Alty_Ram

I'd have less of a problem with this if they'd also stopped penalty takers fannying about and doing stupid stuttery run ups to try to get the keeper to commit. Just run up and take the thing in one single motion FFS. It's gamesmanship every bit as much as any goalkeeper shenanigans. Ban all of the dicking about or none of it.

We need another striking option, whoever that ends up as. What we've got will be run ragged and running on empty if we are not careful and a 17 year old backup is a real gamble and frankly a bit of a bonus if it works out. Even if he has a storming start, players of that age usually need pulling out the line of fire for their own good at some stage as their performances inevitably dip.
We either get a Waghorn character in on a free who will work hard, put himself about and do the things that Warne seems to like, or we go for a younger up and coming loan. Not giving us another forward option doesn't really seem like any kind of plan and we can't seem to get the players we want on such a small transfer fee budget. It's a long season and we are one injury away from bare bones so we need options to allow us to rotate and rest. Waghorn may not be much of a finisher but he can play the role that we need in Warne's system and allow us to freshen it up. I appreciate that it is all wild speculation at this stage but we could do worse as long as the wages are sensible.

We need another striking option, whoever that ends up as. What we've got will be run ragged and running on empty if we are not careful and a 17 year old backup is a real gamble and frankly a bit of a bonus if it works out. Even if he has a storming start, players of that age usually need pulling out the line of fire for their own good at some stage as their performances inevitably dip.
We either get a Waghorn character in on a free who will work hard, put himself about and do the things that Warne seems to like, or we go for a younger up and coming loan. Not giving us another forward option doesn't really seem like any kind of plan and we can't seem to get the players we want on such a small transfer fee budget. It's a long season and we are one injury away from bare bones so we need options to allow us to rotate and rest. Waghorn may not be much of a finisher but he can play the role that we need in Warne's system and allow us to freshen it up. I appreciate that it is all wild speculation at this stage but we could do worse as long as the wages are sensible.

Yup, I'm afraid that I switched off and walked away after maybe 20 laps. It's a shame as there are occasionally some fairly interesting battles behind Verstappen but yet again it was just a procession from the front and tight battles for 10th place are just not holding my attention. Other than mechanical failure which seems unlikely, or someone taking him out then I just can't see anything other than Verstappen winning every race that's left by a country mile. Even him being taken out seems unlikely because he's usually at the front and pulling away by the first corner. At least we had a first corner challenge this time but then Max hits the front and that's game over.

It's not his fault the whole Championship 'race' is as dull as dishwater but that is the reality at the moment. It's just embarrassingly easy.

We need another striking option, whoever that ends up as. What we've got will be run ragged and running on empty if we are not careful and a 17 year old backup is a real gamble and frankly a bit of a bonus if it works out. Even if he has a storming start, players of that age usually need pulling out the line of fire for their own good at some stage as their performances inevitably dip.
We either get a Waghorn character in on a free who will work hard, put himself about and do the things that Warne seems to like, or we go for a younger up and coming loan. Not giving us another forward option doesn't really seem like any kind of plan and we can't seem to get the players we want on such a small transfer fee budget. It's a long season and we are one injury away from bare bones so we need options to allow us to rotate and rest. Waghorn may not be much of a finisher but he can play the role that we need in Warne's system and allow us to freshen it up. I appreciate that it is all wild speculation at this stage but we could do worse as long as the wages are sensible.

Yup, I'm afraid that I switched off and walked away after maybe 20 laps. It's a shame as there are occasionally some fairly interesting battles behind Verstappen but yet again it was just a procession from the front and tight battles for 10th place are just not holding my attention. Other than mechanical failure which seems unlikely, or someone taking him out then I just can't see anything other than Verstappen winning every race that's left by a country mile. Even him being taken out seems unlikely because he's usually at the front and pulling away by the first corner. At least we had a first corner challenge this time but then Max hits the front and that's game over.

It's not his fault the whole Championship 'race' is as dull as dishwater but that is the reality at the moment. It's just embarrassingly easy.

RadioactiveWaste watched about an hour of thee race and just got totally bored. When Hamilton won his World Championships with Mercedes at least he had competition from Rosberg and Vettel. Verstappen has no competition at all. Enjoy watching the rest of the season but I for one will not bother watching another race this season. PS really happy for Lando though. 

It's all part of a cunning new tactic to offer no obvious goal threat from anybody so nobody can mark our lone goal threat out the game like they tried with Didzy. It's genius 😉

Pre-Season 2023 Spain.

I wouldn't go spending your winnings in advance on our account 😉

Hope he does well for us, very happy with the signing.
I’ll come back on here at some point in the season and let you know how he’s getting on, if anybody cares.
Best of luck for the season chaps, get yourselves out of that s****** of a league.

Wait for the away and third kits. Seen both of them and they are absolutely cracking.

I really don't have a problem at all with the idea of not relying on a 25 goal a season striker and wanting more goals from around the team because otherwise with a small squad you are heavily reliant on that goal scorer not getting injured. The problem is that we seem to have balanced one side of the equation with the departure of McGoldrick but we seem just as unlikely to score goals from around the rest of the team as last year.

I understand that there is plenty of time yet (and it is just my assessment of the situation) but it seems that we are either wholly reliant on departures to fund these forward options or we simply have not been able to land our preferred targets (possibly caveated by a 'yet') due to competition from other clubs.
From what relatively little I know about them I'm OK with what we've signed so far, but are we better off overall than last year ? Not yet IMHO. I just can't see where the goals are coming from and McGoldrick's quality and touch is going to be sorely missed I reckon. If we wanted someone to just run around a lot and put a good shift in then we'd just play Collins. There is surely a reason why we and Warne decided that probably isn't going to work this year. We really need some cutting edge as well as the huff and puff.

