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Unless Fleetwood score first and we lack the creativity to cut them open.

No JET or Freeman significantly harms our chances of getting a result.

We'd be creating and scoring more chances full-stop if we were playing JET more. Now that Bryan is out injured surely Freeman should move out left and play JET behind the strikers. It seems only sensible to do so when the goals are drying up. It was all well and good earlier in the season but now that we're not scoring comfortably anymore it only makes sense to start playing the guy with 20 goals + 15 assists last season.

I think it's the only time I've seen players run up and down a pitch celebrating at full-time outside of a promotion game or a game against your archrivals. Really strange club with a really lopsided rivalry.

I've never encountered a club so obsessed with one that couldn't care less about them. Congratulations Swindon on what must be one of the best days of a lot of your support's lives.

Great stuff, City.

He's not a very good manager, surprised Donny appointed him last summer.

Always listen to the opposition commentary when I use Player these days. Tend to be more critical of City if we're playing badly, gives a fairer, unbiased reflection of the game.

Sounds like a lack of cutting edge going forward. S****horpe sound more dangerous on the counter, but we seem to have a good control of the game. Just need to get that first goal.

Someone who gets 20 goals and 15 assists a season is not a passenger.

Don't understand why JET wasn't brought on much earlier. Listened to the Orient commentators and they felt that Fielding, Ayling and Wilbraham were our weakest players on the night.

Sounds like we've been absolutely dominated tonight. Barely heard any of our players mentioned, aside from Fielding.

Yet another clear example of the club's ineptitude. I feel sorry for Dave L and Adam B for being the ones in the firing line. Those of the higher echelons at Ashton Gate are the ones that continue to make blunder after blunder. Honestly, a little common sense wouldn't go amiss.

Great to keep a clean sheet at last. Time to build on that now, and the unbeaten run continues.

His quality should never have been questioned by anyone. His failure to convert chances earlier in the season was clearly more psychological than anything else. I'm glad Sam has got over that block and is now made a few people look very silly. Leading by example, and on a side note, also one of the most articulate footballers you'll ever listen to in pre/post-match interviews. We'll be extremely lucky to still have him next season, but hopefully he opts to stay if he continues to score in a team that is being built around him. From Cotterill's very first interview he was talking about getting the best out of Sam.

Read the thread that has 300+ replies on the Forest forum if you're going to claim that they don't mind him! http://www.forestforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39161

That's an extremely rose-tinted view, Nogbad. If you ask Pompey fans for their opinions of him, the majority will be unfavourable. Forest staying up was more down to SOD, hence why he was appointed there manager at the end of that season. Burnley fans are a mixed bag, most say he at least stabilised the club but the football was very poor on the eye. His record at County was good, but even County fans say the team was far too good for that level, however, you do have to credit him for the win ratio he got there (albeit only for a small amount of games).

Who were signed on shot-term deals, not for 3 and a half years. Also, SOD got more points in his opening 14 games than SC did. It means nothing, but so is the case for the person going on about points per game ratio of Cotterill & O'Driscoll. As has been stated numerous times, SC has bettered only ONE result compared to O'Driscoll, whilst meanwhile, we look far less of a team - more disorganised at the back (no surprise when we're playing a back four of purely centre-backs), Bobby Reid and Joe Bryan are barely playing, JET is now playing in a system that doesn't suit him (not a very clever thing to do when he's our best player), and El-Abd has been brought in at the most unnecessary of times (a bit like Cotterill himself). This is not an agenda. I cannot hide my frustration at how stupid the board were in sacking O'Driscoll and I won't deny that going by his past record, I do not rate Cotterill at all, but I'd love for him to prove me wrong.

