 | Forum
Thread | Away ticket offices
at 20:28 24 Apr 2025
What are the chances they would check ID for ticket collections?
Thoughts welcome. |
| Forum
Thread | Madrid Arsenal
at 20:29 16 Apr 2025
Two nonsense penalties and an absolute age being taken to decide over the second one.
Awful entertainment. |
| Forum
Thread | 10 or 15 years ago being 2-0 up and losing 3-2
at 22:51 13 Apr 2025
Was much more of a talking point and considered more of a disaster, I feel.
I think we should be pretty happy that didn't happen today and the team deserve a fair amount of credit for that. Chelsea had so many chances it's incredible they didn't score three.
It's not anything new that we concede goals and generally aren't quite good enough for the league currently, so I don't really like the idea of another game being lumped into the annoying 'X number of points lost from winning positions' stat. It makes it sound like a mental issue which it clearly isn't, we just can't withstand the quality that so many teams possess. |
| Forum
Thread | Shearer
at 23:20 5 Apr 2025
I know it's trendy not to watch MOTD these days but have I really just seen him try to say Nketiah's yellow card for diving was harsh?
Jesus wept. |
| Forum
Thread | I haven't been annoyed all season
at 23:34 15 Mar 2025
Like genuinely annoyed. But I was annoyed today.
No one needs to get uptight about this comment and it's not McKenna out or anything silly, but he's lost the plot in terms of team selection since the end of the window. He's said we've still been believing and will go until the end etc, as he should, but in reality he appears to have treated the last 7 games or so like pre season.
I'm assuming plenty have already made this comment but I'll make it anyway, how Jaden Philogene is starting games for us needs to be investigated. I honestly don't think I've ever been as underwhelmed by a new signing in my 25 years supporting the club, certainly a signing that has been given so much game time and has been signed for so much money and given so much hype - in his defence that isn't his fault, but it's been utterly painful to watch. I wince every time he gets the ball and I don't think I'm being harsh. He shouldn't be in the side.
I'll admit, like everyone I had accepted at half time the game was done, but when you see what happened once the three attacking subs came on it's hard not to be annoyed in hindsight that we didn't try and make a go of it from 55-60 minutes, or even half time. I wouldn't mind us losing 5-0 or 6-0 trying to restore some kind of parity, as it was we tried to keep the score at 3-0 and just give some squad players a run out, and ended up having a mini rally.
We need to find some balls and change our starting CF for a game or two. Hirst would be within his rights to be mildly grumpy at his lack of game time I think. Whenever he plays he shows more intelligence than Delap, and offers something else as clearly demonstrated by a superb header - something Delap couldn't replicate earlier in the game despite it being a relative sitter. Aside from that, could we not benefit sometimes from using Delap against (cliche) tiring defences in the second half of games?
Also, why don't we cross the ball with any regularity? Hirst's goal, while a brilliant header, annoyed me because it just made me curse the fact we hadn't tried to do it more throughout the season.
The selection thing is a real issue for me. It's incredibly hard not to get swept up in the assumption that we are giving players minutes because they cost x amount. We have a pre season to bed those players into the team if we really think they are the future, but they are not worthy of their position currently. We all know who they are.
Like every home game we started well enough and had some good moments, Hutchinson's shot from the edge of the box was a big chance considering his ability. Thought he was good today in general, he's getting better which is a big positive. Cajuste was brilliant, his best game of the season and our MOTM by a mile.
Sigh. Oh well. [Post edited 15 Mar 23:37]
|
| Forum
Thread | Question for lovers of football clichés
at 14:42 6 Mar 2025
Off the back off one of McKenna's comments from Phil's thread...
What is the required criteria for a team/ground to be considered 'a tough place to go'?
Is there a school of thought that says the worst ground in the league (let's use Accrington for arguments sake) is always the 'toughest' place to go?
By that token is somewhere like Spurs perhaps the 'easiest' place to go because it's so nice/new? Our result there this season would back that up...
What other factors can be considered? [Post edited 6 Mar 19:03]
|
| Forum
Thread | Bit gutted but a much easier defeat to take than United
at 23:26 3 Mar 2025
Thought we did okay tonight on the whole. The shape of the team and how we were playing first half was fine but we lacked any kind of pace or firepower or ability to beat a man, quite dramatically actually. We looked like a lower league side who pass the ball and are well coached. But we defended well generally and actually controlled large parts of it.
