Forest v QPR - Match Thread

It's been pretty much Fulham and Bournemouth for the auto's all season and i don't see dat changing. The next four are anyones guess. I'm wiv you 60 years in that i fink Udders and Rovers will fade out of it. Rovers ave been a bit unlucky losing Diaz.......he was pretty much a one man team.

Forest are you Rev in disguise ?

comment by FOREST (U22817)
posted 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
It’s not a given that Bournmouth will finish 2nd, they’ve still got to play us and Fulham plus 5 of the top 10 teams - definitely not a given for them

On current form, we could if we beat them take 2nd spot

It’s a big ask, but we are on fire at present
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I only meant that Fulham and B’mouth would take two of the six not that they would be top two.

But you’re correct - the way we are playing we can beat anyone. And our squad players Horvath, Figs, Cafu, Surridge have done really well when called on.

comment by Redfor60yrs (U2973)
posted 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
comment by FOREST (U22817)
posted 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
It’s not a given that Bournmouth will finish 2nd, they’ve still got to play us and Fulham plus 5 of the top 10 teams - definitely not a given for them

On current form, we could if we beat them take 2nd spot

It’s a big ask, but we are on fire at present
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I only meant that Fulham and B’mouth would take two of the six not that they would be top two.

But you’re correct - the way we are playing we can beat anyone. And our squad players Horvath, Figs, Cafu, Surridge have done really well when called on.
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Well said mate….let’s just enjoy the ride while we can

It’s been a long time since we felt this kind of hope and excitement

comment by caniggiaforforest (U6917)
posted 19 hours, 53 minutes ago
Figs to blame, who would have thought it. And we’d Ben massively on top
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I wouldn't blame Figs for their goal. I watched it again this morning. Joe Worrall was marking Gray who ran off him as Joe was ball watching. Figs tried to get to him but turned too quickly and lost his balance.

Figs not at fault for me...

Thought I would run a spreadsheet to see where we would be if the season had started after the first seven games.
The first points column is points in real life.
The second column is the first seven games point totals for each club.
The third points column is the point totals for each club, taking away the accumulated points from the first seven games; then re-ordered as to league positions.

(Sorry about the formatting, the text box doesn't really lend itself to tables!!!)

Fulham 77 -16 61
Forest 58 -1 57
Hudds 63 -10 53
B'mouth 66 -15 51
Luton 60 -9 51
Boro 59 -9 50
Blades 58 -8 50
B'burn 61 -12 49
QPR 59 -12 47
Blackpool 52 -5 47
Millwall 57 -13 44
PNEnd 51 -8 43
Swans 47 -6 41
Cov 54 -15 39
WBA 53 -15 38
Stoke 46 -10 36
Hull 41 -6 35
Cardiff 46 -11 35
Brizzle 43 -9 34
Brum 41 -11 30
Reading 30 -6 24
Barnsley 28 -7 21
P'boro 23 -4 19
Sheep 24 -6 18

It's a bit nerdy but interesting to note where we'd be if SC had started the season.

comment by El Bosque [Basoa in Euskara] (U1617)
posted 19 minutes ago
Thought I would run a spreadsheet to see where we would be if the season had started after the first seven games.
The first points column is points in real life.
The second column is the first seven games point totals for each club.
The third points column is the point totals for each club, taking away the accumulated points from the first seven games; then re-ordered as to league positions.

(Sorry about the formatting, the text box doesn't really lend itself to tables!!!)

Fulham 77 -16 61
Forest 58 -1 57
Hudds 63 -10 53
B'mouth 66 -15 51
Luton 60 -9 51
Boro 59 -9 50
Blades 58 -8 50
B'burn 61 -12 49
QPR 59 -12 47
Blackpool 52 -5 47
Millwall 57 -13 44
PNEnd 51 -8 43
Swans 47 -6 41
Cov 54 -15 39
WBA 53 -15 38
Stoke 46 -10 36
Hull 41 -6 35
Cardiff 46 -11 35
Brizzle 43 -9 34
Brum 41 -11 30
Reading 30 -6 24
Barnsley 28 -7 21
P'boro 23 -4 19
Sheep 24 -6 18

It's a bit nerdy but interesting to note where we'd be if SC had started the season.

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Sheep

Game 36 - March 16th 2022
Nottm Forest 3 - 1 Q. P. Ladies
Spence (55) - Gray (40)
Yates (83)
Johnson (87)

"The Lord of Mischief was at work this night. It was he who brought the driving rain, and he who laughed to see the Ladies prosper in the early stages through Willock and the cunning Gray. It was he who caused Yates, the Forest goal machine, to c oc.k up twice by missing what appeared to be two presentable chances but later turned out to be more difficult than people who had never played football might think.

It was the Lord of Mischief who whispered "I shall scapegoat Toby Figgis" as the defender slipped on the slick turf to allow Gray to slam it home through Horvath's legs. The Lord of Mischief busied himself among the crowd, plaguing feeble minds with doubts. "Oh how we miss Steve Cook, and the mighty Samba," they whined, "and Davis has no edge, and Baby Johnson needs a rest, for lo, he is but a baby, and Zincks needs hooking now." These were the words of the Lord of Mischief, sown like poison seeds in shallow ground.

The Lord of Mischief had other busyness too. Though it was not he who turned the Ladies into the gang of shirt-pulling, ankle-tapping, diving louts they turned out to be, he must surely have been responsible for the idiot who let them get away with it. Enter the referee, Mister Moss, a man who couldn't decide whether he was too fat to cope or too bent to care.

Add to this mayhem the ridiculous figure of Mark "Mark Warburton" Warburton, a once respected manager whose only fault was that he repeated himself too much and over-used the phrase "fine margins", now transformed into the kind of twitching middle aged ch@v you find mouthing off wiv his mates in a Wevverspoons.

Thus was the work of the Lord of Mischief done, to convince us all that, this time, the odds were stacked too high against us. "You can't win them all," he probably cackled at half time as he capered off into the night to drive another nail into some poor bugger's coffin.

However, no matter how damaging his influence, there are ways of dealing with the Lord of Mischief. The best way is to ignore him, and come out burning with desire, and play with such strength and skill and confidence and grace as takes the breath away. I give you DJ Spence's equaliser, a shot hit so hard it changed direction three times along its thirty yard journey before thumping into the top of Marshall's net. And the rising noise as Davis went close with a drive and a header. And the Ladies skittering around their box like spooked cattle. And the much maligned Zinckernagel's powerful drive being pushed for the corner which Yates converted cleverly for Forest's second. And Sam Surridge's driving run and pass to Cafu, whose blocked shot fell to Baby Johnson, who scored expertly from ten yards. And, again, that tremendous noise.

By the end of the match, Forest's exploits had gone beyond the unbelievable into the realm of myth. It was difficult to get your head around what this team was capable of, or what odds or setbacks or superstitions they could overcome.

Enjoy the moment, keep your faith strong, and tell the Lord of Mischief to go try his tricks down the A52."

Stress & Pie 2022

Absolutely brilliant, but you obviously have too much time on your hands. Again, I say, brilliant.👍👏

It is brilliant. But, for the avoidance of doubt, I am not the author. It's from Stress and Pie http://stressandpie.co.uk/ but so good, it needed sharing.