Srg

12, possibly, 21? No way.

EFL will decide we are getting too close anyway and tack on another 12 point deduction for still existing. 

Allsop 7.5

Byrne 6.5

Forsyth 7

Stearman 6

Davies 6.5

Shinnie 8

Bird 7

Morrison 6.5

Knight 6.5

Lawrence 6.5

Baldock 6

Stretton 6.5

Thought Allsop had a good night. Like many, I wasn’t happy to see his name on the team sheet but he saved everything (mostly routine bar one or two) and even caught a couple of things too. 

Stearman worries me a little. Although not sure if he improved second half or I wasn’t as nervous about him because he was further away from me in the South Stand. Seems slow to move his feet and looked a liability. 

Don’t think it was a coincidence the goal came from the first time Forsyth used his acre of space to actually dribble forward rather than come back. He needed to do that more often to keep the defence honest. 

Midfield did a decent job of rotating deep to fetch the ball from the defence which was good. Trying to play out from the back with our personnel is not fun but they made the best of it by helping out - we did still manage one huge calamity after half time. 

Stretton looked decent but needs a big stint in the weight room. Reading do have some quick defenders which didn’t help though.

I am not one for conspiracy theories but after the red card and injury time penalty last game and now we have an unbelievably bad referee and linesman this game it doesn’t half make you wonder. The linesman missed some shockers, especially the ball being miles out first half under his nose. The referee didn’t give a blatant foul on Ravel on the edge of the box, a blatant penalty for handball, seemed to not bother booking them for the same thing Stearman got booked for, then booked Buchanan for his first foul. Just a baffling display of biased ineptitude. 

1 minute ago, Wistaston Ram said:

Thanks. 

Hopefully won't affect me too much

 

From Crewe, I presume using A50? should be ok-ish, but you may want to dive through Chellaston and into Derby that way.

Just now, Wistaston Ram said:

What is the traffic problem? I'll be setting off from Crewe in a bit.

M1 been shut half the day, Lorries all over the place on A38 at Kingsway. A50 having issues onto Raynesway as a result.

Just now, Pearl Ram said:

I don’t think anybody is saying anything of the kind. What a ridiculous post.

So what we're saying is... the EFL have planted RTCs in the local area to damage the club's finances further.

Just now, ossieram said:

I can't remember people being so precious when it's the opposition fans singing about us burning our kids and other lyrical masterpieces. 

I wasn't at Sheffield to hear what was sang, but I dare say quite a few moaning about it now weren't there either.

Youngsters get drunk and do stupid things and the world keeps on turning. 

Got no issue with condemning chants at all. Clearly there are some things which should be off limits. The two things that annoy me are people getting offended on behalf of other people, and moreso, believing that we are somehow special in our support and that these type of things aren't at every single club - whether that's right or wrong, is irrelevant, it's just true.

Worth noting there's been accidents on the a38 and m1 today... so check before wherever you're travelling from.

4 minutes ago, BucksRam said:

Coincidentally the wife booked her Chrimbo Ocado slot this morning, adding 2 turkey crowns. Whether they'll actually arrive of course may be another matter. 

Not sure what's worse... booking a Christmas delivery already or that spelling of "Chrimbo"

If staff can get made redundant why can't players? Genuine question... someone like David Marshall who may as well not be here, surely you'd save more money than sacking a cleaner.

3 minutes ago, sage said:

Does the disparity suggest Covid is still an issue for many supporters?

No, the ticket office and the state of the club

1 hour ago, angieram said:

Isn't it their duty to get this out far and wide so that no-one can come along later and say they didn't know about it? 

I'm not going to knock our administrators for being open and transparent, given that was one of the things we have all been complaining about recently.

Exactly... it's a modern age. Why would they want the 538 interested parties clogging up their day-to-day email boxes rather than the this specially made one for us because we're so so special!

FIFA is a new game every year.

1 hour ago, MuespachRam said:

They don’t have a chance of Their relegation getting over turned etc but if I was then I would be be very ticked off. 

Probably how other league one teams felt when the COVID season that wasn't finished put mid table Wycombe in the play offs.

4 minutes ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Would I be right in saying you can only register players in Jan/Summer windows, but you could sell a player in between (the cash side of it) if you wanted to and then player would just sit on his hands until the window?

If so administrator could get a money to cover wages in this way?

Don't believe so. Think if you agree a sale it's just for the transfer and money to happen when the window opens - usually leaving the player not playing in case of injury.

13 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

 

Classy? Can't begrudge us the win because we've had a difficult 24 hours?! ? How about because just like you saying 'we had two really good chances to score before we did', we could say 'we had two really good chances to score after we did'!

You've ignored the final paragraph where he says we played well.

Oh no, you've been a shirter. Forest and Leeds have more shiters per capita than any other team.

On 02/09/2021 at 09:03, Srg said:

@Ambitiouson the clock

Again. Slower than Tom Huddlestone. 

@Ambitiouson the clock

2 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58385653

It was stupid, the weather didn't improve and they just kept going out for what seemed like no reason other than to make sure it wasn't postponed without any points.

This was my worry with unlimited clock. ?

7 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Ball had strength. I still stand by my opinion that he could have been a very reliable Championship forward. He seemed to lose the hunger for the game when we loaned him out to Coventry.

He was warming the bench a couple of years ago for some team playing Belper Town. And when I say warming the bench, he was warming most of it as he is rather rotund.

4 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

He'll soon fall into the Mason Bennett trap of being judged as crap, simply due to only 2 goals in 40 Championship games... despite that being just 915 minutes of football.

He's not fast, he's not strong, so he has always needed a bit of time (a season, sometimes 2) to adjust to the higher level of football.
You don't score 20 goals and grab 12 assists in 20 U18 games unless you have something about you. The fact he got those goals from being a clever, technical player rather than pacey or strong just shows he needs time.

5 goals in 643 minutes in all competitions in his Swansea career so far. It's not going too badly for him.

Wasn't Callum Ball a bagsman at kids football though?

Not that I'm knocking Morgan. I thought we should've kept him and he got a ridiculously harsh ride.

On the clock @dcfcollie