TINMANTED

We need to be ruthless and put the crooks to the sword to restore the gd we lost to Bolton at the weekend 

33 minutes ago, CapeTownRams said:

Not agreeing or disagreeing- but in what sense is it a ‘side effect’ ? Genuine question 👍

Moving position to fit cbt on the wing,making Nat less of a threat

6 hours ago, CapeTownRams said:

Great result at a very difficult place. Credit to all the Rams fans who made the journey too . That’s dedication. 🐏👏🐏👏

Everyone did their part. 
Don’t blame Joe for the second. A hard and swerving shot that deserved a goal in truth.

My only concern is NML’s lack of form over the last three games. Just not the same player. Physically tired ? Still carrying a niggle ? Yes, being asked to play ouf of position but even so he seemed out of it tonight, particularly after saying (in his pre-match interview) how he was so looking forward to the game. Mind u, the CBT run leading to the first goal was good to see.

 

COYR . We can do this. We just can’t have another ‘Northampton’ at Wycombe- that will be a very hard-fought game.

 

🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

Is nats drop in form purely a drop,or is it side effect of cbt in the side,who I thought had his best game so far last night and looked for the first time the player we thought we were getting 

Good point,but 2 points lost due to the persistent dropping off.we have the players,not sure we have the tactics for automatic promotion,fingers crossed 

1 hour ago, Ellafella said:

It’s entirely alien to me to effectively watch a team come to Pride Park and allow them to dominate play and possession to the point where to me it’s “anti-football”. Goes against every sinew of my football-loving being. Ok we got the 3 points and we looked reasonably comfortable but for me it’s high risk and not how I would ever set up a team to play. It’s not the spirit of the beautiful game. 

This is the thing though,it should be alien,but it's not,it's the same thing most weeks,get a goal sit back and defend often resulting in late goals/dropped points making games more difficult than they should be 

Hope the appeal goes tits up and they get the points doubled.when is something going to stick to the Teflon greek

On 25/03/2024 at 09:38, Crewton said:

Even legends have a snapping point

Even Jesus christ would have snapped playing the ginger weasel and the dirtiest,what a horrible club they were under revie,remember st francis and hunter

4 hours ago, S8TY said:

Warne stumbled across a system due to having Gayle up top and we seemed to have started to play more freely and passed it better and mixed our game up more ..yesterday all I saw from any forwards was looking to run in behind hence encouraging a long ball which invariably found a Northampton shirt a lot of the time 

without Gayle who to me is a class above any strikers we have I fear more of what we saw yesterday 

we are now hoping that Collo will make a difference….i saw yesterday as a massive game for us and reading pre match posts I know a lot of others did too….but when it matters we didn’t turn up and the football ( if you can it that ) was truly horrible …let’s get it right …whether pitch was too narrow too small too bobbly etc etc …Northampton are a poor side …the amount of missed passes and general hoofs out of play from them was of a poor standard …a massive opportunity missed and not for the first time ….this is what makes me fear the play offs ….we have to go up in autos and we now have 6 massive games. 
can we do it? Of course you never know in football but what I do know is…anymore performances like yesterday and I think we can kiss the autos goodbye and then might have to look forward to another season in this s**** division where I think the standard will be better next season …so 6 games !!

let’s hope Warne can look at it like a 6 game season now and get us over the line ….but we shall see….COYR 

Every time we go on a good run is because Warne has stumbled on something, let's just hope he can stumble on something again friday

More absolute dross.out thought,and out fought once again.only one team had a plan and a striker who didn't need ten touches to hit a ball on target

7 minutes ago, JfR said:

So having read through the decision, I think this works as a quick summary of why it was 4 points:

• Commission found that the "entry point" for any "significant" breach of the spending limits is 3 points
• In Everton's case this was increased up to 6 points for two aggravating factors: One being the scale of the breach (£19.5m, or 19% of their threshold), the other being that they had been found in their appeal to have supplied some "incorrect" information to the Premier League (which the Premier League originally presented as Everton "misleading" them. The finding of "incorrect" rather than "misleading" is important).
• In Forest's case, the aggravating factor was solely the scale of their breach, albeit this was both numerically and proportionally much higher than Everton's (£34.5m, or 57% of their threshold; alternatively, a breach 77% higher than Everton's).
• While the Premier League argued that this should correspond to a 5 point increase in the deduction, raising the points deduction up to a total of 8 points, the commission disagreed.
• This was in large part because the Premier League has no "fixed formula" for points deductions based on the size of a breach, and that an insolvency event would result in a 9 point deduction. There's a lot of explanation for why they came to this decision, but effectively, the commission concluded that, as Forest's breach was a "significant" breach not a "major" breach (i.e. one involving insolvency), the absolute upper threshold that any club who makes a "significant" breach would expect (without major and unusual aggravating circumstances) would be 8 points, as insolvency would represent the absolute worst case scenario for failing to adhere to profit and sustainability. They also concluded that Forest were unlikely to be the largest ever Premier League breach, and therefore they shouldn't be punished at the absolute highest end of the scale.
• Instead, the commission decided that the level of breach should correspond to a 3 point increase to the deduction, raising to total deduction to 6 points.
• Forest were found to have had two mitigating factors in their favour: that they admitted the breach early on, and that they complied with the Premier League. As such, the commission reduced their deduction by 2 points, taking the total deduction to 4 points.

