Gee SCREAMER !!
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4 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:
you fancy setting up a script writing and story creating team with me?
Go on then. Money for old rope really. Should take us an hour or so. Hugh Grant available.?
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10 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:
the missus loves a Christmas film. I can take it or leave it, but do appreciate a good Christmas film. So with that mindset, we have been looking for Christmas movies that we haven't seen. The one mentioned above (Violent Night) was enjoyable, however, I should have quit whilst I was ahead:-
GENIE (SkyTV) : RIchard Curtis dross-fest where Melissa McCarthy is even less funny than her other unfunny roles and the undercover copper from Gangs of London. He is overworked and neglecting his family. The wife takes the daughter away from him just before Christmas, he then rubs a box and she pops out and gives him unlimited wishes. Nothing funny happens. Sickly boring ending where everything is happy ever after. Follows a formula that makes you sick that they produce this dross knowing idiots love Christmas and WILL watch it.
Conor Doyle/10
CANDY CANE LANE (Amazon Prime): Eddie Murphy plays a doting dad who loves Christmas, and is in competition with his neighbours to have the best Christmas decorations on his house. Signs a deal with a naughty Elf which will backfire if he doesnt complete a mission he doesn't know about. Intertwined with token nods to BLM/MOBO/Culture (for no real reason) and several attempts to give parenting messages and other things that don't really hit hard enough due to too many little nods. Absolute dross again, instantly forgettable and will probably not even remember watching it by Christmas!
Seb HInes/10
I'd give Candy Cane a Julien De Sart. Decent opening match, then dross.
I reckon you secretly love Christmas films and spend all December sneaking downstairs to watch Hallmark TV movies where an American women meets the love of their life, who owns a massive castle in Ireland or Scotland -egg nog, yule logs, and Hogmanhay dancing optional.
Either that or their some hard nosed business women who visits their old town somewhere in Colorado and realises the true meaning of Christmas with some bloke who works in a garage.
Admit it, you love it.
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On 02/12/2023 at 19:47, HorsforthRam said:
“This place has football soul” or some such sh**te. Think they need to reduce their spends on tifos 😂
About this standard of soul.
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21 hours ago, popside ossie end popside said:
All those BOOS at the end, from the best fans in England, Britain, Europe, The World, The Universe. Watched second half in pub, the MASSIVE 'noisy' were sooooooo quiet
They fight till the end, or run out of pies at least
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On 03/12/2023 at 00:19, Comrade 86 said:
Them not winning another game would quite interest me 😋
In all seriousness, I genuinely believe Sheffield are worse than we were and by a stretch too. Sadly, the bottom half dozen are, by PL standards, so colossally shyte, that they'll all take points of each other. Pains me to say it, but I can see the Blades ending up with 15 points despite being materially useless.
They're playing as s**** as we were from Mar-May 2008. However, the amount of international breaks today gives them that respite from one shalacking too another in terms of mental recovery, as does the constant squad rotation of top 8 sides during European weeks which could get them an unexpected draw or two. An imaginary penalty in the 100th min against Wolves hasn't done them any harm either.
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1 hour ago, Foreveram said:
Forest falling apart again.
The bigger problem with that is not an embargo for a few week till they pay up but a load of pissed agents who will send their clients in another direction for a lot longer if options for moves are available.
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7 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:
Work has begun to put barriers in place and should be completed within the next 2 weeks.
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/12/work-starts-at-pride-park-stadium-to-introduce-safe-standingGoing to be expensive to replace all those knackered seats . All looks a bit weird. take out the seats if that's the way it's going.
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1 hour ago, Andrew3000 said:
Yep totally agree. Just another thought about the striker, I think we need the pace option and a proper target man, because in my view Collins and Waghorn are not quite that either. So arial dominance ( actual tbreat from crosses and corners and reliable hold up play) and pace in behind are both things we lack. Adding either will improve us, but both would be ideal.
JJ may be the pace option, but like many say we would be foolish to rely on him.
Going for a target man who's affordable, I'd suggest Stockley who has impressed me with his hold up and physicality when I've seen him over the last two years. He won't be much good in the league above but we're not their yet and he will provide muscle in games where a defence sits in which should provide space for midfield runners. He might also make set pieces more useful as we get sod all from corners.
