Posted September 30th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
The talk from the City Ground is all about our home form.
Lewis McGugan talks about his early return from injury – and how we now have the confidence to build an unbeaten home run, to match our away record.
Chris Gunter (who makes the Football League Team of the Week, thanks Saturday’s clean sheet and his goal) agrees and wants that run to start tonight against Scunthorpe. The Iron will be without Gary Hooper and David Mirfin and it seems likely that we will be missing little Robbie Earnshaw.
Oh, and one more thing. There was some football match in Wales last night.
Tags: Cardiff City, chris gunter, david mirfin, derby county, gary hooper, lewis mcgugan, rob earnshaw, scunthorpe united Posted in News
Posted September 29th, 2009
by Rish
I was recently contacted by Joris from the Dutch football site Doing the 116. He wanted to know a little bit about the rivalry between us and our stripey neighbours from across the river. He was obviously aware that the real rivalry for most Reds lies with the woolly ones, but was fascinated by the history of two such old clubs. You can view the article here, but as it is in Dutch, you may prefer the Google translation.
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Tags: derby county, doing the 116, facebook, nottingham forest, notts county Posted in General
Posted September 28th, 2009
by Rish
I cannot pretend that I was there, but it was refreshing to see Forest win, in spite of the curse of Sky (have we cracked that one now?). Forest lined up in a 4-4-2, with league returns for Casual Kelv, Madge, and Big Dele (but little Robbie Earnshaw was out with a pelvic injury, adding fuel to the conspiracy theorists’ fire):
Campo
Gunter Morgan Wilson (Chambers) Cohen
Garner (Anderson) McKenna (c) Majewski Tyson
Adebola (Moussi) Blackstock
Not used: Smith, McGugan, McGoldrick, Lynch.
And they started quite well, but without causing too much danger for Plymouth. Madge looked bright and created problems, and Forest were also attempting to use the two wide men (makes sense with two big guys up front). The style of football was still a bit scrappy, but they were trying to pass it nicely. There weren’t many attempts on goal though, Dex headed over when he really should have hit the target, and Madge’s slinky run followed by a shot just over the bar was the highlight of the first half an hour.
By this time, Plymouth had come back into the match, with the dangerous looking pair of Gow and particularly Mackie causing problems. The latter was guilty of the kind of miss that seems to happen a lot when you are down and out, sticking his foot out but diverting the ball agonisingly wide from the edge of the six yard box; he then made a jinking run, with several red shirts around but none willing to make an intervention (sound familiar?), forcing a save from Campo’s feet at the near post. A decent effort, but following Charlie Adam’s soft goal last week, a lesson that we really should already have learned.
But, lo and behold, Forest took the lead in first half stoppage time and it was from a surprising source. Chris Gunter has already shown his prowess going forward this season, and running in from the corner of the box, he played a neat one-two with Dex, before a lucky bounce left him one-on-one with the keeper. I cannot continue without mentioning the lucky moment – Plymouth debutant James Chester slipped over, and as he fell, the ball bounced off the top of his bonce (from all of a yard off the ground), straight back into the path of the young Welshman. It was a good finish though as he had to wrap his left foot around a ball that was slightly behind him. After all the talk of bad luck recently, it made a pleasant change for things to go our way.
I must mention the other controversy – the fourth official had put the board up for one minute of stoppage time, and the goal apparently came after one minute and ten seconds. I guess this makes us the Manchester United of the Championship.
In the second half, we had a slightly mystifying decision from the ref who pulled play back for a foul on Dex, just as the big man passed into the path of, erm, the other big man (Dele) who was clean through on goal. I thought the ref had already played the advantage but apparently not. However, we can safely say that the balance was redressed when the officials failed to award a penalty for a challenge by the combined might of Casual Kelv and Chrissy Cohen – it seemed as though the Plymouth man was certainly clipped, but the ref gave Kelv the benefit of the doubt. I was not 100% sure, but I know that if it had happened the other way around (especially at the City Ground), I would be baying for a penalty.
The match kind of petered out after that. Forest looked reasonable, and the Pilgrims looked deflated and defeated, in the way that you do when you cannot remember what it is like to win a match. Casual Kelv had hurt himself in the “penalty” incident, and was replaced by Luke Chambers (defender on the bench? Surely some mistake?), and Ando came on for Joe Garner (who despite his endeavour is NOT a right winger), before the Moooosssse replaced Big D in the closing stages to shore things up.
There was not much to write home about. We had a bit of luck, and we were rarely in too much danger, but maybe that is more down to the Pilgrims’ precarious position than anything else. Nonetheless, three points are not to be sniffed at, and we can only beat the opposition in front of us. The contribution of Tys and the big lads upfront should not be underestimated (despite the fact the Dele looks like a great big lump at times), although stand-out performances were from McKenna and MOTM Raddy Majewski.
Tags: chris gunter, dele adebola, dexter blackstock, joe garner, kelvin wilson, Manchester United, nottingham forest, plymouth argyle, radoslaw majewski Posted in Match Reports
Posted September 19th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
Hard to beat. That’s us.
