Joel: That’s the poorest performance I’ve seen at The City Ground in probably over a year. Maybe this reality check will do us some good. Need a striker to start and hold up the ball. Geoff: Poor performance, lucky to be 2-0 up in fairness. Good work in the first half by Williams, White and Johnson. Forest cannot afford to do this in the Premier League, they will get punished. Also a lot of ball watching against Bournemouth, which gave them a lot of space in midfield. Phil: Forest must do better in defence, several players who lost the ball just gave up and did not do enough to win the ball back. We asked you for your post-match comments after Nottingham Forest's 3-2 defeat against Bournemouth. 'We need to start playing the strikers' published at 12:57 5 September.Hear more on VAR from 26'30 on BBC Sounds 'The problem at the moment is you haven’t got VAR or the match official explaining to everybody that this is why I am making my decision. When they go to that monitor and look at something, they are the ones who should be making the decision and nobody else. 'You also then have the best match official on the field, so the final say should be with them. If you put 10 referees in a room, they will all have different views on why they gave that decision. 'If you put 10 pundits in a room, they are not all going to agree on a decision. It’s impossible to be perfect, so don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. At the moment, what people are expecting - or maybe what people have been told - is that we are going to be perfect. 'But what you want is to get those big decisions right. An official is not going to referee a game without making an error. You are not going to play a game of football, a manager is not going to pick a team without making an error in tactics. You are not going to go through life without making an error. What you want is to make good decisions, get the big decisions right. 'What happens then is that perfect becomes the enemy of the good. Owens told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club: 'Trying to get a perfect game is impossible. 'It’s impossible to be perfect' - Owens on what needs to be done about VAR published at 09:34 6 SeptemberĮx-international rugby union referee Nigel Owens says one of the key issues with VAR in the Premier League is the lack of communication from referees and the fact that the final decision should be made by the on-field official.Īfter a weekend of VAR controversy, much has been said about what football can learn from rugby's television match official (TMO).Learning curves and resilience go hand in hand. Let’s continue to respect that and them.Ĭrucial changes are required and the Bournemouth game could be the catalyst for that. Cooper and the team are aware of their accountability. In a post-match interview, Steve Cooper stated the need 'to show can be a good manager when things are not going so well'. So, is this enough to want to dismiss our manager and a handful of players? Absolutely not.

It was a single fault from an otherwise impeccable player. An unfortunate, rare error from Scott McKenna gave the Cherries the opportunity to take the lead, and with that our point slipped away. The expectation was for the Reds to triumph. The former are one of the best in the world, but the latter are simply a newly-promoted team.

The 6-0 result against Manchester City was less of a surprise than the 3-2 defeat by Bournemouth.

Two defeats last week - with a total of nine goals conceded over two games - have been equally bizarre and tough for us to take.

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