A 1-0 loss, and a performance that didn’t threaten the Sunderland goal much. Reading what some people have to say, the season is already over and Calderwood should be sacked. Allowing for a heavy dose of well-placed irony (some posters are clearly mimicking last term’s doom-mongers), there is still an undercurrent of anti-CC feeling.
I should make clear that not only was I not at the match, but I didn’t even watch it (I don’t believe in paying money for hundreds of channels that I ain’t going to watch). But a few things are quite clear:
- Earnshaw was on his own last night, not because CC wants to play a negative 4-5-1, but because he was the only fully-fit striker. If you were the boss, would you risk any players carrying knocks when the new season is ten days away
- The Moose is making an impression
- James Reid is still a young boy, and you cannot rely on kids too much – but again, if the likes of Chris Cohen are carrying knocks, is it worth risking them?
There was a disappointing aspect, in the deployment of Perchio in midfield; apparently the man himself stated in a Forest World interview that he regarded himself as a centre-half but was also happy to play at right-back (i.e. he prefers defence)*.
But let’s look at things in black (red?) and white, shall we? A newly-promoted Championship side narrowly lose to a strong Premiership outfit, who had lots of strength on the bench; the winning goal is, by all accounts, a decent move and finish, and yet some people still moan.
What do I think? I am reserving judgement until at least three or four matches into the season…
* I haven’t seen this interview as Premium TV (who run Forest World and the offical website) do not recognise that Apple Mac owners may also want to follow their favourite team – in fact they don’t even seem to want to enable RSS feeds. Anyone from the NFFC web team or PTV do, of course, have the right to reply via hello@eighteensixtyfive.co.uk.
