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Stottie

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  1. Its hard to sympathize with Forest after them buying in two dozen players. This rule putting an effective sell-by deadline on players though will simply force down prices and make this thing an even bigger racket than it is already. Spurs getting Johnson for say 30m not the 47m they paid just because Forest have to jump through an arbitrary hoop by a time set midway through a transfer window, not the end of the window, would not make football fairer.
  2. Breaking news is Forest docked four points. Their defence is that they would have been okay if they had firesaled Brennan Johnson, but they waited to get more money in for him. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/18/nottingham-forest-docked-four-points-premier-league-financial-rules-breach-profitability-and-sustainability
  3. Can we blame Harvey Barnes for not starting in place of our player of the season? Someone who many fans themselves thought was a "waste of money" or "not a priority" when we bought him?
  4. Disappointing and vexing game. When we've had a strong team out and not been knackered this season, Plan A has worked well as before, but when key players are missing, our tactics have left us as open as the goals against column suggests. Chelsea being there for the taking merely adds to the frustration.
  5. Dunno, possibly best for us that they have other fish to fry. More chance of them resting someone. Them at full strength and in clinical late-season mode, I'd give us very little hope, much of that dependent on "the bounce of the ball" and other random factors.
  6. 6 goals and 3 assists in 9 games' worth of minutes in Eredivisie. He scored in the CL too.
  7. This begs the question of whether obstruction by a non-offside player is acceptable or subject to VAR reviews.
  8. Very careless of Gallagher to give away the original free kick. Poch will be fuming.
  9. Rule it out as obstruction or a foul, "offside" sounds ridiculous.
  10. In case anyone's wondering, Harvey Barnes has no goals or assists against Arsenal but his record is P9 W4 D1 L4 Gordon's is P4 W2 D0 L2 with one goal.
  11. Please please! Three in a row after Tchoumeni and Bellingham.
  12. I keep hoping Tonali has some Furio in him. Externally suave and cool, but capable of next-level violence when the moment comes.
  13. I thought we were too shit to blame the officials for our game. However, the Robertson one on Toney is as blatant a penalty you'll ever see. The Caicedo one on Doku looks like a stamp and is dangerous play regardless of intent. Right in front of the ref and he doesn't even get a yellow! The handball looks like arm moving to ball. I think you've got to give it.
  14. Fine insight from Kevster. I agree on Pope as the biggest miss. Just on Burn, but my memory of him first season at CB when Targett was LB was that Burn was great until a big nosedive in form. It was around the time of that Chelsea game when we were robbed of a penna on Murph and then Havertz scored after Burn dived in and gone done. I can recall Burn overcommitting in a few games in a row around then. Anyway, my point is that I think he might be a confidence or form player, and its gone at the moment. He's not going to do anything going forward, he's not the type, but he would normally be more dependable than this.
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