Sheaf Saint

Decent save from Lumley.

The irony of someone with Mister fucking Blobby on his avatar complaining about this kit! 🤣

Yeah I've not been impressed with the CBs tonight. Not sure of the thinking behind bringing ABK on to join them though.

Lallana makes his 'debut'.

Oh that's a beaut.

Ooooh. Close from Edozie.

Oh dear. Nothing Edwards could have done about that.

An absolute peach 🍑

Stunning bit of business. What's the catch?

Where's all the home fans?

Lovely strike from Fernandes.

Larios on the bench eh? Had almost completely forgotten about him.

I mean, if he's got arms like this then he should be a bloody brilliant keeper

Yeah, he probably misunderstood initially when he was asked to go to meet the driver and pick up Charly.

Was never a fan myself, so I won't be rushing to get a ticket. I can sum up my feelings towards Oasis in exactly the same way as I can about The Smiths - undoubtedly decent songwriting and musicianship, but completely ruined by having an unbearable, pretentious prick on lead vocals with a voice that grates like someone scratching a blackboard. Still, a lot of my mates were massively into them around the time we were all learning to drive in the mid 90s, so I have fond memories of driving around in my mate's mk3 Ford Escort with Definitely Maybe blasting out of his (most likely stolen) Kenwood stereo.

If anyone wants any further proof of how pointless possession stats are, Stoke are currently 5-0 up away at Boro, with only 35% possession.

Well at least we have done our due diligence this time and not signed someone who isn't actually going to play. But where does this leave us in our GK search? Surely the club would have had a suspicion that this might happen, given his injury record, and would have a backup option. Surely? SURELY!?!?!?

A MF of Downes and Les as a double pivot with JWP in a more advanced role would be a great deal better than what we have witnessed already this season. He would only be competing with Fernandes, who's still very much unproven in the PL.

It was so obvious as well. Forest had done their homework on us and were pressing high up. Every time we tried to play out from the back they had their entire front 6 in our half trying to close off those passing lanes, and we simply played into their hands and inevitably gave away possession too easily. With them pushing up so high, it was crying out for us to change things up occasionally and play the ball forward more quickly to bypass that press, which would have pushed them back a bit, but the dogged adherence to the system just crippled us. It was naive from RM. I hope he learns from it.

Well the second half was much better, but there's still a glaring lack of quality in MF and attack. I thought Dibling looked excellent when he came on. His driving runs will cause all sorts of problems for opposition defenders. I like Smallbone, but he was way out of his depth today. Fernandes looked decent enough. Edozie really needs to work on his final ball. Such a frustrating player. A shit goal to concede, having actually defended OK until that point.

Why is Smallbone still on? He's so obviously such a weak link today.

Terrible giveaway from Smallbone there.

That should have been 1-0.

That's bollocks. Flynn's foot was no higher than the Forest player's and he won it fair and square.

What we need is one of those trademark THB long balls to Arma to bypass their high press.