Leeds 3 - 5 Forest (McCleary, 59)

 

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Have the goalkeepers and defenders gone on strike? :blink:

3-6 :o Mental. How are Forest doing now? I watched Leeds against Boro on the BBC the other week, and Leeds looked quite a good team.

And it finished 3-7. What a bonkers match :o In other news Brighton move up to fourth after beating Derby :yahoo:

 

And some bloke called Messi who seems quite good has scored a hat trick to become Barcelona's record goalscorer.

MASSIVE win for Blackburn too. Think they'll stay up now.

 

Wigan - done now. The squad is picking up points here and there but it's not brilliant.

QPR - only one win under Hughes. They look a tad defeated. On a poor run despite having played all their relegation rivals over the past month.

Bolton - don't know how the Muamba situation will effect them. They're going to have a massive fixture pile-up soon though.

Wolves - in freefall, and a big negative goal difference is stacking up.

 

I can't see any of the four above teams doing better than Blackburn now. One of them needs to find form & quickly.

The first time Leeds have ever conceded 7 at home! It couldn't have come against sweeter opposition (and manager)! :D

 

We're such a Jekyll and Hyde team. Last four games: Woeful against Doncaster, outplayed in defeat at home to the bottom club in the league. Beat Millwall 3-1, good performance at home, some great goals, deserved victory. Last week lost 1-0 to Derby, biggest game of the season, absolutely DIRE football. Tonight we play brilliant football and put 7 (seven) :D past Leeds. Not going to take anything against Brighton on Saturday!

 

Garath McCleary got 4 tonight and has 8 in 9 now. The one thing we were always missing under Billy Davies was a winger of high quality, yet he never got a run in the team. What could've been! :( I'll just appreciate him now while I can, I'm sure he'll be off for nothing in the summer!

Bolton have the easiest run-in, QPRs is a nightmare! Still got to play 6 of the top 7. Wolves need to change something, I still don't think sacking McCarthy was wrong, he was taking them down without a doubt. Everything since that has been total embarassment though.

The latest news on Muamba seems fairly encouraging so it might not be too long before Bolton are playing again which means they shouldn't have too much of a fixture backlog. I said a few months ago that QPR seemed to lack confidence and that still applies.

 

What a shame that Forest have to follow tonight's performance with a match agains the mighty Seagulls :D

Buzzing after Peterborough's win tonight. Tyrone Barnett is absolutely amazing :D

The latest news on Muamba seems fairly encouraging so it might not be too long before Bolton are playing again which means they shouldn't have too much of a fixture backlog. I said a few months ago that QPR seemed to lack confidence and that still applies.

 

What a shame that Forest have to follow tonight's performance with a match against the mighty Seagulls :D

Perhaps tonight will be the night that changed. Coming from two down to win a match when they should have been hammered could give them the confidence they need.

Liverpool will probably gift Wigan 3 points on Saturday. We seem to a have a habit of giving relegation fodder easy victories.

bristol city will now make a huge winning run possible thanks to thes players. we are down if we dont win 5/8 games. we need to average 2 points a game

Have you seen the bottom 3 play?! As a Forest fan I think if we get another 9 points from 9 games to give us 47 we'll be absolutely fine and nowhere near. If Bristol win 3 games and get a couple of draws they should be fine. The bottom 5 are all dreadful, I think we all deserve to be relegated really. Not gonna need anything like 50 points.

Out of the bottom 5 Bristol City were by far the worst ones i've seen at London Road this season! David James was appalling haha. Not seen Forest yet though...

Bristol City are dreadful. They had a bit of a purple patch when they first employed McInnes but that's about it. Three potentially good signings yesterday though in Ephraim Kienen and Bikey (though Burnley fans don't rate him). We drew 0-0 with them in December and it was a typically woeful game between two teams near the bottom. I'd say Forest have by far the best squad of the bottom few teams, I'm not really worried about going down at all now, even though our set of remaining fixtures is the most difficult on paper.

 

Of the bottom 8 (those who can still technically get relegated) in the last 10 games only 3 have got more than a point a game, Posh and Millwall just (11) and Forest with 14.

Another game against Brighton which we probably deserved to win but didn't, but pleased we got a last minute point. Wasn't at all impressed by Brighton though, they seem to be a mixture of Swansea and Stoke. Plenty of possession keeping but by a long way the dirtiest team to visit the City Ground this season. Only 5 bookings was lenient really (though Bridcutt's second was possibly debatable), considering their tactic for stopping the division's form winger was to hack him down at every given opportunity!

Liverpool will probably gift Wigan 3 points on Saturday. We seem to a have a habit of giving relegation fodder easy victories.

Good prediction, hope you put on a bet!

Another game against Brighton which we probably deserved to win but didn't, but pleased we got a last minute point. Wasn't at all impressed by Brighton though, they seem to be a mixture of Swansea and Stoke. Plenty of possession keeping but by a long way the dirtiest team to visit the City Ground this season. Only 5 bookings was lenient really (though Bridcutt's second was possibly debatable), considering their tactic for stopping the division's form winger was to hack him down at every given opportunity!

The reports on Final Score this afternoon all said that Forest were the dominant team. Brighton's disciplinary record has been poor for some years (going back to long before Poyet arrived). If they are promoted that will be a major problem.

Liverpool fans amaze me. When are they going to wake up to just how wank "King Kenny" actually is? Kenny has put together less points in the last 26 games than Hodgson did during his 26 games, they've now slipped to their lowest ever ranking in the European Clubs table and if the season had started on January 1st, they'd currently be bottom of the League! Kenny is no good for Liverpool, but the same fans who treated Hodgson so appaulingly are so blinded by love for him they can't see it. Don't get me wrong, it amuses me, but it's really quite pathetic.

The reports on Final Score this afternoon all said that Forest were the dominant team. Brighton's disciplinary record has been poor for some years (going back to long before Poyet arrived). If they are promoted that will be a major problem.

I did see yesterday that the disciplinary record is the worst in the division, if yesterday is a fair reflection of how they play it's not surprising. Although having said that they did only commit 12 fouls, it's just that at least half of them were somewhat cynical and dirty. The second yellow for Sparrow may have been harsh (although Brighton fans seem to be split from what I read) but there were a couple of unpunished ones which could easily have been bookings too. I was surprised that Mattock, the left back, wasn't one of those booked as that's where most seemed to happen.

 

It would have to be improved if promoted, just look at QPR this season, they've lost quite a few points from stupid red cards. Barton vs. Norwich and Cisse vs. Wolves especially, winning both games and two utterly stupid and deserved red cards, they end up losing both.

Liverpool have now lost, what, 5 of their last 6 matches? For a "big club" that's completely shambolic, and I think if it was anyone other than Dalglish at the helm, they'd be out on their ear by now. Bought terribly, playing terribly, though that's probably because they were "tired" in midweek. Sadly for Liverpool, nobody would have the balls to sack The King, though I think a return for Rafa (or even bring in AVB) would be worthwhile.