115 blue bottles standing on a wall

Half right.

At this point I'm hoping we can get above Spurs to stay up.

Alternatively we’ve been very good v Liverpool and Man City, finished better at Brighton and had our best win of the season at Fenebache. The home tie just proved what we all know - the squad depth is poor.

Yep. I’m much more worried about West Ham now. But slightly more hopeful about us.

Leeds aren’t out of it yet, either. (I know they have a nice run of home games that ought to get them out of trouble but…)

West Ham do have a habit of playing teams at the right time. Not sure Fulham will be kind enough to rest 6 players when we play them.

Just about recovered from last night. The drama. the Passion.
2-2 was the right result and whilst it's a shame Lana and Seb have gone home I'm looking forward to seeing what Gareth and Anthony can do in the quarter final.
But enough about Masterchef - how did Forest do in their away day strategy meeting in Manchester? Apparently Anderson and MGW put on some sort of power point presentation?

For all everyone wanking off about Leeds they are only 3 points above. There seems to be this prevailing wind in the media that because the home fans are noisy and they were big in the 70s they aren't going down. Sounds familiar.

Managed to get tickets amongst the home fans opposite our lot, who were magnificent all game. What a tedious crowd the City fans are. Which is why the boy returned to the Forest fold. A proper gritty performance. Frustrating that we couldn't keep hold of the ball at times and too much of the passing was wayward, even bearing in mind the effective press. Really difficult sitting on our hands when the goals went in. Someone commented on a what's app group that Gibbs Whites goal was ridiculous. Didn't realise how much so till we got home. Was in a great position to see Anderson's goal from behind and the shape on the ball. Exactly what we didn't expect. The Citeh moaning was louder than their cheering. Felt heartened other than we have no tactics.

There's a tendency to assign too much importance to gaps that can be overcome with a couple of wins (and they are now only one win ahead of us and West Ham). But they still have to play Brighton, Brentford, Burnley and Wolves at home.

To me Spurs seem in the worst position mentally. No one at the club expected them to be in a relegation fight. Igor has come in and lost two games badly. Their game against Palace tonight is massive as another poor performance and I can see the fans turning on the new manager. Then they have Liverpool away before they play us as well as Champions League distractions.

Leeds have the underdog mentality as well as the home support. West Ham have reasonable form and we have better performances v Liverpool and City. The away game at Spurs could be interesting.

Too used to easy, on-a-plate success, is what it is. You sensed that inside and outside the ground at Wembley last year. They simply turn up expecting to win, especially against lesser opposition.

The home fans didn't even seem that excited by Rodri's goal, which was odd given the obvious importance of City winning last night. It clearly meant a lot to the players, but less so the fans.

I've not been to the Etihad but it looks pretty soulless.

I have no idea what went on in training etc. but if playing Sun Thurs Sun is tiring, wouldn't running till you drop on Tuesday in between be even more tiring?

Pretty sure I read that the players' complaint was that they were tired going into matches because of the running.

Indeed. It's not too bad next week as we have this weekend off but the following week we could really do with resting 5/6 players away in Denmark. If course that likely means we will lose. I wonder what pressures the managers have been put under to do well in the Europa League.