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.

Or Utd a year or two later.

Yes, pronunciation is everything. I was in a Shakespeare play once at school. One of my lines was “ Go get him surgeons “ but as I was reading it from the page it came out as “ Go get him, surgeons “.

I see Hamza Choudry has gone on loan to Watford. That’s a very good signing.

When Dougie scored his wonder goal against West Brom in 1963 the West Brom players gave him a standing ovation. The ones that were still standing that is. He’d left most of them on their arses.

My youngest lad went to a pre season friendly the season we bought Tugay. Bradford away ? He said “ We’ve got a good ‘un there dad “.

There used to be a big textile engineering company near me when I was lad. “ Tweedale & Smalley’s “. They were part of a consortium with “ Howard & Bullough “ of Accrington and “ Platt Bros “ of Oldham. In the early 1960’s the group had a rationalisation and decided to close “ Tweedales “. As was usually the case in those days they had fantastic sporting facilities. Two great football pitches, one with a stand. Most local cup finals were played there, I played on it as a schoolboy. Plus a cricket square. They also had a sports and social club with an adjoining fully enclosed bowling green. When the company closed down all this was abandoned apart from the bowling green . They tethered a goat on it to keep the grass down. We used to tie the goat to a tree and play 4 a side on it. It was better than playing on Wembley. If you can’t control a ball on that surface it’s time to give up. They put a small factory on the bowling green later on and both pitches are built on now.

Yes you’re right about having no confidence in your keeper. Nothing is more demoralising for an outfield player than seeing your keeper throw one in.