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———————- Areola 
AWB.   Todibo ( Greek is injured ) Kilman   Diouf / KWP
———. Potts ——- Magassa ——— Paqueta
————— Fernandes ————————-
Bowen —————————— Summerville

Thats our best 11 - 13 in terms of athleticism, pace and strength !!! And the bar is set fairly low in that respect.  
Impact subs Soucek, Wilson and Marshall although he would be tail end of games at best. Thats it.  might be wirth pulling the young lafs Kante and Fearon into the squad for minutes. They are strong and Fearon quick? 

Tactics will need to be low block, keep compact with 3 always in the midfield and sometimes 4 looking for fast counters to score.  Moyesball with real discipline keepingbtge shape and if you dont run u dont play. Then hope we scrape a few points before Jan and then somehow make 3 signings, striker, centre mid ( Bissouma for me ) and a CB the whole spine of the team.  

unlikely all this happens hence relegation seems to be odds on ?

‘Were’ not ‘was’ you cretin.

You was warned ...be careful what you wish for...you was warned 

I take it no one from Sky or post match from the press invited Nuno to talk us through not using his two full backs & swapping their replacements to the wrong side?
 

No one can defend or understand that selection, but we have a truly dreadful squad. Of that there can be no debate.

With Nuno, the real worry is that performances have got progressively worse. That cant be right and isn't acceptable. Leeds is huge from that perspective alone

Russ of the BML" wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 14:38 That starting eleven was so bad I almost laughed.... Then didn't when I realised it wasn't April 1st. Even god doesn't know what the fuck he was doing naming that side. I cannot even comprehend the thought process behind it. None of it did, does or ever will make sense.

Did he think we could roll Brentford and then play out best team Friday? Did he think he would win with that side and get labelled a master of squad utilisation? 

Whatever he thought, he royally fucked it and he has to take accountability for it. I am prepared to forgive him as he is still settling in.... But, fuck me, he pulls another stunt like that and he will not make the ground up with alot of fans. 

Fucking tragic line up was almost as bad as the performance. 

Agreed. The team selection last night was almost a stackable offence. He needs a big bounce back against Leeds on Friday and to pick our strongest team, none of the bollocks we saw last night.

That starting eleven was so bad I almost laughed.... Then didn't when I realised it wasn't April 1st. Even god doesn't know what the fuck he was doing naming that side. I cannot even comprehend the thought process behind it. None of it did, does or ever will make sense.

Did he think we could roll Brentford and then play out best team Friday? Did he think he would win with that side and get labelled a master of squad utilisation? 

Whatever he thought, he royally fucked it and he has to take accountability for it. I am prepared to forgive him as he is still settling in.... But, fuck me, he pulls another stunt like that and he will not make the ground up with alot of fans. 

Fucking tragic line up was almost as bad as the performance. 

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 13:52

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 12:02 Nevermind Espirito Santo, he's more Santa Mierda.

Ohno truly fucked that up last night and then had the nerve to blame the fans for making the precious snowflakes anxious. 

He needs to walk for that alone.

Puts that XI out and then blames the support? cսnt.

has he gone there already? clearly not long for this job

The one thing I hope he does that Potter never seemed to is to LEARN from this and not do anything 'clever' like it again.

Play all our best players, in their best positions, within the framework of a recognised formation. It doesn't need to be more complex than that.

All our strikers are shit? Yes it's a shitty hand but it's the one dealt. Our worst striker is probably a better striker than the next best player who isn't a striker- who is also likely to be the best at THEIR position- so by moving them you weaken two positions at the same time.

Case in point last night on top of us not being a very good team to begin with, we voluntarily weakened striker, central midfield and full backs by not playing one of our strikers from the start, taking arguably our best (of a poor bunch) CM away from that position to fill the hole up front, and bizarrely weakening both full back positions by switching flanks. He could at least have switched Scarles and KWP to their correct sides, or if the switch was to get KWP on a certain player or vice versa to shield Scarles from someone, then surely just if you're oging to put KWP on the left, put AWB on the right, or if you're putting Scarles on the right put Diuof or AWB (who we know can at least deputise there) on the left. I really want to hear the explanation for what he did with the full backs but I expect we never will. He's certainly not going to explain it in a press conference if asked.

 

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 12:02 Nevermind Espirito Santo, he's more Santa Mierda.

Ohno truly fucked that up last night and then had the nerve to blame the fans for making the precious snowflakes anxious. 

He needs to walk for that alone.

Puts that XI out and then blames the support? cսnt.

Nuno got it all wrong and should have admitted to his part in what was a horror show.  Very worrying that he doesnt see our midfield cannot compete

Nevermind Espirito Santo, he's more Santa Mierda.

Ohno truly fucked that up last night and then had the nerve to blame the fans for making the precious snowflakes anxious. 

He needs to walk for that alone.

