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2 minutes ago, Jram said:

Jordan Henderson to be our Championship equivalent of Hourihane 

can see sell him the Derby dream?

6 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I think that would fair if he was off to a top end championship parachute club or lower level prem club.  He's gone to Bristol City, the 13th placed championship club till the end of time.  He clearly wanted a move regardless of situation as that move makes no sense at all. 

That’s where I am at with it. He clearly wanted new scenery. Obviously, at the time we weren’t up, but now we are, there’s a world we could finish above them this season. 

Just now, Anag Ram said:

I haven’t seen anything from Elder to suggest he’s a Championship player. Looks a bang average squad player to me.

Have to agree. Wouldn't want him first choice. An athlete (who's been injured a lot so far) who isn't much of a footballer.

29 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

There must have been some sort of “Trigger” in the contract of Elder . He is one of Warne’s favourites and PW busted a gut to get him on for a couple of minutes whenever he could . He did take a good corner when he came on one time .🤷🏻‍♂️

I love a good conspiracy theory as much as most Forest fans, but you have to at least get the basics right.

4 minutes ago, RaminBerlin said:

My attitude at 18 stunk and now I’m 32, a boring lawyer with 2 kids. People change and if he’s good he should be given the opportunity to change. 

You sense Warne would be a big proponent of that.

2 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said:

More than one minibus load and that place will be at capacity.

3,000 capacity the article says. 

9 minutes ago, Carnero said:

My god John Percy really has become a mouthpiece for Forest & Marinakis. Latest article being how brilliant their recruitment has been when their team has mustered less than a point per game excluding deduction and only stands above the 3 newly promoted teams.

Did Marinakis make him an offer he couldn't refuse or something?

They could literally stay up with the points total they have now, which is 29. Even if they didn't have a point deduction it's only 33. Nowhere near the supposed safety of 40 points. It's a terrible season however you slice it, they shouldn't have been anywhere near relegation with the three promoted teams being so unbelievably poor.

I like that. Warne touched on how important he felt it was in his post-season interview. Good friendly to have there too.

2 minutes ago, nottingram said:

Had a good game against us at PP

A little bit like when Ebiowei when he left us though, you wonder a little about their motivation when they finally find a home after bouncing around loads of clubs only to choose to leave as soon as they start to impress. 

Not sure a year long contract is much of a commitment to a home though, in fairness.

Hale would likely know of him from Southampton. His wiki is interesting, definitely had some issues over the last few years.

4 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

If an extension is triggered, surely, those players are retained unless we pay them off or can sell them or get a loan deal. Until such a deal is struck they remain retained, don't they?

Correct, but they'd show on the retained list under a section for extensions. But my point is, if Warne had a blank slate, I'd imagine there might be some he would not have chosen.

Just now, kevinhectoring said:

I’d assumed most of the ‘options to extend’ negotiated over the past year or so were at the club’s option, not the player’s option …?

Depends on the contract. Some of them will be automatic based on things like appearances.

11 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

The released list is an easy one to put together for PW. You've done a grand job but we, as a club, need to move on and I don't see you as part of that move.. thanks and goodbye and remember, I will text you to the ends of the earth.

Retained list? Different kettle of fish, IMO. Tell player X you want to keep him. Make appointment with his agent. Come to an agreement on wages OR fail to. Get contract signed or not. Will that happen so quickly? It could be that the negotiations have already taken place and the contract is there, rubber stamped, just needing a signature... but that may have been a dangerous game to play. Player Y gets told, we stay in L1 we'll offer you so much a week. However, if we go up, you're on the way out. Does that demoralise the player or motivate him to either persuade PW he was wrong OR to convince other clubs he's worth a punt? 

My guess is the retained list will be out towards the end of next week. Having said that, I lose more bets than I win 😉

Retained list will include "contracts offered" so doesn't need to be signed to come out. I would also imagine discussions will have taken place over the last couple of months.

I don't think the released list would be ideal for Warne either. There's going to be players who have triggered extension who he likely wouldn't ideally want to keep for a Championship team.

He was good on FM a couple of years back. Therefore, a must sign.

8 minutes ago, Andrew3000 said:

Is he highly rated? I know was training with first team in the summer and he had a few bench appearances since which would indicate he is. However, people who cover U21s rarely seem to mention him. 

Been injured I think a fair bit this season. Sure those who go like @angieramwill confirm

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.