(07-02-2021, 04:36 PM)zicorice Wrote:

(07-02-2021, 02:18 PM)Fumanchew Wrote: Under Hughton we are 11th in the form table. With ppg from those 25 games to include Hughton from game day 1 we would be 11th in the table.

The last 5 games is an average of 2 ppg

The last 10 games is an average of 1.9 ppg

The last 15 games is an average of 1.3 ppg

I mean the difference is certainly there we just need to keep pushing on at that pace now

I doubt anyone with any football nous whatsoever would want us to change the manager now. Probably a few football manager/fifa/pro evo geeks who think you can buy and sell who you like but here in the real world I think most can see the slow evolution taking place. It might not be next season, but if we stick with a manager (this manager) for once then it will happen.

(08-02-2021, 05:59 PM)ozzyten10 Wrote: I’m cautiously optimistic, however our recent points haul has been at the expense of two promoted L1 sides. Bournemouth on Saturday will show us if we have improved or not.

(08-02-2021, 04:51 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: No other team has won more points than Nottingham Forest in The Championship in 2021.

Well done CH.

(13-02-2021, 04:08 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: It took a bit of time but our team has definitely got Chris Hughton's stamp on it now. Good shape, organised, solid, hard to breakdown. If we can just add a tad of attacking flair then we'll continue to rise up the league. Very tough game though the next one but Swansea will be facing a very different Nottingham Forest to the one they faced last time.

(13-02-2021, 04:48 PM)stirred Wrote: When I started supporting Forest they had some principles, on how to play and how to behave. I liked both of them. Neutrals liked us. I was proud to support us.

Watching us now is embarrassing, and it saddens me that the club is gaining a reputation for being dour and negative. For me it is far worse to watch us play like we do now than to approach matches trying to win but (also) with limited success.

I haven’t posted for a while because I don’t want to be accused of being negative. I understand the arguments people make, saying we were in free-fall and of building a foundation, but I don’t buy it and for me there is simply no excuse for playing the way we are playing.

Our squad is comfortably better than the clubs around us, the likes of Derby, Rotherham, Coventry, Wycombe, Wednesday, QPR, Birmingham. They would love to swap their squads for ours.

Yet there is a narrative that we need to play this way to avoid relegation. I do not believe it. We were never going down.

To compound the playing style, in a season where we are neither going up nor down, it should be about building for next season. Yet our two teenage prospects watch from the bench while a 37 year-old loanee now leads our attack. It’s a good job there are no crowds allowed.

It makes me sad and it makes me angry to see us approach the game like we do, to the point where I feel the need to take a break from watching them too. I can only hope that the club employs a manager who understands the modern game and can have us showing ambition and playing entertaining football sooner rather than later.

(13-02-2021, 04:48 PM)stirred Wrote: When I started supporting Forest they had some principles, on how to play and how to behave. I liked both of them. Neutrals liked us. I was proud to support us.

Watching us now is embarrassing, and it saddens me that the club is gaining a reputation for being dour and negative. For me it is far worse to watch us play like we do now than to approach matches trying to win but (also) with limited success.

I haven’t posted for a while because I don’t want to be accused of being negative. I understand the arguments people make, saying we were in free-fall and of building a foundation, but I don’t buy it and for me there is simply no excuse for playing the way we are playing.

Our squad is comfortably better than the clubs around us, the likes of Derby, Rotherham, Coventry, Wycombe, Wednesday, QPR, Birmingham. They would love to swap their squads for ours.

Yet there is a narrative that we need to play this way to avoid relegation. I do not believe it. We were never going down.

To compound the playing style, in a season where we are neither going up nor down, it should be about building for next season. Yet our two teenage prospects watch from the bench while a 37 year-old loanee now leads our attack. It’s a good job there are no crowds allowed.

It makes me sad and it makes me angry to see us approach the game like we do, to the point where I feel the need to take a break from watching them too. I can only hope that the club employs a manager who understands the modern game and can have us showing ambition and playing entertaining football sooner rather than later.