Bob The Badger

Never an opportunity goes by................

I continue to be encouraged. So so good to have players that are “ours” not sourced through an agent or someone else’s youth throw out along with the daft prices that go with all this.
Knight .. Going to be, or already is, an excellent championship midfielder .. has a great engine and can score goals
Bird .. coming along in fits and starts .. some great vision with his passing but I am just not sure he is a deep lying player at this stage in his development. He may become one but at the moment I see him as CM or in any case, further up the park. Is cutting it well at this level. Can he be better ? 
Festy .. so exciting because he is direct and has strength to go with his pace. Every champ team is going to be watching him when they play us .. he’s a threat ! 
Sibley.. He’s got “it” without a doubt .. not sure the team is set up to play to his strengths .. but he runs, shoots, tackles with considerable prowess. He is a narky, needs to filter out some over reactions 
Buchanan .. had dips in form -  he is at least as good all round as either Bogle or Lowe
Watson .. No doubts at all - Of all of them I feel he is the one that the Prem will want
I haven’t seen enough of the others to comment seriously but Cashin looks to be a good un. 
Hutchinson isn’t technically our “product” but I’ve seen a desire to shoot and the composure and skill for that goal against Salford was pretty special 
Dyllan Williams .. he’s only 17 and needs time. Despite the outstanding effort in the second half against Salford he needs time to grow physically and more coaching. He’s got something, but I can’t predict what level he will finish at. I was hoping to see jinking and changing pace that a good wide man needs, I didn’t see any of that, despite good technique and huge willingness to run 
 
 

What is a shame us Mel goes on about the academy so often.
We have 2 in Cashin and Thompson who aren't able to play for the first team because we haven't sorted anything out yet.
Thanks again Mel.

I presume he meant Buchanan

Sorry man, it just had to be said.
That doesn't mean I don't still love you though.

A fantasy?
 
... or is that just me?  

I just want to apologise for the delay, my absence, my handling of the situation and try to explain what has happened.
The meeting on Wednesday was scheduled to end at 8.45pm, my last train home was 9.33pm, I slipped out just after 9pm as I didn’t have clothes, medication, toiletries with me as I wasn’t planning on staying overnight.
When the meeting had finished, an agreement was made where one statement would be written and signed off by all groups, this is the first time anything like this had been agreed, I was under the impression we would be allowed to report back as normal.
Being completely unaware of this, whilst waiting for my train I saw a conversation take place on my Twitter timeline discussing the meeting minutes, when would they be out.
I replied, that the meeting minutes were not taken and we would be sharing the information ourselves, which as I say I was under the impression would be allowed, why else attend? I thought I was being helpful.
Now I can see on reflection I was clearly naive in not appreciating the number of fans waiting online for what was said at the meeting, would see the tweet whilst was part of a conversation, which was also public and could be seen and shared by others. The tweet blew up online having been retweeted, I’m not exaggerating when I say maybe hundred or more replies, some abusive to the point where I had to turn notifications off as my phone was freezing with as I came back into an area with phone signal.
On the forum I did pre warn members not to expect anything Wednesday evening, the minutes can sometimes take a few days to a couple of weeks before being released. I was going with the intention of asking the club if the minutes could be released within 24 hours or that we could release the information immediately. Obviously once we was told the minutes would not be taken all that went out the window and believed we was free to report back immediately, and that was the plan.
Again, I was clearly naive to the fact fans on Twitter would not be aware of this, so when I wasn’t replying to all the tweets with thumbs up or down if it’s good news, or are we going to have a club next week the levels of abuse increased, despite my plea for being understanding I wasn’t in the position to do so.
With my write up, I had no intention of adding any personal opinion, it would be just what was said and allow you all to read and take it as you will.
As you will be well aware, all fans see things differently and I didn’t want to raise any expectations or disappoint fans, then receive more abuse as it wasn’t what they were expecting.
I put myself in this situation through naivety, but I don’t accept that the abuse was warranted at all, I have removed the twitter account from my devices and will no longer be active on that account, opting now for a private account as I have no interest in twitter fame.
I would seriously urge anyone that did send me abusive tweets to have a think how they talk to people online and their demands, if this is this what celebrities have to deal with on a daily basis, I’m glad I’m just a nobody!
Punjabi Rams, who I honestly can’t thank enough stepped in and put some tweets out from their account to give some information in my defence. You guys are awesome, didn’t need to do that but again, I honestly can’t thank you enough. Quick plug www.punjabirams.co.uk, @PunjabiRams on Twitter, go give them a follow if you are on there.
On the train home I started to do the write up on my notes app, realising I need to get this out asap, first thing to defuse the situation I felt I had created.
Thursday morning, as I was consulting my notes and finishing off the write up, there was a few things I wanted to fact check with the club were totally accurate, there has been times where things have been misheard in the past (Boycie ahem) and needed correcting, I didn’t want this to happen. We’re human, mistakes can happen, I believed I had time to ensure there were none.
I decided, and this was not requested by the club but to send my write up to them, asking if they could read it over and everything I had written was totally accurate, leaving ??? <—— fact checks where I was a little cautious over.
They agreed and I again naively yet again assumed that this would be back with me in a few hours……despite the previous night listening to just how busy they have been.
Now whilst I understand and totally agree that this meeting is important, the club staff are as I’m sure you can imagine really busy, now I need to really stress here that this is in no way the fault of the club, this is on me 100%.
No tweet, no forum post, none of this situation exists.
Meanwhile The Supporters Charter Group are scratching their heads as to why I’ve gone it alone, I can only apologise to them also, as I say I was under the impression that we would all be reporting back ourselves which I have explained privately with them.
A single statement isn’t something I would have been personally happy with but that is what was agreed in my absence.
I haven’t felt comfortable coming back on the forum if I'm honest, ignoring the fact I insinuated what was said at the meeting would be out Thursday on the forum, I feel like I have let you all down and for that I’m sorry.
Just to add, this apology wasn’t asked for, it's something I feel is owed to you all.
Should someone have gone that could have stayed all evening? Ideally yes, although Paul (Boycie) was unavailable to attend. Since the formation of 2017 it has only been either myself or Paul that has attended, I didn’t feel it would be right to send someone new which in hindsight was the correct call, they may have also not been able to attend until the end of what I’m led to believe turned out to be almost a 4 hour long meeting, putting themselves unwittingly into a similar situation I have.
I know you are all frustrated, the accusations of attention seeking, sitting on information, teasing, trying to get more views, followers etc. and even censorship on the forum are simply not true, they come from people that do not know me or how the forum is run at all, which is disappointing hearing it said by members that have been on the forum for a number of years now.
Finally, I do want to say thank you to those who have sent supportive texts, PM’s, DM’s, tweets you name it over the last few days, despite asking to be given time, it’s you who I put the hours in for, I will learn from this and work on handling things better in the future.
I would also like to thank the moderators who have been trying their best to keep on top of the situation, without them this forum would have crashed and burned over the last few days so please be respectful to them, even if at times you do not agree with decisions they have made. 
David
 

