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BaaLocks reacted to i-Ram in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
It’s a fair point, but like your position with Russia I don’t think you are going to have too many others saying here here.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from S8TY in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
Or are they more Lubos Kubik and Ivo Knoflicek????
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BaaLocks got a reaction from SamUltraRam in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
Or are they more Lubos Kubik and Ivo Knoflicek????
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BaaLocks got a reaction from EranioIsGod in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
So which one is Mauricio Solis and which one is the Chop???
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Millenniumram in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
So which one is Mauricio Solis and which one is the Chop???
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Premier ram in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
Memories of John Gregory - didn't need to drop down but chose to and revelled in the spotlight it brought
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BaaLocks got a reaction from ck- in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
Memories of John Gregory - didn't need to drop down but chose to and revelled in the spotlight it brought
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Rammy03 in Conor Hourihane - Signed 2 year deal
Memories of John Gregory - didn't need to drop down but chose to and revelled in the spotlight it brought
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BaaLocks got a reaction from EtoileSportiveDeDerby in Football Eats Itself
You only have to see the way we got treated over the likes of Kaide Gordon's sell on fee, Ebiowei and others during a time when we most needed a bit of support to see that anyone who claims football outside the big six is worthy of consideration is - well - blowing out of their hole. And how much time is anyone taking to make sure that what we have been through is not endured at a repeating frequency by other clubs? Not one moment. And how much real concern would have been shared if we had gone under? Not one bit, in the same way it won't be for the next club and the one after and the one after.
I don't say football clubs should be ring fenced, but there should be learnings and there should be protection in place to allow competitiveness (for it is a sport after all) to exist inside the boundaries of what is done. I don't say we should go totally Marxist, or introduce a salary cap or draft or other method of levelling the playing field. But the system *has* to allow chance for a club to rise up and challenge, even if it takes time and is the exception it has to be possible. Realistically, today, there is zero chance of winning any top level trophy unless you have an extremely wealthy owner.
To the point on Kalvin Philips, it can't be good for the game for some of it's best talent to be consigned to sitting on the bench for all but the Carabao Cup games. How does that help the game grow domestically and nationally?
But, against all this, a bit like LIV Golf if various oil barons and millionaires want to donate their almost infinite wealth among footballers who largely come from less than privileged backgrounds then who am I to challenge that? Now, whether it is right morally for those players to sign up to take the money is a different point but still.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from jono in Work & Home Life
All the best for your loved ones in the coming weeks, months and years @BucksRam. Far more important than anything that happens wrt eleven blokes chasing a ball.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from ariotofmyown in Work & Home Life
I'm quite politically interested and at one point it literally felt like all the things I held dear (outside my family) were falling apart. We had Brexit, the Labour Party, then the BoJo effect, then just ever increasing bat bananas policies, lies and the like (I'm not trying to get a cheap politics rant in, bear with me). Alongside this the company I work for - established and long standing - is really struggling and then Derby County have been going through what they have. Fortunately, my wife hasn't left me or that probably would have been a full house.
But I have to say that since the end of last season I've taken a view on the football side that what will be will be. I keep getting texts from mates traumatised about the latest events at Pride Park but I've just stepped back and taken a view that if I can't control it why am I worrying. Indeed, there really are some positives out of this - I can't remember the last time I was more excited to see the fixtures and I have no long term desire to be a Premier League toy for some super rich playboy, watching the latest multi-million transfer come and go as we struggle to get the 42 points needed to hang on with the big boys.
So, yes, it has been a really interesting time but personally I am past the point of really caring and content to live with whatever outcome we end up presented with (which isn't certain again - it's great that Clowes has stepped in but it's still not certain if he either can, or wants to, be a long term solution for a club that has a set up that is far from cheap to maintain).
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Rekindling Old Flames
I agree with Tarina - let's start again
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BaaLocks reacted to Animal is a Ram in list of things that are better than the current administration
Flute is generous.
Piccolo, so I've heard.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Animal is a Ram in list of things that are better than the current administration
Walking in on BoJo with Carrie 'playing his flute'
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BaaLocks got a reaction from RadioactiveWaste in list of things that are better than the current administration
Walking in on BoJo with Carrie 'playing his flute'
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Miggins in Work & Home Life
All the best for your loved ones in the coming weeks, months and years @BucksRam. Far more important than anything that happens wrt eleven blokes chasing a ball.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta in Things that annoy me that should annoy me
Oh, some would consider it the perfect time - just depends what you are looking for
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BaaLocks reacted to DarkFruitsRam7 in Biggest Idiot
Rod Liddle almost certainly the biggest idiot mentioned so far.
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BaaLocks reacted to Carl Sagan in Rate the last film you saw partie deux
Cheers. Remember all the hype about The Lobster when it came out, though some said "great concept but it loses its way". It did sound intriguing. But since then he's done The Killing of a Sacred Dear and The Favourite which I thought were terrible. Life's too short to watch movies from directors whose work you don't like! And if the film club is watching and laughing at Spirited Away I'm pretty certain Tyrannosaur isn't for them! :)
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BaaLocks reacted to dabber in Rate the last film you saw partie deux
Agree, I think the Lobster was the weirdest thing I have ever seen
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BaaLocks got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Rate the last film you saw partie deux
I loved Spirited Away, love all those Studio Ghibli.
If you're doing film club choose The Lobster - if you can get through that without wondering what way is up you are a better person than me. Or do Tyrannosaur if you don't want people to talk much afterwards, about as dark as it gets - though the acting is beyond great.
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BaaLocks got a reaction from RadioactiveWaste in Rate the last film you saw partie deux
I loved Spirited Away, love all those Studio Ghibli.
If you're doing film club choose The Lobster - if you can get through that without wondering what way is up you are a better person than me. Or do Tyrannosaur if you don't want people to talk much afterwards, about as dark as it gets - though the acting is beyond great.
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BaaLocks reacted to Carl Sagan in Rate the last film you saw partie deux
Spirited Away - a famous anime we watched at the inaugural work "film club". It was odd as most of the other members of staff were rolling about laughing, when I was wondering what on earth anyone saw in it. Derek Hales/10.
I have nominated:
Colossus: the Forbin Project Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for future screenings.
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