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Another cracking episode @Owen87ITK. I really look forward to the academy updates and great to get interviews with different perspectives like these. 

We took the iFollow four-camera package on Saturday, I believe. 

Yeah but @Owen87ITK alone is worth that, throw in Bobby Davison and it's sorely tempting.
But, yeah, I'm a tight wad so may try saving some money.
Cheers both

Hope Cocu stays at Derby for a decade, taking us up and establishing us as a team full of vibrant youth and energy, challenging for the European places. But when he does go I can't help think Dazza will deserve a proper crack of the whip at the job, if he is ambitious to make the step up to first team management. He has worked wonders with the academy and if there's no prospect of career progression, and he wants that prospect, he may well be poached by one of the big boys to run their academy instead.

Like I say, it’s not the best commentary position! Though it’s actually not the worst I’ve ever had, either.
I’m making good use of the monitor when the action is at the far end, for sure! 

Social distancing. 
There’s a hugely reduced number of staff allowed in stadiums and on the gantry specifically, hence why Shane & I are having to commentate from outside our studio. Not the best commentary position I’ve ever had ! 

Due to staffing restrictions we’re having to take EFL pictures. I was getting frustrated with it too, trust me. 

Due to staffing restrictions we’re having to take EFL pictures. I was getting frustrated with it too, trust me. 

On the BBC website today there is a survey that suggests that 43% of disabled fans feel that their mental health has been affected by the lack of live sport to watch during lockdown.
I’m not disabled but I empathise with that view, much more than I would have anticipated pre-Covid, and whilst I still think that all leagues should have cancelled themselves with no champions, promotion or relegation, I am really looking forward to next Saturday on RamsTV.
And to RamsTV, @OwenB87 and all (including the players) may I say a big thank you for all your efforts in keeping us going in the meantime?  Some of the stuff you have produced has been nothing short of excellent and some reputations have been enhanced - if Liam Rosenior doesn’t go on to have a fantastic career then there is no justice, if Curtis doesn’t end up in the media somewhere then the media is blind and I hope that Waggy’s son continues to keep his cheeky outlook on life (probably inherited from his dad); it was good to see some of Fozzy’s home life, great to see old matches and old legends as well as legends of the future, and even to recall players long since forgotten.
I still think opportunities have been missed.  Hearing more often from Stephen Pearce for example or from our captain (before the return to training) would have been good.  I’m sure that Wayne secretly enjoyed lockdown and the absence of media intrusion into his life but he’s still found time to ‘write’ a Sunday Times article every week, and he’s had some interesting things to say. Maybe there was room to do more with the Academy and what they are doing to plan for next season or to hear from those behind the scenes like the groundsmen who have clearly been very busy, more about the food bank or even to hear an expansion of the planning that Liam Rosenior referred to about Max Bird’s return to the first team post Scunthorpe.
It feels to me that RamsTV has a really important part to play in the development of the club and its relationship with fans which, given the events of the last few months, needs to be continually nourished and nurtured.  PR outlets of all organisations, including football clubs, run the significant risk of becoming anodyne if all they do is spout a party line.  There’s a difficult balance between independent journalism and propaganda for in-house media. It will be great to see how RamsTV develops in the future and whether it can create for itself an even more interesting edge.

You could just say "we're attacking" or "we're defending" and it would be better than RD.

It’s actually at the discretion of the home team, so Luton could decide not to stream the game, and that would mean we & Sky can’t either. That’s the reason we couldn’t show Wigan domestically on Boxing Day too.
Luton might decide nearer kick-off that they want to stream afterall, so keep your eyes peeled.
And if you happen to see Sky advertising it on the red button, that’ll mean we’ve got it too. 

It’s actually at the discretion of the home team, so Luton could decide not to stream the game, and that would mean we & Sky can’t either. That’s the reason we couldn’t show Wigan domestically on Boxing Day too.
Luton might decide nearer kick-off that they want to stream afterall, so keep your eyes peeled.
And if you happen to see Sky advertising it on the red button, that’ll mean we’ve got it too. 

As it stands, it's a worldwide stream.
But we'll do our best to make it available to UK viewers, too. Might be a late decision but keep your fingers crossed . . . !

Just like to say thank you for the piece about Jim Smith's memorial/funeral by Colin Gibson on Rams TV. Not only sensitively done but well done too on what looked to be a pretty foul day. Good to see Poomy and Colin Addison as well as Jasper Carrot interviewed, amongst others.

I look forward to watching Derby play more than anything. I honestly get a bit giddy before matches start. The fact that we can now watch matches we can't attend is just a dream. The main reason I wanted us to get promoted so much was so that I could watch all our games. Now I'm not even that bothered about going up, such is the greatness of being able to comfortably and affordably watch all our matches.
And yet... RamsTV. I think I hate you. Where do I start? Well, let's go over the positives, first.
Owen Bradley is great. And some of the guests are bearable. And we can watch (most of) the matches! (I'll come to that). This is (obviously), the biggest plus. And it's a huge plus. I will pay to watch Derby play whatever the quality of the output. It will massively outweigh any negative.
I think that's all the pluses.
Firstly, the service itself is shoddy. YouTube offers HD video for free, with ads. RamsTV offers a muddy, SD quality stream for a premium price, with ads, and regularly cutting out. It's not as bad as it was last season, but it's still pretty common to lose connection. Which is obviously unacceptable for a live, premium service.

Says on the FAQs, down to the home club to make the choice. If they say no then RamsTV can't show it inside the UK either. 

We were just as frustrated as you, trust me. Sorry it wasn’t up to the usual standard. 

I wonder if it's worth RamsTV doing a feature on RamsTV match day - to explain the issues about putting matches on (especially for away games), the different options that you may or may not have for taking the coverage/camera positions etc, what the rules are about covering certain matches and not others, a bit about the different commentators, which clubs are doing what in relation to developing their own channels, whether there's evidence that midweek coverage has reduced ticket sales, where it might go in the future.
Given that this is in it's infancy my view is that Rams TV as a whole is very, very good