And Its Smith

I think people didn’t read what I wrote properly. I said give him game time now (we aren’t going down) and see if he can improve with extra game time. If he does improve and is as good as Bentley then we can sell Bentley and reinvest. With our money situation we will need to sell and buy and Bentley is one that we could get money for which in this scenario wouldn’t weaken us

What Pickford has done is irrelevant. On loan at Preston he was already superb at 21 Who has said that ?

It’s an opinion. Young keepers often come in and do really well, then dip and then improve again. Max is on that journey.

Seales is bowling some stunners here

Depends how much he improves between now and then if given a run of games. Many players improve with experience, especially goalkeepers. Unless you think Max’s ability has now peaked?! Would be surprised if he didn’t improve with more game time. Very surprised. He hasn’t peaked yet

50/3 at lunch incoming

If we sold Bentley and told him he was our number one then I’m confident he wouldn’t leave

Hard work today…..read my full post. Read the full post!

I did say ‘if max is as good’ as a caveat I don’t think it should be forgotten that we are in a poor position financially. We may need to sell a first team player to improve other areas of the pitch

Well done Max. Would like to see him regain his place and continue to improve and learn ahead of being our number one next season, if he does so. We know what Bentley can do and if Max is as good after another run of games then we can sell Bentley and invest in other areas.

One has to assume they’ve seen the pitch and think one spinner is enough. Guess time will tell. Woakes must be playing because he’s quite reliable with the bat. Would have liked to see more of Fisher, we know Overton isn’t good enough already

Next test will be the same for sure. Need to pick two spinners and drop Woakes

Yeah I wouldn’t rule it out but there won’t ever be any proof of the motivation

Glad to hear Conway is amongst the goals. I thought he’d be playing a fair few games this season which hasn’t happened yet. Partly because of injury but also he has been slightly disappointing for the under 23s. Hopefully he can kick on now. We are safe so i would love to see him get 3-4 starts in a row and a few good games for the 23s could make that happen. Pearson seems to like him

It could easily be that the Windies don’t back their batsmen to score the runs needed on a more bowler friendly pitch. I don’t think if we see a Grenada pitch similar to the first two that it will prove they’ve done it for profit.

Do Luton have a better squad of players than us? Blackpool? Preston? Coventry? Millwall? All better than us. I don’t think the league table is a list from top to bottom of the best and worst squads. The manager has an enormous impact on how the team performs and how good the players individually perform in that team. Hughton is a hugely respected manager who a lot fans wanted here. Who’s to say how good the Forest squad is. Pearson might well have excuses but is our squad better than it’s league position and performances? In my view, yes

He turned them around before he spent a penny I believe

Forest have shown what a difference an influential manager with a plan can make….

Game well and truly on England 6/4 to win

I very much fancy Liverpool to win this one!

I’d be shocked if that’s the tactics after we batted like that. Assuming that Root wants to make sure it’s 100% a draw minimum so he can set very attacking fields and not worry about conceding boundaries

Come on root. Declare flare time!

Kids spoilt by their irresponsible parents.

Absolutely. It should have been turned back on him. I appreciate that Pearson doesn’t really want to be doing it but it is part of his job! Plus in about 6 months time he might be fighting for his job so it might help him if fans and journalists don’t think of him as an arrogant tosser.

Pearson is a dick sometimes isn’t he. Incredibly arrogant response On another note, two very common things in football make me laugh. Fans moaning about keepers punching and fans moaning about zonal marking from corners. Nearly every keeper nowadays prefers to punch and I would say a majority of teams either exclusively or part, zonal mark from corners. There’s obviously a reason for it that the professional coaches are coaching.