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17 Jan 2025 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - MrPotatoHead has posted a new article entitled, Philippe Clement - Excuses versus Accountability

15 Jan 2025 15:08:40
I wish Slot would use Elliott more. I think he’s the only player outside of Salah and Trent we have that can unlock a defence with one pass. Jones I think you can give him the ball anywhere and he’ll keep it but that’s better in deeper areas. Elliott will create chances.

16 Jan 2025 08:54:36
This Trent saga is playing out like the Owen saga where he constantly said he would sign and in January said he wasn't causing us to sell him cheap to real, I really think we should know what he wants to do imo.

15 Jan 2025 15:17:31
As much as I admire Numez's desire, ability to get in good positions, and his general unpredictability, the fact is his stats say
Under half his shots are on target. when bobby was a 9 under klopp he was a foil and Mane and Mo provided the lions share of goals, under Slot it looks like he see the wide men as predominantly providers who also score. So a slot 9 need to be more a "give me a chance and I'll at least make the keeper
Work. Personally that won't be solved long term in a Jan, so do we cross everything and hope Jota stay fit, and try and get Isaak in summer? With a lethal strike with an over 50% conversion rate, we would be vv good in my view.

15 Jan 2025 10:20:10
Not happy with last night's performance. Mr Slot needs to sub Salah off in games.
Trent needs to take the rest of January off.
All teams have off days but this is getting critical now. It's results like this that convince me We're not ready to win the title this season.
Unless some new blood is bought in we're going to suffer.
Slot can't keep using same 11-13 players. Elliot needs to be starting and endo needs atleast 15 mins at end of games just to allow others to rest.

15 Jan 2025 10:53:04
Sadly yet again TAA proved that his defensive qualities are blatantly lacking and he looked like a fish out of water as usual against speedy wingers. Positionally all over the place so my question is should we let him go now and take any nominal fee circa £20 mill? Forest showed us last night that when you have proper defenders (not glory passing midfield wannabes) defending as a tight unit properly teams struggle to break them down!

15 Jan 2025 11:34:42
Last night's game:

First Half. Started well, looked like we could do damage through the middle. Opened up Forest a few times but poor execution from outside the box - three wild over the bar - then their goal.

A calamity or errors and shows why we need a world class number 6 in my opinion. For the goal, Ibou and Grav were in each other's positions - can happen. Ibou gives a bad header, Salah fails to compete, Grav steps up while Ibou is still in midfield and Virgil starts to cover Wood's run but for some reason turns the wrong way as he is distracted by the midfield runner which Grav and Macca aren't covering. Great finish but bad defending all around.

Then and this is the worrying part for me, Forest bullied us especially in midfield. We lack that nasty mean Caicedo/ Gattusso/ Souness (I'm going back now! ) dark arts midfielder for games like this that can compete in physical battles and aren't afraid to mix it up. Soboz, Macca and Grav are 'too clean' and will struggle against physical midfielders - Jolinton etc. for example.

Then, up to half time is was the pedestrian which we can be under Slot in first halves. The plus side here is we are not having as many injuries as we did under Klopp as players get 'in game rests' but there are games where we do need to create 70-90min of chaos or lots of quick one touch football. Games against the low block are those especially as everybody had rested at the weekend so should have been possible against Forest.

Second half was exceptional and shows the class and promise we have.

So take home - get that mean spirited number 6 and the rest should be enough for the league. What we have may be good enough for Europe - less physical and more tactical. Easier said than done however and January not the easiest month to do business.

15 Jan 2025 09:24:26
Aside from the details of the match, what dreadful coverage from TNT.

Pretty much the entire match was shown from one camera, which meant it was like watching the match from a seat at the back of the stand. High up on the half way line just panning left and right. Nothing from the other side of the pitch. Not many close ups, hardly any replays. Pay TV for sports should come with some minimum standards regarding the quality of the coverage.

And then the commentary from Darren Fletcher who is a Forest fan and, I believe, lives in Nottingham and the nonsense narrative during and after the match that gave the impression of end-to-end basketball style football with both teams going for it. Forest didn't impress me at all. We gave them an easy goal and they defended well in a backs-to-the-wall sense but on another day we'd have won that by three or four, no complaints.

14 Jan 2025 20:35:39
The general execution levels of this team are shambolic, to be honest. Forest are playing very basic football and there are gaps everywhere but our attackers are too thick to see them or not good enough to execute the right option. It’s infuriating.

14 Jan 2025 20:51:59
This is a real test of character one nil down at ht and what's looking like we'll be playing against 12 all game. But this is where we get to see what we are made of. Forest aren't going to roll over they are full of confidence and are solid everywhere, we need to be stronger on the ball and in the tackle and stop trying to walk the ball into the net looking for the perfect goal. We will never break down forest at this rate their 2 centre halves have been on easy street for the 1st 45mins really need to get our act together lads or it's going to be a bd night at the office.

Come on lads the the f##king finger out and have a bit of pride in the shirt.