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Front flipping off garage roofs onto a crash mat we’d nicked from school

Well, not just about every poster. That’s a ridiculous exaggeration and it’s certainly doesn’t matter what style some of the fans were moaning about, the bigger picture is the players playing in it, enjoyed it and consistently played that way. If you understand football, that’s massive. Just look at Forest, Villa, Brighton, even Bournemouth. They all play very different styles of football, but it’s been consistent and they’re now reaping the rewards of that. We lost that momentum when the style totally changed which is another big thing in football. Your last paragraph is all if buts and maybes so not really any valid argument because how can you argue over something that might or might not have happened?

I think more importantly we’d have continued with a clear way of playing, the players comfortable in a system they’d been in for a season already. It’s hard enough to transition whenever a new manager comes in, then going from what we had under Maresca to what we went to under Cooper really did set us back. The players loved playing under Maresca and that was clear as day.

Agree it’s the perfect time. 7 games of competitive football against top class players. Only problems could be, he gets the taste of it and wants out. He does well and clubs see what he can do. Offer him what we can’t. He goes.

It’s just a shambles isn’t it. We are all over the place at the back. So deep it’s so easy to press and when we do manage to break that, we’ve got three players going forward. El Khanouss who you can tell is trying his heart but has no support, Vardy who is ageing, trying but isolated. Lost count of times we looked to break then went backwards. There’s absolutely no width from us. Hermansen - looks half the player since his injury. Faes - Couldn’t look less interested if he tried. Coady - Talks and tries to be the organiser but doesn’t actually manage to win tackles/aerials. Thomas - He’s actually looked alright to be fair to him but is an easy target for teams I feel. Kristiansen - Less said the better, but one of the worst I’ve ever seen play for us. Justin - He never gives up but constantly getting caught out, constantly giving the ball away in good areas. N’Didi - His feet are a few seconds behind his brain. Soumare - Did ok tonight, needs someone that can play next to him I think. Daka - Useless El Khanouss - Tries and tries to make things happen but the lack of support means he tries too much. Vardy - Isolated. Easy to defend especially now he’s losing that yard and doesn’t make the runs in behind. Comes short to receive the ball but the lack of support is killing that. Nice Cameos from Ricardo and Monga, Mavididi tried but was his usual frustrating self. Buonanotte, another that tries his socks off but in general gives the ball away far too much.

He’s under 18 and it’s a gambling sponsor

Only ever remember FNF. Tickets were like £3? Unless you got some through schools. Felt like a real treat because football was nowhere as accessible back then as it is now. You had MOTD Saturday night, one live game from the football league Sunday afternoon, and a Serie A game on channel 4. Getting to go to the stadium feeling like you were at a proper football match was amazing and back then money was tight for a lot of families also.

It’s the hope that kills you…. But why not! Brilliant start.

We’re all voting for Edouard as POTS aren’t we?

Looking like they wanna get this wrapped up tonight.

Would imagine now that it’s partly due to him having a newborn. But would also imagine his argument would be that it was fine under Enzo. But that’s still not ok because you should be respecting what your current manager is asking. I’m sure we used to have a thing where new players signing had to be within x amount of miles from the training ground.

Agree. The football is actually a fairly decent watch. Plenty of goals and that’s what people want to see.

He was annoying to say the least. The worst shot in the world was made to sound like it was gonna get nominated for the Puskas award.

Well tbh, Forest’s “success” now isn’t as good as what Leicester achieved then. Why would anyone outside Lancashire care about Blackburn winning the league when it happened? Why would anyone outside of Leicestershire care that we won the prem? A lot of people don’t actually care that Forest are having a good season (that’s all it is at the minute, a good season) Pub question or not, it’ll still be the greatest ever league win in the history of football.

9 years apart, not 45 years. In football terms, 9 years is quite recent (let alone it arguably being the greatest league win in the history of football) and even more so is the 4 years ago that we won the oldest knockout cup in the world. “Forest 25” as fantastic as a season as it’s been and the fans should rightly be loving it, come the middle of next season no-one will remember that they finished in champions league spots even a lot of Forest fans. People will remember Leicester winning the league forever. The unfortunate thing for Forest is that having such a good season will only heighten the possibility of the stars leaving. Murillo, Aina, Gibbs-White will all being watched by the bigger boys. And just for arguments sake, come the end of next season and there’s no European football there, having tasted the champions league these players are going to want it more, Riyad Mahrez a prime example of that for you. League form will almost certainly not be as consistent as this season due to the extra games and we’ve seen that first hand ourselves.

2 hours to go lads then we can get out on the piss

Basically freestylers/failed footballers isn’t it. I’m sure you’ll actually see some entertaining football to be fair.

The defence being all over the place would be a worry if it wasn’t the managers first game, and there wasn’t two debutants in there. Let alone that’s nowhere near the first choice back four that we would play. With how low a block Albania played there was always going to be so much more space when they broke than to when we did.

What a touch that was.

People already moaning I guess you don’t understand just how hard it is to play against a real compact low block. Centre halves average position is well inside their half. These games will very much seem similar to now we played under Southgate, only difference being we are moving the ball a lot quicker here.

I mean at least you’ve not announced it globally so the club can’t see.

You had the choice to select where it went.

LCFC cannot ruin this weekend or next if you need anymore help.

Big thing for me too.

I would likely say that you perhaps wouldn’t necessarily have to it would just give you that guarantee should we have a good season towards the back end when everyone will jump on the bandwagon.