Nogbad the Bad

Great save from Fielding to tip point blank effort over the bar.

Radio Bristol commentaries are complete drivel and often juvenile. Listening to the local radio after the Shrewsbury game shows how well local radio can be done - what an eye opener.

No, I expect he'd like us to be exactly as we were for the first 20 minutes tonight.

Young legs you'd imagine - Burns and Bryan?

Nobody actually knows.......... despite all the condemnation quite possibly nothing.

Peterbro' keeper parries 40 yard Jet piledriver for a corner.

Expect there to be a few more 'incidents' before the 90 minutes are up, this is Ferguson's team after all. Wouldn't be surprised if they make every effort to get another City player sent off, and we saw how they get 'stuck in' last season.

Sounds like a few weeks at least.

Sent off for the u.21's yesterday.

Assombalonga yellow carded after Williams felled and left rolling around holding his face. Linesman didn't see this one then.

Fantastic play from Wade Elliot sets up Baldock for a tap in.

Sounds like he outjumped a 6' 2" defender at the back post. Great start, well done Sam.

Little clears a yard from the line after Baldock's shot over the keeper lacks sufficient pace.

Uninterrupted coverage please Radio Bristol - SHUT UP about the gas.

Flint dislocated his knee at Shrewsbury, Bobby Reid injured knee in training on Sunday.

We'd need about 500 to pay at the gate to get those sort of numbers! I reckon about 250 tonight, and that's not bad for the distance on a midweek night and straight after a well attended away match. Not expecting anything but a defeat tonight, probably 3-1. What I hope though is the performance is not a big anti climax after Saturday's great win. If we're to lose we must go down fighting to retain the confidence of players, and fans, for Swindon. A big defeat would be disastrous. No doubt many will disagree but we'll miss Flint tonight if he's ruled out.

How did he play last week?

Moore injured.

In a previous prediction thread I've got us down to win 2-1 today. Stll confident of the win. Blue skies and sunshine in Bristol today, perfect setting, just need the City players to stand up and be counted and really go for it today.

Sounds like a few changes today whether enforced - a couple of players doubtful apparently - or some of last week's underperforming players being replaced. SC has stressed the AG pitch is much wider than Gilingham are used to and we mean to use it to full effect. Burns and Pearson to start perhaps?

I said a significant number - that means of a fanbase, not a forum thread. They are just a small number of fans who didn't like him for whatever reason, just like yourself, so took pleasure to take the opportunity to write scathingly about him. You will always find fans with a grudge to bear against an ex-manager - look at some of the comments GJ gets on here - and these Forest fans don't exactly sound intelligent themselves, do they? As I said 1 or 2 threads on a club forum by strongly opinionated individuals is not indicative of fans' views in general and this very thread is a prime example of how unrepresentative they can be. Either way, Cotteril has been very well liked by fans of some clubs he's managed, and moved on undespised from others, so the views of those Forest fans need to be balanced against that.

Your views on Cotterill are very well known and you've simply repeated them again there, rather than summarising the thoughts of Forest fans. Neither of us know if a significant number of Forest fans share any, let alone all of those views.

If you say so Kid - perhaps being a former successful manager of Notts. County, leading them to a storming promotion and being idolised by their fans, didn't help him to get off on the right foot in that respect. It makes no difference really what a few vocal Forest fans on forums say, if a neutral read OTIB they would think Cotterill is absolutely detested here at BCFC, when of course that isn't the opinion generally held by City fans at all.

A bit perhaps Jordan, but it was an attempt to get some balance in response to a negative resume from Fiale. Cotterill did a good job over all at all the clubs mentioned, and was outstanding at Cheltenham and Notts, County. When you talk about the opinions of fans of former clubs they are often jaundiced by the way the manager left, or short periods of struggle just beforehand. I'd maintain that his managerial record is pretty good, he certainly wasn't a failure or 'loser' at any of those 5 clubs, and the more balanced fans - the less bitter and reasoned majority with no axe to grind - would almost certainly credit him with doing a good job. There are one or two other clubs where he had less of a positive effect, but perhaps a few ups and downs, and leaving critics in your wake, are to be expected in a managerial career spanning some 18 years.

Or, looking at it another way. He was very successful at Cheltenham with two promotions, and he became the Championship's longest serving manager at Burnley, He is still revered by Notts.County fans after taking them to promotion. The Chairman's parting comments when Cotterill left to join Portsmouth, 'The job that Steve did here will live long in the memory of Notts. County fans, and, as is the mark of all great managers, he leaves the club in a much better position than when he arrived.' He went on to stabilise Portsmouth when they were in complete turmoil. After being in the relegation places he eventually preserved Forests' Championship status by a ten point margin. Now, that doesn't sound so bad, does it?