Holmes_and_Watson

That's not 2026/2027 mind... 🙂

NJ said that Adams would be a better goal scorer with him in charge. Because making strikers better goal scorers is what he does. Southampton efforts on target = 0 Under Ralph the bulk of that team learend automatisms that, before it got sussed out, gave the team an identity and passing capability that took us well into the top half. I doubt NJ's approach is more technical than that, but yet it's somehow beyond him to get whatever it is across to the players, or the players have somehow lost the ability to learn. All of them. Here, we didn't threaten a team that, compared to how long our lot have worked together, just met in the car park before the game. If NJ's plan is more direct football, then it's odd that his team never took risks, never played with any pace, never looked like wanting the ball, never looked like creating space to recieve it, never looked like holding it up and certainly never seemed capable of getting a shot on goal. There are remnants of Ralph in there, which is never going to work in a new system. But whatever that new system is, it hasn't reached the brains or feet of the players. If it exists. Against a promoted team who have had to quickly work together, who are rightly at the same end of a table and who were sitting back, after we gave away our mandatory defensive howler as a gift goal. I think I saw 1 move, where a poor ball was played to Lavia, he turned it and got a quick pass out to KWP. Nothing came from that. And it had to be done after an error, and against a team that were already dropped deep allowing us bags of possession. We didn;t look remotely capable of quick movement like that, when Forest were further up. Our centre half look fairly strong, but the rest of the tam look deicdedly lightweight against everyone else in this league. We're not going to be winning many fights. And propping up the league, every game is going to be a fight. That was as tough a watch as I can remember in a long time. NJ had a long break with this squad. The end product might not ahve been quite there, without bringing in, say, a more physical attacker. But I'd have expected to see some signs of what the plan is. NJ looks constantly surprised that L1 tactics don't work against Premier League players. The club, manager and players all knew how important these last few games were for our season. Points = 0. And nothing is exactly what they deserve.

Sums up the night really

New defender? 🙂

Stu! Stu! Stu!

By half closing my eyes, I can pretend that the team in yellow and blue is us in our away kit. It's better than watching the other clueless lot. 🙂

Edozie cught in possession. Just not strong enough, to do the things he thinks he's going to get away with. Forest have put in a couple of really good deliveries, that we've completely failed to manage.

We looked likely to make an error, even before we had to push up. But our back 3 would be really punished against a better side.

And again. Edozie with a chance to get a ball into the box. Chooses to go further and loses it.

Edozie overplays it (as he has done since his very first game). We get caught out and Forest ease right past us and nearly get a chance. Our replacements have just as many flaws, as the ones we took off.

Forest bringing on a new signing? A signing? surely not? If the window was open wouldn't our club have concuded brining in one of the players we've been crying out for for months? But all other clubs don;t have it as difficult in January as we do it seems. Grrrr...

Wow. KWP did a Redmond. A couple of better attacking passes available. But no... we might create something...but might lose the ball...too risky... stop and back pass... move breaks down and Forest get possession. Jones not putting a stamp on it at all. Salisu and Lyanco long throws were early evidence of that.

Physio needs to be on soon. Dean Henderson is going to need the cushion on his comfy chair adjusted soon. Lots of focus rightly on concussion, but not so much on the poor defenders and 'keepers, who fall into comas waiting for our attack to do something.

We're getting more possession. While it's easy to get overly enthususiastic at them stringing 2 passes together, nothing is coming of it.

And we're looking up to that glittering, bright point as an aspiration from how we're playing now. 🙂

CC with a header that was well over. But is still the closest we've come. >sigh<

Another mess up with our 3 at the back, got caught and allowed a shot in. tame passing. Just want rid of it, more than they want to create anything that might work.

cacophony of boos at half time. And that was probably polite, considering that fist 45. We looked marginally better approaching the whistle. But that's not to say we could complete a couple of passes together, or get a ball into the box, or show for a pass, or look as though we had much of a clue. It's just that Forest, being one up, dropped back a bit to take their lead into the interval. There were a couple of moments where it looked as though being more direct was where we'd be more liekly. Again, that's not to say any of those worked. But Jones' tactics are direct. With a team that offer zero threat from direct styles of play, having been trained for the last few years to play a very different style to that, and who have no personnel who look remotely likely to do anything playing that way.

We're showing that you could pick any random 11 players, put them up against our team, and they'd win. Very poor.

i thought one of the 2 forest players was going to get on the end of that, when we didn;t clear it.

That's probably the metric they should be focusing on achieving, before digging out the calculus books. 🙂

That's the last time I buy a second hand air fryer off eBay. 🙂

The stripes are back, but Nathan has a hard time convincing the players of his tactics at training... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpuJBtcMMp8

The only mine is the one our form plummeted down. Thanks Rasmus.

I had a glass of wine with dinner. I'm out before I even read the last few posts. 🙂