Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[LeeS]

I’m so nervous about this game I’m considering not watching.

[trinityoap]

Last time I felt confident before a game was the League Cup final against Dirty Leeds and that was only because I was pissed.

[pauliewalnuts]

We have 30 years of either:

1. Not getting anywhere near success, or
2. Shitting the bed at the last significant hurdle. You don't need me to list these examples.

For me, getting drawn against Forest in the semi final is way, way worse than getting drawn against some random Europeans, even decent random Europeans, because this is exactly the sort of circumstance in which we fuck it up.

On paper, we should piss this, but look at the circumstances, the fact that we should piss this makes me think that we will not.

I'd rather play a decent side from a different league than a shit one from an hour's drive away.

I am genuinely thinking of not watching the match. I'm going to be shaking like a shitting puppy the entire 90 minutes.

[Sexual Ealing]

^^All this.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

You'll all be watching/listening/getting text alerts: don't come that one! 

I'd settle for Arsenal's away 1-1 draw tomorrow!

[BoVillan esq]

I’m so nervous about this game I’m considering not watching.

I'm really struggling to get excited about this game, mainly because its Forest, playing Forest is like banging your head against a brick wall for ninety minutes hoping it will come good.

Forest, one of those teams.

[Monty]

We have 30 years of either:

1. Not getting anywhere near success, or
2. Shitting the bed at the last significant hurdle. You don't need me to list these examples.

For me, getting drawn against Forest in the semi final is way, way worse than getting drawn against some random Europeans, even decent random Europeans, because this is exactly the sort of circumstance in which we fuck it up.

On paper, we should piss this, but look at the circumstances, the fact that we should piss this makes me think that we will not.

I'd rather play a decent side from a different league than a shit one from an hour's drive away.

I am genuinely thinking of not watching the match. I'm going to be shaking like a shitting puppy the entire 90 minutes.

Every syllable, especially the bit in bold. It's so what it is.

[Dave]

We have 30 years of either:

1. Not getting anywhere near success, or
2. Shitting the bed at the last significant hurdle. You don't need me to list these examples.

For me, getting drawn against Forest in the semi final is way, way worse than getting drawn against some random Europeans, even decent random Europeans, because this is exactly the sort of circumstance in which we fuck it up.

I think the correct mentality is that the football gods could so easily have fixed it for us to be about to play a two-legged semi final against Crystal Palace and chose for that not to be.

So there's obviously a celestial reason for that, and it involves them wanting to watch us knock Nottingham Forest's bottoms back and forth over the Trent for ninety minutes before a celebratory party at Villa Park next week.

No other possible explanation.

[cdbearsfan]

No, they're just finding a new way to fuck us over.

[Sexual Ealing]

Yeah, the gods care not a jot for justice. Angry, vengeful, mumpy cnuts, the gods, as a general rule. With all due respect.

[Stu]

We have 30 years of either:

1. Not getting anywhere near success, or
2. Shitting the bed at the last significant hurdle. You don't need me to list these examples.

For me, getting drawn against Forest in the semi final is way, way worse than getting drawn against some random Europeans, even decent random Europeans, because this is exactly the sort of circumstance in which we fuck it up.

On paper, we should piss this, but look at the circumstances, the fact that we should piss this makes me think that we will not.

It’s just easier to shrug off a defeat to a foreign team. This fixture however is far more intimate, against another prem side we have outperformed all season. Losing at this stage of the competition against a demonstrably inferior team would be humiliating and would be the sad denouement of a team that has given us so much.

I’m absolutely shitting myself.

[curiousorange]

The thing that's giving me the fear is imagining Forest, who have done nothing of note since they sold Stan Collymore, winning another trophy before us. They might want to win it. We need to win it. Getting a trophy - any competitive trophy - back to Villa Park sheds that weight of history.

[john e]

Yeah, the gods care not a jot for justice. Angry, vengeful, mumpy cnuts, the gods, as a general rule. With all due respect.

Is this the old Gods or the new

[Sexual Ealing]

Yeah, the gods care not a jot for justice. Angry, vengeful, mumpy cnuts, the gods, as a general rule. With all due respect.

Is this the old Gods or the new

Mumpy they may be, but these gods aren't so vain that they insist on capital letters being used about them all over the place. And if He has a problem with that, He can take it up with me Himself.

[Baldy]

If I was a neutral, I'd rather play Notts Forest than Aston Villa in a semi final.