Dan

Another wank first half. He's got to fix that.

Well Leicester v Coventry was a game that happened.

Soumare isn't getting in the team over Iouga or Dodo.

It's one of them that you could probably gloss over if they didn't have previous for giving out stupid contracts for nothing. I remember all of the same being said about the Choudhury deal. Four years is ridiculous to be honest. I've really seen nothing to convince me he could be a PL left back, and if we're giving four years, then absolutely that should be the case.

Reckon we're in the top 5 worst in the country for doing this. Leeds 1st though obviously.

Find it interesting how many are using a few OK games against bottom half Championship sides as justification for four years.

Shades of the Choudhury deal a few years ago.

Just watching it now. God I loved our style of play so much, I'll never want us to play another way.

This is what I can't understand about Forest at times. I don't get how some of them don't see our desperation to beat them and it rub off. It's the same with this here.

Bloody knew it'd be 0-0 Hellas Verona fans singing our national anthem at the end there.

Vazquez is a proper throwback type of player. He'll set some up for Vardy this season.

Absolutely primed for a Vardy 0-1 this.

This'll be a brutal game I reckon

I'd go one better and get a game in, there'll always be one of them at home and it's quite easy to get tickets.

Yep. Their performances mostly been very good and should probably have more points than anybody. I'm probably being unfair on Stoke here who have already beaten Birmingham and Southampton, and have had a surprisingly good start.

Funnily enough it isn't even that for me, they can score lots of goals but the QPR game was a genuine freak where basically everything they touched went in. They created something like treble as many chances in yesterdays game and ended up only scoring the once. They were unlucky they didn't win yesterday by about 2/3 goals, it would've been a total freak if they'd lost the game. But like I say nobody hugely convinces me, they aren't perfect and they look like they'll give goals up. I'm not quite convinced Middlesbrough, Stoke or Bristol City keep up what they're doing but the lack of anything from most of the expected favourites is opening the door somewhat. Find us quite hard to judge. If we'd been playing our best team in these first few games, on our performances and level of opposition I'd put us as very unlikely to go up, but I don't think we've been anywhere near as strong as we're capable of yet so I'm giving a bit of a benefit of the doubt here. We absolutely have to improve though, we won't keep getting away with playing like this even in this league.

I thought it was very obvious in 2023/24 we'd go up even this early in. Can't say that for anybody this time. Worryingly I think Coventry have been arguably the best.

Their earliest winner this season has been 83rd minute

Oh that is absolutely gutting for Burnley.

Doesn't reflect well on us but glad that the promoted trio are giving it a go - burying the myth that it's an impossible task (which was just nonsense to cover up for poor performance). This must be one of the lowest scoring PL weekends I remember. 15 goals in 9 games so far.

Likewise but I do find the Winks situation a bit odd - he's in this half way house sort of situation where he'll not start him seemingly (surely) on principle but he will bring him on. At this point I think we've got to bite the bullet and play him if he's stopped playing up. Could understand not starting James yesterday but no excuse from next week. That midfield has to make a difference. Can't bare Skipp/Soumare any longer.

He's the best at making in game changes we've had in a while but he's got to make a radical change to this XI. I'd be looking at minimum 4 changes against Cov. Extremely worrying for me if we see Skipp/Soumare ever again.

Will finish no higher than 15th.

I can only assume it's to do with the lack of other options most of them have had rather than because he's any good. The own goal was unlucky really, but as a general rule this Skipp Soumare midfield. I really think you would be hard pushed to find a worse midfield pound for pound in the world.

Really do wonder if this is a chance for someone like a Bristol City tbh. Not a single team in the division looks convincing. Not one.