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Great game., I thought. Frustrating as fuck, two teams more or less on par with each other in terms of capability and resurgence. Both teams on new managers and both wanting the playoffs badly. But ...

First half I though we showed exactly where we are in this league. Forest obviously had a decent plan and stuck rigidly to their 3-4-1-2 and pressed us massively. Middlesbrough will be taking note (as if Wilder doesn't already know) that we don't do being pressed and the amount of iffy passes in that first half was bordering on criminal. Fodders pulls of a class save early on and their penalty - my two buddies were in the BLUT tonight and figured it was - look at the replay and see how Spence 'plays' RND like a fucking fiddle. Great nerve again from man-of-the-moment Fodders to guess down the middle which embarrassed a lively Johnson. We did have the win to play for in the second half, despite the fucking Sky commentators sounding like they had a copy of Shoot October 1974 with a poster of Brian 'having said that' Clough open in front of them to spaff their wad all over. Even the studio pundits, louche, slightly effete Jobi McAnuff and the Dawson brother seemed to be urging Forest to win. That lass presenter though. Guilty 'would'.

But second half we flagged again on 55 minutes and Heck hooked Seriki putting ... Osborn on ... ? ,,, in his place and the much lauded return of Jobbo. Instantly we looked better and a more together unit and Forest started to ship a few head shots, one of which is Billy's deserved goal. Yes! We're in front! Don't fuck this up. And yeah, we then went on to push the play up the pitch, making the class mistake of bringing McBurnie on (instead of a defensive midfielder) and they get the corner which sealed our fate. Aside from the fact that on chances, we should have lost this game, to do exactly what we did at Millwall and pick players up is somewhat typical and somewhat unforgivable. McBurnie in those situations is the 'floating marker', tasked with attacking the player who the cross is aimed at. But again, like Millwall, the moment the goalscorer's head hits the ball, he's not even airborne - or in this case, even near the player. The ball zips past him and into the Bramall Lane net. Fucking hell.

We have to learn lessons from the past two matches. Firstly, McBurnie needs to leave. He offers nothing to the club that say, McGoldrick could have done before his injury or even a tired Billy Sharp. And if we are shop windowing him, then it's failing. He's fucking bobbar. Secondly, we have to look at how to deal with teams who press. Pressing is okay, but if you press say, Man City, they draw you in and either play past you into space, or they glide past you leaving you chasing the fart you left spinning. Okay, that's Man City. But dealing with the press can be coached and it's one for McCall to get his skecthpad out. Thirdly, we have to defend setpieces effectively.

Foderingham 9/10: Great early stop and a steely penalty stop. Pick himself these days. Fallowfield? You listening?
Seriki 6.5/10: Fairly solid first start from this lad. Seems to understand the RWB role well, if not yet at the level of Baldock and Bogle, still looks like he has potential
Davies 7/10: Good personal battle with Davis which he seemed to enjoy
Egan 4/10: Fucking nightmare first half and not much to redeem himself in the second
Robinson 8/10: really impressed with him tonight. Showed real levels of focus and dealt with incidents well. Johnson in the second half practically disappeared
RND 6.5/10: Another personal battle with Spencer which he did okay, if looking ragged by the end
Berge 6/10: Quiet first half and slightly better in the second when Norwood went off and he was left to create from deep central positions
Norwood 6/10: Some good (the ping to Seriki) some bad (multiple fluffed passes)
Fleck 6/10: Another decent game, albeit with a typically Fleckeque moment where he's clean on goal and is swiped by their centre forward on the chase
MGW 7.5/10: Another impressive display at times if overplaying it unnecessarily at times. Great assist for Billy's goal and was still at full pelt into injury time closing Forest down
Sharp 7/10: Constantly leaned on by Worrall and fouled by others. He's a professional nuisance but he's our professional nuisance. Well taken goal I'm sure you'll agree Fallowfield.

Osborn 7/10: Instantly got his big boy pants on and caused them trouble down the right.
Jebbison 5/10: Faltering re-debut for him and to me should have ran on goal, drawn the defender then passed. At 2-0 Forest are sunk
McBurnie 2/10: Shite. Winding the ref up and appealing for fouls that aren't fouls are simply fucking bollocks. Grow up you daft fucker. Get attacking and get scoring, or fuck off

Hecky 7/10: A tough game for him and his players and at least we didn't lose, which on balance we could have done.