Second half was much improved and bloody hell, we scored from a corner. Nice of them to leave two of our biggest players unmarked at the back post, thank you very much. Sadly it always felt likely they would find a goal from somewhere in reply.
Big credit to our captain. We may be starting to see limitations in his game when it comes to the PL and the pace and issues in transition, but he showed tonight how good he can be for us. He so rarely gets flustered and he keeps possession ticking over so well, at one point second half Palmer was about to bowl it out to him and almost decided it was too risky with a couple of Forest players nearby, Morsy demanded it, turned and started playing again. He's the only midfielder we have who really has the balls to do that in difficult situations.
Woolfenden goes into the same bracket as Morsy. Also un-flustered, calm, hoofed it when he needed, made most of his passes. He's really suffered from us wanting to play a flat 4 so often, and O'Shea proving to be a solid player.
Frankly I'm surprised we scored four penalties, and who scored some of them surprised me too. They were always likely to have better natural penalty takers, and more of them.
So no disgrace tonight, just have to pray we can use it and take some the good things into Saturday.
|
| Forum
Thread | What happens happens
at 21:30 3 Mar 2025
The more likely result is a Forest win one way or another.
But we've done all right. Morsy, Woolfenden have been very good for my money. Un-flustered, calm, composed and physical.
COYB |
| Forum
Thread | Our shape is quite good
at 20:10 3 Mar 2025
We've played okay. It's just when a bit of quality is needed we're lacking a lot.
Wolfy, Townsend and Morsy playing well. |
| Forum
Thread | Team
at 19:15 3 Mar 2025
The 'first' team have been doing very poorly, so in my mind it's only a perceived weaker line up.
A few people have been calling for a return for some of the L1 Championship regulars - well there you go. I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing Hirst start in a game that matters and seeing Delap play a part off the bench which he inevitably will. We haven't tried this as much as we should have IMO, even considering Delap's promise we've watched him run down blind alleys too often at times. |
| Forum
Thread | Bruno Fernandes
at 19:18 2 Mar 2025
Granted I don't watch every minute of their games but how he gets criticism from their fans and certain ex numpty players I have no idea.
He absolutely carries them.
Cracking penalty shoot out this by the way. |
| Forum
Thread | Throughout this season I never thought I'd say this
at 21:37 26 Feb 2025
But we deserve to go down.
If we're honest we scored two joke goals, and were lucky the opposition manager took off their best player after going down to 10 men.
That second half had so much promise it was unbelievable, but I'm left so confused after that I don't know where to start. |
| Forum
Thread | Calm and patient
at 21:23 26 Feb 2025
But absolutely toothless in this second half.
So disappointing. |
| Forum
Thread | Is it time for George Hirst?
at 13:47 23 Feb 2025
It's unlikely to result in a huge change in fortunes but it might make us a better attacking unit and help us create better chances instead of relying on Delap trying to do (almost) everything on his own, and aside from anything else he probably deserves it.
We've persisted with Delap - why wouldn't we have done? But it's not brought us results. Hirst has done admirably whenever he's had the opportunity, which hasn't been very often, partly due to fitness. |
| Forum
Thread | Aside from the result
at 18:12 22 Feb 2025
And how we played etc etc...
How Tim Robinson managed that game, along with the almost constant cheating, diving and feigning injury (mainly them but also us) , really has me depressed after that game.
Within about 30 seconds during stoppage time we saw Porro (I think) take a hand to the face and feign injury trying to buy a foul and then jump straight up, and then Broadhead dive to try and win a penalty (after a lovely bit of skill). Those incidents along with the ridiculously stop-start nature of the game which was completely the fault of the referee, almost tells the story of the premier league. Both should have seen yellow cards.
Some won't like me calling out one of our own players for cheating, and if I watch it back and realise I'm wrong I'll hold my hands up. But if you can't call it out when it's one of your own players we don't have much of a leg to stand on when someone does it against us. It almost felt ironic that the referee stopped the game after that for VAR to check the penalty, another stain on the game IMO.
On the game itself, probably not much to say than will have been said already. Amazing start, first 5 minutes was worth the ticket price alone, but we just have to score one of those chances to stand a chance of getting a result.
They get two half chances and score them both. Bit like KDB and Foden a few weeks ago, too quick and too clinical.
Incredibly tough ask now. Wouldn't like to see our odds for survival. Can't fault our effort, we're just not good enough. |
| | Garv
|
Site Scores| Forum Votes: | 2373 | | Comment Votes: | 923 | | Prediction League: | 0 | | TOTAL: | 3296 |
|
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.