Will the Ram

2 hours ago, MadAmster said:

Our last 12 fixtures against Barnsley have seen us lose 3, draw 2 and win 7. Having said that our last win there was back in 2017. Time to put a stop to that little run. 0-2 NML and Gayle

Unfortunately Oakwell has been a bit of a bogey ground for us since 2008/09 (the season after we were relegated from the Premier League). Hopefully we can put that right on Saturday.

50 minutes ago, Steveb52a said:

126 Extra tickets available from 10am to season ticket holders only, any remaining (and that's having a laugh surely) go on general sale at 4pm. So, if anybody has a single ticket available, short notice, let me know, cheers!

The extra tickets are being sold online or phone lines only.

20 hours ago, rynny said:

There is still going to have the free to air games on BBC and ITV, the same as when it was on BT Sport a few years ago and Sky Sports before that.

Right now all games shown in the UK are free to air on BBC or ITV (although I don’t understand why the BBC is classed as free when you have to pay a licence fee to watch). With this new deal I take it as more games will be shown but some of the current share of the rights will be on TNT and less for free. I could be wrong though.

More games shown may also mean different kick-off times (although the 3rd Round has this already). It’s about time the Saturday 3pm blackout rule was scrapped IMO.

On 16/01/2024 at 15:57, Ram-Alf said:

He was born in 2004 so wouldn't know what happened in 2002...Simon De Turd 👍  

Not just in 2002. They failed FFP in 2013/14 but they went up (at our expense ultimately). 2 years later they were PL Champions.

Does anyone know if Sunday’s FA Cup match can be streamed (eg FA Player)?

On 11/12/2023 at 22:03, ram59 said:

Slightly off topic, does anyone understand the Sky advert with Warnock in it?

It’s a parody of a scene in Love Actually.

9 hours ago, WystonRam said:

 Costing £30 for Orient too, ridiculous. Bolton charged £30 as well. Should not be allowed in the third tier of the EFL.

Bristol Rovers was £30 last season too. It is getting ridiculous.

The retro shirts are a currently 30% off on fanatics.co.uk

https://www.fanatics.co.uk/?query=derby county&_ref=p-HP:m-TYPEAHEAD:i-r-0c-0:po-0

That worked out well.

4 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

We did alright under Rowett .  Ledley, Johnson, Winnall and Jerome kicking crap out of everyone with a bit of Vydra tearing people apart. He also quickly noted how dross Butterfield was.  I'd take it now. We scored goals and even outmuscled Warnocks goons. Warne would love Nugent in this team.

Rowett tenure was not great. We went from 2nd at new year to scrapping 6th on the final day. The home loss to bottom team Sunderland and away defeat at Burton (also bottom of the table at the time) were particular “highlights”, not to forget trying to sit on a 1-0 lead at for the whole of the second leg at Fulham in the Play-offs.

It was very similar to what Warne is doing now but we had vydra who could score then.

When was that Palace match?

We do have a habit of helping teams on a bad run. Ipswich A 2009/10 is the one I remember. They hadn’t won all season until we played them late October. We lost 1-0. Roy Keane was their manager.

Today was also very typical Derby.

On 05/10/2023 at 07:40, DavesaRam said:

He did blow it big time, but he was working with what Billy Davis left him, which in terms of Premier League football was diddly squat. If you remember Billy went in holiday for 2 weeks while all the players we needed to sign went to other clubs, leaving us to sign a load of has-beens and rejects. A bit like what Cocu inherited from Lampard’s double stab in the back, only Jewell was no Cocu. 

Jewell selling the spine of our attack in Howard & Oakley (Oakley was also the captain) was probably a big part of our demise in the latter half of the season. I would say Oakley was definitely better than Savage who was bought in to replace him.

On 05/10/2023 at 13:20, MadAmster said:

We were justifiably relegated that season. I flew back for half a dozen of the home games, one of which was Chelsea. We went 1 up. Then, a Derby player was fouled around the centre circle. Ref gave Chelsea the free kick and, in the ensuing move, they scored. 1-1. Shortly afterwards, a Derby player was fouled around the centre circle.... wash, rinse repeat. 1-2 and Chelsea go home with 3 points.

There were more instances of such injustice during the season but we would still have finished bottom but may well have beaten Sunderland's 15, Huddersfield's 16 and Villa's 17 points tallies from previous seasons.

We lost 0-2 to Chelsea. The goal we did score was wrongly disallowed for offside. If only we’d had VAR that day.

On 24/09/2023 at 20:45, Mucker1884 said:

Just realised... I bet Newcastle are relieved to have got that win out of the way today!  

#The only team not to beat the worst team in history!  🤣

Fulham didn’t beat us either. 2 draws.

Chelsea’s away kit is navy. What’s the point of having two blue kits?

On 02/09/2023 at 18:48, Marriot Ram99 said:

Who knows where we'd be now though? Maybe midtable championship or still league 1 after relegation and financial issues. Eventually we will get there, need to get to championship first then get a new owner with more money to take us to next level as we could be like a Preston always in midtable if don't invest with the championship being tough at the top. Possibly could get to Prem without spending alot but it's hard to do anything in the Prem without decent funds to buy players for 10+mill and offer 70k+ a week.

Mel was supposedly taking us to the next level with his big spending. That worked out well didn’t it?! Be careful what you wish for (as we learned the hard way).

Their new chief executive talking them up worked a treat.

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Who ?

He was Bolton’s GK last season.

On 26/06/2023 at 11:11, angieram said:

So, all these likely to be Tuesday or Wednesday,  and it looks like we are away to Notts County in the EFL trophy. Not sure which week that is? 

Notts County A - Tuesday 10/Wednesday 11 October

11 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

They closed sales last year didn’t they? The same thing could happen next season but it still shouldn’t be an issue provided you renew fairly soon and there isn’t a sudden rush of new members within the first couple of days.

Yes they went off sale on 4 August last season.

5 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

Bolton fans had a choice to make, nothing particularly inspiring, but...

 

 

Home kit choice has been revealed...

 

 

I imagine there'll be quite a large number of people out there who think this is brilliant because it's so basic, even if it looks like it's been sewn by an apprentice at the local knicker factory.

I suppose it shows what people who want us to go back to blue shorts would actually get if we did.

I like it apart from the green sponsor. I ales think the logos should match the trim colour. The main reason I don’t like most of our shirts with the Just Eat logo.

18 hours ago, Rampant said:

£50k I think

Yes sorry it is £50,000 my mistake.

Tom Ince is leaving Reading. Watford have activated his £500K release clause.

15 hours ago, David said:

I will talk to them today, see if there is anything they can do to make the bar more transparent. There is a time zone issue here in where it's midnight their time so it will be a few hours before any changes will be made.

Please bare with us as we tweak things.

The issue seems to have been fixed (for me at least). Thanks.

2 hours ago, therealhantsram said:

This new one at the bottom of the screen is very intrusive if you run the dark theme for the site. It sticks a big white bar across the bottom of the screen.  

Yes that’s what I’m talking about.

I’ve been on the forum tonight and there’s adverts across the bottle of the screen. Is this now a regular thing? It’s very intrusive.