Team For Forest????

[davido_i]

Seems that Martin Allen has had to make a key change or changes:

http://www.brentfordfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10421~708433,00.html

This tells me that Sam is out & we desperately need a centre back to deal with Eugene Dadi. Marcus by all acccounts didn't cover himself in glory at Cheltenham, who else can play CB & compete in the air? I would prefer to see a more attacking side, with Pratley central in place of Dobbo with Ryan Peters out wide right, but in terms of guessing the XI MA puts out, my shot in the dark is as follows....

----------Nelson----------

Kev O'C--Junior Lewis--Turner--Frampton

Pratley---Hutch---Dobbo---Tabby

--------Rankin--Owusu----------

Subs: George, Peters, Gayle, DJ Campbell, Fitz

I do wonder whether he might even alter this same XI to go 4-5-1 to better protect the new back four, playing Isaiah wide right & Lloydie up front on his tod.

 

[Gazza Bee]

I'd say Framps will go centre back with Tillen left back. Assuming 4-5-1 so Pratley, Hutch, Dobbo in centre mid with Tabby and Brooker/Rankin on the wings. Owusu up front on his own. Not the game to lose Sam tho, could be a heavy defeat.

 

[The Walrus]

i may be thick but where does it say Sam is out for this game?

 

[Stuardo]

why does this tell you that Sam is out? could it be partially tongue in cheek? that he was saying to the players - are you going to take this seriously or not?

not sure about the "[Forest] are a team packed with premier league experience and put together at great cost"? sorry?

The Forest team that played Gillingham had (on my quick reckoning) only 4 players who have done Premierleague, being:

Gerrard - GK, Everton but only about 89 outings for them
Holt (1 season with Norwich?)
Eaden (relegated with Barnsley?)
Dobie (West Brom fringe player)

our squad meanwhile contains Skulafor (not playing admittedly), Rankin (Bradford), Junior Lewis and Marcus Gayle.

And as for great expense - they have actually only paid money for about 5 of their players, Dobie, Taylor, Friio, Breckin, Lester (although I grant you that the money for the 5 of them is about £2million). The rest of their team are former trainees or free signings (like Nicky Southall, Padula, Paul Evans, Paul Gerrard, Nicky Eaden).

We have actually paid fees (admittedly at about the level of £200,000) for 6 of our players (Nelson, Turner, Owusu (ok, pushing it - not this time around), Fitz, Eddie, Rhodes).

Come on - stop the spin!

They can't live on former glories any more. They are in our division for a reason and let's punish them!

This is almost as bad as the Downes "they had 6 or 7 players who were playing league football last year" comments after we were done 3-0 at Telford!

 

[Brentford_till_die]

nelson
kev turns dobbo framo
peters pratt hutch gayle
rankin owusu

osbourne bankole dj fitz lewis

 

[Mr Tree]

why does this tell you that Sam is out? could it be partially tongue in cheek? that he was saying to the players - are you going to take this seriously or not?

not sure about the "[Forest] are a team packed with premier league experience and put together at great cost"? sorry?

The Forest team that played Gillingham had (on my quick reckoning) only 4 players who have done Premierleague, being:

Gerrard - GK, Everton but only about 89 outings for them
Holt (1 season with Norwich?)
Eaden (relegated with Barnsley?)
Dobie (West Brom fringe player)

our squad meanwhile contains Skulafor (not playing admittedly), Rankin (Bradford), Junior Lewis and Marcus Gayle.

And as for great expense - they have actually only paid money for about 5 of their players, Dobie, Taylor, Friio, Breckin, Lester (although I grant you that the money for the 5 of them is about £2million). The rest of their team are former trainees or free signings (like Nicky Southall, Padula, Paul Evans, Paul Gerrard, Nicky Eaden).

We have actually paid fees (admittedly at about the level of £200,000) for 6 of our players (Nelson, Turner, Owusu (ok, pushing it - not this time around), Fitz, Eddie, Rhodes).

Come on - stop the spin!

They can't live on former glories any more. They are in our division for a reason and let's punish them!

This is almost as bad as the Downes "they had 6 or 7 players who were playing league football last year" comments after we were done 3-0 at Telford!

reckon it could be psychological warfare? anyway, chill man

 

[Aberdeen flyer]

i may be thick but where does it say Sam is out for this game?

The fact that Sam played on Monday when he wasn't fit...ankle like an elephant's I believe MA said...leads you to suppose he won't be fit for tomorrow.And we all know how he struggled on Monday.

 

[Ronan]

I thought Eugene Dadi was inujured?

 

[Datchetbee]

not sure about the "[Forest] are a team packed with premier league experience and put together at great cost"? sorry?


Im sure that Kind of money for 5 players, for a team that just got relegated to league 1 is a great amount ?

 

[HertfordBee]

OUT: Sam Sodje, Paul Brooker, Lloyd Owusu (also Sam Tillen).

(I believe, anyway!)

 

[Datchetbee]

really how did you find out ?

 

[flowerpower bee]

nelson
kev turns dobbo framo
peters pratt hutch gayle
rankin owusu

osbourne bankole dj fitz lewis

no tabb?

 

[flowerpower bee]

assuming both sodje and tllen are out...
4-5-1

nelson

o'connor
turner
frampton
gayle

rankin
dobson
pratley
hutchinson
tabb

owusu

subs-bankole, lewis, peters, fitz, dj

 

[HertfordBee]

I'm just guessing...Brooker is almost certainly out and as the other posts suggest, Sodje will surely not be fit after MA's description of his foot injury on Monday. We know that Lloyd has been struggling with a hip injury and you probably saw him massaging his hip several times during Monday's game and we know he was a big doubt for both of last weekend's games.

Sam Tillen is out for a few weeks, as MA stated in a recent update.

I may be completely wrong, but it's my guess!

 

[Datchetbee]

So its looking preety Grim then :-(

 

[Mr Cynical]

Dont like the look of any of those teams...

Nelson

Kev
Turner
Gayle/Osbourne
Framps

Peters
Pratley
Hutch/Dobbo
Tabb

Owusu or DJ
Rankin