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2 hours ago, Jimbo Ram said:

You must feel really pressurised today Big Trav.........glad I am not ITK like you...........

Do you have Big Trav post alerts on your phone?  The speed of your responses is impressive even for the most hardened stalker

33 minutes ago, Ram@Lincoln said:

Asked a Blade colleague about him, "Looks to have good potential but incredibly raw, rabbit in headlights in his sub appearances, needs roughing up in lower leagues to find himself like Jebbison did at Burton."

Darren Robinson insight:

 

It's really interesting how opinion varies so much amongst fans. I have friends and family who are diehard blades and they all rate him highly, raw but a better long term prospect than Jebbison. They also think that the Burton link is plausible as the club were impressed by Jebbisons treatment and development whilst on loan there. 

3 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Burton 4 up after  12 mins v Leicester U21.

Makes a farce of the competition.

They'll probably concede 5 in injury time

24 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

10p per goal.  ?

20p a month then

5 minutes ago, Magicman said:

We don't need a third keeper but we do need a RB & striker 

Scott Loach signed as third keeper with coaching aspirations,  he said as much himself in his first interview.  He has been on the bench so far out of necessity.  As other posters have already pointed out,  Foulkes is young and will benefit from a loan.  We need a second keeper to provide both cover and competition for Wildsmith.  It's not that difficult to understand.  The fact that we also need a rb and striker is irrelevant to this signing. 

54 minutes ago, Coconut's Beard said:

Wonder if *lil bit* is some kind of hint

It's an anagram of *it bill*.  We're re-signing Billy Caskey! 

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Except when Rooney had to call him out over his 'lack of effort' in training?

The same Rooney who couldn't spot a player in Louie Sibley, a chancer in Chris Kirchner or a way to win an away game. His observational skills weren't very good to say the least. 

5 hours ago, SSD said:

Place in the UK I'll say Whitby. I know many people love it there, I thought it was naff.

Went in the autumn midweek, wasn't a particularly hot day. Every pub was rammed full, couldn't find anywhere for lunch. The fish and chips are nothing to shout about. Parking is a nightmare, even when we tried the park and ride we queued for 45mins as the buses were packed. I'd rather have visited the Abbey and gone to a local village for the afternoon.

I visit Whitby a lot, my daughter lives and works there. It is very Jekyll and Hyde, in the tourist season it's full of chavs from Leeds and Boro who swarm off the coaches and into their favorite attraction, the Wetherspoons on the harbour. The narrow streets are unbearably crowded, as is the beach.

We always go out of season, it is often very quiet, did you go at school half term? The beaches are near deserted apart from dog walkers and a lot of cafes and amusements etc shut. The fish and chip restaurants are best avoided, overpriced and average, but there are some chippies off the beaten track that are amazing. I agree about the parking, it's a rip off in season but out of season a lot of car parks, including the parking meters on west cliff are free. If you use the big car park near the station don't park near the steam train, I turned up in a Silver Astra and went home in a sooty black one! Like most tourist towns a bit of local knowledge and knowing where to avoid goes a long way. 

18 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

In the match thread @Addingham Ramsays there's commentary on TalkSport 2 which is great for those of us far beyond the Radio Derby catchment area. 

You can get Radio Derby on freeview TV, Channel 735, but I'm not sure if there are geographical limitations

5 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

Is it a Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire thing? The Stags also hate Chesterfield with a passion!

That hatred is more than mutual, in 84/85 it became much more than just a football rivalry for Chesterfield. There is still a sizeable generation of fans who haven't forgotten

South of Clay Cross is the South, north of Dronfield is Scotland, anyone from west of Baslow is a manc or scouser and east of Bolsover is practically Holland. Not that we're parochial or anything round here

I used to dream of us signing Messi or Ronaldo, now I just long for us to sign somebody, anybody, whose name can't be punned 

7 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

We can’t expect the officiating in Div1 to be as good as the championship. Just need to accept that 

That's a pretty low bar to get under! 

3 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

What’s LR been telling you Big Trav ? Any names for us ?☎️

This 'joke' has had more repeats than Dad's Army

40 minutes ago, LazloW said:

Just got back in car. Who is the pundit with Dawes? Don’t recognise voice.

Ta

I think it said Darren Robinson, former youth coach. I thought he was OK and worked well with Ed. I'm confined to the house with covid so had to rely on RD today, first time I've listened in a while. I thought Eds commentary was pretty good as well today tbf. 

2 hours ago, Sparkle said:

Put my money on us getting promoted a few weeks back

We won't get promoted before the seasons started, even Forest wait until August

I've no idea who he is or what he's like but if we beat Bristol City to his signature it's a yes from me. It'll be worth it to see Mr P's head explode. 

31 minutes ago, Ram-a-lama fa fa fa said:

LR will be using these matches to find what doesnt work, just as much as what does work. 

teams will sit back then press. centre midfield is key this year. get that combination right, we win. last night we didnt. i sure LR would have seen this and learned from it. 

personally i think in proper matches he’d go with either biliek/bird/smith/conner with mcG in a number 10. 

harsh on tommo but i feel he gets bullied to easy. still young tho. hopefully he’ll learn

Whilst I'm optimistic for the coming season my only concern is whether we do learn and take on board anything from games like this. Last season we had 23 away games to learn and adapt, and final dead rubber against Blackpool aside, we failed miserably to do so and continued to slavishly follow the same tactics even when they were clearly not working. 

Forget Byrne, he's history. I'm more worried what's happened to Bryne, he was on nearly everyone's team sheet last season

5 minutes ago, Magicman said:

Not a thing against Sibley or Stretton just believe they are not good enough hence they don't play much or score either. Neither seem sharp enough to execute those they get. 

I thought Sibley and Stretton were tidy and linked up well together in the limited time they were on the pitch. Stretton did OK, admittedly not world beating but then I'm not sure what you expect from our 3rd choice cf. Sometimes it's fine to take a game at face value and say a player did OK, even if it doesn't fit your ongoing narrative. If you haven't got a thing about Sibley or Stretton, why do you repeatedly single them out? 

Looking at that team and bench it's really hard to believe where we were just a few weeks ago, the work put in at the club has been nothing short of amazing

2 hours ago, Mick Brolly said:

I'm going 

 

 

 

To sit on the sofa in front of the fan 

It should be at the match, half fan! 

Must admit I haven't taken much notice of league 1 over the last few years but I'm missing something here, what have Ipswich done to suddenly become everyone's favourite for promotion? 

2 hours ago, Eddie said:

I'm not sure that toilet paper has made its way to Nottingham yet, so he can't be blamed for that.

It's been there for years, they call it the Nottingham Evening Post

7 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Some of the chesterfield fans on the clubs Facebook fans are genuinely sad to see him go, only been there a season and he played most of it, 11 clean sheets I think ?

I'm not sure why they have let him go, there can't have been many better keepers in the national league last season unless they are just looking for someone younger. Paul Cook seems intent on completely clearing out their entire squad, I reckon they need to make a decent start or he will be cleared out himself.