kevinhectoring

11 hours ago, Jourdan said:

Only three teams can get promoted. If it‘s not us this season, that’ll be because three teams have got better results than us and they will deserve credit for that.

even I can’t find anything to disagree with there 

7 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

I always thought: the more games you win, the more chance you have of promotion?

At the moment, we have won 11, drawn two and lost three since the end of October.

We won 6 of our first 13 games.

By that metric, we are getting better?

You should apply whatever metric you want Jordan. But until we play like a team that deserves promotion, we should all be worried 

1 hour ago, Jourdan said:

We could play well and still miss out on automatic promotion. We could play well and still come unstuck in the play offs.

It’s a fickle game, we all know that.
 

But: the better we play, the more chance we have of promotion. And at the moment we’re not getting any better. 

18 minutes ago, Jourdan said:

Of course the performance police will be gutted

I’m disappointed when we continually put in mediocre performances. That’s not because I’m a football purist (tho I’d strongly prefer to see good football). It’s because if we play mediocre football we’ll probably miss automatics and probably fail to beat Barnsley, Bolton or Peterborough over two legs 

3 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

If the last line is correct, which I don't doubt, isnt Clowes missing a trick by not having the ground and the club in the same company, eliminating the rent and giving us more wiggle room for P&S?

Or maybe this is his route for getting some return on his investment.

I’d guess there are several reasons why they are kept separate. As you point out, one is that it gives him more options on sale

it would  be interesting tho’ - if he were to sell the stadium to the club - to see what price the club pays for it …

32 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Maybe we could have a “ who is the most negative fan “ I’m sure you’d be on the shortlist 😂

the forum’s eeyore is surely one chop, who somehow expresses the plight-of-the-long-suffering-rams-fan with levity in his pithy posts. Always cheers me up

3 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

Bravo MM.

It wouldn't have mattered if he sold the ground or not as there was a lease in place for DCFC anyway.

Lease rendered void by administration 

… and there would be plenty of buyers - including Mike Ashley - who wouldn’t dream of buying the club without the stadium. 

8 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

So what KM was saying is fair play to MM for writing off his investment that he had no way of recouping?

Very strange thing to say.

Not so strange 

Morris might have said: I own the stadium (worth £81m) and I’ll sell it to the purchaser of the club for £40m. Instead, he sold it to DC for £23m. 
 

Maguire is making the point that Morris lost a large part of his fortune and - at the end of the day - facilitated the deal with DC. A point that’s lost on most fans 

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Gellaw 202 (the stadium) and The Club are both owned by Clowes Developments. The £750k is essentially moved from the left hand to the right hand. I believe a 'real rent' has to be paid for P&S purposes.

The method of calculating the rent was outlined in the first EFL decision. It was a joke, as it assumed the stadium was a thriving venue for the likes of Beyoncé.   Never understood why EFL did not challenge the rent paid as an undervalue 

On 23/01/2024 at 14:45, G STAR RAM said:

o in summary, KM was talking bollox when he said he wrote off £200m owed from the club, unless of course he loaned £200m to the club between 30/06/2018 and the date we went into administration, this on top of the other circa £50m of debt that he left is in at time of departure.

Morris, in his farewell interview on RD, indicated that his total written off investment in the ‘club’ was around £200m. By the ‘club’ he meant of course the Gellaw group of companies. Don’t want to defend KM obviously, but when he said MM wrote off £200m owing the ‘club’ he was probably also talking about the group 

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Out of interest. Do you think Warne enjoys being the manager of our football team?

He loved it when he was first appointed. Now he’s not so sure 

imo 

31 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said:

The danger of just short-sightedly blaming Warne for all our failings is you remove accountability from underperforming players. It's always a combination of factors, never just one.

Warne’s RD interview was interesting. He magnanimously said he brings Bradley on to score from set pieces and since he didn’t score, that was one Warne got wrong. Apart from that …  it’s all down to the players. 
 

The problem is : if the players are continually blamed and if they don’t believe in him as a tactician, then they lose their motivation. And his ‘gas out’ approach can only work if they are 100% motivated. 
 

Players enjoy playing good football. He needs to find a way to get them playing better football 

10 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

This makes me laugh. He's a fullback, Sky have just shown two of Readings attacks, one the goal. Both times Elder was nowhere in defence. There were other times too. But because he went forward a bit and made a pass or two he was MoM? 😄

It's who Warne plays and where. 

The encouraging thing was Elder was loads better than he has been. 
And it’s inevitable wing backs will every so often be out of position. In a well organised team, others cover 

10 hours ago, CapeTownRams said:

Same age as Nelson ??? Does Nelson only manage a half season ?

NMl and Nelson have different physiques and play different positions. (I realise you know that!) 

55 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

there is simply no quality in nearly all of what was brought in. Nothing to even suggest we can change a game when things aren't going our way. Ward, Bradley, Washington etc. have just been bang average. Nelson, Elder, Nyambe, Wilson have replaced what was there before (Davies, Roberts etc)

The issue is not the squad. Elder was good tonight. Wilson has been strong for weeks, Nelson excellent imo. Nyambe has looked good too. I also think Ward will do well if used properly. 
The problem is not the players 

20 minutes ago, Cookie said:

Did Warne mention what had happened with John Jules in the post match interview? 

No. Said he didn’t yet know the detail. But made it clear he thought it was a bad one 😞

1 hour ago, CapeTownRams said:

NML…. Is it the curse of a player getting a new contract and then switching off !?

More likely he’s a 31 year old player who’s being over-played   Not the only player in his 30s who struggles with the Sat/Tues routine   And then the manager blames the players for lacking intensity. 

48 minutes ago, one_chop said:

Get Cashin off.

Can’t help wondering whether he’s been unsettled by the transfer window 

Amazing from NML

On 19/01/2024 at 12:30, Sparkle said:

Is he any better than what we already have? 

He used to be 

On 21/01/2024 at 16:31, G STAR RAM said:

The £19m is in addition to the loan which appears to have been circa £24m.

The £19m would have been made up of the circa £7m paid to HMRC, the football creditors, plus a little bit to the other creditors.

Yes the MSD loan was 23m plus and was repaid by DC as a condition of MM selling the stadium. for a song. He imposed that condition because he’d guaranteed the loan. Selling a stadium worth 80 m for £23 m, and writing off 200m of holdco debt, Mel what a guy !!

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

Have you tried contacting him directly,  wouldn’t want him to miss your advice ☺️

Don’t worry his people are all over my posts 😜 

We will have a leggy midfield on Tuesday, after yesterday. Time for some rotation please,  Mr Warne. 

2 hours ago, jimtastic56 said:

Cashin is a great tackler and hits a super diagonal , but his lack of pace has been evident since he broke into the team . He needs a quick defender along side him . He could end up playing defensive midfield . Remember the Championship is even faster.

Yes. But we’re told there are PL teams interested.  I can’t imagine a recruiting team at a PL club recommending they sign a player who gets skinned like that in Div1. Taylor is rapid but no more than most PL strikers

17 hours ago, DavesaRam said:

Oh, and in case you thought I had forgotten that there is such a thing as a ref

Err…. No