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There was something so Cloughie about it all to me though, I bet many Forest fans would have been thinking ‘what would his dad have thought of that’ when really you know exactly what he would have thought
’Has the ref blown his whilstle? No? Well son, chuffing well play until he does’

6 goals and 9 assists last season all comps I think he deserves another year if he believes he's got it in him

In my case, I really don't fancy a beer at 10 O'Clock these days, although many do and probably will. So I won't bother and that's a longstanding tradition broken, all because the ever-greedy premier league wouldn't cough up a decent package for the EFL clubs. Yet again, fans are disposable, and the fans of clubs outside of the premier league are the most disposable of all. 
All of the benefits of Sky TV money that you've quoted would still have been available without such wholesale contempt for the traditions of the professional game if only English football had spoken with one voice. But it's been greed, greed, greed, every step of the way.
 

I think my argument about TV subscription is just how many people actually want the service sky offer Vs how many just want the bits they're interested in.
People want their entertainment all la carte and not set menu especially if they're paying for it and these days it's a realistic expectation.
I don't want to watch however many championship, league 1 and league 2 matches, I just want to watch DCFC, and I highly doubt high numbers are subscribing to sky to watch EFL matches anyway. So why do sky pay the EFL for the rights? Stop anyone else having them,steer the ones who do subscribe towards the matches it's profitable for sky to show.
 

There'll probably have everyone 12.30ko on the opening day except for Friday and Sunday for the games they decide to irritate fans with.
As someone snookered by distance and rarely gets to matches these days,I should be all over this extra coverage but I hate what it's doing to the game overall. I certainly won't be paying sky for it where as I didn't mind giving ramstv the occasional tenner.
Hopefully the ramstv international coverage is still available and I may discover a new enthusiasm for flights abroad.
I think this is probably the last big rights deal with sky that the EFL will be able to pull. The subscription sports TV model is not what it was 20 years ago and it strikes me as sky are trying to kill off club streaming to get everyone watching their very expensive premier League games.
I think in a few years the clubs will rebel against this and do their own streaming - which is what Mel Morris was arguing for, but at the time he didn't have enough support (and picking fights with the league whilst also making all the other clubs hate him, wasn't savvy)

Hi new member, all the way up in sunny Fife,  just joined today, never really bothered about forums before but feel exciting times are back around the corner for the Rams so here I am to keep up with the news for the new season etc
looking forward to the new season and hopefully end back where the club belongs. If Ipswich can do it then there’s no reason why the Rams can’t.

Honestly guys, that last 20 mins was horrendous, my poor heart haha
One positive I can take from it is that we got the job done despite never really playing well in either playoff game (partly because barnsley arent great) and also that I think Oxford suits us better than Posh (and tbh as much as I'm desperate to win, if we do lose, I'd rather lose to Oxford than Darren Ferguson).
 
Fingers crossed we turn up and get it done. Our last 2 trips to Wembley are Bolton 4-0 Plymouth last season and Bolton 0-5 Stoke in the FA Cup semis about a decade ago so could literally be anything based on our history.
 
Got some Rams fan mates who were at your QPR Wembley trip that I sympathised with and was gutted for at the time so I hope more than anything we don't experience that kind of pain and we get a good day out, the boys give it their all and make us proud

Is that just reading through this forum 🤣

Read 2 books on holiday.
How they Broke Britain by James O'Brien, with chapters on various politicians and advisors who he sees as getting us to where we are now. Thought and anger provoking. If you interested in politics and centre or leftist especially.
The Satsuma Complex, Bob Mortimer's debut novel. Very Bob, very funny with a quirky cast of characters and a tense-ish plot.
 

Without changing, you are now centre left, comrade!

I wouldn't even say you need to be centre or leftist to enjoy reading it.
I've spent years being called far right yet I still enjoyed the read.
I dont particularly like JOB and don't agree with everything he says, I think it is clear that he has vendettas against certain people that he doesn't really back up with anything substantive, but it's definitely a thought provoking book and one that I'd definitely recommend to people. 

Bought it yesterday by weird coincidence. I've always thought he talks a lot of sense without being overtly political, which is a tricky enough balance these days. 
On a general note, for anyone doing audiobooks (this is my first foray), Audible have two offers running currently - please see below. Not sure how much I'll like the audio thing, but I had to stop using a kindle as I'm an insomniac and it really wasn't helping! 

