Opposition Fans Comments

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

At least Reading fans admit that they are shit unlike Derby fans who blame everything and everyone else.

[Tricky]

At least Reading fans admit that they are S**t unlike Derby fans who blame everything and everyone else.

True

[Joe Baker Legend]

QPR Fans Pre Match Comments......

Very Tough Match This They Area Bang On Form

Not Sure How We Get A Result Against This Lot

Will Be Very Difficult Harder Than Luton I Think

Defence And Midfield Will Be Critical

Would be so typical of us to defy all odds and grab a win then, right?

About time we ended our poor record there too

A point keeps us in good position.

Personally think they will kill us

We outplayed them at our place but then they get got last minute equalizer I believe.

Be great for that to happen for us this time!

Depends on the team, would love to start Willock and Amos whilst dropping Chair and Hendrick. I would also like McCallum to be in on the left, as I think he has more energy to get up and down the pitch. That will be needed as we'll be under a lot of pressure.

Much harder game than Luton.

Wallace cant play 2 games in a matter of days so McCallum left w/back to match their real threat Brenan Johnson as very pacy.

I would drop Chair to bench and play Willock.

Maybe Amos for Hendrick.

Other than that same team.

However if we play like first half yesterday game will be over by h/t.

If he plays Henrick Field Johanson
We will get killed
Possible would go 4-5-1 if it were me
Goal in last 5 mins to grab it

Luton were all over is on sunday
And they are not as good as forest are at home
We could have been 3 nil down by half time
Unless we raise the bar we will get beat
Im usually optimistic but not for this match

Tough midweek game in Nottingham, probably good one to leave out Chair - so he’ll play. Hendrick, not necessarily his fault but he’s not added anything to what was a settled side - so he’ll play. Willock clearly can’t play a full game or even someone as stubborn as MW would start him. Same team, same subs as Sunday I reckon. Same result will do!

Will take a point right now, if offered.

Going to be a tough old game against the 100 man squad of Nottingham.

Forrest for us is like a horny gay man looking for a shag in a girls school

And you are a janitor in a school aren't you, so I guess you are speaking with authority there....

This is a game you try to win but make sure you do not get beat.

Just watched all the Forest goals of this season, lost count of the number of goals resulting from attacks down both sides and impressive to see how many players flood the opponents penalty area.

Would hope Sanderson and McCallum are both selected to start.

Fast transitions.

We can do that too but you need the right 11.

I suspect he'll park up and try and nick it.

Odd decision not to keep the Forest manager guessing for longer regarding Dykes hamstring injury.

Forest playing Liverpool weekend any chance of weakened side?

I take it you are joking given your opinion of no hopers playing in the Cup?

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

''Going to be a tough old game against the 100 man squad of Nottingham''

Are they not aware that all clubs need to name a 25 man squad.

[Shawoddyred]

I can't believe how scared they are?!? They're above us in the table!!

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Suspect it’s because of their pretty appalling record at the CG not that should make any difference to the current side.
We simply have to win this though.

[Marinakis Red]

They outplayed us at loftus road is my particular favourite, we should of been out of sight at half time not 1-0 down. We should of had 2 first half penalties too that were not given. Fancy our pace against QPR tonight.

[Fella]

They are obsessed with our squad size, it’s like the old ‘shottingham’ reputation, it’s been a hard one to shake off, someone on one of their forums tried to point out we have the same size squad ad they do (minus the extortionate wages they are paying out for Gray & Austin) but they were having none of it! Odd bunch.

[pennhillred]

Their lot have been acting extra weird about us since Cook signed for us instead of them.

Throughout Jan they became convinced we were only interested players they were linked with. Beyond deluded.

And it was only thanks to the ref we didn't get the win at their place. (2 stonewall penalties not given. Adomah did play well to be fair until Colback had enough & shut him down.)

Another team on my dislike list based on their fans.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

They are obsessed with our squad size, it’s like the old ‘shottingham’ reputation, it’s been a hard one to shake off, someone on one of their forums tried to point out we have the same size squad ad they do (minus the extortionate wages they are paying out for Gray & Austin) but they were having none of it! Odd bunch.

Everyone has to name a 25 man squad in the Championship end of.

[Fella]

Here’s their write up for tonight’s game, I’ve no idea why they’ve got an issue with us….

It’s been a remarkable season at Athletic deep-dive favourites Nottingham Forest.

Chris Hughton has never been a particularly inspiring manager, either in playing style or mannerisms, but with two promotions from this division under his belt already he does, at the very least, have the reputation of being a steady pair of hands. You might not exactly moisten up at the thought of going to watch his team play, but you can usually guarantee that it won’t descend into some Sunderland-style catastrophe.

Forest are the sort of nutty club that can usually do with that sort of moderately sane person in charge of the creche. Another 14 permanent or loan signings this season takes them to 107 players through the door in the last six seasons. There have been 19 permanent or temporary managers here in the last ten years – Sabri Lamouchi the only one to complete a whole season and start the next one, and even then he was gone five games into the following campaign after a collapse that cost them a top six spot the likes of which have rarely been seen before or since at this level.

