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40 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

Not convinced by Murray at 37. He had a poor year last season and didn't impress at Watford at this level earlier this season. I'd much rather have him than get nobody though.

 

Agree about QPR, thought they looked really poor and predicted them to struggle. They are not safe yet but Austin has made a big difference. 

I get what your saying with Murray. There will always be questions marks over a player that’s 37 and hasn’t done it for 18 months.
 

To be fair to him though, he only played 110 minutes at Watford over 5 games and Brighton he fell down the pecking order due to Maupay. 
 

But guess for a club like Forest it’s worth the risk. Easy to forget 18 months ago he finished a PL season with 13 goals. Still a lot to suggest he can do a job at this level. 

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Yesterday told its own story. The owner simply isn’t bothered anymore or is foolish enough to believe this current squad is good enough to stay up. 
 

No wonder he bought Hillsborough. That’s his little nest egg to use against the club when we inevitably slip into league one and have trouble finding a new owner/investor. 
 

DC showing his true colours now. 

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It's all well and good looking at the amount of signing, but you need to also look at quality. Rotherham, Forest and QPR have made some pretty solid signings but everyone else's additions generally look considerable worse than ours on paper in terms of quality - especially Wycombe, Coventry, Millwall and Luton.

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Just now, 0114 said:

I get what your saying with Murray. There will always be questions marks over a player that’s 37 and hasn’t done it for 18 months.
 

To be fair to him though, he only played 110 minutes at Watford over 5 games and Brighton he fell down the pecking order due to Maupay. 
 

But guess for a club like Forest it’s worth the risk. Easy to forget 18 months ago he finished a PL season with 13 goals. Still a lot to suggest he can do a job at this level. 

 

They see it as a chance worth taking. If he does enough to keep them up then it will be money very well spent. If he doesn't then they can drop him and are no worse off than they were before other than a few quid on a short term deal. Not the best bit of business in this window but definitely better than doing nothing at all. Forest had better options in attack than us anyway, which makes it harder to believe that we have done nothing. Even Wycombe have managed to get a striker in to give them more of a chance. 

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8 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

 

I’m with you mate, don’t worry about that. A blind egg chaser could identify our main problem at the moment, and his guide dog, though our owner doesn’t see an issue obviously. 

That last win probably indicated to DC that we had turned a corner and Autos were on with the players we have already got. Delusional.

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4 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

Anyhow, you miserable lot and Mr C aren’t getting me down, I refuse to get drawn into that nonsense. I’m staying positive and thinking we can still survive.

 

When you’re in the gutter, you can only look towards the stars.

Have we got any?

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Just now, prowl said:

That last win probably indicated to DC that we had turned a corner and Autos were on with the players we have already got. Delusional.

 

If Shaw plays, the expectation might be for him to run through the opposition every game. We could revert to a 5-5 formation and just wait for Shaw to time his runs through midfield to lay on an open goal for Palmer. 

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5 minutes ago, Tony Pulis said:

It's all well and good looking at the amount of signing, but you need to also look at quality. Rotherham, Forest and QPR have made some pretty solid signings but everyone else's additions generally look considerable worse than ours on paper in terms of quality - especially Wycombe, Coventry, Millwall and Luton.

Wycombe have signed an Admiral!! I want one

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1 minute ago, theowlsman said:

 

If Shaw plays, the expectation might be for him to run through the opposition every game. We could revert to a 5-5 formation and just wait for Shaw to time his runs through midfield to lay on an open goal for Palmer. 

It's a plan, it would make a change to have one.

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4 minutes ago, Tony Pulis said:

It's all well and good looking at the amount of signing, but you need to also look at quality. Rotherham, Forest and QPR have made some pretty solid signings but everyone else's additions generally look considerable worse than ours on paper in terms of quality - especially Wycombe, Coventry, Millwall and Luton.

Yesterday was bad and a target man would have been good BUT:

 

For all the doom and gloom, the pulis disaster era 6 points from 10 games aside the current squad has averaged nearly 1.5 points per game even with our current attacking options.

 

Hutchinson is being overlooked as he is a returning player but will and strength at the back that will give us a fighting chance to stay up. 

 

Only team who definitely have had a good window is Derby, who probably wouldn't have gone down anyway.

 

Birmingham, forest, Wycombe and Rotherham all have to come to Hillsborough, it's not over by any means.

 

 

 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, bladeshater said:

Why do people think it's the end of world not to sign a player or players on the last day

We signed green and Hutchinson and got Marriott back during the window

 

It's not to do with the last day so much as the entire transfer window. That many clubs conduct the bulk of their business on the last day is just a fact of the industry.

 

I think people's disappointment stems from the fact that we're the division's lowest scorers and still have a glaring need for a centre-forward capable of holding up the ball and bringing others into play, as we have since Fletcher left.

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57 minutes ago, gurujuan said:

At the end of the day, none of us probably know what our rivals really needed, and whether they got it or not. What we all knew, is what we needed, and we didn’t get it. With such a poor goalscoring capability, we will be up against it. Once an opponent has scored against us, we are pretty much done for, in terms of getting a win We are unlikely to escape the drop all the while that remains the case

We have the 90th out of 92 teams worse attack in the football leagues and on only 2 occasions this season have we scored more than 1 goal.

 

We have failed to score in 12 of 25 games.

 

We have lost all 11 games where we have conceded a goal first.

 

So basically if the other team score we are not winning the game.

 

This is the facts of where the team currently is, yes we have won a few games recently, but we have had more performances like Coventry over the season than we have had good performances and the wins we have got were more luck and the other team playing poorly than us playing them off the park.

 

The recent up turn in result is probably the reason DC thinks he can do it on the cheap again. But we are 4 points adrift at the bottom, an injury to Westwood and the goals will start being conceded again and an injury to Bannan or Reach and the little attacking flair they provide will be gone. Just 8 players in the squad have scored a goal out of 25 out field players used and nearly half of our 15 goals from 2 players in  Paterson 4 & Windass 3. its does not make good reading.

 

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