Match Thread

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Originally Posted by navypie

Ok Sol , I stand corrected , our injury list is massive .

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Why do you keep saying massive?

Jones, O'C and Shola would probably expect to start in Nolo's first Xl so their injuries effect the team. Not a massive injury list, as far as I know, but definitely a significant one :)

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Originally Posted by The_Don_ORiordan

You've got to asmire the Notts fans (and hull fan) love in with disaster.

Ther performance was awful today. It was pretty poor against Mansfield. Are we suddenly dreadful? Absolutely not.

We have had some luck this season, today we got a point which we didn't really deserve. Most of the points we've accumulated though we're not all so fortunate.

Let's see where we are in another 10 games. Nolan need to earn his money now.

For me we were just well off the pace today. Like he said we thought we had a right to win 4-0 without trying.

In league 2 graft comes before craft when it comes to points. Warnock used to say we need to earn the right to play, every single game.

For the last two games we simply haven't.

We cold do with a few of the injured players back to keep the others on their toes.

Despite the woeful performance today the rumours of our death at this point have been exaggerated.

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Beautifully said Don O.

That was dreadful performance. We have had a great start to the season by making it hard work for the opposition, but we gifted the points to Stags last week and nearly did the same today. We looked half asleep and won very few of the 50/50 challenges. It looks like the players fell into the trap the supporters did by looking at league positions and expecting an easy win. A big improvement is needed next week because we were never in the game today, and can consider ourselves fortunate to end up with a point.

The players need to get back to the raw meat diet Nolan was presumably feeding them on until the Mansfield game. Today we just weren't pressing the opposition and snapping into tackles like we have, and we were moving the ball far too slowly. It was easy for Forest Green to play against.

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Originally Posted by jackal2

The players need to get back to the raw meat diet Nolan was presumably feeding them on until the Mansfield game. Today we just weren't pressing the opposition and snapping into tackles like we have, and we were moving the ball far too slowly. It was easy for Forest Green to play against.

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Agreed. A big issue today was failure to win second balls and failure to challenge for headers and 50/50s. We didn't make it difficult for them from which they drew confidence.

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Originally Posted by SolSigns

Why do you keep saying massive?

Jones, O'C and Shola would probably expect to start in Nolo's first Xl so their injuries effect the team. Not a massive injury list, as far as I know, but definitely a significant one :)

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Sorry , I did say massive far to much , just glad I spelt it right !

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Originally Posted by navypie

Sorry , I did say massive far to much , just glad I spelt it right !

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It’s too

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Originally Posted by JoePass

It’s too

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I edge on the side of ( or off ) caution on that 1.

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Originally Posted by navypie

I edge on the side of ( or off ) caution on that 1.

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I was having a larf...long live the navy.

The stage was set for a banana skin today. The largest Notts crowd for many a year, and top verses bottom of the league.

I think this team gets stage fright in big games or in front of a big audience. Against Coventry, Mansfield and FGR. Also since we have been top we have lost and drawn. So let Exeter take top spot for now and be the team to beat. This squad will need to learn to deal with the pressure and expectation that comes with being near the top of the table.

Overall it was by far the worst performance of the season. Early on for the first twenty minutes it was pretty even but as the game wore on FGR confidence grew and at times they were passing us off the park. It took us 44 minutes to have a meaningful attempt at goal. The first part of the second half we upped our game but again we lacked that edge. At times it was difficult to tell who was the league leaders and who was bottom in this game.

FGR will feel sick to the stomach to only get a point from that game because we deserved nothing. However the positive is that for as poor as we were we still managed to grind out a result and get a point.

A significant number of our players were off their game today and Forte was one of the only players who could leave the field at the end of the game having put a performance in that we've come to expect from a Nolan side.

Maybe these past two weeks might simmer expectations and we can get back to winning ways next week against Barnet.