Their success through the 1980s means a whole host of boys who grew up watching great teams on this ground and were inspired to pursue a profession writing about the sport are now at a certain age and point in their journalism career where you cannot move without bumping into another 5,000-word think-piece on the club. Not since Newcastle were in this division has a club been under the print press microscope quite as much as this one, and the coverage usually follows the same pattern. First, massively overboard praise of whoever the new boss might be (whisper it quietly, could it be… A NEW CLOUGHIE?), and a whole load of But Of Course analysis of just where it started to go so, so right. He will, almost certainly, have “changed the mood in the city” and “brought everybody together”. This year innovative Barnsley CEO Dane Murphy was added to a chaotic and crowded executive structure, bringing with him the philosophy that lead to a surprise play-off push at Oakwell last season and is built, among other things, around not signing players over the age of 26 who have no resale value – an event in which Forest were reigning Olympic champions. After six months of being lauded for this fine, new, forward-thinking approach, the club produced a lengthy, lucrative, competition-busting, eleventh-hour contract for Bournemouth’s 30-year-old centre back Steve Cook, which you may think contradicts the strategy and is fairly typical of the madness that goes on here – but, apparently, you’d be wrong, although the stretch to why that “made sense on this occasion” was so long it disappeared off into the distance and I couldn’t quite see it. When results start to dip, the tone changes to “the signs were there all along” and frighteningly interesting little tid-bits about how players were “stunned” to find all the washing machines in the laundry room broken start seeping out. Once another eight new signing have been made in the transfer window and made not a blind bit of difference it’s time for another change of boss at which point the cycle starts again and, whisper it quietly, some people Trentside think this one might just be… A NEW CLOUGHIE.

Steve Cooper, meanwhile, didn’t exactly rock anybody’s world down at Swansea City. Buoyed by parachute payments, and an £80k a week striker in Andre Ayew, he was then furnished with an outstanding crop of Premier League loans thanks to his youth football connections and reputations with the England youth sides – Rhian Brewster, Connor Gallagher, Marc Guehi, Conor Hourihane, Freddie Woodman and Morgan Gibbs White all blew through there in reasonably short order. The result was two play-off failures, playing the sort of holier-than-thou football that risked boring anybody who watched it for too long to death, and the very second the money dried up he walked out having spent all summer making come-to-bed eyes at any other club without a manager of their own.

And yet, through it all, somehow, Forest got all good. Hughton initially provided exactly the sort of meltdown he’s specifically there to prevent, and it’s only that seven-game start to the season in which they took just a single point that is holding them back as far as they are. Cooper has revolutionised the team, blowing away not only the staid, uninspiring, rigid, straight-line set up of his predecessor, but also playing an altogether more thrilling and exciting style of the sport than anything he ever remotely threatened to lay on in South Wales. With the division’s outstanding young talent Brennan Johnson to the fore, and Djed Spence weirdly morphing from somebody who used to play for Middlesbrough every now and again to somebody who might soon be playing for Juventus every now and again, this is a thrillingly dangerous opponent to face. Their last gasp equaliser at Loftus Road in November one of nine goals scored in injury time this season – always a sign of a team confident in its skin and happy to keep plugging away to the end without giving up. At Bristol City they were 1-0 down after 92 minutes and won. Only Fulham have taken more points than them from round eight onwards, and this persistent push towards the play-offs has been married with an FA Cup run for the ages which has already slain Leicester and Arsenal and now brings a clash with Liverpool this weekend – their first quarter final of any sort since 1996, and that was against Bayern Munich which gives you an indication of the passage of time.

Not, therefore, exactly the sort of team you’d choose for QPR to face away from home on a wet Wednesday night at the business end of the season while our own form is on the slide. And that’s without even getting into the done-to-death business of the mere sight of The City Ground turning Rangers sides into quivering, wasted pieces of jelly. One win in 37 visits, yadda yadda yadda.

But then, we were saying that about Luton at the weekend too. A particularly poor February in which Rangers spurned chances to cement their top six place against also-rans Hull, Millwall and Cardiff, and divisional whipping boys Barnsley, has now opened out into a home straight in which Rangers play Luton, Forest, Huddersfield, Sheff Utd, Preston, Stoke and Swansea all away, and still have to welcome the Blades and Fulham to Loftus Road. “We’re done” was the general consensus post Cardiff collapse, and that’s absolutely how I felt. Difficult to see where the next win was coming from, and certainly not at Kenilworth Road against another of the Championship’s bang-in-form teams – one that hates us and was out for all manner of revenge after incidents in the November meeting to boot. Even at half time, Rangers distinctly second best, I’d have happily offered you any price at all on a QPR win, and yet that’s what we ended up with and for all the recent woe-is-me angst, it moved us back up to fourth (now fifth) in the table. Much like Forest’s poor start hamstringing them, our excellent one means we don’t have to be that good to make the six from here – a point I made several weeks ago and have regretted ever since as the team has embarked on massively over-enthusiastic examination of the theory. Bastards.

Luton weren’t all that. Few teams at this level are. I don’t fancy us at all tonight, and to be honest after the win at the weekend as long as we don’t fall in a hole against Peterborough for the third time this season in a couple of days’ time then I’ll view that as a successful week and it should be enough to have us in the play-off spots for the international break regardless of what happens tonight. But Sunday did serve as a useful reminder to us all, and hopefully the team as well, that we’re not as bad as we’ve looked for the last few weeks, and nor are all these supposedly impossible away games coming up as daunting as we’re perhaps making out. Again, I absolutely do not fancy us tonight, if you come from the future now and tell me this is to be our latest 4-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest I wouldn’t be that surprised, but as I said at the weekend perhaps for the next few weeks our version of Man Utd’s “lads, it’s Tottenham” could be “lads, it’s the Championship”.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Actually thats a very good write up. You cant blame anyone who has been watching the NFFC circus from the outside for many years being sceptical that it wont all blow up in our faces yet again. I hardly believe the transformation myself and I am watching it with my own eyes.