Patrick Rams

Well, as afternoons go, that was rather lovely.

Happy and glad Burton survived 👍👋

Well done to Paul Warne and the team. Warne was brought in to get us out of League 1 and he has done so in his first full season, with our best ever points total, the best defence in the league, best goal difference in the league, a really great achievement!!

Never been so happy to not go to Wembley. Brilliant scenes, we did it!!!!

Season over. No Wembley trip this year.

The birch is what they need. 

please keep off the pitch at the end.
A measure of polite applause will be allowed at the final whistle. 
No singing or raucous shouting will be tolerated.
It is envisaged that these restrictions will in no way affect the enjoyment of the occasion!

Shades of Fulham in the 80s, DONT TACKLE OR KICK A CARLISLE PLAYER UP THE ARRIS.

After the battering he’s been on the end of it was great to see Adams chase back the whole length of the pitch there.
Lads a class act!

Adams still 100% in the 90th minute. Gotta love that guy 👍🐏🐏🐏

Yeah love to know if he has any regrets right now

I'm sad to see Birdy go. Can't help thinking he's made a terrible decision to go to bloody Bristol City....

Thank you for your service Max Bird.
Top young player !

We're actually going up

Been said I know, but Adams is so good. 

WE'VE f****** DONE IT LADS.
 
I LOVE FOOTBALL

Job half down, now let's finish it. Cracking finish by Max Bird. Shocking hairstyle though. Even if I could still grow hair on my head, that wouldn't be my choice. 

Still better than VAR.

I agree, chuck it out. And put up with the mistakes, isn't that what living with it means?

If it's not an obvious howler, the original decision stands, and we live with it.
Referee errors are just part of the game. Over the last 150 odd years there will have been thousands of wrong calls, but that's still better than the current system that's sucking all the joy from the game.
 

I appreciate that some think VAR is a step in the right direction the above is the argument in a nutshell for me. Is the 'correct by a toenail' forensic approach worth it when it is seemingly so flawed/ambiguous on tight decisions anyway ? The original explanation/justification was that VAR was essentially there to correct big errors and injustices. I'm just not convinced 'drawing lines' on a screen and spending sometimes several minutes making at best dubiously 'accurate' decisions on the tightest of tight calls, is really addressing the problem.

The crushing of the spontaneity of goal celebrations for frankly impossible to call decisions in a fast moving and highly emotional spectator sport is (IMHO) simply not worth the sacrifice as a spectacle, though I appreciate that many wouldn't agree.

As soon as I watched Bryson's goal v Southampton in the FA Cup chalked-off for offside, I realised VAR was done.
Remember the original argument was to "avoid obvious errors".
 

That’s true. And I accept that wherever you draw the line, there will be millimetre decisions. 
My point was that this isn’t what the offside rule was for. It was to prevent persistent goal hanging with a defending team just hoofing the ball up to a player who was dawdling near the goal. 
This seems to be against the spirit of that. 

Yep I heard that darling daughter Elizabeth was a bit "Wild" back in the day! Lots of stories around town..a bit of a handful! 

Did a great job at Newcastle anyway.