Points make prizes. (A match thread)

Under the Friday night lights, the plucky upstarts from Nottingham take on the terrifying Tractor boys in a battle for Premier league mediocrity.

Old boy Liam Delap comes with a massive 50 million pound chip on his shoulder and delivers the goods with a bruising performance that makes Ed Sheeran question his politics.

The Austrian worried about a possible French riot in his club brings MGW back early from his injury and ruins him.

Regardless we win 2-0 and wonder what all the fuss is about. (the Massive amount of chances we miss..). VAR decides that we are bigger than Ipshit and give us favourable decisions and we all wonder if the PGMOL have turned the page... (Newsflash - they haven't)....

Or alternatively we shit the bed and lose and Cesc Fabregas rolls up in January to save us...

Chicago: Starting the weekend early.

If we win, we go 11th and spend the rest of the weekend dropping down the league. So we can rule that out.

As I will be watching David Threlfall in King Lear this evening, we are likely to win.

Forest pride or VAR prejudice? Will McAtee get the run of the (Mansfield) park as Storm Austen batters Portman Road? I could go on…

Anyway, I’ll be there with Mrs Charlie and one of my sons. 3-0 to us is my prediction.

I fear I will be watching Oliver Freefall.
Though hopefully Storm Austen makes Delap play like the (Forty) Six Million Dollar Man and has a Majors influence on proceedings without trying to Fawcett.

Meanwhile a year ago today we were beating Porto 2-0. Sean Dyche football genius.
Ahem.

I will be visiting the Yayoi Kusama installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario before it leaves next week. Might see the first half. Might not bother.

This is the least interested I can remember being in Forest. It's a slow motion car crash and I don't really want to see it happen. I'm pretty sure we're going down this year.

Thanks Donny Ewok...

We are not going down. We are also not going to set the world on fire. We will bore the pants off the Premier league to a mid table or slightly less than mid table finish. The only excitement this season might be Spuds imploding into a million different pieces or Taiwo ending up top scorer at Coventry. Or Citeh fucking off to League 2. Anyway, back to the match. We win tonight.

Chicago: Starting a rally.

I'm known for being very negative about Forest, but I don't get how you come to that conclusion.

Our performances have been far superior to our league position, which will surely start to even out over a longer time period, all things being equal.

External to us, it seems pretty likely City are going down, then Sunderland, Palace, Fulham are all really struggling. That's before even considering that Hull, Ipswich and Coventry are unlikely to keep up their blistering starts.

I may change my mind if our performances start to fall off a cliff, but currently we're playing like a mid table team who hasn't had the rub of the green, not a relegation team.

Lol rub of the green, the desperation cry of the drowning sports fan looking for anything to hold onto before his head goes under.

It looks like a team that's deeply uncohesive, full of individuals all capable of producing more than they are, put into roles that don't make sense, and watching inferior players start every week because they're mates with the manager.

It's a fucking disaster and I really think it's not turning around. I think we're going to see multiple key players want out in January, including but not limited to MGW and Murillo. I suspect they'll get what they want as well if Glasner is still here, although hopefully Marinakis will have come to his senses long before then.

Experience says that the manager would lose that challenge.

Any news on whether MGW is fit?

I suspect Russ needs a blow job

He defo should have at least done that God botherer up the bum hole.

He was in the best place for one last weekend as he was at the day spa. Think of that what you may...

Chicago: Whistling whilst I work....

Stop talking filth and give me the early team news, Ingo. MGW fit?