It is quite concerning to me that I am agreeing with Tricky. Mostly because he's usually wrong. But we do look like a side that is potentially a good team.
I just hope we are going to reach that point sooner rather than later, because Russ is being a right knob and he desperately needs proving wrong.
One of us normally is then.
I have never ruled out the possibility of it getting better. It just feels right now like 'jam tomorrow'. Again. There have been so many 'jam tomorrow' moments over the years.
Jam quota received remains painfully low. I'll still hope. And watch. And woot. And scoff.
But Friday night games whilst on the piss are painful. Last season's 2pm Sunday games with a post-Saturday hangover and an air of indifference were perfect.
You don't have to be hungover to watch Forest, but it helps.
Anyway, 2 episodes in of Last One Laughing Halloween Special. Not exactly a stellar line up.
Mrs Rave is not responsible for casting.
Glasner is a dogshit manager. How the fuck he didn't take Milenkovic off after either being injured or not bothered is beyond me. We didn't he change the tactics. Chris wood came on with 90 seconds left for Delap. I mean what the fuck does Glasner do apart from stand there and look gormless. How about being pro-active and take the game to ipswich who were there for the taking. They will be down there. Regardless of another hideous VAR decison whcih is starting to look like a conspiracy. Absolute stonewall red card.
I mean you have MGW telling Glasner about tactics. HE DOESN'T FUCKING DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We aren't getting relegated but it does like look we will struggle. This season is gone already.
Incredibly incredibly frustrating to watch. If we had wingers and two forwards pretty sure we would have pissed that. Poor old Aina.
He's better than Ange but that's about it....
Chicago: Very very very cross.
Well we're creating lots of chances that players tend to score for other teams. So presumably your ire is with the quality of players finishing rather than the coaches ability to instruct them how to create the chances?
This is totally mental. Let's break it down.
after fucking up for their equaliser, you'd have immediately subbed Milenkovic? It's a good job you don't manage people
take the game to Ipswich? What does this mean in your head? We had more than double their shots, and more than double their XG. Glasner did "take the game" to them.
An unbiased view of the game,:
That was a pathetic attempt to rectify a mistake. Was he injured still? Needs subbing. Absolutely stopped and walked and gave up. Needs subbing. Chances of it happened again looked high because he didn’t even bother putting the effort in. He deserved to be subbed. Either for diomande or for an extra man in midfield
Quoting XG is stupid. What a pathetic argument. How about the eye test? Getting extra attackers on or an extra midfielder gives us at least an extra man in their box. They looked devoid of attacking threat other than that absolute cock up
Nothing changed. We just marched headlong onto a stalemate.
I have managed many many teams and just letting his lack of effort slide is on the management. Or he is injured. Either way something should have been done.
You could even frame it with we are trying something else and today is not your day. Maybe you should have watched the same feed I do. He’s a big boy he would have accepted it.
Also glad to see Dan N’Doye falling over again when he didn’t against Arsenal.
Nice to watch our manager fiddle whilst Rome burns.
Delap was fine.
Chicago: Not having it.
The Arsenal miss can only be explained in one way - why would he cut back from his strong foot to his weaker one when he had all that time? His stronger foot is his injured knee - he obviously doesn’t trust it (yet?)
I dunno mate, you're the one who said £50M will be ace with a bit of coaching so you tell me. Is the problem that he's shit, or the coach?
You'd think £50M would know that, no? Anyway, isn't the justification for why he's not actually shit something to do with his ability to create chances for someone, if not for himself? Seems like he's not super good at that either.
Who are you picking out that we could have bought for that money that you would rather have?
When you buy a coach, you don't also buy the players he was working with (apart from a few), so it takes development time. Which is what you are seeing.
Of course you know all this, it's just that for some reason you've decided to pretend to be the worst sort of man baby instead.
50m in the context of current football prices, for a number nine, is around an Ian Wallace level.
He runs. He kicks. Have you never seen a striker take on a shot that wasn't on? We need to get you one of those facing the pitch seats.
You don't have to like him. Or forest. Or trying to be more than a parked bus and a hail Mary. You don't have to be interested in development. You can hate everything that you see.
That's fine. It's just not feeling like it's doing you any good. And you are largely wrong.
Why are you focusing on Delap, there were plenty of missed chances by lots of players in the team. Why aren't the rest of them capable of finishing chances that the managers system has worked on creating for them? Top of my head ...
Milenkovic header
Murillo header
Murillo volley
Cunha volley
CHO shot
MGW shot
Schlager shot
You'd reasonably expect at least one or two of these to have ended in goals.
Glasner coached a team last night to a level of performance that should have resulted in , to my eyes, a minimum of 2 and probably 3 goals. Compounded by his CB laying one on a plate for Ipswich's best player.
Using your eyes, how many decent chances do you think we made in the game?
Maybe. I think he was just trying to be calm? But you could be right. It was an awful decision, he turned back into the traffic when he should have been opening up the other way.
Professional football writers seem to be watching the same games I am. If our players could finish chances we'd be flying high.
