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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Alan_Rovers on September 30, 2012, 02:31:40 pm

Title: Forest
Post by: Alan_Rovers on September 30, 2012, 02:31:40 pm
1-0 down at home to Derby and down to ten men. Billy Sharp on the bench. Wonder how long left there will be before SO'D brings him on?

Bet it's not until 80+ mins.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Filo on September 30, 2012, 02:33:11 pm
Life after Rovers eh? Billy, Copps and JOC all on the bench, sometimes the grass is n`t greener!
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Alan_Rovers on September 30, 2012, 02:34:46 pm
To be fair they would all walk straight into our team.

Sharp still isn't on for Forest and they're crying out for another striker on the pitch.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Chris Black come back on September 30, 2012, 02:48:57 pm
Sharp has just come on but Forest playing like we used to when the chips are down. Sloping shoulders, passing nowhere, no leaders, aimless.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Alan_Rovers on September 30, 2012, 02:49:58 pm
75 minutes and SO'D finally decides to make the change he should have made 20 minutes ago.

At least as irritating as Saunders is with his feeble and stupid post match excuses, we don't have to put up with SO'D's ridiculous late subs anymore.

Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Wellred on September 30, 2012, 02:52:59 pm
Does SOD have an alarm clock in his pocket set to go off no sooner than 70 minutes every game?
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on September 30, 2012, 02:55:05 pm
Is it me or does sharp look even slower than before?
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 30, 2012, 02:56:51 pm
For his own sake, I hope O'Driscoll doesn't come out with that "nothing special about a local derby - just another game" line today.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: mushRTID on September 30, 2012, 02:57:37 pm
Thought forest was a strange move for Copps, he's not going to play much. Expect him back in January.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Chris Black come back on September 30, 2012, 02:58:15 pm
Nestling on the bench next to Billy was £1million signing Henri Lansbury.

Million quid and on the bench!!
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Alan_Rovers on September 30, 2012, 02:58:45 pm
SO'D was saying only the other day about how he was surprised at how big this game seemed to the supporters.

Not the first time. Forest have been as awful in this half as we were in the whole game when we lost to Scunny at Glanford Park in SO'D's first derby game.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: mushRTID on September 30, 2012, 03:07:32 pm
Crowd got a bit frustrated there with the throw in going all the way back in injury time.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: pubteam on September 30, 2012, 03:07:41 pm
Forest have done nothing but hoof it for 90 minutes, with 11 men and 10.

Derby have really done a job on them. I sensed that they would do after about two seconds of the game, when Forest kicked off and the Derby team charged forward straight away to close them down. There's a way to beat a SOD team, and that is to get in their faces, make it uncomfortable, and use your physical presence against them. Derby did that from the first minute, meaning this result was inevitable in my eyes.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Filo on September 30, 2012, 03:14:27 pm
A nice 15 minutes looking at the clouds for Billy, did he get a touch of the ball?

What happened to SOD`s, total football philosophy? 95 minutes of the best hoofball you could imagine!
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: shaun from thorne on September 30, 2012, 03:17:04 pm
who gives a toss about forrest...RTID
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Akinfenwa on September 30, 2012, 03:22:11 pm
Passing the ball around at the back and then banging it forward when closed down gives the illusion of 'passing football' but is actually a load of shite. Said the same last year when we were doing it for nothing but the sake of it.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: mushRTID on September 30, 2012, 03:31:38 pm
From forest forum;



Agree! Lack of pace is costing us, hopefully the rumours of Robbie Brady are true.

The passing game isn't working at all and hasn't since the Charlton game, it seems like we're passing it about a lot but still ending up hoofing it long.

Pace is a necessity in the modern game.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: RedJ on September 30, 2012, 03:32:48 pm
how familiar that sounds.. :laugh:
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: MachoMadness on September 30, 2012, 03:55:04 pm
Yep, sounds like SO'D is starting to have an effect. Spells like this are inevitable when you have SO'D as manager. They'll pick up a few wins sooner or later and have fans drooling, then go through another few spells like this and probably finish mid-table. Whether that's good enough for them I don't know.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: pubteam on September 30, 2012, 03:56:21 pm
Another quote from a Forest fan...

