taffyram

This is the kind of post rival fans come into the forum and take the mickey out of.

Minimum expectation is to always improve, so one place higher than last season = play off qualification 

We have to be winning that title, sure, we're having to be cautious but we're starting with a clean slate now. 

I would LIKE autos and a very strong season without having to mess about with the play off lottery.
However, anyone setting a minimum expectation of promotion before the transfer business had been done is risking serious disappointment. At this stage our squad is significantly weaker than the one that finished 7th, but I'm hopeful we will recruit to give us a 'guarantee' of top 6 and I think we ought to be able to attract sufficient quality and maximise the existing talent to get us into the playoffs.
If our recruitment is strong then, with our resources and a technically weaker league, we really should be aiming for top 2. We need a lot more goals to achieve that.

Anything less than promotion is not okay. The league is so incredibly weak this season, and if we don't get out of it then Warne should be let go. It's really that simple I think. 

Think this season is weaker than last, ( we won’t) but right now if we were to go in with this squad it would be 10th place and happy but add 4/5 more mainly a couple of good attackers and no reason why we shouldn’t be looking at top 2, this isn’t an easy league like people think we learnt that last year so let’s see at the end of the window 

Same everwhere, I imagine. People are impatient and irrational. The clueless but gobby bloke down the pub we'd walk away from in 1993 has a platform now.
Most of us are quietly enjoying the rebuild and looking forward to the season. 20k season tickets says something.

I love Fozzy. Always have, always will. Some of his crossing during Mac1 was glorious.
To have the determination to come back from the major injuries, reinvent yourself and be one of the top performers after 10 years is a great achievement and testament to his character.
Seems like a thoroughly decent bloke too. That's important to a club like ours and seems to help the young lads stay grounded.

Fozzy has been an exceptional servant for our club, no more so than this year when he has been a rock playing in an unusual position for him. He has the occasional slip up but so does everyone, we tend to pick up on the odd misplaced pass from a defender far more than we do a forward who blazes over the bar! There are lots of reasons I want us to go back up this year but one of them would be a fitting reward for this unassuming stalwart of our club. To have the guts and dedication to come back from so many operations and still be willing to put his body on the line he has my complete admiration.

Still think he was vastly under-appreciated as a left-back for us. 
In his first two seasons he was the best arguably the best left-back in the division, only Charlie Daniels really would also be in contention.
He came back from his first two ACL injuries to win his place back from Olsson who had been Blackburn’s POTS before joining us.
He then fought off £3,000,000 signing Scott Malone, who himself was coming off of being named in the league TOTS and a season in the Prem to keep his starting place before his third ACL.
I never got it. He’s one of those players that when he has a stinker he has a STINKER but they were always only ever once or twice a season.

I bet Chris Kirchner serves  more than 10 years ?

I do wish the 2 knoobheads who used to sit in front of me belittling Forsyth all game had stayed on another season. It would have killed them to see him play so well and celebrate 10 years at the club as captain. 

(Murderers have served less ?)
Anyhow, well done to a magnificent servant to the club, a great ambassador and a decent player. Thank you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64834351
?...Mendez-Lang...? Ah herm.

Just seen the pics from Matlock, pink on the keepers kit? They are taking the piss now looking to get a reaction out of B4, trolls the lot of them at Umbro!

Interesting that Thommo got good game time on Saturday. If Knighty goes we are going to need a willing runner in the middle.
He didn’t have much of a season last year, started ok without being spectacular, then the loan. In contrast to the previous season where he looked to be on a fast upward curve.
I like him. Great energy, accurate passing, good touch and a terrier. Confidence in his final ball maybe missing but I am going out on a limb and going to say his stepping up will be the big surprise this season. 

Well guys we played pretty well and some decent touches on the ball I am please james collions getting first goal it was good cross in which scored good goal from. But 2nd half took a bit longer get into the games with james he got pace to burn and instant impact. And two new young lads he took the goal well and brown lad I was very very impressed with him I think he could make step up to first team but early doors buy signs are promising. But one man was slagging them off I turned around said for crying give lads a break for some this first time in a black and white shirt. He shut up after that I cant stand people slagging them off.

I quite like the home kit, am looking forward to seeing the away version.
Judging by some of the paranoia on here about the colour red, anyone would think we’re more worried about a touch of red than the Crips!

*checks to see if ‘flaming red’ is part of the new branding colour palette*
 
 

Assume the Blue one..

I rarely buy shirts but this one might tempt me. Best one in the last few years IMO.
Though my favourite is still the "Argentina" away kit.

B4, you okay?
 

Completely random post I realise, but back in the late 90s I did some work on the DCFC website - back when it used to look a bit like this (but without the broken image tags)

 
Anyway, when clearing out the office we found a folder full of old photo prints of match days and training sessions with loads of fans, which we must have been given for potential inclusion in news articles. All dated 1999/2000
I was thinking it would be good to somehow share these, as I find it hard to believe that there isn't someone on here who isn't going to recognise someone in the pictures. Trouble is that I can't work out the best way to share them online so that people can idly scroll through them
Any ideas?
Example pic
 
 

Forest have had a few white away kits with black shorts. They seem to have survived the trauma. 
It's a colour, nothing more.
When you read of Rangers fans ripping up their lawn or dying their turf because the alternative is to have green grass, don't you think that's pathetic? 
I quite like the kit fwiw.

The old design pretty much matched my bedroom wallpaper from about 89.  If I'd put gloss on my face and arms I'd have been the invisible man

I'm more excited for the reaction to red/pink on the home shirt than I am for the actual shirt now!