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Class from Lookman there

The decision to start Pope was 100% the right one today IMO. Forest unlikely to press so much where Dubravka's ability on the ball would be needed, and Pope would always be much better at sweeping up Forest's fast breaks. Think previously how badly Dubs got caught out with that against this very team. In the end we never really got exposed in that way first half anyway, and in the second half we 'played' (using the term loosely) a game with Forest dominating the ball which was never really expected at any point.

It is absolutely shambolic for him to come on and do that twice in a row. He's supposed to be an experienced veteran, that's why he's getting the nod over Osula in that situation.

It was a chance to properly flip the goal difference between us and Forest as well, which could make all the difference at the end of the season

That was a disgrace man, jesus, talk about being deflating despite victory

At least it's 3 minutes so it'll only be 4-4

We need fresh blood at CB desperately like. Burn and Schar have been great players for us but their physical decline is going to hit badly in the next 12-18 months Trippier style

Convinced we're fucking this up now

This has been absolute pathetic

Been a bit sloppy this half, just need to settle with the ball for a bit

Just had a look at the combined goals + assist stats for PL, jesus I never realised just how good of a season Salah is having.

If we ever did want to give up on Willock, I'm convinced Forest would sign him. Always plays well against them.

XG 0.99

Conceding the goal we did is so frustrating, as they look very open compared to Fulham and Bournemouth

That's an absolutely horrendous goal to concede. Absolutely ridiculous. Against a team that never throws away leads too, you might as well write the game off.

So is it updated directly by club staff? The logistics of it is fascinating to me. The fact it also covers step 6/NL2 is even more impressive.

No idea how it is updated so quickly live given the level of coverage NL1 has. I would perhaps guess it pulls data from the Twitter accounts.

Yeah most of the postponed fixtures have been away ones I think, not unusual to end up with weird fixture lists like this. If you do pop along to a home game give me a shout as I might be around 👍 On a side note I used this website today, which I've used before for attendances, but never realised how good it was for following lower leagues that aren't on the usual score apps. The way it looks is very deceptive - during the game it had the live scores for NL1 and a live league table: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/northern-league-division-one

Chelsea losing definitely the best outcome, as they have two total gimmes coming up next. Villa have three away games with CL in and around them.

Long trip to Kendal for me today. Kendal man sent off after 6 mins (should have been a pen as well), took till 78th minute for Whitley to get a winner. Just about keeps some very faint hopes of a play off push alive, but not enough games left and too many of them away in reality.

Yes I would say that would be a pretty reasonable bet.

Worth noting there's also an application in to demolish Percy House (The ugly building with Milligans in it). I'd imagine whatever ultimately replaces it will be expected to include a through route onto the rear lane. You can see how the One Strawberry Lane development was required to surface that and make it more inviting with the expectation that the context would soon change.

Yes, has been for ages since those developments were built out, probably 2008ish? Since the Strawberry block was finished it's all been resurfaced and has the feel of a pedestrianised area anyway, and is already closed off on matchdays. This is a pretty logical step to regularising it and doesn't really seem worth of any news articles.

No that's St Andrews St, so I presume that stays open as is for now, but it effectively becomes a dead end so can't be used as a cut through. The context and feel of that road has changed since the One Strawberry Lane development finished and it was resurfaced - so this is just regularising it really.

Worth making clear that's Strawberry Lane (running north to south past the strawberry) rather than Strawberry Place which is the main road along past the Gallowgate.