17 minutes ago, General said:

Good win but they were on the 🏖️. Appalling defending for Van dike header. Palmer looked better today and that bodes well for the last 3, Jacko is a 🫏. A proper elite #9, goalie & manager would imo keep us in the hunt next season but won’t happen.

We paid Brentford £1 Million to bring in set-piece ‘expert’ Bernardo Cueva.

It’s a funny ol’ game.

I enjoyed today’s game. We played pretty well balancing up everything. A well deserved win.

But my goodness, Jackson is absolutely terrible and his attitude makes Nkunku look like the most dedicated player we’ve ever had.

Today's result has also increased the chance both ourselves and Strasbourg make CL. The highest positioned side knocks the other in to the Europa league.

I.e. if we finish 5th and they make 3rd we go in to the Europa.

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Today's result has also increased the chance both ourselves and Strasbourg make CL. The highest positioned side knocks the other in to the Europa league.

I.e. if we finish 5th and they make 3rd we go in to the Europa.

What happens if they both finish 4th ?

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

What happens if they both finish 4th ?

Good question, am not sure on that, only heard about the highest place finisher part.

Is so tight in both leagues likely few have thought of that.

16 minutes ago, Snedger said:

I enjoyed today’s game. We played pretty well balancing up everything. A well deserved win.

But my goodness, Jackson is absolutely terrible and his attitude makes Nkunku look like the most dedicated player we’ve ever had.

Most of the players were on it from the first minute, you could see that they really wanted to win it, but Jackson was awful. Held us back from making that game a comfortable win.

21 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Today's result has also increased the chance both ourselves and Strasbourg make CL. The highest positioned side knocks the other in to the Europa league.

I.e. if we finish 5th and they make 3rd we go in to the Europa.

15 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

What happens if they both finish 4th ?

Let’s be real. BlueCo will have found a loophole around that already.

23 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Today's result has also increased the chance both ourselves and Strasbourg make CL. The highest positioned side knocks the other in to the Europa league.

I.e. if we finish 5th and they make 3rd we go in to the Europa.

There HAS to be a loophole, like Blueco putting that ownership into a trust. Forest owner gave up control to circumvent the same thing, although he’s done it in advance, so hopefully there’s no deadline.

5 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Let’s be real. BlueCo will have found a loophole around that already.

Just now, Term_X said:

There HAS to be a loophole, like Blueco putting that ownership into a trust. Forest owner gave up control to circumvent the same thing, although he’s done it in advance, so hopefully there’s no deadline.

Yeah that may well happen, though I thought the deadline was April 30th. No news has come through about that so am guessing we did not do so.

7 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yeah that may well happen, though I thought the deadline was April 30th. No news has come through about that so am guessing we did not do so.

This came up last season too with United and City. Both Girona and Man City qualified for the Champions League, which are owned by The City Football Group and INEOS owned Nice and part of United. From what I understood at the time is that they were only allowed to own below 30% of shares, or put all of their shares into a blind trust that UEFA would oversee.

I think both The City Football Group and INEOS chose to transfer their shares into a blind trust. It's actually a pretty simple rule to get around, because all shares get transferred back at the end of the season.

Great win well deserved. Hopefully Cole can keep that level up for the last few games. Utc.

Other than improving out Champions League chances, I think winning against a top side is a big thing for this group. They've been coming up short every time until now.

Had we not lost those 5 points to Ipswich, we would have been home and dry for the Champions League. I hope we can make it.

Very happy with the performance today. Very impressed with Noni as well today.

Carrier pigeon has just arrived with these pictures.

Edited May 4, 20251 yr by erskblue

We’re a completely different team when Lavia plays, superb footballer, praying we can keep him fit.

A nice win and while I was expecting a point at least, 3 points was more than I hoped for and hopefully gives us some momentum in the remaining games. Liverpool were more or less on the beach TBH, while our players at least put the effort in to remain with a chance of CL football...Nico on the other hand; well one game decent and the next his brain's gone missing in all aspects of the game. He is pretty much being carried at times and while he may appear to put an effort in with all the running, he 's running into the wrong space at the wrong time carrying two left fee. He needs to go back to the classroom and understand what his role is as a centre forward, perhaps a few video's of Didier might help. And while this game papers over the cracks for Maresca, IMO he has to go in the summer because he is suppressing these young players with his negative possession based football....at least Sanchez today was kicking the ball long and appearing to ignore this nonsense of playing out from the back to negate the Liverpool press.

I am so glad I was wrong about Palmer starting

Brilliant performance overall. Liverpool were thankfully on the beach which made it easier. Conceding at the end was frustrating but the team responded well.

Defence and Midfield were both great.

The attack could have been a bit sharper and killed the game earlier though.

I know people think that Liverpool were on the beach but, we were on to them from kick off and never let them off. And, we played really good, fast football, with few side or backward passes. We were relentless and progressive. To me that’s something to praise our players for, for the first or second time time this season too. I think that today it’s more on our team playing good football than Liverpool being on the beach. Playing like that, we’d have beaten them anyway.

2 hours ago, mojo said:

I am so glad I was wrong about Palmer starting

Where are our gifs?

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Today's result has also increased the chance both ourselves and Strasbourg make CL. The highest positioned side knocks the other in to the Europa league.

I.e. if we finish 5th and they make 3rd we go in to the Europa.

No you are wrong BOTH clubs will play in the CL, Blueco will temporarily give up ownership of Strasboug

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/blueco-to-put-strasbourg-into-trust-should-they-qualify-for-champions-league-alongside-chelsea-report/ar-AA1C2b6z

8 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

No you are wrong BOTH clubs will play in the CL, Blueco will temporarily give up ownership of Strasboug

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/blueco-to-put-strasbourg-into-trust-should-they-qualify-for-champions-league-alongside-chelsea-report/ar-AA1C2b6z

Then why did Forest panic to put themselves in a trust on April 30th? That was the deadline for this.

Over at Strasbourg they appear to be talking about the ownership/management change as if it were a formality, that the board would be replaced by an independently appointed group by UEFA. There are comments suggesting that any European football would be a positive be it Conference, Europa or CL.

Edited May 5, 20251 yr by OneTommyLangley

We got Liverpool at the right time amid their title celebrations, so good to take advantage of that.

First win over them since March 2021, so it's been long overdue.

2 hours ago, RMH said:

I know people think that Liverpool were on the beach but, we were on to them from kick off and never let them off. And, we played really good, fast football, with few side or backward passes. We were relentless and progressive. To me that’s something to praise our players for, for the first or second time time this season too. I think that today it’s more on our team playing good football than Liverpool being on the beach. Playing like that, we’d have beaten them anyway.

Pool were not only on the beach, they rotated half of their first 11.