Nottingham Forest (H) | Sat 23rd Sept | PL | Post Match Thread

[Gabriel]

“The Gibbs-White creature seems to have shit itself and lost all sense of balance.”

When sensing danger, the Gibbs-White is clearly capable of adopting defensive thanatos, the poor possum.

 

[Centurions]

I guess that depends on your definition of clobbered.

It was more a push in the back, which should have been a free kick, imho, but not in the referee’s.

Those challenges have gone on since the dawn of the game. They happened again when we were trying to keep the ball near the corner flag later on too.

Rodri lost his head. It happens,

It was immediately prior to the push in the back and looked nasty and calculated.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

When sensing danger, the Gibbs-White is clearly capable of adopting defensive thanatos, the poor possum.

“Its ability to play dead is its strongest weapon against being made lunch.”

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I guess that depends on your definition of clobbered.

It was more a push in the back, which should have been a free kick, imho, but not in the referee’s.

Those challenges have gone on since the dawn of the game. They happened again when we were trying to keep the ball near the corner flag later on too.

Rodri lost his head. It happens,

You're talking about the second foul (the one which led to the altercation), I think. Immediately before it, Rodri's got the ball, he's running away from his Gibbs-White and he doesn't merely shove Rodri in the back, he whacks him, hard, his right leg on Rodri's left. Furthermore, if you look closely, Rodri's left leg is slightly bent laterally. Could have been seriously nasty. That is in fact what sends Rodri over. Clear yellow card, and free kick to us. Not the slightest intention of playing the ball.
Yes, those kinds of challenges go on on Hackney marshes every Sunday. Not, thankfully, in the modern professional game at the highest level. They are sanctioned, and rightly so. If Taylor had did what he should have done, there's no incident following it. Rodri was stupid, and it's a red, but there's a lead-up to it, and Taylor is completely responsible there. (By the way, they'd already been doing it in the latter stages of the first half).
Play it back once or twice. You'll see.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You're talking about the second foul (the one which led to the altercation), I think. Immediately before it, Rodri's got the ball, he's running away from his Gibbs-White and he doesn't merely shove Rodri in the back, he whacks him, hard, his right leg on Rodri's left. Furthermore, if you look closely, Rodri's left leg is slightly bent laterally. Could have been seriously nasty. That is in fact what sends Rodri over. Clear yellow card, and free kick to us. Not the slightest intention of playing the ball.
Yes, those kinds of challenges go on on Hackney marshes every Sunday. Not, thankfully, in the modern professional game at the highest level. They are sanctioned, and rightly so. If Taylor had did what he should have done, there's no incident following it. Rodri was stupid, and it's a red, but there's a lead-up to it, and Taylor is completely responsible there. (By the way, they'd already been doing it in the latter stages of the first half).
Play it back once or twice. You'll see.

Sounds like VAR should have sent Gibbs-White off and been charged with assault.

These things happen all the time.

 

[big gaz]

For the minute, we're involved in four competitions (that's not even thinking about the World Club Championship). It's a marathon. Not a sprint, nor even a 10,000m. We had the game won twenty minutes in. They presented no kind of a threat. In those conditions, keep the ball, knock it around, conserve energy.
That's how you get a treble won. Or even — dare I say it? — a quadruple.

Thats fucked it then ;-

 

[bennyboy]

Read this article of City at home against Clough and Taylor at Forrest.

https://www.mancity.com/features/clough/

 

[OB1]

You're talking about the second foul (the one which led to the altercation), I think. Immediately before it, Rodri's got the ball, he's running away from his Gibbs-White and he doesn't merely shove Rodri in the back, he whacks him, hard, his right leg on Rodri's left. Furthermore, if you look closely, Rodri's left leg is slightly bent laterally. Could have been seriously nasty. That is in fact what sends Rodri over. Clear yellow card, and free kick to us. Not the slightest intention of playing the ball.
Yes, those kinds of challenges go on on Hackney marshes every Sunday. Not, thankfully, in the modern professional game at the highest level. They are sanctioned, and rightly so. If Taylor had did what he should have done, there's no incident following it. Rodri was stupid, and it's a red, but there's a lead-up to it, and Taylor is completely responsible there. (By the way, they'd already been doing it in the latter stages of the first half).
Play it back once or twice. You'll see.

A very good assessment.

I'm not 100% convinced it should have been a red but hard to see why Gibbs-White hit the deck, other than play acting. I did though look straight to the ref as I feared the worst and he was quick to go to his top pocket.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Thats fucked it then ;-

Let me rephrase. That's how you get your forty points on the board to ensure avoiding the drop.

 

[Shirley]

It was good to see Trevor Sinclair on Ian Cheesemans prematch vlog yesterday