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How splendid Never saw those highlights before

We beat them 2 nil away when Storey-Moore missed a penalty. John Robson scored from 25 yards.

I see their fans aren't happy after season ticket prices have gone up 24% The cost of matches and petrol must have gone up this year.

Goddard got one of the goals at Villa

Beating Newcastle 3-2 at home December 83. I was 13 and it was the best atmosphere i'd seen at a non Forest game. 2 Nil down at HT after goals from Waddle and Keegan and we looked dead and buried. As soon as Davison pulled one back the whole crowd erupted and never really quietened till Bobby and Archie sealed the win. Can beat a comeback as underdogs.

I didn't say I know more than others I was responding to a barb that 'need to understand what bullying is'. Again I'm amused me mentioning that some posters felt bullied into not stating theur views has led to 20 posts directed at me personally with several barbs. Now I don't feel bullied but I do find it more than a little ironic. That's me done.

I didn't say over sensitive. That's your interpretation. It's a fact that some people would consider a hypothetical scenario bullying when another person may not. That doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't bullying. It's a grey area and can't just be written off.

The person in the cheerio thread mentioned bullying. I understand what bullying is. I deal with it in my job. I'm not sure why you seem so determined to counter every post I make about this. You keep coming back to it.

I'm very puzzled. I said I'm against all name calling and yet somehow I'm 'stooping'. Whether all opinions are equal is indeed debatable but everyone still has a right to one and should feel able to give their opinion on a forum. Again I'm not sure how this is controversial.

I think the ref got the most stick after that game. The thread is been deleted so I don't think it's appropriate to name someone

I would have preferred more entertaining football and control in games. I think that the lack of control in games led to unnecessary physical exertion which there is a good case for saying led to the amount of injuries. Some may argue our style of play played a part in Bird wanting to leave. Pure speculation of course. I think much of the recruitment was ill thought out. Too many signings of players who were arriving with injuries, too near the end of the career or hadn't played for a while which didn't fit well with Warne's style of play. He signed Fornah to do a job he want physically capable of doing. There is an argument that our superior budget dug us out of a mess of our own making with the arrivals of Nyambe, Adams and Gayle later in the season. I thought the whole captaincy process and back 5 insistence made him and Bradley look weak to many people. I can see the sense in a vote on captaincy but there was a perception amongst fans that Bradley was brought in to do this and that Hourihane wouldn't have been his choice. On the plus side, we bounced back from adversity well. We never went on a dreadful run like we have under other managers. Some more cynical may suggest its easier to bounce back as you are never more than a couple of matches from playing a poor team. We showed some good resilience in important/difficult games. Our away performances against Pompey, Posh (first half) and in patches Bolton were very good. He eventually solved the back 4 problem with Nyambe and in January solved the midfield energy problem with Adams. In terms of PW I don't hate him. I hate very few people. I didn't like 2 interviews he did this year and I know they irritated many on here, some of whom have a rosier view of PW than myself. I'm fairly ambivalent to him generally. I dont feel the love that i had for Cox and Smith but he equally isn't a Pearson or even a Clement. He has talked about needing a lot of changes for next year. I hope that means looking after the ball a bit more and not just taller, quicker versions of what we have now. His admiration for Bird gives me some hope in that direction. My view of fans on here defending/over defending PW by pointing to limited resources is a bit off. They are only limited in terms of fees and in comparison to the MM Madness. We had a very good budget on wage bill compared to the rest of the league. That is my constructive view.

So you are saying we shouldn't discuss and debate stuff like this?

Well there is evidence because one poster publicly quit last week citing bullying. I also know 2 other people who have stopped posting. That is evidence. Bullying is in the eye of the beholder to an extent.