Nottingham Forest - Fulham

[Widdow]

Terrible response from Forest. A flat and dour performance, no energy no impetus to put things right. Grabban not with it, but no creativity and not sure why Sabri likes Diakhby. No plan b  Now looking over shoulder.

Yes playing lots of games but that is same for all teams. Brentford don’t seem to be affected.

[wassy04]

Hmm probably shouldn't overreact to a bad game. Fulham weren't great either, dont remember them creating any chances.

They got a lucky goal that shouldn't have counted otherwise it finishes 0-0 and everyone is saying its another solid display.

Also cardiff are now losing...

[zicorice]

That was a tough game that had 0-0 written all over it, until break of the ball, handball and an admittedly great strike. Two tired teams and a sh1t ref made it a poor game.

Still a few twists and turns to come. 

If Lolley is out we are going to be limping over the line. 

I don't want to be too critical as we have known for some time our squad is thin. Sabri is doing a great job but some of the players on the Fulham bench made me a bit envious. 

My only thought on subs. Carvalho on a not great day gives the ball away, works hard but can come up with one moment to unlock a defence. Recently, Silva has given the ball away alot, worked hard and scored a magic free kick.... Surely worth 30 mins? 

Wasn't our night and even our defensive fortitude wasnt enough for the draw- but the refs role was huge.

[Username]

Fulham have won three on a trot now, no Mitro or Cairney, so will likely get stronger.

We have won one of the last three (against a team who sacked their manager the following game), started our strongest eleven tonight and look jaded.

How do we freshen things up and get back on the front foot to go into the playoffs with some positivity?

Mighten shouldn’t be coming on. Semedo and Diakarby don’t look good enough. Johnson has gone from starting against Sheffield Wednesday to not even being on the bench.

[wassy04]

Thought this coming in that this might be the game we could've done with some rotation on. Shame it was against Fulham and he felt like he couldn't.

Do you rotate for Preston after seeing how lethargic we were today?

[Tricky]

I think we can safely forget about automatic promotion, in which case I sincerely hope WBA do the sheep over tomorrow night.

We have got to beat PNE on saturday now though. That is going to be a massive game for us. We win we are more or less in the play offs. If we lose, it is going to be a painful couple of weeks of uncertainty

[stirred]

Thought this coming in that this might be the game we could've done with some rotation on. Shame it was against Fulham and he felt like he couldn't.

Do you rotate for Preston after seeing how lethargic we were today?

I'm inclined to say yes. We can see how the results for Derby and Swansea go first though, if we have a 7 point cushion still it would make it an easy decision I think.

[Reds73]

Not going to over-react to the result.

The game should have been a draw, there goal shouldn’t have counted and was fortunate.

Neither side created anything and the sooner we cement our place in the play offs the quicker we can rest up for the lottery.

[Paplane]

Not going to over-react to the result.

The game should have been a draw, there goal shouldn’t have counted and was fortunate.

Neither side created anything and the sooner we cement our place in the play offs the quicker we can rest up for the lottery.

Thats it in a nutshell pretty much.

[Paplane]

Thought this coming in that this might be the game we could've done with some rotation on. Shame it was against Fulham and he felt like he couldn't.

Do you rotate for Preston after seeing how lethargic we were today?

I'm inclined to say yes. We can see how the results for Derby and Swansea go first though, if we have a 7 point cushion still it would make it an easy decision I think.

I dont think you do. You have to dig deep and keep on going. All teams will be struggling now after a double sat/midweek/sat game. We looked jaded last night but Preston play tonight and will be in the same boat.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Not going to over-react to the result.

The game should have been a draw, there goal shouldn’t have counted and was fortunate.

Neither side created anything and the sooner we cement our place in the play offs the quicker we can rest up for the lottery.

Thats it in a nutshell pretty much.

Agreed. That sums up how I feel too.

[Widdow]

The thing is, expectations are now high. This is the best time for 10 years to get in the play offs. As I said on Saturday, one minute looking at chasing down automatic and now looking over shoulder. For me it still goes back to the January transfer window, which simply did not strengthen us. And not saying that was down to Sabri, it wasn’t but Come on how is Diakahby still getting on. His best game for us was against Huddersfield as a ball ball. What’s happened to Bostock, sooner see him come on than Semedo. We have 4 games to make play offs and I hope they can make it, but bloody hell I am nervous as hell watching them play now, so don’t know how high my blood pressure will got if they make it. They can’t kill off games, they continue to concede goals in added times and no one to take support off Grabban, I mean Walker can’t even make the bench.

Sabri is still learning and will be all the better for it. I still trust in him, but now it is the money time (as he calls it) he has got his new contract, now it’s time to earn it and push on