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Premier League is fantastic this season. Liverpool in disarray, Everton, West ham and Leicester in serious relegation battle

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Just now, plymouthram said:

and Sheff Weds

Absolutely. I think we'll catch Ipswich 

Is it over yet

Just now, Yani P said:

Plymouth 1-1

Good result for us

Don't do this

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Same cup 10'000 at it.  They like to ignore this fact as they ramble on about empty seats against Barnsley.  This game last season was like us V west ham.  We'll see the difference I feel.

We get as many fans for League one games as they do for premier League

3 hours ago, Matchday Fred said:

Wouldn’t touch Waghorn with a barge pole. Too slow, too heavy, banjo. In fact I wouldn’t go back to any former player that left in the last 3 yrs unless it was Ebiowei or Byrne, and they are well out of reach.

Not sure the lack of rumour is due to Warne being good at covering it up. I think it’s because there is actually very little activity. EFL restrictions make squad improvement very difficult at the best of times, let alone the Jan window. If we bring someone in, they have to improve quality, ideally of the first XI not just the squad. There is no interest in just another warm body.

Warne will be happy with the status quo. Bringing in 1 or 2 players would be quite an achievement if they improve the first XI.

Agree. Waghorn is finished, he's well past his best now. I think we got him just at the right point of his career where he was at his peak, or maybe even just after it. That season at Ipswich he was very good as he was in his first season with us. After that you could sort of see the decline. I think we got as much as we could out of waghorn. 

6 hours ago, Srg said:

You've mostly answered your own question really.

People turn up to these games against much smaller clubs just expecting to win, and until that starts happening it's quiet or there's even mumblings of discontent if the performance is that poor. Add to that some small away followings, and even the cold weather (gloves don't make much noise!) and it doesn't help.

That said, I found the atmosphere against Sheff Weds to be bad too, from them included. Game wasn't too exciting but doesn't usually matter against them.

Some will point to more inclusive chants, but frankly, they've existed for forever and they still do now and they don't get joined in with either so it's a pretty poor excuse. Don't personally feel it takes a lot to at least clap along with whatever the tune is, but clearly too many would rather not for whatever reason. 

I think the goal music needs to go, recently it's been the same one that Leicester use and it sounds ridiculous in all honesty especially when we are going 4-0 up against forest green and Accrington Stanley. Not sure the drum is helping things either. The club have said that ideally the atmosphere needs to be generated organically.

If people don't want to sing they don't have to, some people just want to sit and watch the football. That's fine. But for the amount of fans that we have there must be more that we can do. I remember Lampard practically having to beg for us to make more atmosphere at home games. I don't know what the answer is. I guess this is what Club 84 are trying to do.

The question about atmosphere is an interesting one. It has been flat in recent weeks, very quiet. But the question is why? We are very well supported home and away but there are long periods of almost silence in the ground. We are playing well also so you would have thought we could make a bit more noise. Or is that most people just expect us to be rolling these teams over. It's a shame because when Pride Park is rocking it is some place to watch football.

stevenage have beat villa. what a result for them

12 minutes ago, Millenniumram said:

You really think we can beat West Ham?

Of course we can, sheffield wednesday beat Newcastle. Upsets happen all the time, its the magic of the cup

Can't see us finishing below this lot. We are a much better side

3 minutes ago, BucksRam said:

Is Dobbin Darwin Nunez in disguise? Gets into some great positions then has a panic attack.  Sure the coaching team will/are working on it. 

Difference is Dobbin is a teenager and cost us nothing. Liverpool forked out 100m for Nunez 

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Two joke offside decisions. Wolves robbed of a win

Crashing out of the cup here. 3-0 down to bottom of the championship Blackpool

2 hours ago, Foreveram said:

The good news the bus is free, 

The bad news…… it’s going to Stoke.

Everton should stick with Lampard. They can't keep sacking managers. They've had every manger under the sun and it never works. Tells you that there's deeper issues. That club has been poorly run. I'm not sure what more Lampard can do to be honest. It's a poor squad of players and it will take time to turn it around again.

5 hours ago, NottsRam77 said:

This is going to be hugely unpopular and break a few hearts… but 

maybe as a now 31 yo ball winner even wigan have better options 

lets move on and look ahead instead of trying to revisit the past. 
 

shinnie was fine for us, some great performances some so so.

hes 31 theres younger, fitter and hungrier players of his type around the football pyramid we could get 

I agree. People who want him back are looking at it from a sentimentality point of view. We don't need to go back to Shinnie. A good pro no doubt but we have other options and we need to move forwards. He wouldn't get a game here either. I just would have thought he would be able to get a game in that struggling Wigan team.

9 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

Liam Rosenior is undefeated in his opening five away games as Hull manager, winning three and scoring eight goals.

Maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t the problem behind our awful away record last season.

I think it's irreverent to be honest. It's two completely different jobs.

26 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:

Love the optimism of you and the two or three other commenters, but I just thought I would check the table from 2 months ago, 2nd November.

Back then we were 12 points behind 2nd place with a game in hand. So yes, we are on a good run, but even with that we are only catching up at a rate of 0.5 pts per month.

 

Remember we've still got Plymouth, Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich to play again. We are in great form, playing some great stuff and I still think we can get better. Ultimately yes I think the top 2 might be a stretch too far but it's not impossible. I believe.