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pommpey said:
Great game., I thought. Frustrating as fuck, two teams more or less on par with each other in terms of capability and resurgence. Both teams on new managers and both wanting the playoffs badly. But ...

First half I though we showed exactly where we are in this league. Forest obviously had a decent plan and stuck rigidly to their 3-4-1-2 and pressed us massively. Middlesbrough will be taking note (as if Wilder doesn't already know) that we don't do being pressed and the amount of iffy passes in that first half was bordering on criminal. Fodders pulls of a class save early on and their penalty - my two buddies were in the BLUT tonight and figured it was - look at the replay and see how Spence 'plays' RND like a fucking fiddle. Great nerve again from man-of-the-moment Fodders to guess down the middle which embarrassed a lively Johnson. We did have the win to play for in the second half, despite the fucking Sky commentators sounding like they had a copy of Shoot October 1974 with a poster of Brian 'having said that' Clough open in front of them to spaff their wad all over. Even the studio pundits, louche, slightly effete Jobi McAnuff and the Dawson brother seemed to be urging Forest to win. That lass presenter though. Guilty 'would'.

But second half we flagged again on 55 minutes and Heck hooked Seriki putting ... Osborn on ... ? ,,, in his place and the much lauded return of Jobbo. Instantly we looked better and a more together unit and Forest started to ship a few head shots, one of which is Billy's deserved goal. Yes! We're in front! Don't fuck this up. And yeah, we then went on to push the play up the pitch, making the class mistake of bringing McBurnie on (instead of a defensive midfielder) and they get the corner which sealed our fate. Aside from the fact that on chances, we should have lost this game, to do exactly what we did at Millwall and pick players up is somewhat typical and somewhat unforgivable. McBurnie in those situations is the 'floating marker', tasked with attacking the player who the cross is aimed at. But again, like Millwall, the moment the goalscorer's head hits the ball, he's not even airborne - or in this case, even near the player. The ball zips past him and into the Bramall Lane net. Fucking hell.

We have to learn lessons from the past two matches. Firstly, McBurnie needs to leave. He offers nothing to the club that say, McGoldrick could have done before his injury or even a tired Billy Sharp. And if we are shop windowing him, then it's failing. He's fucking bobbar. Secondly, we have to look at how to deal with teams who press. Pressing is okay, but if you press say, Man City, they draw you in and either play past you into space, or they glide past you leaving you chasing the fart you left spinning. Okay, that's Man City. But dealing with the press can be coached and it's one for McCall to get his skecthpad out. Thirdly, we have to defend setpieces effectively.

Foderingham 9/10: Great early stop and a steely penalty stop. Pick himself these days. Fallowfield? You listening?
Seriki 6.5/10: Fairly solid first start from this lad. Seems to understand the RWB role well, if not yet at the level of Baldock and Bogle, still looks like he has potential
Davies 7/10: Good personal battle with Davis which he seemed to enjoy
Egan 4/10: Fucking nightmare first half and not much to redeem himself in the second
Robinson 8/10: really impressed with him tonight. Showed real levels of focus and dealt with incidents well. Johnson in the second half practically disappeared
RND 6.5/10: Another personal battle with Spencer which he did okay, if looking ragged by the end
Berge 6/10: Quiet first half and slightly better in the second when Norwood went off and he was left to create from deep central positions
Fleck 6/10: Another decent game, albeit with a typically Fleckeque moment where he's clean on goal and is swiped by their centre forward on the chase
MGW 7.5/10: Another impressive display at times if overplaying it unnecessarily at times. Great assist for Billy's goal and was still at full pelt into injury time closing Forest down
Sharp 7/10: Constantly leaned on by Worrall and fouled by others. He's a professional nuisance but he's our professional nuisance. Well taken goal I'm sure you'll agree Fallowfield.

Osborn 7/10: Instantly got his big boy pants on and caused them trouble down the right.
Jebbison 5/10: Faltering re-debut for him and to me should have ran on goal, drawn the defender then passed. At 2-0 Forest are sunk
McBurnie 2/10: Shite. Winding the ref up and appealing for fouls that aren't fouls are simply fucking bollocks. Grow up you daft fucker. Get attacking and get scoring, or fuck off

Hecky 7/10: A tough game for him and his players and at least we didn't lose, which on balance we could have done.

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pommpey said:
Great game., I thought. Frustrating as fuck, two teams more or less on par with each other in terms of capability and resurgence. Both teams on new managers and both wanting the playoffs badly. But ...

