Recent content by Chivalry Augustus

I remember that Derby - Forest game about 15 years ago where Attwell was the ref. I think they scored a winner in stoppage time but he gave a penalty instead which Lee Camp saved, and we scraped a point. It was obvious then that he was a very bad referee, yet like a lot of the bad referees he...

I thought we were hard done by on the decisions. We’ve all seen them - I’ve seen among neutrals a split opinion on the 1st and 2nd, so maybe you can argue they’re not quite “clear & obvious” errors, but nobody thinks the 3rd shouldn’t have been a penalty. However, I do disagree with the idea...

I feel like we’ve gotten worse under Nuno. The football is more or less the same, but he doesn’t seem to ever get more than 70% out of the players. He enjoys no support from me and I wouldn’t be against sacking him tonight. I don’t think results would necessarily improve without him, but I’m...

I’d bring Yates on for Reyna and push Dominguez higher up - these Yanks aren’t top level footballers.

Shocking from Danilo and Dominguez all half so far. Branthwaite and Gueye have both had 40-yard surges right through them, they’re not protecting the defence at all.

Looks like a very low points tally for survival - if Luton get 30 from here, they’d have overachieved. Burnley getting to 30 looks highly improbable looking at their remaining fixtures. If we can get 5 points, I’d give us a 90% chance of staying up. If we get 6 or more, I’d be absolutely amazed...

It’s quite a short-term approach from the club; cash in while we’re still Premier League and worry about the medium and long-term when they show up on your doorstep. That would be nice and ambitious if we weren’t somehow flirting with relegation in one of the weakest Premier Leagues I can...

I honestly think that between ourselves and Luton, we’re going to try and out-rubbish each other till the end of the season, and the team that survives will do so on a surprisingly low points tally. I’d be amazed if we won more than 1 of our remaining matches - I don’t look at any of them and...

We could get pasted here, we’re sat on the edge of our own box yet somehow we’re never tight on the man. When we get the ball, we’re useless with it.

I think Burnley became an irrelevance after today - they need to make up 6 points and 21 goals on us across 6 remaining matches when they’ve only won one match all year. They’ll need 2 points per game to stay up from here, and even that probably wouldn’t be enough. For ourselves, I think we...

Our pathetic performance vs Palace may yet prove costly, it was one of our most winnable matches and we were poor. We know that Luton have a kinder run-in, but they have a lot of other things on their side too - they’re a lot like us last season in that they’ve got the spirit, belief, and the...

Danilo’s only 22, though, it makes loads of sense to develop him and see the benefits of that, especially given that his best performances at the club have been very, very good indeed. If we’re afraid of players making mistakes then we’ll struggle to ever have good players - failure is the way...

Terrific performance. Fulham had more of the game 2nd half, and our defending from corners was terrifying, but we really should have scored 6 tonight with the chances we had. Yates and Danilo just worked in a way that other partnerships haven’t worked. Danilo is just a natural footballer who can...

The problem with needing to win 3 games out of 8 is that we’ve only won 3 of our last 15, four of which were played against lower league opposition where we scraped 2 of those wins, one each AET and penalties. Apart from the West Ham game, I don’t think we’ve been the better team in any of those...

So our plan is for Luton to hopefully be bad enough that we just cling on to survival. After we equalised, it was a really disheartening performance, we had no idea how to win and it looked to me like the manager didn’t, either. It’s obviously a tough league with no easy games, but this was...