FAC3: Nottingham Forest 5-0 West Ham Utd (05/01/14)

[White Goodman]

Bet they'll all be dying to get another bite at the first team after this :lol:

Maybe Sam can play them against City to raise their spirits.

[RM6]

Aren't we second in both u 19 & u 21 Premier Leagues?

So this is adult football, not the kids game.

[Paddy O'Hammer]

West ham has broken my heart more times over the years than the feckin missus has.

[GaryP]

A pounding Ron Jeremy would be proud of.

Shoudl have signed him - we'd have a chance of coming from behind

[Ticket 2 Ryde]

I feel like I'm watching a old friend getting a proper kicking and I cant do a thing about it!

[e17]

Morrison just atrocious. I will stand by what i put forward in the RM thread and hope to be proved wrong in the future.

Will never be the player so many of you think he will.

I'd imagine there will be some revision from the "better than Joe Cole at this age" crowd after today

[jacko]

Tony carr OUT!!

[Ben]

chalks do you not think he should have picked a better bunch of senior players for this instead of jarvis, diarra, ravel and maiga?

[Lee_WHU]

Anyone shocked at the result ?
We had to lose as we're in the Semi Finals of The League Cup and next to bottom of the Premier League , our Squad couldn't cope with 2 Cup runs , and we all know it .
Get real , lads and lasses . It was a nothing game .
Good run out for the youngsters , that's all it was .

This man has it right.

The scoreline flatters them but there's one word for that... inexperience. At first-team competitive level at least.

I'm glad I got to see the kids play and will encourage them for the future, they're not half as bad as has been mentioned in here and I for one hope they don't read this for fear of embarrassment. You're entitled to your opinions and your desire to want more but you can't fit a square peg in a round hole... as TOMOS basically puts it.

[Antwerp_Lad]

12th highest paid manager in Europe.

At least his twitter alter ego will be fun.

[nickkarkie]

Morrison just atrocious. I will stand by what i put forward in the RM thread and hope to be proved wrong in the future.

Will never be the player so many of you think he will.

Ravel will shine in a team that play attacking football. he has not put any effort in today and i guarantee that is due to the ongoing issues behind the scenes. the owners have allowed our dinosaur **** of a manager to ruin our most saleable asset in the space of 2 weeks.

allardyce hasnt got a ****ing clue

[Iron Spine v2.0]

Massive respect to our travelling support today.

I was choked to see that kid crying when the 3rd went in. That picture should be sent to Sam.

First bit, absolutely.

Second bit, don't worry for the kid, this kind of mental abuse is character building and he'll be laughing at stuff like this when he's 21 whilst his Arse, Manc, Citeh mates will still bawl at aged 30 when they lose to Hull away in the league.

[WorcesterWHU]

He hangs on to the ball allowing others to get up so we can pass the ball between us in close proximity. He is a footballer and will never be a kick and rush player.

I think Ravel's got great ability but there have been multiple occasions today where passing to a team-mate was by far and away the better option and he decided to run it himself.

Amongst a bunch of very young players who have given their all, he's strutted around not giving a ****.

[Ben]

rars boyfriend just picked up a yellow card

[Devs Hampton]

If we dont dump Allardyce now we are ****ed. With him we will be relegated and what he will leave us with then after we lose our better players will clearly be way off what us required to make us competitve in the Championship

[woking-boy]

If lansbury could finish, this would have been 7-0.

theres still time

[Fishdo]

I sort of agree with the comments about this being a nothing match given the league cup and our position but surely that can't excuse a passionless and unmotivated performance by everyone involved here today...

How can a manager manage to take out the passion and enthusiasm that an facup first team appearance should bring about naturally to any young player ...

That takes some doing to do that ....

[speculator]

I didn't expect anything other than a loss. It's a chance to blood the youngsters - i would not read too much into it.

[DannyboyDJL]

Can everyone stop saying we played 3-5-2. That is a recognised formation. We played 3-6-1. Maiga was on his own by 20 yards half the game.

We are still trying the same tactic. Hit Maiga for the flick on or down the wing and cross to 1 player. It hasn't worked once and we are STILL trying it.

[the wren]

Anyone shocked at the result ?
We had to lose as we're in the Semi Finals of The League Cup and next to bottom of the Premier League , our Squad couldn't cope with 2 Cup runs , and we all know it .
Get real , lads and lasses . It was a nothing game .
Good run out for the youngsters , that's all it was .

I make you right mate. Although if you made the journey to Nottingham you may see it differently.