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Oldsparkey

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Warburton, Mancienne and the rest of the Forest players (including Whitts <laugh>) are saying it. Even their wonderful supporters who streamed out of the ground with 10 minutes to go are saying we're a bunch of time wasting thugs who bend the rules.

The ref was always on our side and didn't penalise us. We were lucky we caught them on a bad day and they got sucked into our style of play whereas they should have played their own game.

Maybe the fact that they lost 0-2 at home to a superbly managed side with a commited team of players who play for each other and stuffed them good and proper had something to do with it?
 
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Heaven forbid to opposition play tactics you can't counter, or counter you.
Next thing they'll be moaning that wolves play attacking football or someone else plays 5 at the back.
Thought the idea was to put the opposition off their game whilst playing your game.
Heard this from a few teams now.
The bit they'e missed is that we've played a number of formations and styles to beat different teams. Leeds and villa being cases in point.
I'm happy Warnock is in our camp marshalling the troops.
 
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Im starting to think a lot of teams are beaten before they take the pitch against us.
 
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Hilts24 said:
Im starting to think a lot of teams are beaten before they take the pitch against us.
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A lot of managers are certainly beaten by Warnock. You stick to your game plan and Warnock will counter it. You try and counter our game plan and Warnock has a plan B.
Not 100% but good enough.
Don' t want to get too excited but can' help it sometimes.
 
"Warnock’s tool kit, as he looks to carve out yet another promotion push, includes a wrecking ball and a sledge hammer, Warburton prefers to go about his task with a sculptor’s chisel.

Cardiff’s approach was unmistakably a stifling one; they came to restrict and frustrate, to grind out three points through attrition and suppression.

They were more focused on stopping Forest from playing, than on playing good football themselves."

Did Forest lose yesterday then?......................<laugh><laugh><laugh>
 
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Says it all really. Your approach was better than ours.
The beauty of the game is that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
It would be pretty boring if everyone had the same approach.
Perhaps we should complain that the trees cheated by keeping the ball for twice as long as we had it.
I think our strikers must be better than theirs though. Or our keeper is better than theirs.
We had the same number of shots on target. We scored twice and they didn't.
Putting the ball in their net and keeping it out of yours wins games.
Sour grapes.
Warnock getting under the opposition's skin. .
 
seems they are still bitter at us for having bigger balls than them during the miners strike 1984.

I always enjoy beating the scabs but this time it tastes better than usual........fook off thatchers bitches <ok>
 
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Opposing managers & fans can whinge all they like. City on the road this season have not gone for 0-0. They attack, get the first goal then frustrate the home team. If they equalise like at Wolves and Sunderland, they don’t play for 1-1 they go on the offensive again and get in the lead again.

What was surprising and still rankles was that non performance at Birmingham. I can take the loss at Preston as the home team were on good form and were more up for it than City plus the loss at Bristol as we went down to 10 men at 1-1 and nobody will ever know what would have happened 11 v 11.

Birmingham though was a mystery.

Overall as I say NW has a game plan, and the players to adapt to it successfully.
 
'Kinell - what a tosser!.........the other end of the spectrum with one-eyed Kenny Burns writing in his column.......<doh>

Reds legend Kenny Burns looks at Forest's 2-0 defeat to Cardiff at the City Ground in his latest Post column

"Is it me, or is Neil Warnock starting to look a bit like Ken Dodd? The only thing is I don’t find him funny.

He might have enjoyed a lot of success over the years as a manager, and he looks to be doing the business once again at Cardiff City, but he’s not my cup of tea.

I know Forest talked to him when they needed a manager a while back, but I’m glad that never came to anything, because I don’t like his attitude or the way his teams play.

He can have the three points from Sunday’s match between the Reds and Cardiff, I’d much rather have a manager like Mark Warburton in the home dugout at the City Ground – a likeable manager who gets his teams to play exciting, attacking football.

While Warburton will no doubt have sent his team out to try to play their flowing, attacking football, Warnock sent Cardiff out to time waste by the look of it. Who time wastes when a game is 0-0? Warnock’s Cardiff, that’s who.

They had two players booked for wasting time in the match. Two! And don’t get me started on Craig Bryson. Has he left the pitch yet? Warnock obviously came out after the final whistle and insisted his players were not wasting time, but it was blatant. It was clearly part of their game plan.

They must have seen that if Forest get into the stride, if they start knocking it about with pace, they are hard to stop as an attacking force, so he sent his team out to disrupt the flow of the match from the first minute to make sure that didn’t happen.

Some people will say that was brilliant tactics, but it’s not. It doesn’t take great coaching on the training ground to come up with a plan to take ages over set-pieces or substitutions. Anyone can do that.Cardiff should not have been allowed to get away it, it’s that simple.

Forest should also have been given a penalty. It was a stonewall spot-kick when their lad, Bruno Manga, handled the ball inside the box, so a big decision went against them.

It’s a shame because it looked like Forest were starting to gather some momentum on home soil."
 
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Kenny back on the sauce?
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Certainly sucking lemons.
If they play exciting attacking football but don't put the ball in the onion sack, tough!!!
This is just fuel on the fire for Warnock. He'll love it.
The siege mentality will grow and they'll become harder to beat.
I can understand the whinging if they park the bus and take a 0-0. But we scored. Twice.
Suppose he didn't admire Ali's rope a dope either.
 
Maybe a more justified opinion from keeper John Ruddy about his Wolves side, but I'd hate anyone at our club to make similar claims.

"The 31-year-old said. "We've got too much quality for other teams in this league. We're getting the results and making teams look average, I think that's fair to say."

I seem to remember their fans saying much the same before we played them up there. Warnock - keep telling everyone we're just average. <ok>
 
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Maybe a more justified opinion from keeper John Ruddy about his Wolves side, but I'd hate anyone at our club to make similar claims.

"The 31-year-old said. "We've got too much quality for other teams in this league. We're getting the results and making teams look average, I think that's fair to say."

I seem to remember their fans saying much the same before we played them up there. Warnock - keep telling everyone we're just average. <ok>
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Are we that good Sparks? <whistle>
 
Can' remember who we played away a few years back but after our fans singing '**** ground crap team' they responded with 'crap team three points' after beating us.
I'm sure there are plenty of fans supporting teams below us who think we're crap.
Time will tell.
Get NML, kadeem, bogle and Ken back and we'll be even crapper.
 
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It's the Nottingham Evening Post ffs...... they don't read it in Nottingham at all and anyway, their fans can't read... so who was it aimed at.
well I remember locals playing football and saying "Forest are losing then?" To which I would, like a sucker say... "how do you know"... to which came the response... "it's five past three!!" Good times!
Not sure about Wolves... do they REALLY have this wonderful quality? And if not, how long before their bubble bursts? They certainly have plumbed the depths and scaled the heights with meteoric speed.
 
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