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2 hours ago, strawhillram said:

The results against Fleetwood and mk dons still make me sick to the back teeth 

We deserved nothing against Fleetwood but we should have destroyed MK Dons - anyway there are loads of games where we have missed huge chances 

1 hour ago, jimtastic56 said:

I hope Paul Warne has a plan for Barry Bannan on Sunday. How he would love to have a Eustace type player to stick on him.We don’t want to be talking post match about how Bannan ran the show. I’m sure they have something waiting for McGoldrick.

Are you talking about the same player they have had for many years and the only successful thing he has managed to do is hep get them relegated to the third division?

11 hours ago, Raich Carter said:

Sorry but CM was not on the same planet as Eranio. Totally, completely, massively different class for me. Eranio was, as they say, a Rolls Royce (or a Pagani if we want an Italian link) of a player. CM was a higher end Vauxhall Vectra - perhaps a CDTi with leather seats and heated front screen. Obviously we're talking different times, different game, etc so I appreciate relatively speaking CM was a decent signing but let's not put him in the same sentence eh! 😉

When I first saw Eranio play, my jaw dropped. He just had that touch and vision that very, very few players have. TBE made many great signings but Eranio has to be his best all round signing. Whilst Ace and Stimac are up there, they were flawed (a bit mad, etc) so understandable why we we able to take a risk on them where others daren't but Eranio was zero risk - solid personality, great player, great pedigree, etc - just an amazing coup for us.

It wasn’t based just on ability more like about length of service season after season - one of them played in the premiership and one didn’t 🤷‍♂️

Tough question this one but in relatively modern times - Eranio was total class but Chris Martin turned out surprisingly to do extremely well over a decent period of time 

It’s not fair with having so many that we want to see fall flat on their noses this season and I blame Southampton for mucking up a fantastic treble 

Desperation time at Bellend road 

42 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Birmingham can't afford him, not permanently. Their club is almost as badly run as ours was before Mel pulled the plug.

It seems like we can’t afford to keep him either if we are in league one 

Both him and McGoldrick are the most likely we have to create a goal so he has to play usually - his confidence is down a bit after missing a couple of sitters in the last few home games - I also want him nowhere near our penalty box because he will lose his man and that’s why we have him here in the third division 

6 hours ago, Andicis said:

Arrogant tossers these lot!

 

They are all looking for the trap door - shame on them 

1 hour ago, LeedsCityRam said:

Accounting for form works both ways though. Our highest placed away win under Warne was Exeter in 14th who we beat recently, are in awful form (lost 5 straight I believe) & shipped 5 in the first half hour to Ipswich on Sat. Exclude that & we dont have an away win at anyone outside the bottom 6. 

Just re Rosenior, he faced 7 teams in the top half out of his 9 games in charge...that would indeed skew the statistic but against him & in favour of Warne. What can't be disputed is that Warne has managed a disproportionate amount of games against lesser opposition (22 out of 36 against bottom half sides) & that he has two wins against top half sides in 14 attempts. About as objective a stat as possible although context can smooth the edges (if not totally refute) that I accept.

We couldn’t beat a good Leeds side until we did just that and when it mattered - the memories the memories 

21 hours ago, angieram said:

Regardless of any rules, I would not want a player who we know chose to go out on loan this season to gain a place in the playoff games at the expense of a player who has worked his socks off all season to get us there.

I would be tempted to have him on the bench if allowed as he has played the full season basically and if needed he could help.

On 30/04/2023 at 08:38, Smithy93 said:

So…. With his loan ending at Brum next week , and having only played for them this season (so no issues regarding the only playing for 2 teams rule) , will KB be available to play should we make the play offs? 

Don’t teams have them registered until 30th June (Birmingham) - we probably need his wages paid still

I am expecting something like this to start with 

                          Wildsmith 

Rooney.    Davies.     Cashin.    Roberts 

Barkhauzen Smith Bird White Dobbin 

                         Collins 

I am expecting us to change some stuff in this game and probably go into the game in a cautious way ( which is always a concern) and see where that takes us and Peterborough. Sheffield Wednesday will rest players but they actually have plenty to use.

8 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

As long as Posh don't win at Barnsley our result on Sunday is irrelevant, we'll be in the playoffs.

In that case expect posh to win at Barnsley who rested plenty at MK dons on Saturday and we’re 4-1 down with ten minutes to go ! 

16 hours ago, Red_Dawn said:

If we don't stay up its only our own fault. Leeds and Everton look absolutely awful.

Whilst not looking at it through black and white eyes some of the actual points you have collected have been extremely fortunate and by that I mean deflected goals etc whilst the opposition have missed stacks of penalties and hit the woodwork far to often especially in the first half of the season. You also were extremely fortunate to have the World Cup break where you could work on not letting goals in which helped a lot. In terms of your manager your owner is extremely wary of sacking the manager as the fans are on his side but has tried to replace him but has been turned down several times. 
I assume the owners son has been rather involved in lots of these signings which went well beyond any kind of common sense in terms of need and lack of quality highlighted by the fact that your best two players this season you probably already had? 
your biggest chance has been the sheer rubbish of Dirty leeds and a lack of spending from Leicester whilst Southampton have just been due not to escape and Everton have burned through FFP to the point of punishment and no spending.

on our last visit we were given Claude Davis and Rob Earnshaw to survive with hence the eleven points after Billy Davies deliberately left us well and truly in it.

3 minutes ago, EranioIsGod said:

All this over a broken jaw... RIP.... 

It’s the first real injury of the season rather than the convenient ones 😉

3 minutes ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

For all our Notts Forest friends who seemingly love to call in and have a look round here, when did you last have a crowd of over 31,000. I am genuinely interested as you support them through thick and thin and certainly don’t just turn up when things are going well! I thought I would ask the internet but all I found was this article:

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/nottingham-forests-3-biggest-attendances-from-the-last-30-years/#:~:text=Forest v Man United%2C February,came to the City Ground.
 

To be fair, two of those attendances were just over 30,000 which is incredible really. To get as many in your biggest 3 attendances in the last 30 years as we got at home to Oxford in the 3rd division  is really a sign of a big, well-supported club. So, how far do we need to go back…40, 50? Genuinely curious. 
 

Thanks 👍

Todays attendance was the biggest in the whole English pyramid I believe which is fairly amazing for a third division club 

If we make it to the play offs we could end up taking all our chances and winning gloriously 

We have missed some right sitters this season haven’t we !

The red dogs must have not lost a game as they are showing up again 🤔

1 minute ago, IlsonDerby said:

Are we too harsh as a fan base on Hourihane? He’s had loads of goal involvements and ended up in the league 1 team of the year… 

Yes some are way too harsh - if the others around him had similar stats we would likely be in the top two positions I suspect 

Brighton look knackered after 120 minutes at Wembley 

Extremely lucky own goal gets the dogs level - they have had some right luck with the few goals they have actually achieved this season 

Damm I missed the Forest penalty - just like they did 😂