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2 hours ago, David said:

I wouldn't be against living forever, as long as I was in a physically decent shape and not living in pain.

Although it's a bit of a pipe dream surely? How do you control over population, or is this where Musk comes in with his living on Mars idea?

Also, being a space man yourself, you would know better than me, but isn't all this planet set to explode one day as well?

I think Putin has a plan to reduce the world's population.....

1 minute ago, DCFC1388 said:

Just watching the fans forum, Warne said the ref report back from the Bolton game confirmed-

- theirs shouldnt have been a pen

- it wasnt a red card for Wildsmith

- our goal should have stood & not been given as a pen

- we should have had a 2nd pen

So goes to show how incompentent the ref was! 4 big decisions confirmed as being wrong

and yet you can bet ref will be out there in charge of another League One fixture this weekend.....

Having spent far too much time in old folks homes visiting elderly relatives, I'd be more than happy popping my clogs before I get to the stage where I need someone to feed me and help me to use the bathroom - if science can cure dementia and slow the aging process then I'd be fine carrying on (though sometimes reading the cobblers posted on here recently, I get to thinking another day may be a day too long....)

Just now, Wolfie20 said:

I have some sympathy with Maguire although if he turned down a move in the transfer window virtually guaranteeing him game time then he's made a huge mistake. His confidence is shot, the last thing he needs is to be exposed on the international stage to the intense scrutiny by media and fans - I would have expected Southgate to have understood his situation and used this 'friendly' to play Tomori or at least bring him off the bench, rather than put more pressure on Maguire.

And that’s what I don’t understand about Southgate - he’d argue that he picks players he knows in competitive games and you can make a case for that - but this is a friendly where he can give the fringe players game time and he leaves players like Tomori sitting in the bench….there was no need at all to bring Maguire on.

Guehi off at half-time - and he brings slab-head on - waste of time putting Fik in the squad….

3 hours ago, angieram said:

Yes, I know. I only used to have a problem with the covid thread, but now there are so many threads in the Derby County Forum that are going nowhere and are just the same old posters sniping at each other I'd like to block them.

Blocking the posters doesn't help! 

Agree entirely Angie - I find myself briefly checking for new threads and then marking everything as read - I was hoping things would improve when the season started, but if anything it's got worse - so many entrenched views and they all want the final word....

George Scrimshaw named in the England squad for their ODI series against Ireland

2 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I have zero interest in watching gran turismo the movie. That's become an active avoid on hearing Lady Karen is in it.

 

I loved the game up to GT4 (never had a PS3 onwards) but..................

Making a compelling film out of motorsport seems really hard to do anyway, Rush was good, the 1970 film Le mans is good...aaannnd that's about it for good motorsport films.

Le Mans '66  is worth a watch….

Looks like there are things brewing at Man Ure - ten Hag stating publicly that Sancho was left out of the squad because of his performance in training and now Sancho has issued a statement that his training was good and he’s being made a scapegoat…. It’s not going to end well

1 minute ago, chadlad said:

Would have Mowbray here in a heartbeat.

I wasn't commenting on his managerial ability - just his demeanour....

11 hours ago, Premier ram said:

I think it’s what happened at the Sunderland end that made him look fed up

If I had to sepnd more than 5 minutes in Tony Mowbrey's company I'd look thoroughly miserable - give the lad a break....

8 minutes ago, The Last Post said:

6 games in to a new season, We'll see how good Bolton are at the end of April, Just a few of things, Bolton 0 Wigan 4, Burton 1 Bolton 1, Bolton 2 Derby 1 with 10 men.

Lots of "pundits" were saying DCFC for promotion or even League winners, The situation with Cashin looks to be like a dogs dinner, We looked to be desperate to sell, Something went wrong even to the point someone taking a picture of Cashin at Starbucks in Little Eaton 🤷‍♂️, If this turns out to be true that dogs dinner was left out in the sunshine and gone off, An incredible situation to be in, And If I'm right Cashin didn't get to the hotel until 2-30am...WTF.

Reverting to 352 which is PWs favoured line up doesn't look to be working and didn't help with yet another injury "Rooney" how many black cats has the DCFC bus ran over.

Our season will hinge on getting more points than the 7th placed team at the end of April, Getting 3 points at Bolton was/is just as important than getting 3 points at Burton, With the squad PW has assembled...we should be doing better, PW will be out of work if we do not at least get to the playoffs, League 1 isn't won in September.

To quote PW "I failed last season, If we don't get promoted this season I will have failed" or summat like that.

 

  

The key question is how long will Warne  perservere with his preferred system? - regardless of how unsuited the majority of or players are to it and how many games we struggle in....if we start to have consistently poor performaces at home, the crowd will turn.

