Pre-Season Friendlies 2012

[Chipsticks]

Direct from a free-kick I think.

Cheers. Good news though, we've needed someone who could take a good set piece since Cashley Young left and I've been waiting for Bannan to start scoring them.

Anybody know what Bannan's goal was like?

Involved a ball in a net.

Cheeky sod.

[Monty]

Bannan has been the best and most-improved performer of pre-season for me. Very early days, and pre-season form means nothing unless you carry it into the competitive season, but he has a manager who seems to play his type of football, seems to rate him and, most importantly, seems to be encouraging him and believing in him, which is what he's missed in his career more than anything.

[Matt Collins]

Shouldn't read too much into this. Two goals in the last 15 against a side who are presumably ahead of us in fitness terms. But disappointing nonetheless.

Sounds like Warnock was ropey again. Really need a new left back.

And I'm hoping that our new patient passing style doesn't see us too flat and lacking urgency.

Sounds like we could have had a few goals though? Would be interested in anyone who went's views

[PeterWithesShin]

My Forest mate says they shouldn't be that much ahead of us as they haven't played much yet. Apparently their US tour was cancelled as far as I can tell this was their first friendly.

[not3bad]

Kind of glad we lost in a way.  Going into the first league game with a 100% pre-season record would have been a bad omen.

[cdbearsfan]

They made loads of subs, we didn't. I assume The Ticklemeister wanted to get 90 minutes out of players, which is fair enough. We bossed it for the first 60 minutes. They won it late on against tired legs. We played fairly well over all. Nothing to worry about.

[Matt Collins]

My Forest mate says they shouldn't be that much ahead of us as they haven't played much yet. Apparently their US tour was cancelled as far as I can tell this was their first friendly.

I thought their season started before ours, but it seems not

[Toronto Villa]

The pre- season has gone well irrespective of this result. Lambert will have seen a lot of good things and things to work on. During the US tour I had pointed out that we are not clinical enough and I still believe that to be the case. We clearly need a new LB and Warnock did his best to add to that argument today. Vlaar looked very useful and the midfield is coming together. The desire is ther to play good football all the time. We do need a new forward and I remain unconvinced by N'Zog whatever position he starts in. Certainly food for the thought for the manager.

[PeterWithesShin]

My Forest mate says they shouldn't be that much ahead of us as they haven't played much yet. Apparently their US tour was cancelled as far as I can tell this was their first friendly.

I thought their season started before ours, but it seems not

It does. They KO a week Monday in the LC. But as far as I can see their only friendlies are today, midweek vs County and they play Albion next Saturday.

[cdbearsfan]

Forgot to mention, I have no idea why Ciaran's goal in the first half was disallowed.

[saunders_heroes]

Useless performance. I counted 3 attempts on goal all game. No width, no penetration, nothing. Looked the same as last season to me.

[tepavilla]

Considering that style-wise we've pretty much made a 180 degree turn it doesn't surprise to see us struggling going forward. I mean who actually thought we'd be playing like Arsenal straight away. Would not surprise me to see us really struggling this year, especially at the first half of the season. But personally I don't give a **** how high/low we finish this season. As long as we adjust to our new style and gradually get better at it as the season goes on, I'm more than happy.

[Matt Collins]

Useless performance. I counted 3 attempts on goal all game. No width, no penetration, nothing. Looked the same as last season to me.

I didn't see the game, but I got the impression that we had two goals disallowed, Bannan scored, Bent had two efforts, Holman at least two and KEA had a long ranger? I'll check it out on AVTV, but a) it was a friendly, and b) we're going to have to go through some games this season where it doesn't work at all and we really pass it and pass it without going anywhere. I'll be disappointed if not that surprised if the fans start moaning about 2 games into the season.

[Chipsticks]

Can anybody give me a quick run-down on how Vlaar did today?

[spangley1812]

Can anybody give me a quick run-down on how Vlaar did today?

I was there and he did ok.......very solid, dangerous from set-pieces. He will need to work on the partnership with Clark and he is very big