First half I though we showed exactly where we are in this league. Forest obviously had a decent plan and stuck rigidly to their 3-4-1-2 and pressed us massively. Middlesbrough will be taking note (as if Wilder doesn't already know) that we don't do being pressed and the amount of iffy passes in that first half was bordering on criminal. Fodders pulls of a class save early on and their penalty - my two buddies were in the BLUT tonight and figured it was - look at the replay and see how Spence 'plays' RND like a fucking fiddle. Great nerve again from man-of-the-moment Fodders to guess down the middle which embarrassed a lively Johnson. We did have the win to play for in the second half, despite the fucking Sky commentators sounding like they had a copy of Shoot October 1974 with a poster of Brian 'having said that' Clough open in front of them to spaff their wad all over. Even the studio pundits, louche, slightly effete Jobi McAnuff and the Dawson brother seemed to be urging Forest to win. That lass presenter though. Guilty 'would'.

But second half we flagged again on 55 minutes and Heck hooked Seriki putting ... Osborn on ... ? ,,, in his place and the much lauded return of Jobbo. Instantly we looked better and a more together unit and Forest started to ship a few head shots, one of which is Billy's deserved goal. Yes! We're in front! Don't fuck this up. And yeah, we then went on to push the play up the pitch, making the class mistake of bringing McBurnie on (instead of a defensive midfielder) and they get the corner which sealed our fate. Aside from the fact that on chances, we should have lost this game, to do exactly what we did at Millwall and pick players up is somewhat typical and somewhat unforgivable. McBurnie in those situations is the 'floating marker', tasked with attacking the player who the cross is aimed at. But again, like Millwall, the moment the goalscorer's head hits the ball, he's not even airborne - or in this case, even near the player. The ball zips past him and into the Bramall Lane net. Fucking hell.

We have to learn lessons from the past two matches. Firstly, McBurnie needs to leave. He offers nothing to the club that say, McGoldrick could have done before his injury or even a tired Billy Sharp. And if we are shop windowing him, then it's failing. He's fucking bobbar. Secondly, we have to look at how to deal with teams who press. Pressing is okay, but if you press say, Man City, they draw you in and either play past you into space, or they glide past you leaving you chasing the fart you left spinning. Okay, that's Man City. But dealing with the press can be coached and it's one for McCall to get his skecthpad out. Thirdly, we have to defend setpieces effectively.

Foderingham 9/10: Great early stop and a steely penalty stop. Pick himself these days. Fallowfield? You listening?
Seriki 6.5/10: Fairly solid first start from this lad. Seems to understand the RWB role well, if not yet at the level of Baldock and Bogle, still looks like he has potential
Davies 7/10: Good personal battle with Davis which he seemed to enjoy
Egan 4/10: Fucking nightmare first half and not much to redeem himself in the second
Robinson 8/10: really impressed with him tonight. Showed real levels of focus and dealt with incidents well. Johnson in the second half practically disappeared
RND 6.5/10: Another personal battle with Spencer which he did okay, if looking ragged by the end
Berge 6/10: Quiet first half and slightly better in the second when Norwood went off and he was left to create from deep central positions
Fleck 6/10: Another decent game, albeit with a typically Fleckeque moment where he's clean on goal and is swiped by their centre forward on the chase
MGW 7.5/10: Another impressive display at times if overplaying it unnecessarily at times. Great assist for Billy's goal and was still at full pelt into injury time closing Forest down
Sharp 7/10: Constantly leaned on by Worrall and fouled by others. He's a professional nuisance but he's our professional nuisance. Well taken goal I'm sure you'll agree Fallowfield.

Osborn 7/10: Instantly got his big boy pants on and caused them trouble down the right.
Jebbison 5/10: Faltering re-debut for him and to me should have ran on goal, drawn the defender then passed. At 2-0 Forest are sunk
McBurnie 2/10: Shite. Winding the ref up and appealing for fouls that aren't fouls are simply fucking bollocks. Grow up you daft fucker. Get attacking and get scoring, or fuck off

Hecky 7/10: A tough game for him and his players and at least we didn't lose, which on balance we could have done.

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No mark for Norwood but fair enough , no point him being on the pitch when the opposition have a pacy powerful & athletic midfield.
 
Completely agree with your assessment, apart from the Norwood mark
 
pommpey said:
Great game., I thought. Frustrating as fuck, two teams more or less on par with each other in terms of capability and resurgence. Both teams on new managers and both wanting the playoffs badly. But ...

