Pre-Season Friendly Match Thread Compendium

[warleyboy]

Just seen goals on sky, Clive's 3rd was quality, joe Cole looks a wee bit podgy and defence still looks shambolic.

[cdbearsfan]

Also, I really fucking hate that "who are ya" chant. Firstly, it's disrespectful to a club like Forest who have a proper history. Secondly, we always seem to concede when we sing it.

[David_Nab]

Defence is a big worry interesting that Sherwood in his interview today said he didn't want Baker to leave permanently so perhaps he will be sent on loan and someone else ( Lescott) will come in.

Cole looked decent and worth a squad place , Kozak woefully too slow and weak on the ball.Sinclair great hatrick think he is actually better playing as a striker than a winger.

Overall I suspect the first few months are going to be a rollercoaster whilst the side settles and gel.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I thought Robinson looked quite good too. Good footwork

He did look good. Talk of sending him away on loan may not be the greatest of ideas right now.

Veretout on the other hand looked like he'd only met the team yesterday morning. Given that he seems great from dead balls I couldn't understand why he wasn't taking the corners instead of Joe Cole who I wouldn't expect to be starting next week.

[Clark W Griswold]

No surprises again.

Poor second half with one or two exceptions.

I think you're watching a different match to me.

Baker at fault pretty badly for the equaliser, there.

A lot of huff and puff but with so many new players it was a poor game. Defensively we look to invite teams to put the ball in the box. Up front we're congested. Overall, based on the second half  I thought it was a fair result.

I totally disagree.

I thought we looked technically very good. What let us down was the poor defending. Baker for the third was particularly poor, but it's worth remembering, at that point we had Sanchez playing at centre half, not a situation that will repeat itself too often, one hopes.

That was thrown away by a brilliant piece of skill from Lansbury and a defensive clanger from Baker.

How are the cataracts?

We may have looked technically very good but pretty clueless what to do with the ball other than not give it away.

But we still scored 3 goals. The problem is we gave 3 away, but i suppose playing Baker and a midfielder there (who i still think will be a good player for us) its highly likely.

[Matt Collins]

Kozak did look bad didn't he? Disappointing after the wolves performance

[Steve R]

We did look very comfortable with the ball and the second half's 4-3-3 was a big improvement. It's not so long ago you could put us up against 11 dustbins and we'd still manage to give possession up after 2 or 3 passes. This looks much better. I thought we played well with a few cock-ups rather than played badly.

In both halves Forest managed to put in corners that actually bounced near or in our 6 yard box. Should never happen. Baker was well and truly kippered for the third.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Did we have a shot on target after Sinclair's third?

[aj2k77]

Bakers still dog shit, what do you guys see in him? All heart, blood and thunder and mistakes and crap marking.

[Matt Collins]

I really really hope he goes 433 against Bournemouth

[kippaxvilla2]

Kozak did look bad didn't he? Disappointing after the wolves performance

After the injury he has had I'm imagining two games in a week is still a massive ask of him and possibly a reason we are looking to bring in another.

[silhillvilla]

No surprises we concede goals with Sanchez out of position as a CB. I've no idea what that is all about.

[Matt Collins]

It was a friendly

[cdbearsfan]

No surprises we concede goals with Sanchez out of position as a CB. I've no idea what that is all about.

It was a friendly, and more important to give as many people as possible a run out, even if it meant, in Sanchez's case, playing him out of position.

[Colhint]

Yup agree with that. Get's him some game time, in a position he won't have to do that much running