Bob The Badger

After a painful drive up from Cornwall this afternoon (7+ hours) with a broken collarbone I'm glad to be back into Derbyshire tonight  

Enjoy the game v Cardiff everybody because enjoyment is enjoyment.

Nobody can take it off you afterwards like some Leeds fans seemed to think because they got promoted the following year after we humiliated them. 

It's all about the moment!

Lets rock the place and have fun like it's the old BBG!

On 01/05/2022 at 21:21, Inverurie Ram said:

who the duck is alice........alice.........alice......

 

From 21 minutes on brought a tear to the eye. Thanks for posting, brilliant stuff!

13 hours ago, Chester40 said:

That most niche of niche jokes....

A call back referencing a pretty obscure cover version by the 70s glam rockers Mud.

(I actually had to check - but apparently it reached number 1?? It certainly hasn't lingered in the public consciousness!)

All my life I've been waiting for @Mucker1884 to mention that. 
 

Obscure my arse. 
 

And I don't mean cover my arse. 
 

Although TBF, it really should be obscured. 

On 03/05/2022 at 23:14, Rev said:

I watched Mud yesterday. 

It's not all that, didn't even do Tiger Feet. 

That's right, that's right. 

1 hour ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

And Billy Bremner in the Damned United

And he played Bruce the Shark in Jaws.

14 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

I get bored of these jokes but that one is quite funny. Fair play.

You're far too mature for this forum.

I come here exclusively for the childish humour, innuendo and puns.

7 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

Literally forgettable within ten minutes of watching. 

How did you remember to review it?

And don't say you reviewed it inside 10 minutes because you couldn't possibly know you were about to forget it.

On 01/05/2022 at 08:32, angieram said:

 

BRILLIANT!

On 30/04/2022 at 19:03, Kernow said:

I just thought you were as pleased as me that Plymouth will be in our league next season...

We should have a south west get together! I'll hopefully get to there and Exeter. 

On 18/12/2021 at 00:11, uttoxram75 said:

All about opinions mate.

Mine is that Will is one of the best players i've seen in a Derby shirt and I go back to 1970. 

I'd not have him that high tbh.

A tad more pace and if he'd scored a few more goals and he'd be there or thereabouts.

What he had was crazy amounts of technical ability and that shines out and I *think* makes people think he's a bit better than he was.

The reality is, none of the top teams came knocking.

We had many players under Cloughie and Mackay who would be into many tens of millions in today's market, as would ooo Mark Wright, Deano and Igor. And I'm sure others who I've forgotten.

I'm not sure we've had a player quite like Hughes so he does stand out. Going back a long way I'd say maybe Gerry Daly?

A very good Ram, but not quite in that top tier imho.

Boiling Point on Netflix

I'm not sure I have ever seen Stephen Graham play a part where he's not a moody scouser. But then again he does moody Scousers so well, I'm not sure I want to.

Set in a top London restaurant with Graham as head chef and shot in one take (on apparently the 3rd go) it's intense, fascinating, chaotic, very well acted by everybody and increasingly dark.

My first ever job was a trainee chef and I spent a lot of time working in my sisters restaurant a few years later and everything about this was bang on from the terminology to the different characters to dick customers.

Half way through I'd have given it a respectable Simon Coleman, but it raised its game to a Dean Yates by the end. Well worth checking ot, especially if you like Graham.

1 hour ago, Ellafella said:

Outside the Old Bridge 

Nice map of Africa you've got going on there.

Mind you, I can talk, I have the entire globe.

5 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Get yer stomachs linied lads and lasses......I hear that you can tuck into this little lot for £2.99 oop in t'north ?

I couldn't eat that if you paid me.

I need a ton of butter on my toast.

And incidentally, why is there some spare plate on the toast plate? Couldn't they have fitted a small roasted horse on there?

On 27/04/2022 at 15:50, GboroRam said:

I know politics is verboten but still... 

Just brilliant!

