Match Thread: Forest Vs Birmingham Sponsored by Steve Cotterill's P45
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Strawberry Avenger
Vital Football Legend
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Cotterill sacked.
SA.
Cotterill sacked.
SA.
Strawberry Avenger
Vital Football Legend
How many teams escape relegation by sacking so many managers in so short a time.
It almost sank Forest last season. With their league positions getting lower and lower each time. Chopping and changing and no continuity and players from about 8 different sacked managers.
I thought it was a bit strange sacking Rowett just outside the play offs. (Just like Forest did with S'O'D (poor sod?) and Billy MK II. I don't think either sacking helped Forest.)
SA.
Hardy Forest
Vital 1st Team Regular
I'm not claiming he is negative, where did you get that from? I just said playing two defensive midfielders at home could be negative, not that he is generally negative. I disagree with one of his eleven selection and your jumping up and down??
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Almost every side plays 4-2-3-1 with two defensive midfielders.
We have been playing two defensive midfielders every week under Warburton and you have never said a word about negativity.
Now we play one and a box to box midfielder and it's negative?
And if you want either Watson or Colback dropped for fook knows who then clearly you aren't watching games!
radfordinlondon
Vital Football Legend
Not much to say. 3pts all that matters.
Pity we lost the clean sheet
Pity we lost the clean sheet
Hardy Forest
Vital 1st Team Regular
The positives - we won and there some good individual performances.
The negatives - a poor, poor game. First ten minutes were lively and deservedly took the lead. After that we were second best for the rest of the half, just sat back and were really poor. Should have gone in at half time 1-2 down.
Brereton was poor and didn't come out for the second half, unfortunately Murphy was even worse. We were a bit better overall for the second half, but it still wasn't great. What I feared would happen, did. We sit back. At home we need to be doing more than that. We need more drive and impetuous from midfield. Colback and Watson are both excellent defensive midfielders and we are looking really solid with them there, but personally I think they are too similar when we play at home. Geddy should be playing alongside one of them when we play at home, then the two of them when away.
Cash, Tomlin, Lolley and Colback were the stand outs for me today. Everyone else were no better than average, except for Brereton and Murphy who were both really poor.
The negatives - a poor, poor game. First ten minutes were lively and deservedly took the lead. After that we were second best for the rest of the half, just sat back and were really poor. Should have gone in at half time 1-2 down.
Brereton was poor and didn't come out for the second half, unfortunately Murphy was even worse. We were a bit better overall for the second half, but it still wasn't great. What I feared would happen, did. We sit back. At home we need to be doing more than that. We need more drive and impetuous from midfield. Colback and Watson are both excellent defensive midfielders and we are looking really solid with them there, but personally I think they are too similar when we play at home. Geddy should be playing alongside one of them when we play at home, then the two of them when away.
Cash, Tomlin, Lolley and Colback were the stand outs for me today. Everyone else were no better than average, except for Brereton and Murphy who were both really poor.
Don’t wish Cotterill any ill but a poor manager who has made a good living for himself by signing contracts and only working for half the time at the most.
I’m glad he got a polite respectful welcome.
His post match comments didn’t help though-if that is how he considers a performance worthy of a win then that’s the problem!!!
We weren’t great but worthy of the win and I was so impressed with Lolley. HIs pressing prior to cash’s goal was brilliant.
I’m glad he got a polite respectful welcome.
His post match comments didn’t help though-if that is how he considers a performance worthy of a win then that’s the problem!!!
We weren’t great but worthy of the win and I was so impressed with Lolley. HIs pressing prior to cash’s goal was brilliant.
Hardy Forest
Vital 1st Team Regular
You moan about other posters insulting you and twisting your words and yet you feel it's fine to do the same to me? Your tone is out of order and overly aggressive. I at no point have said AK is generally negative in that post. Just that I think playing two defensive midfielders could be seen as negative at home (in my opinion Watson is a defensive midfielder, far more so than Geddy). I wasn't critising AK in any way, just suggesting that I'd play Geddy alongside one of them when playing at home. I even started the post saying that you can't really argue with an unchanged side.
MW has nothing to do with it, though I hardly think you can accuse him of being negative, rather the opposite. I like AK and have not been criticising him.
I'm not sure why you are being so arrogant. I watch far more games than you, so don't go claiming that I "clearly don't watch games" just because I might slightly disagree with you. I'm not saying we should drop one of them for "fook knows who", is clearly stated that I would I would have played Geddy alongside one of them. I was specific. That is my opinion. I didn't critise either of the two players. Just that I thought Geddy might be more suited at home games.
You started the thread by calling posters who disagreed with you as "lying" and now being unreasonably aggressive with me, for no reason. I suggest you actually re read what I actually said.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Two people can have a disagreement without having to replace S's with z's to look cool or having a big forum meltdown that gets you banned.
How about you let the adults talk about football eh? I appreciate these players are just names on a forum to someone like you
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Vital Squad Member
I feel for Bridcutt. He was one of our best players before injury. Now he can't get a look in.
Calvin Plummer
Vital Football Legend
For what it's worth I mostly agree with Pope. We absolutely need those two as a screen for the back four. It gives a platform for the front 4 to play with freedom and for our fullbacks to join in - which was where our second came from. Neither Osborn or DarthWinka are great defensively but good going forward so having those two in midfield gives them the freedom to push on. Watson can drive forward on occasion and did effectively v QPR.
That aside a mediocre scrappy performance and I'm just glad we were playing a Birmingham side shorn of confidence as we couldn't of argued with a draw.
That aside a mediocre scrappy performance and I'm just glad we were playing a Birmingham side shorn of confidence as we couldn't of argued with a draw.
