uReds Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 OK I'm feeling a bit better about this with Wilf and Seniorman back. I would say we could do with an early goal but that would just give Rodgers the excuse just to sit back and invite pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxinNotts Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 25 minutes ago, uReds said: C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. Really don't want to lose this one. Don't think I could take the ear ache! You'll never get a better chance to beat us. first choice defence out and our talisman not playing. This should put additional pressure on you, but it won't be viewed like that in your camp. On paper, we should give you a good hiding, but we all know what a difficult place to visit the City Ground can be when your crowd is up for it. Your Steve Cooper seems to have built a bit of a siege mentality. Should be a cracking game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazman Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 40 minutes ago, Lako42 said: We should do these. Anything other than a win is unacceptable big time. Time to step up for players and Rodgers. I don;'t want to see any of his complicated game meddling bollocks in this. Not unless we ar 6 Nil up with .5 of a second left to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weller54 Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 32 minutes ago, uReds said: C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. We're the underdogs after you've knocked out the mighty Arse 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 We're going to park the bus after scoring within the first 10 minutes arent we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 33 minutes ago, uReds said: C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. Our issue is we’re horribly inconsistent… you guys have definitely been playing well recently, and you’ll carry that plus some extra into this game. We can’t cope with aggressive teams, we just fall apart and become this horrible static mess who can’t defend. I am worried going into this, Brendan certainly has it in him to get this horribly wrong and underestimate you. It will mean more to you at the moment because we’re premier league, and Derby are seemingly on the brink of non-league…. So to beat recent FA cup champions would be a real scalp! I wouldn’t be so worried if I were you, we can’t tell week from week which Leicester will turn up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ren Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 After collapsing numerous times in Europe, and bottling a 2 goal lead at Liverpool, it's indefensible if we bottle this. That's not even getting into some of the league performances. This team really need to show they have a backbone, says a lot that Forest are probably the favourites going into this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jack1993 Posted 24 January 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 24 January 2022 (edited) We can't be losing football matches to Ned Schneebly Edited 24 January 2022 by Jack1993 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMike Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 We'll probably be comfortably leading 2-0 and Rodgers will use his current favourite ploy. He'll take of KDH and replace him with KOD (kiss-of-death, Soumaré) to 'shore up the midfield'. He comes on and ambles about without the foggiest notion of what to do. ....wonder who Forest will get in the next round? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingkisnorbo Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 10 minutes ago, Jack1993 said: We can't be losing football matches to Ned Schneebly I knew I recognised him from somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 We should win this comfortably on paper but you just know what's going to happen. Hopefully the players will be up for it and prove us wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 1 hour ago, Fox92 said: I'd rather go full strength here and then make changes for Liverpool away. Agreed. This is where I think we’ll start to lose out on what’s best for Brendan versus what’s best for the club. He’ll be thinking getting knocked out of the FA Cup and Europa Conference is no biggie - he’s won the cup and he doesn’t know what the Conference League is apparently… - so he’ll be thinking about finishing as high up in the league so that his league record shows 5th, 5th, 8th/9th etc. on his CV. Whereas for us fans we’d take finishing 10th/11th for a strong shot at a European trophy and retaining the FA Cup (with a win over Forest on the way). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number 6 Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 Generally had a good record against Championship sides under Rodgers haven't we? To be honest when I have recently watched Champ games the standard has been terrible, I think there is quite a gulf between the leagues now, as evinced by Norwich. We will obviously need to turn up on the day - Arsenal showed us what happens if we expect to half-arse it and win - but we have plenty of quality to get through here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ren Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 1 minute ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: Agreed. This is where I think we’ll start to lose out on what’s best for Brendan versus what’s best for the club. He’ll be thinking getting knocked out of the FA Cup and Europa Conference is no biggie - he’s won the cup and he doesn’t know what the Conference League is apparently… - so he’ll be thinking about finishing as high up in the league so that his league record shows 5th, 5th, 8th/9th etc. on his CV. Whereas for us fans we’d take finishing 10th/11th for a strong shot at a European trophy and retaining the FA Cup (with a win over Forest on the way). I agree but surely Brendan can't disregard the FA Cup, with us holders of it. Arguably the FA Cup win is the only thing stopping serious rumours about him getting the sack this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrifox Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 21 minutes ago, Jack1993 said: We can't be losing football matches to Ned Schneebly excellent spot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 14 minutes ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: Agreed. This is where I think we’ll start to lose out on what’s best for Brendan versus what’s best for the club. He’ll be thinking getting knocked out of the FA Cup and Europa Conference is no biggie - he’s won the cup and he doesn’t know what the Conference League is apparently… - so he’ll be thinking about finishing as high up in the league so that his league record shows 5th, 5th, 8th/9th etc. on his CV. Whereas for us fans we’d take finishing 10th/11th for a strong shot at a European trophy and retaining the FA Cup (with a win over Forest on the way). Agreed, although I still think Brendan knows he is here to win things so I'm hoping, with that, he priorities the Forest game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 Brendan has a track record of going strong against lower league sides I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousFox46 Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 1 hour ago, uReds said: C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. Why do Forest fans keep joining this forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 7 minutes ago, Unabomber said: Brendan has a track record of going strong against lower league sides I think. We'll be full strength for this, absolutely no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uReds Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 4 minutes ago, FuriousFox46 said: Why do Forest fans keep joining this forum? To interact with other football fans ahead of a fixture that hasn’t been played for a number of years. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 Just now, filbertway said: We'll be full strength for this, absolutely no doubt. Yeah no reason not to and I think Brendan will be desperate to win this. Can’t believe some of the nonsense pessimism in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 38 minutes ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: Agreed. This is where I think we’ll start to lose out on what’s best for Brendan versus what’s best for the club. He’ll be thinking getting knocked out of the FA Cup and Europa Conference is no biggie - he’s won the cup and he doesn’t know what the Conference League is apparently… - so he’ll be thinking about finishing as high up in the league so that his league record shows 5th, 5th, 8th/9th etc. on his CV. Whereas for us fans we’d take finishing 10th/11th for a strong shot at a European trophy and retaining the FA Cup (with a win over Forest on the way). Realistic - just lets get to 40 points a s a p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperEadem Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 Can't think of a time when there will have been many more local players or that are fans of the clubs themselves on the playing staff. These lot better be getting the rest up for it 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 24 January 2022 Share Posted 24 January 2022 1 hour ago, uReds said: C'mon now - we are in decent form and look a good championship side under Cooper but you're FA cup champions with numerous quality international players. It'd be an enormous shock for you to not progress through to the next round. Anyone who says this match doesn't matter to Forest is also talking nonsense. Should be a fascinating contest. Rodgers will be very uncomfortable going in to this. He badly needs to navigate this with a win otherwise he's under massive pressure. These are the sorts of games he's the absolute pits at. We ought to be strong favourites but as you say, you're in good form and confident. Brennan Johnson will carry on the tradition that any player previously linked to us in recent years will score at least once. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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