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We were awful on Saturday against Blackburn. We went down to 10 men and Blackburn took full advantage. How many times does a team go down to 10 men and the other team don’t take advantage? We were unfortunate with the ball hitting the post and rebounding in off Dawson’s head. How many times does that happen?It seemed like the ‘perfect storm’.

 

Only a week previously we had beaten Leeds away having kept a clean sheet, made it even more frustrating as we know this team has it in them to beat anyone in the league on their day. 
 

If you cast your minds back to Forest away, by half time Rhodes had scored a hat trick for the first time in years and we were cruising at 4-0. Forest fans were leaving in droves and likely writing their team off of any chance of the play offs. Look at them now though, a couple of wins and they’re back amongst it. The memory of our victory likely in the shadows. 
 

We need to remember that whether you lose by a 90th minute goal or get battered 5-0, it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference, you still get 0 points, just as a scrappy 1-0 win only gets you 3 points the same as a resounding win. Ok I get the goal difference aspect but it’s rare that comes into play. 

 

If Wednesday can bounce back with a couple of wins then we can be right back in the mix. The Blackburn memories will fade like Forests have of their defeat to us. Hopefully GM can focus the lads, put last weekends result behind us and get the best out of us for the forthcoming games. 
 

Anyone really can beat anyone in this league-and they do- who’d have backed Stoke winning at WBA last night?

 

It’s about finding that little burst of consistency-teams in this league will only ever string together 3-4 victories at most due to how tight this league is- and remaining balanced both in victory and defeat. Youll always lose games in this division, it’s how you bounce back that matters.

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The one thing that does give us a get out of being so critical of last week is how the red card has been rescinded.

 

It's likely we wouldn't have lost 5-0 if we had 11 men

 

However, we were still likely to lose having already set out our stall to be negative and toothless.

 

In true Wednesday fashion, we'll probably recover somewhat - but because of our poor form and general lack of threat at the moment its feeling like the Leeds game was a one-off... not the Blackburn game.

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3 minutes ago, sherlyegg said:

No team ever in the history of the championship or old 2nd division, has won promotion while in the same season lost a game at home 5-0,  to a team below them in the league.

 

 

 

Just made that up btw..but it will be true...probably.

 

lol

When we came 3rd in the Premiership in 92 we lost 6 1 at home to Leeds and 7 1 away to Arsenal.

And I haven't even made that up.

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15 minutes ago, Tudders said:

We were awful on Saturday against Blackburn. We went down to 10 men and Blackburn took full advantage. How many times does a team go down to 10 men and the other team don’t take advantage? We were unfortunate with the ball hitting the post and rebounding in off Dawson’s head. How many times does that happen?It seemed like the ‘perfect storm’.

 

Only a week previously we had beaten Leeds away having kept a clean sheet, made it even more frustrating as we know this team has it in them to beat anyone in the league on their day. 
 

If you cast your minds back to Forest away, by half time Rhodes had scored a hat trick for the first time in years and we were cruising at 4-0. Forest fans were leaving in droves and likely writing their team off of any chance of the play offs. Look at them now though, a couple of wins and they’re back amongst it. The memory of our victory likely in the shadows. 
 

We need to remember that whether you lose by a 90th minute goal or get battered 5-0, it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference, you still get 0 points, just as a scrappy 1-0 win only gets you 3 points the same as a resounding win. Ok I get the goal difference aspect but it’s rare that comes into play. 

 

If Wednesday can bounce back with a couple of wins then we can be right back in the mix. The Blackburn memories will fade like Forests have of their defeat to us. Hopefully GM can focus the lads, put last weekends result behind us and get the best out of us for the forthcoming games. 
 

Anyone really can beat anyone in this league-and they do- who’d have backed Stoke winning at WBA last night?

 

It’s about finding that little burst of consistency-teams in this league will only ever string together 3-4 victories at most due to how tight this league is- and remaining balanced both in victory and defeat. Youll always lose games in this division, it’s how you bounce back that matters.

 

It's not just the Blackburn game though is it? It's losing 4 games from 5, having 3 home defeats in a row against genuinely mediocre opposition, being the second lowest home scorers in the league whilst paying champagne prices for flat warm can of Tizer football. 

 

And that "couple of wins" which got Forest back into the top 6 was them actually getting 13 points from the last 15. Can anyone see us being that consistent? 

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We where playing crap before the red card. Imo that wouldn’t have changed if we kept 11 men on the pitch. As has been said it’s not that we lost it’s the way we lost. In most cases when a team goes down to 10 they make it so much harder to play against. We did the complete opposite, we just rolled over and gave up. Losing our last 3 home homes, losing all our Christmas games. It really is poor from the players. 

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I think the issue is having lost 4 of the last 5 league games not the 5-0 drumming on Saturday.

 

I was full of hope coming up to Xmas but I now find myself agreeing with a lot of the doom mongers on here - we just aren’t good enough over all to end the season in the top 6, nearly but not quite.

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14 minutes ago, alanharper said:

 

It's not just the Blackburn game though is it? It's losing 4 games from 5, having 3 home defeats in a row against genuinely mediocre opposition, being the second lowest home scorers in the league whilst paying champagne prices for flat warm can of Tizer football. 

 

And that "couple of wins" which got Forest back into the top 6 was them actually getting 13 points from the last 15. Can anyone see us being that consistent? 

Didn’t we get 13 points from 15 before the Stoke game? But no tbh I can’t see it as don’t think we’re very good 

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Totally accept all comments, but so often we are a different team in the 2nd half, don't dispute anything that we may have got well beaten with 11, but they may have had the bolloking they deserved at half time and who knows (I'm sure they still had a rollocking but with 10 men it wasn't going to happen). Let's move on its finished.

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19 minutes ago, alanharper said:

 

It's not just the Blackburn game though is it? It's losing 4 games from 5, having 3 home defeats in a row against genuinely mediocre opposition, being the second lowest home scorers in the league whilst paying champagne prices for flat warm can of Tizer football. 

 

And that "couple of wins" which got Forest back into the top 6 was them actually getting 13 points from the last 15. Can anyone see us being that consistent? 

excellent,true,post

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