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CKR vs Boro

Judging by @David's mood I'd say yes, several times, and a few more positions as well!

Today was 2nd inoculation day so he's been a little subdued but coming back round. 
Growing quickly at around 1kg per week. Toilet training is a bit hit and miss and the 5am starts are a bit of a trial. 
He's been to a local factory and has a trip lined up at the local primary school. All good ?
 

There’s something about black labs as well. This is Arlo, my sister’s dog.

And one more from our playtime this evening. Fear not folks, the frequency will reduce... 
 

Hopefully he's chosen to just ignore you, this constant back and forth is tedious beyond belief. He's entitled to his opinion as you are yours, does it really need to be gone over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

And surely that startling admission (among others) should have worried any Rams fan. First of all it goes without saying that every team is trying to get the points. However, openly admitting that there was no consistent game plan for the majority of a season is surely almost unprecedented by a manager.  That there is a strong positive correlation between a team knowing what it's supposed to be doing every week and results is surely not a controversial statement. 
It's hardly any wonder we saw player's performance go backwards. They were being asked to prepare differently and play differently for every single match. 
We are really lucky we stayed up at all. 

Definitely not expecting top 6....wouldn't even if he had 10m to spend. I'm also not pretending it must have been easy for him this past season but to his credit, he didn't complain about the unpaid wages or failed takeovers.
I'm a big advocate of youth development & attractive football and on both scores, we've regressed under his reign. I look at how Sibley, Knight & Bird have gone backwards under him and am concerned that this is just his style of management. Added to the style of play, it seems to run counter to everything I thought we stood for. You mention him leveraging his contacts for Prem loans...this to my mind is just creating another Lampard situation, a squad built on sand. It also tallies horribly with my belief that he will leave the moment we start doing well & a Prem club flutter their eyelids. No long term plan & no legacy if he left.
We obviously won't agree on Rooney but I do agree with the sentiment of your post. Given he is likely to stay for the reasons we all know about, get behind the team, no negativity at PP & hope to goodness there is something more about him than he has shown to date. Also not the type to want results to prove I'm right....I hope he builds this club back up, shows commitment if we do start doing well & rams the critics' words back down their throat. We all want heroes ultimately & to feel proud of our club again.

As I was unable to go drinking beer in the Czech Republic this weekend as originally planned the Czech pivo has had to come to me.

It’ll be this if the US takeover rumours are true.
 

HMRC are responsible for:
Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Insurance Premium Tax, Stamp, Land and Petroleum Revenue Taxes
Environmental taxes
climate change and aggregates levy and landfill tax
Value Added Tax (VAT), including import VAT
Customs duty
Excise duties
National Insurance
Tax Credits
Child Benefit
Please don’t put this on Twitter, but my understanding is that we still owe duty on the importation of Albentosa, Camara and Jozwiak, and are massively in arrears on child benefit payments for Knight, Sibley, Buchanan and Bird. The biggest debt to HMRC though falls under the Climate Change Levy where Mel Morris has incurred the club significant fees for the over production of worthless hot air.

Transvision Vamp Wendy James oooohh!!!

Used to be every post was a pun,
and ok, that was quite fun,
now each ones a Limerick,
I’m really quite sick of it,
so wake me up when you’re all done.

Some of the puma kits in the mid 90s had gold piping on and they were some of my favourite kits. Most of the stuff we have now is so boring - just feels like I could get a plain white shirt and draw a ram on it and it would be virtually the same as the home shirt - there is no creativity in any of them recently

It’ll be this if the US takeover rumours are true.
 

It’ll be this if the US takeover rumours are true.
 

It’ll be this if the US takeover rumours are true.
 

Imagine Becks sitting in the exec seats up in the West Stand, the whole ground rising in appreciation, "David Beckham's Black and White Army" ringing round the stadium......then it dies down, goes quiet, and a lone voice from the back of the South Stand gives it, "Posh Spice, takes it up the.........." 
 

Or even a choux-in

Disappointed it didn't scan to "12 days of Christmas" to be honest. Started OK, but went wrong fast.

To be fair I think we should celebrate the fact that our governing body show expertise in such a wide range of areas.
I mean they've shown themselves to have more knowledge of property valuation than one of the biggest commercial chartered surveyors in the world, better knowledge of accounting and auditing than a firm of chartered accountants, better knowledge of the application of accounting policies than the ICAEW. Basically, the only area where they seem to lack any creditable expertise is in running the football league.

I'm getting bored of this.

This is an exercise in the EFL saving face, self justification, and placating bitter football clubs looking to do one over on each other. It is not about protecting football clubs from Portsmouth scenarios or the integrity of the competition. 
The EFL is quite happy to overlook Watford and Forest’s unique methods of circumventing FFP (switch/loan players between clubs for fee values to help their compliance with rules), not penalise the overspending of the likes Villa Bournemouth Leicester QPR Wolves, and overlook the dodgy practices of Steve Gibson and the use of his haulage company to help circumvent rules. 
 
They are choosing to follow this grotesque charade and to ruin the integrity of competition with league positions being decided by arbitration panels instead of addressing the fundamental issue, that parachute payments are creating a grossly unfair competition, creating spiralling wages and resulting in clubs needing to spend beyond their means just to compete. Much has been made of Derby’s spending, yet it’s been dwarfed by the clubs that have come down by the premier league, highlighted by the spending and wages disparity between Derby and both clubs they have lost playoff finals to. The irony of all of this is the main club fighting this - Boro - are doing it because we beat them to the playoffs. Did we have an advantage over them? No. They had a bigger budget than we did due to parachute payments!! They blew it on Assombalonga and others and failed. 
 
How are clubs without parachute payments supposed to compete. Eventually the majority of those that do try and compete will eventually come into problems unless they have luck ie. they somehow get promoted. These clubs don’t want to spend over the odds on wages, they are forced to by the parachute funded clubs that set the market rate, like Boro giving Assombalonga £50k per week.
If they try to apply FFP for the past two seasons (average of 19/20 and 20/21) as has been suggested, half the clubs will fail it, they must do, they’ve had massive revenue cuts so how can they comply? Only the clubs who are parachute funded could possibly comply.
 
We will probably be punished to make a point and then FFP will be scrapped because half the league failing it will be ridiculous. It’s not working, it’s not making clubs more sustainable. How about fixing the distribution of money in the game and introducing salary caps either on players or in line with turnover if player salary caps is too difficult,  it would be far more effective and help level things up.
But regardless of the rights and wrongs of the EFL and Derby. I’m tired. I’m tired of reading about ERVs and FRS102, I’m tired Mel’s war with the other football clubs, I’m tired of all these jokers trying to take over our football club. When can it be just about Football again?! 

 

I've been open minded on Erik so far, but this has tipped me over the edge to being against him. The Matt Southall links, the Indonesian links, the Vox links, the allegations of a lack of money, I could look past them, but there's absolutely no way I want our club ran by someone that uses TikTok.