Gee SCREAMER !!

1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

I'm a great admirer of Armstrong. Seven successive Tours after recovering from testicular cancer! The rules on doping aren't fit for purpose. Similarly, I think clubs should be allowed to spend what they want. Otherwise it's very hard to get the churn that keeps football healthy. Financial rules seem designed to keep current elites at the top and not allow any pesky upstarts coming through to win a Champions League place.

Which he almost certainly hurried along with his testosterone filled blood swapping.

10 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

Vicki Sparks

Awful.  Just checked it was the same person I assumed.  I assumed right

MBE'S and Knighthoods for crap and self appreciating.  

7 minutes ago, ollycutts1982 said:

Started with real interest in 94/95 so I’d go with - 

1. Taribo West, what a player he was, growing up I loved Football Italia. He came (under Gods instruction) kept us up and left. What a player he was. 
 

2. Dean Sturridge, what a player he was, fired us to promotion and scored some cracking goals in the Prem. 

3. Aljosa Asanovic. How much would he have been worth in today’s game. Lucky we signed him before Euro 96 as we’d have stood no chance after. 
 

How things might have been had West and Asa stayed longer. 
 

Notable mentions to Carbonari, Laursen, Poom, Buxton and Bryson. 

Always remember him being very casual on the ball in the box where his teammates and supporters were screaming for him to use the ball.  He was technically very good but always seemed to play his own way without much direction and he also had a bit of a habit of going AWOL without telling anyone where he was, so I think kept us up is a bit to far.  I'd give that to McGrath and Asanovic with a nod to Van Der Laan who often gets forgotten coming back from a loan spell.

Asanovic was a bit of a nomad and once we signed Eranio he didn't play much and didn't seem to fancy a sub role based on his game quality in year 2.  Outstanding the first year though.

1 hour ago, hintonsboots said:

Any Rumours ? 

Should be in the DJ thread 😊

Have you got Into the valley by The Skids, What about Ultravox Vienna.

10 hours ago, Scott129 said:

I kind of love it

 

I don't think any club has changed their home colours so much over a 100 years..Yellow, black and White, Purple, Red and Blue, Blue and White, Claret Blue and White,stripes, halves, quarters.  

I think taking a club off it's arse in Division 3 to what would have been trips in Europe to Barcelona in just 5 seasons is quite the achievement.  Cox is the best in my time.  Smith second for a team that almost got into Europe from arse end of Division 2 in 3 seasons. Then Burley for building a very good side from looking down the sofa for change.   

2 hours ago, cannable said:

I’m not disagreeing because I’m the same myself, but it’s odd that none of us are saying Warne.

Likeable bloke, decent man, first promotion in 17 years… nobodies saying him!

And again, I agree with people, I think more favourably of Our Nige despite him being a bit of a dour p****! 

Getting Mason Bennett to jump in a pool to get a brick, despite inability to Swim, pushes him up the list certainly

Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive

Anything from Grease.  That megamix from the 90's sucked ass

50 minutes ago, YouRams said:

Efl hub on Twitter no idea if it's a garbage account or not linking us and Leeds to a Spurs midfielder Oliver Skipp 

Another Spurs midfield wonderkid for our portfolio.  

Any wedding in the 80's

You can thank two girls in The Pink Cocunut for the dance to this one that's plagued humanity for 40 years.

2 hours ago, Anon said:

I am in complete agreement on Mr Brightside. I don't like the song or the band in the first place, so it's particularly galling that this is played so regularly.

It's not maintained popularity, but No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age was massively overplayed.

Chelsea Dagger should carry a death sentence rather than a fine.

Mate of mine was in a covers band.  He hated people screaming for this one at kicking out time. Every Time but he hated it.

31 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

I'ma simple man of simple tastes, Enigma. I still laugh at fart jokes.

6 minutes ago, admira said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn3gv5x42o.amp

As an ex DJ myself, there are certain songs that I used to get sick of playing and now cannot stand!

What are yours?

Come on Eileen 
Don’t you want me
Tainted love
Living in a prayer
Uptown funk
Celebration
Dancing Queen
Sweet Caroline
Don’t Stop Believing
Mr Brightside
Don’t stop me now
500 miles 

Aaarrrgghhh!!!

 

Saw an interview with Paul Rudd once who was a New York DJ from the start of the 90's for a good few years.

