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Ben Watson's stats have been corrected. Joe Lolly's info is from the Huddersfield Town website and is correct.

If there are any other errors please say so and I will correct. Wiki isn't to be trusted so if the data on our foreign contingent is incorrect I can only apologise; I'm not going to research continental football websites for obvious reasons.

I think Tomlin was a luxury signing for one. Don’t think Forest have the time to be trying to coax an out of form (and shape) player back to fitness.

I suppose the positive slant is that the majority are loanees or short term deals so will be gone come the summer. If Forest can coax half a dozen decent performances between now and then, that might make it worthwhile.

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In all of their defences, I bet you could look at the stats for every player in this league and few would have played consistently 30+ games a season for say over a five year period? Many players are told not to risk injury, etc, when they have the slightest niggle these days whereas in decades gone by, they would have slapped a bit of deep heat on and off they went!

I would also point out that many teams have far bigger squads than they would have had ten or twenty years ago, especially the Prem and upper Champ sides. So much more competition for places and managers changing constantly and having differing opinions of players. This instability means players are in then out quite frequently.

Adlène Guedioura; didn't really feature after Karanka left Middlesbrough. Played 30 minutes against Crystal Palace on 25 Feb 17 [Karanka's last game?] , then 15 minutes versus Stoke 4thMarch, sub [unused] against Man United 19 Match. After that went underground and hasn't appeared in a Match Day Squad since.

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I suspect that loaning both Clough and Walker to Bolton is going to look extremely stupid come the end of the season, even if they can't play against us in the final match.

I can foresee a dreadful scenario in that last game, that could quite well turn us into a laughing stock.

Yes, that could be a proper survival special at Bolton on the last day...🙄

There was definitely a supermarket sweep feel to our January business.

Two strikers going out on loan and none coming in when we are left with a 30+ y.o. who is injured, a Greek who hasn't played all season and a rookie still finding his way. No wonder we are playing with a lone striker every week.

We don't have a goalscorer to get us out of this mess like we did last year; our only hope is to get the defence organised and play for a 0 - 0 every week and hope that we scrape a few wins along the way. A point a game for the rest of the season gets us to 50 points. We needed 51 last season. Will 50 be enough? I can't see us getting many more than that.

I still think there is enoug quality in the squad to keep us up, the most worrying aspect for me is how we are going to score the first goal in matches to give us that confidence boost. Hopefully AK can get the team gelled and motivated very soon, the next 4 games are vital to our survival, after that it gets very difficult again.

I don't know wether to laugh or cry, because this bunch of strangers are making it look difficult at the moment!

Ground Hog Day Karanka is the new Phillipe Montanier!

I think we're going to find ourselves occupying that third relegation spot well before the end of the season.

Now at least we know why the club isn't spending any money; Fathat's hidden debts!

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I think the bigger dissapintment was Warburtons signings. Only Murphy has anywhere close to performed. McKay just doesn't get stuck in enough. If he had Osborn's aggression he'd rip this league apart.

Cummings and Darikwa seem a waste of money. That's nearly 6 million right there. Doesn't leave a lot to escape FFP even after Britt's sale.

Good thing is we have shipped out a lot of the old school high wages and more to go in the summer. Potentially with just as high wages, but other than the CB / LB investment, I'm happy as I can be, when we are absolutely awful.

"Lolley played every game of the promotion winning season pretty much."

Sorry but he didn't Mornin, The data is available on the BBC Website if you want to borrow my anorak and double check! From February onwards he actually started about three games usually substituted after about 60 minutes. He did a double act for a while with Van La Para who mainly seemed to play 60 minutes max, then from April onwards Cranie was the preferred sub.

Lolly started and scored in the 2-3 win against Rotherham and he started against Brum losing 2-0.
where Cranie replaced Van La Para, Lolly stayed on the bench. Lolly didn't figure in the play off squad.

He featured in practically every game following a foot injury, which kept him out until January. Admittedly as a sub. I was using Soccerbase.

Without knowing how much we paid, I don't know if it's good business. Point being that it's the CB and LB which is the real sticking point. Someone to come on for the tiring Cash in a promotion winning team? Works for me.