First half I though we showed exactly where we are in this league. Forest obviously had a decent plan and stuck rigidly to their 3-4-1-2 and pressed us massively. Middlesbrough will be taking note (as if Wilder doesn't already know) that we don't do being pressed and the amount of iffy passes in that first half was bordering on criminal. Fodders pulls of a class save early on and their penalty - my two buddies were in the BLUT tonight and figured it was - look at the replay and see how Spence 'plays' RND like a fucking fiddle. Great nerve again from man-of-the-moment Fodders to guess down the middle which embarrassed a lively Johnson. We did have the win to play for in the second half, despite the fucking Sky commentators sounding like they had a copy of Shoot October 1974 with a poster of Brian 'having said that' Clough open in front of them to spaff their wad all over. Even the studio pundits, louche, slightly effete Jobi McAnuff and the Dawson brother seemed to be urging Forest to win. That lass presenter though. Guilty 'would'.

But second half we flagged again on 55 minutes and Heck hooked Seriki putting ... Osborn on ... ? ,,, in his place and the much lauded return of Jobbo. Instantly we looked better and a more together unit and Forest started to ship a few head shots, one of which is Billy's deserved goal. Yes! We're in front! Don't fuck this up. And yeah, we then went on to push the play up the pitch, making the class mistake of bringing McBurnie on (instead of a defensive midfielder) and they get the corner which sealed our fate. Aside from the fact that on chances, we should have lost this game, to do exactly what we did at Millwall and pick players up is somewhat typical and somewhat unforgivable. McBurnie in those situations is the 'floating marker', tasked with attacking the player who the cross is aimed at. But again, like Millwall, the moment the goalscorer's head hits the ball, he's not even airborne - or in this case, even near the player. The ball zips past him and into the Bramall Lane net. Fucking hell.

We have to learn lessons from the past two matches. Firstly, McBurnie needs to leave. He offers nothing to the club that say, McGoldrick could have done before his injury or even a tired Billy Sharp. And if we are shop windowing him, then it's failing. He's fucking bobbar. Secondly, we have to look at how to deal with teams who press. Pressing is okay, but if you press say, Man City, they draw you in and either play past you into space, or they glide past you leaving you chasing the fart you left spinning. Okay, that's Man City. But dealing with the press can be coached and it's one for McCall to get his skecthpad out. Thirdly, we have to defend setpieces effectively.

Foderingham 9/10: Great early stop and a steely penalty stop. Pick himself these days. Fallowfield? You listening?
Seriki 6.5/10: Fairly solid first start from this lad. Seems to understand the RWB role well, if not yet at the level of Baldock and Bogle, still looks like he has potential
Davies 7/10: Good personal battle with Davis which he seemed to enjoy
Egan 4/10: Fucking nightmare first half and not much to redeem himself in the second
Robinson 8/10: really impressed with him tonight. Showed real levels of focus and dealt with incidents well. Johnson in the second half practically disappeared
RND 6.5/10: Another personal battle with Spencer which he did okay, if looking ragged by the end
Berge 6/10: Quiet first half and slightly better in the second when Norwood went off and he was left to create from deep central positions
Fleck 6/10: Another decent game, albeit with a typically Fleckeque moment where he's clean on goal and is swiped by their centre forward on the chase
MGW 7.5/10: Another impressive display at times if overplaying it unnecessarily at times. Great assist for Billy's goal and was still at full pelt into injury time closing Forest down
Sharp 7/10: Constantly leaned on by Worrall and fouled by others. He's a professional nuisance but he's our professional nuisance. Well taken goal I'm sure you'll agree Fallowfield.

Osborn 7/10: Instantly got his big boy pants on and caused them trouble down the right.
Jebbison 5/10: Faltering re-debut for him and to me should have ran on goal, drawn the defender then passed. At 2-0 Forest are sunk
McBurnie 2/10: Shite. Winding the ref up and appealing for fouls that aren't fouls are simply fucking bollocks. Grow up you daft fucker. Get attacking and get scoring, or fuck off

Hecky 7/10: A tough game for him and his players and at least we didn't lose, which on balance we could have done.

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Agree with most of that for probably the first time ever

I’d give BenO 8 for the limited time he had in thought he made a real difference out of position.

