Do you honestly think players at Championship level just run out and play wherever they feel like playing ? He’ll have been playing exactly where he was told to play by the coaching staff. Anybody who disregarded their explicit instructions would have the hard word. If they ignored that they would be subbed.

You better take you boots tomorrow then.

And then Ayala cries off in the warm up again. We’d have Phillips and Pickering playing there with Pears to come on as sub.

Well if you can get injured in the warm up.

Which time ? It happened more than once.

Reading that we’re lucky to have him. What an apprenticeship he’s had. He sounds like a brilliant bloke. Feet on the ground but with his head in the clouds. A difficult act to pull off. Then there is the elephant in the room - our owners.

I’m unusually confident about this. We’re good enough to get a draw. Wallace v Pickering and Swift v Travis crucial areas of the game.

You’ve got to be really, really good to football your way out of this league.

Watford aren’t that good and Dennis is at Forest having a medical. He’s going to be a big loss.

Exactly. The new Jason Roberts, but very handy at this level.

Watford must be losing one of Dennis or Sarr.

At least 4 wasted seasons.

Me too. I see they rested quite a few tonight.

I’m enjoying the Thomason reign well enough. Like a breath of fresh air.

There are plenty of pluses, as well as the minuses.

Congrats. Your life will never be the same again.

Yeah, I’m trying to forget what ever it was.

I remember a reporter asking Bill Shankly why Liverpool hadn’t tried to buy Trevor Francis when he went to Forest. Shankly said, “ His style of play ? he’ll always be on the treatment table “. He wasn’t far wrong. The lad Chapman we had recently was truly seriously quick when he came at first. He didn’t know how to temper that raw pace with common sense, had a series of muscle injuries, now he’s at Bradford. I saw him come on as sub, the first time he got the ball he took it to within 15 yards off the fullback, shoved it past him, and tried to out sprint him to the ball. He very nearly did it too. You can’t expect to give a full back a 15 yards start. Just an example of not using your common sense.

Rapid usually = injury prone. We’ve had a few.

He looked very average last season when we played them away.

Just any one of those five would be handy at the moment.

And Matty Platt.

Play Brererton right up front and you lose his main asset, running with the ball from deep.

It’ll be a real test for JDT and the boys. I’m optimistic we’ll get something from the game, probably a draw.

I thought Batty was a left back.