[SHEP_HTAFC]

Brilliant result and performance.......really was shocked that we could turn a team over like Forest 3-0.
Although some of you have been saying for a while that a team soon could get a hiding from us. Our defence making stupid mistakes always made that scenario not possible.

I think it's time we all realised that Chris Powell has made a hell of a difference to Town.
It's the same team that Robins had (apart from Clayton), and the same as Lillis had. I know Lillis did a good job but we just seem to be more dangerous now.....still shaky defensively however.
Some players like Scannell and Bunn almost seem like new signings.

PS.....how can anyone not have Phil Starbuck in the 'played for both' category. He was great for us.....and probably the Forest fans would say the same.

[Lord Snooty]

Oooh Phil Starbuck. I had him in my Forest thread last season.

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One little nit pick about yesterday. We were 3-0 up, playing the best we have in donkey's years and yet still folk got up and walked out at 85 minutes.
Baffles me.

[theo_luddite]

Umm Grant Holt Shep? Apart from him, what did Oliver Norwood ever do for us?

(Q Monty Python references from stage left). By the way, where's that Forest lad we've got on loan?

[Mitzi]

Bloke in front of us did that. Miserable buffer (ducking predictive text changed my g's to f's there.)

It wasn't MNt's dad, btw - he was still applauding when we left after the final whistle.

[theo_luddite]

Understandable, there's a long queue forms for them buses outside the chippy on Leeds Road back to the bus station after the match.

Oh hang on a minute, that were when they still had a platform on the back weren't' it and our dads had to get off and push 'em up The Ainleys on our way to the match.

[Lord Snooty]

Aye, theo lad. We really do need the corporation to put more trams on after the match.

[MNTerrier]

i dont think my Dad has ever left home a game early especially if we are winning

[Lord Snooty]

Nice of the Forest fan during the minute's silence to remind everybody to

SHUT THE F***UP!

[theo_luddite]

It's a problem in that stand with the concourse being level with the back of the stand. Supporters in their don't know what is going on pitch side (same for other concourses) and any noise back there rolls out into the stand. With the other concourses being lower you don't get the same effect but I could hear the TV's below us.

As you say, it was good of them to ask one or two to pipe down back there and I thought the Forest fans did a great job during the pre-match proceedings and at halftime.

[Mitzi]

As you say, it was good of them to ask one or two to pipe down back there and I thought the Forest fans did a great job during the pre-match proceedings and at halftime.

We thought that, too - they all stood up and applauded the half-time march past and were extremely respectful, which given they were 2-0 down and had probably had some pre-match lubrication, was very impressive. As Wakey said "football fans always get a bad press but nobody reports things like this which show them in a good light."

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Back on the theme of the game, I'm STILL smiling and I said to someone this morning, "It's games like that, that help you remember why you keep going through all the dire and dreadful times."