He can't do The Prodigy Fat of the Land and his personal hate is I'm too Sexy which was a constant with hen parties for 2 years.

14 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Did we definitely table a bid?

Seems a shame if we tabled a bid and he turned us down, seeing as he would know Paul Warne well and know what he is about.

Also a shame to lose a player to Oxford given that Mark Thomas has come here.

Yes.  That was over two weeks ago though.  Could be a changed target but if not, it's a concern.

4 minutes ago, Srg said:

Will Vaulks signed for Oxford

That's a shame. Seems a decent character as well.   The two year deal we put on the table wasn't enough then.  Losing out to players again to Oxford is a worry as we've shifted some considerable wage and he's a player Warne knows.

10 minutes ago, Day said:

 

Turner, O Brien and Dennis.  37 million plus wages .  Return-

4 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:

Thanks 🙂 Yeah I do have plenty of transferrable skills. Think I'm just a bit sad at the likelihood of having to leave something that is my vocation really for an alternative career I really struggle to get as excited about. I've heard plenty of positive stories so am trying to keep focused on that though. 

I'm in a similar position albeit i've only another 10 years to think about.  Mate of mine became a tree surgeon after 20 years of being an accountant,  another mate of mine joined him who'd spent 8 years studying physics and was a technical engineer- he had a passion for climbing stuff and by his early 30's the aspirations he had in his chosen field hadn't overly come to fruition.  Three years later another mate who been a teacher for over 20years joined in to save his sanity .  They don't earn as much but they're all very happy to be doing something else and are all very fit.   It's an interesting conversation i'm sure when they discuss their backgrounds with their customers.  Regardless of whether your using your qualification or not it shows an employer you have an aptitude, can learn at a decent level and can apply yourself.  It will be the interpersonal skills they're looking at in interview and whether you can cope with Bob in accounts temper tantrums.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-13542211

18 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

Yeah, i was there that day. It was like he didnt care that Eranio's leg was broken. Complete and utter t***** of  a ref,

A bit like Yorke and Collymores little high five when he basically ended Yates career.

31 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Playing in a similar manner to last season, we would expect to see a similar distribution on goals per position going forward.

The point I made was that in an automatic promotion campaign with 55 games in all competitions, our midfielders scored 21 goals. 4 of those were from Sibley playing on the wing. In a midtable Championship side, with fewer Cup games, it's very unlikely we will increase out goal output from midfield.

Given Warne's preference for being a threat from set pieces, he'll be looking for 66% of goals from his forwards, 17% from his midfielders and 17% from his defenders and wing backs. Even in a 75 goal season, that's only 13 goals from CMs.

My point is that most teams would expect their forwards to score most of the goals.  Until we get some strikers however, that will only represent a miserly amount of goals without plenty of investment or some very cute signings in the Rasiak form.  We will need goals from midfield in the range of 20 as it stands to get near 50 goals as we have no forward currently who will get 20, probably not 10.

6 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

20 goals from midfield!!?

In a L1 automatic promotion season, with games in the EFL trophy, our CMs (including Sibley) scored a combined 21 goals. 6 of those were Sibley.

Unless you're expecting a Playoff campaign, we won't need 20 goals from midfield

Depends how many you concede.  Blackburn scored 60. Plymouth 59 and had a very squeaky arse. Stoke 49, QPR 47. Birmingham down with 50.   We won't have strikers/ wide players  who can score 50- 60 without spending a fair bit, so for my money, we will need those goals. 

Paul Simpson once bought a young lad of about 10 a Derby pen from the Ramtique when he asked for his autograph and the pen had ran out.   Also spent a lot of time at the BBG sat in the dugout with McFarland and Guthrie having lunch when I was doing some work after Hillsborough taking out crash barriers from the Ossie End in 1990.  Got to know them well and they were very nice .  Roger Davies is nice and likes a joke. His campadrie Archie Gemmill is a right miserable bugger mind.

2 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

Yes, if you had Adams and Osborn it would give the third midfielder licence to roam. 
He can cover lots of positions so would be a good squad player so I have no worries about him.

Adams is fine. Osborn is fine but I seem to remember him being more of a full back. We need 20 goals from midfield though so we need to find two more midfielders to push forward and get at least 15 goals and create them for others.