3 hours ago, I DONT MIND said:

Nick Pick was signed in 1988, Also I disagree about Kuhl, no world beater but i think quite instrumental in getting us to the Play-Off Final against the ginger bin dogs.

Totally agree, Kuhl was ok. I didn't think Harkes was that bad either.

A bunch of actors in Godless who had great roles in other shows.

Kim Coates who plays the head of security (only 4 episodes in and can't remember his name) was the lead in the utterly brilliant Bad Blood.

That series (there were actually two) really went under the radar.

For anybody who hasn't seen it, check it out on (I think) Netflix.

There was also Merritt Wever from Unbelievable that was almost as good as Bad Blood.

As well as the leads. I recognised Michelle Dockery from Anatomy of a Scandal but didn't realise she was in Downton Abbey as I've never watched it.

And of course JD who was is as @86 Hair Islandsand @ketteringrampointed out, utterly fabulous.

Finished watching Anatomy of a Scandal on Netflix.

Fairly well acted and there was nothing fundamentally wrong  with it, but it's kind of been done to death and didn't offer anything much new other than some arty (person gets bad news and spirals back out of control for effect as the titles come up)  and pointless ends to each episode.

6/10

Finally persuaded Mrs Badger to watch Godless from around 2017 on Netflix that scores 8.2 on IMDb. It seems after a couple of glasses of wine she's up for a western.

Two episodes in and enjoying it.

And coincidently, the woman who played the prosecuting QC in Anatomy of a Scandal is the lead in this. At least I think it's her, I've not bothered to look it up.

Anybody else seen it?

7 hours ago, Eddie said:

Million Dollar Baby.

This is one of the best films I've ever seen (in my opinion).

No surprise that Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood picked up Oscars for this splendid film.

I can't remember that much about it other than it was most excellent.

15 minutes ago, SamUltraRam said:

I've looked it up. Apparently we sold Wilson to Ipswich for £150k in Jan 1985 and spent it on Gary Micklewhite and Trevor Christie.

John Gregory joined in the next season

Christie that's right!

More fool me, going on memory.

1 hour ago, SamUltraRam said:

I think there may be similarities between what we face next season and what we faced in our 1st season under Arthur Cox

There were some 'stop gap' signings to plug holes who played a part but not in the long term - like Eric Steele, Charlie Palmer, Floyd Streete & then there were gradual signings that proved to be inspirational - Rob Hindmarch, Geraint Williams, Gary Micklewhite, John Gregory etc.

Those player signings were funded by having to sell an asset - in this case Kevin Wilson - which is what we may have to do this summer

One difference then is that there wasn't a transfer window, you could sign players at any time

Oh, & we had already had quite a successful little striker - Bobby Davison !! Please find another one of them

Do you remember Kevin Wilson being the top scorer in the division iirc and Arthur selling him and us thinking wtf???

I think he then used that money to buy Mickelwhite and Gregory. Inspired indeed.

12 hours ago, JoetheRam said:

Was it good under Arthur Cox then?

Just wondering because no one on here ever mentions it.

One thing I wish is that our fans, who already look down on some of the clubs in the Premier League, let alone League One clubs, won't be constantly giving it the biggun to Shrewsbury fans and the like about how big a club we are, as if other mid size clubs like Leeds, Sunderland, Wednesday, Sheffield United, Leicester and Forest haven't been in the third tier recently. It's the definition of tin-pot.

The team that stormed through the 2nd division (Championship) under Arthur was an utter delight.

I don't remember a Derby team who could hit the opposition on the break quite so quickly (although the Bald Eagles team were good at that). Stick Phil Gee on the half way line and thread a ball through to him and it was game over.

There were a number of highlights like winning at Ipswich (first time I thought it was going to happen) and clinching promotion by beating Leeds at home, but the #1 game for me was taking 9,000 to Bramall Lane and coming away with a 1-0 win courtesy of Mr Gee.

Sadly and on a personal note, I never got to meet Dave Watson in a Little Chef on the A1 that season, but other than that, it was brilliant.