Barnsley - Nottingham Forest

[Duncan Mckenzie]

If everyone is fit (big if) and available I would go with the following.

Samba
Christie
Worrall
Mckenna
Ribeiro
Sow
Arter
Knockaert
Guerrero
Taylor
Lolley

[Tricky]

^ +1 ^ I would definitely go with that starting line up too

[ThePromisedLand]

Yates over Sow for me.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Christ, these international breaks are bloody boring.

[Alf Garnett]

I am not sure that our players are unfit.
What I am sure about is that they really miss the City Ground crowd behind them. I know all teams are without fans but not having 28,000 roaring you on at the CG is not the same as having 8,000 roaring you on at Luton or 10,000 roaring you on at Barnsley etc.

[Tricky]

I am not sure that our players are unfit.
What I am sure about is that they really miss the City Ground crowd behind them. I know all teams are without fans but not having 28,000 roaring you on at the CG is not the same as having 8,000 roaring you on at Luton or 10,000 roaring you on at Barnsley etc.

The best part of our current side won't know what the City Ground is like with 30,000 reds singing their hearts out and the ground rocking

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

I am not sure that our players are unfit.
What I am sure about is that they really miss the City Ground crowd behind them. I know all teams are without fans but not having 28,000 roaring you on at the CG is not the same as having 8,000 roaring you on at Luton or 10,000 roaring you on at Barnsley etc.

The best part of our current side won't know what the City Ground is like with 30,000 reds singing their hearts out and the ground rocking

I think apart from Mkenna and Gurerreo all of them have played there before so they'll know all about the atmosphere that the CG is capable of creating. I will stick my neck out and say that we would have beaten both Derby and Rotherham with a rocking CG.

[Sabricadabra]

We were much better away last season. Our home form was poor.
It’s a stretch to suggest that the CG crowd helps the players.

[Tricky]

We were much better away last season. Our home form was poor.
It’s a stretch to suggest that the CG crowd helps the players.

But wasn't that mainly down to how we set up at home? We set up to play like the away team at home instead of going after teams. When we were away, the home sides came at us more and we hit them on the counter attack

[Sabricadabra]

We were much better away last season. Our home form was poor.
It’s a stretch to suggest that the CG crowd helps the players.

But wasn't that mainly down to how we set up at home? We set up to play like the away team at home instead of going after teams. When we were away, the home sides came at us more and we hit them on the counter attack

It certainly suited our counterattack style more when teams attacked us, but my point was the crowd didn’t seem to help. The supporters didn’t have a positive effect.

[Tricky]

We were much better away last season. Our home form was poor.
It’s a stretch to suggest that the CG crowd helps the players.

But wasn't that mainly down to how we set up at home? We set up to play like the away team at home instead of going after teams. When we were away, the home sides came at us more and we hit them on the counter attack

It certainly suited our counterattack style more when teams attacked us, but my point was the crowd didn’t seem to help. The supporters didn’t have a positive effect.

They definitely did against Leeds!

However, the crowd are often way too quick to get on players backs when things aren't going well, i will admit that!!

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

We were much better away last season. Our home form was poor.
It’s a stretch to suggest that the CG crowd helps the players.

But wasn't that mainly down to how we set up at home? We set up to play like the away team at home instead of going after teams. When we were away, the home sides came at us more and we hit them on the counter attack

It certainly suited our counterattack style more when teams attacked us, but my point was the crowd didn’t seem to help. The supporters didn’t have a positive effect.

I think it depends on the game and how it's panning out. Being 1-0 down to Derby for example and then pulling it back to 1-1 half way through the second half I reckon the crowd would have definitely helped us to score again that night but once we pulled it back the game just went flat without the crowd.