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Another great assist from BB.

It was £7m but who cares. Sensational play from him for the goal. The £5m we wasted was on Gallagher.

Incredibly sloppy and wasteful half in front of goal, hope we don't come to regret it. Elliot needs to step up a bit, all show and no end product on that evidence. Brereton and Holtby the stand out performers again, but you don't really want Holtby on the end of headed chances. Still not impressed with Armstrong. I'd take 1-0 and no disasters now.

Sloppy passage of play there. Can't understand why Mowbray prefers JRC at RB, think Nyambe is miles better. Edit: BB went down very easily there but we'll take it. Surely even we can't blow it now against 10 men.

Not getting why anyone thought that was a terrific performance or we dominated play at all. Yes, you could argue we were a bit unlucky to go in at HT 2-1 down but I thought we were really disappointing second half, especially after going 3-1 down and only a really good save from Kaminsky and Watford making a hash of a simple chance prevented a 5-1 defeat. Even if Armstrong had scored the soft penalty we were gifted we'd still have been 2-3 down! Holtby had a good game, Brereton looked a bit more like the player he did in the first few games and I thought both full backs played quite well. Elliot had a promising first half before fading out of the game completely in the second. Against that our new keeper cost us a goal with an appalling bit of keeping, both centre halves were poor and our big money acquisition in that position has only lasted two and a half games. Evans is an absolute embarrassment to professional football yet the manager keeps picking him (which in general is actually our biggest problem). Armstrong was atrocious, not for the first time this season, and playing with Evans makes Johnson look a poor player. As one or two other posters have said, this squad just don't have a winning mentality and it probably stems from the manager downwards. When Dolan came on he was drawing three Watford players to him so if the rest of the team were that bothered about getting back in the game they'd have been making themselves available to Dolan and then quickly switching play to take advantage of the space created. Instead we couldn't be bothered and left him to try and win a throw. I thought overall it was dire. If that's a good night I'd hate to see a bad one.

Amen to that.

In reality, the game was probably lost when he selected Evans and Johnson together again. The new Evans and Smallwood. We look to have some decent players, just need the manager to draw it all together. Only six games in and in a Mowbray death spiral already. Probably last a couple more games then when it looks like we'll have to sack him we'll unexpectedly pull out a couple of wins.

Terrible keeping.

Was about to say great play by Nyambe at one end then we conceded ?

Above all else we need the 3 points tonight to get the show back on the road regardless of performance so we'll have to see if it works but...... Mowbray has quickly reverted back to his true colours imo. Couldnt wait to chop Dolan after 2 games in which they were ALL terrible. Conversely, Evans who barely ever has a good game, comes in out of the cold, has a stinker, and retains his place.

As long as Evans is nowhere near the squad I wouldn't be that unhappy. Edit: looks like he is, how the hell does he warrant a place in the side? ?

Might turn out to be our key player. Even more so than Armstrong or Dack in isolation.

We've had all these arguments over the last 2 seasons. What you say is of course correct but another way of looking at it is we're 3 points off it after ONLY 5 games. Extrapolate that over 46 games and....... We're also 3 points off 18th. Massive improvement needed on performance levels shown in the last 2 games. I'd say we need 4 points minimum from Watford and Coventry.

This. Can anyone say we really looked up for it yesterday? We didn't really look that arsed, moving the ball around at snail's pace and standing about completely stationary waiting to receive the ball. We've done exactly the same as in recent seasons, get into a promising looking position then chuck in two terribly lame performances. The new faces may help but there'd have to be a complete overhaul of the general attitude and tempo as well. If you didn't know any better you'd think someone else like Johnson had been in charge of the side for the first three League games and Newcastle and that Mowbray had resumed duties for the last two.

Here we go already, "let's give him until Christmas" etc. Hopefully we won't have played ourselves completely out of contention barring a miraculous run by then. Seemingly we have the players to mount a realistic challenge this season, we just need the manager.

Well, Hughton's win % age is certainly better than it was before 3 p.m. today......

Bloody Mowbray can't wait to get Gallagher on can he. Scapegoat the 18 year old. Back to the future.

Dreadful first half, playing at exhibition pace, Forest could just line up behind us and watch us play the ball sideways and backwards all day. Evans is a truly abysmal player, like having ten men.

Very harsh. You can't really accuse the owners of not backing Mowbray since he's been here. Following relegation to League 1, no high earners sold, Dack and numerous signings in, Armstrong in on loan in Jan to seal the deal. 1st season back, £7m on BB, £3m on AA. Numerous other loans. No pressure to sell. 2nd season back £5m on Gallagher numerous other loans. No pressure to sell. Middle of a pandemic, Ayala will be on big money by our standards, numerous other players in, no pressure to sell. We just need Mowbray to perform a lot better than he's done since we were promoted now.

Good to hear. If he slots in on the left with Dolan on the right which I'd like to see that would be harsh on Brereton who has also started well but if he's even better so be it, there shouldn't be any sentiment in football and that's where Mowbray has gone wrong over the last couple of seasons imo.

Chelsea probably thought the same about Palmer. Just saying Be extremely harsh on Dolan if he has to split time on the pitch with this lad after the way he's played

Hope we manage to get the Liverpool lad done in time, for some strange reason he's the one of today's signings I'm most excited about. We've gone from having a 34 year old spearheading the attack to potentially having two outstanding young talents with a combined age of 35 providing much of our threat. Much more like it.

Yep, did more for us than anyone in the promotion season other than Dack.

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Thanks, hope he comes in if he's as good as everyone says and will be a fairly regular starter. If he doesn't get any game time, don't see the point.