Reggie Greenwood

24 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

You said it would be two months before any of our strikers were back playing, now you change the narrative.

Can’t beat an Oldben copy and paste 🤣

27 minutes ago, Carlin said:

Perhaps previous collapses have coloured my view a little but we have a tough run in too. We also seem to have incredibly bad luck with injuries.

I think Derby and Bolton will get over the line as I think you will grind out the required wins.

All ifs and buts at this moment though, still lots of football to be played.

Hopefully we both go up.

Carlin a name that has a past Derby connection 

2 hours ago, dantheram said:

We did the right thing here, If, IF, we go up he’ll likely join, Wednesday will almost certainly be in league 1 again and find the position much weaker. 
 

Still a concern that we never entertain signing younger talent. I’m hoping we’re going to do that from day 1, when back in the championship. 

TJJ is the young talent we gambled on . Might still sign when out of contract in the summer if he is fit and has a good pre season ? 

11 hours ago, MarsdenRam said:

Meanwhile, on the other side, the penny's just  dropped...

Only needs the law in Greece to finally catch up with Marinikas for a perfect season’s end 🤣

1 hour ago, Ram-Alf said:

On 09/01/2024 at 22:42, Jimbo Ram said:

Interesting 😊

Very interesting 

14 minutes ago, MACKWORTHRAM said:

Remember when we were linked with Jordan Rhodes?

Some people on here did the exact same thing. 

"No thanks" "Hes past it"

People pointed to his goal scoring record being poor.

He ended up at Blackpool and hes second top scorer with 15 goals in 19 games. I bet we all would take him now.

Now we are doing the same with Gayle.

Same with McGoldrick and CKR

3 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I’m not sure what the situation is with him, transfermarkt has him as a free agent but @sage pointed out last night he signed a deal with a club in China and I can’t see anything saying he left that club so I reckon it’s an error on the website which happens. IF he is a free agent he’d be a good option but can’t see that we’d sign him 

Think he has since left China and is a free agent again 

Just now, Curtains said:

It’s not that good is it .

He won’t stick around in League 1 

But potentially massively increases his value if DCFC decide to sell.   

7 minutes ago, Spanish said:

So by that we sold him now because we think we would get less in the summer?  Obviously Bristol disagree.  Surely they would only do that if they think they would have had to fight off competition in the summer.  I always thought there was no way to accurately predict what the independent tribunal would assess the training compensation to be

You would have to ask BC that,  probably so they didn’t get involved with a beauty contest with other clubs that might want to take on Bird and potentially offer bigger wages in the Summer window when budgets have changed.
Nothing to do with transfer fees , once Bird is out of contract it’s his choice where he goes DCFC would have no influence.
With regards to how the compo is worked not wanting to be rude but read the article ? 
Mainly to do with how long at the club , appearances , current wages and wages in the new contract offer . It has been reported in the local press that we would be due a “substantial development fee” what ever that is. Hence why we could ignore low ball 250k bids by Hull etc.  

45 minutes ago, Spanish said:

interested to know the basis for how much you think that the independent tribunal would have valued him at. 

Bristol don't need him currently so hopefully have paid up in order to stop a bidding war in the summer.  There so many things I don't understand.  Why sell him now, why loan him back, why do we need the money now, if Bristol  think there will be a bidding war why didn't we just hang on?  I currently can think of nothing that makes this a good deal, perhaps someone else can suggest something

There wouldn’t be a bidding war in the summer because Bird could just leave and we would get the financial compo award. 

A quick Goole on “How to work out development compensation for EFL players “ gives you the formula. I’m an old dinosaur so unable to copy the link . 

2 hours ago, WestLondonRam said:

What selling to Bristol ? 
Doubt it, we spent naff all on a needed striker yet sold one of our assets to a team we hope to be above next year. Ambitious that .. 

the lad is out of contract , not signing another one He would be gone in the summer anyway. If DCFC have got a better deal than the development compo they would have received I don’t think they had any choice but to do that deal 

Just now, Topram said:

Why let brown go? Absolute shambles again 

Pretty sure if needed we can recall after a couple of weeks as it’s a non league loan 

23 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

We sold Todd to Everton when he was about 30 for £300k (please excuse if wrong, all from memory). At the time it was a big fee, I think the British transfer record was likely Steve Daley at £1.5m. They asked BIll Shankley if he would pay £300k for a 30 year old defender and he replied no, if it was Colin Todd he would pay double that.

I know there are a lot of Roy Mac fanboys (and girls) out there - and rightly so. But Todd was immense.

If I recall correctly Think CT asked for the transfer as he needed cash to pay off a debt (poss gambling ) . I could of course be totally wrong and have onset oldtimers 

1 hour ago, jimtastic56 said:

£2.5 mill for a player , you can have for free in a few month , and stays anyway - Incredible result . Would have guessed at £0.5 tops . 

He would not of been free. As has been said many times we would have been entitled to a substantial development fee which is why DCFC could knock back low ball bids 

Just now, TigerTedd said:

Clubs are spending record low amounts this January, fearing they might become the next Everton or Forest. Meanwhile, Forest, who already are Forest, figure things can’t possibly get any worse for them. So let’s get a few more players on board. There might be some more room to squeeze some under the stairs. 

They can be crew on the next vampire ship “excursion “ 

29 minutes ago, one_chop said:

I said at the time this clown wouldn't follow through with the purchase. Glad we dodged a bullet here because he's going to do some serious porridge. 

He'll be forever avoiding Mr Big and picking the soap up with his toes in the showers.

Soap on a rope 😉

4 minutes ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Great gesture from a great player

I seem to remember reading a post by @loweman2 a few years back saying that Todd had little to do with the club much to his regret, so am particularly pleased to see this today. Given David Clowes is very passionate about our history, hopefully we'll see some of the other 70s heroes in & around PP a bit more.

King Kevin being one if he can be persuaded 🤞🏼

57 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

I'd just assumed he's refused to sign a new contract so runs his old one out.

He's played for the first team for 5 years or so.... therefore I didn't think that a tribunal would be involved.

But like you, I'm not 100% on all of that.

We are due substantial development compensation hence why low ball offers are being refused. 

22 minutes ago, tomsdubs said:

Don't we have one of those high tech weaved pitches with modern drainage? How did we run them for last 10 years through winter?

No idea I only asked about the UV lights. The convo didn’t go that deep 😁

1 minute ago, jimtastic56 said:

Put some battens down , to run them on . The pitch is looking very brown 

The pitch might end up looking like a tiger rug with all the stripes on it 😅

16 minutes ago, tomsdubs said:

Cost cutting I reckon, the UV lamps cost a fortune to run.

I know the maintenance guy at PP. They haven’t been able to use the UV lamps as the pitch has been too wet. They are heavy units and would have left deep ruts on the pitch if wheeled on.   

India 107-5 getting interesting 

30 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

And also by Blackpool who are

**checks notes**

below us.

You're right completely embarrassing when you've spent quarter of a billion pounds.

The Vampire Ship will need to set sail again to top up the funds 

31 minutes ago, Red_Dawn said:

Who was the muppet on here who gave me sh*t for calling out Kirchner as the fraud he was?

Own up, come on. 

Fraud may be but not a drug smuggler  or match fixer 😉