Tielemans63

When football clubs weren't owned by American or Asian billionaires and the owners had a genuine connection to the club, even if you didn't like them. The globalisation of the Premier League has killed the sport for me.

Good to see Emma Hayes getting the recognition she deserves 👏

Classy stuff from everyone's favourite club.

Genuinely think the club should have @StriderHiryuin it's analytics team. The boy has got talent!

It's all very late-stage Rodgers in my opinion. Conceding goals right left and centre, while occasionally scoring enough times to earn points here and there. The underlying stats being a huge concern, we are so open at the back its ridiculous. There were some pretty glaring warning signs before the absolute collapse in 2022/23 that suggested we were higher in the league than we should have been statistically - I feel like the same thing is happening all over again. My concern is, like the end of the Rodgers era, once the goals dry up, we'll sink like a stone. I think we have decent attacking talent. We need someone who knows how to set-up a team defensively. You can't concede goals at the rate we do and expect to stay up.

Which makes the decision not to play, or even bring on Skipp an odd one.

He was. But he wasn't able to bring in all of his own people.

Pains me to say it, but I thought Forest looked really impressive. They've got that solid base and a really effective front 3. After the initial chaos following promotion, they've recruited well since.

Our defensive structure is a massive issue. We're shipping so many goals and we're lucky we have a brilliant young goalkeeper*. Forest opened us up almost at will last night. 1-6 wouldn't have flattered them. I don't think he has a clue how to set up a side to defend. Even the Bournemouth game was a misnomer, they created so many chances that day. *I should just add, isn't it something like 13 likely goals Mads has prevented this season? That's unsustainable. I've said it since day 1, I don't really care that Cooper is ex-Forest. What bothers me is that he's a Championship manager. He's a Steve Bruce, Neil Warnock-type figure - decent in the second tier, not good enough at the top level.

I'm done with this. Night all

Weird. I really thought Soumare was the ideal player to bring on and save this game for us...

Thanks for coming, Jordan

Commentator just made a great point, we've only had one shot on target all night. It's not as though our defence is the only issue. We've been overrun in midfield too

This is so poor. This second half has been a total surrender.

Not good enough for the PL

Soumare

This has felt like the longest half ever. How are there still 20 minutes left?

We have absolutely no idea how to defend

The team's defending has been pathetic all game. The mistakes have been the tip of the shitberg

It's 1-3 Steve. You have some subs on the bench.

3 preventable goals. Not good enough

Still working miracles for Forest

To call that Sundays League defending is disrespectful to Sunday League. Our defending tonight has been an embarrassment

Idiotic defending