Gee SCREAMER !!

2 minutes ago, jono said:

I don’t know how other clubs injury profile looks at the moment but you can’t help feeling we have had our share of bad luck with Wash, Waggy and JJ all at once, but according to some that will be Warne’s fault too…. Buys glass, wrong training methods, should have, could have .. it’s tedious sometimes

Sorry, can't agree with that.  We signed 3 players who've had injury issues.  One was still recovering from an op when he got here.  Then we signed Embleton with an agreement to pay his wage for 6 months when he had just come back from an op.  We compounded this by giving TJJ a further guaranteed 6 months when he'd had injury issues, which will have restricted our options for strikers this window. Now turns out Elder had an untreated hernia issue when he came in.  It's a risk reward heavily on the risk side without much revenue to risk. I can understand the TJJ to an extent as he has some raw ability and gave an option if we had enough in the tank to add further in the window.  We didn't it seems.

25 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

Bolton and Peterborough now have a chance to pull significantly clear of us and Pompey.

Peterborough could move three points clear of us and two points clear of Pompey.

Bolton could be a whopping four points further ahead of that when all said and done.

I wonder whether they view the games in hand as a blessing or a curse.

You would have to say they are in the driving seat based on that but perhaps having us and Pompey in the rear view mirror might create some pressure.

All in all, you would have to say we have an outside chance of the autos now having to overhaul two from three teams to get there.

Peterborough are an efficient machine and may get the odd draw but I think they're going up .  We need to beat Portsmouth and certainly Bolton to have a chance and that's picking up points in the others on a pretty ruthless basis.  

4 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

I think we have an outside chance of automatic promotion as we are looking a comfortable 4th at the moment, so I would imagine there’ll be little to no movement tomorrow.

People demanding we push the boat out on signings when the budget is very limited or reliant on outgoings perhaps signals how we got into this mess in the first place.

Personally I would love to see a new midfielder and a new striker. It would bring excitement and breathe life into the campaign. However this is on a backdrop of decreasing confidence in the recruitment team to deliver.

It seems better to me to wait until the summer when the restrictions will be lifted and we can hopefully make more measured deals than last minute panic signings.

Get some out on loan to bring a couple in .  There must be enough pissed millionaires getting splinters here on a regular basis.  They've had bloody weeks. 

9 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

There's got to be someone dreadful enough to be out of a work and capable of taking forest to the championship.

The hard part is convincing them to take on the forest job.

 

Bournemouth don't play till Thursday and their next day.  Extra two day breather.  They always get a lucky game. 

33 minutes ago, eddielewis said:

According to Derby Telegraph Oxford are after Marriott and Bolton have bid for Aaron Collins from Bristol Rovers meanwhile Callum Lang has scored to make it 2-1 for Portsmouth.

 

 

They turned down a 600 k bid from Oxford in the summer.  Probably get him this time. Collins will be a good buy.  Think they were talking over 2 million for him not long ago. 

On 27 January 2024, Collins was ommitted from the matchday squad as Rovers faced Oxford United with rumours surrounding his future at the club, amid reported interest from other clubs.[42] Manager Matt Taylor confirmed that it was the player's decision to not be selected

Ademola Lookman.... almost.  Fast as hell and would have made a top 2 difference in that Rowett side.

12 minutes ago, Shuff264 said:

Knibbs, Wing and Smith were three I really wanted in the summer. Can't see how Reading would've been able to pay more than us?

They haven't.  There flogging players to pay them.  

10 minutes ago, davenportram said:

Could he be one of the players who trigger an extension if he plays more games?
Im  sure Warne said something about this in an interview.

 

at the end of the day Wildsmith is too inconsistent to be first choice in the championship so would make sense if we don’t want to extend his contract 

I suspect it's the likely scenario.

19 hours ago, S8TY said:

Saunders was 1m from Oxford as I can see the back of the sun now ….in the days of no transfer window …it was early morning and I’d popped in to get my paper on the way to work …at first set of traffic lights I flipped the paper over to get the sport news first of course and there in big bold letters was “ Rams sign Saunders for 1M “ 

I had to pull over and read the whole article I was that excited lol great signing but was a gamble still 

I thought simmo was about 250 - 300k from City or Oxford 

Bit of a Marianakis club swop really as it was from one Maxwell bank account to another.  Remember Mark Lawrenson resigning in protest.

4 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

I could watch him play all day. From the moment he made his debut (was it v Tranmere in the cup?), he immediately became my favourite player since the 70's heroes.

In his debut game he looked anything but a footballer, skinny, young kid that he was, but he calmly took down an awkward 40 yard pass and passed it on accurately without thinking about it. Easy. Very gifted player, intelligent and made others around him look good with the weight of his passes and vision.

You say he's never really hit the heights yet he's had a good career in the top flight of English football. How high do you have to go to be recognised as a top footballer?

If we go up i'd expect David Clowes to sell a few members of his family to finance Hughsey's return to see us back to the Prem.

