Rammy03

He looks like Daniel farke this time last season, 8 months later promoted as champions, 4 months after that put 3 goals past man city. Keep the faith.

He looks like Daniel farke this time last season, 8 months later promoted as champions, 4 months after that put 3 goals past man city. Keep the faith.

Only 38 surprised Rowett never signed you😁

top words my man. top top words.
remember fellas and fellettes, win or lose, we're on the booze, bore draw?, lets drink some more.
the 18 game mark is where I start to worry (if we're playing poop) as I feel around that point is a fair indication of how teams are going to do.
Now i'll be the 3rd one on here disappointed if we get slapped against Cardiff, but I won't write off our season. Even if we give um a good good go and lose, I'll be happy.
Leeds Cardiff and Charlton are some difficult games and we've already had a shed load of difficult games against top teams.
I won't be there for the leeds game because I value my shoelaces, but I'll be at the pub cheering the boys on.
 
Come on you ramssssssss

The above cliche has never been more apt.
After 2 weeks of trying to ignore Derby County i am now back in the game.
I've just looked at the next 6 games with a good sense of realism. I believe (slightly pessimistically) the following may happen;
Cardiff - D
Leeds - L
Birmingham - D
Barnsley - W
Luton - W
Charlton - D
Now.. This looks pretty bad. But it will take our points tally to 15 points from 12.
At the same point last season we had 18 points. So being pretty pessimistic we'd be 1 win behind that. Cardiff & Birmingham are both definitely winnable & Leeds/ Charlton are far from unbeatable. 
Our fortunes could look very different in a heartbeat. Writing the season off now or after the next 3 games would be absurd.

 

Alan Judge wouldn't look out of place in our team with crossing like that, wowzers! 

Hasn't looked promising but I just don't like how everyone is writing this season off already and saying we're not good enough for this and for that. You're entitled to your opinion of course but you simply don't know it for a fact. Enjoy the ride and have faith.

Keogh could break both legs and go blind in one eye, however he'd still be available for the match on Saturday and be one of, if not our best player. 
He's our best player, comfortably. 

😢 Never forget

The black kit is the nicest one, it's the blue kit that's the problem. Horrible colour and doesn't look right with the black logos on it.

You're not wrong. First 6 games included a win, two draws and three losses. May I also mention one of those defeats was a 3-0 trouncing away to wolves. Sound familiar? 

I agree. 10 games in I'll start to make my mind up. We know the squad lacks quality in certain areas but the performances can be so much better without a doubt. If you're justifying our poor showings and results with "the squad isn't good enough" you're kidding yourself. For me at the moment I just can't see what we're trying to do or how we're trying to play and it's a worry. We look so disjointed and confused. Playing catch up in this league never ends well. But as you say, let's give him time.

I don’t get why people are justifying his team selection because he put out a similar team at Scunthorpe.
We didn’t play particularly well that night and were fortunate to win in 90 minutes. To put it in context Scunthorpe have just been relegated to League Two and only have 1 point from their 5 league matches. They like Huddersfield (the only other team we’ve beaten this season) are at rock bottom.
To put a similar team like that out against our local rivals and away at a team from the same division is wrong and it is disrespectful to the fans that paid to watch it (I did). You could actually say that we played a stronger team against Scunthorpe because at least we had a striker (Marriott) in the side. I feel like Cocu didn’t set out to win. Playing Holmes at RB when he was arguably our most creative player in the team was a mistake imo.
Yes Forest made changes but they still had arguably their best player (Lolley) in the team and a couple of other experienced first team players too.
I don’t get this “it’s only a cup game in August” and “we’re never going to win it anyway” stuff. Ajax were seconds away from the Champions League Final last season (upsetting the likes of Real Madrid & Juventus on the way) but they had to qualify for the tournament in August. Should they have not bothered either?
I’m not saying that the league cup is as important as the Champions League but you should aim to win every match, whatever the competition. That is what I want from my team.
 

But we're not strong in defence, 3 goals conceded last night. 2 against Bristol, 2 against Stoke. Since Huddersfield I've just not seen enough, slightly disappointing.

If we were doing better in the league then people would shrug it off
The league performances haven't been great and now some of us will take grief off Forest fans. 
Not the end of the world but I think if you say you're pleased to be out of this tinpot cup to Forest then you're lying to yourself. 
Why would anyone not want to do well in the cups? People seem pretty excited when we get through a few rounds. 
Why would anyone be ok with losing to a team who's fans we mix with 
It means we have won just 2 of our 7 competitive games so far. Yay! 
I know people moan for nothing but some people would happily cheer if you give them something to cheer for. They are rightly pissed off. 

True but I also strongly dislike how a lot of fans are using the term of transition to somehow ease the pain and justify finishing midtable. Why can't we aim high, not an expectation by any means, but why can't we aim for the top. The players want it, the staff want it, we should want it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

The point is waghorns pens have become so predictable now that there is just as much chance that the keeper will save it as it going in. He goes left, right or down the middle no height on it whatsoever. The keeper just needs to get to the ground and go the right way, then it is saved. It's too predictable and easy for the keeper. He's now taken 4 penalties this season. He's missed 2. That conversion rate isn't good enough. Needs to start changing where and how he is placing them or someone else needs to take it. 

Spare a thought for the numpties down the road. Their whole seasons highlights don't even stretch to 5 mins long. 

I think they genuinely did care about Derby.

I really like cocu already. He just seems to know what he's doing whilst remaining calm and respectful. Appreciates the fans too 👍 great job Mel