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Calvin Plummer

Vital Football Legend
We looked very good against Bristol with this formation and line up.

Very strong first team, just a wee bit worried at how weak the bench looks.

Forest dropped their new no.10 Silva and gone for 3 very competitive midfielders in the centre, possibility we'll be out battled in this one.

Early doors but already clearly a tactic of Forest to sweep long balls over the top towards where Pedersen is, not for the first time other teams I believe target him.

Neither team on top, blues to me still look like going forward it's not quite right, Forest more penetrive when they come forward.

1-0 forest feckin lolley again.

Always lolley ffs, against the run of play imo, undeserved.

Oh look Joe Lolley! Shock horror.

Another nonsense yellow card for Sunjic. It's a bloody 50/50. Of course that little rat scores. eff off football.

Weak goalkeeping by Camp.

Shite that, weak defending, Camp will be disappointed not to have turned that round the post. Never a free kick though. Fair challenge from Sunjic.

Feels very harsh to be 1-0 down, we have looked good.

It really wasn't poor goalkeeping. Ffs we'd concede 2 goals a season if the goalies weren't poor according to our fans. Rubbish defending mind.

2-0 ffs blues.

Great, 2.

Lolley tearing us a new one.

Awful defending again.

2-0 now, That first goal took the wind out of us, we look scared, hope this doesn’t turn into a drubbing.

Awful defending from colin at the back post. - although in his defence he was surrounded by 2 forest players God knows how that was allowed to happen

Davis stupidly giving the ball away in the first instance.

Lolley is a feckinh prick.

We look terrified of Lolley, he is ripping us apart.

This is what you get trying to play fancy football in the championship.

No it’s what poor defending gets you.

If Lolley is able to raise his game so much just because he's playing against Blues it doesn't say much for his professionalism. Is he just walking through the other gamaes?

Lolley is a rat but a very decent player.

Why Lolley every time FFs.

Putting Ameobe on Colin was smart. Dean at fault for goal.

We lack pace in attack that’s what stunts us, we have played quite nice on the ball at times, Peds is having a mare though in defence and tbf forest have some very good attacking players.

Their keeper hasnt broken sweat.

Jack Robinson has GG in his pocket, has taken the ball off him at virtually every duel.

We will get absoluteley nothing from this game without 2 strikers . If thats OK for the "Transisionistas " then thats fine but I thought the idea was to win every game you could not to ponce about in midfield in pretty triangles before fizzling out at the edge of the box.

3-0. Can't recall the last time we beat Forest.

Nearly a fourth. Forest really haven't looked any better than us.

Ahead on possession and shots, though. More important than points, as well documented here.

This refs an absolute knob aswell. I hate football sometimes.

Think the scoreline definitely flatters them. We've not helped ourselves at all defensively.

Our heads have dropped, no exaggeration to say forest could easily have had 2 or 3 more.

Getting the panning we could have had in the first two games.

Why does lolley turn into some fecking championship messi every time he plays us.

Should have been 4 Dean in no mans land again!

Should be 5-0.

Anyone who says the scoreline flatters them is kidding themselves .This should have happened against Brentford and could easily have happened last week.

Agree, they've been better all over the pitch.

We've completely gone to pot since the 3rd. They should have had 3 more easily since.

This has been an absolute pasting apart from the first 10minutes. Abysmal performance at the back, roberts and dean worry me why we sold morrison ill never know.

We're getting torn apart at the moment. Exposed down the wings 1v1 and 1v2 all the time, the midfield haven't shuffled over once to support the full backs.

The defence has had a collective mare, Dean in particular has lost his man twice. Up to the first goal we were actually the better team but since that point we've not really troubled them. Haven't really looked like scoring all game.

We played pretty well last week but Bristol missed 3 or 4 one on ones, Brentford missed absolute sitters, Forest scored 3 and missed 4 absolute sitters. Bit of a pattern so far, let’s hope we tighten up.

We were defensively all over the place today, could of easily been 7 or 8.

Really harsh mate, I don't think they deserved more than 6.

We looked what we are today a bunch of mis-fits with absolutely no leadership on the pitch, out muscled, out thought & ultimately out played by a Notts side who inexplicably (from Blues viewpoint) dare I say 'wanted' it more, 6-0 would have been a fair result, the chances they spurned.

We got away lightly with 3-0. Forest should have had at least six. You had to be there to appreciate how poor we were. A silent away end (in shock & disbelief) for most of the 2nd half says a lot.

Forest faster, stronger and know what they're doing. We've been outfought and out-thought from start to finish.
 
Cheers CP, pretty much the range of comments you would expect and fair play to them in the main, they told it how it was.

There’s an element of ‘there but for the grace of God...’ to reading their comments as this could so easily be us.
 
As I said yesterday, their middle is pretty good and they win the ball and get it forward. We were just too good for them yesterday. We need a little bit of ruthlessness though because it should have been 6, and some of our decision making, especially not passing when it needs to be moved, needs to sharpen.

Thanks for the thread CP.
 
Cheers CP, pretty much the range of comments you would expect and fair play to them in the main, they told it how it was.

There’s an element of ‘there but for the grace of God...’ to reading their comments as this could so easily be us.

It bloody was us for the last couple of seasons, AK's little stint aside
 
Until Lolleys goal it was reasonably even. They then pushed up a bit and we quickly got a second. After that we sat back and got our breath and took the sting out of the game. We then were happy to hit them on the break which we did quite successfully. Yes we missed some sitters but we were making chances without risking anything at the back. We also rested our two most energetic players in Samedo and Sow. Charlton game now becomes quite interesting. Can SL make Forest in to a strong away team by hitting on break or will it be a repeat of previous seasons. Charlton will be confident after bright start but may be open to sucker punch.
 
Love the way the Brum fans moaned that the challenge on Robinson, that lead to the Lolley goal was not a foul, let alone a yellow card. On review it really should have been a straight red! He caught Robbo studs up straight on the ankle/foot. Horrible tackle.
 
Love the way the Brum fans moaned that the challenge on Robinson, that lead to the Lolley goal was not a foul, let alone a yellow card. On review it really should have been a straight red! He caught Robbo studs up straight on the ankle/foot. Horrible tackle.

Said that at the time robbo got there first and passed the ball, the Brum player missed the ball and stamped on his shin could of been really nasty and could of easily been a red.

They got caught with 2 quick goals and they faded badly, but we managed the game brilliantly kept them at arms length and created many chances to score.