself and numerous others on this very thread: a small fine in order to secure the token win they need to maintain any ducking credibility at all AND NO POINTS DEDUCTION. 
At this point, I very much doubt that even the EFL will be willing to risk further embarrassment. They can kid themselves this paltry fine vindicates two years of unwarranted charges and appeals and get back to their principal role as lapdogs to Sky and the Premiership whilst paying themselves inflated salaries for doing so. As for the DC, I strongly suspect that they only agreed to what is a nominal fine in order to save the EFL from falling into further disrepute and to allow us to finally emerge from under an endless series of unfair and damaging embargos and to prevent the EFL from continuing what has become a spiteful and unwarranted campaign against a club whose chairman quite rightly questioned their business acumen. In doing so, they have vindicated Mel's opinion in spades, though the crushing irony of this has unsurprisingly escaped the EFL's notice and who will doubtless be celebrating spending millions to secure a £100k fine for their members' coffers.
If, as I strongly suspect, the EFL do not appeal this sanction, I think we will 'be the bigger man' and simply take the £100k hit in order to allow us to return to football matters rather than spending every waking hour addressing the embittered ramblings and actions of a so-called professional body that seems more intent on undermining its membership than serving it. 

Best group of young English players in a generation...with the worst negative manager...

Thought Scotland were very good value for a point at very least. They played their hearts out and battled for absolutely everything. England did precisely the opposite.
Southgate set up the side to not lose tonight, yet again. More concerned with staying in gainful employment than winning matches IMO. There's something vaguely obscene about paying a man £3 million a year to undermine the best crop of young players we've had in years. 

Stop being a wet blanket man. She was clearly shaken by the ordeal and was visibly upset. I was upset watching it. I rang my dad just to talk to him. Blokes my age and fit as a fiddle and it looks like his heart stopped. Why pick on people for being honest? 

That's the measure of the man right there. Small wonder he's so well respected throughout the game. Did occur to me that the game would not have gone on unless he'd somehow been in touch. Family of Football 1 Cruel Fate 0, I'd say. 

Seeing as he had a fit before the heart trauma, maybe that electrical short circuit led to the more serious event, and they'll be able to sort him out in regard to resuming his career, rather than the heart being an underlying issue.
I hope so, being married to a Spurs fan I've seen a lot of him down the years, not only does he have a wand of a foot but he was consistently statistically the hardest worker during the Poch years, which often gets overlooked.
 

Not sure - this Craig guy has got everything in this past week or so bang on. Don't think we should be naive in not believing it. 
 

The yodeling American dream team they told us about:

Yes, but we’ve still managed to make one play off final and two play off semis since Mel took over.
Football is a game of incredibly fine margins. If Bryson had got on the end of that cross against Hull, we might have gone up in Mel’s first season. If Roos had caught the ball at Wembley, we might have gone up slightly later than planned.
As it happens, those things didn’t happen, and we’re left in 21st place and worried about our club’s future.
Mel has made some terrible mistakes, and his last act might well be to sell us to someone who destroys the club. His tenure has undoubtedly been a failure.
But if one or two tiny things had happened differently, he’d have been a club legend.
Such is football eh?