The Footie Thread

[Lord Tyrion]

I'm trying hard not to look at our remaining fixtures. It's a good way to send you towards a nervous breakdown. Wins look further away, you can only see doom. The only good thing is that right now there are about 8-9 other teams / fans in the same boat .

One game at a time, one game at a time..............

 

[jim8flog]

Not often I mention football but what a joy to watch match of the day and it was only 20 minutes long*

I have 2 tellies in the lounge and normally switch channels between the actual matches being shown but often fall asleep before the end and miss a couple of the games.

* Makes you realise that MOTD has 70 minutes of waffle added to the football.

 

[Swango1980]

Not often I mention football but what a joy to watch match of the day and it was only 20 minutes long*

I have 2 tellies in the lounge and normally switch channels between the actual matches being shown but often fall asleep before the end and miss a couple of the games.

* Makes you realise that MOTD has 70 minutes of waffle added to the football.

If you don't like the waffle, I'm surprised you've come to this forum

 

[Beezerk]

I really enjoyed MOTD without the sycophantic rubbish spouted by the commentary team. Granted it was odd but a pleasant odd

 

[Swango1980]

I really enjoyed MOTD without the sycophantic rubbish spouted by the commentary team. Granted it was odd but a pleasant odd

I'll be honest, I hated it. It was soulless. Maybe I like to hear what the pundits and commentators say, even if it means I can get angry and the nonsense they might be saying

If a player scores a great or important goal, I think it is nice to hear the excitement in the commentators voice. To be honest, if football was better without them, they wouldn't have been there anyway. Much cheaper if broadcasters could show football with zero reaction.

I wondered why they ditched the theme tune as well. That was weird

 

[hairball_89]

Going to have high stress levels for the next 12 weeks unless, somehow, we go on a run of 3-4 wins.

To illustrate @Bdill93 's point even further, I reckon fans of pretty much every team in the league could say that right now. It is mad right now.

 

[Bdill93]

To illustrate @Bdill93 's point even further, I reckon fans of pretty much every team in the league could say that right now. It is mad right now.

They really could! Even as a Villa fan I'm thinking 3 wins and we're touching Europe.

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Going to have high stress levels for the next 12 weeks unless, somehow, we go on a run of 3-4 wins.

Wasn’t long ago Forest fans were complaining about people still considering them being in the battle to avoid relegation.

Do they have the players willing to graft and battle to avoid it?

 

[Orikoru]

Wasn’t long ago Forest fans were complaining about people still considering them being in the battle to avoid relegation.

Do they have the players willing to graft and battle to avoid it?

They have 75 players to choose from so some of them must have.

 

[RichA]

Wasn’t long ago Forest fans were complaining about people still considering them being in the battle to avoid relegation.

Do they have the players willing to graft and battle to avoid it?

I don't do SM or football forums but I don't know a single Forest fan who has at any point thought that this season wouldn't be a 38 match relegation fight.

 

[Bdill93]

I don't do SM or football forums but I don't know a single Forest fan who has at any point thought that this season wouldn't be a 38 match relegation fight.

They'd be a bit silly if they thought it'd be easy! Its pretty well documented that coming up and making a load of signings is a very risky game!

The teams that come up and do well tend to be those who add a few key pieces to an already good side and more importantly - a footballing philosophy.

 

[Aztecs27]

Wasn’t long ago Forest fans were complaining about people still considering them being in the battle to avoid relegation.

Do they have the players willing to graft and battle to avoid it?

It wasn't that we were complaining that people were considering us being there - it's that they weren't referring to other teams around us being in the same situation. All we ask is for consistency (and accuracy) in reporting.

In theory, yes, we do. We've got some players with PL (and relegation battle) experience, which should help. We've been one of the most injury-ridden teams in the league all season and somehow still aren't in the bottom 3. We have 3-4 key players returning from injury after the international break (barring any setbacks), which should bolster our team (although we picked up 2 more injuries to 1st teamers on Saturday and worryingly, one is Brennan Johnson, who is our main goal threat), but we shall see.

 

[Neilds]

It wasn't that we were complaining that people were considering us being there - it's that they weren't referring to other teams around us being in the same situation. All we ask is for consistency (and accuracy) in reporting.

In theory, yes, we do. We've got some players with PL (and relegation battle) experience, which should help. We've been one of the most injury-ridden teams in the league all season and somehow still aren't in the bottom 3. We have 3-4 key players returning from injury after the international break (barring any setbacks), which should bolster our team (although we picked up 2 more injuries to 1st teamers on Saturday and worryingly, one is Brennan Johnson, who is our main goal threat), but we shall see.

I would rather have 35 from 75 (or whatever Forest have) injured than 7/8 from Rotherham's current squad of 28 which is what we have got at the moment.
Hopefully this will be the year we break the yoyo trend of the past 6 years and stay in the same division for consecutive seasons!

 

[Aztecs27]

I would rather have 35 from 75 (or whatever Forest have) injured than 7/8 from Rotherham's current squad of 28 which is what we have got at the moment.
Hopefully this will be the year we break the yoyo trend of the past 6 years and stay in the same division for consecutive seasons!

Believe it or not, our squad size is the same as every single other team in the premier league. 25 players (plus 4 under 21's). Then there's the academy players, but they're not part of the 1st team.

We had (until last week) 12 out on long term injury. Just got Ryan Yates back and one of our starting CB's was finally back to the bench on Saturday (so we now have 3 healthy CB's in the squad - after two both went off after 7 minutes against Fulham).

 

[Deleted member 15344]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1635657284914229248

Good to see at last a proper punishment

 

[Swango1980]

Interesting penalty to City, don't think the City players even appealed or saw it. The yellow card seemed ridiculously harsh

 

[fundy]

What happened to too close to the player Peter Walton? Last week 2 yards was too close, today a few inches is clearly a penalty. Not even sure it hit his arm either lol

Keep making it up for the teams you want VAR....

 

[Swango1980]

Fantastic second goal. DeBruyne looks on it again

 

[clubchamp98]

Where have they got this ref from.
never a pen.
foul on keeper by Haaland.
Ederson a yellow at least but booked Werner instead.

 

[Billysboots]

Slightly curious as to how Ederson hasn’t got a yellow there.

Not enough for a red - not a goal scoring opportunity, not violent/dangerous - but surely a yellow.