Back from the forest game

[Whore Jackie]

We just need people that can actually cross the ball and, Heaven forbid Shunty, actually beat a man!

Hunt's never been the sort of player to glide past an opponent, his one tactic of late, seems to consist of pretending they're invisible and playing the ball through their legs. Doesn't work. Very often.

What he did have was aggression, stamina, a good team-work ethos, the odd back heel trick or two, a decent understanding of his fellow Irish forwards and the priceless ability to deliver good set-pieces. Sadly these attributes have completely vanished recently. It's enormously frustrating to watch.

[1982Royal]

Goalkeeper - Solid. No problems there.

Defence - Again, pretty solid. My only concern is Rosenior booting the ball everytime he gets it. The midfield is there to run the game, yet seems to get bypassed when the defence has the ball.

Midfield - Personally Gunnarsson and Matejovsky didn't do much wrong today. I would like to see(although its never going to happen) Tabb start on the left, and Henry get called back from Millwall and start on the right. Bring some fresh creativity into the midfield.

Upfront - Its clear to see Doyle is off form, but it seems as though both forwards are asked to come deep to get the ball, instead of one staying and playing off the shoulders of the defenders.

I want to see more of that slick passing Reading have played in the past few years. Not this shocking hoof ball that ends up on the centre backs head and back in our own half.

[FiNeRaIn]

Kebe- a disaster, thank god he's injured, hopefully we he's out for the season and we can get henry back on the right. Even if he is an inexperienced kid he's got more of an all-round game during the time we've seen him, kebe is embarassing.

Its not fair just to single him out either, both hunts were shocking and duberry's distribution is just not good enough for a championship challengning team. Get bikey in at centre back next to pearce.

Pearce, rosenior and matevovsky ( first half only) did really well and fed is now our accomplished number 1 keeper, good distribution and commanding when claiming crosses, good save from a cut-back also.

Coppell can't stop the rot and this is what happened last season...when we were relegated. We just aren't good enough and im afraid it comes down the the dreaded word..." investment".

I would be very suprised if we got promotion now.

[Rex]

We simply should have taken the chances in the first half and battered them. The second half was really really bad.
Tabb looked a real promise roaming. Doyle should not take the armband next time as he just didn't boss the team.
We looked nervous after the initial onslaught. Earnshaw is a pcunt. Not too much else to say really other than Cardiff and wolves screwed up.

Please stop punting the ball up the pitch. Run with the ball (apart from Kebe who was ).

Steve - stop moaning about multi ball.

[SteveRoyal]

Somewhere in Snowball's blizzard of stats were some that tried to demonstrate that Kebe was a good finisher, something I laughed at.

When you see a player totally unmarked put it wide from 6 yards, you don't need any stats to know if he's a good finisher or not.

snowball, do not reply to this, you are not welcome on my thread.

What makes you so high and mighty?
oxf*rd sake grow up.

[a royal called morty]

Bitterly disappointed today, perhaps more so than last week. The amount of pressure we had in the first half needed a goal! Then Forest got back into it, I just did not see it coming. The loss wasn't the fault of Kebe or Hunt, but that doesn't mean to say they weren't poor, because they were. Kebe should have put the early chance away, then we could be sitting here looking at a different result. What disappointed me more was that it took us so long to recover from conceding. There is an obvious lack of confidence in the team at the moment, that was glaringly obvious, even at moments during the first half. As for forests tactics today, they didn't half p*ss me off (i'm sure i'm not the only one thinking this), never seen such obvious timewasting.

Who knows, maybe playing away from home will be better for us, as many have already said, teams won't be trying to stifle us. On to Sheff Wed midweek, and hopefully that elusive goal will come from somewhere.

[AbovetheI]

I'll sum up the dreadful players in a little list.

Rosenior
Kebe
SHunt
Doyle
NHunt


Bottom of Y25/Y26 seemed a little fickle today. I sat by the scoreboard with my Dad for the second half, and every time the Forest players didn't sprint like Usain Bolt to retrieve a ball for a throw in, they all seemed to shout, spit and throw their knickers in the air in disgust because of this. You all looked like idiots.

That is all.

[poohs pure]

Somewhere in Snowball's blizzard of stats were some that tried to demonstrate that Kebe was a good finisher, something I laughed at.

When you see a player totally unmarked put it wide from 6 yards, you don't need any stats to know if he's a good finisher or not.

snowball, do not reply to this, you are not welcome on my thread.

What makes you so high and mighty?
oxf*rd sake grow up.

nothing makes me so high and mighty i just dont want this to degenrate into a stat filled pile of shit and to have that total oxf*rd posting his utter dribble. get it?

