Nostalgia Disater

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    Ronniesok
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    Didn’t want Bid Daves appointment and have seen nothing to prove me otherwise. Seen both games thus far and in both debacles we have lacked any real pattern to play and any real game plan and a certain no plan b when the daft plan a goes pear shaped. As much as I love BD he lacks in most departments to be at a club of our size and crucial stage of its history. We chose the cheap option and nostalgic one, it will go belly up and our only hope is this new coach can help guide BD better. The appointment was Dean Smith . Someone who knows the division and is proven, too expensive thou and now the opportunity is long gone. Back to to football thus far and lack of it is very worrying, Bolton with the worse away record in the division last year and again proving what a poor team they are won at a canter at our place, forest showed quick incisive one touch football that we can only dream about and make no qualms about it they will be livid this morning that they have not taken all three points. Brunt I’m afraid is past it along with Mozza, both showed there advancing years and looked of the pace all game, we have again resorted to playing centre backs at right back, Nyom for all his faults is better than the City new boy in that position, he looked a lost soul out there and never ventured past the halfway line or ever looked comfortable where he was, what the club is doing regards these want away players is farcical, J Rod is not worth 20 mill nor is Dawson , if the stories are true and we were offered 25mil for both we should have just gone back and said make it 30 and be done with it, get them sold and reinvest the money elsewhere quickly, it’s now again too late in the window to find suitable replacements if either of them are sold now of which I fear both won’t be. New additions thus far look poor I have to say bar the Newcastle super loanee, Goalie looks a nervous wreck and slow to react and Bartley is what he is a 3.5 million reserve centre back, new boy on the wing is promising but that was all thrown away last nite with a poor display and should have been hauled off and replaced, again poor decision making on BDs behalf. We won’t go up of that I’m sure but nor will we go down but it’s gonna be a long process getting us back and for all his likability and passion I’m afraid in Big Dave we don’t have the right man.

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    Northwich Baggie
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    I agree with some of what you say Ronnie. The ‘new boy’ as you put it has never played in a league match in any division only the odd cup game. Yes he made a couple of errors but so did Nyom. He didn’t go beyond the halfway line because he was too busy defending against Forest attacks. The big problem was in the middle of the park with Brunt, Livermore and Mozza. No creativity and no running. Until this is sorted we’ll go nowhere. Burnley have put in an offer of £18 million for JRod so lets hope they do the deal and get a creative midfielder and a striker.

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    DH54WBA
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    Like Ronnie I was also not in favour of DM’s appointment. I thought it reflected the lack of ambition and intent in the club and gave us no chance of an early return to the EPL. Nothing I have seen since has changed my mind and the managers post match ramblings about deserving to win on Tuesday night make me wonder whether he actually watched the same match as the rest of us? We had a decent first 10 minutes and a surprisingly exciting last five but everything else was as dreadful as the first game if not worse.

    In the space of a year we have turned from an established mid table Prem team into something that at best might end up as a mid table Championship side. Based on what we have seen so far our challenge this season might be another at the wrong end of the table. Lovely guy we all agree but I expect DM to be gone by Christmas as we search for yet another saviour although I really hope to be wrong.

    Last season he picked the same team for all six matches and while they were winning that’s OK. He hardly made a substitution and certainly not one that mattered and it looks like the same this year. In both games we have been crying out for changes that were clearly needed but as Ronnie points out there is no plan B. Continuing with a central midfield of Brunt and Livermore in a 442 formation will see us buried. Forest ran through us at will with quick passing, better ball skills and runners and so too will most teams in this league. And where are the kids? Burke – 10 minutes on Saturday. Field, Leko both totally ignored. They cannot be worse than we are seeing? Barry was on the bench just in case we needed to inject some pace perhaps?

    Appealing to the fans is usually the last resort of a manager in difficulty but those of us on the mailing list are getting it in spades already. The fans cannot make or score goals, cannot win tackles or matches and our excitement is generated by those in the blue and white who can. DM appears not to understand this at all?

    We have a clearly disillusioned and seemingly disinterested owner, an inexperienced and unproven manager and perhaps the poorest squad in terms of quality for years now playing in what is largely recognised as the most difficult league in the UK. Why on earth are we worrying?

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    sarky parky
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    The match on Tuesday night reminded me of the old joke about dustbins. Well Forest were the footballers, Albion were the dustbins. Forest went past us at will building up wave after wave of penetrating attacks. They were brilliant in all aspects of the game until they reached the six yard box and then, thank God, they were crap, and by a series of misses and desperate last ditch defending we reached the last ten minutes still amazingly only one goal down. Matt Phillips produced a beautiful strike and then, even more amazingly, we almost nicked it and hit the woodwork twice. So DM was technically right when he said we could have won it but surely he knows that if we had it would have been a vast miscarriage of justice. If he truly believes we were worth at least a draw then we are in serious trouble. Albion’s coaching staff should watch a video of the game over and over and let the way Forest played take over their mindset. Manchester City is the blue print. No club will achieve it because of deficiencies in playing staff but that doesn’t stop Forest, Derby and Reading (the only teams I’ve seen) from trying.

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