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16 minutes ago, DavesaRam said:
None of them were. But two of them were scoring freely, and two of them weren’t. So we gave the two who struggled to score nearly 90% of the match, even after we had gone behind and needed goals. When Marriott and Waghorn did finally come on Villa were getting spare clean shorts ready, and we scored within minutes. But they were brought on wwwaaaaayyyyy too late and ran out of time.
Mings certainly shat his when Marriott started playing of his shoulder. Scored one and can still see that other shot being cleared off the line followed by his 4 minutes of pretend cramp the ref let him run down the clock with. Left it too late.
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33 minutes ago, Foreveram said:
Back on the list
No surprise. How much are they paying Wing as he had championship offers. Madness
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6 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
You think we made 6 million on Ince and 4 on Vydra? Do you think we were not paying them while they were here?
Derby were relegated because Mel didn't pay the bill. Mel didn't pay the bill because he had burned a big hole in his wallet. Mel had burned a big hole in his wallet through poor recruitment.
Do you not think their wages were at least covered by those profits or did Mel set fire to it ? Mel took his cash away as he got bored and even more bored with batting the EFL. Life's too short too keep battling this laughable argument when your rewriting history and misquoting transfers fees on just two players. Bit poor to bring cancer into a football argument as well to score points. Leaves me a bit cold so I'll leave you to it.
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7 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
A bill which was caused by poor recruitment. There is no other way around that. All that you mention came as a result of our owner not footing the bill he created by recruiting poorly. He didn't spaff his money away on anything else. The debts increased because the wage bill soared, and the income received from transfers was being dwarfed by the expenditure on transfers.
Look at the position Brentford are in. And they did that without the resources Derby could produce from matchday income.
Brentford signed young players like Maupay, Watkins, Konsa, Benrahma, Raya, Mepham, Sawyers, Egan, Woods... Literally over 100 million in profit sales while as a Championship club over four seasons.
Derby, meanwhile, made a profit on only about four players in the same period. A period where we signed about 50 new players. And the profits on Ince and Vydra were a couple of million each.
Recruitment is what has seen Brentford fly, and what has seen Derby fall.
We made 6 million on Ince and nearly 4 on Vydra. We also made16 on two academy players. Derby were relegated because the owner decided not to pay his bill and the EFL retrospectively reared us. Whether he spent a billion or a thousand makes no difference. Your argument holds no water.
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2 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
The EFL only enforced said rules because Derby under MM were trying to find loopholes around FFP because we had overspent and had gone beyond the accepted profit and sustainability rules. And the reason we went over is because of bad recruitment. Of course the points deduction got us relegated. But there were a series of events that led to the points deduction.
And at the very top of the tree is poor recruitment.
All the events lead back to the summer of 2015/16. We had a squad of players with a wage bill of around 18 million per year and had finished 3rd and 8th the previous two years. Many recognised the reason we fell away in 2014/15 was a lack of cover for key positions such as Martin, Thorne/Mascarell/Eustace and out wide to improve on the ageing Ward after injuries.
So we decided to then spend 25 million plus that summer on a new GK (Carson), RB/Utility (Baird), CB (Shackell and Pearce), midfield (Butterfield and Johnson, neither being holding midfielders), a wide player (Ince) who was probably the only player identified to fit the role needed, and two ST (Bent and Weimann) when we already had Martin and they were completely different moulds.
9 players signed. 25 million spent. And only one of those actually fit into our team and could be deemed an upgrade. That is woeful recruitment and started the trainwreck which culminated in our relegation to League One.
Know we hadn't. Loopholes yes as used by every club from loaning 10 million quid players from parent clubs, selling a stadium to a family member, claiming you've overspent as you would have sold 30 million quid of youngsters if not for covid, putting your debt into another business you own, converting debt into shares you then sell to yourself at a higher rate than the debt. etc. Ours was signed off and minimal in comparison to most of these whoppers. The rules were retrospectively changed after the EFL dragged us through the gutter, they then changed the rules further to give breathing space to clubs for covid on accounts we'd already lost points for. We did not break any rules as ratified by an independent accountant at our first hearing, before the EFL's handpicked witchhunt.
You've added about 5 million on to that recruitment bill as well. Take off another 6.2 mill for player sales on top. Not that excessive for 9 players.
We got relegated because a bloke worth twice our current chairman wouldn't foot the bill he needed to pay. If he had, he'd have got most of it back on the club sale. He got bored with his toy. Nothing to do with recruitment.
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22 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:
Isn't the City Ground in Rushcliffe?
