Bris Vegas

I had a few notifications and they were all Dawn reaction emoji notifications of some predictions I made at the beginning of last season. Kind of weird to pull them up now. The time to do that was in May after they beat Arsenal.

VAR only came in because of the constant abuse the officials received from managers, players, pundits and fans alike. Scrapping VAR will make the game so much quicker and more enjoyable (you can celebrate a goal without the doubt of whether it will be pulled back for something minor). But scrapping VAR will only work if officials are treated as humans and we accept their mistakes are part of the game.

Dawn’s gone on a history trip and an emoji spree. Always living in the past those Forest fans.

I mentioned before but I grew up in the 90s and 00s, when the PL started to boom and games were easily accessible for the armchair supporters. Man Utd simply dominated, on and off the pitch. Yeah Arsenal and Chelsea had some successful seasons, but between 1995 and 2010, a good 15 year period was largely dominated by Man Utd. They had an army of glory supporters. All the kids wanted to be like Beckham and later Ronaldo. I grew up in Long Eaton so it was probably 30% Forest, 20% Derby, 49.9% Man Utd and 0.1% others. On the field they won, a lot. Fergie time. Bullying referees. Ridiculous decisions went their way. Surrounding the refs. Theater of Dreams on a Super Sunday. United this, United that. They were horrible. Pep’s Barca destroying them was beautiful. And the past 10 years of City and Liverpool battering them has been so rewarding. But it’s now reached the stage where they are becoming irrelevant in terms of a top side. It’s become normal for the likes of Palace and Brighton to beat them. I’m no longer surprised, and it feels like their chapter as England’s top club is now well and truly over.

Ah the classic TEAMtalk article of linking as many clubs with big fanbases as possible to get the most clicks.

Sure. I was just pointing out as an opinion that the Wolves kids could be the worst team we have faced in the past 30 years in an official game. It's no slight on them or us, just an observation given the unfortunate trajectory of most academy players.

When you look at this Wolves team, only a few will go on to play league football. The rest will either slip into the lower leagues (5th division or below) or unfortunately retire early after falling out of love or not making enough money. They are likely to be the worst team we have faced in the past 30+ years.

Collo doing his England chances pretty good here. I hope Southgate is watching.

Wasn’t too long ago we were smashing these to pieces under Steve McClaren. Now we are in League One playing their U21s in an official EFL fixture.

I was having this debate before. Is Cashin a good defender currently in bad form? Or… Is Cashin an average defender who was previously in excellent form?