Loughborough Ram

The demand for everybody to know everything these days is ridiculous and in many cases unworkable.

If we become successful in the next few years will you put it down to the work done by Stephen Pearce? No of course you wouldn't. 

He is part of the whole and if David Clowes thinks that he is the best man for the job then our opinions really count for nothing, which is as it should be.

I am not in anyway defending Pearce but I'd be interested to know how many of the Johnny big b*ll*cks on here, with expert financial acumen, and ability to be a ceo, would have given Mel Morris what for, and absolutely disobeyed him and the majority of his decisions.

My guess would be, approximately, zero. Its easy to talk a good game on a Internet chat room, it's another when everything rests on your decisions, and you will actually be proven right or wrong instead of dealing in hypetheticals 

26 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

He is the type of fella who doesn't care for Academies.

He isn't interested in long term vision, bringing through players and giving youth a chance.

He prefers to sign experienced pros who can get the job done now...any minute now.

 

Of course he does for the time being.

He is relatively fresh into the job and is under real pressure from a very demanding fan base, so for him to be putting time into developing players for 3, 4 or even 5 years time would be selfless in the extreme.

I'm sure that he would love to have a team of academy graduates ready to call on, but for the time being his priority has to be getting a squad together to be successful now, especially as he doesn't have the resources available to to buy first team players let alone plough money into the 18s and 21s

If he still has no interest in the youth teams in a couple of years time, then criticise him but at the moment it just looks like another convenient stick to beat him with

Let's not forget that the amortisation plan was not wrong, the EFL accepted it until that Middlesborough tw*t complained.

It's akin to what Chelsea are doing with their 8 year contracts, the difference is that they aren't going to be punished retrospectively like we were.

If you trust David Clowes and he wants Pearce around, then what is there to moan about?

Mel Morris made every decision, that seems to be the accepted wisdom, so what do we think Pearces responsibility in our troubles was?

Let's just get on with becoming a successful club again, and if that is with Pearce involved, then great, I couldn't care less.

Dunk was very good as well

Bellingham will be, if he isn't already, the best player in the world. There is more than a hint of Zidane about him.

2 hours ago, trappatoni said:

If you want to be pedantic.  McGoldrick has been a good Championship player, Wanchope was a good Premier League Player  - I make that one level.  

 

Depends how you want to categorise 'levels'.

A level above McGoldrick?

He was 5, 6 or even 10 levels above McGoldrick, in every department.

I like McGoldrick but putting him that close to Wanchope is like saying that Cashin is a level below Stimac or McFarland

24 minutes ago, S8TY said:

Seems odd to me that JCH hasn’t moved already …I’ve said it a few times I’m not a fan after watching him a few times last season and think we should be looking at players like Nombe if we are going to spend 1m 

some saw him lay the ball off neatly a few times on Saturday and now think he’s better than what he is ….watch him in second leg against Weds when it mattered he didn’t hold it up then when posh were desperate for someone to do exactly that and also an error from him led to 3rd or 4th goal ….let’s go for a younger up and coming striker ! 

Whilst not advocating for Clarke Harris in any way, judging a player on that game may not necessarily guide you in the right direction. Joe Ward was possibly the worst player on the pitch that night. I remember commenting to my son that it was hard to believe that he was a professional footballer, yet he looks like one of our best signings this summer.

Sonny Bradley will do OK for us. Some players take longer to settle than others

13 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

At the start of the season the Bookies had us at 5-1 favourites to win this very poor League One . We are now 3.5-1 and just Even money to get promoted . The Bookies must think Warne is doing something right.

He clearly is.

Despite all of the wrist slashing negativity on here we've made a solid start to the season. There's room for improvement of course, but most level headed people can see that there's a lot to be positive about.

3 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Why? The ball is now in the possession of the team who've just conceded so it's arguable that the keeper is within his rights to claim the ball. It's then up to the referee to decide if he's then wasting time.

It's not in the possession of the team that have just conceded at all.

The only reason the goalkeeper wants the ball is to prevent the opposition from capitalising on any momentum gained from scoring. And his involvement is normally the spark that causes problems. Therefore keep him out of it, and get the game restarted.

I personally feel that once the ball goes in the net it should be a straight booking for any goalkeeper that stops the opposition from retrieving the ball.

No messing, no mitigation, just keep out of the way or you're booked.

This is the same Stuart Atwell that robbed us of victory against Forest when he disallowed 2 clear goals by Miles Addison in the last couple of minutes. 

I'd say that he owes F*rest nothing at all.

While ever we accept this kind of cheating it will never be eradicated.

To think that some people still buy the old "oh, they run so fast these days that the slightest touch can knock them off balance". Its utter b****cks. 

It was never a penalty, nobody would ever expect it to be given FOR their team but, it was against Forest so I can just about control my anger.

Over the last 18 months they have been the luckiest team in world football, so it's nice when just once, something goes against them, and they have a tantrum

I've said since day one, VAR will never work properly, because rather than being used to benefit football, which was the original intention, it is run by referees for the benefit of referees. This is proof positive that my thoughts are spot on.

If the authorities want it to work properly take it away from the sole control of referees, train up specialist VAR operatives and have a referee present to ensure that the laws are upheld properly and include an ex player to introduce an understanding of what is actually happening in the game.

It'll never happen, of course

He's the person that gives us hope. And he also steers the rumour mill thread away from endless pointless discussion about tactics and formations.

Keep it up BT we're right behind you

Not sure, at the moment, that Derby County could sign a birthday card. 

We look a little more shambolic every day that passes.

I'd normally say, "don't believe anything until you hear it from the manager", but I reckon Big Trav has got a better record than Paul Warne this summer, so I'm definitely on the Big Trav express, and waiting for the fun to begin.

The problem with this is that it makes us look a bit shambolic.

If you tell somebody once to expect something, and it doesn't happen, it can be forgiven. But to repeat this on a few occasions, it is bound to create a negative picture, and cause fans to become a little disillusioned and distrusting

I would bet good money that Forest are seriously considering trying to get Mason Greenwood

Not sure that any of these tactical masterclasses are actually rumours.

Maybe I took the thread title too literally, expecting this thread to be about potential new players. I feel really foolish now

Any less than 15 minutes injury time is dodgy, they took 5 mins for the penalty and another 5 for the injury so with substitutions and time wasting it has to be 15 at least

Only sell to Brighton if we have a 50% sell on clause