Middlesbrough - Nottingham Forest

[ThePromisedLand]

Hopefully Carvalho, Sow & Watson on Friday.

[Paplane]

Semedo needs to watch it. He's on the verge of failing at a 2nd division club. If he's going to be the top player his club seem to thing he can be then he needs to focus a bit more and do something. He has quality but only shows it occasionally

[stirred]

I'm angry. Boro are out of form and depleted. It was all about the win, a draw is little consolation, that's a bad result.

I don't get us though, I find it hard to believe that was our best team.

Yates has consistently come up short but I haven't seen enough of Bostock to know if he's better. But how can anyone be in an effective unit with Semedo?

Semedo all season has looked like a guy they got out the crowd cos they're short. How is he in the team ahead of Carvalho? And Johnson? How can he be any worse? He must have more positional sense at the age of 18 than Semedo has. If not Carvalho then let's be giving Johnson game time even if he's not the finished article, they simply can't be worse than that utter donkey. And they're our players. Is there a punitive clause in Semedo's contract if he doesn't play enough games?!

And Diakhaby?! How could Mighten contribute less? And again, he's our player, let's develop him.

And that's 4 more days of Alf complaining about recruitment, but he's got a point.

I'm off to open a bottle of red. Come on you red.

[TheRealRedBeard]

I'm angry. Boro are out of form and depleted. It was all about the win, a draw is little consolation, that's a bad result.

I don't get us though, I find it hard to believe that was our best team.

Yates has consistently come up short but I haven't seen enough of Bostock to know if he's better. But how can anyone be in an effective unit with Semedo?

Semedo all season has looked like a guy they got out the crowd cos they're short. How is he in the team ahead of Carvalho? And Johnson? How can he be any worse? He must have more positional sense at the age of 18 than Semedo has. If not Carvalho then let's be giving Johnson game time even if he's not the finished article, they simply can't be worse than that utter donkey. And they're our players. Is there a punitive clause in Semedo's contract if he doesn't play enough games?!

And Diakhaby?! How could Mighten contribute less? And again, he's our player, let's develop him.

And that's 4 more days of Alf complaining about recruitment, but he's got a point.

I'm off to open a bottle of red. Come on you red.

Here here! Agree with all of that, so impossibly overrated from all the talk pre-season, and Diakhaby I just can’t fathom how he’s a footballer, undiluted 100% dog shite.

[Sabricadabra]

Poor team selection by Sabri, and poor performance from the team.

If I see Yates in the starting 11 again I’ll be fuming. He’s a league one player at best.
Semedo only bothers to turn up for 1 game in 5.
Worrall had one of this games where he looks like he’s hung over after an all nighter.
Cash looked like he’d been out with Worrall.
Figs looked like he’d just woken up.
Samba had a mare.

Thank god for Grabban.

[Jean_claude_killy]

Why the hysteria?

Did everyone seriously expect us to play well and win all of our last 11 games?

Lamouchi picked a side which was more than capable of winning that game; it was the players who did not turn up not the manager.

And we are not talking about players who have not turned up all season, it was players like Cash and Worrall and Watson and Figi and Grabban who did not turn up.

The two big positives from last night was the refusal to accept defeat and the fact that the players did not make excuses; Grabban and Worrall were honest enough to put their hands up and call it for what it was.

I have some more bad news; last night will not be our only bad game in the last 11; you can bet on that.

[Kylos247]

2 very poor sides!
Carvalho was the shining light - must play instead of Yates on Friday.

I would normally agree and I thought he changed the game tonight but the one game I wouldnt play Carvalho in is Milwall

My thoughts exactly, kicked a few times then that's his game over. 
I dont think sabri is left with much choice though.

[Kylos247]

Poor team selection by Sabri, and poor performance from the team.

If I see Yates in the starting 11 again I’ll be fuming. He’s a league one player at best.
Semedo only bothers to turn up for 1 game in 5.
Worrall had one of this games where he looks like he’s hung over after an all nighter.
Cash looked like he’d been out with Worrall.
Figs looked like he’d just woken up.
Samba had a mare.

Thank god for Grabban.

Yates last night was so poor, he was ball watching his positioning was shocking. Many times he didn't close down sat on the 18 yard box wondering what is this bloke doing? Yes hes young and one of.our own but "we cant keep making the same mistakes expecting different results".

[Username]

Just read that Yates’ pass completion last night was 60%, the (joint) worst of any Forest player.

Even Carvalho’s was higher who is playing higher up the pitch and trying to force opportunities.

Diakarby’s was better!