Has anyone read "Son of my Father - me, my dad and Derby County FC" by Craig Trembirth? 
I was given this for my birthday by someone who knows the author. I don't usually read these sort of books, but as it was a present I got stuck in over the last few weeks before promotion and really enjoyed it.
I t covers the period from late 70s to 2004 so recognised the up and down journey over many years that all Derby fans go through. Accounts of many matches I'd been at, many more I hadn't,  but I appreciated the efforts of the home and away supporters, a lot from times when going to football was much simpler.
If anyone wants a Derby County fix in what is hopefully going to be a long and uneventful summer, I'd recommend this book. You can get it on Amazon (and I'm not on commission!) 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Son-My-Father-Derby-County/dp/1780910983
 

Hi all,
I just wanted to pop on and say congrats on a successful season and well deserved promotion. I know there's been some ill feeling between fans, mostly on the toxic social media platforms (not helped by a large number of idiots of which we at Bolton have f****** loads). I've scanned through your forum and a few others to regularly to check in on the thoughts of some of our promotion rivals over the season and as forums go, this one is generally positive and full of good and honest opinions. We have another fan called Wanderlust who often peruses the various forums and I feel he is a good fan for honest opinions too. I hope we can join you, I'm sure there's plenty of you hoping we stumble and end up stuck in L1 for at least another year, mainly for the fans who've been making stupid excuses for us not winning points this season. Reality is, you and Pompey were the most consistent teams over the season and thoroughly deserve your promotion, so well done and good luck in the championship next year. With your stadium and fanbase and what your fans have been through (trust me, I know what it feels like too), you deserve some good times now!
 
All the best gents (and ladies)

My dad is 97, in a residential home. Cant see photos to well, his sight not good. So when the weather is good going to take him in a wheelchair to see it. My dad has got s great sense of humour, and my daughter has told him its that big even he will be able to see it.😊

My grandson is doing it, so proud.

Granddaughter on the pitch , 10 games travelling over , 9 wins 1 draw , she won international fan of year, and seen Derby promoted..
It can't get better than this. .. can it? 
 

I see you refer to "the precise moment that a gap appears between the foot and the ball" (i.e. when contact twixt foot and ball is completed.)
I'd argue it needs to be when that gap first disappears... when foot first makes contact with said ball, and thus before all compressions are effected.
Firstly, that would occur sooner, thus giving the "advantage" to the attacker.  And secondly, I'm a complete arse, and just wanted to pooh-pooh your theory for the craic!
 
Either way, we need to add more cameras, more eyes in the shed at the bottom of the garden, more monitors, some "infra-red tangent threads" (Patent pending) on the ball, and some sort of beeper that marries the ball contact with the attacker's position.
Oh... and more time for the experts to digest the given information before confirming to the excited audience whether they have just witnessed a goal... or not!
Simples!  

What happened to "clear and obvious", Our game is now being sanitised and forensically examined by those who have influence...IFAB, EUFA, FIFA even our officials are getting in on the act as they're so confused to what is...isn't.
How may of those pens the red dogs were turned down would have been given by another official or at Anfield, Old Trafford, The Emirates?  

Didn't watch the match but from this image it looks like the Coventry player is more or less stationary and the Man Utd player is jogging back - a fraction of a second later he would have been onside.
Regardless, as @Grumpy Git rightly said, VAR was bought in to avoid obvious errors, with the game moving at speed and it being impossible to tell the millisecond the ball has left the boot, far thicker offside lines should be used and if they overlap its onside.  You can barely split the 2 players in question (especially the centre of body rather than toenail) imho the goal should have probably stood if that was the margin.
 

It should be… if any part of the attacker is onside, they are  onside. Would feel a lot more acceptable getting rulers out for this than the current situation. 

Are they in Vegas, or (Baked) Alaska?  👀

You do know Sibley's going to wake up Sunday morning next to Marlon Pack and 20 beer cans, with a vague recollection of being married by Elvis. 

The lads are still on it, Kane Wilson and Cashin both just went live on Instagram, both of them pretty merry and enjoying each other’s company. Must be a great time for them all after a long season of relative sacrifice.