1.97 PPG with CH....78 points is definitely achievable over the next ten games.
Top of the Form table and leading scorers over the last ten with:
W6 D3 L1 - GF20 GA 7
Joint second defensive record also.
Bournemouth's 11 remaining fixtures against the following positioned sides: 1, 3, 7-13, 15 and 18.
Forest's 10 remaining fixtures against the following positioned sides: 1, 2, 5, 11-13, 15, 19, 20, 24
Automatics? Let's beat Liverpool first!
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well done fellows you deserved dat.........let''s ope the pitch and the injuries from it don't come back to haunt us.
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Fair dues mate. You was wrong and I was right haha
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 11 minutes ago
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
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Also, Rev says hi
Watched on Forest TV - QPR scored against the run of play but at HT I worried that Forest were sketchy near goal.
That changed second half and despite a ref letting QPR get away with some stuff we thumped them.
Yes, the keeper was crocked for our 2nd and 3rd but we should have been 4-1 up by then so onwards and upwards.
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 43 minutes ago
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
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We gave you a lesson tonight, how to play football, exciting football. without constant fouling & relying on a lenient referee.
And we're three points closer to taking your place in the playoffs youth!
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 12 hours, 14 minutes ago
Well done fellows you deserved dat.........let''s ope the pitch and the injuries from it don't come back to haunt us.
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Cheers Drum.
I thought you played very well when you had the ball, but the number of yellow cards you picked up showed how you struggled when we had it. Moss was terrible by the way.
I think it's down to ten teams fighting for the top six places. Fulham and B'mth will take two. I think 'udders and Blackburn will miss out. Squads are getting strecthced now, so I think the biggest squads will probably make it. Our squad players did well last night (and last Saturday) so I'm still optimistic.
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
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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posted on 16/3/22
1.97 PPG with CH....78 points is definitely achievable over the next ten games.
Top of the Form table and leading scorers over the last ten with:
W6 D3 L1 - GF20 GA 7
Joint second defensive record also.
Bournemouth's 11 remaining fixtures against the following positioned sides: 1, 3, 7-13, 15 and 18.
Forest's 10 remaining fixtures against the following positioned sides: 1, 2, 5, 11-13, 15, 19, 20, 24
Automatics? Let's beat Liverpool first!
posted on 16/3/22
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well done fellows you deserved dat.........let''s ope the pitch and the injuries from it don't come back to haunt us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair dues mate. You was wrong and I was right haha
posted on 16/3/22
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
posted on 16/3/22
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 11 minutes ago
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Also, Rev says hi
posted on 16/3/22
Watched on Forest TV - QPR scored against the run of play but at HT I worried that Forest were sketchy near goal.
That changed second half and despite a ref letting QPR get away with some stuff we thumped them.
Yes, the keeper was crocked for our 2nd and 3rd but we should have been 4-1 up by then so onwards and upwards.
posted on 16/3/22
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 43 minutes ago
For the attention of the bear who knows. I'm pretty sure dat whatever this weekends results are you'll still not be above us. Best delete dat bookmark.......it ain't gonna appen.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We gave you a lesson tonight, how to play football, exciting football. without constant fouling & relying on a lenient referee.
And we're three points closer to taking your place in the playoffs youth!
posted on 17/3/22
comment by RRthedrum (U7933)
posted 12 hours, 14 minutes ago
Well done fellows you deserved dat.........let''s ope the pitch and the injuries from it don't come back to haunt us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cheers Drum.
I thought you played very well when you had the ball, but the number of yellow cards you picked up showed how you struggled when we had it. Moss was terrible by the way.
I think it's down to ten teams fighting for the top six places. Fulham and B'mth will take two. I think 'udders and Blackburn will miss out. Squads are getting strecthced now, so I think the biggest squads will probably make it. Our squad players did well last night (and last Saturday) so I'm still optimistic.
posted on 17/3/22
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
posted on 17/3/22
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.
posted on 17/3/22
Forest are you Rev in disguise ?
posted on 17/3/22
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
posted on 17/3/22
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
posted on 17/3/22
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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...
posted on 17/3/22
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.
posted on 17/3/22
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheep
posted on 18/3/22
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
posted on 18/3/22
Absolutely brilliant, but you obviously have too much time on your hands. Again, I say, brilliant.👍👏
posted on 18/3/22
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.
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