You'd think that a manager would realise fairly soon that he has to simpy accept that a different set-up would be more productive, but he seems to be incredibly stubborn - combine that with some strange choices of where to play people on the pitch (sign a CDM and play him as a No. 10?) and strange substitutions and it's not looking great for the rest of the season...

1 minute ago, duncanjwitham said:

Joking aside, the point I was trying to make is that you can probably use Keogh in pretty much any type of system and he’s going to be good 99% of the time and *really* bad 1% of it.  But Bradley has a fixed set of thing he’s good and bad at.  If you play him in the right system, he’ll be good 100% of the time.  If you play him in the wrong system, he’ll be bad 100% of the time.  Luton seemed to have been in the second group, and we look like we’re in the first.

To be fair, Warne seems to like playing most of our players in systems that don’t suit them…

5 minutes ago, The Last Post said:

Walking home from shopping last week and a gust of wind passed by me with a young girl onboard...Yes an e-scooter, What seemed a toy a few years back are now another mode of transport for the idle, Paris in France has now had enough.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66682673

I'm not surprised - the French are bad enough when it comes to driving and walking without giving them another way to have accidents....

1 minute ago, Blondest Goat said:

This is the sort of insight I can't live without.

It's weird, because the rumour I heard was that he was going unless he stayed.....

Was coached at Liverpool by Marc Bridge-Wilkinson (their U18s manager who scarily is now 44) - hopefully he’s told him some nice things about the Rams….

Just now, hintonsboots said:

Leigh Curtis v Darren Witcoop then.

 

Wouldn't trust either of them  to know what's actually happening - think the club plays its cards close to it's chest nowadays and journos just leaping on any old twitter speculation....

Russell & Hamilton both sign new deals with Mercedes....

5 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

Everton are so poor 

Dreadful all over the pitch - lack of desire is the most worrying for them - Dyche looks absolutely furious on the touchline 

21 hours ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

Ok calm down….it was an opinion. 

Big Trav confirmed to us he thought Rhodes was coming and had been shown around Moor Farm. A few journalists seemed to indicate/imply financially the deal didn’t work for Derby. Think it’s therefore reasonable to assert this “opinion”, why else would he go to Blackpool 🤷🏻‍♂️

Perhaps word your post as if it's an opinion then rather than as a fact. We may have had an interest in Rhodes, but posting "that’s confirmation if we needed it they’re outbidding us financially" is unsubstantiated rubbish and just comes across as a cheap pop at the club....

Liverpool 2-1 with 2 minutes to go - Newcastle so poor in the 2nd half…..

4 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Trent is lucky to be on the pitch by the new rules. The first yellow was harsh as it looked like he was fouled anyway. But he should have been booked a minute later for the foul on Gordon.

Liverpool look so dangerous when they get the press right.

But it seems teams have worked out how to beat it. And then they just have oceans of room to run into. 

It makes Liverpool’s defence look so vulnerable when you run at it. Something teams never did a few years ago.

He also pulled Gordon’s shirt as he went through for the goal  - applying the rules he could quite easily have got another yellow for that….

Scousers 1-0 down at Newcastle and Van Dick sent off 😁

8 hours ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

I’ve heard of him. Very decent would be a good move. If he does go to Blackpool that’s confirmation if we needed it they’re outbidding us financially. Only way they beat us to Rhodes. 

It’s great that you have the inside knowledge that we were definitely in for Rhodes - any other ITK stuff you’d like to tell us?

30 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

I guess he's got the transparency of retirement to help him with that one. Or is he still doing VAR? Not sure.

Did he admit he knew Taylor had made a mistake but didn't call it, or that he realised afterwards he should have called it? Sounds like the former, that he knew at the time. If so, yes it's a bad one. But any worse than a striker diving over a leg in the penalty area, simulating injury or (in prior years) asking to get a player booked? Maybe it is, I don't know. But they are human as well, doing a job that few seem to want to do and for next to zero appreciation. I'm not saying Dean was right to do it, but I am saying that it's hardly the biggest scandal the game has ever seen.

And, btw, did it effect the outcome of the game and, even if it did, what effect did it have on final league positions? Again, doesn't make it right but maybe puts it in perspective a little that they are - as one other poster said - human. As for AI making the decision, well the Google speaker in my house can't even tell me what time it is correctly so good luck wishing for that one.

Final point, a bit like Graham Poll, maybe Dean could take time to appreciate they do little good by saying things like this and trying to build a persona outside the black shirt and whistle.

I realised after I’d posted that he’d retired - but it would be nice if he could be charged with bringing the game into disrepute - he’s effectively made people question every game where he was VAR - was he giving the correct decision or the one that made his mates look good?