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poor poor and more poor. first 15 mins we looked much the better side, and i was confident that we would win comfortably. I thought before the game today we would thrash them, with the help of the bumper crowd. But no, after the 1st 15 we fell apart and rarely looked like scoring. Cureton and peacock were are only decent players, evans pulled a couple of good saves, o'hanlon did ok, midfield awful!!!!

evans 6 - what was he thinking on that last goal?!!

smith 5- did ok

ifil 6 - not his best but still better than his worst

o'hanlon 5 - prob best defender today, although still not great

nicholas 5- his throw is his entire game

shakes 5- world cup?! what, as a ball boy?

brown 4- not good enough poor control

gurney 4- cannot wait to have p.smith back in there

migz 5- not much of his good distribution. we need a battler in the middle !

cureton 7- some good moves, would score many more if given better service

peacock 7- gets himself round loads, prob best player. marginally better than cureton

SUBS

roberts 4- slow, lazy, ineffective

jarret 5-  didnt even notice he'd come on for a while but some decent moves looks completley disinterested

pook 5- no better than gurney again, disinterested.


the future.....

forest away gonna be v tough can't see us getting anything at their place

tranmere - we always seem to struggle against them

its gonna be tight......

you say O'Hanlon was our best defender yet gave him a 5 and Ifil a 6??? :?

oops it woz ment to be a 6!

o'hanlon 6 - best defender !

we WILL get beaten at forest,

they're startin to pick up again, and of the back of a sacking results always improve

they beat port vale away today

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The warning signs were there against Doncaster when Gurney came on for Comyn-Platt. The midfield is what makes our team relegation favourites to being safe. With Gurney and Miglioranzi in the middle I feel we will get relegated. However, luckily we have Paul Smith and Comyn-Platt who should be back soon, who seem to give us a midfield that can fight and create chances.

:fu:

I don't think we will lose at forest, I think we will pick up atleast a point.

i agree dogs, CP and P.Smith if they can stay fit will keep us up ! gurney was awful today completely ineffective, we'd be better off playing with 10 men than 10+gurney! migz isnt a battler either but good control and distribution, although not today!

Indeed. One hope I have is that Iffy seemed to realise this and took the shite off. Still we didn't have much better options with Pook and Jarrett. Pook isn't up to the standard and I feel we may need another battling midfielder as backup.

dont forget the rest of the midfield. Shakes espically did nothing, Brown did next to nothing....

the midfield was piss poor unfortunately.

and pook why did he bother turning up? he's a youngster so i'll let that one go.

but even at 2-1 we didnt look great.

onwards on upwards though.

Very true, but Brown was constantly drawn to cover for the central midfield. He still played shite mind. Shakes though did nothing and deserved to be subbed.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

shakes is our most overated player,his first touch is piss poor all the time

he hasnt been at his best in the last few games thats for sure. must be T and B call up  :-))(

we all laughed away to huddersfield,brentford. home to colchester and swansea..firstv loss at home in 3 months i for one wont be losing sleep over this..rotherham have had 3 good wins on the bounce now..we beat forest already this year lets do it again

with a new manager coming in this week and 25000 im not so sure especially with our poor away form

are you going rich

no

Red macca - you da man  8)

Keep the faith rich  :D

i got my forest ticket today, u reds!!  :beers:

If Curo and Peacock had any service we would have drawn/won. Rotherhams defence were pretty shaky although to be fair to them they kept us at bay.

The midfield lost it for us today.

Our 2 goals were pure luck (the first was a foul by Migz), we were lucky only to have a -1 on our goal difference. But it's a bad day at the office. Is there really any reason to boo the team?

At the end of the day, Rotherham came to win, to survive in their league and to survive as a club, we were just outplayed by a team whose league position didn't justify their quality (today at least).

Having CCP back would be a bonus to the team I think.

Luck? All 5 goals were down to bad defending.

and goalkeeping for curo's goal

i thought the keeper was fouled for our first. not complainig of course, but normally get a free kick for it.

thats becuase refs are too soft on goalies these days  :roll: thankfully this time that wasn't the case and the correct decision was made

^^ Agree with the above. Never a foul.

Yeah you cant challenge the keeper these days which is a joke!, so the goal should have stood as it did.  :)

If we conceded a goal like that, the townend would be on the ref's case for the rest of the game because under modern rules, Stef was impeding the keeper.

If we'd scored 4 we would have won yesterday.

Ifs and buts mean fuck all.

thats not true, because if we scored 4 Rotherham might have scored 5?

Nah, we would have scored two goals in the very very last minute of injury time, no time for comeback.

We lost to the better team.  Sure we had a bit of an off day,  but Rotheram were probably one of the best teams who've come to the County Ground this season.   Sure we made some silly mistakes, but we all have off days.  Just as long as we keep focus  on the task in hand.  SAFETY

I didn't see the game and it annoys me how we only lose the games against crap teams with a big crowd.

But the good news is we are capable of getting out of this and I for one am quite confident we will.

The result at Forest will mean nothing in terms of expectations imo, but I am hoping for a draw

a little wishful thinking..but anything's possible  :D

ifil was at fault for the third goal, wasnt marking goal side & let butler run round the back of him. by the time he realised where he was he'd scored.

midfield let us down on the day but i think rotherham had done their homework on us. every time shakes or brown got the ball they were closed down quickly & didnt have chance to run like they did against gillingham.

having paul smith back will make a big difference.

A little bit of optimism goes a long way !  :D  You reds.

What is up with Migs. He looked a shadow of the player he can be. Is he fully fit?

Our central midfield two didn't do well enough, that lost us the game.

Shakes and Brown are great when involved, but a bit luxery when we have our backs to the wall. Changing the midfield was the tactically correct descision by Iffy, but we didn't have the personnel to change the game. Come on PS and CCP, get fit soon.

not trying to make excuses as he was shite but the pitch didn't really condusive to slick passing

All season he has been a yard off the pace, being constantly caught in possession or having to play it all the way back to Rhys. He just isn't up to the relegation dogfight, it would seem.