That was the firestarter at Burton

Just now, S8TY said:

Oh really ? I didn’t know that I would still like us to take a punt now and again on someone lower down the leagues 

I remember Bobby Davison being a brilliant signing but hadn’t heard about him much before we signed him  …we don’t seem to go for up and coming talent 

Also Simmo …what a great signing he was and scored so many for a wide midfielder better than some strikers 

Far as I remember Simmo was pretty well known.  Started at Man City and had played with Oxford in the first division.  Cost about 550k.  Record for a forward player then was Saunders who we sold for 2.9 million, so he was reasonably pricey.

46 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

Someone privvy to both players wage demands?

I don't tend to put a lot on re transfers but it's very accurate from this person.  Only mentioned this prior as part of the confusion over Cashin in September and Goodwin as a striker we wanted as there was a lot of guessing.  There's a lot more I hear but life's too short to put it all on, I'd never sleep.

5 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

Where are you getting everyone's wages details from?

Direct from a horses mouth.  Just the difference in that one, not everyone's. 

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

You do know we are 3 points from the top of the league with a game in hand.

I think we're level on games. Bolton, with their games in hand and potentially getting Collins plus their grind out a result mentality, I can't see them falling out the top 2 and Peterborough just look a much more and organised side than us.   If we beat Bolton and Portsmouth maybe. 

Just now, Curtains said:

Mate he didn’t have choices and that’s the point !

Of course he did.  We went for Harris and the wage difference was minimal.  There's one that other decisions had an impact on.  He's accumulated players and not thought about what he's doing with them. 

Just now, Curtains said:

Well he had to bring in Washington and Waghorn in desperation as he did with TJJ

He brought in 3 players with a history of injury, one who was still injured.  He also brought in Embleton- injury issues who took 6 months wages and gave Loach a contract who have less games than me this season and gave TJJ a chancy further 6 months.  He's had choices and took gambles.  No point him looking likes a bulldog liking piss of a nettle now.

2 minutes ago, plymouthram said:

Nyambe should be available now, due his Namibia team getting knocked out on Saturday.

Based on current fitness levels at the club I assume he'll have got Dengue Fever, Measles, and a torn hamstring over the last 3 weeks. Still slightly fitter than Elder however, or the Albatross as he's better known.

24 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

Listening to PW it sounds like we have enough in the pot for one more. Of what standard god knows. 
 
In our defence Brighton are sitting on a pile of riches so for them to haggle over £4m until 5 hours before deadline was poor form. Not sure why we’ve been so adamant he’s not for sale this month though.

6 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Wouldn’t do buisness with Wycombe even if it suited us 

Loan swap for Couhig, some stocks and 100 boxes of rancid veg.

32 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

Bolton close to bringing in a 2nd and 3rd signing. Portsmouth have 2 in the bank and are linked with another 2. Posh nobody but keeping their players is as good as signing somebody. 
 

All eyes on us. Currently linked with nobody.

I'm afraid we blew our wad in the summer.  Once the Cashin deal went pear shaped, as we dug our heels in on a loan back or loan for Edmundson from Ipswich where he was going straight on loan, our options were curtailed.   I suggested a few weeks ago that I'd heard some must go on loan or permanent before much else could happen.  Seems likely. 

31 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Can you see Fornah being an integral part of us going up ? For me his ball retention and tackling is poor and he reminds me of Paulo Wanchope before he bought a Bullworker. We need an aggressive central midfielder asap.

He's been Wanchope and Powell today.  I see him more as a Bob Malcolm 

33 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

How many more times 🤣 Marriott and Waggers weren’t fully fit. Hence they started on the bench.

Marriott wasn't injured

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-striker-jack-marriott-2916792

2 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:

Wonder if this was the striker we've been outbid on? Can't remember Derby ever being linked with him mind

I''d take him for sure.

3 minutes ago, CapeTownRams said:

Sorry but he’s miles away from being a DPFG…. He was very underrated…. Valuable member of that team…. And gave us real bite in centre midfield …just what we need right now in fact.

But I know what u r trying to say 👍

A midfield 3 of Powell, Van Der Laan and Carsley was always friendly.

1 minute ago, BaaLocks said:

This one comes up again and again, it just feels like it has become the written history.

To remind:

- If you don't like the team Lampard picked on that day you don't like the team he picked in the SF (a) game vs Leeds. Given what happened there he'd have been equally slaughtered if he'd changed it.

- That Villa team was a whole hill of beans better than us, objectively. They had Grealish, McGinn, Abraham, Mings and a couple more (inc. Hourihane back when he could influence a game), it was about as good a Championship team as I can recall - I know we have Tomori, Wilson and Mount but still we had a few players who were well beyond their last hurrah (Huddlestone, Cole, Johnson).

If we played that game the other way round, a half dozen times over, I'd reckon we'd lose more times than we won. Not to say I didn't have my issues with Lampard but it is lazy memory (imho) to think it was all about the starting line up. We went in as heavy underdogs and we lost, as we were expected to.

We brought on Marriott for Holmes injury.  Pure chance, not selection.  Then reverted to a barren forward line at Wembley, pure selection.  We'd lost before we started.