Anyone finding this season boring upto now?

Anyone else remember going to Hartlepool and Carlisle? Yeah?

You want to tell me it was better back then?

Nah.
 
Costanillas said:
If we hadn’t fannied about with the ball after taking the lead against Leicester and let them back into it, fifth place and a Champs League place would have been ours. The top three might be dominated between a handful of clubs but there’s still a chance for the rest to grab a bit of the glory. It’s maybe not as dull as you think.
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I only get to see home games live, and this season the playing style forced on the team is boring.
I do manage to watch away games that are streamed, and they have benn less boring, but what I am seeing at the City Ground is dull as ditchwater lacking pace and width.
In the 70s the cry from the terraces around the country was “Boring, boring Arsenal”.
If we don’t speed up and be more exciting soon it will be “Boring, boring Forest.
And that is Forest, always historically famed for being good to watch.
 
uptight9 said:
Didn't many fans ask for a boring mid-table season for a change? That's pretty much what it'd be like... It's what your Fulhams, Bournemouths and, most of the time, Palaces usually get. I'll take it.
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Well said.

Safety and staying in the Premier League is paramount.

Anything else is a bonus, a delicious bonus, but still an addendum.
 
Cloughie1975 said:
I don’t agree.

The Arsenal home game under Steve Cooper to stay up was a Forest classic and gave many supporters a feeling of total elation.
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Agree.

And the sublime wins against Liverpool away, Man City (sorry, Sham City), and doing the double over Tottenham, were sublime.

I nearly died with pleasure. You have to enjoy and make the most of the good times.

Entitlement is a poison.
 
Eddie Yates said:
No, I'm not finding it boring, what was boring was league 1 under Megson and every season in the championship under whoever bar the last season with SC

I really enjoyed the Liverpool & Villa games and thought we looked like an established PL team, I think its fair to say we haven't clicked at home yet in fact we've been a bit shit but having said that we probably should've put a few more points on the board that were denied by an over zealous VAR

Maybe a degree of PL entitlement is starting to creep into one or two people on here
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Well said.

Entitlement is a poison.
 
Louth Red said:
Boring? No.

NFFC is the team I follow home and away through thick and thin.

We have an ambitious and committed owner and a highly skilled squad with some excellent players.

Every supporter will feel some disappointments but this is football.

I see every game as an opportunity to win and progress up the table.

In our first season back in the PL we suffered a few thumpings but always backed the team.

In our twenty three years in the wilderness we suffered some miserable results and performances at many places.

If we believe that playing in the best league in the world is boring how would we cope with any future adversity in the Championship or League 1?

In my view the most boring issue is the nonsense of a two week international break so early in the season.

Can’t wait for Sunday week and the trip to Palace.

COYR
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“If we believe that playing in the best league in the world is boring how would we cope with any future adversity in the Championship or League 1?”

So true.
 
Football is pretty boring on the whole these days. The world cup was boring, this season is boring. We are boring to watch, I have the games on but they aren’t very gripping.

There’s not really a good story, that always elevates a crap situation. Cooper was a good story, so was Nuno really. But nothing since has been a good story. World Cup was crooked so it doesn’t matter. The Prem’s been a farce since Man City started squatting over it like a sky blue Cthulhu Frankly half the years we were out didn’t matter in the end anyway, they’re all ruined.

We have Glasner and a decent squad, but it’s not a thrilling situation. It’s nice to win. You can celebrate a final whistle in a way you can’t celebrate a goal anymore. What’s the point in VAR though if the actual thing ruining results is a foreign state committing mass fraud?
 
weejockmcplop said:
The only thing I'm finding boring is the international break tbh.
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Yep. Who cares if England won 7 - 0 in Croatia. What's the ultimate point in it all? The whole thing is a total three week yawn fest. International football's bent these days anyway. World Cups to the highest bidder, regardless of football heritage. Qatar?, USA?, Canada? ferchrissakes. All steeped in a rich football history. Donald Trump sticking his oar in. Wouldn't surprise me if he became the next FIFA president.
 
What I miss is the regular games coming round so rapidly. When the team has an off day, I miss the opportunity for them to get back onto the pitch and see if there has been an improvement.

And this international break, of course, which has not been an improvement, but then any international break is a bore whatever length, so I suppose in one way getting two thirds of it over all at once could be thought of as an improvement.
 
I have to admiit, I'm slightly less engaged this season than previous.
There's a bit more expectation, and the side haven't yet properly clicked so the excitement isn't there.

