Still too many ifs at the moment 'chile. We know they won't all come to pass.
For a start without Grabbs I think the best we can hope for at Stoke is a draw.
Delivery from set pieces has improved considerably under MON so that will be our best hope. We could also keep another clean sheet.
As an aside if all our CBs were match fit what would be the best pairing? Hard to know if Wague is any good as we haven't seen him play.
Wague has been really unlucky that Ben and Milosevic have taken to English footy like ducks to water. I’m sure there will be an opportunity at some point for him as the other three, Daw$on, Figuiredo and Hefele probably won’t play again this season.
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 minutes ago
Wague has been really unlucky that Ben and Milosevic have taken to English footy like ducks to water. I’m sure there will be an opportunity at some point for him as the other three, Daw$on, Figuiredo and Hefele probably won’t play again this season.
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That's your issue sorted.
This how you design and make a stirring pre-match display. I reckon when this was unfurled in the Trent End it definitely helped to raise the atmosphere up that extra couple of notches. Coupled with the early goal, it really got Forest and the fans tails up and achieve a great victory.
https://youtu.be/heR_17tk9JQ
Rumours abounding that the Greeks are submitting plans to redevelop the Peter Taylor Stand. 👍🏼
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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I'm sure if in the mid 90s there was the opportunity to update the Baseball Ground into a modern stadium fit for first class football the Derby fans, hand on heart, would have preferred that to the Pride park that they have now.
No the Baseball Ground was not very good to get to and parking was difficult near the ground. And yes it was a old fashioned dump like your ground, but we loved it all the same.
Give me PP any day.
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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The atmosphere was pretty good when we beat you 5-0.
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted about 2 hours ago
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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The atmosphere was pretty good when we beat you 5-0.
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Difference was the Forest fans backed their team to the bitter end that day whereas the Derby fans at the CG on Monday seem to accept their fate fairly glumly.
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted about 2 hours ago
No the Baseball Ground was not very good to get to and parking was difficult near the ground. And yes it was a old fashioned dump like your ground, but we loved it all the same.
Give me PP any day.
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Baseball Ground had a decent atmosphere. Got dragged there a few times as a kid by my older bro. Saw a match against Norwich, who were top of the old first division. They won 1-0 and Mark Wright headbuttd one of their players and was red carded. He ran from 20 yards away to do it too!
I remember the old Ramstop station where they used to drop us away fans off. It was a bit tight in there after the match.
My bro used to stand at the front of the Popside level with the 18 yard line at the Vulcan End of the ground. I remember going against Newcastle and their fans were dead rowdy. Pretty scary walking back to the train station after the match.
I used to stand there Will, maybe we are old friends.
Well if you saw a couple of teenagers banging on the advertising boards at the front when Saunders scores against Man Utd in about 1989 quite probably! 👍🏼
Will, I used to live in Long Eaton until 1973, so often used to go either Forest or Derby for the price of a platform ticket (allegedly), and even saw Athletico Madrid train on the park in Long Eaton, prior to playing Derby in one of the European matches. Both grounds had awesome atmospheres on big game nights, especially midweek. Today’s modern all seater stadiums seldom rival those days, though the CG on Monday, I was in the upper Trent End, was the best for a long time. Seeing the plans for our proposed new stadium makes me think the Greeks aren’t likely to bail any time soon, and that interesting times are just around the corner.
I will even confess to watching Roger Davis score all 5 goals in a Derby 5-0 win v Luton, ironically I was talking to some Luton fans on the way to the ground about their player Joe Payne scoring 10 goals in a match. Davis could have equalled it that day.
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posted on 27/2/19
Still too many ifs at the moment 'chile. We know they won't all come to pass.
For a start without Grabbs I think the best we can hope for at Stoke is a draw.
Delivery from set pieces has improved considerably under MON so that will be our best hope. We could also keep another clean sheet.
As an aside if all our CBs were match fit what would be the best pairing? Hard to know if Wague is any good as we haven't seen him play.
posted on 27/2/19
Wague has been really unlucky that Ben and Milosevic have taken to English footy like ducks to water. I’m sure there will be an opportunity at some point for him as the other three, Daw$on, Figuiredo and Hefele probably won’t play again this season.
posted on 27/2/19
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 minutes ago
Wague has been really unlucky that Ben and Milosevic have taken to English footy like ducks to water. I’m sure there will be an opportunity at some point for him as the other three, Daw$on, Figuiredo and Hefele probably won’t play again this season.
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That's your issue sorted.
posted on 27/2/19
This how you design and make a stirring pre-match display. I reckon when this was unfurled in the Trent End it definitely helped to raise the atmosphere up that extra couple of notches. Coupled with the early goal, it really got Forest and the fans tails up and achieve a great victory.
https://youtu.be/heR_17tk9JQ
posted on 28/2/19
Rumours abounding that the Greeks are submitting plans to redevelop the Peter Taylor Stand. 👍🏼
posted on 28/2/19
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
posted on 28/2/19
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
posted on 28/2/19
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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I'm sure if in the mid 90s there was the opportunity to update the Baseball Ground into a modern stadium fit for first class football the Derby fans, hand on heart, would have preferred that to the Pride park that they have now.
posted on 28/2/19
No the Baseball Ground was not very good to get to and parking was difficult near the ground. And yes it was a old fashioned dump like your ground, but we loved it all the same.
Give me PP any day.
posted on 28/2/19
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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The atmosphere was pretty good when we beat you 5-0.
posted on 28/2/19
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted about 2 hours ago
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
They might as well knock the whole dump down and start again.
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Tell me honestly that you wouldn’t want to replicate the atmosphere from Monday’s match at PP?...
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The atmosphere was pretty good when we beat you 5-0.
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Difference was the Forest fans backed their team to the bitter end that day whereas the Derby fans at the CG on Monday seem to accept their fate fairly glumly.
posted on 28/2/19
comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted about 2 hours ago
No the Baseball Ground was not very good to get to and parking was difficult near the ground. And yes it was a old fashioned dump like your ground, but we loved it all the same.
Give me PP any day.
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Baseball Ground had a decent atmosphere. Got dragged there a few times as a kid by my older bro. Saw a match against Norwich, who were top of the old first division. They won 1-0 and Mark Wright headbuttd one of their players and was red carded. He ran from 20 yards away to do it too!
I remember the old Ramstop station where they used to drop us away fans off. It was a bit tight in there after the match.
posted on 28/2/19
My bro used to stand at the front of the Popside level with the 18 yard line at the Vulcan End of the ground. I remember going against Newcastle and their fans were dead rowdy. Pretty scary walking back to the train station after the match.
posted on 28/2/19
I used to stand there Will, maybe we are old friends.
posted on 28/2/19
Well if you saw a couple of teenagers banging on the advertising boards at the front when Saunders scores against Man Utd in about 1989 quite probably! 👍🏼
posted on 28/2/19
Will, I used to live in Long Eaton until 1973, so often used to go either Forest or Derby for the price of a platform ticket (allegedly), and even saw Athletico Madrid train on the park in Long Eaton, prior to playing Derby in one of the European matches. Both grounds had awesome atmospheres on big game nights, especially midweek. Today’s modern all seater stadiums seldom rival those days, though the CG on Monday, I was in the upper Trent End, was the best for a long time. Seeing the plans for our proposed new stadium makes me think the Greeks aren’t likely to bail any time soon, and that interesting times are just around the corner.
posted on 28/2/19
I will even confess to watching Roger Davis score all 5 goals in a Derby 5-0 win v Luton, ironically I was talking to some Luton fans on the way to the ground about their player Joe Payne scoring 10 goals in a match. Davis could have equalled it that day.
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