Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Tricky]

Does sitting so deep and trying to play out from the back now inspire a certain amount of trepidation from the players? I have noticed that most sides will now do a high press against us, which means stifling our progression forwards, stopping us from making forward runs or even sideways passes. We are now having to revert to the long punt forward, from our CB's and are effectively bypassing our midfield. We are being forced into making stupid errors along our back line.

I have now had time to calm down a bit and try to make some sense out of what happened today. We do look like we are behind, when it comes to pre-season. Has Sabri misjudged just what was needed? We did play with a number of players who have barely featured over the past 6, 8, 10, 12 months so there is rustiness in some legs and minds. Hopefully, they will sharpen up and give us a much greater attacking threat. But we have got to ditch this defensive let the opposition have the ball and hit them on the break tactic, because we have been found out and it is no longer effective. Even when it was effective, we squandered our chances, two of them less than 10 yards out and a virtual open goal!!!

Sabri has got to start getting ruthless with certain players now. He has the majority of the cover he needs.  If they aren't performing, they need to be dropped. I am not just implying the likes of Carvalho or Ribero, but the likes of Figuredo, Worrall, Grabban, Yates, his 'pet players'. He needs to come up with a more attacking dimensional tactic now he has more attack minded players in the squad. There is an old adage in football and that is, the best form of defence is to attack. Sabri needs to learn this and adopt it otherwise it is going to be a long hard season and he will be unemployed before we get to Christmas!

I think the Sabri negative tactics argument is overstated. For the last 25 mins today we were playing 424. I know we were chasing the game. It today turned today on Figs error. Until then we were not great but it was an ok away performance. They had not threatened our goal. Individual error at the back which we didn't make too many of last season and the usual lack of cutting edge in the final third third. Hopefully the new centre back will help with the former and Freeman should give us more quality in the final third. A fit Lolley, Ameobi and Freeman should start to create more chances. Today we did create a few but missed them.

This is the only time Sabri changes his tactics, once we fall behind. If he would, at least, start games with a more attacking intention, then I feel pressure would be taken away from him as it would then show he is not a one trick pony.

We should not have to be facing defeat in the face before deciding to go on the attack. We should be doing that from the start. I don't mean we start with a 4-2-4 formation either, we would lose matches through the midfield if we did that!