Nottingham Forest - Birmingham City

[PsychoStanleyStone]

Can any other forum member honestly say that we are progressing under CH? The football and team selection is appalling I hope you guys can see this as clearly as me?

said it before, CH seems to need a long runway, if CH had been in charge of the Japanese carrier fleet going to Pearl Harbour, of the 353 planes, 313 would of just toodled off the end of the runway into the sea, the other 40 would of got airborne but forgotten their torpedoes.

yes, Chris Hughton could of changed the course of history, said it many times

[ThePromisedLand]

Only a limited time together I accept:

But Grabban & Taylor playing alongside each other patently didn’t work - with Grabbs dropping deeper & deeper.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Very pedestrian.

Could do with an injection of pace on the wing...ACM and up front.

Areas to consider in January.

SA.

[ThePromisedLand]

At least Preston scored in 6th minute of stoppage time so not all bad today.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Can any other forum member honestly say that we are progressing under CH? The football and team selection is appalling I hope you guys can see this as clearly as me?

said it before, CH seems to need a long runway, if CH had been in charge of the Japanese carrier fleet going to Pearl Harbour, of the 353 planes, 313 would of just toodled off the end of the runway into the sea, the other 40 would of got airborne but forgotten their torpedoes.

yes, Chris Hughton could of changed the course of history, said it many times

Brian Clough needed a long run way to escape the 2nd division and it didn't kick start until Taylor joined him.

SA.

[zicorice]

5 points in 3. Clean sheet. Didnt lose. Some positives.

It was a terrible game - clearly - but at least we got something from it. We defended OK. But keeping the ball seemed beyond us. 

One observation re 442. No point having 2 up top if one of the decides to join our own back four. Theres dtopping off onto space and then there's that!

[wassy04]

My confidence that we'll charge away from the drop zone has gone down now after today. I wish people would stop blaming the manager every time and just consider our squad is just very very average.

It’s Christmas. Must resist the urge to bait Wassy about our summer recruitment being so fantastic.  :D

Hahaha, you've just never understood what I meant. I didnt think it was amazing, just that our previous team was so bad we needed to sign a whole new one regardless.

Sadly, we do not appear to have done this well.

[Strawberry Avenger]

5 points in 3. Clean sheet. Didnt lose. Some positives.

Keeps Forest within touching distance of the lower mid table.

Buying time until reinforcements come in January.

A couple of wins would make a massive difference.  

A win for the next game would be a big help.

SA.

[ThePromisedLand]

5 points in 3. Clean sheet. Didnt lose. Some positives.

Keeps Forest within touching distance of the lower mid table.


SA.

‘touching distance’

‘lower’

‘mid table’

The epitome of snatching at straws.

:D :D :D

[Strawberry Avenger]

5 points in 3.

Suggests lower mid table as the next immediate step.

Non of those teams within touching distance are anything special.

And if we can keep up the recent points return over 3 games then we can close the gap at the teams above.

If we're under Lamouchi the pretender...it would be clutching at straws. Under Hughton I have full confidence the next 4-6 weeks will see more improvements. This will take time.

We don't have the attacking players ahead of Yates or Sow. We need faster wider players and a more creative midfielder.

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Yeah. Nobody is happy with how things are. It's a product of indecisive leadership after Lamouchi bottled it at the back end of last season.

Bringing someone in half way through to mop up that mess was never going to be a quick fix.

SA.

[stirred]

A characteristic of adherents of The Hughton Delusion appears to be to claim our squad is really poor, so it can’t be the managers fault that our performances and results are poo.

I think we have a top half squad, so can one of the Believers tell me 12 clubs who have a better squad than we do?