Birmingham - Nottingham Forest

[Strawberry Avenger]

this game perplexes me, brum are getting slated and called pathetic but come on, they were very good and extremely unlucky

the result perplexes me, best away win for a long long long time, high scoring and a clean sheet, there defence is getting absolutely slated and trashed but they got through on goal so many times and did so many things right

my recollections of the game perplexes me, it seems hazy and time has distorted, Grabban seems he scored in the 11th minute but to me it seemed like they could of already been 4 nil up by then, by the 10th minute i was praying for HT!

ok i'm perplexed, who was that team?  out of all our losses, all merged into a toilet blockage of mediocrity, that many, lots of them besides swansea at home maybe last season, when were we sort of robbed even then only vaguely like just about pickpocketed, this was a brutal daylight mugging gone violently wrong with overkill and torture

in the end all that will be remembered is the amazing result, we were superb and particularly Brummies will just not want to recall the game at all, but this is what perplexes me most

nothing matches up, game before we didn't start scoring until around an hour and on saturday we'd finished scoring after 55 mins, now this is a bit perplexing as well

can't handle it think we need a more normal, far less eventful, 1 nil against 'pool, can't process all the chances, goals, incidents, we ain't used to this anymore it's all far too perplexing, almost feel we need to apologise to the opponents!

even that idiot stroud the ref, he was superb, barely noticed him, let the game flow, i can't remember noticing him and prior to the game i was all braced to unleash torrents of hate, but possibly the best ref this season?  that is really perplexing it's Stroud

Fickle goddess of football.  She teases, waxes and wanes.

Forest had their luck go against Hughton for the 1st four games of the season.  (Start a season without fullbacks?  Self made 'luck.'). Tight games.  Mistakes.  Capitulations.  Self made entanglements.  We didn't make our luck.

And latterly, Forest could have been 2-0 down bar the help of their 12th man, 'Mr. Post.'  But this Forest made their own luck and shape their own perceptional reality.  Fullbacks in place?  The narrow margins ...and the chips fall Forest's way in these 'tight' games.

Surprise, surprise.  Pieces in place...a world apart dividing lines of fine margins.  The result vs Brum was tighter than appeared.  Fortune favours the brave whilst others battle tide and time to struggle on.

Swagger.  Smiles.  Pace.  (When was the last time we used the word 'Pace' to describe Forest?)

SA.

[wassy04]

I can't see a problem with it. It's hardly been over the top. If a player has had a bad game or made a huge mistake then why can't we call him out for it whether it's Figs or someone else. Like I said it never goes over the top does it?

Managers and CEO's get plenty of stick just ask Vrentzos and Hughton so why not a player every now and then?

It's never the players fault though mate  :D apart from a handful of scapegoats that take all the blame!

Although in this case Figs was solely at fault for the penalty conceded vs Barnsley as an example. It's not 'Figs bashing', to suggest he is a weak link, he proved that plenty of times last year. I thought Soh looked good for that half he played before getting injured at the start of the season. Would still like to see him given a chance when fit.

Likewise Yates, Samba and Grabban have all deservedly received criticism, the fact they've won a handul of games doesn't change that. The criticism of certain players has gone too far in some camps but likewise defending a player, just because he plays for us is not a reason to defend them. 

If anything it's the big names that get away with it, Garner has not been great this year, Worrall has made some big mistakes too.