Mascarelll

[hantsram]

Grrr. At fault for both goals today. Gave away free kick for Forest's first. Gave ball away for Forest's second.

IMO, he's just too much of a liability to start any more games this season.

Would rather see Coutts, Shotton or Warnock tried in CDM until Thorne is fit.

[KingCharlieGeorge]

Don't blame Mascarell at least he put in a shift and to blame him for that free-kick is just silly. I didn't think it was a free-kick to be frank, Mascarell hardly touched him and the Forest player was surprised to get the decision.

[hantsram]

We need to sort out who's going to play the DCM role. It cost us dearly today. Our midfield had no balance or shape to it. Mascarell is a good player but not a DCM.

Make your mind up.

[ramspride]

Grrr. At fault for both goals today. Gave away free kick for Forest's first. Gave ball away for Forest's second.

IMO, he's just too much of a liability to start any more games this season.

Would rather see Coutts, Shotton or Wavrnock tried in CDM until Thorne is fit.

Wish Real Madrid would recall him

[KingCharlieGeorge]

We need to sort out who's going to play the DCM role. It cost us dearly today. Our midfield had no balance or shape to it. Mascarell is a good player but not a DCM.

Make your mind up.[/quote]

I clearly stated he's not a DCM but also said he is a good player. It's not his fault he is played out of position. We know we don't function as a unit with Mascarell there, but surely he could have played Bryson's role today far, far better?

[Forestarecrap]

absolute nonsense, the biggest issue was hendrick, totally out of position throughout the second half!

[dam617]

Should have been booked way before his fifth bookable foul.
You were lucky to have a homer ref

[swaledale]

Should have been booked way before his fifth bookable foul.
You were lucky to have a homer ref

********, seeing as Lansbury elbowed and kicked Hughes out of the game!

We didn't lose because of Mascarell, Hendrick and Bryson were awful, and Keogh and Buxton didin't cover themselves in glory either!

[su4eranio]

IMO Omar was very effective in first half, both making his challenges and with the ball. As soon as Will limped out of play tho, wow, what a difference this made. We went from a team that controlled the ball and play to one that simply defended badly as a TEAM!

What Will gives us is a CM who looks for the ball from Omar. He runs towards the player and can turn and create. Second half, all we saw was Jeff & Brys making forward runs and from then we lost our ball retention, limiting options for Omar to play ball into

When Jeff & Brys were running forward, Florest to their credit exploited the acres of space behind them. Long balss up, headed away by Keogh & Bucko but straight into the midfield space where 3 Florest CMs were ahead of our 2 out of position CMs. Omar was simply swamped. Anyone who blames him for the 2nd half capitulation needs to get their head out of the sand. Not saying he was wonderful, but he was left with no cover!

losing Will was a real game changer. Credit to Flo

[Rapid]

somewhat surprisingly I'm going to stick up for omar here.

he was outstanding in the first half. got his hands dirty more in 45 minutes than he has done for the first half of the season so far! won loads of headers and got stuck in.

for the first goal it was never a free kick so it's funny seeing the forest fans complaining about the ref. while I thought we got a lot of decisions that was the one that affected the game most and it was BS!

for the 2nd goal it was omar and Christie that were both caught out of possession but lets be honest, grant should be saving that with his eyes closed. that's including Keogh not closing him down too.

the difference is that forest got into a rhythm and we didn't stop it. I believe Eustace would have broken up their rhythm but still I don't think omar should be the scapegoat for this result.

hendrick was pathetic when he came on. we just stopped playing football as a team. grant had a nightmare 45 minutes. Bryson stopped running. everyone panicke