RevidgeBlue

It's really sad that the greats of a certain era are all retiring or dying/ have died off. As a classic/ heavy rock fan I tend to take the opposite view to K Hod and would opine that music stopped round about 1990 with one or two notable exceptions.

Ugh. I know it's slightly more of a squad game than it was in the past but can we not get too Americanised and refer to starters or finishers please? I've not seen anyone seriously suggesting we should sell Gueye, we're at least one striker short as it is imo.

That's one point of view, the other is that you're not a genuine fan if you blindly accept everything that happens at the Club good or bad. As Matty and Ira have alluded to in more detail. Each to their own though.

Sad news about Ozzie, saw him interviewed many years ago - he was hilarious could have been a stand up comedian. Sabbath were a great band - just heard a clip of an interview with him and he said they recorded their debut album Black Sabbath in a little back street studio in 12 hours flat. I find the title track also called Black Sabbath genuinely creepy and unsettling, especially if you listen to it on your own in the dark etc. RIP

Nailed it. Edit: With a bit of luck from their point of view, might get 3-4 years out of a complete reset and a new Mowbray type "journey" before everyone cottons on it hasn't worked.

Apologies. Initialism?

Of course. Lol. Must brush up on my acronyms.

Not sure what an S and C Coach is but it sounds a bit Oooo.....Matron.

And in this scenario the mate has actually done everything he possibly can to try and dissuade your wife from leaving you but she's said "No, I dont love him anymore, Im leaving him whether we end up together or not".

Does that mean we've sold 969 more? 🙂

I think you're completely wrong on this. 100% of the blame attaches to Venky's and our management. 0% to Eustace and Derby or any other Club. That's even before taking into account that Eustace tried to get assurances on these players contract situations in January or February. If Eustace had got his way then, at the very least, even if he'd left, Clubs would be having to pay a small fortune to land these players now.

Seems likely Brittain is going to one or the other. We have a valuation on him seemingly and dont appear to be making any particular effort to persuade him to stay. Was always on the cards when that other RB rocked up.

This sort of thing used to happen in the early to mid 70's when Ken Furphy took Tony Field and Terry Garbutt with him to Sheffield United and Gordon Lee took Sir Roger Jones and Graham Oates with him to Newcastle. But back then we genuinely didn't have a pot to piss in, and the players concerned were moving up to the top flight from a division (or two) below. We didn't have billionaire owners and the players weren't being forced to make a sideways move to Clubs in the same division for more money. Fuck off Venky's, Pasha and Gestede.

Trying to change the subject, I really liked the comment attributed to VI that he didnt like bringing in loans from PL Clubs. I suspect he may be sorely disappointed when his only option is to pad out the squad with a few random loanees right at the end of the window though.

Seen a couple of " AI predicts the Championship" things yesterday. One bizarrely had us finishing 4th ( must have been programmed by chaddy) whereas one done by the Lancashire Evening Post had us finishing 17th and PNE 23rd. 17th coincides with where the bookies expect us to finish. Somewhat of a discrepancy there!

Yes I thought he looked better at CB as well.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/the-12-richest-owners-in-the-202526-efl-championship-ranked/ FLW world have ranked the 12 richest EFL owners. I'd say they've substantially underestimated Venky's worth but even at that it makes it so frustrating that we're living hand to mouth.

I've no real interest in the Lionesses but Sarina Wiegman wouldn't really be doing her job properly if this girl didn't deserve her place on footballing merit but was retained solely because she had been racially abused. The only thing she'll have to factor in is whether the others might down tools in protest if she drops Carter. You would hope the rest of the team would be mature enough to accept her being dropped on the basis of taking her out of the firing line for a bit.

Knew someone wouldn't be able to wait to make that connection! Im content that my opinion of Tronstad seems to be shared by every other Club in the top 2 divisions. With him "snuffing out the danger" and without Travis we also conceded the second most number of goals the season before last and only stayed up on the final day. It's also a game of opinions. We have people who dont rate Dolan but dont seem to have a problem with Hedges, people who thought Gallagher was OK, people who didn't rate Raya and now seemingly someone who thought Deryck Williams was better than Beck. Compared to that I think my assessment of Tronstad as very ordinary pales into insignificance. But if it amuses people to bring it up every time I make a comment on a totally unrelated matter - so be it!

Evening Mrs. Gallagher. Yeah.........mores the pity!

I thought even Bell was better than disastrous Derek.

Can he jump over a Mini though?

You keep saying "how little he played". According to Wikipedia he made 24 appearances for us last season. Was that that bad? My own recollection was that he picked up a couple of injuries but it's not like he was a sick note.

I dont think he's a patch on Beck but it's a game of opinions. We've had worse and I assume we signed him because he was a lot cheaper.

Have we had anyone better than him at LB since Venky's took over? Either way, his departure has made us significantly weaker in that position and I assume he will make Derby significantly stronger.