Put it this way, as someone who usually visits the forum(s) of opposition teams after we've played them, I often saw fans of the opposition praising us when we were managed by O'Driscoll, with people regularly stating how shocked they are that we're near the bottom of the division and that it'd only be a matter of time before we turned things around (1 loss in 7 certainly indicates that was set to be the case). Whereas since SC has come in, I think it's three times now (Brentford, Wolves and Sheff Utd) where opposition fans have commented on how hopeless we look and that, unless something radically changes, we're certainties for the drop. We've lost our style of play, the five pillars have practically fallen, and we've now got a man who is disliked by the fans of most of the teams he has managed, instead of a man who has proven he benefits the club in a long-term and is liked by fans of teams' he's managed. The consensus of football fans is rarely wrong when it comes to a player or manager. Let's just hope Cotterill is a man of his word and he really is a 'winner'.

We were playing well under SOD up until Flint threw away the three points away against Port Vale. We then had a three game blip (Wycombe, Crewe and Brentford) where the team looked at a lower point than ever before due to a lack of confidence. After that incredibly short blip (performance wise) we proceeded to go on the run of 1 loss in 7 games, and again I'll point out, that loss was caused by an individual error from Flint, hardly down to Sean's tactics. No matter how bad the performance was against Sheff Utd, it was far better than the performance against them the other day. We lost one game under SOD by more than a single goal, whereas it's already occurred four times under SC. In fact, if you look at every loss under SOD this season, I'd say there was only two games where we were convincingly defeated (Posh & Brentford), individual mistakes cost us time and time again (as has been the case so often in recent years). I'd rather lose from individual mistakes than lose by looking a complete disorganised mess as we have done under Cotterill at times. SOD's record was far from great, but it was clear there was progress being made, and in the long-term the club would have benefited for it. Instead the board panicked and let us all down. But hey, at least the anti-SOD brigade are happy that Cotterill doesn't have a 'boring' voice for his press conferences, all is well after all.

SOD's poor form was admittedly depressing, but I was looking forwards and not backwards when we had lost 1 in 7 (the loss being through a Flint O.G as well). We then proceeded to sack a manager who had a reputation for benefiting clubs in the long-term and replaced him with a friend of the boardroom, who has had an uninspiring career as a football manager. I usually back a manager for longer than most in recent years (Millen, Del, SOD etc), but it's incredibly hard to back a manager whose appointment I found incredibly frustrating and didn't agree with in the first place. Nothing against SC, it's the board's fault, as I've said above. Would I want Cotterill to go? If it was down to me, I'd get rid at the end of the season because I simply do not rate him as a manager (Burnley, Pompey, Forest fans would support me on that). I'm all for a long-term plan, hence my support for McInnes and O'Driscoll, but it'd be a huge shame if we finally stuck with a manager for the long-term, only for that manager to not be a very good one. This isn't a post in the heat of the moment after today's performance, I've been saying it since SC was appointed.

He's a winner in the sense that he seems to have brainwashed our board into handing him a 3.5 year contract for a job that his previous managerial records indicate he shouldn't have in the first place. He's also managed to get the job at a time when the club shouldn't have even been looking for a new manager, with it being one of the most ill-timed managerial appointments I've ever witnessed. Not his fault though, of course he's going to accept the offer when it's handed to him. Shame on the board for making the decision to sack a manager that had lost 1 in 7. You reap what you sow. Unfortunately us fans are the ones that have to suffer the consequences for the board's incredibly poor decision-making.

Frustrating first half performance, it has definitely become a psychological thing now (in regard to the amount of one and ones he's missed), but credit to Sam for bouncing back in the second half and scoring two important goals. Hopefully he can kick on from this now. At the end of the day Sam and JET are on twelve goals each in the league, just three behind the overall top goalscorer.. That's not bad when considering they're both in a team that's currently 22nd place. It would surprise me if Sam ended up top goalscorer in the league if we can go on a little run. With a bit of added confidence and having the likes of Reid, Gillett and Pack in the side, he will continue to get those one on ones and if he starts converting a higher percentage of them he will be cruising.

We all knew it was coming. I had to laugh to myself.

Joke of a decision which completely goes against everything the board has said. We will get nobody in that is a better option than SO'D. This is summed up when the two favourites at the bookies are Steve Cotterill and Michael Appleton. Now convinced we're going to be relegated more than ever. I hope the board is happy with this farcical decision.