Apart from on today’s showing.
Earnie got his wish and made the starting line-up – with recalls for Tyson and the Moose.
So Billy selected:
Campo,
Gunter, Morgan, Chambers, Lynch,
McKenna (c), Moussi,
Cohen, McGoldrick, Tyson,
Earnshaw
To be honest, it didn’t really work. Although we did make chance after chance after chance.
And, finally, as we were leaving, one of the TVs in the Trent End was smouldering – resulting in the fire brigade being called out. Which was nice.
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Tags: blackpool, chris cohen, chris gunter, david mcgoldrick, Guy Moussi, joel lynch, Lee Camp, luke chambers, nathan tyson, nottingham forest, paul mckenna, rob earnshaw, wes morgan Posted in Match Reports, Podcasts
Posted September 17th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
Roy Keane is impressed with us and thinks we’re a decent team.
The “outrageous goal celebration” debate rolls on. Personally, I feel Adebayor has a better defence than Tys, with regards to the celebration – his provocation was during the game itself. Unfortunately, that will be ignored because of the stamp. And because a lot of people in and around the game would prefer it if players were replaced by robots.
We look set to gain a winger – Marc Albrighton is apparently on his way from Villa on a month’s loan.
UPDATE: Check out the comments on “Through the seasons before us” about Albrighton – if he’s half as good as they claim we’re in for a treat!
But as one winger joins a former winger leaves. Forest favourite, Darren Huckerby, is forced out of the game by injury.
Tags: darren huckerby, emmanuel adebayor, marc albrighton, nathan tyson, roy keane Posted in News
Posted September 16th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
I couldn’t face listening to the game on the (much-improved) Forest Player, so here’s a quick roundup of reaction to last night’s draw – a game played without Nathan Tyson or Radoslaw Majewski.
The best place to find out about the Ipswich match is the ever-excellent Through the Seasons Before Us – who also kept up a full Twitter commentary during the game.
The Mail singles out Rob Earnshaw for praise and concentrates on the pressure laid on the shoulders of Roy Keane, who has now matched Bobby Robson in going eight games without a win.
Earnshaw himself wants to start – and given the type of player he is, I completely agree that he could do with a decent run in the side. I’m not so sure Billy thinks the same way though.
Davies does, however, think that we are becoming hard to beat – which is the pre-requisite for playing decent football later in the season. And on this count I totally agree – stop conceding, then worry about the pretty stuff, is the way to build a side.
Tags: billy davies, bobby robson, ipswich town, nathan tyson, nffcblog, radoslaw majewski, rob earnshaw, roy keane Posted in General
Posted September 15th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
Pompey may be a bit of a mess and most people’s favourites for relegation but Paul Hart is vowing to fight on, despite rumours of his impending exit (like most of his first team squad).
Brian Laws isn’t happy after Sport Billy claimed Wednesday were playing a long ball game. I think winding up and frustrating the opposition is going to be a big feature of our game-plans from now on. And it’s not just me – Kenny Burns reckons our resilience is becoming plain for all to see.
And that resilience should hopefully get us three points tonight, as under-pressure Roy Keane joins the queue to sign Danny Shittu
Tags: billy davies, brian laws, danny shittu, ipswich town, kenny burns, paul hart, roy keane, sheffield wednesday Posted in News
Posted September 13th, 2009
by Rish
Forest did well to come away with a point after a bit of a niggly, physical, hoofball performance (but it was an entertaining match).
Billy sprung a couple of surprises by leaving out Tys and Madge (paternity leave and injury respectively), but including Lynch, Lewis and the Mooooosssse in the squad; the team was:
Campo
Gunter Morgan Chambers Lynch
McKenna (c) Cohen
Garner McGoldrick Anderson
Blackstock
Subs were: McCleary for Garner, Adebola for Goldie and Lewis for Dexter. Smudger, Casual Kelv, Earnie and the Moose were the unlucky ones.
Rahoul couldn’t make it to Hillsborough, so the Maradona of the Midlands has kindly stepped in to assist with the podcast.
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Tags: david mcgoldrick, dexter blackstock, lewis mcgugan, nottingham forest, Paul Anderson, paul mckenna, sheffield wednesday, wes morgan Posted in Match Reports, Podcasts
Posted September 9th, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
Nottingham County Council doesn’t like the City Council’s choice of location for the World Cup stadium.
Russell Slade is pleased to have wingers now that Arron Davies has joined him on loan.
David McGoldrick wants to play in the Championship – good job he came to us eh?
Our fixture against Scunthorpe has been put back 24 hours to give us a bit of time to recover after playing Plymouth on the telly the Sunday before.
And Julian Bennett hopes to return to training in the next few weeks.
Tags: arron davies, david mcgoldrick, julian bennett, russell slade, world cup Posted in News
Posted September 2nd, 2009
by Rahoul Baruah
Moving away from the flag-waving shenanigans, Radoslaw Majewski makes the official Championship team of the week (PDF) – albeit playing on the left wing. Deserved after an excellent display on Saturday.
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