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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. 

55 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

Knight going out of contract and we needed the money to survive. Bird going out of contract looks like he'd decided to spread his wings.

Likely that money helped us get Ebou as well... and we don't go up without him.

1 minute ago, StaffsRam said:

Considering letting Sibley or Thompson go is madness IMO. Sibley's versatile, and experienced in the Championship. Thompson played in the Championship and has improved significantly since then. Both young, home-grown talents, that we should be making the most of, not discarding.

For my money:

Loans end: Bird, TJJ

Release: Loach, Hourihane, Waghorn, Gayle

1 year deal/coaching role: Forsyth

Extend: Wildsmith, Smith (1 year), Sibley, Thompson, Barkhuizen, Collins (1 year)

Extend & Loan Out: Robinson, Fapetu, Weston

Sign: Adams

I see a lot of people releasing Loach but not sure I would. He's more of a coach at this point, he will be on peanuts. 

Just now, jimtastic56 said:

Sounds like “pie in the sky”. But Florists did get £50 million for Johnson , who had been playing in L1 a couple of years previous . But why oh why did we only manage to get peanuts for Knight and Bird ? 

Think you know the answer to that one!

Just now, RamLad1884 said:

8-10 mill seems the right kind of figure for a player who has consistently been one of top defenders in league one, now a championship player and a decent amount of time left on his contract. 
 

IF (and a big if) we sold him for that kind of sum then that’s a complete team rebuild kind of fee

Might be an unpopular opinion because I, like everyone else, love the lad. But I also don't believe he would make it in the Premier League, so I don't foresee that value increasing at any point. So should we get offered those kind of numbers, I'd likely take it.

6 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.

Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 

But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?

Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).

You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 

The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 

You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 

I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

We clearly could have spent £750k on Aaron Collins, just like Bolton. The shoestring talk is nonsense I say!

The goalpost moving with regards to Warne's tenure is as predictable as it is boring.

2 minutes ago, Oldben said:

Viktor Johansson, a Patreon report from journalist Alan Nixon has revealed, we are being linked with him.

he's not as good as our current goalkeeper.

This is the transfer suggestion thread, if you wish to discuss that link then recalibrate your onboard computer and head to the corresponding topic: 

12 minutes ago, oomarkwright said:

We can now sign Clarke Harris on a free. Would be a great target man and scores goals in the championship IMO. 

No chance. 30 before the new season, only scored 21 goals in his entire career in the championship. Coming off a poor season. He’s a flat track league one bully. Been linked with the likes of Wrexham. He won’t be moving to the Championship. 

2 hours ago, Magicman said:

Keifer Moore please 

Imagine he will be way out of our price range with the wages he will be on. 

2 hours ago, Eoghan1884 said:

Rudoni is talented but lazy. He was taken off in the first half yesterday purely for his laziness also. We certainly don’t want someone coming in to be a poison in the dressing room.

Directly after Ipswich’s first goal where he gave the ball away limply in a dangerous area and made pathetic effort to get the ball back. 

3 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

No up front fees for any of these players as I understand it?

Sort of. Believe it was a loan fee for CBT wasn’t it?

8 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

Time may have clouded my judgement but I seem to remember the 13/14 team, of which Keogh was captain, as being one of the most tight knit groups we had in a while.

Maybe it was the mercenaries brought in by our cheque waving Chairman that caused the toxicity rather than Keogh?

Just an alternative suggestion.

The Lampard team was actually really close knit from the fans POV looking in. Needed to be as well with him managing it.