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Interesting to see how he gets on as I understand that McPhee is supposed very highly rated as well.

Also think there was a handball by one of the Forest defenders in the first half - clearly moved his hand out from his body towards the ball.

That video of the player being told he's going to be a dad by his teammates 20 days ago is just devastating to watch.

The difference between us and Norwich in 6th is greater than Norwich to 23rd place.

Always thought Bruce is one of those managers who isn't actually as bad as people like to make out. Always has this reputation as a joke of a manager, but his record is reasonably good. Memory could be failing me, but he leaves most teams in better shape than he found them.

Not sure that disagreeing with you means people don't understand football.

Yeah - his sprinting speed is good, but he quite often seems to be in the wrong position to utilise his speed when someone's attacking him.

Don't see it to be honest - I think his positioning is pretty suspect and he struggles against pacey wingers (although in fairness most full backs do).

Blanking out last season then? He didn't do that badly last season. He should have scored more but at 21 he scored 9 goals. The same as Rondon and Benteke, two fewer than Pelle and one more than Rooney and Bojan. I suspect he compares fairly well on a goals to minutes ratio as well.

Spot on.

Playing it pretty fast and loose with the word 'defend' there. To listen to people talk about his defensive ability, you'd think he's the next Maldini.

Just wow - went from the pits of despair when it was 1-3 and I was stuck in the office dealing with a difficult client to absolute elation. Don't even care that I'm still working. Amazing.

Get the fuck in!!!!!

Would be hilarious if he goes - everything he hoped for just gone in an instant of greed.

Never really got why people thought he was any good - he's never been anything more than mediocre at best. As for his hard man image - the bloke is a coward as far as I'm concerned.

Can't think of two more reprehensible characters to have blighted our club to be honest.

Brilliant!

Decent point, as I never saw Pele except on old vids, and Maradona was past it by the time I paid attention to football. He was a hasbeen playing against Australia in 1993 and a drug cheat at the 94 World Cup. But to use this notion and go back to HTT's point that Shearer was a better CF than Ronaldo (!), I'd suggest that there were half a dozen or more strikers in my lifetime better than Wor Al. Apart from Ronaldo, there's Van Basten, Gullit, Weah (admittedly only for 2-3 seasons), Batistuta, Henry - and that's before getting to the debatable ones. Think Guillit is debatable given that they are very different types of forward. I wouldn't say peak Weah is better than peak Shearer and I reckon Batistuta and Shearer are about the same level.

Yep.

I know it means virtually nothing in a game, but it was interesting to see that he was easily our best striker of the ball in the shooting warm up drills they were doing.

Very weird feeling - absolutely loving winning matches again and the general optimism that having Rafa generates, but at the same time part of me just wants the season to end and make sure we get up.

This guy is an absolute revelation - he's really intelligent player and should probably be one of the first names of the teamsheet.

Very direct and not afraid to run at a full back - which makes a refreshing change.

Really hope we have a good cup run this season - I know the priority is getting back up but would be great to get far in one of the cups.

Might be a bit small time - but it really annoys me that West Ham, Man City and Liverpool have bigger stadiums than us now. Came to terms with Arsenal, but don't like this new turn of events.