Puts that XI out and then blames the support? cսnt.

claret on my shirt" wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 10:08 I thought Nuno was just another defensive coach when we got him and not a great capture. Last night he played our backup LB at RB and our backup RB at LB. Two of the slowest (and that's f-cking slow considering all of our midfield) non creative midfielders who can't get around the pitch in midfield. Just an appalling starting XI and people wonder why we played shit. He then changed 3 of the back 4 at half time, by that time the already terrible morale was through the floor and I think we changed to a 532, I guess again confusing the players and changing the shape after 2 weeks of training trying to coach 4 across the back. Then we need a goal and he keeps Calum Wilson on the bench. The man is a complete fool and the defeat and performance was 100% on him last night.

I thought Nuno was just another defensive coach when we got him and not a great capture. Last night he played our backup LB at RB and our backup RB at LB. Two of the slowest (and that's f-cking slow considering all of our midfield) non creative midfielders who can't get around the pitch in midfield. Just an appalling starting XI and people wonder why we played shit. He then changed 3 of the back 4 at half time, by that time the already terrible morale was through the floor and I think we changed to a 532, I guess again confusing the players and changing the shape after 2 weeks of training trying to coach 4 across the back. Then we need a goal and he keeps Calum Wilson on the bench. The man is a complete fool and the defeat and performance was 100% on him last night.

I'd stick Soucek at centre back, I know it's not his usual position but needs must. Kilman and Todibo aren't good enough and Mav looked like he will be out for a while. Stick three of Paqueta, Fernandes, Magassa and Potts in midfield. A minimum of three are needed in there as I said last night. Two gets over run and last nights one certainly did! Bowen right, Jimmy left and stick Callum Wilson up top. From what I've seen Marshall isn't a lone central striker in a struggling side. Wan Bissaka right and Diouf left full backs. Wan Bissaka is a full back not a wing back and one of the three central midfielders sits when either he or Diouf gets forward. Basics.

Managers and Agents continue to have Sullivan over a barrel in his times of desperation awarding Nuno with a 3 year contract after awarding Potter with a 2 and a half year contract just 6 months earlier. And this cսnt thinks he SAVES money by not paying out compo for a quality one that'll last. Emery, De Zerbi and the like were ones we should have gone for had we been prepared to show proper ambition. Villa and Marseilles gain as we only ever shop in the discount bin for out of work Managers, but still end up paying through the nose for them once their lucrative contracts need paying up anyway.

It's always short-termism fixes rather than plan properly for the long-term creating a long lasting stability at the Club. Eventually though that shit finally catches up with you..

It's thick Football economics from our slug of a Chairman.

                     Fabianski 

Wan-Bissaka Igor Kilman Diouf

                   Potts Soucek 

         Bowen Paqueta Summerville 

                         Wilson

That's what I'd go with next game against Leeds. Avoid square pegs in round holes. 

We have a bang average squad. Nuno played a 4-3-3 counter attacking but 4-1-4-1 in defence at Forest.

This is the best XI that I can fathom from what he has to work with...Letting Edson leave for Turkey looks an even more stupid decision now than it was at the time. Piss Potter logic.

Areola
Wan Bissaka Mavro Kilman Diouf
Fernandes Soucek Paqueta
Bowen Wilson Summerville

Our second XI don't look too clever

Fabianski
KWP Todibo Igor Jesus Scarles
Magassa Guido Potts
Marshall Fullkrug Guillerme

Herman Hermits, JWP and Irving are superfluous to me

Fans out!

We’re 100% going down 
but what gets the fuck up my nose about that more than anything is I don’t know if we would’ve if we’d of hired a manager for the third time in a row that picks our strongest players, plays them in the correct position and plays to our strengths 
that dirty little Welsh cսnt who deserves a stroke keeps playing the cheap option and not once in any of his interviews does he ask them what their strategy is cos he’s not used to interviewing people that he doesn’t want to fuck 

Come On You Irons" wrote: ↑05 Oct 2025, 13:34

Gank wrote: ↑05 Oct 2025, 13:32 0% win rate

If it remains so and hasn't improved to 33.33% after the Brentford game, then that will be concerning.

That team selection, substitutions ans tactics were fucking awful

Have we got the sp*rs nuno?

The first alarm bell that went off for me was agreeing to work with our hastily knocked up together Academy Staff upon arrival whilst enjoying a nice fat contract of his own. Tonight's 'effort' was the 2nd alarm going off.


Is his heart all that in it, or is it more about the easy money gig he was really attracted too whilst still seething about losing his Forest job? Sort it out, Nuno.

eusebiovic wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025, 22:23

Maverick180180 wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025, 22:18

eusebiovic wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025, 22:11 Let's face it - we have a really average bunch of players

I can't see anybody getting a tune out of this lot

No 
nonsense 
the problem is we keep hiring managers who won’t play our best players 

What is it they are seeing in training which never seems to materialize on the pitch then?