Let’s be honest

[TheBaldOne66 768]

God help the club if this squad did actually get promoted! The last 2 efforts in the top flight have been abysmal and without spending more than what Forest have this season, we would just be cannon fodder all over again! 
 

Could you imagine how many Haaland would score against our defence 🤣🤣🤣

[Branston Pickle 4,150]

Can we not just concentrate on trying to get promoted first?  The number of people who seem to only be interested in what might happen next season is extraordinary 

[TheBaldOne66 768]

3 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

Can we not just concentrate on trying to get promoted first?  The number of people who seem to only be interested in what might happen next season is extraordinary 

But it’s a reflection of just how poor and unbalanced the squad actually is currently. Only other defender is Gibson and striker is Hugill so it’s really looking unlikely tbh, wouldn’t you think?

[Wings of a Sparrow 1,708]

15 minutes ago, TheBaldOne66 said:

God help the club if this squad did actually get promoted! The last 2 efforts in the top flight have been abysmal and without spending more than what Forest have this season, we would just be cannon fodder all over again! 
 

Could you imagine how many Haaland would score against our defence 🤣🤣🤣

I can tell you now for nothing, we won't be spending more than Forest have, if/when we get promoted.

[cambridgeshire canary 7,799]

Sadly agreed. I mean how poor must the championship be if we are able to sneak into the top two? Really does go to show the massive gap in divisons.. But my word imagine todays defending against Man City for example, christ what would it be? Haaland double hatrck and them winning 12-0?

[TheBaldOne66 768]

Just now, Wings of a Sparrow said:

I can tell you now for nothing, we won't be spending more than Forest have, if/when we get promoted.

No we won’t which means it would be even bigger carnage 🙈

[overthebordercanary 160]

More likely to have the Derby back next year, then us getting promoted.

[Top corner 260]

A defeat has been coming, after a few weeks of disappointing performances. I genuinely can't think of a game where we were in total control, no we aren't going to play well every game, but this league is extremely poor this season. For me Krul has to be dropped after today's performance & for his decision making plus his distribution has been great for a while now.

[Ken Hairy 4,272]

58 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Sadly agreed. I mean how poor must the championship be if we are able to sneak into the top two? Really does go to show the massive gap in divisons.. But my word imagine todays defending against Man City for example, christ what would it be? Haaland double hatrck and them winning 12-0?

Haaland only got one today, he's already on the decline, he'll be past it by next season 😏

[Richard Richard 191]

43 minutes ago, Top corner said:

A defeat has been coming, after a few weeks of disappointing performances. I genuinely can't think of a game where we were in total control, no we aren't going to play well every game, but this league is extremely poor this season. For me Krul has to be dropped after today's performance & for his decision making plus his distribution has been great for a while now.

Agreed. Didn't see the game today but we've not played well for a while and, as you say, this was coming. Let's use this defeat to change things up. Today's result shows we're not going to get away with below-par performances and still scrape points all season...

[wheres my rebate gone? 85]

1 hour ago, Branston Pickle said:

Can we not just concentrate on trying to get promoted first?  The number of people who seem to only be interested in what might happen next season is extraordinary 

Or certain people who try an justify their views on Smith by bringing up Farke stats but go quiet when they can’t find anything to support there man!!! Extraordinary!!😜

Edited October 8, 2022 by wheres my rebate gone?

[TIL 1010 5,246]

55 minutes ago, wheres my rebate gone? said:

Or certain people who try an justify their views on Smith by bringing up Farke stats but go quiet when they can’t find anything to support there man!!! Extraordinary!!😜

Smith was brought here because of shortcomings in Farke's ability but has failed miserably to show he is the man for that job.

[Wings of a Sparrow 1,708]

2 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

Smith was brought here because of shortcomings in Farke's ability but has failed miserably to show he is the man for that job.

How has he failed?

[chicken 3,087]

2 hours ago, Branston Pickle said:

Can we not just concentrate on trying to get promoted first?  The number of people who seem to only be interested in what might happen next season is extraordinary 

Especially when most of those people think we'll be exceedingly "lucky" if we are promoted. 

[Capt. Pants 5,013]

10 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

Smith was brought here because of shortcomings in Farke's ability but has failed miserably to show he is the man for that job.

Especially defending where today it was Keystone Cops.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Capt. Pants

[TIL 1010 5,246]

1 minute ago, Wings of a Sparrow said:

How has he failed?

He was brought in to make a better fist of being our head coach than the prervious man and he has failed miserably.