Last few years it's felt we were underdogs, other people didn't know how good our players could be, Ryan f***ing Yates clattering some of the best players in the world, MGW moments of magic, how the hell did we get Anderson to play for us, Murillo excitement every time he got the ball.

This season, all our players are pretty well known now, there's no Europe as a something different and it's only the FA Cup that might bring some proper excitement. League cup loss was disappointing. Yates is sidelined, no other youth team players close to coming through, the potential that our best players will be picked off in January/May... £45m on a striker.

But saying that, I'm very happy with a boring mid-table finish and a proper consolidation before a step forward next year. So long as we don't lose MGW of course...
 
Don't mind boring when we win. During any of our good periods there were plenty of forgettable 1-0 wins. Boring is only a problem when we're not winning. But there's always a problem if we're not winning. The opposite to boring losses are Angeball losses.

We've been very entertaining away from home so far, and very stodgy at home. On the very small sample size, this season is by far and away the most thrilling we've been away for years.
 
Ste said:
I have to admiit, I'm slightly less engaged this season than previous.
There's a bit more expectation, and the side haven't yet properly clicked so the excitement isn't there.

Last few years it's felt we were underdogs, other people didn't know how good our players could be, Ryan f***ing Yates clattering some of the best players in the world, MGW moments of magic, how the hell did we get Anderson to play for us, Murillo excitement every time he got the ball.

This season, all our players are pretty well known now, there's no Europe as a something different and it's only the FA Cup that might bring some proper excitement. League cup loss was disappointing. Yates is sidelined, no other youth team players close to coming through, the potential that our best players will be picked off in January/May... £45m on a striker.

But saying that, I'm very happy with a boring mid-table finish and a proper consolidation before a step forward next year. So long as we don't lose MGW of course...
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I don't see any of our players getting picked off Ste, we're not that club anymore

We'll always have to sell players because we're not Man City but I'm confident that any sales will be on our terms and we'll get maximum value
 
I wouldn't say I'm finding it boring, but having three weeks breaks for internationals is just ridiculous - And I say that as somebody who's enjoying watching the Internationals. .
 
Weird season start with the international break early also because of racing motorbikes i had to put my ticket on the exchange for Leeds and cov at home but managed to get tickets through ballot for anfield and villa park so actually been away more than home might carry on we are much better away 🤣🤣
 
Eddie Yates said:
I don't see any of our players getting picked off Ste, we're not that club anymore

We'll always have to sell players because we're not Man City but I'm confident that any sales will be on our terms and we'll get maximum value
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yeh but you can't sit down and watch "maximum value" can you.

If players are coming and going after a couple of seasons you never build a connection.
Look at Anderson - at the end of his career we're going to just be a footnote. Elanga too.
Whereas Williams, Murillo, Aina, MGW - they've stayed and become cult figures.
That development each season - that's interesting!
 
Just to caveat the above though - it's a slight loss of connection to the team. Win a few games in a row and tactics/the team start clicking into place and it will become exciting again!
 
The three weeks break is shit, boring as hell.

But are folks seriously not looking forward to palace away with the recent history and then Arsenal at home - that should be a cracking atmosphere.

If you didn’t enjoy the Liverpool or Villa games then there’s no hope!

Last five years have been brilliant after the 20 years before that - more of the same please.

Let’s get the ground started and get some more European adventures. All aboard the Marinakis express!
 
Rubics said:
Let’s get the ground started and get some more European adventures. All aboard the Marinakis express!
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I think that’s a point - poor CG atmosphere makes watching on tv feel less exciting. One feels more wrong things when the crowd is making themselves count.
 
Ste said:
yeh but you can't sit down and watch "maximum value" can you.

If players are coming and going after a couple of seasons you never build a connection.
Look at Anderson - at the end of his career we're going to just be a footnote. Elanga too.
Whereas Williams, Murillo, Aina, MGW - they've stayed and become cult figures.
That development each season - that's interesting!
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Of course you can't sit down & watch "maximum value" but you can watch the new players it brings, obviously dependent on the recruitment team getting it right

There's always going be a turnover of players, but as I said previously nobody is coming in and "picking off" our players, EM doesn't let this happen
 
I have missed Forest playing but also don’t mind watching internationals; England or other. It’s all football to me.

Forest is my team so it’s not great, but the disappointment of not being able to watch them is lessened somewhat by other football.

Do appreciate others who don’t like internationals but that’s not me.

So not boring for me at all really.
 
They can't do this next year.

This international break has absolutely destroyed the appetite I have for football right now.

We won 7-0. Couldn't GAF.

Almost makes me more angry at that cowardice we saw against those rats in the WC
 
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