I really don't have a problem at all with the idea of not relying on a 25 goal a season striker and wanting more goals from around the team because otherwise with a small squad you are heavily reliant on that goal scorer not getting injured. The problem is that we seem to have balanced one side of the equation with the departure of McGoldrick but we seem just as unlikely to score goals from around the rest of the team as last year.

I understand that there is plenty of time yet (and it is just my assessment of the situation) but it seems that we are either wholly reliant on departures to fund these forward options or we simply have not been able to land our preferred targets (possibly caveated by a 'yet') due to competition from other clubs.
From what relatively little I know about them I'm OK with what we've signed so far, but are we better off overall than last year ? Not yet IMHO. I just can't see where the goals are coming from and McGoldrick's quality and touch is going to be sorely missed I reckon. If we wanted someone to just run around a lot and put a good shift in then we'd just play Collins. There is surely a reason why we and Warne decided that probably isn't going to work this year. We really need some cutting edge as well as the huff and puff.

I really don't have a problem at all with the idea of not relying on a 25 goal a season striker and wanting more goals from around the team because otherwise with a small squad you are heavily reliant on that goal scorer not getting injured. The problem is that we seem to have balanced one side of the equation with the departure of McGoldrick but we seem just as unlikely to score goals from around the rest of the team as last year.

I understand that there is plenty of time yet (and it is just my assessment of the situation) but it seems that we are either wholly reliant on departures to fund these forward options or we simply have not been able to land our preferred targets (possibly caveated by a 'yet') due to competition from other clubs.
From what relatively little I know about them I'm OK with what we've signed so far, but are we better off overall than last year ? Not yet IMHO. I just can't see where the goals are coming from and McGoldrick's quality and touch is going to be sorely missed I reckon. If we wanted someone to just run around a lot and put a good shift in then we'd just play Collins. There is surely a reason why we and Warne decided that probably isn't going to work this year. We really need some cutting edge as well as the huff and puff.

Well seem to have the full range of shirt-based emotions from having a private moment to projectile vomiting 😁
I like our home shirts to be fairly simple and I was a bit worried that it may be really flashy or gaudy but I actually rather like it. A few little details to add some interest but basically a fairly classic white shirt with a proper Ram badge on it, not some new gimmick badge set in a circle with a coat of arms or some nonsense.
The sponsor logo is quite large but since they have gone with black for the majority of the sponsor logo, I think it actually benefits from the small hints of subtle pastel colours, otherwise it might be a bit bland.
A solid 7.5/8 for me.

Hard to say for sure but it's possible that you have some cartilage issues. Your knee has two cartilage cups in it (sort of like washers) which act as a buffer between the bones of your upper and lower leg. I had a stumble on some uneven stairs in a castle a few years back and on top of hurting like hell, I then found that the knee felt really unstable, like it might fold back the wrong way when fully straightened. It was your comment about it being 'unstable' that got my attention.

To cut a long story short it happening again a couple of weeks later and I ended up going for x-ray and an MRI and apparently I had a tear in one of these cups (called a meniscus). This meant that the joint could sort of wander a bit and that's not great because it take it out of the range of expected movement and can damage other things. Sometimes it is a small tear that isn't a big issue most of the time except perhaps when you are performing an action that affects the area of the tear. I still get grief form it if I put my full weight on the knee at a particular angle of bend.

Apparently you can over time just wear these things down, not just from some big impact.

I certainly wouldn't say that I am concerned yet or 'twitching' but I do think that we have a lot to do to be competitive at the sharp end of the table still. We've bought some players in and people can debate their individual merits but these are (finally) Warne's picks so lets see how they go. We also lost a lot of players since the close of last season though so we haven't really taken any great strides forward, just replaced some of what we lost and are seriously lacking the goalscoring department, some thing that was a bit of an issue last year in spite of McGoldrick's ourstanding efforts.
So yes, plenty to do still. I'd be very disappointed if there were not quite a few more incoming. The 21s also need a major rebuild.

That was a great day out. Still surprised that stand survived though !

That was a great day out. Still surprised that stand survived though !

However positively you play it, Test Match Cricket has always had an element of knowing when to put the hammer down and when to slowly grind the fight out of the opposition. It was a great start, positive, but not suicidal and we just needed more of the same to be right in it but they totally folded.

It's not helped by the fact that several players seem to be well below par and you know that you can't be anything but your best against the Aussies. This is set for a crushing defeat. Aussies have a 200 lead with 9 wickets in hand. They can pretty much pick their declaration target and I imagine that it'll look like batting on a minefield by time time England get out there again.
Really, really disappointing stuff.

However positively you play it, Test Match Cricket has always had an element of knowing when to put the hammer down and when to slowly grind the fight out of the opposition. It was a great start, positive, but not suicidal and we just needed more of the same to be right in it but they totally folded.

It's not helped by the fact that several players seem to be well below par and you know that you can't be anything but your best against the Aussies. This is set for a crushing defeat. Aussies have a 200 lead with 9 wickets in hand. They can pretty much pick their declaration target and I imagine that it'll look like batting on a minefield by time time England get out there again.
Really, really disappointing stuff.

However positively you play it, Test Match Cricket has always had an element of knowing when to put the hammer down and when to slowly grind the fight out of the opposition. It was a great start, positive, but not suicidal and we just needed more of the same to be right in it but they totally folded.

It's not helped by the fact that several players seem to be well below par and you know that you can't be anything but your best against the Aussies. This is set for a crushing defeat. Aussies have a 200 lead with 9 wickets in hand. They can pretty much pick their declaration target and I imagine that it'll look like batting on a minefield by time time England get out there again.
Really, really disappointing stuff.

Didn't review an LBW given not out and it was knocking-over leg stump. England's confidence is totally shot.