Egan 5 , 3 for first half , 7 for second he made a couple of telling interventions

Jebbo I though harried them much better than mcb has done recently and I can forgive him the 1/10 pass

Roy’s view willl be interesting suspect that will be the best forest have played for a long time

Keep the content coming Pompey all adds to the forum
 
Nice to give team some 6s thought we were lucky with a point never mind 3
 
sitwell said:
Personally thought Berge, Fleck and Norwood 4 each.
Davis for them was superb ,probably the best away performance at the lane by an away player this season.
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Agreed. Real class act. Physical, deft and caused our Davies no end of headaches

pommpey
 
Spot on Pommpey as ever, the sickining love in about the florists would make you sick, have to say our lads have some gut's and if we could defend corners we would have won,get to the international break still there or thereabouts and we are in with a shout,Play Mgw as a 10 and we'll get the full value of him, btw please get Mcpub out of this club.
 

pommpey said:
Great game., I thought. Frustrating as fuck, two teams more or less on par with each other in terms of capability and resurgence. Both teams on new managers and both wanting the playoffs badly. But ...

First half I though we showed exactly where we are in this league. Forest obviously had a decent plan and stuck rigidly to their 3-4-1-2 and pressed us massively. Middlesbrough will be taking note (as if Wilder doesn't already know) that we don't do being pressed and the amount of iffy passes in that first half was bordering on criminal. Fodders pulls of a class save early on and their penalty - my two buddies were in the BLUT tonight and figured it was - look at the replay and see how Spence 'plays' RND like a fucking fiddle. Great nerve again from man-of-the-moment Fodders to guess down the middle which embarrassed a lively Johnson. We did have the win to play for in the second half, despite the fucking Sky commentators sounding like they had a copy of Shoot October 1974 with a poster of Brian 'having said that' Clough open in front of them to spaff their wad all over. Even the studio pundits, louche, slightly effete Jobi McAnuff and the Dawson brother seemed to be urging Forest to win. That lass presenter though. Guilty 'would'.

But second half we flagged again on 55 minutes and Heck hooked Seriki putting ... Osborn on ... ? ,,, in his place and the much lauded return of Jobbo. Instantly we looked better and a more together unit and Forest started to ship a few head shots, one of which is Billy's deserved goal. Yes! We're in front! Don't fuck this up. And yeah, we then went on to push the play up the pitch, making the class mistake of bringing McBurnie on (instead of a defensive midfielder) and they get the corner which sealed our fate. Aside from the fact that on chances, we should have lost this game, to do exactly what we did at Millwall and pick players up is somewhat typical and somewhat unforgivable. McBurnie in those situations is the 'floating marker', tasked with attacking the player who the cross is aimed at. But again, like Millwall, the moment the goalscorer's head hits the ball, he's not even airborne - or in this case, even near the player. The ball zips past him and into the Bramall Lane net. Fucking hell.

We have to learn lessons from the past two matches. Firstly, McBurnie needs to leave. He offers nothing to the club that say, McGoldrick could have done before his injury or even a tired Billy Sharp. And if we are shop windowing him, then it's failing. He's fucking bobbar. Secondly, we have to look at how to deal with teams who press. Pressing is okay, but if you press say, Man City, they draw you in and either play past you into space, or they glide past you leaving you chasing the fart you left spinning. Okay, that's Man City. But dealing with the press can be coached and it's one for McCall to get his skecthpad out. Thirdly, we have to defend setpieces effectively.

Foderingham 9/10: Great early stop and a steely penalty stop. Pick himself these days. Fallowfield? You listening?
Seriki 6.5/10: Fairly solid first start from this lad. Seems to understand the RWB role well, if not yet at the level of Baldock and Bogle, still looks like he has potential
Davies 7/10: Good personal battle with Davis which he seemed to enjoy
Egan 4/10: Fucking nightmare first half and not much to redeem himself in the second
Robinson 8/10: really impressed with him tonight. Showed real levels of focus and dealt with incidents well. Johnson in the second half practically disappeared
RND 6.5/10: Another personal battle with Spencer which he did okay, if looking ragged by the end
Berge 6/10: Quiet first half and slightly better in the second when Norwood went off and he was left to create from deep central positions
Norwood 6/10: Some good (the ping to Seriki) some bad (multiple fluffed passes)
Fleck 6/10: Another decent game, albeit with a typically Fleckeque moment where he's clean on goal and is swiped by their centre forward on the chase
MGW 7.5/10: Another impressive display at times if overplaying it unnecessarily at times. Great assist for Billy's goal and was still at full pelt into injury time closing Forest down
Sharp 7/10: Constantly leaned on by Worrall and fouled by others. He's a professional nuisance but he's our professional nuisance. Well taken goal I'm sure you'll agree Fallowfield.

