Alex McLeish considers rotating his Nottingham Forest squad against Oldham
ALEX McLeish may tinker with his Nottingham Forest line-up when they face Oldham in the FA Cup today.
The new Reds boss maintained a habit of rotating his squad when his Birmingham City side won the Carling Cup in 2011.
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Alex McLeish
And he says he will consider doing the same, to some degree, when Forest face League One opposition in the third round at the City Ground.
"I will put a team on the pitch that can get us to play the football we need to get us through to the next round of the competition," he said.
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"We have an abundance of players here and whoever comes in should be showing that they deserve to hold on to their place in the team.
"Whether we make massive changes, I don't know. We will try to keep close to the formula we have used in the last few games.
"At the moment, there is a good atmosphere, the players are trying to impress and I would hope for good performances from them this weekend.
"It was a wonderful run to the Carling Cup final, with Birmingham.
"It was not without hiccups, we did have some luck.
"We played a few lower division clubs and I rotated the squad a little bit.
"We only beat Brentford on penalties, so that shows that we needed some good fortune.
"But there is nothing like a cup run to get confidence going, to get the fans positive.
"Hopefully we can get through to the next round this weekend."
McLeish does not underestimate the challenge Oldham will pose, however.
And he has told his players they must be at their best if they do want to secure victory over the Latics.
"Paul Dickov has shown himself to be a shrewd manager, despite some difficulties," said McLeish.
"It is not an easy job, but he has come through adversity and he will have a plan; he will be doing something on the training ground to try to give them a chance of achieving a giant killing.
"We have to take care of this game."
Comments
by BLOUNTY3
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:21PM
“Its slowly sinking in isn't it !
All red dogs are starting to realise what a huge , huge mistake the Forest board have made
U deserve all u get , by the way u treated Sean Odrriscoll , it was unforgivable ow u sacked him after 5 months .
your a laughing stock
kids for a quid”
by AJM66
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:19PM
“Alex Ferguson recommended AM to our owners and they obviously respected his experience/opinion.
They acted on this by sacking a very professional hard working manager who was starting to put together a half decent team and who would have spent wisely on our defence in January (It would seem all AF was doing was just trying to get an old mate a job!!!)
This manager is talking about buying forwards ***..... we have just let in 3 goals to Oldham....KTF.....COYRs.”
by red_dawn
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:14PM
“i aint finding this s@@t funny no more”
by Henrik1968
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:05PM
“He should consider to leave, 3 goals against in 7 minutes, was it Man. Utd we were up against? No, it was Oldham! Direby winning big against Tranmere, a much better side than Oldham, what a disgrace from a poor Forest side, I really wonder what AM said at half time to make everything go wrong, sad!
I'm in shock, something has gone totally wrong lately, the loving feeling from this summer is gone gone gone..!
GO REDS, but where???”
by snennyram
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:04PM
“In Sean we trust!!!!
Honestly you couldn't make it up.
Another 3 goals blasted past the tin pot Florist defence.
In 2 weeks time it's going to be a turkey shoot. 4 nil to the Rams.
Anyway I'm off to celebrate our run of the mill 5 nil win. The usual 10 pints of snakebite, chicken vindaloo, bombay potatoes and a pashwiri naan.
Alltogether now "we want our Billy back, we want our Billy back."
Can't stop laughing.”
by lemons
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:59PM
“Forest going down Ha Ha Ha.”
by RedinFrance
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:57PM
“why doesn't he fotate himself right out the door another defeat 0 wins in 3”
by richardw11
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:57PM
“We can all agree that tranmere (Div 3) are much better than Oldham (div 3). Tranmere are top of that league. Oldham in the bottom 8. We THINK that Forest are better than Derby. SO.......how come Derby have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM AT ALL IN BATTERING TRANMERE....but Forest cannot cope with the huge challenge (!) of beating Oldham at home. PATHETIC ! And no, I am not going to criticise AM - once again our PLAYERS with their huge salaries fail to live up to expectations. It's simply not good enough Forest.Those Forest fans who have spent £38 on a ticket to Pride Park have wasted their money. We need to STOP laughing at Derby....and start laughing at ourselves. I predict 5 red arrows for this posting.”
by plectrum1
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:53PM
“TO ALL YOU RAM FANS ON HERE YOU WONT BE LAUGHING WHEN YOU PLAY US(LCFC) AT PRIDELESS PARK COS WE WILL BEAT YOU EASYLY AGAIN LIKE WE HAVE FOR THE LAST 3 SEASONS LC LCF LCFC OK”
by BurnBridgeRed
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:52PM
“In games in which he has picked the side our Managerial Icon has a 100% record. Played 2, Lost 2. What a complete joke. In Sean O'Driscoll we had thinking manager who was building a club on the right fondations. What have we got now- a total shambles.”