Blackpool (A)
This isn’t a wind-up...but I had no idea that Peterborough beat QPR. Not only did it put us further in the play-off reckoning...but it put Derby bottom!! Not quite the upset of North Macedonia, but a surprise nonetheless.
So, we lost against Liverpool. The first and hopefully not the last of our cup finals, but hopefully the only losing (final) final.
What we showed is that we can mix it with the best. All from a lowly 9th position in the Championship. Yes, they only had five first team starters, but we only had seven. If we do make the play-offs we have gone some way in showing big-game mentality.
Beat Blackpool and we temporarily move into 5th!! It’s still all to do with away games against Luton, Fulham and Bournemouth...but yet, right now, we are well and truly in the mix.
League Form (last 10):
*Form Table: 1st v 10th
*GF 20 GA 7 v GF 14 GA 9
*2.1 PPG v 1.6 PPG
Over the last six:
*Forest: W2 D2 L2 Away - GF 5 GA 5
*Blackpool: W4 D1 L1 @ Home - GF 10 GA 7
Team News:
Grabban is back in training, but Cook, Lowe and McKenna are 4-6 weeks away.
Ojeda didn’t feature in Paraguay’s squad for their 3-1 win, so I presume Cooper has used his charm and good looks to keep him on our shores. They missed out on the WC.
Laryea played LB as Canada lost 1-0 to Costa Rica after having a man sent off. They are still top of qualifying with Jamaica (H) and Panama (A) to play. It looks like we’ll have at least one player at this years WC.
Our U18s beat Man City 2-1 despite only having 23% possession.
Our U23s beat West Brom 5-0 to put us 6th in the PL Division 2. Well worth watching the highlights to see Reidy’s impact.
Panzo and Soh didn’t figure, but unlikely they’ll start.
Prediction:
2-1 to Forest.
Defensively we have some huge gaps, but attacking wise we should have more than enough.
It will be interesting to see Bowler. Hopefully we can make him regret his extended stay at the seaside. .
COYR!!!
I was blind drunk when I wrote this...only a minor edit required. I know it’s a bit early, but it’s the International break and i’m bored!!
Blackpool v Forest - Match Thread
posted on 2/4/22
Holloway waxing lyrical about our team, Cooper and Fans!
He must sense a bandwagon to jump on 🤣
This maybe unpopular opinion but I think we can play much better, particularly in possession we were wasteful and I would think Blackpool will be ruefully looking back on missed chances in the early part of the first half!
We only have 4 more home games and two of them this week so really important we win both! Plenty of positives to take forward and confident we will improve
posted on 2/4/22
Bunk, on this form, I fancy us equally as much away as I do at home
posted on 2/4/22
We were upto 5th, currently sit 8th, this league is crazy, there is no room at all for slip ups by anyone from 3rd to about 10th, absolutely crazy division.
posted on 2/4/22
By 5pm next Saturday, we’ll hopefully be firmly in a Playoff position
posted on 3/4/22
I thought that game was our best away performance this season.
I couldn't pick a MotM, but Colback was immense, as was McKenna. They were all superb.
How good is it to be a Forest fan right now?
posted on 3/4/22
It looked like we had a couple of extra gears to go yesterday. Lucky with the first goal, but goals 2, 3 and 4 were fantastic finishes.
Samba looked super professional. None of his usual antics. Even Figs had a good game!
posted on 3/4/22
I know automatics is near on impossible for us, but I have to say, Bournemouth have such a tough set of fixtures 7 of their 9 remaining matches are with Playoff potential teams - it’s going to be a very interesting run in
Most important thing for us, is our next game - Coventry - here’s hoping people
posted on 4/4/22
At this critical time of the season it's important to keep an eye on the other Championship teams, so here's...
MISTER EGG'S CHAMPIONSHIP REVIEW
Barnsleh 1 Reading Ladies 1
The so called Battle of the Dog Box ended all square after two hours of numbing ineptitude from both relegation candidates. Morris scored for Barnsleh and Laurent equalised, but as I know neither of these gentlemen this information means nothing to me, oh Vienna. The Ladies should have snatched it near the end, which would have screwed Derby's neck to the starboard flats, but it didn't happen. Look it up.