Osborn 7/10: Instantly got his big boy pants on and caused them trouble down the right.
Jebbison 5/10: Faltering re-debut for him and to me should have ran on goal, drawn the defender then passed. At 2-0 Forest are sunk
McBurnie 2/10: Shite. Winding the ref up and appealing for fouls that aren't fouls are simply fucking bollocks. Grow up you daft fucker. Get attacking and get scoring, or fuck off

Hecky 7/10: A tough game for him and his players and at least we didn't lose, which on balance we could have done.

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Completely agree with your ratings , apart from the ‘would ‘ for ‘ the lass presenter’......... :)
 
My report online shortly - think most of those marks are way too high. Forest were far superior tonight and on another day they win that game comfortably. We had about 15 minutes from 90. I thought the two wing backs looked out of their depth sadly tonight and the midfield had no control. I thought only Wes, Robinson and Ben Davies/Sharp/MGW for 2nd half (those 3) were more than 6/10 - the rest were wasteful on the ball and did not do enough off it.

We have looked really poor for me the last 5 games and even in the excitement of Blackburn, we got away with one. We easily could have had 0 from 9 in the last week where we have probably been 2nd best over this run.

We seemed to have lost the fluency and control and looked a tired mob tonight. I felt we stole a point when they in the end actually really stole the point in literal terms. Weird one but we have to play much better than we have recently if we want to stay in the top 6.
 
Cheers pommpey. Really enjoy your take on matches and your narrative style. Mega gutted after the match, I mean , so close, but to be honest, a draw was a fair result. McBurnie ? Just why ?

The passes and the give aways were very disappointing.

Just a note but the Forest fans in the Tap after the game were sound, not as engaging as Luton fans, but nice enough, however , both were far superior to Hull fans who behaved liked they’d won the European Cup were crass and graceless.

Dont know how you get your reports out so quick
 
Wes 9

Seriki. 3 Woefully out of his depth and it had a definite impact on the match, as shown by how the game completely transformed as soon as he was replaced by a left footed midfielder.

Davies 7 For a left footer I thought he did very well at RCB

Egan. 4 Good god one his worst games

Robinson. 8. Delighted with the player he’s morphed into, excellent right now and undroppable

RND. 4. Some people have been quite positive about him but I don’t see it at all. Jon on the four blades podcast was right, he’s completely average. Tonight he wasn’t even that. Definite pen, if your man gets across make sure you don’t make contact. Drop him for Osborn imo.

Fleck. 7. I thought he did pretty well tbh, especially amongst the absolute chaos of that first half, starting to look switched on and dangerous like he did in those excellent runs of form he had towards the end of previous seasons. Shame about the not finding someone after that drive in the second half but I still think he could be a big big player for us once again.

Berge. 6. One of few players on the first half to give us any sort of control of the game amd whilst he was much quieter than against Blackburn and Swansea he was very unlucky with the ref having it in for him tonight.
Berge is all about the right hand side and for the first hour he had a left footed RCB and Seriki to play with down that flank, so very much having to play with one arm tied behind his back.

Norwood. 4. Yik. Uggh. One of his stinkers. Impressed that Hecky was proactive enough to take him off.

MGW. 6.5. Lot of stuff he tried just didn’t come off and he had a frustrating first half.
However, he takes risk and that touch of class on the goal is exactly why he’s on the pitch.

Sharp. 7 Would’ve been a 4 but for the goal as his general play was poor. Excellent finish and that’s 90% of his job. If Forest had him they’d have been 3-0 up at half time.

Subs: Jebbo 4. Looks decent in general play with his presence and movement, but he blew two big opportunities to play someone in and seal the game

McB 4. One good defensive header but lost the ball weakly and stupidly in the corner. He’s just not a good player is he?

Osborn 9. Changed the game from right wing back, can’t ask for too much more. He looked very good and injected some real quality and purpose into the game for us.
 
Can only imagine you bumped Seriki up a point or two for coming in from our youths and being his debut.

Cuz he was poor tonight. First touch went miles away from him. Should have given a penalty away and was given the run around by Forest time and time again.

Hecky did well to take him out of the firing line before he got permanently scarred by that debut.

