Djed Spence today

Spence is a wing back, he McNair and Bola all play best in a 352 formation. You can argue that Sporar plays best in a formation that gives him a striker partner too. Warnock only plays that formation reluctantly. Warnocks prime tactic throughout his career, is to bypass midfield and get the ball forward early, so 5 across the middle is the opposite of his philosophy.

This is the source of a lot of our problems.
 

What Djed Spence did after Nottingham Forest's dramatic winner vs Bristol City​

The full-back was in the midst of celebrations after Lyle Taylor's stoppage-time double saw Forest take all three points from Ashton Gate.
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Steve Cooper extended his unbeaten start as Nottingham Forest manager to five games on Tuesday night as the Reds came out as 2-1 winners against Bristol City, despite trailing going into added time.

Alex Scott’s 39th-minute goal looked to have sealed all three points for Nigel Pearson’s team but Forest, and in particular, Lyle Taylor had other ideas.

The striker scored to level the score from the penalty spot in the 91st minute after a foul on Djed Spencer. Taylor then grabbed all three points by finding the net again just 50 seconds later.

It’s then perhaps no surprise that the winner sparked wild scenes of celebration between the players on the pitch and the travelling away crowd.

Those celebrations have now led to an appeal from Forest on their official Twitter account.

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“What an ending!” It read.

“Djed got so excited that his shirt with GPS Performance Tracker ended up in the away end!

You can keep the shirt but please return the tracker… if you have it, tweet us using #DjedsGPS and we can arrange collection.”

The GPS trackers are used to monitor things such as distance travelled on the pitch during a game, with the data used by clubs’ analysts and sports science department.

Spence joined Forest on loan from Championship rivals Middlesbrough on deadline day and has impressed in his time at the City Ground, scoring his first goal for the club in the 3-0 win over Birmingham City earlier this month.

The tweet from Forest prompted some brilliant replies from fans.

Alan March : Sign him on a permanent and we’ll call it a deal... #NFFC

Hessers : I think you need to use a better GPS tracker guys #NFFC

Gareth Roberts : Analysis team in the morning confused to see Djed Spence ran home via the M5 #nffc

STATSports, makers of the GPS tracker have also sent an incentive for the performance tracker to be returned.

“Whoever has it and returns it, we’ll send them their own GPS tracker #DjedsGPS,” they wrote on Twitter.
 
…the winner sparked wild scenes of celebration between the players on the pitch and the travelling away crowd.

Those celebrations have now led to an appeal from Forest on their official Twitter account.

“What an ending!” It read.

“Djed got so excited that his shirt with GPS Performance Tracker ended up in the away end!

You can keep the shirt but please return the tracker… if you have it, tweet us using #DjedsGPS and we can arrange collection.”

The GPS trackers are used to monitor things such as distance travelled on the pitch during a game, with the data used by clubs’ analysts and sports science department.
Hahaha, so they can’t track the tracker ?!
 
This thing about Warnock wanting to play with a back four - why does he keep playing three at the back then? He did it last season and this, he’s done with or without the personnel to play it.

Perhaps he doesn’t know what his best shape is at all? I don’t think he does. After 18 months in charge of a club, that is incredibly poor IMO.
 
It’s a good and valid point we see this all the time in sport and team games — put in more effort to win yourself a contract and as soon as it does then resume the norm. There’s no doubting he has talent but how much he’s willing to apply from game to game or even training is the question with this lad.
 
He was dropped under Woodgate and released by Fulham due to his attitude. Warnock made the exact same point. There is a clear patten there. He is a good player with a lot of potential which he may never realise unless he sorts his attitude out and starts playing regular football. He was never going to start at right back ahead of Dijksteel and was never going to be right wing ahead of Tav or Hernandez. A loan move suited everyone.
 
He was dropped under Woodgate and released by Fulham due to his attitude. Warnock made the exact same point. There is a clear patten there. He is a good player with a lot of potential which he may never realise unless he sorts his attitude out and starts playing regular football. He was never going to start at right back ahead of Dijksteel and was never going to be right wing ahead of Tav or Hernandez. A loan move suited everyone.
Fully agree👏

The laughable thing is that with every good performance brings more people using him to bash the club (Warnock) with.

I don't remember many raving him about him (post breaking into the side).The majority either said he's 'brainless' or 'doesn't get his head up' etc. It's not like he was Cafu for us.

I think most would have sold him if 2-4mil came in. The one good thing is that his value is now going up again.

I imagine there was a bit more to loaning him out other than being cr#p defensively.
 
He wasn’t very good for us, in fact he was below average, it was never going to work here for him but at least we should get a bit of money now, the only bad thing that can be said about the deal is that we were left thin.
 
The laughable thing is that with every good performance brings more people using him to bash the club (Warnock) with.
The reality is that Djed has let himself down with his application at times, and Warnock has misused him and not allowed him to flourish, and the club allowed him to leave on loan rather than find the best way to utilise him. No one party is at fault.
 
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