The stalwart, the erstwhile moderator of reason – he’s turned: AV is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore! The latest gutting installment of Untypical Boro raises a variety of excellent points:
- How many away goals do we have to score to protect against defensive lapses?
- Is the diminishing defensive prowess down to St Ledger? Can he co-exist w/ Wheater, or any of our centre-backs?
- The illustrative nature of the kit cock-up – a pretty damning picture of the dearth of focus and direction at multiple levels within the club
- Kitson was a revelation against Posh, and he’s desperately the type of commanding up-front presence we need, but have we forgotten that he’s relatively adamant his stay on Teesside is temporary
We missed the match – only the second in 4 years that couldn’t be followed in some live shape due to transit logistics – but caught up via the live blog. Slightly sophomoric this time round…save the cheap gags for after-match celebrations. Don’t let it morph into the disorganized mess we witness on the pitch.
And to maintain journalistic concentration, belated notes from the Forest draw presented in a holiday-style sampler:
- Pogatetz was back – and pretty useful after just three weeks removed from the fractured cheekbone v Plymouth
- EARLY GOAL!! – Arca pushed forward from the right, was spoon-fed by Johnno, shaped a shot palmed away by Lee Camp, tucked away by Leroy Lita
- Bright start for Boro, but Forest persevered and started to control the match – Jonesey made a string of decent saves to close the half
- Dave Kitson: Ginger Ninj-er!
- Forest level through a routine Rob Earnshaw free kick – poor
- AV eagle-eye view: ‘Forest look fitter, faster, and more up for it’
- Fortunate to get a point frankly – Forest dominated for long spells later on, we lost any attacking creativity…the fitness/focus concerns are alarming
November 30th, 2009 @ BA
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