Maximum 4/10
 
Not sure what you were watching tonight but you must have been wearing rose tinted glasses Pommps. That was never in the history of football a great game. It was one team falling down a lot and another team (us) who couldn't pass a ball to a team mate. They were soft, we were fucking shite.

Wes was great, the back three were no better than a 1982 Three Feathers defence. Norwood and Fleck were fucking abysmal and Berge? He played two decent passes in 90 minutes, the rest of the game he strolled around, bottling tackles and not doing much at all. Billy was a 3/10, the 3 was for the goal because he did sweet fuck all for the rest of the game, and let's be honest, Gibbs White puts that ball on to most players heads and they score.

Seriki should have been off at half time, poor lad was woeful and it would have been a mercy subbing. Talking of subbing I think Hecky must have been on the pop because he didn't really improve us with the subs, if owt we looked even more clueless.

Davis for them getting rave reviews? Fuck me, he skipped past Norwood and Berge at one bit, and a decent defender would have sussed him after his first two touches, not us though, we can't even defend corners so come to Bramall Lane, the place where average players are made to look world beaters.

The referee tonight had a fucking shocker, an appalling game and he certainly played his part in stopping us get any fluency but let's be honest, this is a shit league full of shit teams and shit referees, the sad thing tonight was that we looked very much at home here.
 
Been pragmatic.. we just wasnt at it for an hour .. the injury list has left us unbalanced & disjointed…but looked like after Billy nodded home we’d land an improbable 3points .. to concede in the 95th min equaliser with a free header reminded of me under previous manager .. think if we we moaning about not making it top 6 3 months ago , we’d all be saying keep off the disco biscuits w ..all in all a decent game , lacking in quality .. story of the championship this season ⚔️⚔️
 
Apart from the period after we scored we were generally out played, pressed very hard but continually kept giving the ball away in midfield and they dominated midfield most of the game, we defended well on the whole as they had a number of fast skilled players
Still gutting to concede a last minute goal yet again
 
Good synopsis of the game Pommpey, but got to agree with Reece with the player ratings.
 
Just really disappointed. We barely deserved a point but to give 2 away like that is hard to take. Shot our games in hand now so we simply can't afford to lose concentration in the last 5 minutes.
 
I couldn't believe how many people immediately post-game, and now here it seems, even after sober reflection, thought Seriki was so poor?

I mean, he's at least third choice but all this "completely out of his depth"? He looked ok enough to me, but clearly he should only be used when there are no other options.

Jebbison was what I expected. I think some fans have really built him up in their own minds. I watched an entire Burton game shortly before we brought him back and I could tell (in fact, I did) that whilst he looked good going forward with the ball at his feet, the other elements of his game are very raw.

Nevertheless, as nuisance value he offers substantially more than McBurnie. One thing im McBurnie's defence is that at least, once, he got in the right position. If Jebbison had just rolled the ball across the six yard line, instead of shooting from a position where his chances were about 1/5, even McBurnie would have found it almost impossible to miss and the game, undeservedly, would have been ours.
 
Deadbat said:
My report online shortly - think most of those marks are way too high. Forest were far superior tonight and on another day they win that game comfortably. We had about 15 minutes from 90. I thought the two wing backs looked out of their depth sadly tonight and the midfield had no control. I thought only Wes, Robinson and Ben Davies/Sharp/MGW for 2nd half (those 3) were more than 6/10 - the rest were wasteful on the ball and did not do enough off it.

We have looked really poor for me the last 5 games and even in the excitement of Blackburn, we got away with one. We easily could have had 0 from 9 in the last week where we have probably been 2nd best over this run.

We seemed to have lost the fluency and control and looked a tired mob tonight. I felt we stole a point when they in the end actually really stole the point in literal terms. Weird one but we have to play much better than we have recently if we want to stay in the top 6.
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Spot on imo
 
Maurice Maurice said:
Not sure what you were watching tonight but you must have been wearing rose tinted glasses Pommps. That was never in the history of football a great game. It was one team falling down a lot and another team (us) who couldn't pass a ball to a team mate. They were soft, we were fucking shite.

Wes was great, the back three were no better than a 1982 Three Feathers defence. Norwood and Fleck were fucking abysmal and Berge? He played two decent passes in 90 minutes, the rest of the game he strolled around, bottling tackles and not doing much at all. Billy was a 3/10, the 3 was for the goal because he did sweet fuck all for the rest of the game, and let's be honest, Gibbs White puts that ball on to most players heads and they score.

