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Posh notorious for getting a lot of money for their players. It’s an expensive pool to fish from. Would like to think we scout more rough gems than that nowadays. 

13 minutes ago, GboroRam said:

Even Tyskie fails to deliver what it used to. Everything tastes that bit weaker as recipes are tweaked, abv falls a bit as the company saves a hapence per beer. Multiply by the millions of cans sold per year, it works out a fair amount of money. But they push the envelope until the product is a shadow of its former self. But the suits are happy, which is the main thing. 

It’s a duty thing that the Government taxes higher ABV more. More and more comes in at 3.8% or even lower just to make the same margin they were before. 

9 minutes ago, Topram said:

Hope not he looked like an absolute donkey when we last played them

Also got a year extension that I'm sure they'll trigger.

5 minutes ago, NottsRam said:

So is this the end for Ramstv altogether?  

No, as RamsTV was always aimed at the overseas fans, and that hasn't changed.

2 minutes ago, Rich3478 said:

Do you think is a deliberate ploy to make the blackout the bad party rather than sky? Leading to it being scrapped and then sky just stream everything

Always has been the bad party. It should just go on % of ticket sales. If ticket sales are good, it can be on TV. If they're not, then the game isn't on.

20 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said:

Sky Sports+ is just streaming the games that were on the EFL iFollow/Rams TV. 
 

The 3pm blackout is still in place so don’t understand how they’re doing the entire weekend as an opening day? Assuming cause no other football is on that day? or the entire opening day is not at 3pm. 

Premier League won't have started then, so plausible it will be the only football.

2 minutes ago, Crewton said:

He only made 13 appearances, so that's a bit generous. 

The main point is that we probably couldn't afford his wages after relegation, so he had to go.

That was almost certainly the case. People clamouring for him to return in that January after the World Cup didn't really get it was a financial impossibility.

Seen Reading have released their retained list. Femi Azeez has had a year option triggered so isn't out of contract.

6 minutes ago, DerbyPride said:

What are the current rules on bringing in foreign players? Since Brexit I was under the assumption that EU players must satisfy certain criteria (such as being full internationals), just like non-EU players. This would narrow down the list of potentials that Warne has been scouting in Denmark and the Netherlands.

I could be wrong, but wasn't there some kind of relaxing of the rules for football?

9 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

It's OK -my son bores me with this stuff all the time as he's a brewer by profession. And I did say that it's NOT "just Carling" - but a deliberately tweaked recipe to make it different enough to be it's own thing, whilst at the same time similar enough to not vastly increase the ingredient and production costs 

Since my operation I've become quite the connoisseur of Eurolager, as I can't drink craft nonsense anymore and pure filtered lager is the only thing that doesn't upset my stomach. There really isn't a great variation in taste as it's largely all made the same way and from very similar ingredients. I'd suggest that very few people would be able to accurately ID very many mass-produced lagers in a blind taste test

And don't get me started on "craft lager"

It was brewed as Madri by La Sagra brewery just outside of Madrid. Madri Excepcional was brewed in conjunction with Molson Coors, and is starting to gain a foothold in Spain too, both in Madrid and coastal areas. It is the fastest growing beer launch in history, which is pretty crazy considering it came out during Covid. It was really designed to compete with Moretti, which it has done. The irony of which is Heineken also own Moretti, so them introducing Cruzcampo has only really canibalised their own brand.

You're right in that a lot of lagers do taste similar to the average person. You can really dig into it with tasting through Aroma, Appearance, Mouthfeel, Taste and Finish in proper tasting, but the most simple way is through a 1-5 rating on both sweetness and bitterness. If you're putting the three mainstream lagers against each other, you're looking at Fosters being the sweetest and least bitter, Carlsberg being the most bitter and least sweet and Carling being balanced between the two. That is the reason for the popularity - it appeals to the widest range tastes.

Craft lager is where you get the wider variants as there's more license I suppose to do something a bit different.

6 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

The water must be different, though, right?

Potentially, but there are processes to make hard water softer if necessary.

