Happy days

Forest are utter gash. 1 point and 1 goal in 7. Hughton out.

That 3rd Brentford goal today was utterly embarrassing

Forest goal disallowed against Brentford for exactly the same thing as Brum’s second goal in the week - ie offside player blocking keepers view

Ouch

Do well to get anything from this

Don't remember him looking ropey. It might be more accurate to say he's the most traditional of our RBs. Fairly conservative, mostly stays wide, crosses well wasn't there one game where an early goal or two came down his side with him out of position? may have been a friendly or something, genuinel...

Think Araruna might be our best RB anyway. he might be - genuinely not got enough evidence to say. He played well in a couple and looked a bit ropey in others if I remember Don't remember him looking ropey. It might be more accurate to say he's the most traditional of our RBs. Fairly conservative, ...

Slowly coming round to the idea that Esteves is just a show pony who isn't up to it yet. He's not bad. He's just young and his positioning, game reading and decision making are really quite poor. But he likes fancy tricks and dribbling I spose :roll: he didnt do anything wrong after the initial los...

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Was Yiadom literally back for 1 game from a bad injury and now has another bad one? FFS.

yep

Think Araruna might be our best RB anyway.

he might be - genuinely not got enough evidence to say. He played well in a couple and looked a bit ropey in others if I remember

Esteves did ok against Brum. Screwed up immediately but was lively after that, and a nice free kick/pass for the Joao chance. I'd certainly consider putting him wide right instead of Meite. Not an ideal replacement obvs

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Mid Sussex Royal Yiadom and Puscas out until well in to the new year; Arauna back soon after Swift

Was Yiadom literally back for 1 game from a bad injury and now has another bad one? FFS.

yep

In our current system Laurent and Rinho have it quite easy-I would like to see them taking the ball off Moore and Morrison much more often and bringing the ball forward into the opposition half and then let our creative players create. Also, as with the goal, for either of them to push on out wide ...

And there have been plenty of occasions where we’ve struggled against teams who didn’t press (last night was one of them), or where we’ve broken the press and found it easy to get at the defence. Our actual game plan in mainly ways is to invite the press. What we really want is Ovie, Ejaria, Swift ...

Although Hound will not agree-we desperately need the speedy winger option as sub to get behind an organised and packed defence. I'm not saying it is a starting strategy but a different option when needed. I could have seen the use of a quick forward of some sort yesterday certainly to get behind t...

Just to say Pauno is getting quite a bit of criticism for his sub use but its easy to say in hindsight that he should have brought Esteves and Aluko on at the same time. If we only had 3 subs would you expect him to have saved a sub for injury?? Discussed earlier but yeah he might well not have sti...

First half extremely poor with the players thinking Birmingham would be an easy three points. Better second half with a change of system. The game was very much stop, start with Birmingham committing 25 fouls and a keeper Etheridge taking an eternity to kick the ball back into play, a game plan tha...

I'd agree tactically they were absolutely spot on last night in the first half. tbh i was very impressed with a number of things they did - the intelligent pressing, cutting down the space etc. They also seemed to be very aware of how Joao takes the ball and often picked him off after he'd controlle...

All the opposition need do is play a high press. Tactically inept first half yet again. While the manager has many positive attributes. The lack of experience at this level is a nagging concern, The high press didnt really cause any problems. It was squeezing the midfield and giving no space there....

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windermereROYAL Is that 3 hamstring injuries now since Joao has been here? clearly walking a tight rope every time he crosses that white line.

I'm fairly sure there would have been more rotation and protection if Puscas was fit. One injury has basically increased the risk of another.

yep that pretty much.

All the opposition need do is play a high press. Tactically inept first half yet again. While the manager has many positive attributes. The lack of experience at this level is a nagging concern, “Tactically inept” is an expression football fans use all the time when their team lose. What does it me...

How late do you leave a sub in hand though? - Meite and Joao injured past the 90th minute and he was trying to push us forward to get back into the game - final sub window was used in the 83rd minute. If he did make a mistake it was not brining on Esteves and Semedo on at the same time rather than ...