Andrew3000

1 hour ago, Heisenberg said:

 

If true, not the mentality we need is it? 

3 hours ago, derbyfan55 said:

Season Preview Podcast Spectacular!! 

We are joined by Ryan Conway from The Athletic to talk all things Derby County ahead of the new season! We discussed Kamil Jóźwiak, ??????Tom Lawrence, Wayne Rooney, Derby's transfer plans and found our Ryan's predictions for the season. We also had a bit of fun chatting about baby animals and Ryan's Euro adventures.

Then we got the lowdown from And He Takes That Chance on Huddersfield ahead of the opening match of the season.

Listen here: Season Preview Podcast and Huddersfield Chat

Give it a listen and let us know your thoughts about the podcast and Saturday's match!

 

Great stuff, cheers. Ryan, a vision of the future sir...

46 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Only become the main focus of humour in a David Squires cartoon! ?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2021/aug/03/david-squires-on-the-football-leagues-return-and-the-rooney-blues

Rooney's tenure is finally successful! Well done Mel x

28 minutes ago, DCFC27 said:

As good as Cashin looked today, (and I’ll happily be proved wrong) he’s too small for the championship at CB. 

Interesting view, Im inclined to agree as I still think you need 1 beast at CB in this div. However, maybe he has a fantastic leap and doesn't miss many headers? Great towering header for the goal.

1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

Nicko says the situation with Davies has changed again

 

We are in a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Makes sense. These (including bench) are currently the best we have on the books. Why not start with strongest team tho at this point and go from there? 

1 hour ago, GboroRam said:

I looked him up on Wikipedia. Nice start for his entry. 

Robert Wallace Malone is an American virologist and immunologist criticized for propagating misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What else would it say?! Again, I'm not saying I 100% trust the source but his credentials as a scientist seem pretty good. Alarming how every dissenting voice is instantly discredited and how powerful the effect is on us.

https://trialsitenews.com/bioethics-of-experimental-covid-vaccine-deployment-under-eua-its-time-we-stop-and-look-at-whats-going-down/

4 hours ago, sage said:

Got told a big name and a younger player. They hear rumours all the time, so don't get too excited 

So that's Jagielka and Mengi.

8 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

My first “in the flesh” sighting last night of Derby County since we beat Blackburn 3-0 all those months ago. My thoughts:

1. Jagielka is class. In great shape. Plays with a smile on his face. 
2. Roos has improved hugely. Also bulked up. Made 2 great saves and distributed well.

3. Baldock is very average. A poor man’s Marriott. 

4. Lawrence: also bulked up. Anonymous last night and gave the ball away twice. Has the added responsibility of captaincy actually overburdened him?

5. Carroll looked useful and worth keeping. Morrison has great vision and passing but drifts out of the game especially on the left. Aluko looks ok but stifles Byrne a tad.

6. Derby looked so much better 2nd half when Bird, Watson, CKR & Jozwiak entered the field. Bird and Watson have vision to unpick defences which we lacked totally last season. CKR has obvious cutting edge but needs somebody alongside. 

7. Williams - wow! Where has he come from? Looks like he’s got potential to blossom. 
 

The trialists give us options and added depth but, Jagielka apart, they’re a motley crew of cast offs who perhaps might not live up to some of their hyperbole. I think Bird will really shine this year if played in the right way. Watson also could become first pick. 
 

But, we will struggle for goals again, unless Stretton gets a chance and suddenly catches fire. 
 

Overall team potential on last night’s showing: mid-table, having to work very hard to eke out 1-0s and 1-1s. We need more flare so lots of pressure on Lawrence & Jozwiak to produce more. 

Thanks. Can you expand on what you saw in Williams. Most know nothing about him. What position? What type of player? Etc. 

1 hour ago, loweman2 said:

After years of work and research here it is !
The Derby County shirt worn in the inaugural season of 1884 by the pioneers of our club, Cambridge Blue, Amber and Chocolate Brown the first colours of the Rams, it was thought that the early colours were blue but it was a shade of blue called Cambridge Blue which is actually more of a green. The badge was the badge of the Derbyshire FA that a player was permitted to wear if they had been selected to represent the Derbyshire FA.

we have had two made by a local tailor after we sourced the correct colours and the materials, the embroidery was done separately, even down to mother of Pearl buttons, it is to add further integrity to the book but moreover to show where the club evolved from, the team that wore these colours set the precedent for all those that have followed, the shirts will be on display at our Rams Heritage roadshows later in the year.

brought to life after 137 years by Phil Lowe & Jason Shardlow.

I want one. As a nightdress. I'm looking more like Mr burns everyday. Seriously it's a thing of beauty. Well done sir!

5 hours ago, ThePrisoner said:

It also states they’re working to improve relations between the two organisations. You can’t just pick and choose Curtains. 

?

12 hours ago, Archied said:

 long covid ,,,, what’s next longer covid??‍♂️

Ooof. Wish you hadn't put that because its very insensitive. Also, one common way of dismissing dissenting voices has been the accusation of callousness and selfishness. I hope this was just an impulsive, ill advised joke.

