Dr Jinx

This time last year we’d just been overrun by West Ham after taking an early lead. Steve Bruce was being Steve Bruce and we were clinging onto the hope of a takeover by a thread. The fitness in the squad was like amateur level. It was as grim as you could imagine. Then this man came in and has sorted the whole mess out and is quickly turning us into a competitive side once again.

Joelinton is like his personal security guard too.. it’s like he’s got carte blanche to do whatever the fuck he wants. All we need now is an upgrade on that right side of the field.. we need some pace in the middle.

I remember him dispossessing Bruno once or maybe twice, but then did fuck all with it. He’s not quite as small as I remember, but maybe that ginger Afro on his head adds a few inches. I used to utterly detest him but with some hindsight, and cunts like Steve Bruce still existing, it’s fairly mild really and I don’t wish the lad any ill other than to have another crap game against us later in season.

Yeah I’ve been watching him closely, been such a beast of a defender over the years, his positional sense is still top notch but he’s definitely lost a few yards.

Godfrey fucked. Jem Rodney on. Golden

He makes everything look so easy. Never panics. He did those little dinks with the ball up in the air to make a show of a few Forest players. He’s got the lot and we need to match his ambition because he could literally play for any club he wanted. You pay the 50m to buy his mate to keep him happy ☺️

He will have to bide his time a little, I suspect Eddie Howe didn’t want some of the more competitive clubs to be able to scout us with him in the strongest side as he will make a difference.

Magnificent. We didn’t really have to do too much, rarely troubled. Our back line looks so comfortable against opposition like this. And what was the story with the Forest manager? Looked like he was gurning throughout the game. If he popped a few yokes before the game, well fair play ?

Letting them back into it a bit.. why?

We’re just fucking with them now

Wow!!!!

Burn has done alright to be honest.

You really want Wilson to be running onto those Bruno through balls, Miggy always has to check to his left foot, slows everything down.

Forest have given us far less to worry about than I’d thought to be honest. I agree with someone’s earlier comment, we could do with them pushing us more, as we don’t seem to know what to do with all that possession.

So was Lewis. Neither will play much if at all.

I agree, for the internet types it’s another day with no activity but they won’t be doing anything to disrupt things before the match tomorrow. I’d say there’ll be another bid by Monday.

He kept that quiet during his press conference, the beautiful little weasel ?

There will be more news on this but I’d bet a tenner that nothing will happen now until after the match has been played, they won’t do anything to distract the players beforehand.

It’s a very easy solution for Howe, throw him in first few games, either start or as a sub and just see how he gets on. If he’s not ready yet it’ll be obvious and then there’s time to find him a good loan move. But I suspect he’s more than ready. Physically he’s spot on and obviously has skill. I think he just needs a run in the side and to get an understanding going with his teammates, that’s all that was missing really from his pre season performances. Id get more enjoyment out of seeing this kid become the next big thing over buying ready made. So signing someone like Maddison would set him back a year or two (unless he got a good loan move)

There’s nothing to suggest that we were ever interested in the player, in fact Eddie Howe when asked directly about the player (and being left out of the squad for their game) said that it was nothing to do with us. He wants to bring in players who will improve us.

I think we’re in pretty good shape despite the need for another 1 or 2 forward or attacking players. If we have to start the season as we are I still think we’ll win far more games than we’ll lose. It’s like having a very respectable hifi system, you’ve reached a point where it sounds really good but you’re curious about how far you can push it, now you’re looking at an interconnect cable that costs more than your amplifier and speakers that cost almost as much as what your car is worth. In football terms though, it’s the difference between top 6 and top 10, it could even be the difference of challenging for top 4 if it’s like last season and those supposed big teams underperform again.

I’m not going to get hysterical over some random tweet but yes that’s been hinted at that it’s a possibility that he’s been after a better contract. I don’t see this as being the case. 1) If that was the case, the agent would be burning his bridges with us. Lots of future deals potentially. 2) We’ve been given encouragement to bid, we need to do more to make it happen. That’s on us. If we don’t agree a fee and leave it at that, we (us forum folk) shouldn’t take it personally if he gets a better contract at Leicester. 3) Dan Ashworth has been involved in this and it would be a bad look if this went tits up. He wasn’t there for the Ekitike fiasco but collectively the whole thing of not landing targets could also be put back on Steve Nickson who had drawn up the lists.

I don’t think that’s correct. We’re not a selling club but I would imagine there’s clauses in these contracts that allow for a player to be moved on if we haven’t say, reached the champions league within 2 years.

So that sort of rules out Sesko, I mean, why would you spend double the transfer fee on an understudy to your main man? If you spend big on someone they have to play, unless it’s like Bruno being eased into things over a month or so.

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