2 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

I have to say, it's one of my favourite Spanish lagers to drink on holiday but it's hard to differentiate it over here from the usual cooking lager that we get (I'm looking at you Carling Black Label)

I was surprised to see it appearing everywhere in the UK as it used to be a rare treat to find it here, but it looks like Heineken have done their usual. It's not Spanish lager at all. They did the same with Moretti

 

See also Madri - suddenly everywhere - brewed in the UK by Molson Coors with huge amounts of money spent on marketing, but the word on the street is that it's just the Carling recipe tweaked ever so slightly so no one can say it's "just Carling"

I could bore you for a while on Madri working there, but can emphatically say it is not "just Carling".

The whole hyperbole of world lagers being brewed in the UK is just daft. It just makes far more financial sense. It doesn't change the ingredients. Scenes when people realise Fosters isn't Australian.

17 hours ago, Day said:

He’s quickly learning football is a ruthless business to be in.

Shame he can’t teach his sides the same thing. 

45 minutes ago, DiggerB said:

Is it just me that thinks it’s tinpot to invade the pitch for winning a PO semi-final?

All depends on the club circumstances. No one will ever take away that Southampton game from me. Whereas I don’t even remember the one against Brighton. 

5 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

 

Drove me mad in the home match where we gave him all the time in the world with no press when he was clearly cumbersome driving out the box.

That was intentional. We blocked the ball going to the better ball players at the back, forcing the the tug boat to try and get them going which he couldn’t do. 

Teams did it to us in years gone by when they marked Keogh and let Curtis Davies have the ball, which he couldn’t do anything with. 

Bolton turned it round 2-1 at half time and that should be that. 

1 minute ago, Jimbo Ram said:

I’ve heard it could well be 5 or 6 weeks before things start moving on transfers 😊

Was it from Warne? He basically said as much in his interview. 

Now we are back to the Championship, would love more academy games live on Rams TV like they used to be. Make it happen @Owen87ITK

49 minutes ago, Oldben said:

I've got Dutch family and support Ajax, as my Netherlands team.

So we've now established your motherboard is made by Philips.

1 hour ago, Oldben said:

I think these could be worth signing either perm or loan:

Marcus Harness (Ipswich Town), Kaide Gordon (Liverpool), Danny Armstrong (Kilmarnock), Michael Craig (Reading), Gabriel Misehouy (Ajax), Milan Smit (SC Cambuur), Josh Flint (FC Volendam)

Ah yeah, how much you seen of Milan Smit? Are you smitten?

Shout out to Watford, they real ones.

6 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I doubt we'll be playing other Championship teams in friendlies.

Only chance of that would be some really early friendly abroad as part of a camp. Haven't we done something similar to that before?

46 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Thomas Delaney (Danish international midfielder) only has a year on his Sevilla contract left and they don't want him. He spent last season on loan at Anderlecht, with an option to buy for 3 million Euros, but reportedly the Spaniards are now ready to take 1.5 million: https://www.anderlecht-online.be/en/article/232104

He's 32 years old but could be the central midfield leader we need to make a difference. He's got American citizenship through his dad so I imagine would be comfortable in an English-speaking environment. 

It's laughable that Cardiff want half a million pounds for Ebou, but for just over twice as much we could maybe buy someone like this.

Very narrow-minded way of looking at transfers. You’re not considering anything to do with reputation or wages. This guy has been at Dortmund and has been a consistent international footballer. 

19 minutes ago, StaffsRam said:

In that case, for me, it would be solely down to "Do we need a GK coach?", or "Do we need a better GK coach?". 

Just seems a weird way to try and, presumably save money. The 3rd keeper is realistically never playing, so having one who is experienced, good with younger players, good in the dressing room, trains well, is comfortable with his role, has coaching aspirations and is cheap surely seems a pretty smart thing to have. 

10 minutes ago, StaffsRam said:

I don't know enough about his coaching abilities, so I'm not against keeping him on in that capacity, but IMO he shouldn't be anywhere near the first team, not even as 3rd choice. I'd rather just play one of the kids instead. 

I'm pretty sure we would if it ever got down to it for any length of time. He already has his own coaching business, which he regularly posts about.