• Nottingham_Floristpanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    ...in order to be as good as the best team in the best league in the world, yes.

    After 20+ years in the wilderness, I am afraid I cannot summon the ambition to think we are falling short in any sense. This is where we dreamed of being as we saw Swansea and Reading and Wigan and fucking Leicester and Burnley and Wolves and Brighton and Brentford and every other small-town fucker bloody the nose of the big clubs time after time, season after season. It should have been us and now it is.

    Yesterday was us doing what the history of our club tells us we do - punching way above our weight. Transfermarket tells me their squad is worth more than double ours.

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    I love the fact lots of folks can't cope with the way we play.

    The world has been brainwashed by Pep into thinking you only win by dominating possession and passing the ball around from the back.

    We are showing there are different ways to play the game.

  • trickylens
    3 months ago

    Well. My view would be that financial interests have bought the branding of the EPL as 'exciting' 'fast paced' 'any team can beat any other' and turned it into a spanish dancing competition, where the best squads, from the largest financial powerhouse owners, have an intrinsic built in advantage (from the rules, the officiating, the governance, and the marketing) to ensure that the rich stay richest, and the also rans don't have a chance. People have been conditioned to think that possession stats, completed passes, xG, and the like, are the be all and end all of 'good football'....and it's complete bollocks.

    There has always been more than one way to win a football game. The way we play now is a direct descendent of how Forest played when they were the best in the world. It's absolutely good football - where to me good football involves taking the attributes at your disposal, with team spirit, and application, to maximise what you are as a team.

    You wont see a better game than yesterday...largely because it was two very different sides, both playing to their strengths, and leaving it all out there (as opposed to dicking around with mostly sideways passes to 'probe' without putting the ball at risk). It was a deserved draw...and deeply entertaining, because it was very different sides both trying to be the best version of themselves, rather than conforming to an aesthetic.

    The world has changed though. People don't really like football anymore, it's been rationalised into branding, spreadsheets, and stats. To appeal to a wider demographic who have no idea what they are looking at, and want to be able to bet thinking they have a level of insight.

    Anyway, don't think about it, dumb it down. Who is the best player in the league, are they the best player in the world? Do arse-an-all need a striker? Who is in PSR trouble? Steer clear of the actual football bits wherever possible.

  • chicagopanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    Well you are wrong. I love football and yesterday proved that. I drove my clients mental yesterday as I was trying to catch the game in the minutes between appointments and being utterly glued to the screen. It’s games like those with the atmosphere and the team you really are rooting for giving it a real go and being proud that you have stuck with them through thick and thin. I felt like a child again. It annoyed a lot of people yesterday as I was jumping around like a loon watching and then having itchy feet whilst I was working wanting to get back to the game whenever I could.

    Still buzzing. It was great and I cannot imagine how great I would have felt if we had had actually won because we can mix it and also…. They are fucking scousers and Slot is a mardy twat…

    Chicago: Briefly re-living my youth.

  • Psychobelpanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    Loads of people, non Forest, and plenty of the Scouse commented that it was a great game to watch. Which it was.

  • Simonhelp_outline
    3 months ago

    I know it's been said before but, at £15m, what a bargain Elliott Anderson is. Probably marginally my MotM last night, can do everything - wins the ball, beats players, passes brilliantly and now plays the full 90 regularly. If he can start to get a few goals, he's our next England player.

  • JimShadypanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    Wasn't he about £40m?

  • Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    £35m - if you believe Vlach was worth £20m

  • Jakepanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    The Premier League bigwigs think he is, and that's good enough for me

  • Psychobelpanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    No no no no no!!!
    I want the Champions League.

    We are a team currently playing above our component capability thanks to great management. To an exceptional level. Others, see Chelsea, are less than the sum of their parts. There a good chance that we could finish in the top 4 this year. I wont hold by breath. But next year we will need to strengthen to have a chance of maintaining performance. Which is why I am always interested in how we keep moving forward. We have some great midfielders who realistically are all 8s. We need a 6 who can get the ball down, be unhurried and pass the ball on. Liverpool were excellent in harrying our midfield which meant we couldnt feed the forwards. I look forward to a match fit Sangarre or someone else who fits that bill.
    And a striker.

  • trickylens
    3 months ago

    Just had a chance to catch up with the highlights. Superb run and finish from Wood for the goal, from a perfect ball from Elanga (that player that some of you think does nothing). A textbook example of the sort of goal Harry Kane doesn't score, because Wood has superior movement to ol' deadlegs, who doesn't make that run. Sometimes a team needs that one great goal against the best team in the world, more than a double hat-trick against moldova.

  • 3 months ago

    Featuring 4 penalties.
    Speaking of which he's just scored another penalty, given for a point blank range handball which made the Wolves handball we didn't get look like 3 penalties.

  • trickylens
    3 months ago

    In fairness that clear handball by wolves always looked like a handball. Unless you are a committee of referees. Talking of which, what is the collective noun for a bunch of referees? A gaggle? A baffle? A broomcupboard?

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    Surely a cunt of referees?

  • trickylens
    3 months ago

    I'd rather spend my time with a load of cunts. Than a load of referees. As we are proving on these very pages.

  • BrettWilliamspanorama_fish_eye
    3 months ago

    The ball from Elanga was exquisite - Wood acknowledged the fact in his post-match interview. Didn't need to break stride. The pass was delivered and weighted to absolute perfection. One of the best goals we've scored this season, for me.

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