RadioactiveWaste

But it's important to develop them into the players that can convincingly lose to Doncaster in forest's first team in the years to come. In isolation last night's result won't mean that much, but over time three nil defeats can become part of the culture of the next generation of mediocrity to wear the Gary baldy red.

"Oh god that's us f*****" was my immediate reaction to the news. He might not win it and that would perhaps mitigate things somewhat..... Expecting to head into February in 12th now.

Exactly this. For example, when we got promoted, it wasn't the being promoted that was the problem, it was the everything else.

If you're not into the Swiss Tony's Quality Used Cars Cup, there's England v Scotland women's nation league on the telly. Or you could have that on with the sound turned down and listen to radio derby for the car lot cup match.

I believe in them. Just look around the faded empty seats and soak up the decades of crapness and go out there and be forest and you can do it. You can finish bottom 3. Everyone is rooting for you to do it.

I agree with this. It's also important for the young players to get used to playing against men's teams because they're going to have to get used to it or find a different career. At least in competition like this they're less likely to get burned than going into the team in a league match and I still fail to see the 2-4 minutes as sun as being that useful for most of them.

Steve Cooper is football sole.

It's a competition we're eligible to enter, so try to win it or progress as far as possible. Potentially winning the LDV Vans/Johnston paints/pizza cup/Swis Tony's quality used cars trophy is a reality of being in League 1. I'm not excited by the competition but I'm not distressed that we're in it.

Phil Brown, Paul Jewell the season after, some of the Nigel Clough days...we got through them all.

Just a bank holiday somewhere, nothing to worry about 🤫

Derby 2-0 Fleetwood Bird (is the word) "Of course, it's always hard when no matter how much we tell them in training to belt it up the wing then cross it if the players then take it upon themselves to pass and move and cave open defences the way they did tonight. They're all going to be doing the beep test tomorrow morning as punshment."

Seeing as standing has been prevalent in the south stand for long time, it's probably a good move.

If you're resigned to losing Cashin in January you'd better get used to the idea of Bradley playing more. And if that's the case getting him some minutes makes sense. He had a reasonable career before joining us, so recovering from his disaster start at the club might see him alright. Also, if he's aready on, PW can't bring him on.

It's not just rugby, it's creeping into lots of sports that used to have traditions quite different. in F1, which used to have a level of respect afforded on the grounds everyone knew they were playing a very dangerous game, Nicolas Latifi, who's crash insitgated the safety car the ultimatly led to Verstappen winning his first championship was the recipiant of death threats, abuse and a substancial amout of slander (i don't think he went legally after people but I saw plenty I thought he would win if he did). How long until we see this sort thing in snooker? Or darts? Or any kind of sporting endevour?

Best thing to do with VAR is nominate 1 team a week to get VARed "This week we have <insert presonality/celebraty> to pick the team to be VARed this week is........" And then that team (not match, team) gets VARed to death whilst everyone else gets a normal warts n all refereed match to enjoy, but the VAR cultists can salavate at the delays, the bawhair offside thay can smugly go home knowing was right, the disallowed goals that are really the joy of the game. And no one can say it's unfair because, VAR makes everything better right? SO it's never a bad thing if your team gets VARed.

Revolution Against Moderators! Soon!

Did we lose to his Rotherham team at some point? That's probably your smoking gun on that one.

Isn't the City Ground in Rushcliffe?

I see Nottingham council has gone bankrupt.

Royalty Amidst Midlands Soccer

Results seem to be on the up, as someone perpetually snookered by distance and not getting to games these days, my question is: Do the team look like they believe in what they're doing? I know it's kind of just a "vibes" question but what's the perception from the folks who are there?

I see xG is being debated. Time to remind people that factual statistics (like Shots on target) are the input for the xG model, the output of the xG model depends on the inputs. Is the xG model any good? With zero knowledge of how that model is working, and I doubt the code would be shared openly by it's creators anyway, the confidance in xG appareas to be based on a consensus of "well everyone else buys into xG" rather than actual knolwedge of the xG model. That doesn't mean the xG model is bad, or shouldn't be used as a useful indication of how effective a team's attacking has been, but it's a model output, not a factual statistic. On the one hand, it's likely to be consistent as the code is just running over the inputs to generate the xG number, on the other hand anyone watching the game and looking at the factual stats could (and probably does) run their own personal internal model and conclude "we deserved more than we scored" or "we were lucky everything went in and normally it doesn't" <etc> Is xG a superior metric to shots on target? My take is they're different things and need be used differently. xG is not "the truth" but what factual statistics tell you about a game is very limited without further context.

You can now relax by sending yourself into a deep state of zen just using controlled breathing and staring at this hypnotic image Never noticed he had his cat toattooed on his neck before, that's sweet, isn't it.