The Doctor

and there's the sucker punch.

and that should be delivered Bruyne off for the dive and the late tackle, not booked for either...

Bilal sending De Bruyne back to boxing day with that, lads different gravy.

Soumare has been one of our better players this past month, I think he's a bit too similar to winks, playing 5 yard passes, getting it and immediately laying it off, but he's not an issue to address assuming limited funds in a difficult window to work

New RB, LB and LW needed, but we're not as far off as I feared last weekend with Fraud, and under Cooper.

Wouldn't call it a Stolarcyk error so much as a lapse of concentration from the entire defence but yea pretty much

playing well but carrying two very out of form players due to poor squad building from Rudkin and co. I don't think we're too many signings off survival

FA wanted their Christmas party so decided they'll deal with it later.

linos on the sherry, whats that flag going up against Vardy for?

so, there's another yellow the ref hasn't bothered with

injuries have finished him. player that built around athleticism can come back from one serious injury but to pick up another one within like 3 games of coming back (because Rodgers mismanaged his comeback) typically ruins a player

it wasn't an absolute howler, **** me have you ever played in goal before? you'd want to get it round the corner, his wrists are too firm so it's back out rather than diverted, but he's done it right in pushing it wide and leaving a bad angle for anyone following in. But, from any angle really if you're allowed to get a free shot away from 8 yards you're in trouble, because the defence hasn't followed in.

it's not fantastic keeping sure, but he's pushed it far enough out that the right back should be favourite or at least in the picture to challenge the winger following up

against the run of play a bit, but again, where's JJ to follow that in?

cutting through them when we're calm on the ball, this is promising at least

best team available but shows the need for investment in the full back slots

The summer before though, the flops (and I think it's harsh to call Doyle that when he looked fine pre injury) are the loanees, the u21s squad member (much as this site doesn't want to hear it on cannon). the only one signed permanently to be a first team member who didn't work is Coady, and looking at the alternatives we had to each of them: Hermansen -> Ward Coady - we lost Amartey, Evans and Cags, he's better than any of the u21s that were behind Faes and Vestergaard Doyle - Kristensen walked out on loan because he didn't want to play that system, our other left back options were right backs on the other side Winks - we lost tielemans and Maddison, the cm options were KDH and Praet Casadei - as winks Mavididi - no wingers outside of the u21s having lost Barnes Fatawu - better than final season Albrighton Cannon - one for the future but better than the rest of the youth team that would have to cover vardy in January all made sense and filled in weak spots. All were priority positions having lost the majority of players that could play there (Mav, Winks, Coady, Casadei, Doyle) or a position we didn't have a single player for the season before (Hermansen) compare that to this season: Golding - tit for tat psr fiddle, we won't judge Okoli - I'll grant, I think he's better than Faes BDCR - not an improvement on any of the wingers we had, doesn't offer anything extra that McAteer doesn't Ayew - as BDCR besides the handful of goals, and even then he's a forward who gets booked more regularly than he scores Skipp - not an improvement on Winks, Ndidi or Soumare BEK - undeniable that we were missing someone of that skillset Buonanotte - as BEK Edouard - not an improvement on Vardy or Daka, signed a whole month after Daka went out injured Skipp, Ayew and BDCR cost near half our budget for the summer and weren't necessary. Edouard you could almost forgive if he'd been in earlier and a 6 month loan as a definitive second choice to cover Dakas injury period, instead we waited til Daka was fully on the mend to bring him in. None really improved on what we already had besides BEK and Facundo, and similarly, besides BEK and Facundo, none were any really priority positions when we had clear need at right back with Ricky and JJs injury history and at left back with only Kristensen. like, you can forgive flops if the signing made sense on paper. much as I'm one of the major daka apologists on here, it's fair to call him a bit of a flop but the signing made sense, we needed a heir to Vardy given a couple of seasons as understudy/job sharing before supplanting him. not worked but the plan made sense. what even is the plan with Skipp or Ayew?

he's a Nottinghamshire MP but I think he's too busy complaining about the woke England team having black players in it to support a team.

idk, I think old 30p is lightyears more intelligent than the average forest fan

remarkable how we briefly became a model club with Pearson and the remnants he left behind based on the concept of marginal gains and using analytics, sports science etc to build a team capable of punching above it's weight and yet our fans are still this luddite about it all

Pictures of him in the concourses doing some of his classic rustling celebrations... I can get onboard with it.

yea, stoke fans I know suggest he's been pretty much anonymous outside of that 4 goal game v Pompey.

the game where Ward pointed out where to put his shot for Chilwell and then jumped under the shot from Havertz? The one that was finally bad enough for him to get dropped... yea, I remember that.

Foxestalk, going OTT about their chosen scapegoat? Never.

Covers still at Port Vale isn't he?