So, basically, you can overspend by as much as you want in the Premier League, and as long as you don't do anything too egregious alongside it, you'll lose no more than 8 points.

They are paving the way for city to get a lenient penalty

Will anything ever stick to the Teflon demis roussos,got to be complaints from other clubs.wheres curly and the cowboy when we need them

8 hours ago, Eddie said:

Payback's a bitch for the absolute daylight robbery we suffered at the hands of your bunch of cheating scumbags and one-eyed match officials earlier in the season.

For all of boltons huff and puff,I have felt more vulnerable in recent matches,wildsmith earning his coin with that save apart.for the last 10,15 minutes Bolton only tactic was hopefull long throws into the box,easily dealt with by the excellent defence 

Massive hard fought 3 points, well done all

12 hours ago, Chesterfield_Ram said:

I just hope we try to attack them, rather than sitting back waiting to counter attack.

PW’s comments about tomorrow being a game ‘we don't want to lose’ concerns me.

Stay on the front foot we win,resort to our usual 15,20 minutes camped in our own box we lose.warne has to be positive in his thinking

Should be 3-0to the rams,gayle fgs

Most likely  be 1-2,gayle not playing,Bradley fgs on 40 mins,then Vale equalising on 89 min,scoring winner on 96 min after 60 minutes of constant bombardment of our penalty box

12 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Absolutely no reason for us to set up in any other way than positively for this one. If we go in all meek and worried about their strengths it would be criminal.

They should be worried about us, let's give them something to worry about with the way we set up.

You have to get out of dreamland,and remember we are in warneworld,but we can live in hope

17 hours ago, Barney1991 said:

Pre match press conference just in. Port vale are a good team with good players we have to match them. I’ll sort the formation and tactics depending on what they do and we need to start feeling good about ourselves and come away feeling handsome 

They might also have a midfield player on the pitch,so we will bypass midfield to nullify that threat

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

The fact that he looked rather good as LFB last season, and when we needed one last night we got Cashin, has to be questioned. Obviously Sibley has done something wrong?

He breathes

10 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

You've quoted him jim so he must have said it, He's now admitted what the majority have been saying most of the season, For our Manager to say this shows he's now struggling to come out with any positives from a squad that's his, It's his tactics, His team talks, His coaching and his team selection...over to you Mr Warne

If his team talks contain as much waffle as his interviews,there's no wonder the football is chaos 

17 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Positives;

- some promising passing and movement in the first half, good attacking intent though admittedly without much of a cutting edge. 
 

- Gayle and Waghorn getting minutes will hopefully help with the striking situation.

- Cashin scored a lovely header.

- Smith did well in midfield with Adams.

Negatives;

- Rash decision from Wildsmith leading to the pen.

- Poor decision making and defending for the second.

- Once again unable to build on a lead and put a team away, worrying pattern.

- NML quiet and ineffective.

- Nyambe injured.

 

Feel pretty flat after that. ANOTHER another chance to “put it right” on Saturday at least 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

 

In the negatives,you forgot the bobblehat was still manager

We all new what was coming,but not to worry we lost to one of the best teams in the league.dont worry,the bobblehat knows what he is doing,nobody else  knows what he is doing,but in Warne we trust

54 minutes ago, Leicester Ram said:

Think we got cup finalled by Barnsley today

Filled their stadium, got their fans riled up, made the most of the home advantage and we shrank into ourselves under the pressure in our biggest game of the season so far

But Barnsley also caught us at a bad time, we’re without a striker and Gayle wasn’t ready to start. That doesn’t excuse the headless passing but we’d have made more of our chances with Collo playing today. It was still a fairly even game.

We’ll have a similar situation at Pompey so we need to learn from this and get a result there to make up for today. We also need to make sure we’re the ones ‘cup finalling’ Bolton when they come to town.

Stopping the calls for the head of a manager who’s clearly not getting sacked would be a good start. 

Don't think anyone is calling for Warne to be sacked now,it's too late,we have to go with with him for now.i for one don't want another season with him in charge promotion or not

2 hours ago, Ramarena said:

Ultimately we are still second and we are in control of our destiny.

However I fear today was a day where momentum went against us. 

Our destiny is in our own hands, no way are we in control 

I'm a little confused, I thought we were at home to stevenage today.

Best finisher at the club on the bench when we have no striker. What's happened to the new secret weapon,hope he's not another jj

50 minutes ago, WestKentRam said:

I sincerely hope Collins is ok and it's a tactic by PW to keep Steve Evans guessing prior to our game on Saturday.

It can't help but bring back the trauma of the 14/15 season when Chris Martin picked up an injury at the same time of the season when we were in a similar position in the table, and was out for 10 games. Darren Bent got injured as well, and, hey presto, no striker.

Johnny Russell was played up top but didn't score a single goal in this period. Wolves away was particularly painful and sticks in my memory.

We slipped down the league and the season fizzled out with us finishing 8th.

Of note, the first game we played after Martin got injured was Rotherham away, managed by a certain Steve Evans. 3-3. His post match comments were along his usual themes:

"What an advert for Rotherham United being (in) the Championship.

"There's tinges of great disappointment being 3-1 up. We got a point but we have come across the best team and manager in the division."

 

I would like to think Warne didn't feel the need to employ rumors as a tactic to beat stevenage