toontownman

He has turned into older Shola minus any finishing quality.

Some of our leaders couldn't even up their game when we needed it against Brighton today. The malaise at times was wild. We have a hugely damaging mental block now and public perception that we are inconsistent bottlers that only turn up when bothered. Hope Eddie can use that as motivation and the players react. We have had some great performances against teams like Arsenal. It's in us but too often we roll over. Gordon is a big loss but losing Isak would be a game ender.

Willock has to remember how to play football sometime right? Maybe it's worth a roll of the dice that it finally clicks. It's been tough for him, he need games to find form, doesn't justify starting when he comes on and loses more confidence. He does offer pace but the end product hasn't been there like Barnes over the past year.

Not good enough to be number one, but also not any worse than Pope.

Big chance for Barnes this. He hasn't taken the chances so far. I'd go as stupidly reactive enough to say this is his last chance. Could see us shifting Barnes in the summer, unless Gordon is off. He has to show more to his game. Glad he will get a dress rehearsal before Liverpool.

Absolute sickener.. Said it in the Liverpool thread. We can't be surprised, ultimately in comparison to the top 4 we are shit but with potential. It's an antagonizing wait seeing how close we are to breaking through but being held back from getting the players we need to push on. Players like Schar, Murphy and others aren't top 6 players. We know Eddie will bring the best out of them but we can't be surprised when they give the ball away in dangerous areas and show their limitations as much as we can't go crazy with expectations when they are playing well above their station. We are where we are. We don't have a squad to compete on more than one potential front with consistency. It's getting better but it's an incredibly slow process. It's going to be ripped apart in the summer, even more so if we don't make Europe which is definitely possible. We could also sneak into CL it's hard to predict when we are so inconsistent.

Nothing new learned here. We are shit, but we have potential. We are still a league away from the top few teams in terms of depth and consistency of form/mentality. Again nothing new. We created chances but remain largely toothless. Especially without Isak. An absolute mountain to climb for the cup final to win. We simply don't have their winning mentality when it counts. It is what it is.

Could be referring to the game.. or the commentary.

Reminds me of the city game. Letting them cut us apart. We do look threatening on the break. When we get the ball once every couple of minutes lol

Fuck me Betting inquest surely. What a howler.

On the upside, Osula should finally get a good 90 minutes after Wilson injures himself again.

I T K ....well, almost.

Hate we have to play them before the final. Just feels lose lose. If we get a positive result it just motivates them more for the final. If we lose it's a boost for them and negative for us. Glass half empty though. Time to put on my big boy pants and stop shitting the bed about it. It is what it is. lol

He barely put a foot wrong today. When he got in trouble he worked his way out. Really, calm, composed performance and showed pace a couple of times I didn't think he had. Cracking touch and finish for the goal. Such an exciting prospect for us and hopefully a ton more to come.

We were absolutely thirsting to let Forest come back into this game. Absolutely atrocious second half. Fine margins though. Had schars header dipped in. It likely would have been a quieter second half. We don't help ourselves out though sometimes and the arse falling out of the majority of our players when the glimmer of a chance of forest coming back into it was terrifying. Credit to Forest for the second half. Nuno neutralized pur wide play and adjusted to Eddie's plan. Again we didn't have an answer to plan A not working. Job done though and a much needed 3 points to give us a glimmer of hope for top 4/5 again.

He is an absolute beast size wise for his age. One to watch.

Hall was better in the second half but was absolutely torn to shreds in the first half. He had one decent footrace and tackle then a good shielding ball moment, which is more than the other two.

Close call between him Hall and Tripps. And not prone to passing the ball to the other team in dangerous places..Ideally not at all, lol.

We haven't been properly competitive in any of the 3 cup finals in my lifetime. Like today Manure were there for the taking last time and we couldn't get through the mental jump, albeit with injury problems and the goalkeeper debacle. It's a mental block though and Liverpool, like Man City are usually our kryptonite.

Fucking embarrassing to even ask for that Schar.

So lazy from Gordon ffs.

I feel sometimes it's a bit of an over comfortability of not overconfidence that we can find our way back into a game because we have in the past. A counter will come eventually and we create chances. Think is if we could convert our chances more consistently the previous year and a half we would have won a trophy. We are inconsistent when it counts the most.

Should have brought someone on already imo. Not even sure everyone on the pitch knows how unacceptable this performance have been and still a couple just sauntering around invisible. So poor.

Feel for Willock. He can't do anything right at the moment.