We cannot fall into the trap of being equally dismissive of people who disagree or have different experiences. There has been great suffering from this virus, even if I am worried that we are overall not getting the balance of risk right, not putting things into context and lots of things don't add up, the virus has been devastating for some.

11 hours ago, therealhantsram said:

Yes, published in the Lancet.

Here's the link.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext#seccesectitle0013

 

"People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition."

Very concerning 

20 minutes ago, Archied said:

Not a chance , there are people diagnosed with long covid without testing positive or having a symptom before , could you imagine them diagnosing vaccine side effects to someone not vaccinated ??‍♂️

Well if true that's a concern. Auto immune type disorders and chronic fatigue problems have been on the rise in recent years and are poorly understood and treated. Whatever the cause, terrible suffering results.

1 minute ago, GboroRam said:

It's interesting, I'm not dismissing the potential. But there needs to be more than been to date before we hold it up as a treatment. We've heard lots of treatments talked about and longer study shows it to be ineffective. 

Remdesivir was championed at one point but has since been found to be limited in its effectiveness. 

Those of you telling us to follow the money, be wary of the promise of a panacea drug. These things are highly complex and can't be evaluated after watching a few YouTube videos. 

Gboro, you couldn't resist a dismissive barb at the end there! I take your point and I freely admit it is hard to work out what is a credible source, but I can't fault Tess Lawries credentials as an external consultant to WHO and a practising medic. 

My main concern IS drugs being held up as a panacea precisely because of the vested interests, the power and money. My interest in Ivermectin is partly maintained by the fact it is an out of patent drug that no-one can profit from greatly, as I understand it.

Anyway, whether it works or not we need more options to manage this terrible situation and protect our health.

14 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

As @maxjamnow knows the AZ are not the RNA tech and quite a large majority of our shave been those. So you could always chose to have the AZ. Your point isn't valid for this vaccine and you've still not actually backed up your assertion with facts ?

I said mostly using RNA, but it is right to point that out. @maxjam points out some scientists are concerned about the spike protein. 

As for safety checks, you are quite right to ask for evidence and I will keep looking at this because perhaps I have been mislead here. However, the article you posted says this :

"Although the vaccines have completed the necessary steps of each trial, the health and economic impact of COVID-19 has meant the process has been sped up"

So what does that actually mean? You can't speed up longer term follow up. To me, it says we didn't wait for the long term data but don't worry we are still collecting it. 

Then there is the adverse events reporting. Tess Lawrie wrote about her concerns. I was worried that initial reports of these were quickly being shot down in the media.

I will go back to things I've listened to and read and consider this more carefully. I'm open to being wrong, which is why we should always debate with people we disagree with! I will be honest about my own bias, I don't trust authority because of my own personal experiences and history shows that power corrupts. The evidence of corruption in our governments is overwhelming, so much so we have become numb to it, like with Trump.

Academia is a flawed system. Big businesses have too much power to influence everything in our lives etc etc. 

So I have my biases as do we all. Its been good actually to air some of this stuff because it doesn't feel that socially safe to do that. Which is another thing some of us are worried about. 

13 hours ago, GboroRam said:

Absolutely it is. And when the general consensus in the scientific community says it's safe, I'll agree with Andrew3000. But before that happens, it's still anecdotal evidence. 

Come on, there is more than anecdotal evidence which I've supplied links to. You can't do meta-analysis on anecdotal evidence! Anyhow, I just want balance in all things and to feel that we can debate such important issues.

8 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

Said it before and I'll say it again,the efl will not be happy until we have been made a example of and are relegated.

It probably would have been better to have just got it done last season in hindsight....we would have had a total reset and would now be into a rebuild rather than waiting for it to happen.

I'm starting to agree. Not being able to be compete is a complete waste of a season. I'd rather have meaningful div 1 matches than this.

Oh dear, doesn't sound good. What an earth is going on? Giving with one hand and taking with another. If nixon thinks petty politics involved maybe he could write a critical piece about the EFL? 

4 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Known fact - where is your evidence for the vaccines not going through rigorous testing?

As for long-term testing it os on going

Fact check: It is standard practice for vaccine safety monitoring to continue after approval | Reuters

Vaccines are not a new method of treatment.

The COVID-19 vaccines are mostly using new RNA tech. Long term testing is usually done in trials, not in a global roll-out! I didn't say no safety checks, I said the usual gold standard has been waived. I will check this.

6 minutes ago, maxjam said:

 

I'm not sure what point you think I've been trying to make with my posts?

All I have stated (with links) is that some countries have had success with Ivermectin and it is undergoing a proper trial here in the UK - which may or may not lead to your peer reviewed study.

I'm not suggesting anyone should take it and I'm not pinning all my hopes on it.  If it work, it works.  If it doesn't, it doesn't.  The only personal comment I made was 'Personally, I hope Ivermectin or or some other readily available, proven drug is found to help in the battle vs covid as it will give those hesitant to take the vaccines alternative medicines'  as the drug is approx 40 years old with a proven track record.

Same here. I'm just interested in choice and finding answers to things that don't make sense.