Steve Watts

It doesn't. Was it last season that there was quite a bit of trouble when Swansea came over? They weren't held in that day, in spite of the aggro.

He will no doubt have a clause in his contract that deals with behaving in ways that could harm the company. His comments may possibly cost the station listeners and ultimately advertising cash if he is retained. He is perfectly entitled to feel the way he does, but this certainly would have been a situation that he will have been better off having those thoughts and not sharing them on a global platform.

It could be argued that even out of his natural position, Scott is one of the best players we have in that position. Or indeed most positions on the pitch. It wouldn't be a shock to see him jump in goal and save a penalty if we needed him to! Obviously we need to utilise him where he's most impactful for the team, but if Tanner and Wilson aren't considered ready and Sykes, who has taken to the position extremely well, is unavailable then the options are few and far between. Tanner and Wilson's time will come, but the step up is huge, and so we will just need to be patient.

I realise this will sound slightly hypocritical....but... I was offered tickets to the '95 cup final (Everton 1-0 United) as I worked with the daughter of one of the Everton board at the time. Driving home from Wembley, a guy in a United shirt walked down the road, took his keys out and went in through his front door. Even back then at the start of their purple patch under Fergie they had the rep.

It's a delicious irony that the more accurate description would be the red three quarters (Or should that be the red three faymuss qwawturrzz?)!

Goes to show just how professional he is. His desire to get a run of games in the 23's was commendable. And whilst playing there presumably built a good partnership with Young TC and jeez has it shown this past week. They are on such a good wavelength together. You look at it and when Semenyo is back it certainly isn't going to be easy for him to get past these two if they continue in this vein. Knew Tommy would get man of the match, but I too thought Nahki was (just) more deserving. Fantastic from him and long may it continue.

When he went down for a bit in front of the Lansdown it seemed to be his shoulder that was causing him some discomfort. Maybe just landed heavy....my hope is that @sinenomine was wrong when suggesting his shoulder is made of hamstrings! Would be interesting to see the comparison between his two halves. Seemed to be quiet first half, but maybe it just looked that way because of the second half where he was playing like a man possessed!

You see, I used to have a soft spot for Forest because of Cloughie and how he set his teams to play attractive passing football. That soft spot disappeared following relegation when it became very clear to everyone that they have the most entitled fanbase I'd come across at that point. They are rivalled in that by Leeds and Villa now mind.

Will we be able to even notice this....?!?

And if my Auntie had been born with a wanger, she'd have been my uncle. But she wasn't, so she's not. I find it a really strange piece of conjecture about what might have happened when we know what did happen. We may as well say Vyner had a good game yesterday but what would have happened if he'd made his customary costly mistake....but he didn't, so no-one is saying it. Discussion and debate is all well and good and what a forum is all about of course, but it does seem a little picky to do it after the substitutions had the desired effect against the opposition in front of us and we saw the game out without conceding despite being down to 10 men.

That's the point though.... Against Luton it made complete sense. Against Norwich would he have made the same changes? That is something that hopefully we don't have to find out, but ultimately right now we don't know. What we do know is that the changes he made last night countered any rally from Luton and therefore it worked well.

I think the highlighted bit is where the argument falters slightly. The fact is that the opposition was clueless and Nige had been watching this clueless opponent for 70 minutes. They were always going to be lumping the high ball into the box after the red card and the subs reflected both that and the desire to stifle any momentum Luton may have built up before they had a chance. The likelihood is that if we were playing against a better team then the changes will have been different. I agree on the periphery it seems odd to lose your RWB and not replace him with 1 of 2 RWB's on the bench, but I genuinely believe that the changes were sensible because of the opposition, not in spite of it.

Some of the comments on this thread are like some of my fave Facebook stories. You can tell by the comments that all they've done is read the headline and managed to come up with what they thought was a fully informed opinion!

Fixed that for you. There are some posts that deserve no more than a confused emoji to be fair... It's a cheap way to get past the "attack the post, not the poster" rule in some situations!

You can turn signatures off in settings so you don't have to see them at all. For me, there are some of these that seem strange that someone would have a problem with i.e. The Gate. What's wrong with that?!? And other things that are simply common phrases like "early doors" etc are pretty harmless. But what astonishes me more is the lack of annoyance with the improper use of the word "of", as in "could of", "should of", "would of" etc......

Williams being rested surely depends on how bad Scott's back is. Haven't spotted an update on his injury yet....

Oh shite....they're taking the piss guys....I never would have contributed to the thread had I known Magger1 was going to get all butt-hurt over it.... I would like to apologise for...well.....everything...

Criticising officials and blaming them are two different things though. The standard has been consistently poor in all 4 games this season. Could things have turned out differently in each match. Sure they could. The fact is that we have conceded in periods of the matches where we're playing poorly and defending for our lives and in that respect we are our own worst enemy irrespective of the officials. But any of the big calls given correctly will have changed the face of the game and given us a boost. The second pen shout - if that was outside the area then that's a free kick being given all day long. The red would have given them a lot more to do. Did we lose because of the officials? No. Could they have helped us win the match by doing their job properly? Absolutely. There has to be accountability on all sides.

Bloody hell, the standard of spelling on this forum is shockingly bad.... It's "Da faymuss kwawturrzzzz". Your effort is absolutely nothing to be prowed of!!!

The trouble with Zak is that he always seems to have a costly mistake in him. Unfortunately, in my opinion, you can't rely on him. That said I thought he had a very good game on Wednesday, so credit where it's due.

One goal. One. Your obsession with that one comment clearly blinds you to anything else and I have neither the time, the patience or the crayons to make my view any clearer to you, so I'll give up.

I'm really not talking about one mistake. I provided an example where it directly cost us and also stated that it seems to be a recurring theme. And just to be clear, it wasn't a mistake against Derby - it was negligence! At other times it tends to happen after conceding possession further up the pitch, but by just sitting/standing motionless with his arms up in the air he is taking himself out of the play instead of regrouping to try and put the opposition under pressure after losing possession. This continually happening, regardless of whether it's leading up to a goal or not, is why I wouldn't have him as captain. That and the fact that like others I prefer a captain to be either in defence or midfield. No, to compare the gaffs with Andi's shortcomings is irrelevant. Mistakes don't make a bad captain, just as being an excellent player like Andi doesn't mean you'll be a good one. Kalas is a full international who has represented his country in World Cups and European Championships, but he was a dreadful captain!