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Clyne has made his fair share of mistakes, some of which have led to goals too. It happens.

I can't remember seeing them live this season, are they playing Walters out wide then?

up for it or up to it? The latter is an opinion I disagree with, but certainly an opinion, the former is the biggest load of **** I've read on here for some time.

no reason at all. I just liked him, and seeing as he is unemployed right now I thought that until he finds another job we could keep him busy and perhaps our players could benefit from his knowledge. He won't come here. No reason not to call him. You know, around 1990 John Mortimor trained the associate schoolboys at SFC. He'd been let go as Beneleses manager a post he held not long after being Benfica and Real Bettis manager. If you don't ask. are Forest really bigger than us these days?

How about getting Sean O'Discoll into the fold. Probably no chance or no position available, but always rated him and liked his style of football and it seems to match Adkins' own philosphy.

We badly need a wide man so how about Downing and Nani? Maybe Malouda? I shudder to think what sort if wages these guys would want so that £15m will have to go a long way.

In the post match interview Adkins pointed to rotation, but do we have enough quality on the sidelines to bring in? Our midfield ran themselves into the ground in the second half, so that'd where you'd want to make changes, but take Puncheon, Morgan and Cork out and we'll look thin. Lambert MUST play too. Ramirez is another who put a shift in. Forget these cobbled together sides/formations. Stoke should be seen as a top side and to get something out of the game we are going to need to play out of our skins and be set up right. 4-4-2 is a must otherwise Kightly and Etherington will destroy us. I don't want to see Ramirez, Rodriguez or Mayuka being asked to protection Shaw and Clyne. -----------------------------Davis---------------------- Clyne--------Fonte------------Yoshida---------Shaw Puncheon---Cork---------Schneiderlin-----Guly --------------Ramirez----------------- ------------------------Lambert---------------- Sub: Borac, Richardson, Hooiveld, S Davis, Rodriguez, Mayuka, de Ridder

oh. This is when the Gazza mistakes against Swansea and Norwich come back to haunt us as those extra 4 points would give us that little bit of breathing space.

not exactly sure another keeper would have dealt with it any better. De Gea spilled one yesterday in exactly the same manner. Davis is an improvement on Gazza.

the opposition hasn't been as good. If United, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Everton and Chelsea were up next then it wouldn't be surprising if we started conceding goals again.

good point. Wide left is realistically the only position we have an available slot right now. All positions can be improved upon, but that is he glaring hole

when did that start?

Lambert is the first name on the team sheet in this game IMO. His defensive ability is essential at set peices.

teh difference between the two is that Fox failed to do anything when it was 1 on 1 either

not the worst shout in the world. Never gonna happen as he won't `lower' himself to our level (nor could we afford him), but when on song he's outstanding. Not sure we want another `luxury' player. He also looks low on fitness and confidence and a direct up and down wide man might be a better option.

Lots of errors, but Ramirez didn't track back leaving Shaw exposed. The formation led to this. Adkins' fault in my opinion.

strange game to analyse. We were woeful at times, but also showed outstanding workrate and effort to get the ball down and play. First and foremost Adkins decision to play 4-5-1 cost us the first goal and perhaps the match. Leaving fullbacks exposed cost us so many goals early season so why on earth we returned to that formation is beyond me. We looked lost and offered littler threat with Lambert flicking on to no one. Ramirez didn't track back, does he ever? Shaw left 2 on 1, an easy crossing situation arises, Davis spills it and Berbatov can't miss. Time after time we got raped down the wings and we could so easily have been two or three behind. Thankfully Fulham didn't take their chances and in the second half we took control. Once we went 4-4-2 we started to cause Fulham problems and in the end we were desperately unlucky not to get a win. The conditions made it difficult to play football, but boy did we try and we got our deserves in the end. I thought the effort the players put in was fantastic. Pucheon had a strange game, nit much cam off for him but he gave everything as did most of them. Davis 5 not a great deal to do. Spilled the cross of course. Distribution and selection good. Clyne 6 some good some bad. Would like to see him try to get to the byeline every now and then Yoshida 7 once again some very poor passes, but also not given an option by our midfield on many occasions. First half he allowed Berbatov to stroll around, but got a bit tighter second. Tough conditions for a centre back so pretty decent game. Made some very good choices when I thought he should have dived in to a tackle, but had he he would have given a pen away. Fonte 7 "kick Berbatov". I thought he was far too nice first half, but in the second he started to bully a bit more. Shaw 7 some great runs in the first half. Made some mistakes - mis-controlling the ball when trying to bring it down rather than hoofing it anywhere. Conditions had a lot to do with that, but thankfully he got away it. Left exposed by formation. Morgan 6 poor first half saw him chasing shadows, excellent second. Totally dominated the middle. Cork 6 worked very hard indeed but didn't make himself available enough in the first half Puncheon 6 depending how you saw the game you might give him anything from a 2 to an 8. Not much came off, but he was our only real threat. Near the end he absolutely bawled out Clyne for failing to play the right pass. He should really have focused on closing the ball down instead of moaning at him, but the passion shown shows exactly how much the game meant to him and I've not seen that before. He's a proper team player now. Davis 5 saw noting of the ball in the first half. Did quite well when moved to the left as part of a 4-4-2, but I think Adkins got it wrong and it didn't help him Ramirez 5 a bit like Puncheon in that he tried everything he could to play, but too many mistakes for me. Wasted out wide. When we got him the middle we looked much more balanced. He really is a class act and his touch in the wet was first class, but we need a goal out of him. It will come good. Lambert 7 stranded on his own in the first half made him look poor and slow, but Adkins was at fault not Lambert. In the second he led the line well and caused plenty of problems. He doesn't look quite as sharp as he has done, but this idea that he has been found out is ********. He just needs someone alongside him. Get Ramirez back playing off him immediately. Rodriguez should have got him on as soon as we went 4-4-2. Did well to get up to the pace of the game and conditions to help push us on. Guly perhaps should have come on a little earlier

Merry Xmas chaps.

we are not exactly inundated with players that are good enough to play left and right midfield at this level

if someone can suggest a wide player with premiership experience that is actually good, available, within our budget (transfer fee and wages), then I'm all ears. Jermaine Pennant maybe? The concept of experience is overrated IMO especially in flair players. Quality is all that matters.

the really best players in the Championship can improve premiership teams. Seeing as many of our players - Bale, Walcott, Jones, Chamberlain - have been snapped up by Prem sides you'd think we'd be more open minded to lower league players now we have made it.

profit wise, Walcott is going to be hard to beat turning £40k into £10m+

a £23m player must be on £100k a week. I'd of thought most prem sides would be interested in him if they could negotiate on his wages

How much would we want for Hammond and Sharp? We need to sell some dead wood this window. We have far too many senior pros that are a million miles away from the first 11.

I suggested him in the summer, so I'm happy to see we are linked with him now. In the game at their place he tore us apart. Very strong direct and powerful runner. I don't give two hoots about his lack of premiership experience. Being a good player is all that matters.