Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
We are playing Sheffield United Away tomorrow.
Forest are going for their fourth defeat in a row (first time since Montanier) and a 7th away defeat in the 13 games it will be since we last won away in November.
Sheffield United will take one look at our likely team, our away record, our form and our squad's level of motivation and conclude that this is exactly the kind of home banker they should be winning at a canter.
And they probably will.
BUT Billy Sharp is out. Sharp loves scoring against us traditionally and you usually just start the score at 0-1 to take account of his obligatory goal. So we are already a goal up by starting at 0-0. There's positivity for you
John Egan, a CH is out for them. I don't know anything about him other than he is better than Wague. Makes no difference as forest are shite at scoring so even when we do bother their defence, we'll miss the target
Some bloke called Joao Carvalho is out with concussion for forest after smashing his head against a brick wall repeatedly in training. This will have no effect whatsoever on forest's chances because the manager thinks he's shit.
We haven't won at Bramell Lane since April 2004, when we came away with a win under Joe Kinnear (I was there!!)
Of our last 13 good Friday matches, we have lost 10 of them. That's utterly pathetic.
Sheffield United are 3 points behind Leeds, who have a home banker against a poor Wigan side. Blades desperately need these points for the promotion race is pretty much over. Forest secured safety ages ago and just need these minutes of football to be over so the players can all seek employment at better clubs.
This should be a routine 3-0 win for the home side.
Psychologically it's tough because we don't give a shit and this is do or die for them. They are under pressure and we are not. They may make mistakes they wouldn't otherwise make (the kind that we make every week). If we hold 0-0 for a while we could get some joy from that
Of course, we might let them score early on, which will completely settle their nerves and allow them to play with their usual confidence and turn us over easily.
Based on what I have seen recently, I would say that is more likely
Should be a nice day for the weather though.
Forest are going for their fourth defeat in a row (first time since Montanier) and a 7th away defeat in the 13 games it will be since we last won away in November.
Sheffield United will take one look at our likely team, our away record, our form and our squad's level of motivation and conclude that this is exactly the kind of home banker they should be winning at a canter.
And they probably will.
BUT Billy Sharp is out. Sharp loves scoring against us traditionally and you usually just start the score at 0-1 to take account of his obligatory goal. So we are already a goal up by starting at 0-0. There's positivity for you
John Egan, a CH is out for them. I don't know anything about him other than he is better than Wague. Makes no difference as forest are shite at scoring so even when we do bother their defence, we'll miss the target
Some bloke called Joao Carvalho is out with concussion for forest after smashing his head against a brick wall repeatedly in training. This will have no effect whatsoever on forest's chances because the manager thinks he's shit.
We haven't won at Bramell Lane since April 2004, when we came away with a win under Joe Kinnear (I was there!!)
Of our last 13 good Friday matches, we have lost 10 of them. That's utterly pathetic.
Sheffield United are 3 points behind Leeds, who have a home banker against a poor Wigan side. Blades desperately need these points for the promotion race is pretty much over. Forest secured safety ages ago and just need these minutes of football to be over so the players can all seek employment at better clubs.
This should be a routine 3-0 win for the home side.
Psychologically it's tough because we don't give a shit and this is do or die for them. They are under pressure and we are not. They may make mistakes they wouldn't otherwise make (the kind that we make every week). If we hold 0-0 for a while we could get some joy from that
Of course, we might let them score early on, which will completely settle their nerves and allow them to play with their usual confidence and turn us over easily.
Based on what I have seen recently, I would say that is more likely
Should be a nice day for the weather though.