15 Sep 2013 19:55:17
While This has been a good start to the season, we have a massive problem with the pace of the defence, as goldbourne is the only defender with any pace so quick attackers will rip us to shreds, like Leighton orients mooney, while having a funny name is unbelievably pacy and would destroy any of ricketts, batth or Doherty for pace, there fine defenders but no pace between them.
Stearman has a bit more pace than the others but even he doesn't have enough, the sort of organisation I believe we need is like so:

Goldborne Ricketts Stearman Doherty

Batth is interchangeable with ricketts and we need to get a pacy center half on loan to play inside Doherty.

1.) 15 Sep 2013
Are you serious? Batth has been our best defender this year closely followed by doherty! Losing them would kill us. Stearman isn't reliable, I agree ricketts gets done on the wing so put him in the centre with batth with it going like

ikeme
doherty batth ricketts golbourne

ricketts is a great captain, this would be my defence, and pace isn't everything like in fifa, if you can position yourself well its a struggle for a striker to break through. Believe me i'm a striker and I don't have anything to write home about with pace but I honestly find it easier to play against with defenders with pace than players who can position themselves well

WILKO

2.) 15 Sep 2013
15 Sep 2013 21:46:07
Forest are to sign sako with view to a permanent deal in jan.

3.) 15 Sep 2013
WHAT - you're dropping Batth! The best defender we have had in 2 years, priceless.

4.) 16 Sep 2013
Forest can have him, went AWOL on Saturday, rather have siggy

5.) 16 Sep 2013
Forest can put up the required funds, or go forth and multiply with Notts county across the Trent

6.) 16 Sep 2013
Are you basing this on playing FIFA? How much pace do Vidic/Ferdinand, Terry/Cahill, Distin/Jagielka etc all have?

There aren't that many pacey CB's around to be honest!

All pacey defenders do is rely on pace to bail them out on bad positional sense ala Kyle Walker, Glen Johnson.

Good defenders make up for lack of pace with all the other attributes!

7.) 16 Sep 2013
16 Sep 2013 10:12:50
Good feedback Wilko. And isn't the modern game so much about position? How often do we see, especially on TV, goals going in because the defenders are caught ball-watching.

What made John Terry such a great defender? It wasn't his pace.

8.) 16 Sep 2013
Paddy Harris has been playing to much FIFA! PACE PACE PACE.

9.) 16 Sep 2013
Cheers McWulf

WILKO

10.) 16 Sep 2013
16 Sep 2013 13:26:11
Pace if you are playing wing backs. And I think our FBs are pacy enough for the style we play. Or we would have kept Ward and Hunt. For CBs, why is pace so important? We must continue with Danny Batth.

11.) 16 Sep 2013
As I said batth and ricketts are interchangeable but you have to admit against Swindon mason and co. burnt our whole defensive line

12.) 16 Sep 2013
Slowest player I ever saw on a football pitch was a guy named Bobby Moore, you might have heard of him, Paddy.

13.) 16 Sep 2013
just stupid, no matter how much you hope and pray danny batth will not become bobby Moore, there compleatly different styles of play, Moore was a footballing center half and bath just isn't, and that's forgetting the noticeable ability difference.a slow thug type center half is great as long as you have a quick footballer next to him.
Ricketts is not quick.

14.) 17 Sep 2013
Yes but we don't have bobby Moore do we, anyway batth and Moore are compleatly different styles of play as Moore was a footballing center half and batth is a thug type center half, let alone the obvious ability difference, my point is bath is great when he has someone running straight at him but when they go past he can't catch them an ricketts isn't fast enough to make the ground either

15.) 17 Sep 2013
Also I don't think batth is our best defender we've had in the last 2 years, zubar was.