Nottingham Forest at home match day thread

[cidercity1987]

https://www.11v11.com/matches/bristol-city-v-huddersfield-town-10-december-2005-221888/

I fancy a bit of this tonight, terrible losing run, tiny home crowd, 2-0 win including a wonder goal. Who is gonna slalom past half their team tonight a la David C 2005 

[Baba Yaga]

Interesting starting xi, not sure if it will work or not but will soon find out. Hopefully it's 17th time lucky 

[Jerseybean]

4 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Straws and grasping come to mind!

Thought I’d see how Sunderland ended their record breaking period (21 games) without a home win, this is what I discovered…

16/12/2017 Sunderland 1-0 Fulham

Sunderland finally claimed their first home victory of 2017 as 18-year-old Josh Maja’s goal was enough to see off Fulham.

The much maligned Black Cats were close to going a whole calendar year without winning in front of their fans, but an inspired doubled substitution from new boss Chris Coleman turned the tide at the Stadium of Light.

Sunderland had not won at home since 17 December 2016, when they beat Watford in the Premier League. There have been signs of improvement since Coleman took over on Wearside and he was desperate to see the 21-match run without a home win – a day short of going a full calendar year without winning on their own turf – come to an end before Christmas.

It appeared they could be frustrated again when good efforts from Lewis Grabban and James Vaughan were saved by Fulham goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli.

But five minutes after being brought on for his senior debut, youngster Maja was an instant hero as he found the net on 77 minutes to finally give Sunderland’s beleaguered fans something to cheer about. It was a tidy finish too from the academy graduate and it was enough to lift Sunderland out of the Championship’s bottom three against a Fulham side which had won three of its previous four games.

So in an instant it became clear to me that tonight is the night we win at home, the coincidences are so very clear and obvious

1 It’s before Christmas

2 Improvements under a new manager are evident

3 Our opponents have won three of their previous four games

4 Lewis Grabban is involved tonight as he was then

5 Watford get a mention and recently a hat-trick from Ayman Benarous inspired City’s Under-23s to victory over Watford Under-23s in the Professional Development League 2.

Clearly NP will be aware of all this and will have young Ayman on the bench tonight who will be raring to make his debut and will score the winner within five minutes of coming into the game.

Remember, you heard it here first!

 

 

Correction - replace reference to Ayman B with Alex S

[Bris Red]

**** me when will they sort the camera position out for tv broadcasting, far too high up!

[One Team]

Anyone found any red button streams?

[Jerseybean]

The NF kit is likely to induce epilepsy! 

[Elruliri]

I can't get the game on Ronins TV???

[old_eastender]

decent play by Scott, poor ball in from James.

[Rossi the Robin]

Basic passing hard work 

[The Original OTIB]

Very sloppy so far, too many long, aimless balls. Keep it down and play!

[Jerseybean]

2 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

I agree, our ability to look after the ball is abysmal, we not only lose it in tight spaces we also consistently give it away when we have loads of space! 

 

3 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

This team isn’t capable of controlling possession in my opinion. Very rarely seen it since Pearson took over.  Assuming what I mean by controlling possession is the same as everyone else!  Not enough players happy to take the ball in tight spaces and not lose it 

We have given it away cheaply x2 already with only 7 minutes gone! 

[Henry]

Any streams?

[Lanterne Rouge]

Just now, The Original OTIB said:

Very sloppy so far, too many long, aimless balls. Keep it down and play!

Guy Havill on Sky has just made that point.

[frenchred]

10 mins in and how many times have we given the ball away?

[pillred]

3 minutes ago, Elruliri said:

I can't get the game on Ronins TV???

Try Robins tv.

[The Original OTIB]

Just now, Jerseybean said:

 

We have given it away cheaply x2 already with only 7 minutes gone! 

It really is abysmal. Basic stuff.

[old_eastender]

Scott play a thru ball for Martin, but no chance of Martin running onto anything!

[Bris Red]

We create literally nothing going forward do we

[Kodjias Wrist]

Just now, bris red said:

We create literally nothing going forward do we

Dont we score alot of goals from set pieces ? Its about time we had a penalty too.

[Slippin cider]

4 minutes ago, frenchred said:

10 mins in and how many times have we given the ball away?

Lots ….

[old_eastender]

Sky Commentator... Martin's feet were going right when he wanted to go left... just about sums up Martins mobility these days

[Rossi the Robin]

Our counter attacks consist of us playing back to our keeper 

The effort is there - hopefully confidence will build 

[The Original OTIB]

Already bored stiff.

[Engvall’s Splinter]

7 minutes ago, Henry said:

Any streams?

Try Sky red button. 

[The Original OTIB]

Modern footballers, always overplay it, just effin shoot,!

[Bris Red]

Game has come to life now

[City Rocker]

Strange to hear "We're Nottingham Forest We'll sing on our own" and "Is this a library", yet the City singing has been coming over loud and clear throughout on Sky. Hadn't really even heard Forest until then.

Bizarre acoustics at Ashton Gate. 

[Simon bristol]

1 minute ago, Engvall’s Splinter said:

Try Sky red button. 

Cant get sky red button to work?!

[Slippin cider]

FFS 

[Robin-hugh-blind]

Why do we try play possession football. Always knocking it back to defenders. We lose the ball any way so might as well take the 30/70 to wells