JoeAman08

Independent. They still have a couple saleable assets for sure but imo gambling on this season. Idk if they will fail FFP but they were lucky they could find loanees who had champ experience. They have a lot of massive wages probably coming to an end soon but they will need a rebuild in the near future if they do not get promoted.

Derby are in big trouble before FFP imo. Their squad is old for the most part and their best players are loanees.

Game in action and will randomly switch to McClaren or random QPR player. Very odd and not great viewing. Assuming talking about BCTV it is useless on my mobile as it won’t go full screen if you flip it. Decent enough on my tablet though.

Matty Taylor is useless. I will keep saying it if means he keeps scoring

He wasn’t awful against Boro but he is too one footed to play LB. LJ is starting to irk me and I have been giving him the benefit of doubt for a long time

Matty Taylor for 90 minutes. Yay

Good finish by Callum Paterson? ?

Just mean when everyone is fit and not suspended think he will be a bench player. Eliasson, Watkins, Diedhiou, Adelakun, Weimann, Taylor, COD and Eisa all players that can take minutes from Pato going forward. Can’t argue with @BobBobSuperBob about Pato being a player that acts like he is working hard. Don’t think he is lazy but not the natural workrate of others we have which is why I have suggested he is perhaps a better option against the likes of Bolton and Rotherham who will defend deeper. The central wide thing we just won’t agree on. I know he had good spells centrally last season but think a large part of that was playing with Bobby Reid who covered so much ground. Think it made it easier for Pato not being the main creative threat. Not sure he can get to those levels paired with others in this side.

Bit moot because I don’t think he is a starter long term anyway but not sure I have ever seen him so annonymous. I have seen plenty where he gets on the ball and gives it away but not one where he had so few touches. For Pato to be effective he needs to be on the ball and today, playing centrally, barely touched it.

Can’t argue that. Even did a job last 15 going out wide. Good debut and thought all the debutants were solid enough

Yes think he finds more space roaming from the left where it is harder to mark him. Of course he could roam from a central position but rarely did and barely touched the ball as a consequence. Even in his poor form he was getting on the ball but just didn’t look as sharp after a combination of burnout and virus. We saw him play centrally today and probably the worst I have seen him. Like he had no idea where to be

I am usually more positive but it was a dull match. Some positives and some negatives. Just felt like that will be our season. Not great but not awful and we will finish midtable. I am ok with that. Our biggest hope to bettering that is Diedhiou. If comes back into it fit and firing then we could be dangerous but don’t see enough options to be a promotion side. Not enough goals or creativity but a well organised side who can play up to opposition.

I expect him to drop to the bench and that is a good option off the bench. I like him as a player but he is just one of those types who wilo be up and down.

Missed Diedhiou today. Thought that was a huge difference. Pato still better as a wide option imo. Bit deeper and easier for him to find space. Maybe start against lesser teams who look to get behind the ball and defend deep. COD didn’t look quite right but got some good minutes. Thought Pack and Brownhill were good but Watson and Guediora were better.

Not a bad half. Forest always going to have spells where they are on top. Missing Fam at times as the ball been coming straight back down. Not playing too deep either when they have a spell of possesion. Dias looks dangerous though and will be a tough ask to contain him

Possibly. Probably. Is that something we can rely on though? Will we ever have a squad to compete with teams with bigger budgets? Again I like the guy I just worry about the bad form that seems to follow him. Last year maybe excusable but we aren’t bad enough to be bottom 4-5 of form table over a quarter of the season. He also did this with a Barnsley team good enough to be promoted. Signs are there that something goes wrong in his locker rooms

Our worst ever form after playoff form. If he can get the form to what we have seen in stretches why can’t he sustain it? Why can’t he pick it up after 3-4 games? The teams above us have all had a stretch of poor form but picked up after 3-4. For me, there is something there for LJ to sustain relegation type form in each of the last 3 seasons over a 10 or more stretch of matches.

There is blame to be had for LJ. Probably the most as he just can’t turn teams around once they go bad. It isn’t all on him but his inability to motivate a down team is worrying. I wouldn’t suggest him leaving but those who think this could run into next season can’t be disregarded if we don’t pick up some form.

You could argue we started our downward trend almost a month before Fammy came back in. Then the first couple games were off the bench. So by the time he was back starting we would have had a bad 6-7 game stretch starting with Wolves at AG. Possibly fair assessment about Pato though as has been said he hasn’t been the same since his virus. Basically I do not think there is any one reason we have been poor. There have been numerous reasons that all come up around the same time.

I am being swayed on Wright. Think he is a bit too unpredictable. There are games where he looks an elite defender. Then he has days where he can’t pick a pass and make boneheaded fouls. Not a great trait for a CB is unpredictability. If looking to be a top team I don’t think he can be a starter. Baffling he was made captain though. Korey and Marlon my first two choices there.

I think it is mental. When he absolutely has to hold it up or a team will counter on us, usually around our halfway line, he usually does brilliantly and picks a pass. Get 25-30 yards in their half it seems he doesn’t have quite the same fight and urgency. Though for a big man he is basically useless on long balls up to him in the air. Sometimes will win a flick if he has a step he can take. We see his strengths as a finisher though. That is why he cost 5m+. Doesn’t carve out as many chances as a Reid or Kodjia but is usually clinical. His goals per minute are up with the best and he usually finds the target. Many usually find the small stuff to pick out with him but he is good at most things with exceptional finishing. It’ll be tough to keep him his entire contract imo. Hell if he was never injured, I expect we’d already be hearing rumours

Think Pato in particular suffered the most with our injuries. He played a lot of minutes with his own injury concerns. I would have tried to rotate more over that stretch but maybe would not looked as good at the time. No telling where that would have left us now though.

It is ridiculous he ever ended up there for more than 10 min at the end of the match. Should never have been an option imo.

I like LJ. Hope no one thinks I do not. Just think he could have rotated more than he has. I like all our players and would trust them in a mostly unchanged side. Example Woodrow with Paterson and Eliasson for Brownhill. Even if for only 60 minutes.

He is on the bench now isn’t he?