AFC Muffs 3 Bristols 2
The Muffs continued their imperious progress towards automatic promotion by almost buggering things up against Nigel Pearson's Bristols. Having come from behind to lead 3-1, there were a few uncomfortable minutes for the Muffs after Weimann scored Bristols' second in the 90-oddth minute, but the Bristols were never going to complete the job because Chris Martin plays for them. Despite Scott Parker's tendency to replace match analysis with nervous breakdown, it looks like the Muffs can't be caught now, not even by the Big Red Train.
Caerdydd 0 Abertawe 4
The rivalry between these Welsh giants spreads far beyond the sheep poo on their shoes, so Abertawe's dismantling of Caerdydd was a bitter pill for the hosts to swallow. Everybody else just sat back and laughed, especially at Jordan Hugill continuing to rob a living as a footballer.
Lutontown 1 Mewo 1
An uninspiring spectacle produced a draw which flattered both teams and helped neither. Lutontown's progress may end up taking them nowhere this season, mainly because their manager looks and sounds as if he lives in the woods inside a rotting tree trunk.
Stokes 1 Sheffield Undead 0
This game was threatening to die from the kick off, and finally topped itself in the 77th minute with an own goal. I suppose you need teams like this in the second tier, like you need horsehair stuffing in an old mattress because you can't afford a new one, or any team which has been coached by Michael O'Neill into a state of creative paralysis.
Derby 1 Preston Nob End 0
Derby ran through their usual Pride Park routine - boring the living crap out of everyone before scabbing a winning goal towards the end. It wasn't Derby's fault that Nob End have deteriorated into fifty shades of useless, but you can't help feeling that, whatever the Rams do these days, it somehow ends up as cheating. Still, their fans have concluded that this victory has pulled them clear of liquidation ( really) and that Ravel Morrison has the God given ability to kick a football in a straight line.
Coventricity 2 Blackbum 2
Blackbum took the lead after coming from behind, courtesy of substitute Broadly Dark and somebody else, but could not hang on and had to settle for a point in extra time. Mark Robins concluded that "It's taken about two-and-a-half years off my life, no doubt, at a minimum," which seems a weirdly specific span of time to settle on, but not as specific as the 10 minutes and 24 seconds of extra time which was measured by Tony Mowbray's analyst. By the way, if you keep mucking about with Deadly Brack's name - like Badly Drake, or Drably Back - you soon forget what his real name is. Try it.
Peterburger 0 Miserablebugger 4
There is virtually nothing to say about this match, except that Peterburger managed to plumb the depths of their own inadequacy to even greater depths. You begin to wonder how low they can sink before turning into bubble skin and disappearing with a silent pop.
Q P Ladies 0 Cottage 2
"We keep getting apologies," said Q P Ladies' manager Mark Warburton, "but when the linesman doesn't give it and the referee does. And you see his hand doesn't come up, he just runs and it hits him there on the shoulder, and it kills the game." These are the words of a man driven mad by his team's decline into mediocrity. The Cottage People, on the other hand, remain cocooned in the smug satisfaction that only parachute payments can bring.
Blackpoo 1 Nottm Forest 4
This is now getting seriously scary, like one of those fairy tales which might just turn dark and ugly should you stop believing for just a second. Blackpool, currently in decent form, were supposed to be a test, but Forest overcame all difficulties by the simple expedient of playing football on a higher plane - higher than any other team in the Championship, probably. The Poo's manager Neil Critchley said, "We weren't second best - only in moments. Still, Forest have reached that state of transcendence where players and fans are mutually sustaining and the team succeeds without apparent effort. Like Zen, innit. Nothing beats a bit of Zen."
Stress & Pie 2022
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posted on 4/4/22
posted on 4/4/22
Brilliant