Think so. The MP who they offered a place on the board too stated that as a young lad he watched Forest and Notts county but if he wanted a treat, he'd head over the border to watch the real big team in the region Derby County. Good old Ken Clarke. Can almost forgive him being a council tax leach for that peach at the start of his autobiography.
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36 minutes ago, The Last Post said:
It just makes you wonder if there's dark forces at hand 😬
Seeing as it's peed off the self appointed greatest and most deserving fans in the world- 16'000 when I went there when they were struggling in the early 90's and less the following week without a big away following- I'll give VAR a pass.
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2 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
Derby are in this position because of recruitment. Recruitment is what makes teams either successful or not.
Clubs that actually use intricate statistical data such as Brighton and Brentford have exceeded expectations because their recruitment has seen them purchase players with huge potential while selling players for big fees to fund their progress.
Clubs like Derby meanwhile just saw somebody like Nick Blackman was scoring goals elsewhere and signed him without any thought of why he is scoring goals, what his best position is and how he can fit in to Derby’s current playing style.
We broke a club record fee on a player just because he became available hours previously. He wasn’t even a target. We had no idea where he would fit in. Literally an agent just called Derby and said this player is available, and Derby said yes we will buy him.
That is why we are in the third division. No plan on recruitment. Just throwing cash around like it’s confetti. We had 5 years of careful recruitment under Nigel Clough ruined in just one summer by Mel.
XG in isolation doesn’t mean much. We beat Port Vale. We had an XG of 0.7. All that matters is we scored, they didn’t, 3 points. However, in terms of the bigger picture, statistical data plays a huge role in modern football.
Far as I can see XG has no relation to a bloke with a few hundred million who decided to head off rather than covering debt he'd ran up or a tiresome twosome chasing the ambulance, or indeed a pissed off EFL having a wet dream over how they could retrospectively f*** up a club for years by enforcing accounting rules which didn't exist.
Clubs buy crap players all the time and spend crazy wages. For a few years they are well up like Southampton and then they're not. Leicester won the league with Huth, Mahrez, Kante and Vardy who cost a bag of sherbet. Then they were millions in the crap. Statistics make no difference and I certainly wouldn't need them too let me know Blackman, Butterfield and Anya were crap buys, just the eyes I'd seen them with.
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7 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
That sort of thinking is why clubs like Derby are in the 3rd division while clubs like Brighton are playing in Europe.
We're in the 3rd division as the previous owner put us into administration. The EFL then took a chance to stick the boot in by stopping us keeping a 40 year old player, whilst allowing others under embargo to bring in large scale loan reinforcement and also stopped us giving proper contracts to kids on minimal wage that would have expedited a swifter return on relegation, whilst dumping 9 more points of deduction based on accounting rules that didn't exist. They followed this up by allowing a couple of chancers to go the faux 'revenge' mission, holding up any sale that may have given us a chance and forcing a sale of the best youngsters and Shinnie for some magic beans.
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I see all those players that Reading have been allowed to sign under their 'embargo that was clearly going to be broken' at the start of the season have riden to their rescue over the last 2 games. Total farce.
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2 minutes ago, Poynton ram said:
Couldn’t believe the size of the Port Vale pitch, no wonder NML looked so knackered. Great win and the run reminds me of Jim Smith’s first season when we started slowly and then really picked up to eventually finish second. Shame no game Sat
Under Smith we looked a million miles above the rest for about 8 games till New years day where we won but struggled against Norwich. Then it was all a bit tighter performance wise for a bit but we looked better than most and did 20 without losing. I can't see that in this side, as we don't have enough up top or a good enough mix of muscle and technique in midfield or behind the striker. Second would exceed what's currently in the squad without some additions.
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Foul on Fornah. Corner to Port Vale. Calamity ref
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3 minutes ago, oodledoodle said:
This game would have been perfect for wash. All that room to run into behind their back line. Can TJJ get half an hour? He'd run riot.
I don't know why he was playing internationals when he'd been out for a month and wasn't anywhere near up to match fitness. All a bit piss poor as we have a half fit Waghorn and the invisible man as other options.
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2 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:
Doesn’t look as if Nyambe is having one of his better games.
Turning your back to a player, kicking it from the side and running onto our own ball, only works more than once if your Maradona or playing at U12 level. He needs to work on another trick when pushing up.
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Tyreece John-Jules
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I believe there is an option to extend if it suits all parties.