Middlesbrough v Forest match preview panel

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Middlesbrough: Steele, Hoyte, Bennett, Williams, Hines, Thomson, Arca, McMahon, Emnes, Main, Jutkiewicz, Ripley, Halliday, Smallwood, Ogbeche, Williams.

Team news: A calf problem will continue to see keeper Danny Coyne sidelined.

Scott McDonald has a knee injury and Merouane Zemmama is struggling with a heria.

Otherwise, Middlesbrough are not likely to make many changes from the squad that faced Ipswich in their abandoned game on Saturday.

Forest: Camp, Wootton, Chambers, Higginbotham, Elokobi, Gunter, Moussi, Guedioura, McCleary, Harwood, Miller, Tudgay, Smith, Reid, Lynch, Anderson, Blackstock, Findley, McGugan, Majewski, Greening.

Team news: Marcus Tudgay has recovered from a slight sickness bug and should be available for the trip to the north-east.

Greg Cunningham will remain on the sidelines with a hamstring problem that he is struggling to shake off.

Otherwise, Chris Cohen (knee) remains the club's only long-term injury victim.

Danger man: Lucas Jutkiewicz.

The striker joined Boro from Championship strugglers Coventry for £1.3m in January.

The 22-year-old Pole had netted nine goals in a poor Sky Blues side and got off the mark for Boro with a goal against rivals Sunderland in the FA Cup recently.

Jutkiewicz has already haunted Forest once this season, scoring the only goal as they lost 1-0 at Coventry back in October.

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  • Profile image for jonsol

    by jonsol

    Wednesday, February 15 2012, 5:52AM

    “Cotterill you are a 6th form P.E teacher!!!

    take your hands out your pockets and get rid of that bloody tracksuit!!!

    Go collect your P45, Pajama Boy”

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    by Wibbs48

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:29PM

    “Why oh why do they not start with Dex , Reidy and Raddy?”

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    by HorshamRed

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:18PM

    “Clueless strikes again!!!”

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    by GeoffAC

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:17PM

    “fighter_pilot.... yeah, I heard his cringe worthy post match comments myself. What he should have said is " If all Forest's opponents in his term as manager hadn't scored against us we's still have only won 8 games out of 22" and that's a fact rather than the gibberish he was uttering.”

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    by fighter_pilot

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:08PM

    “2:1 and another defeat, soon Lynchy will be top scorer! This isn't right..so why oh why hasn't Hasselbank cleared off yet as results show he isn't worthy of a wage. He's waiting to be sacked so he can run off with the money except he can't run nowadays.
    Cotterill gave a clanger post match that ' if Boro had not scored 2, Forest would have won', the stupidity in this is unreal. SC has new players and still the excuses flow with no lack of, for this reason or that we were unlucky. Maybe Forest should play in dark as then we might win and if we don't no-one would miss much. Wake up board before it's too late...”

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    by GeoffAC

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:04PM

    “What the hell was Cotterill thinking about when we went 1-0 down just before half time. Okay, so the injury prone donkey 'Miller' gets injured yet again. SC doesn't have time to substitute him before the second period yet despite this he has the whole of the half time period to think about who to replace Miller with. It has to be Dexter doesn't it? No, it's misfiring, can't control the ball to save his life Findley and to make matters worse he replaces our other striker who made two great goalscoring opportunities with a defender and puts McCleary up front. My god SC you have truly lost it haven't you. Lynchy was great and in my opinion would be in our defence in a heartbeat rather than calamity Chambers. Reidy too did great setting up Lynchy's goal and creating numerous other chances. So much for your new solid defence SC. When we went 2-0 down in the first minute of the second half, we had SEVEN defensive players on the field and not one decent striker. HAVE YOU PLACED DEXTER ON THE NAUGHTY STEP ALONGSIDE RADDY? Jesus, in gets more unbelievable by the minute. Coventry come back from 1-0 down to beat Leeds God knows what will happen now when they come to our place on Saturday. ANYTHING short of a win v Coventry and Cotterill MUST GO.”

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    by derkaiser

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 11:01PM

    “Number39:

    That's not very constructive or intelligent, is it?”

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    by derkaiser

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 10:58PM

    “I've never been one to advocate the dismissal of a manager (not since Matt Gillies) but there doesn't seem to be anything left for Cotterill to do. I'm beyond being gutted by results and have accepted relegation. It's all a realist can do anymore, I think. I find that this 'We will turn it around' stuff is not really getting Forest anywhere. SC doesn't seem to understand the concept of NOW meaning STRAIGHT AWAY. It all seems to be going to happen when things are 'balanced' or things fall into shape, or whatever. 23rd with 16 games left. § points fewer than games played. Sorry folks, don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but it has to be curtains for SC as soon as possible. Spend any cash there is paying off his contract and firing him. He's got to go. It ain't rocket science, is it?

    Thanks for reading.”

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    by Number39

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 10:56PM

    “Flipflopper & UpWegO

    Yeah, it's the Post's fault that you lost, because they pointed out he's scored against you before.

    Sack the Post!”

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    by RichieW

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 10:41PM

    “CARDIFF A 0-1 LOSE
    LEEDS H 0-4 LOSE
    BRIGHTON A 0-1 LOSE
    PALACE H 0-1 LOSE
    BRISTOL A 0-0 DRAW
    P'BORO H 0-1 LOSE
    CARDIFF H 0-1 LOSE
    IPSWICH A 3-1 WIN
    SOTON H 0-3 LOSE
    W HAM A 1-2 LOSE
    BURNLEY H 0-2 LOSE
    WATFORD H 1-1 DRAW
    M'BORO A 1-2 LOSE

    PLAYED 13 WON 1 DRAWN 2 LOST 10
    GOALS FOR 6 GOALS AGAINST 20
    POINTS 5 (FROM A POSSIBLE 39)

    COTTERILL OUT NOW !”

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