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The Footie Thread

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

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.
 
jim8flog said:
Not often I mention football but what a joy to watch match of the day and it was only 20 minutes long*:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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.
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If you don't like the waffle, I'm surprised you've come to this forum ;)
 
Beezerk said:
I really enjoyed MOTD without the sycophantic rubbish spouted by the commentary team. Granted it was odd but a pleasant odd 🤣
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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
 
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Aztecs27 said:
Going to have high stress levels for the next 12 weeks unless, somehow, we go on a run of 3-4 wins.
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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?
 
BiMGuy said:
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?
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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.
 
RichA said:
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.
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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.
 
BiMGuy said:
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?
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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.
 
Aztecs27 said:
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.
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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!
 
Neilds said:
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!
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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). :eek: 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).
 
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.
 
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