Fair comment- I wasn't there, just what I read earlier and from stats on BBC. Sounds like we were 2nd best though. Cardiff and Forest should have been beaten,hate to think what Newcastle and Villa will do to us unless things are changed
Forest fan view on us Wimbledon in disguise Gets better read what forest fans said When Bristol City played us last season passed us off the park. Today they were like watching old Wimbledon with long balls. #nffc
A City fan that went up to Forest today,not a happy man Having travelled up to Forest today , I can't believe what I witnessed. That was he worst Forest side I've ever seen....and we couldn't even muster an opportunity. I said 12 months ago he wasnt the man for the job. I was shot down by so many but I've been provedoing right. The players arnt playing for him and he is utterly clueless . One of the worst football manangers we have ever had. 25 years a season ticket. I wont be bothering again until thisn imbecile is sacked
Another city fans view very disturbing report- Not sure why I'm even starting another thread, but at least people who are convinced Lee Johnson is a brilliant young coach being badly maligned by knee jerk reactions, can't accuse me of not thinking through this post after 2 hours on a train. Here is the considered comment. What a total and utter shambles. Every week I'm forced to disbelieve what I see with my own eyes (Wolves, Ipswich) and think that I'm being unfair. Every actual game I see the same old rubbish from a team that has ZERO attacking plan or strategy and can't open up the opposition. We played a very poor Forest team (everything we expected) and the pinnacle of our plan was to contain them. Compact, defensive. OKAY, we are on a terrible run, we are starting defensive first. It makes sense - no one questioned it. But that's ALL City did. That's what really hurts. We had zero clue how to create a chance. We had zero shape worth attacking towards. We were a powder-puff attacking team against a set of players that were clearly far worse than ours and fans who were silent waiting for us to spank them. We're that bad, we just didn't bother. I've been to every away game on this dreadful run and City fans are unbelievably supportive and positive and LJ is just mugging everyone off. Today everyone seemed to be okay with the compact defensive shape given our form, but quickly transpired we had no idea for attack. As the game wears on and Forest's left winger (Ward) continually finds himself able to run at City players and do things, we realise how poor an attacking team we are - we can't do anything close to it. We are a punt upfield, occasionally a few passes, and a touch away from giving up. It feels more and more like our genius of a City head coach isn't seriously taking part as an attacking force. We had two good chances all game (second half) - a ball that made it to Paterson beyond the far post that he put wide, and a great passing move from the right that was well cut out. But those were miracles in of themselves. The way City setup, we may as well wear all white because Lee Johnson football involves surrendering all over the pitch and hoping to contain the opposition and (bizarrely) believing there might be a goal for us out of nothing but a punt. Someone who has seen a lot more City games than me (and routinely positive) put it very well today in the away end - under McInnes and the other crap managers you went along feeling like you were there helping a terrible team, this is SO MUCH worse, £15m of signings and a manager who has not a clue. I haven't really described much football, but there wasn't much! We were so devoid of tactics or ideas or desire, it was as bad as it gets. Forest pressed high up the pitch (something Fraud LJ claimed we'd do) and won the ball and ran at us. We punted it up to our strikers and hoped for a miracle. When we changed the team and formation at half time it was YET ANOTHER example of LJ having no idea what his best combination is. O'Dowda actually caused a few problems (including our best chance) but Brownhill didn't repeat his recent form, including a FK we wasted with our keeper up! Finally if anyone thought Tomlin is being hard done by, he came on, looked overweight, and managed nothing but a few terrible touches that gave the ball away in attacking positions. We clearly had zero plan for our record signing, he's a mess now and we are seeing his value diminished as a result. This is YET ANOTHER game where we've lost to a very poor relegation candidate, and LJ says we are fine, and people on here say we're all negative. I really have no idea what more you need to see to know the manager is totally and utterly out of his depth. This performance was beyond hopeless. Geifer 7 Wright 6 Flint 6 Magnusson 5 Little 4 Bryan 3 (he is getting worse and worse) O'Neil 6 Hegeler 7 (he must wish he never joined us) Paterson 4 (very poor) Djuric 5 (worst game yet - but hardly is fault, we don't create width or crosses) Abraham 5 (Chelsea must wish they had a recall, getting dragged down now) Subs - O'Dowda 6, Brownhill 5, Tomlin 4
You don't need to keep telling us what Forest and Otib are saying, we all get the point and can see for ourselves the meltdown on Otib as always
would he though? peeps must realise there is often a fair few posts between answering, some of us have far more important things to do than read all posts and replies are not always in a chronological order ... or maybe they don't realise?
pray explain the random comment ..." No one here can see in to the future.. no stats can do that " I think most know that stats are past gender, ..........whats with the future comment?
You said at the beginning of this thread that the team he put out was really good and also the subs.... I think that the players themselves need to take responsibility too! I can not excuse so many defeats, are they really not playing for him? Maybe a better captain or leader on the field is lacking. I was hoping with the new players coming in it would turn our fortunes around, must admit I fear that something is not right and what ever that is, his time to sort it out is running out....shame
Yeah - only old Wimbledon made it to the prem - and won the FA cup. We on the other hand are in serious danger of relegation.