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We just don't seem to have the ability to grind anything out

Sounds very, very familiar.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: MiKA on September 30, 2012, 04:47:15 pm
I'd take Hume over Sharp any day of the week   :lol:

Who gives a toss about Forest, SOD or our old players anyway, come on Rovers    :boxing:
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Wellred on September 30, 2012, 05:19:20 pm
They had better get used to it. He sure as hell wont change.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: eastender on September 30, 2012, 05:32:51 pm
Life after Rovers eh? Billy, Copps and JOC all on the bench, sometimes the grass is n`t greener!
No but the wages are , ask Billy £28k for getting  splinters.  :woot:

He left us because he didn't fancy a relegation battle (His words) , well a least Saints have spared him that.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Bald Rover on September 30, 2012, 05:40:31 pm
have any of our ex players from our stint in the championship actually proved they are better than where wrong finished?
copps is mainly an unused sub
oconnor sub
sharp sub
gillet doing ok in a transition squad
gaz robbo regular in a struggling team
greeny mainly injured
wellens their fans hate n don't rate him
mills can't settle looks poor
shackell chasing the money
stocky can't get a game
is there any that
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Bald Rover on September 30, 2012, 05:41:14 pm
sorry phone playing up you get my point tho
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: MachoMadness on September 30, 2012, 05:42:21 pm
Friend is doing alright by all accounts, apart from that all our ex players aren't pulling up trees in the league above.

Though I thought Wellens was one of Leicester's best players, wasn't he player of the year not long ago?
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: deebee on September 30, 2012, 06:56:58 pm
The one ex Rover doing really well is little Baxendale. Just keep an eye on him I think we let a future talent slip through our fingers there.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Colin C No.3 on October 01, 2012, 02:56:53 pm
I'd take Hume over Sharp any day of the week   :lol:

Who gives a toss about Forest, SOD or our old players anyway, come on Rovers    :boxing:
I'd take Hume over Sharp any day of the week   :lol:

Who gives a toss about Forest, SOD or our old players anyway, come on Rovers    :boxing:
Hume over Sharp?! You're havin' a giraffe! How soon 'we' forget.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Norfolk N Chance on October 01, 2012, 04:58:35 pm
laugh my arse off if he f**ks up at Forest .....
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: dumbroofer on October 01, 2012, 05:13:06 pm
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laugh my arse off if he f***s up at Forest .....

and please tell, how will that happen on a £20k + a week wage
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: StocksArmy on October 01, 2012, 05:39:47 pm
I think out of the players we have had to let go there is only probably JOC who I think could walk back into our team. Personally I would take Cotterill over Copps, Jones over Friend, Harper over Gillett and Syers over Stock. Used to hate watching us getting pushed around.
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: Rovin Reporter on October 01, 2012, 08:59:43 pm
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laugh my arse off if he f***s up at Forest .....

and please tell, how will that happen on a £20k + a week wage
What's his wages got to with anything ?
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: dumbroofer on October 01, 2012, 09:22:53 pm
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laugh my arse off if he f***s up at Forest .....

and please tell, how will that happen on a £20k + a week wage
What's his wages got to with anything ?

nothing at all miducks, and i for one hope the lad does very well where ever he goes.
but should it all come crashing down then 20k a week should compensate for  norfolk laughing his arse off
Title: Re: Forest
Post by: MiKA on October 01, 2012, 10:11:36 pm
I'd take Hume over Sharp any day of the week   :lol:

Who gives a toss about Forest, SOD or our old players anyway, come on Rovers    :boxing:
I'd take Hume over Sharp any day of the week   :lol:

Who gives a toss about Forest, SOD or our old players anyway, come on Rovers    :boxing:
Hume over Sharp?! You're havin' a giraffe! How soon 'we' forget.

It was rather tongue in cheek  lol