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I can well imagine our comms team doing something similar if we'd been promoted last season. Let them have their fun, I'd say. It's pretty harmless. Their fans have have had a far worse journey back than we did.

In all likelihood, Coventry are going to get dispatched to the Championship having had their arses handed to them multiple times over the next nine months. They could do a Sunderland of course, or this anticipatory bit now might just be the best it gets for them.

Live and let live, I say.

I thought the Coventry thing was perfectly fine. Yiu expect them to do video of them figuratively bending over and parting their arse cheeks?

Based on no research whatsoever, i can see them scraping by. Lampard seems to have quietly gone about his work.

I don't know enough about the players they've signed, but do agree with others on here that it feels a bit Vincent Kompany and Burnley 2023/24.

The national media have clearly decided that Coventry might just be OK because of Frank Lampard. They've been outside the top tier for a quarter of a century and so everything is stacked against them. I'd actually have Ipswich ahead of them in terms of a club that was at the level two years ago and has spent an extra £150m trying to build a squad to finish 17th.

If you're pinning hopes on Taiwo Awoniyi to keep you up, the squad deficiencies would appear quite clear.

It still feels to me like getting to 40 points as quickly as possible is, as ever, Forest's primary target. Coventry taking points at The Emirates is suboptimal, I'd say, given they're more likely to be our rivals this season than Arsenal.

Coventry start reasonably well then a defender tries to be clever rather than clear his lines. One-nil to the Arsenal.

Frank is far more experienced than Kompany.
Taiwo kept us up.
Ipswich have Gary O’Neil.
I think Cov will be okay.
Hull, Ipswich and a surprise for me (Leeds, Palace, Sunderland, Fulham?)

2-0 down. This is so tough for promoted teams. In the blink of an eye, the game is gone - happened to us so many times in our first season.

One becomes three or four in the space of 20-odd minutes and you're done.

3-0 early in the second half.

Here comes Taiwo!

I was talking to an Ipswich fan yesterday and he was really happy to have O'Neil instead of McKenna. I was proper surprised, but he assured me that was the consensus.
Wild.

So no goal or assist for Tzolis. Just need a stoppage time consolation to wipe out a double clean sheet to well and truly welcome Fantasy Football back.

Maybe this is the year that one of Bournemouth or Brentford finally fuck off. We can hope.

Seems harsh.
It’s clearly accidental.
But the rule has been in place since summer 2017.
Why wasn’t Kemar Roofe punished for his very deliberate handball to score v Forest in 2018/19?

Clever enough to do it in a week when there was premier league football, so the wider public didn’t give a fuck about the championship.

Hull-0?
No, Hull-1.