Finnegan

Experience is gonna be helpful when you run in to difficult situations but it doesn't automatically give you good ideas, especially new ideas, or make you particularly inspiring or good with people or whatever else. Especially given the older you get, let's be honest, the harder it gets to relate to the young people of the day (eg footballers.) There's a lot going for a young manager with fresh motivation, good modern, progressive ideas and who has recently worked with other top managers. Xabi Alonso, Mikel Arteta and our own Enzo Maresca have all had the opportunity to work up close with literally the best coach and manager on the planet and watch and learn how he works. We've seen in Enzo what a fresh perspective, new ideas and modern thinking can get you (14pts clear in record time after a record start to the season) but we've also seen what a lack of experience can do when times are hard and things need a bit of a shake up to galvanise a squad (completely surrendering that lead.) I doubt, say, Tony Mowbray or Neil Warnock would ever in a million years have gotten Leicester playing as well as we did at the start of this season or picking up as many points. But at the same time, I also think that if Mowbray had been at the club after we bottled it and threw away a winning position at Leeds he'd probably have done a better job stabilising the squad, pressing the reset button and getting everyone confident and motivated to continue and we'd probably be ~8-9 points ahead still by now. Swings and roundabouts isn't it.

Embarrassing for Poch above all else. Imagine either not having a designated taker (which doesn't look like it's the case) or having so little authority that your players think they can fight over who gets to take it. SAF would be throwing shoes at them and sending them off to train with the u7s for the rest of the season until they grew the **** up. Pep would have them ****ing transfer listed

Yes entirely. I just ****ing hate it, it's one of the worst parts of British culture. I absolutely hate this desperate obsession with competing to greive and pay tribute the most.

So that'll be a no then

Narh, this is the horse shit. You were traumatised? I'm not surprised, it was a horrible occasion. I hope you get the help you need, regardless of who you support. But there's a big difference between being politely respectful and doing this. It's not even respectful, it's cynical. It's straight virtue signalling and exploiting the deaths of others for the attention. Why the **** do Forest need a new permanent memorial now, years after the event, years after the legal proceedings? The simple answer is they don't, it's just exploitative shit. It'd be like West Ham deciding in twenty years time they feel really bad about Vichai and wanting to put a little statue of him up at their ground. I'm not having a pop because it's Forest, I've posted on this forum many, many times that I absolutely loathe this nasty habit we have in this country of Show Grief. Everyone competing to make sure everyone else sees how much they care about a tragedy or death. It's disingenuous, self serving and ugly. I don't believe the sincerity of 99% of the Forest fans pushing for this just as I don't believe in the sincerity of the vast, vast majority of plastic Scousers that get all somber and mournful and get 97 tattoos and carve it in to their identity. I do have complete sympathy for the families and friends of the victims and I can't imagine how horrendous the tragedy was for them. But I'm sorry, calling the suggestion that the vast majority fetishise the tragedy for clout horseshit? Narh.

Plenty of extremely average things get fawned over disproportionately by the big media circle jerk, especially Bethesda vehicles. Fallout 3 represented a significant shift in the rpg genre, as Skyrim did after it. Superficially I can understand why it impressed at the time. But both suffer enormously from Bethesda syndrome. You end up awed by the scale and the immersion of the world itself and it's easy to get blinded by the fact the writing, performances, animation and game play are all enormously underwhelming. New Vegas remedied this a little as they surrendered the writing to Josh Sawyer and the Obsidian team (who a lot of old school CRPG fans wanted to Baldurs Gate 3 to be given to in the wake of Pillars of Eternity.) What came out was a game with a lot more depth, complexity and humanity to its story. Sawyer and the folk at Obsidian are of former Black Isle and Interplay stock, the company behind the origin Fallout franchise which itself was spawned by Interplay's Wasteland (hence why Wasteland 2 and 3 make better spiritual successors to the isometric Fallouts than Bethesda's smoke and mirrors show.) FO3 & 4 impressed everyone by rendering a Fallout world you could walk around and explore in a full 3D environment and that alone won people over. But it's actual content is poor, the old Fallout games were marked by their story telling and writing, the new ones are marked by emptiness and wasted potential and are largely symptomatic of a games industry that's increasingly valued spectacle over substance (which is how we end up with ten thousand identical Bethesda and Ubisoft games.)

The real Fallout games are 1, 2 and Wasteland 2 & 3. Fallout 3 is intensely average and 4 is the most Bethesda game of all time. New Vegas is decent because it was written by people that actually get it but I'm still not entirely sure it truly felt like Fallout.

I don't really care how much of an arse hole it makes me sound, I find it really cringe worthy and even borderline disrespectful to the dead how Liverpool fans persist in fetishising the Hillsborough Disaster and sculpting it in to a key part of their identity. It's ridiculous that the nation is expected to mark every new anniversary with them with deference. But this - this is just straight ****ing sad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68790535 This isn't respect, it isn't tribute, it's "everybody! Everybody! Please remember we were there tooooo!" What an absolute collection of mouth breathers do you want to be to try and exploit someone else's tragedy to force yourself in to the spotlight? Because that is 100% what this is. Not a single soul at Forest genuinely cares, they just want to be seen to care and to make sure they're inserted in to the story.

Does anybody want to score today

What this game needs is just a bit of composure, consistency and reliability. ... on comes Jeff Schlupp.

This game is like a game of Ultimate Team where the computer has already decided its going to be one nil

And then some

Could do with some of Takarada's work rate and intensity in the mens team for the run in tbqh.

In fairness, those "better sides" are less likely to defend with 78 players in their own six yard box. Southampton in particular aren't exactly going to sit back and try to spoil. I'd much rather we play teams like that.

Bamford is one of the biggest diving pricks in this league

Reminder that if Leeds lose this and we win our game in hand they've only got 3 games to haul back a 4 point gap and they'll have taken 1 point from their last two games. Big.

Nobody wants to be promoted

SZMODICS

The fact that 85% of you want us to sack a promising young manager in the first full year of his career for taking us to an absolutely massive points total and top of the league with a few games to go is exactly why I've been trying my best to avoid this forum for the last couple weeks. So many of you are completely insufferable. If we had the same amount of points we do now but the wins and losses had been balanced evenly throughout the year instead of being front loaded to the start of the season, none of you would be batting an eyelid about the manager. Yes, the recent form is very poor, yes he's got a lot to learn and needs to improve and gain the ability to steady a ship like this and turn things around but he also took us on an absolutely unprecedented, record breaking run at the start of the year. 85% of you have completely forgotten that in the space of a few weeks. ****ing embarrassing.

Roberts has had some serious clutch moments for them since he's joined.

Leeds getting the kind of luck that just alludes us at the moment. Elland Road is gearing up for full on meltdown mode of they don't win this though.

So now the EFL have put their cards on the table, how many penalty, offside goal and red card decisions are going to go amazingly against us in the last few games?

I'm not really sure how you can see it as anything other than corrupt. It's literally breaking their own rules and precedents to try and stop us getting promoted. You could pick any number of reasons they might be doing it, bias towards Leeds, keeping Big Leicester in the Championship for the pull, conspiring with the Premier League and the Big Six to make sure we're truly beaten down for the title win, whatever. You can go as tinfoil hat with it as you want but it's still entirely corrupt.

We don't want too many Leicester Citys

Liverpool fans, working class heroes.