Sabri Lamouchi Mega-thread

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

Yeah, lots of love for Sabri, but I agree he played some turgid stuff.

And it's hard to see why he wasn't more attacking. I mean, he had tons of quality Prem standard options like Diakhaby, Da Costa, Adomah, and of course, the legendary Joao Carvalho. I have no idea why he built a playoff push on an OTT defence

 

[Harvey]

Sabri was a nice enough bloke and we did somehow get within touching distance of the play offs which was nothing short of a miracle....however THAT f*** up v Stoke was unforgivable IMO. One of the worst nights of my life supporting Forest.

To be fair I'm not sure how much you can blame Sabri for that; the players bottled it bigstyle

 

[OLDMANRED]

Sabrina got sussed out by the other managers just after Christmas and he had no plan b. We were in a position to make the play offs well before the Stoke match but he kept on with tactics which were failing. Nice bloke I'm sure but a failure never the less

 

[Deleted User]

Just going to leave this here

I know it went in but everyone in the first 6 rows were in danger of having their head taken off when Grabban ‘burst’ through.

 

[Dogtitius]

Yeah, lots of love for Sabri, but I agree he played some turgid stuff.

And it's hard to see why he wasn't more attacking. I mean, he had tons of quality Prem standard options like Diakhaby, Da Costa, Adomah, and of course, the legendary Joao Carvalho. I have no idea why he built a playoff push on an OTT defence

Yup this is where Ill agree with you, he was given some dogshit. The panic signing of that shit rightback from arsenal is the prime example.

 

[Dogtitius]

Speaking of the devil, jeezy peeps man.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Carl Jenkinson set us back £7m.

Let that sink in.

 

[BryanRoy22]

Speaking of the devil, jeezy peeps man.

Is that the football version of 'dartitis' where you overthink and completely lose your muscle memory of how to play?

Or was he just that bad?

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Truth as always is usually somewhere in the middle.

Yes, a lot of it was pragmatic but in and amongst that there was some nice fluid football. Our approach play down the right with Lolley cutting inside and Cash overlapping was very good and Ameobi mazying his way past players to drive in crosses was entertaining too.

Miles more entertaining that anything Hughton, Cotterill and McLeish offered. On a par with Montannier or Warburton, albeit for different reasons. Sabri often won, the other two you just got a tonne of goals to see. No one remembers either Montannier or Warburton fondly either though.

Seems like the only way people claim we're an entertaining side is if we're winning. Funny that.

Don't agree that it was more entertaining than those you list. Cotterill was pish but you can't take away the night we beat Leeds 7-3. We never got anywhere near anything that exciting under Lamouchi. I think the fact that he was a lovely gentleman and the fact that he was relatively successful has watered down people's memories of how painful the football was. I remember seeing other scores coming in and teams scoring 4 in a game and feeling like that was something out of a maniac's paradise...

 

[Harvey]

Is that the football version of 'dartitis' where you overthink and completely lose your muscle memory of how to play?

Or was he just that bad?

He's 30 and plays for Newcastle Jets

The facts speak for themselves

 

[BryanRoy22]

He's 30 and plays for Newcastle Jets

The facts speak for themselves

Was quite highly rated as a youngster. Played a few games for Arsenal and got an England cap.

I recall him not doing too badly at West Ham on loan too. Then he suffered an ACL injury.

After that it looked like he was scared to play competitive football again and I think Arsenal realised this and stitched us up.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Don't agree that it was more entertaining than those you list. Cotterill was pish but you can't take away the night we beat Leeds 7-3. We never got anywhere near anything that exciting under Lamouchi. I think the fact that he was a lovely gentleman and the fact that he was relatively successful has watered down people's memories of how painful the football was. I remember seeing other scores coming in and teams scoring 4 in a game and feeling like that was something out of a maniac's paradise...

That 7-3 was SOD's doing.

The Cotterill-by-himself era resulted in a 9 game goal drought where our only tactic was getting our defenders to whack it long to Harewood to hopelessly chase.

Cotterill was dreadful. Gouge your eyes out with a spoon dreadful.

 

[Harvey]

Was quite highly rated as a youngster. Played a few games for Arsenal and got an England cap.

