BOB BIGGS

1 hour ago, Anag Ram said:

Perhaps we should have an hour after each game in which no one is allowed to post.

Simmer time!

Good idea. And an hour before the game kicks off. By the time I’ve read all the gloom about the wrong team having been picked, I presume it’s just a matter of time before we lose the game. Strangely, it hasn’t been turning out that way for some reason😎

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1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

 

Last season, par would have been the playoffs and we failed. This season par is automatic promotion. The playoffs would be failure, even if we still managed to scramble up (in which case the failure is not considered too bad). 

To "slide out of the playoffs" this year would be catastrophic. 

Promotion via the play offs would be regarded as success by quite a few, me included. 

9 minutes ago, S8TY said:

Saunders was 1m from Oxford as I can see the back of the sun now ….in the days of no transfer window …it was early morning and I’d popped in to get my paper on the way to work …at first set of traffic lights I flipped the paper over to get the sport news first of course and there in big bold letters was “ Rams sign Saunders for 1M “ 

I had to pull over and read the whole article I was that excited lol great signing but was a gamble still 

I thought simmo was about 250 - 300k from City or Oxford 

£500kfrom Oxford - 1992

8 minutes ago, TomG said:

'Is this the quick 5 minute or the full half hour'?

Full season…and beyond if we go up😳

8 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Is this the right forum for an argument 😉

Most of it reminds me of Monty Python’s Argument Clinic …😎

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17 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

For @Jourdan 

@JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta "I posted a version of this in the match thread but it belongs here I think. I'm Warne out, I have been all season really. Even in our run of form performance levels were frequently poor and we rarely look like a team in control of a football match.

The simple fact is Warne thinks he can approach the Derby job with good vibes and percentage based kick and rush football down the flanks that offers little control. There's not really any nuance to it and any manager with half a brain can figure it out and counter it. 

Despite the above, we have brute forced a number of wins by having better players and a bigger budget than the opposition. If we get promoted we won't have better players and a bigger budget than the opposition. What do we do then?

I maintain that a manager with a more advanced approach to football and how to set a team up would extract better performances out of this team, and the deficiencies I see in Warne's approach will only become more of a problem as time goes on."

Fair enough. Who would you replace him with? 

2 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Let me dream Bobby 😉

Carry On…😀😀

2 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

I watched Southampton destroy Swansea today. Obviously the finances are totally different but they are an absolute joy to watch. A bit like the Posh team I saw at our place. I would love to see us play that way.

You’re right, the finances are totally different. We’d all like to watch flowing football but I’ll settle for where we are given where we’ve been recently.

1-0 to us ( Collins) 

2-1 to us ( JJ)

For saying Bradley was a disaster, our goalie nearly cost us the game, playing 3 at the back makes us uncomfortable, Fleetwood were better than us for much of the second half ..and other things I’ve forgotten, I’m surprised we got a point, never mind won 3-1. 

How come we’re not perfect yet? Surely we should be by now…😎😎

1-1 ( Collins)

1-1 ( NML) 

I thought Alfie May was only interested in a move further south. At the time, he said he was delighted to be at Charlton. “I’m a local lad so to come back home with my family means a lot”. 

I was hoping he’d come here too but I suppose it’s not just about money all of the time. I guess we’ll never know for sure. 

Good to see Nigel Clough letting his views be known about a few Mansfield “supporters” who were moaning during yesterday’s draw against Doncaster. He wondered what more they wanted, having gone from second from the bottom to second from the top in 2 years. He wondered why they weren’t supporting the players when they needed it most.

I suppose all Clubs have followers like this. They love to criticise but seldom put forward alternative constructive ideas for fear of being found to be wrong at a later stage. We’ve a few like that. Happily keeping a low profile at present but probably waiting for a chance - a few polls on the same subject again perhaps😀😀

14 minutes ago, Jram said:

I love how smug this thread has become 👏👏 let’s enjoy it now before going 9 without a win in Feb/March 😂

It’s football and that could happen. We’d know better if there wasn’t a transfer window to negotiate…

Either way, I’m just enjoying both the good times and the absence of the armchair experts who were spoiling the Forum for me a few months ago. It would be wonderful to have a successful season for all kinds of reasons😄

1-1 ( NML)

12 minutes ago, ramit said:

Warne out is worn out

More “ on hold” for some, I suspect😎

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1 minute ago, Leicester Ram said:

Most of the teams in this league are s**** and I think we look just as bad as the rest a lot of the time

But we’re starting to have games now where we’re able to put it together for 15/20 mins at a time which seems to be enough to win games

Despite the amount of people on here who spiralled into crisis mode at 1-1, just look at the table tonight

- Joint second most goals scored in the league

- Second tightest defence in the league

- One point off the automatics and into third (for the time being)

We’ve got a lot of room to improve but, if we do improve, we can actually get automatically promoted this season if we have an alright January

Why not us? The rest of them are crap as well

Booooo😎

Just now, Andicis said:

Happy days. Great performances from Cashin and Wilson, well taken goal by Collins and played some good stuff in spells. Only frustration is with Ward for that tackle, rightly hooked at half time. Good reaction from Derby to bounce back from a poor performance.

Would anyone other than me have taken 3rd position in the League coming up to Christmas?  I think so😄😄😄
 

1 minute ago, oodledoodle said:

We can be both 3rd, and not good enough.

For what? 

Just now, oodledoodle said:

Just wouldn't be a match thread without petty bickering would it.

Absolutely! Here we sit in 3rd position as it stands. Just not good enough. Warne, Clowes and everyone else out….somebody in😄😄