Walton Ludewig Andersen Solbauer Odour Halme Mowatt Styles Brown Woodrow Chaplin I’d be tempted to drop Brown as he doesn’t look with it at the minute but there’s no-one to play - Schmidt?!
Who else can we play instead of Chaplin? Chaplin's not good enough for this league I'm afraid. Not that he's alone. His touch is often appalling. For a little bloke. So he'll score tomorrow.
I mean, I'd say the same about our entire team. Don't be dicks and actually make the right choice when you get within 30 yards of the opponents net. I'm not holding out hope for my hair though - I imagine I'll have torn it all out by 5pm, just like in the reverse fixture last September.
There’s a couple of debates, Thomas or Halme & J. Williams or Oduor but the other 9 pick themselves. You can go on all day about dropping Woodrow or Brown or anyone else but the reality is Schmidt’s nowhere near good enough to start & Simoes is injured. Stoke aside we’ve done pretty well since the restart so I don’t know why much needs changing. Just need to be a bit more clinical. On paper Forest are our easiest opposition since probably QPR when you look at their form. Unfortunately for us they still need a point to confirm a place in the play offs. Whilst we obviously knew the fixtures beforehand we haven’t half dropped unlucky in that every team we’ve played since the restart except QPR has either been going for promotion, play offs or to avoid the drop.
Tbh I don't think we've played particularly bad since the league started back up, apart from Stoke we've been defensively sound and we've had the majority of the possession in nearly every game. We've just been **** in the last 3rd. Poor in front of goal when a chance has come, or the wrong decision made when we could have shot, or the wrong pass. Thats mainly been down to the fact that, Brown, Chaplin, Woodrow, Schmidt, et al have all been absolutely dogger. Chaplin is frustrating the life out of me, and very rarely gets any negative feedback on here, like Brown does. In the case of Brown I just don't see what some people see. He wins a few headers from time to time is my only positive since we started back up again.
I'm not expecting anything today. Forest need a point, so I reckon they'll play it tight, which won't suit us at all. If they were going flat out for a win, an open game would be better for us. I've given up trying to select the team. I hope we avoid the usual "square pegs in round holes" line-up, but I doubt it. Football managers are a stubborn breed.
He should be taken away from the first team and read the riot act because he has been appalling since the resumption. No excuses at all, the lad isn't trying. If you see a player genuinely putting in a shift and maybe not getting the rub of the green or he's out of form then fair enough but sadly I don't see any of that from Woodrow. Halme and Chaplin up top for me with Brown on the right wing.
