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He was good, can't quite work it out but seem to 'notice' him more in the international games, feels like he's let off the leash a bit more and holds back a bit for us, probably tactical

You can definitely see the confidence growing in the side , hard to know how season will progress but there doesn't seem to be stand out favourites for promotion yet , will be good if they can challenge, extra spots definitely makes this season more interesting

Nice article that, he was well liked by our fans and I thought he'd been with us longer than that, remember watching him keep a clean sheet for Northern Ireland against England as well, think a game Chris Baird also did well in

Our scouts liked a Norwegian didn't they, Egil Ostenstad, Jo Tessem, Lundekvam, Trond Egil Solvedt , think we'd had Flo on trial and of course young Stig

Lee Todd was always going to struggle for us as they could never find any kit that fitted him, poor bloke not his fault nearly tripped over his sleeves

Decided to take the kids for a day out to Fratton and a top afternoon was had, always felt we'd win even at 2-0 down, good support in our away corner , looks like the 657 forgot to set their alarm clocks , no show from them

Shout out to Totton who also have a massive home FA Cup tie this Saturday vs Truro , it's last qualifying round so potential for a big tie next round

Always nice to beat them, lots of changes to starting XI, play them again in a few days with a stronger side hopefully another win

Disappointing but entirely predictable We already didn't look like we'd score enough goals to challenge

We should get 3000 at Charlton and Millwall though so that's decent for Saturday London pubs day out

I think QPR fans moaned they were giving away teams more than they had to (10%) so club restricted allocation to just upper tier, even though they hardly ever sell out at home.

They don't . Lower tier already on general sale to home fans, plus loads others available in home end

Yeah QPR is a terrible allocation, probably will sell out today to 10+

Yep we're stuck in a never ending cycle of criticism of SR as we're stuck in a never ending cycle of bad results, same old issues still unresolved

Interesting comparison, I find the whole turning on managers early on a bit odd but I'm quite old school, with the Jones example I remember fans going after him quite early on , just felt weird as I'd known how the club had persued him and persuaded him to leave Luton , was definitely a case where Sports Republic deserved the criticism more than him Anyway good to see Liverpool fans starting to turn on Slot, when they struggled to beat us a couple of weeks ago I thought the writing was on the wall for him

How come? Considering we're playing him , is it another ABK situation? If he's not in Nigeria squad then two weeks for Still to try him out in training again

I don't disagree and yet in the championship I feel he knew what he was doing more than young Mr Still

Forest fans are numpties singing sacked in the morning after a handful of games, would love to see them go down.

When was the last fans protest? When sisa campaigned to wave white hankies after Poch was appointed?

Impressive win today, now got a double header this week vs Pompey, Wednesday night at Eastleigh in the league cup then Sundays trip to Fratton not sure if that's a bubble trip

That tells a story, what does it say about those players ? What does it say about the team who recruited them? Still have one of our highest paid players sat at home doing a jigsaw (Aribo) The wastage is mind blowing

This is it, but you'll still have people saying "but they've spent money" There's no strategy though , they manage to spend money and make us worse.

@CB Fry its all about context where discussion was about giving Will Still until next international break to see if he can turn it around, what would keep him in the job? What have you seen in the opening nine games that makes you think winning four of the next six is realistic? Stewart likely to be out. Who will score the goals? If we can learn to win games 1-0 we might be able to. Well organised championship sides who sit deep, counter, put crosses into the box is our kryptonite One of the games is Sheff Wed at home so you'd hope we could win that one.

I'd like to think any sensible fans don't hate Downs, clearly he's not been very good but criticism should be aimed at hierarchy at the club who decided to sign him and then management team who pick him to play.

Run up to next international break Swansea (H) Bristol City (A) Blackburn (A) Preston (H) QPR (A) Sheffield Wednesday (H) That would take us to 15 played , quite a tough run with just two of those teams below us currently, think we'd need to see at least three wins out of those at a minimum