NottsRam77

Just weird imo. He's a nice guy and all and a hard worker, but he's won an award on the back of scoring a couple of goals against us in a humiliating defeat, and there's a whole thread congratulating him.
In about 30% of the games he played for us he was terrible, another 30% considerably average, 25% good, 15% quite impressive.
That wasn't just because he was played in DM or on the 'wing' (which was not out of position, it's essentially where he played for Norwich when he scored 15 goals) 
His biggest problem wasn't the position he was played, it was his dearth of footballing intelligence. He was, for us, a player who didn't understand his own limitations.
He constantly tried to do things above his level of ability which usually lead to him losing the ball in stupid areas.
Once in a blue moon he'd play a defence splitting pass or something, but that's like pointing out all the times Conor Sammon showed exquisite control - it did actually happen now and then but it was a shock whenever it did rather than an expectation.
Most of the time though he'd play a really stupid pass with hardly any chance of success instead of taking the sensible option.
He often got closed down on the ball and lost it, a lot, not because there were no passes on but because you could see the cogs in his brain ticking slowly along while he dallied on the ball unaware big players around him. Like recent Rooney performances except in reverse, Rooney's body let's him down, Johnson's brain let's him down.
He also cost us plenty of goals by not following his runner at corners, similar to Hendrick in that regard.
Yes he had a bit of a rennaisance under Lampard, largely because he was the only midfielder we had with an ounce of physical presence, but as per the start of this post, for large swathes of his time here he was crap. Nothing to do with the price tag either.
There was genuinely a point where I was sick of the sight of him. I had warmed to him a bit by the end, but it doesn't overwrite all the memories of him being a liability.
A couple of long rangers, in masses of space, against us, and suddenly he's being bigged up as twice the player he is.

So is pretty much every club in the championship lol ... that’s why we’re all here?

So is pretty much every club in the championship lol ... that’s why we’re all here?

It's no different than allowing an owner to inject as much cash as they want

You'd have thought so, but Watford have been doing it even longer (with Udinese), and they still haven't done anything about it

Definitely time to alert Steve Gibson, the Championship's resident FFP vigilante to such obviously dodgy 'workarounds'. Fire up the 'Gibson signal'.........

Forest's foreign players + Nigel Clough = marriage made in heaven 

Just reading this thread for the first time.
big congratulations mate abd obviously seeing the more recent updates hope things all go ok 
one things for sure the health service seem to be pretty thorough when it comes to babies so they just like to check everything so hopefully the recent scans are just precautionary 
when it comes to parenting my biggest advice is just remember your a team 
I won’t lie it does test ur relationship, me and the have been together for like 17 years (I know, she’s had my best years lol) 
Prior to kids I think we had like 2 cross words/ arguments in the first 12 years lol... now they’re daily lol
if life is a rollercoaster then kids just make those lows a little bit lower but the highs are infinitely higher 
u just have to remember tiredness makes even the most Laid back person a bit more uptight and there’s a bigger picture here and u have to be prepared to let some things go
oh ... and you’ll deffinitly end up feeling like a packhorse fetching and carrying lol
me and my mate joke,
the words “can u just” will be etched on my brain and gravestone forever lol
but joking aside it’s ace .... and hard work at the same time lol
 

Just reading this thread for the first time.
big congratulations mate abd obviously seeing the more recent updates hope things all go ok 
one things for sure the health service seem to be pretty thorough when it comes to babies so they just like to check everything so hopefully the recent scans are just precautionary 
when it comes to parenting my biggest advice is just remember your a team 
I won’t lie it does test ur relationship, me and the have been together for like 17 years (I know, she’s had my best years lol) 
Prior to kids I think we had like 2 cross words/ arguments in the first 12 years lol... now they’re daily lol
if life is a rollercoaster then kids just make those lows a little bit lower but the highs are infinitely higher 
u just have to remember tiredness makes even the most Laid back person a bit more uptight and there’s a bigger picture here and u have to be prepared to let some things go
oh ... and you’ll deffinitly end up feeling like a packhorse fetching and carrying lol
me and my mate joke,
the words “can u just” will be etched on my brain and gravestone forever lol
but joking aside it’s ace .... and hard work at the same time lol
 

Thank you for the kind words again everyone it truly means a lot to me and the mrs! An update on the rollercoaster  of emotions is as my messages last week there was fluid under the babies skin which shouldn't have been there so we had to go to grottingham on Thursday  for a CVS,  the experts had a scan before the test and I quote "we don't really know why you were sent here as at the minute everything seems to be fine, the down syndrome risk came back as 1 in 1668 which is good so they've told us to assume everything is normal and we need to go.back at the  beginning of January for another scan to see what's what. To say I was a mess this last week was an understatement (so much so I was odd work sick) but this news was amazing and means at least until next month we can carry on as normal and enjoy christmas. ?