davenportram

2 hours ago, Spanish said:

I’ve seen no proof whatsoever that your claims are factual.  This is DCs budget and I don’t expect to see a radical change in it in the summer.  No transfer takes place for any club without EFL oversight.  Really happy to be proven wrong 

Not seen the quotes about two pots for transfers? The business plan was part of the process of coming out of administration. It has agreed spending limits in. Do keep up

8 hours ago, SSD said:

I think DC has given Warne a good enough budget to work with this season. No excuses in my view.

Warne chose to go for experienced freebies who would demand higher wages and signing on fees. He could have looked lower down the leagues for younger talent, pay a transfer fee but less on wages, bonuses etc. The manager might want to be daring and risky in his football tactics, so far his transfer policy is safe (putting it politely).

This short term transfer policy of buying older players has never worked in the 30 odd years I have watched Derby County. Every bleeding time we try and go for signing these "experienced, been there done it" players, we always end up increasing wage budget and struggle to ship them off because they're passed their best. And funnily enough never gain promotion, end up clearing a mess and starting again. Thankfully this time, most of them are not tied into silly contracts because we are lower down the football food chain.

But it’s not DC’s budget it’s the EFL’s with restrictive structuring of - have this for loans and this for permanents. 
 

not to mention every deal has to structured, agreed between clubs and then approved by the EFL. An extra level of complexity not faced by other clubs

The EFL business plan is complex

A loan pot of money, a permanent transfer pot of money. that cannot be cross subsidise each other

Maybe just maybe other clubs know this and the structuring of deals to make them work is too much for most, plus EFL approval makes the negotiations less straight forward.
 

I agree that buying for buying sake is stupid, we need better than we have on permanents as we are going to go up a division.

i reckon most of our loan pot when the Blackett -Taylor (loan to permanent) so the ability to loan players reduced.

Now we get into free agents and  loans - can be as good as we’ve got, no need to be better, as good as we’ve got will cover for injuries and still get us promoted without having players not good enough for the championship on long contracts.
 

anyway the EFL business plan ends this season so the next window is the real test of Warne and Clowrs in an unrestricted window

23 hours ago, inter politics said:

Unless it's a ridiculous hike, why would anyone not want to extend Wildsmith?!

Not good enough for the championship

Could he be one of the players who trigger an extension if he plays more games?
Im  sure Warne said something about this in an interview.

at the end of the day Wildsmith is too inconsistent to be first choice in the championship so would make sense if we don’t want to extend his contract 

2 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

No real change, they say he can’t leave unless we up the offer, we say we won’t or can’t increase it. As others have said, time to move on, they want to saddle themselves with an unhappy player on huge wages it’s their issue.

I reckon they know he’s leaving they’re just trying to push the price up or get us to commit to a purchase at the end of the season 

That Packets team is scary good for their age/experience. Experience would have got them over the line against the 49ers. 
 

im looking forward to next season

26 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

Yep, and still in trophy. There will be another fixture for this abandonment, was only 17 mins played and no ones fault. May be a different situation if a game was nearly over and the losing teams fans caused the game to be stopped.

Not necessarily. It could go down as the score at time of abandonment like Blackpool v Huddersfield when Blackpool fans stormed the pitch on 48 minutes

7 minutes ago, ram59 said:

What was the reasoning behind today's abandonment? 

The players were only off for 20 mins before the unfortunate fan was taken to hospital? Surely they could have safely warmed up again and as distressing as it was for those few people involved, it's going to cause a great deal of inconvenience and cost, at least, for around 20,000 fans. Out of those 20,000 there is a likely hood that someone going to the replayed game will be involved in some kind of trauma, which otherwise would not have happened.

I'm sure that Bolton won't be happy with another mid week fixture to arrange.

Perhaps it was uncertain as to the length of time that was going to be needed and or it may not have been just a medical emergency 

5 hours ago, IslandExile said:

I think it's changed - the ball is played to feet a lot more, rather than just pumped down the channels in hope.

Consequently, we retain the ball more, stretch the opposition and create more and better chances.

I'm all for it 🐏

By saying it’s done more you recognise that we tried it at times in the past. Perhaps that’s the real desire of Warne but we weren’t able to due player confidence, ability and fitness to keep playing that way for 90 minutes.  

Has Warneball changed? Or are we just able to do it better and for longer now the players fitness has improved (as Rotherham fans told me it would under Warne)

At times early season we pressed, we passed quickly and players attacked at pace, but it wasn’t maintainable for 90 minutes. This in my opinion lead to us sitting deep defending and appearing to not have a plan B or just hoof it

Now we are fitter, can pressure and press for prolonged periods and attack at pace for the full 90 (generally) meaning Warnes desired style is what we are seeing.

