comment by TrevorFrancisruinedmylife (U22426)
posted 9 hours, 23 minutes ago
Sabri Lamouchi. A lovely fellow, but you can only merdemaison your way across the Championship so far.
To start, after 20 unending years of abject failure, all that matters is ending this misery. If Lamouchi can get this squad promoted playing 9 CBs and Grabban with a single goal attempt per game, I'll personally stuff the beautiful game in a sack and gleefully drown it in the Trent.
Having been removed from the UK at an early age, have always been impressed by completely unfounded, evidence denying, English optimism, inevitably followed by immediate implosion. Like this season. By all objective standards, and as a spectacle, Forest's football this season has been dire - football by strangulation - redeemed only by Grabban's goal conjuring out of nothing.
Lamouchi. Lovely fellow. But like Karanka, a disciple of Mourinho whose prime objective is not to concede, and to hope for the best after that. That ship has sailed and sunk, and the game has moved on. Even if Forest find a way to get promoted, with Lamouchi's footballing philosophy they are going to get killed, even if they improve the squad. That said, would still rather spend a year being crushed by Mid East oil money than toiling for a 22nd year in obscurity.
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Good post Trevor although I don't agree with your assessment. I think Sabri's first season is more comparable to Dougie Freeman's time. DF tried to play an expansive game but found out he didn't have the players to do that. He then successfully made us 'hard to beat' We all know we have little creative flair, and even less goal scoring capability. Sabri has made the right choice in taking a view that if we restrict the other team to scoring 1 or not at all we have a chance to get something from a game.
I've always though a manager needs a minimum of three windows to put his squad together. Sabri has had a rushed summer window; and a poor January window. His recruitment in the next window is crucial and I think we should not judge him before next Jan at the earliest.
And I think we will still be in the Championship next season regardless of how things pan out on Wednesday. That said I think three quality signings will be enough to turn is from a possible play off contender to automatic promotion contender. A Campbell, or Harewood alongside Grabban would make a big difference.
BARNSLEY v FOREST - Match Thread
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posted on 20/7/20
comment by TrevorFrancisruinedmylife (U22426)
posted 9 hours, 23 minutes ago
Sabri Lamouchi. A lovely fellow, but you can only merdemaison your way across the Championship so far.
To start, after 20 unending years of abject failure, all that matters is ending this misery. If Lamouchi can get this squad promoted playing 9 CBs and Grabban with a single goal attempt per game, I'll personally stuff the beautiful game in a sack and gleefully drown it in the Trent.
Having been removed from the UK at an early age, have always been impressed by completely unfounded, evidence denying, English optimism, inevitably followed by immediate implosion. Like this season. By all objective standards, and as a spectacle, Forest's football this season has been dire - football by strangulation - redeemed only by Grabban's goal conjuring out of nothing.
Lamouchi. Lovely fellow. But like Karanka, a disciple of Mourinho whose prime objective is not to concede, and to hope for the best after that. That ship has sailed and sunk, and the game has moved on. Even if Forest find a way to get promoted, with Lamouchi's footballing philosophy they are going to get killed, even if they improve the squad. That said, would still rather spend a year being crushed by Mid East oil money than toiling for a 22nd year in obscurity.
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Good post Trevor although I don't agree with your assessment. I think Sabri's first season is more comparable to Dougie Freeman's time. DF tried to play an expansive game but found out he didn't have the players to do that. He then successfully made us 'hard to beat' We all know we have little creative flair, and even less goal scoring capability. Sabri has made the right choice in taking a view that if we restrict the other team to scoring 1 or not at all we have a chance to get something from a game.
I've always though a manager needs a minimum of three windows to put his squad together. Sabri has had a rushed summer window; and a poor January window. His recruitment in the next window is crucial and I think we should not judge him before next Jan at the earliest.
And I think we will still be in the Championship next season regardless of how things pan out on Wednesday. That said I think three quality signings will be enough to turn is from a possible play off contender to automatic promotion contender. A Campbell, or Harewood alongside Grabban would make a big difference.
posted on 23/7/20
How did this work out for you?
#humblepie
posted on 23/7/20
You are worse than that Black Star gimp who plagued our board for an entire season.
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