5 episodes in and it's utterly outstanding. Awesome to see the guy from The Wire who played Omar, he's really good.
Do you think there's a teeny tiny chance that Jimmy McGovern saw it before writing Time? 

The Serpent. Missed it first time round. Excellent, but got a little patchy toward the end.  Nicholson goal against Sheff Wed /10

@B4ev6is, Alfreton Supporters Club do a bus to all away games that picks up outside Pride Park. I will send you a PM about how to get in touch. 
They still had places for both Peterborough and Hull two days ago, so I think they would be ideal for you. They're a good gang too!

Have we got our own number or do we have to share one with Wycombe 

I'm not sure if this has come up before because it originally came out a few years ago so may have been on the BBC or somewhere else, but I *think* Sky have only just picked it up.
The Night Of is absolutely outstanding 2 episodes in.
It's the antithesis of Baptiste with brilliant acting, a tight plausible script and some very atmospheric settings and camera work.
There appears to be one plot flaw that is bugging me, but I'm hoping it will be explained.
 

Jaws. I was 8 or 9 when my mum took us to the cinema to see it. Front row. Terrifying.
I have no idea what she was thinking taking 2 young kids to see such a film but I'm so grateful she did. 
And I didn't want to go near any body of water for years.

we got pounded at the beginning but the lads had the balls to fight back and hit a rich vein of form in the second half. 
I think this saves Rooney from the sack and it's the tip of the iceberg. You'd be nuts to think otherwise. 

One of the funniest clips I have ever seen on YouTube. I did some research and it was totally legit, the cat got its claw stuck in his belt loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMGFidC83c

we got pounded at the beginning but the lads had the balls to fight back and hit a rich vein of form in the second half. 
I think this saves Rooney from the sack and it's the tip of the iceberg. You'd be nuts to think otherwise. 

Penalty-taking is a very specific exercise which has little to do with attacking or defensive mindset. I'm sure they take them in training and they take the best penalty takers for the shoot-out. Can't see what's to get annoyed about.

I'm not sure if this has come up before because it originally came out a few years ago so may have been on the BBC or somewhere else, but I *think* Sky have only just picked it up.
The Night Of is absolutely outstanding 2 episodes in.
It's the antithesis of Baptiste with brilliant acting, a tight plausible script and some very atmospheric settings and camera work.
There appears to be one plot flaw that is bugging me, but I'm hoping it will be explained.
 

Oh ffs.

I’ve enjoyed watching Misfits. Some of the humour is really ‘wrong’ but that’s almost refreshing.
Joseph Gilgun would make a great Tom Lawrence when our sorry tale is made into a film.
 

Animated and jumping around like a loon at drinking lots of water.
One word.
Ecstasy.
Did he hug anybody?

For the fans.

Now THAT was funny!