He’s fitter

were getting more crosses in

hes scoring more goals

Paul Warne needs credit

4 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

One loss and the Warne Out Out Thread kicks back in, with the best bit from @davenportram  predicting 3 games without a win, and the thread will restart, when @sage has already restarted it, with a bit of humour covering his real thoughts, and @davenportram has already contributed to it, sticking the thread high up in the charts on the dcfcfans forum for the whole wide world to see for any non-Derby County fan instantly jumping to the conclusion that Derby County fans, want their manager out, after a wonderful unbeaten run, after 1 defeat to another good team challenging for promotion, Peterborough, or the Derby County fans that don’t bother reading the content or understanding the fishing gif from Sage, and similar posts, and unfortunately might also jump to the same conclusion, also interpreting that a few Derby County fans want Warne Out Out.

@davenportram posted on the Warne Out Out thread………..

”Looks like I was right when I said once results turned the fans would stop being antiWarne.

I predict that if we go three games without a win this thread will restart”

……………………………………………………

So therefore I need to bite back on this Pro Warne thread and state that I read on this forum, that PW swore on Radio Derby in the post match interview after the game. I’ve not heard it, but it sounds like he was angry and disappointed with the result, or the question or both, like many of us were, and he shows his passion, and doesn’t hide and again I love him for it. 

I’m already looking forward to the next game where we fight again for a positive performance and the result we deserve from such. 🐏

 

Was I actually being anti-warne though? 

8 minutes ago, VulcanRam said:

Well if we go three games without a win against Fleetwood, Bradford and Burton I imagine the criticism will be justified. 

But in the meantime, do enjoy your smugness.

Always do

2 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

One bit of good news from today 

Doesn’t mean they won’t sell him - just means he can’t sign a pre-contract deal

On 31/12/2023 at 18:18, goodgollymickbrolly said:

I guess we’ll see - I can recall a few occasions where his last ditch tackling has rescued him when he’s been clearly outpaced.  And this is at L1 level.

Don't get me wrong, I love the guy as much as the next Ram, and can see him playing bottom half PL potentially.

How can he make last ditch tackles if someone outpaced him? You have to keep up to make a last ditch tackle

Anonymous for most of today, unforgivable not releasing Ward once he’d drawn the defender. He seldom shows end product (somehow Sibley provides even less)

Looks like I was right when I said once results turned the fans would stop being antiWarne.

i predict that if we go three games without a win this thread will restart

Sibley is a waste of a shirt. Only thing today that disappointed me apart from the Ref and the sheer amount of space we have their Number 30.

oh and bird and Hourihsnes anonymity in the first 45

Bird not releasing Ward on the break

and the general ineptitude of the officials. 
 

None of them are Warne’s fault so I’m still pro Warne with 1 defeat in 10

This threads giving me goosebumps

I remember B4’s first rallying calls in the days of the DET forum before we moved onto here.

always so positive. Come on South Stand @therams69 get the south stand to give us a verse of “B4 is watching, helping them fight. Guiding our hero’s in the black and the white”

Simply put we’ve found ways to win games when we’ve played badly. 
 

yesterday we came back to win from 2 down - when was the last time we did that. 
 

don’t care how we do it, just got to keep winning

On 02/11/2023 at 20:11, Nuwtfly said:

We are so obviously lacking in quality in the forward areas that I wouldn't mind if we spent everything we have in January on one or two attacking players.

Suspect we will end up replacing the likes of Cashin and Bird with workhorses, though. 

39 goals in 22 matches would indicate we have enough up top. Issues have been conceding sloppy in close games. Workhorses are required

Update

the shirt has been claimed 

Oh and I forgot the rule of three!!

three times you’ll tell them to do something before they do

never more than three instructions at a time

never more than three bits of information at a time

three pints is what they buy you when they turn 18

okay the last one is made up (the others are valid)

There isn’t a manual but my advice, based on nothing more than my own meandering experiences is as follows

https://youtu.be/EcM3rexWLdk?si=6QQgZHzyiRtc0L61

seriously there’s some good advice in that. 
 

stay true to yourself, never undermine your misses in front of family or children or anyone but do address differences in opinion privately 

Never say “ My mum reckons you should …”

do say “ take you’re coat off or you won’t feel the benefit”

never go back on a sanction - I once “threw away” my sons entire collection of Pixar Cars toys when he refused to tidy them up - I did fish them out the bin while he was asleep and the good fairies returned them as a reward for keeping his room tidy.