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Came here to see if anyone else heard. Physically cringed watching the highlights today, those poor sods really are suckers for punishment.

Oh piss off Wood

1-0 to the FFP cheats - the red ones that is Bristol Rovers also ahead though!

I mean, Forest acheived their promotion with a team full of loanees playing out of their skin (Djed Spence and Philip Zinckernackel being prime examples), then instead of making any effort to keep them decided to blow a top-half budget on 10,000 journeymen - not least spaffing £115,000 a week to bring Jesse Lingard to the World Famous City Ground ™️ while unironically trying to claim they 'couldn't financially compete' for the signatures of players happy to play in the second tier the season before. Their transfer business that summer was atrocious. They'd be nowhere near the position they're in now, and probably a comfortable mid table outfit, if they'd made even the slightest effort to keep that promoted squad together. Their model for promotion was sound, and a very smart way to skirt any EFL FFP issues, but relied on being able to stabilise once they got up Unfortunately, they like the smell of their own farts and decided to 'go for it' without the slightest understanding of FFP or its consequences.

Good lord those F*rest fans on Xitter are rattled aren't they? Bringing up a piddly little fine in 2012-13 and the admin situation 20 years ago to explain why they're innocent and we deserve our PL and FA Cup titles stripping. They really are seething that we not only established ourselves in the PL, but went and won the sodding thing, with a squad whose most expensive player cost £8 million, while they've spaffed £300 million + on 61 wastemen for two relegation dogfights. Everton seem very bitter about it too. The deflection is hilarious on their part, given their spending abuse is even more laughable for the return.

I'm thinking of the fans of the two clubs in question and it makes me want it to happen even more.

Game is what it is. Dumb red card but I thought we fought well while admittedly struggling to impose ourselves against them. Unusually lost the battle out wide, yet despite that I don't think anyone did particularly poorly on the wings? Weird one, I can't explain it. I guess form goes out the window during local derbies, as it bloody should, been a while since I've seen us involved in one where it seemed like both teams were up for it. Certainly didn't come away at full time seething and never wanting to see any of them wear the shirt again like I did at F*rest last year - the lads were up for this one, and they'll be hurting, none moreso than KDH who clearly hates them. I have to hand it to their part-time fanbase who showed up purely because it was against us - they made a right racket when they turned it around, probably the loudest I've heard a home crowd. They'll be back to 13,000 and closed stands next week, but I'm sure the DVD of this cup final triumph to rival 1987 is already in production for Christmas. I guess when your claims to fame are a ruined cathedral, Binley Mega Chippy and the noncey vibes of Mr Poppy from the Nativity films, you have to take what you can get. Good luck to 'em.

Fancy another tight but thrilling 3-2 win today with a late winner for us and shithouse celebrating. I want to hear them say it's not fair.

Not sure lobotomies are going to help, there's nothing in there

Oh my god, VAR actually got one right for once. He's run into Adebayo while he's got his back turned and gone down like a sack of spuds. Commentators were SCREECHING for that to be overturned, not even bothering to point out the pathetic attempt by the defence around him to jump for one of the easiest headers they'll ever get. I'm not looking forward to being back in this circus next season, won't lie. Don't even have any skin in the game and i'm still infuriated by it. Glad sense prevailed.

Having witnessed the Vestergaard miracle means it's a clean slate for me. That said, the way we've been setting up means his chances as a classic full-back are going to be limited. Could work in his favour - Ricardo has really grown into his more advanced role for example. But from everything I've seen it's pretty obvious Ricky's ceiling is far higher. He was one of the main offenders in a poor squad with zero backbone and a clanger in the script each game, and I'm not sure being in a Sheffield United squad currently giving that legendary Derby points total a run for its money will have helped that. But there's been clear progress on the mentality front this season that I hope we carry forwards and hopefully impart on Luke while we're at it. I trust Enzo's judgement. Let's see what happens.

safe pair of hands then

booooring should be doable though, bring on round 5.

Last time the idea was mooted, there were a worrying number of people on here and in the wider fanbase who said they'd be in favour of us moving to the Fosse Park area. Usually based on some ill-conceived belief that it'd be easier to park there, which for anyone who's actually been at the weekend will tell you is laughable. Cov (or MK Dons for anyone who's been) should be cautionary tales for anybody who thinks it would be anything but detrimental to the matchday ritual. I guess at least you'd have the Everards brewery nearby for a pint though, who I'm sure would be delighted at the prospect of 30,000 Leicester fans mobbing their bar due to lack of alternatives.

Blackpool away please

Birmingham Ci- oh wait

They're clearly keen to do Derby a favour and avoid picking up 2 more points between now and May.

Aye, fully agree. It's ultimately just sad men with crap lives and a warped perspective of what's funny. We've got our fair share ourselves. I fully expect to see it on show next week in Coventry, unfortunately.

Shout-out the one Liverpool fan in that Twitter thread trying to make it all about them and turn it on us because of the whole 'feed the Scousers' thing. * If ever there was a reason to not rise to it and deprive it of attention and oxygen, that's a perfect example. As others have mentioned, we run the risk of the Streisand Effect kicking in and fans doing it to us purely because they know it gets a reaction out of us. * Though admittedly it could be any club the Scousers would hate if they got given fixtures against them seemingly every Christmas for a decade in a row. It just happened to be us that got given the low-hanging fruit over the course of multiple years.

I seem to remember that one bloke in the gilet at Walsall started off doing this, but the response was to take the ever loving piss out of him and his choice of clothing for the rest of the match. This chubby-cheeked muppet couldn't even commit to using his whole arm like gilet. Teeny tiny finger copters. An opportunity was well and truly missed to make him want the ground to swallow him up, because there's plenty about him to go low for looking at the state of him, from the squirrel on his head to the binbag he seems to be wearing in place of a coat. People that resort to this are pathetic, but the answer is to turn it on them.

du du du tom cannon

We all need to keep slagging off Casadei, he'll score a bagload, that's how these things work

Being told you're backup to the backup keeper should be all he needs to hear in order to be looking for another club this month

winnit