Leeds Ram

Reading that Birmingham thread is gold. Falling all over themselves for an ownership that has got them relegated, have deluded plans for a stadium expansion which they can't possibly fill and who have added little quality to a squad that struggled. It's quite odd to be honest, if it was me I'd be questioning their management and their extravagant plans. Watching them struggle on Saturday against a Norwich team in first gear who had basically 0 to play for should have made them a little humble but apparently not... 

They're also seemingly convinced they'll take over grounds across the country and roll over everyone in sight... Personally I don't see them getting out of there in a single season. If Sunderland, Ipswich, us, Sheffield United, Notts Forest, Sheffield Wednesday couldn't do it then I don't see why they will. Plus you've got Wrexham and Stockport both coming up who look like they have the potential to be useful at this level. Charlton had a mare of a season but you've got to fancy them for a fight back and one of Peterborough or Bolton will be staying down causing additional problems. Plus you've got Rotherham who always find a way to bounce back somehow to add to the competition.
I fancy them to do an us in the first season and either steal a place in the playoffs but not go up automatically or just miss out. As soon as they don't hit the ground running and rolling over teams their fan base will turn on the owners, manager and players causing a crisis-type atmosphere. Being a bigger club (I'd put Birmingham as slightly smaller than the clubs above) is such a double-edged sword. Everyone raises their games, brings a bigger following than usual and at home they can really even up the odds with dodgy pitches, incompetent refs and dark arts tactics. You have to be absolutely ruthless to get out of it which I don't think they've cottoned on to yet.

Reading that Birmingham thread is gold. Falling all over themselves for an ownership that has got them relegated, have deluded plans for a stadium expansion which they can't possibly fill and who have added little quality to a squad that struggled. It's quite odd to be honest, if it was me I'd be questioning their management and their extravagant plans. Watching them struggle on Saturday against a Norwich team in first gear who had basically 0 to play for should have made them a little humble but apparently not... 

They're also seemingly convinced they'll take over grounds across the country and roll over everyone in sight... Personally I don't see them getting out of there in a single season. If Sunderland, Ipswich, us, Sheffield United, Notts Forest, Sheffield Wednesday couldn't do it then I don't see why they will. Plus you've got Wrexham and Stockport both coming up who look like they have the potential to be useful at this level. Charlton had a mare of a season but you've got to fancy them for a fight back and one of Peterborough or Bolton will be staying down causing additional problems. Plus you've got Rotherham who always find a way to bounce back somehow to add to the competition.
I fancy them to do an us in the first season and either steal a place in the playoffs but not go up automatically or just miss out. As soon as they don't hit the ground running and rolling over teams their fan base will turn on the owners, manager and players causing a crisis-type atmosphere. Being a bigger club (I'd put Birmingham as slightly smaller than the clubs above) is such a double-edged sword. Everyone raises their games, brings a bigger following than usual and at home they can really even up the odds with dodgy pitches, incompetent refs and dark arts tactics. You have to be absolutely ruthless to get out of it which I don't think they've cottoned on to yet.

Living in Uttoxeter i know a few Birmigham fans and on saturday i was lucky enough to be in the same pub as some of them as they got relegated.
I'd done a 15 mile charity walk from 0800 to 1230 and we went to my local, the Three Tuns in Utch for a buffet and drinks. The walk was in memory of a fellow Rams fan who passed last year with proceeds to Macmillan.
As we gathered in the pub some local brummies were there who i knew and their match was on telly. 
I'd done the walk in a Rams shirt so was wearing it in the pub. As the game progressed and we saw that they were going down one of them came over and gave me a bit of stick cos of me Derby shirt. 
I reminded him that my son had given him a good hiding 20 years previously and it would be embarassing for him to receive one from someone his dad's age!
His dad came over and dragged him back with profuse apologies.
 
I have zero reason to be sorry that Birmingham have gone down!

Most of them seem oblivious to the contempt with which a significant section of their fanbase is regarded by fans of many other clubs. They think our p taking over their relegation is purely because of 'that' chant, ignoring the fact that they also bombarded our fans with missiles, ripped out seats and damaged the toilet areas, all on a day on which we held a protest march to which their fans were invited to attend to show their solidarity (and some of them did). I can only imagine those Birmingham fans who did march with us that day were thoroughly ashamed of their brain-dead co-supporters.

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Me and @Leeds Ram be like     🤣

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

currently reading liberalism as a way of life by Alexandre Lefebvre 🙂 it's very compelling yet easy to read. Interviewing him tomorrow about it which should be fun.

I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)
Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Hustler (Walter Tevis)
Why I Write (George Orwell)
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 
The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)
Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)
Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 
Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

Nah f*** them I say. They taunted us that day and took every delight in our suffering. Absolute b******* the lot of them. Hope they're crying in the s******* they call the 'second city'. 

you've got to love it haven't you. 

I would normally be with you on this.  I usually feel some compassion -as we have all been in their shoes.  But having been on the train between Derby and Birmingham after the 2022 match with the repugnant BCFC fans, they deserve all they get.  
 

Who's having the party now Small Heath? 🤣
Makes our promotion all the sweeter swapping places with those nobbers. Did everything possible to revel in our misery that day both inside & outside the ground. Dreadful support & belong with other tinpot garbage like Reading, Peterborough & Wycombe.
Penny for Bielik & Buchanan's thoughts 😆

you've got to love it haven't you.