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It's also a potential dress rehearsal for the FA Cup final too. Can see Emery maybe keeping something up his sleeve

They don't sound it

Have no idea how Spurs fans can just sit there and accept this utter pigshit so meekly. There's barely a grumble in the ground despite getting absolutely dicked every other week. They've just seem to have accepted the fact they're fucking awful and almost leaning into it. As an club/entity they're completely spineless

If this shower of wank can coast through to the last 4 of the EL then, honestly, if we end up in it next season we'll win the fucker. These are absolutely fucking gash

Four minutes and thirty three seconds lads

Can't wait to see Spurs phone it in again tonight. They have the unpleasant knack of losing games I want them to win and vice versa

So he's been playing in a completely different 3-5-2 system for a couple of years then? Interesting

They all hate the PL and complain about the corruption, blood money bribes, VAR, 'ticky tacky' football, forrens and small tinpot clubs that are now light years better than they are. Makes you wonder why they're making such a meal of it and moaning about losing. Surely being relatively good in the second division is about as good as it could possibly be for them?

Still got no idea why we haven't just done a series of 1 year deals (on everything) while all this gets sorted. Just renew it each June depending on what the rules are, gradually hiking it up year on year while the PL legal bullshit sorts itself out

You just know both Brighton, Everton and Arsenal will be desperate to throw a stick in our wheels too. Can't think we have many clubs who dislike us more and would love to see us fail, comes with the territory though

Lumping on Forest tomorrow night 17/10 buying money lads

To be fair they were pretty cheap for us too

Hate the phrase but this is the first 'must win' of the season

People are saying we played poorly, and it's true, we did play poorly but I think a lot are underestimating just how good Villa were at pressing us into mistakes and just essentially shutting us down. Playing poorly when in excellent form and meeting one of the best teams in the best division isn't a coincidence, they carved out chance after chance and stopped us from doing what poorer teams couldn't do. There's a decent chance that PSG go on and win the CL but even they lost at Villa just a few days before we did. Villa look the real deal unfortunately and they had they quality and freshness on the bench. No surprise that they clicked it up another gear as soon as the subs came on, their energy changed the game and they scored 2 quick ones to wrap it up and make it look easy

The pressure is definitely mounting on Forest to click back into gear. Not sure they'll be able to do it, they've been outperforming their stats for a while now, and good on them btw, but teams often regress to the mean and they're due a(nother) blip

One person is saying all the fucking time mate...

Not going to criticise Tindall at all for sticking with the same side, we've looked fucking sensational over the last few weeks and he's brought off players so they're not doing 90+ each game either. Winning the games has been the only thing that's mattered recently and to do that you pick your best players as often as you can, it's not like we've got great options off the bench, we've pretty much gone full strength from the off and won the vast majority. Easy to be hyper-critical after the event Today was just a shocker and we lost away to a very, very good team. It's still all in our hands

The only possible reason for bringing him on before Osula is for his experience, nothing else. However, that becomes irrelevant when you take into account how slow he's become and completely detached from the game, he can't even get anywhere near the ball, what's the point?

Looks for all the world like we're just nursing him through to the end of the season, bringing him off as soon as games are decided one way or the other. It's probably a lot more common at this stage of the season than we think and I don't think we've got much choice atm. Just need to rest him and wrap him up and send him out against Ipswich, hopefully we can do a number on them and we can sub him to keep him fresh. We lose him to injury the task of CL gets twice as difficult

PP now only have us as 1/8 to finish top 5 now. Absolutely no need for anyone to start shitting their pants

We've been done, it happens. It was always going to be a tough night and that's exactly how it's panned out, we had one option off the bench they had 5 or 6 and it showed. Shit night, move on and focus on Ipswich

I'd be looking at Murphy for Gordon soon. Either switch Barnes to the right or just like for like, just ask them different questions. Other than that I'm not sure there's a lot more we can do from the bench tbh

Ref is just guessing at this point. Fucking useless and zero consistency from minute to minute

Let's just take a point a piece here eh lads? Then we can aaaall go home, stay friends and everyone's happy

Predicting a hell of a battle in CM tonight. Our 3 vs their 2 with Asensio dropping in to find the spaces. More than winnable if we control that area but they've got genuine quality in the final third and lots of options of the bench