Seriki should have been off at half time, poor lad was woeful and it would have been a mercy subbing. Talking of subbing I think Hecky must have been on the pop because he didn't really improve us with the subs, if owt we looked even more clueless.

Davis for them getting rave reviews? Fuck me, he skipped past Norwood and Berge at one bit, and a decent defender would have sussed him after his first two touches, not us though, we can't even defend corners so come to Bramall Lane, the place where average players are made to look world beaters.

The referee tonight had a fucking shocker, an appalling game and he certainly played his part in stopping us get any fluency but let's be honest, this is a shit league full of shit teams and shit referees, the sad thing tonight was that we looked very much at home here.
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As many have said , not just tonight but for the last couple of weeks - we are looking tired and disjointed and have got away with the Blackburn and Forest games .

We are paying for the injuries we are suffering with and hanging onto the hope that Berge will conquer all, Jebbo will have returned from the 1st div as the new Deane,Mcburnie will at last show something and Norwood and Fleck will return to the form of two seasons ago

All above not going to happen

We are imo looking the weakest of the top 6/8 and are having to make do and mend but we are playing with guts - but making some bad decisions

Hecky has done a fine job but he isn’t a miracle worker . He is trying his best with the resources he has and he has - somehow - got us into 6th - fantastic .

I agree it’s a poor league and the ref standard is on the whole shocking - but we still have a chance even though now I would say it’s 30/35% chance of top 6 .
 
Overall we were poor. Generally out fought and out paced. A quality ball from MGW and a quality header from Sharp gave us a lift. Osborn was energetic when he came on, he did well.
Foderingham 8. Some good saves and a few scary moments but saving the penalty deserves a good mark.
Seriki 5. Worked hard but looked raw. Getting on the same wavelength as other players and being more composed is what he needs to work on.
Davis. 6. Solid enough.
Egan 5. Mixed good with terrible.
Robinson 6. Solid enough.
RND 4. Tries hard but limited in both defending and attacking.
Norwood. 4. A good tackle and a few good passes but not influencing the game.
Fleck 5. Some really good stuff and then anonymous for periods of the game.
Berge 5. Bar a couple of good runs and a shot in the first half he was poor. He doesn't look to get on the ball enough and doesn't attack enough. He is a luxury player. Fine in a dominant midfield but when the going gets tough he doesn't show enough grit or leadership.
MGW. 6....struggled early on but can't be faulted for effort and attitude. Sublime cross for the goal.
Sharp 6. Worked hard and won frees. Well taken goal.
Osborn. 7. Did well.
Jebbison 5. Worked hard and butchered a pass to MGW. Attitude looks good and think he could be the best option to play upfront with Billy.
McBurnie. 4. Not on long but back to pulling and dragging and complaining to the ref. Not the type of character we need. And that is not mentioning the lack of quality and skill.
 

Maurice Maurice said:
Not sure what you were watching tonight but you must have been wearing rose tinted glasses Pommps. That was never in the history of football a great game. It was one team falling down a lot and another team (us) who couldn't pass a ball to a team mate. They were soft, we were fucking shite.

Wes was great, the back three were no better than a 1982 Three Feathers defence. Norwood and Fleck were fucking abysmal and Berge? He played two decent passes in 90 minutes, the rest of the game he strolled around, bottling tackles and not doing much at all. Billy was a 3/10, the 3 was for the goal because he did sweet fuck all for the rest of the game, and let's be honest, Gibbs White puts that ball on to most players heads and they score.

Seriki should have been off at half time, poor lad was woeful and it would have been a mercy subbing. Talking of subbing I think Hecky must have been on the pop because he didn't really improve us with the subs, if owt we looked even more clueless.

Davis for them getting rave reviews? Fuck me, he skipped past Norwood and Berge at one bit, and a decent defender would have sussed him after his first two touches, not us though, we can't even defend corners so come to Bramall Lane, the place where average players are made to look world beaters.

The referee tonight had a fucking shocker, an appalling game and he certainly played his part in stopping us get any fluency but let's be honest, this is a shit league full of shit teams and shit referees, the sad thing tonight was that we looked very much at home here.
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Massively disagree with most of that.
It was a good open Championship match, albeit with some very poor passing by us at times.
The ref had a decent game and , apart from missing a Forest penalty, got all the important decisions right.
I am not sure what you expect to see in the Championship, but it will not be much better than this match and it is far better than many Championship seasons in the past.
 
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