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Dead right. He used the same tactics at Swindon when he probably had the best team in the division. Justice was served when they lost in the play offs. Thank goodness we will never see him or the corpulent one managing at VP. It is disappointing though that we are still unable to deal with anti football. True the ref was too weak to deal with the wwf but we need to overcome such tactics ourselves. Lets hope the new boys will give us the balance to deal with the matter quickly for we need to get out of this quickly.

 

Too late to change it.. yet I doubt the performance would've been any different.

He needs to settle the side down and stop putting sub standard players into the side when we've better on tbe bench.

 

the difference in those two matches is that henley is very right sided and was evidently not happy going on the outside and on to his weaker left foot so spent both matches turning back inside either playing the pass into midfield on returned it to his centre-halfs, he wasn’t comfortable on his left side.

wood is left sided so should naturally give us width on the left. longridge looked far better and more comfortable at left-back in his short cameo against cambridge than henley did too.

henley continuously slowed the game down in those two matches by cutting back inside and playing simple passes but into busy areas.

 

My first ever live city game staying up with my aisan gf until 2.00am glued to my mobile both screaming at the fing stupud ref.

Forest green, bunch of winkers

 

Desperately need some decent central midfielders. Devine & Palmer no way near good enough if we want the title. Last night showed that getting dominated for at least 35 minutes against a poor Stevenage side.

 

Thus squad is mid table at the moment we are 3 or 4 players away from a top 3 team

 

Agree with a lot of this. We do need a big improvement from our midfield and if strengthened in the right areas we should be confident about backing ourselves.

Ball retention has not been great and when playing 4-4-2 we are basically conceding the possession game - unless oponents match our formation. However, we have seen we don't have the personnel to deploy 4-3-3 effectively just yet.

We're winning ugly right now and I will take that but agree we could soon be found out if the midfield doesn't improve when in possession - defensively they have been pretty solid.

 

Don't forget the wooden stadium they're trying to build which was refused planning permission for no real obvious reason

Hope they win the appeal

 

A bit more about the stadium-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-41398098

Forest Green are not my second favourite team or anything like that, but when they first appeared in the conference i thought where the hell is Forest Green?
Near Stroud, Gloucs is the answer, deep in the rugby union heartland of Bath/Gloucester and Bristol.
Survives on crowds of over 2,000-@Dennis how do they put together a squad to get to the playoffs with the FFP rules?

Rich owner with deep pockets.
Rich owner that wants to build an "Eco-Park" for a cool £100 million and employ 4,000 people.
Local council are having a few problems with this.
I bet!

 

Maybe not but it looks like we have an extra striker!

 

I agree, they've scored in every game so far this season but only scored once. Think our defense will be one of the best in the league tbh! Plus we have vaughan and donaldo up front so im confident with this game! Especially if we get devitt or buckley in!

 

Assuming Henley is out, do we stick with Wood at LW and play Longridge? Not seen Longridge play so can’t really comment on whether he is up to the challenge or not.

The alternative would be to play Wood at LB but then who plays LW? Our lack of a LW is causing an issue here.

 

Hopefully Forest Green will have one eye on their League Cup tie at Bournemouth, which is next mid week, and be a bit off it tomorrow.

 

So will a fair few on here!

The indoctrinated ones who now only believe in 4 4 2 for some reason.

 

I like that system too. Done properly, its difficult to play against.

 

Same a proper 4-3-3 allows you to match anyone up in the centre and also have width, when done properly.

We didn’t play 4-3-3 at the start of the season regardless of what some say. It was a very narrow diamond with Doyle at the tip, it was never going to work.

 

A win tomorrow would be a fantastic result. I wonder if he keeps with same team or throws Cooke straight in?

 

Has to be play Cooke over akpan. He could either go 442 with Cooke playing a narrow left midfielder, or 433/451

 

Yeah, that wasn't 433. That was a diamond. I'm not a fan of that system in particular, but if you use it then the key positions are the number 10 role and your full backs - who have to give you width. Having Doyle at 10 and a right footed left back, was never going to work. Having Wood at left back, and possibly Cooke in the number 10 role would probably work better, but i'd rather go 433. It has so much more flexibility.