I recall him not doing too badly at West Ham on loan too. Then he suffered an ACL injury.

After that it looked like he was scared to play competitive football again and I think Arsenal realised this and stitched us up.

To be honest I didn't know anything about him before we signed him. If an ACL injury stuffed his career then that's harsh on the lad

People seemed to really dislike him though which I didn't get. I mean he was absolute gash as a player for us but I thought the hate was a little OTT

 

[Caveman Ninja]

That 7-3 was SOD's doing.

The Cotterill-by-himself era resulted in a 9 game goal drought where our only tactic was getting our defenders to whack it long to Harewood to hopelessly chase.

Cotterill was dreadful. Gouge your eyes out with a spoon dreadful.

Oh, I'm not denying that. It was for the most part absolutely awful.

 

[Statto]

We did have a load of utter gash that season.

Jenkinson, Mir, Bong, Muric, Figs, Darikwa, Hefele, Semedo, Da Costa, Diarrhkaby.

As soon as we needed/wanted to bring in a few of the non-first team players it went shit, especially that Charlton game just before lockdown when Clifton Bridge was still shut and the whole city was gridlock mania, we changed most of the team and lost.

Had we gone up that season it'd have needed more of a spending job than this and we'd be looking at Direby's points.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

We did have a load of utter gash that season.

Jenkinson, Mir, Bong, Muric, Figs, Darikwa, Hefele, Semedo, Da Costa, Diarrhkaby.

As soon as we needed/wanted to bring in a few of the non-first team players it went shit, especially that Charlton game just before lockdown when Clifton Bridge was still shut and the whole city was gridlock mania, we changed most of the team and lost.

Had we gone up that season it'd have needed more of a spending job than this and we'd be looking at Direby's points.

Ah the Charlton game, following immediately on from the "we're getting auto's" Leeds 2-0 game.

Always fun when Forest bring you right back down to earth before you get a chance to get going.

 

[Trents]

We did have a load of utter gash that season.

Jenkinson, Mir, Bong, Muric, Figs, Darikwa, Hefele, Semedo, Da Costa, Diarrhkaby.

As soon as we needed/wanted to bring in a few of the non-first team players it went shit, especially that Charlton game just before lockdown when Clifton Bridge was still shut and the whole city was gridlock mania, we changed most of the team and lost.

Had we gone up that season it'd have needed more of a spending job than this and we'd be looking at Direby's points.

Harsh lumping Figs in with those others. He played a big part in the success of last season.

 

[Eddie Yates]

That 7-3 was SOD's doing.

The Cotterill-by-himself era resulted in a 9 game goal drought where our only tactic was getting our defenders to whack it long to Harewood to hopelessly chase.

Cotterill was dreadful. Gouge your eyes out with a spoon dreadful.

A Cotterill team v a Hughton team would be a f***ing belter of a 0-0

 

[Statto]

Harsh lumping Figs in with those others. He played a big part in the success of last season.

I don't think so.
He's a very limited player and though he does his best, last season was due to the other defenders who could work around his inadequacies along with a side which scored freely and was less reliant on the defence doing anything meaningful for long.

 

[Project Zeus]

Ah the Charlton game, following immediately on from the "we're getting auto's" Leeds 2-0 game.

Always fun when Forest bring you right back down to earth before you get a chance to get going.

It reminds me of that scene in Game of Thrones where the two gorgeous women tease Theon before Ramsay comes in and chops his cock off.

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[Erik]

A Cotterill team v a Hughton team would be a f***ing belter of a 0-0

Do you think it's possible to get -1 - -1?

 

[Strummer]

A Cotterill team v a Hughton team would be a f***ing belter of a 0-0

I would rather watch paint dry.

Then set myself on fire. And gouge out my eyes with a spoon.

 

[redforest]

Just reading through all of this brings me out in a cold sweat which is why we have to be so grateful for what we have now got. The Stoke game followed by Hughtonball have both happened in the last 3 years, no wonder we are the happiest supporters in the Premier League

 

[Harvey]

A Cotterill team v a Hughton team would be a f***ing belter of a 0-0

"If we'd scored a goal tonight we'd have won one nil"

 

[Ashley]