Smoulderwood was in belligerent mood when interviewed after the Doncaster defeat – he described the game as largely even, and a freak goal being all that could separate them; hmm, not the first time I’ve suspected Smoulders of a bit of post-match rose-tintedness of glasses, as his appraisal doesn’t really match what I’ve heard from fans who made the dreary journey to dreary Doncaster, but still, he’s hardly going to start slagging off his players to the media, now is he?
Smoulds comments are in stark contrast to reports coming in from perhaps equally biased, but more realistic sources – such as the before-quoted ‘What’s in a name’ on the LTLF forum, who made a post which summed up the game thusly:
“Forest’s display was devoid of any notable direction or character. Be under no illusions, today’s disappointment was in no way triggered by an onslaught of sentiment from the hosts. Calderwood’s side have only themselves to blame; second to every loose ball, clueless in possession and openly passionless to the point of insult.”
But still, Forest do have somewhat a tradition of dodgy periods over winter months, so at least we had a good start to legislate for that; but now our lead at the top is starting to look anything but insurmountable for the chasing pack, so we seriously need to address our form, and whilst I’m sure the public comments Smoulderwood makes don’t necessarily echo what he genuinely believes or acts upon, I really hope he has a few January surprises up his sleeve to add a bit of bite to the squad.
He ended his comments on the Forest website quite bullishly, stating quite simply:
“The momentum has stalled and now Boxing Day at home is a very important game, but we will enjoy the victory and we will enjoy promotion.”
Hmmm, that’s fighting talk, that is Colin – let’s hope your players show a tad more willing to live up to such talk than they have in their last few outings, otherwise they’re going to start to make you look a bit silly.
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Nearly every game has seen Colin say we’ve not played to our full potential.
So just what IS our potential and when will we play to it?
In a word, Crewe, I think.
The trouble is, whilst the lads deserve great great credit for that display, we can only seem to perform well when a team sits back and tries to play passing football and gives us time on the ball.
Not many teams do that in League One, as we’re finding out!
we are playing the wrong formation to start with.We should go back to 4-4-2 and hopefully putting Commons out wide ( instead of Tyson trying to do it ) will give him the massive kick up the backside he needs.He and a few others need to start looking at themself’s,especially if they want new contracts.Hopefully now CC knows he needs to bring in some players,our midfield is awful.
Can’t argue with that