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The 3-4 to Leeds, or similarly the tranmere Cup exit? They were really bad ☹️

This is getting embarrassing. We're comfortably being outplayed by stoke atm. They're keeping us at arms reach and loon far more threatening... Stoke's resveres...

Onuachu furiously telling them how to cross 😂🤣 An out of favour squad player is one of the "leaders" on the pitch for us. Joke really.

Lesley trying to give stoke a 3rd there...

Tall Paul's first goal incoming tonight 😎

Has tall Paul had a fling with Martin's missus? Have to wonder what he's done to not even get a start in this game. It's so obvious we need that physical presence in the box. If we lose this, do we think he might actually get sacked?

Need to cancel the lesley and cornet loans if we can. Both of them are just using up a squad and loan spot with no real benefit to the team.

Big lesley at fault for both goals here, not having much luck is he for a young lad 😂🤣

Big les and cornet both look like awful options. Can we cancel both those deals and roll the dice again? What one earth sugawara thought he was doing for their goal I have no idea. Had a bit of a mare there.

Just looking at that subs bench in the opening seconds... its depressing how far we've fallen since then. Massive shout out to Reed, Gao, and now SR. Absolutely criminal decline.

In all seriousness, Forest are 5th in the league with a much better squad than us 😅. Its hardly a fair comparison is it. Reality is that we should have beaten Leicester, and certainly should have been 3-1 up and out of sight without the appalling officiating. You're hardly making a strong case here.

Good performance today tbh. People aren't being realistic if they expected anything else from this one. Kept it tight, had a few chances to get something, hit the bar etc. Onto the next one. They're playing smarter in recent weeks but just aren't getting any luck. Ipswich, Leicester, Arsenal/city away have all been decent performances. Can see us getting at least 4 out of wolves and Everton.

We should have won at the etihad. Should have been a penalty and 10men.

But we have Tall Paul?!!? Martin really does have favourites and then players he wants rid of.

Who was it who said he was definitely going to get sacked on the day of the charity game?

Sorry Bad Wolf, but if you care to check you'll see Mike Dean was the video assistant referee for the first 9-0 - He would never miss an opportunity to screw us over. I'll always remember Matt Cash's hand ball save as well as a Mike dean special.

Mike Dean / lee Mason - the 9-0s

Haven't read every page... but i'm yet to see any poster not lambasting the referee, let alone defending him? The TP pen that is right in front of his face is criminal. With the legal shenanigans going on re financial affairs, its about time things like this get legally challenged. A ref and VAR ref making this kind of mistake can only be Corruption or Bias. No one is that inept. Needs investigating - its almost certainly a key decision in our season - cost us in a 6pointer relegation scrap.

Yes. Fair. But I would have just settled for having Taylor on at left back vs fatawu when it was still 2-1... Ideally at 2-0 given we knew all about him from last year 😢

Fatawu played against us for Leicester last season, scoring a hattrick at the king power... We know everything there is to know about him. We left manning and fraser to get absolutely rinsed by him when we had a far better quality defensive left back sat on the bench.

If they're not going to sack him, at least get him some proper quality support on the bench re tactical setup and defensive coaching. We were good for most of the game with 11men, really should have been out of sight in fact...and then he's just utterly shat the bed. Taylor absolutely murdered us decision wise, but Martin just has to be better - he needs to react sooner, and he needs to not completely shit the bed with his changes. What is even more frustrating is that Martin has shown that with a bit of prep time, he can get his teams setup right. The playoffs vs West brom. The final vs Leeds, Newcastle first game, even today and vs Ipswich etc... But he gets out coached tactically by the other managers in the games and it's a real problem. They react well and he doesn't and makes a mess. That and we are getting bad luck.

Yes I agree. I've never been more certain that a ref had it in for us than today. He's done us dirty. Death by a thousand inconspicuous cuts.

We lost because of that corner setup. Forget everything else. That corner setup has cost us 4 points vs Leicester and Ipswich. Not only that but we didn't make the change to stop fatawa after repeated immediate warnings and threats where he ripped us open. Who watched that out of all of us and didn't immediately see it was a problem. Taylor was on the bench, but we left manning and fraser to defend against that whilst we were cut apart - needlessly.. And just like Bournemouth first half, it was obvious and he didn't react until the game was effectively over. Yes. Taylor has just done us dirty. But Martin has helped.

What I can't even begin to fathom, is that we had a proper left back on the bench... But we left fatawa to absolutely murder manning and fraser at fucking full back? Last year was bad enough... But to watch that happen repeatedly this game and not change it is just shocking.

The only thing I will say in his defence is that Taylor basically ensured we had to take off all our key players with the yellow card noncery in the first half. We get the blatant pen on onuachu and we win regardless. We have just been bent over from minute one by the ref. But that's all I am going to offer him. The final goal is a carbon copy of the Ipswich one... It was unforgiveable in that game, it's absolutely unacceptable that it has happened twice.