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Pope!

Bruno and Joelinton having a shocker. Hope ASM has trouble with the kits, otherwise inexcusable. Botman has been solid and Caicedo looks to be at least as good as Bissouma was.

Took a deflection, did really well there.

Fucking hate those high boot fouls with no contact, the fuck is Wilson supposed to do there?

Kita are still clashing ffs.

What did Digne do wrong on the OG?

I thought Patterson looked really good last week and I'm not ready to write off Mykolenko yet either. Striker is clearly the most obvious need imo.

Onana looked sharp there.

Why? They are a really good team.

Soon 33 year old Jack Colback was their MotM in their season opener in front of our eyes but they shouldn't be signing players.

Nah, it's even more a reason for them to sign players. Everyone wants us to get rid of our Championship cloggers but some are making fun of Forest when they are doing exactly that.

They also had squads that had recently been in the PL while Forest got promoted mostly thanks to good loan signings.

It’s how many points we should have gathered according to expected goals scored and conceded. In 2022 we were 10th IIRC, for the whole 21-22 season we were 16th. Basically means we didn’t ’deserve’ to be as high in the table as we were based on those stats.

I don’t think 10th would be seen as going backwards. That’s right around where we were in expected points for the latter half of the season despite the massive points tally. The teams around those places have all strenghtened themselves too outside of Brighton (who probably have £100m to still spend on this window) and Leicester. And if Leicester sell Fofana for £80m they have money to buy a new CB and a RW and are arguably better off as Fofana didn’t really play last season. It wouldn’t be ideal but I don’t think finishing behind West Ham, Leicester and Brighton/Villa would be seen as a failure by any of our players. Only possible problem is that if Bruno keeps up this form one of the massive clubs (like Real Madrid who have an aging CM group) could turn his head but that could happen just as easily if we finished 7th instead of 10th.

i don’t think it would happen that quickly. If we miss Europe for the next two seasons then I could see Bruno probably wanting a new challenge. The rest aren’t really good enough (maybe ASM or Joelinton if they take the next step) or are getting too old to have much demand for them (Trippier, Wilson, Schär). 8th-10th this season and imo we should be fine to build on from that.

It's a really good signing for them imo, still only 29 too.

I got his autobiography as a prize for being the best defender on a 5-a-side tournament few years ago. Only read the Newcastle chapter and the cunt was very complimentary of Pardew.

Or bring back Colo to play as a CDM!

That was actually a good performance from WBA tbh.

Really disappointed with Watford, that was a grim display against a Bruce team.

They lost Godfrey to a serious injury and Mina had to be subbed off too due to an injury. Keane seems to be completely out of picture now after the terrible season he had.

They played four at the back with new signing Collins and Kilman. Coady more suited to a five at the back formation. Have Boly and couple of youngsters too. Probably would like to keep him as a backup but allow him to go to another club as a thank you for his time at Wolves maybe?

The Jorginho style penalty takes a massive amount of practice and skill to get right tbf.

Thank you, great read!

Not a bad time to play them as they most likely don't have time to bring in anyone with the Cucurella money. Win would be amazing and would be happy with a draw.