Forest Green Rovers v Bristol City - Friendly Matchday Thread

[Davefevs]

Just now, CiderJar said:

 

Johnson in.

[Fatalist]

2 minutes ago, CiderJar said:

 

Big deflection.

[ExiledAjax]

Maybe we put a "You pay us 1 million if McCoulsky scores at least 2 pre-season goals in 2018/19" clause into the sale?

[Lrrr]

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Johnson in.

[Red Exile]

6 minutes ago, CiderJar said:

Mc2Goalsky

An absolute belter of a McCoulsky goal to be fair - curled in from way out. City dominating possession. Can't break them down. Relying on crosses. Very fluid allocation of roles. All of Hunt, COD and Walsh have been in the RB position at times. Good City turn out. 

[Fatalist]

Lots of decent crosses but nobody to make anything of them.

[Davefevs]

Just now, Fatalist said:

Lots of decent crosses but nobody to make anything of them.

Crosses from wide / sideline or narrower?

[Hampshire reds]

are we missing a striker. without Fam we seem very short up top. 

[ExiledAjax]

3 minutes ago, Red Exile said:

Relying on crosses. Very fluid allocation of roles.

 

1 minute ago, Fatalist said:

Lots of decent crosses but nobody to make anything of them.

We really need that focal striker to get on the end of these crosses. Has been a bit of a theme this pre-season. Diedhiou can serve that role to a point but it's not his natural forte. I miss Djuric.

[sh1t_ref_again]

Not sure they have the hang of how the scoring works

[chinapig]

1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

 

We really need that focal striker to get on the end of these crosses. Has been a bit of a theme this pre-season. Diedhiou can serve that role to a point but it's not his natural forte. I miss Djuric.

Does it occur to LJ that if you don't have that kind of striker you don't hit hopeful crosses into the box?

[The Coach]

Do we have a buy back on McCoulsky?

[Johnny Musicworks]

1 minute ago, Hampshire reds said:

are we missing a striker. without Fam we seem very short up top. 

Yes looking very lightweight up front. One or two decent crosses (Elliason) but no presence to bother the defence. Some nice touches but no one is putting balls through the middle. Striker and good midfielder needed still.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

2 minutes ago, Fatalist said:

Lots of decent crosses but nobody to make anything of them.

Exactly this. Crosses coming in from both flanks but we’ve nobody challenging for the ball. Fodder for their keeper and CBs. 

COD only uses his left foot making him so predictable. He’s also given the ball away a couple of times allowing FGR to break. 

Theyre catching us too frequently on the break which is a little worrying. 

Lots of possession for us but can’t recall any real chances. 

Second half starting. 

[robin_unreliant]

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

 

We really need that focal striker to get on the end of these crosses. Has been a bit of a theme this pre-season. Diedhiou can serve that role to a point but it's not his natural forte. I miss Djuric.

Presumably LJ has told them to play in lots of crosses?

Either he's practising tactics for the new striker or he doesn't see what the rest of us already know.

[Fatalist]

4 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Crosses from wide / sideline or narrower?

Mainly from wide, but a couple of cutbacks. Just nobody to get on the end.

[Davefevs]

1 minute ago, Redpool said:

Do we have a buy back on McCoulsky?

MA “we have retained a financial interest in his future” or words to that effect.  So I reckon so.

Just now, Rudolf Hucker said:

Exactly this. Crosses coming in from both flanks but we’ve nobody challenging for the ball. Fodder for their keeper and CBs. 

COD only uses his left foot making him so predictable. He’s also given the ball away a couple of times allowing FGR to break. 

Theyre catching us too frequently on the break which is a little worrying. 

Lots of possession for us but can’t recall any real chances. 

Second half starting. 

Is that missing Pack?

[cidered abroad]

10 minutes ago, Red Exile said:

An absolute belter of a McCoulsky goal to be fair - curled in from way out. City dominating possession. Can't break them down. Relying on crosses. Very fluid allocation of roles. All of Hunt, COD and Walsh have been in the RB position at times. Good City turn out. 

Only method of LJ attack. Crosses!

Never go through the middle.

[mozo]

Janneh to come on and show he's the natural striker weve all been waiting for!

[ExiledAjax]

10 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said:

Either he's practising tactics for the new striker

In pre-season this honestly could be what is happening.

[Rudolf Hucker]

3-1

[chinapig]

6 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

Only method of LJ attack. Crosses!

Never go through the middle.

This is England, we like to get it in the mixer! Whether it works or not is another matter.

The frustrating thing is we (City that is) have players capable of playing in a different way but still revert to type.

[Davefevs]

2 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

3-1

  Doesnt every pre-season have one of these results?

[ExiledAjax]

1 minute ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

3-1

Ha. We should have shouted about Swindon and kept FGR behind closed-doors.

[chinapig]

Didn't we have a tradition of losing pre-season games to FGR under GJ then going on to have a good season?

[elhombrecito]

[Ryan_BCFC]

Bit of a joke really 

[Coppello]

3-1 Johnson* out

 

*Boris

[Lew-T]

8 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Exactly this. Crosses coming in from both flanks but we’ve nobody challenging for the ball. Fodder for their keeper and CBs. 

COD only uses his left foot making him so predictable. He’s also given the ball away a couple of times allowing FGR to break. 

Theyre catching us too frequently on the break which is a little worrying. 

Lots of possession for us but can’t recall any real chances. 

Second half starting. 

Not starting with a natural striker doesn’t help our cause for situations like that.

Weimann is not a natural. We just need different options up there and I really hope we address it. That’ll be two windows wasted otherwise.

[ExiledAjax]

Just now, Lew-T said:

Not starting with a natural striker doesn’t help our cause for situations like that.

Weimann is not a natural. We just need different options up there and I really hope we address it. That’ll be two windows wasted otherwise.

You just need someone with decent positioning and a good jump/height on him. Living in the past but Tammy would fill his boots sitting in the 6 yard box and having crosses fed into him from Eliasson, O'dowda, Brownhill et al.