[floyd__streete]

Back to the usual long ball toss second half when not a chance was created. I am still waiting for Marek Matejovsky to tear up this division; he couldn't tear up toilet paper.

We are a dire, plodding side, packed with mediocrity who have been well and truly found out and the management team do not have the wit and skill to alter things.

[Platypuss]

We could have done with Subbing Bryn at half time. I thought he was great in the frist half, but the guy just doesnt have the legs for more than about 60mins

Agreed- subbed about 20 minutes too late when we'd already lost the initiative and momentum of the first half.

Woodcote is going to be highly creative to pin this one on Lita. He'll probably still try, though.

[PEARCEY]

ANy chance of some insight into how the game went, rather than just how gutted you feel,
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First half was quite good. We made chances, Kebe missed a bloody sitter after 3 minutes and Gunnarsson had a good header just over from a corner.

Second half... god knows. We lost confidence, they gained it, and fair play it was a great goal, though we should have got to him before he shot.

Then we lost any guidance, any shape.

Kebe had a SHOCKER. He did NOTHING all game. Whereas Tabb was direct and swung in an incredible cross from the left. Hell, he's even better in the air than Kebe, despite being fully a foot shorter.

Stephen Hunt's set-pieces are shockingly bad. Every time he had a freekick you knew it'd hit the first man. Marek's were far better.

On Marek, he went missing in the second half. He'd toned down his "I can see the pass but you can't" passes, but then as the game wore on they came back.

Oh and a final, inevitable word for Billy Davies and his coaching staff. Kicking balls onto the field, telling your goalkeeper to take the ball to the other side of the 6yardbox, telling players to go down injured. Cheats. Not an excuse for us losing, but so so frustrating.

Yes Forest did timewaste big time but we were never going to score in a month of Sundays. Smith didn't have a decent save to make all game.
LoL at SHunt striding back in his run up to a free kick Ronaldo style and hitting the ball straight to the first Forest defender. Apart from one terrific cross field pass in the second half he was really poor as was Kebe who seems to have no confidence at all.
The Forest defence had NHunt in their pockets although Doyle did some good work down the flanks.
Pearce was very strong in the air but needs to have more confidence going forward with the ball. He seemed very reluctant to dare cross the halfway line.
Both full-backs distribution was very poor. Neither played well.
As for Matejovsky he remains an enigma. So much apparent talent but what does he do with it?
I have been very positive about our chances this season but at the moment I cant see where the next goal is coming from.

[cmonurz]

5 games without scoring and Doyle has played in every one of them.

[Southbank Old Boy]

Well that was a shocking second half performance

Even with all their time wasting and looking to defend a 1-0 lead Forest looked by far the more likely to score in the second half

Gunnarsson showed exactly why he isnt up to starting a game, he cant last the pace and so one of your subs is spent before you kick off. He does give us more of a physical edge than the Cisse and Harper, which must be why Coppell will now only play Matejovsky with him and not with the other two. Gunnar also nearly chipped in with one of his timely goals but just headed over. Its a shame he isnt 5 years younger as he would be just want we need

We should have been a couple of goals to the good at half time, but we didnt have it all our own way and Forest had some pretty good chances too, but then the second half went down hil so dramatically and was as poor as we have played all season

There is something seriously wrong going on here, and Coppell needs to prove he is the great manager we keep being told he is and reverse this downward spiral

[PEARCEY]

Somewhere in Snowball's blizzard of stats were some that tried to demonstrate that Kebe was a good finisher, something I laughed at.

When you see a player totally unmarked put it wide from 6 yards, you don't need any stats to know if he's a good finisher or not.

snowball, do not reply to this, you are not welcome on my thread.

What makes you so high and mighty?
oxf*rd sake grow up.

Agreed. LoL at Poohs Pure.

[PEARCEY]

See now I am confused, is this the same Stephen Hunt that has so many assists, whose corners and free kicks have led to so many goals due to the improvement over last season??

The same player who was given a new improved contract again after failing to reach his transfer value in the window, and has any of this affected him, judging solely by his play since Jan?

SHunt was very poor today. Set pieces poor, general play poor.

[poohs pure]

Agreed. LoL at Poohs Pure.[/quote]

did you go today?

[Elm Park Old Boy]

Kebe- a disaster, thank god he's injured, hopefully we he's out for the season .....

Reading 'supporters' eh. Gotta love 'em.

[Gunny Fishcake]

We are a dire, plodding side, packed with mediocrity who have been well and truly found out and the management team do not have the wit and skill to alter things.[/quote]

Spot on add , gutless , spineless , witless and totally lacking in any pride .

A bigger disgrace to the shirt as you'll ever see

[Rex]

Some ofthe texts on BBCRB were

Steve coppell

[SLAMMED]

Why the oxf*rd do people boo?