[Pyro Pete 2,354]

What concerns me at the moment is that when to things starting to go against us, we struggle to regroup and go again.

[Foxy2600 377]

32 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

Especially defending where today it was Keystone Cops.

But here we go again, we need a DMF and two strong lads behind…. We buy another AMF and some speculative forwards to replace Teemu which we can’t 

[corbs 147]

Next season is next season, next year is next year, we have a few current issues in our life’s to address before then. 

[cambridgeshire canary 7,799]

1 hour ago, Wings of a Sparrow said:

How has he failed?

Got us to 9 unbeaten in a row. That's failure it seems.

[Dame to Blame 108]

Im afraid the farke lovers and smith outers  will shoe horn anything negative to back up there hatred to Smith. There is nothing he can do to change there minds , the bloke is doomed .

[Canary Jedi 610]

Can’t speak for everyone, but I get the impression most people want Smith to succeed and get the best out of the players. The issue is we’ve not seen evidence of sustained improvement. 

[Inch High aka Inchy.. 417]

1 hour ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Got us to 9 unbeaten in a row. That's failure it seems.

Where were you sitting today? 

We are in second spot because the whole Championship is so bad it's making Smith look like a genius. 

We are just as bad but have the benefit of having just been relagated with 3-4 nearly decent players. Smith is riding his luck, nothing more. 

I dream of the day he's gone.

[cambridgeshire canary 7,799]

11 hours ago, Canary Jedi said:

Can’t speak for everyone, but I get the impression most people want Smith to succeed and get the best out of the players. The issue is we’ve not seen evidence of sustained improvement. 

 

9 hours ago, Inch High aka Inchy.. said:

Where were you sitting today? 

We are in second spot because the whole Championship is so bad it's making Smith look like a genius. 

We are just as bad but have the benefit of having just been relagated with 3-4 nearly decent players. Smith is riding his luck, nothing more. 

I dream of the day he's gone.

Oh the irony of these two posts being above and below one another

[kirku 1,358]

7 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

 

Oh the irony of these two posts being above and below one another

There is absolutely nothing ironic or contradictory in those two posts.

[SwearyCanary 1,340]

1 minute ago, kirku said:

There is absolutely nothing ironic or contradictory in those two posts.

Which makes Cambridge’s post ironic 😉

[littleyellowbirdie 3,140]

5 minutes ago, kirku said:

There is absolutely nothing ironic or contradictory in those two posts.

The first post is saying that there's no evidence that Smith knows what he''s doing. 

The second post is saying that it looks like he knows what he's doing, but actually he doesn't because really it's only that the league is rubbish and therefore he doesn't know what he's doing. 

So the irony is that the evidence that he knows what he's doing is there, but it's being dismissed on unreasonable grounds by his critics. 

Edited October 9, 2022 by littleyellowbirdie

[kirku 1,358]

3 minutes ago, littleyellowbirdie said:

The first post is saying that there's no evidence that Smith knows what he''s doing. 

The second post is saying that it looks like he knows what he's doing, but actually he doesn't because really it's only that the league is rubbish and he doesn't know what he's doing. 

So the irony is that the evidence that he knows what he's doing is there, but it's being dismissed on unreasonable grounds by his critics. 

Firstly, it was pretty clear that the "irony" stemmed from these comments:

"I get the impression most people want Smith to succeed" 

"I dream of the day he's gone"

For the substance, they largely agree: "we've not seen evidence of sustained improvement" and of Smith "riding his luck". 

[littleyellowbirdie 3,140]

10 minutes ago, kirku said:

Firstly, it was pretty clear that the "irony" stemmed from these comments:

"I get the impression most people want Smith to succeed" 

"I dream of the day he's gone"

For the substance, they largely agree: "we've not seen evidence of sustained improvement" and of Smith "riding his luck". 

Well, given that what I've explained to you actually is irony, and what you're presuming he meant by irony isn't irony, it's pretty clear you just don't understand irony. 

[kirku 1,358]

8 minutes ago, littleyellowbirdie said:

Well, given that what I've explained to you actually is irony, and what you're presuming he meant by irony isn't irony, it's pretty clear you just don't understand irony. 

Look, I appreciate that yesterday's result put you in a pretty tricky situation given that you've spent most of this week saying that the performances are irrelevant because we're getting positive results and rabidly attacking those of us who were saying we've been riding our luck, but take a day off.

There's no "irony" in two fans largely agreeing but having a slightly different view of things.

Edited October 9, 2022 by kirku