Nottingham Forest - Huddersfield Town

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We were poor today and we lost the battle but the war goes on.

It's been a while since we have seen a performance like that so I am not going to grumble too much.

My short term memory is not too bad and we have seen some good performances lately and some convincing displays against Swansea away, Brentford away and Millwall and QPR at home. Those performances were far better than anything we had previously seen under Lamouchi earlier in the season.

So yes we were crap today but looking at the bigger picture I am rather pleased and optimistic for next season.

Spot on. Seems that there appear to be a number of 'supporters' including a small number of posters here who have no view of bigger picture whatsoever. 

Not for one minute suggesting everything is rosey in the Forest garden, but it could have been a whole lot worse if we hadn't been fortunate enough to secure such a steady pair of hands as Chris Hughton. Assuming he decides the players we go after (and we get some of them), then more improvements will follow.

No fair. I don’t like Hughton because of his style of football and I also think he’s weak tactically.

You can agree or disagree, but that’s nowt to do with not seeing the big picture. There seems to be an attempt to equate criticising Hughton with being impatient. May be true for some, but it doesn’t follow.

I have always been happy to be patient, and have called for more development of our younger players, something Highton seems disinclined to do, which is another criticism I have of him. 

I also don’t think we were in any danger this season. It has been greatly exaggerated to excuse the performance of the current manager. I think that’s part of the bigger picture, and so I think you’re wrong. 

So it’s not impatience. It’s not missing the bigger picture. It’s just a difference of opinion, no?

People should be able to express their opinion without being referred to as ‘supporters’.

Hiding behind the free speech banner, the classic trope.of someone that knows they're saying something controversial. 

We're not even safe now ffs! If Rotherham get 4 points from their games in hand we'll be 6 from safety with 4 to play. Ridiculous notion to suggest we weren't in danger. It's this attitude that's the reason managers repeatedly get sacked and we get stuck in this painful cycle of repetitive failure. 

And for the record both Mighten and Yates have been brought into the side recently as well as Garner (admittedly not our player) I'm not really sure who you want in right now?! 

I'm not saying CH couldn't have done better but at least criticise him for the right things.

Pretty much the same reply I would have given, other than to add against Millwall, Brentford and QPR recently the "style of football" has looked pretty decent to me, mostly with players he inherited. That's more of a blueprint than in the first 4 or 5 months after he arrived, at which point we were leaking goals and firing blanks-a combination that only points one way.

Tactics have rarely if ever cost us games this season, not being able to pass, defend or score goals on the other hand most certainly have. The 1st two of these have improved as the season has progressed under CH the third one not so much-yet.

Brighton were pretty entertaining on their escape from the Championship, but then far more tight at the back to survive in the Prem.

As for not playing youngsters? Who? He's done a great job of integrating Mighten. Yates gets regular games. Who else was ready for a relegation battle-because thats what we have been in for most of the season.

I get that opinions differ. I pay for 3 season tickets in A block and want decent entertainment. But I also want to win. To do that we have been saying (for 20 plus years) we need stability. We also have a steady hand at the tiller so actually have the chance of that long awaited stability-unless elements of our "supporterbase" would prefer something different,....again.