Set Pieces

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

A set piece goal today from a corner. No surprise really. MON likes his set pieces.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

A set piece goal today from a corner. No surprise really. MON likes his set pieces.

And another one from a set piece!!

[Strawberry Avenger]

A set piece goal today from a corner. No surprise really. MON likes his set pieces.

And another one from a set piece!!

Fantastic.  It's an important part of the game.

An under-utilised area by Forest for years.  For years we've been so-so at defending from them and limp at attacking them.

MoN has certainly changed that.

'Character.'

SA.

[TheGreenMan]

Well we need something to try and get goals, because under Martin O’Neill our creativity is none existent!

[Strawberry Avenger]

Well we need something to try and get goals, because under Martin O’Neill our creativity is none existent!

Under Aitor over Christmas our creativity was 'non-existent.'

MoN has Forest two points off the play offs.  

For all of Swansea's 'creativity', they lost the game.

That's the Championship.  And MoN knows this.

How does any manager set the current Forest side up to be more creative?  (All the 'forward' players brought on against Ipswich?  What did they do?  They couldn't retain possession.  Our forward players, overall, aren't good enough.  Our midfield.  Isn't good enough.  We've got Lolley.  And...)

In the absence of anything better, it's character, hard to beat.  And if we 'nick' results like that from now until the play off final, that's good for me.

SA.

[Alf]

Great summary SA.

MON has inherited a side which, apart from a 5-6 week period early season, has been mid-table at best. Even then we weren't in the top 6 for more than an odd week. That 5-6 week period co-incided when almost everyone was fit, and we had a very settled side.

AK/The Club quite frankly bought poorly in the Summer. Grabban was a great signing, but soending 16m on 2 massive gambles who haven't proved themselves in this league one bit was stupid beyond belief, left us short of cover elsewhere, and has bitten us in the arse big time.

AK built an entire team around Carava + Grabban linking up. The second that was disrupted and we picked up a few injuries we started losing to the like sof QPR at home.

MON has applied a method which has seen us win 5 out of 7 home games, and he's had to do that in order to get anything out of a side which needs all players fit & firing to look half decent.

Carva is the odd man out because he fit under AK, but not MON, but that is MON's fault. It's AK/the club's stupid fault for putting all their eggs in one basket.

Personally I think Carva has become a bit of a burden, and if we can replace him with 3 or 4 players like Geddy at his peak we'll be a far better squad all round.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Great summary SA.

MON has inherited a side which, apart from a 5-6 week period early season, has been mid-table at best. Even then we weren't in the top 6 for more than an odd week. That 5-6 week period co-incided when almost everyone was fit, and we had a very settled side.

AK/The Club quite frankly bought poorly in the Summer. Grabban was a great signing, but soending 16m on 2 massive gambles who haven't proved themselves in this league one bit was stupid beyond belief, left us short of cover elsewhere, and has bitten us in the arse big time.

AK built an entire team around Carava + Grabban linking up. The second that was disrupted and we picked up a few injuries we started losing to the like sof QPR at home.

MON has applied a method which has seen us win 5 out of 7 home games, and he's had to do that in order to get anything out of a side which needs all players fit & firing to look half decent.

Carva is the odd man out because he fit under AK, but not MON, but that is MON's fault. It's AK/the club's stupid fault for putting all their eggs in one basket.

Personally I think Carva has become a bit of a burden, and if we can replace him with 3 or 4 players like Geddy at his peak we'll be a far better squad all round.

Spot on, Alf.  And like that.

SA.

[TheGreenMan]

You’ll never get anywhere by JUST trying to win games by corners alone. They’re a fantastic threat to have, but to actually go anywhere, trying to create chances from open play always helps.
Yes we were creating absolutely sod all in AK’s later games, but that’s because he’d lost the plot due to his immature mardyness and rightly left the club.

I’m a season ticket holder so I actually get to see games and go away quite often so I think I know what I see.
I suppose I can only apologise that I don’t follow the ‘everything’s great on the pitch and Ben Osborn’s brilliant’ line, but I can only comment on what I see.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

You’ll never get anywhere by JUST trying to win games by corners alone. They’re a fantastic threat to have, but to actually go anywhere, trying to create chances from open play always helps.
Yes we were creating absolutely sod all in AK’s later games, but that’s because he’d lost the plot due to his immature mardyness and rightly left the club.  

I’m a season ticket holder so I actually get to see games and go away quite often so I think I know what I see.
I suppose I can only apologise that I don’t follow the ‘everything’s great on the pitch and Ben Osborn’s brilliant’ line, but I can only comment on what I see.

That applies to everyone to be fair mate whether they are season ticket holders or whether they live abroad and watch games via ifollow.