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Just now, jono said:

Yep, me too. I just thought oh I’ll go anywhere more or less but got my own. Looking forward to it. What are HB like I wonder ? 

Ridiculously rich. Massively underperformed last season and nearly went down to Bundesliga 2 - survived the play off with the league below I believe over 2 legs. Wouldn’t imagine they’re likely to be as bad this year. 

2 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

Sorry, I don’t quite understand your point about the Liverpool tickets. Presumably, they’ve got 2 season tickets in specific names but they sometimes share them with the other two. Why would they get priority for anymore than the two named people? Doesn’t sound like a debacle to me. If/when we ever reach a final again, I could say I’ve only got one season ticket but I share it with four others. Can I have 5 tickets please??

It’s because of them not allowing to open new customer numbers, but obviously they’ve never needed more. There was no period for the Liverpool game or Wembley game where season ticket holders could get extra tickets before general sale (if it got there) as well. 

1 minute ago, jimtastic56 said:

Florists sold out of season tickets last March. But all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. They only have 4K home seats left to sell on a match by match basis and the Q’s are building now to pay £60 for the privilege to buy one. Many will lose out to the new Prem fans . Be careful what you wish for.

My missus is a forest fan - I know, ridiculous, I ask myself why daily - and their ticketing policies have been absolutely scandalous all year.

Her family have 2 STs between 4 of them and they couldn’t get tickets for all 4 because of customer number debacles, so only had 2 tickets to both the Liverpool cup game and Wembley. The Liverpool cup game they put online for sale at midnight by the way - because that’s completely normal. The website couldn’t handle it.

Real kicker was them having to move season ticket holders due to increased away capacity this season and they actually tried to charge those forced to move for the privilege because the seats they were going to were better. Needless to say they backtracked that one sharpish after backlash. 

I’m not particularly into Forest and Derby tit for tat, as you can imagine being pretty close to it, but it’s all been pretty poor and anti-fan from them this year. Reminded me how we acted before we kind of got our stuff together for big games with high demand a number of years back. 

know this guy had been mentioned by a few. Interested to see how he does… only experience of him I have is watching the play offs where he did literally nothing noteworthy, but he clearly had a good season statistically. 

No source whatsoever to that but I think any of us would guess it would be a pretty likely destination at this point. 

5 minutes ago, Shang said:

We can be glad that Rooney held onto the job as long as he did. If he left earlier there would have been more negative press around the club and the perceived value of the club would have tanked even further.

I wish him all the best in his new role.

Depends which view you want to take. Either the one you’ve mentioned, or him and Stretford being in cahoots with Kirchner dragged it on much further than it needed to. Take your pick really.
 

I’m not advocating either, by the way, but I know I don’t trust him anymore. 

2 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Well the ray of signings do we need before champions league 1 side I say only 2 or 3 more and that could be it but for me were still missing free kick spailist but they dont come cheap but something laim can look into.

Hourihane is literally a free kick specialist. 

I hope we use the majority of our loan quota so a good 4 or 5 of those. Then maybe 3 or 4 permanents to boot. 

Presume Nunn is playing? Ibrahim must be there too

11 minutes ago, sage said:

Just arrived at Mickleover to watch u21s v Belper United £8 plus £2 to park 

A bit OTT. 

Hope it's good 

Saw those prices earlier and thought it was a bit daft. Derby u23s have played Matlock and Belper Town in the past and it’s been cheaper, Belper United are much lower than those. 

Playing Belper United at Mickleover tonight. 

3 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

I do agree, but we are also in a position where we can't be overly selective and the main objective is spending the least amount of time in League One as possible. At least the older lads are coming in on at most a two year deal so we aren't saddled with a bloated, ageing squad long term.

I know we will have a decent amount of ageing players this year but we can’t completely ignore younger recruits because, as you say, they’re on short term deals so we don’t want to have to completely remake the squad again shortly. Second to that, older players do have a tendency to get injured a bit more frequently so we need to be careful for that. 

1 minute ago, RIMBAUD said:

Spot on. A top quality loan might be the solution. Here’s hoping. 

I’ve said this in the suggestions thread but I think getting those players with a bit of pace and flair might have to be loans as the quality and age required isn’t cheap, which is ok. I’d be more than happy to use 2 or 3 loan signings all for attacking options. 

Like the signing. Has scored in League One before which is important. I’d ideally like 1 more striker who’s a bit younger with some pace, maybe Stretton can be that guy but not convinced at moment with him. 

18 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

I’d be utterly stunned if Sibley was pushing for anything other than a starting spot here next season. 

He’s a Derby fan, whereas I don’t believe the others are - Buchanan was legitimately a Forest fan growing up (I believe?) Bird, I’m not sure?

He stated a few times, particularly around that cup tie, that he was a glory supporting Man Utd fan. 

ok, I paraphrased. 

I think he said a lot of things in a way which were very savvy and may have not revealed the full truth. 

With that said though, I do fully believe he never acted maliciously. He never wanted it to end like this. He made some mistakes, a lot of mistakes, and whether it was through bad advice or misplaced ambition, it left us in a shocking position. Throwing good money after bad. 

Ultimately, he did what he thought was right with the best intentions, but it couldn’t have worked out any worse. 

26 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

Fair play to Coventry - looks like they're going to be splashing the cash if they're in for Bird and Sibley. 

Who have they sold to be spending £15m+ plus on players though, doesn't seem in their usual character? 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19146830/gustavo-hamer-transfer-fulham-coventry/amp/
 

Callum O’Hare is another one with rumours of being sold for a high fee  Burnley had been sniffing  

42 minutes ago, ramit said:

It was good enough for Iceland to kick England out of the European Championships, heh

Not sure on your point. You’re finding needles in haystacks of successful teams in the last decade to prove that 442 is better than every single other successful team year in year out that use basically any other formation? You crack on. 

Something not adding up here. Kids at United academy, missus doesn’t like, his stock is high over here… yet he chooses to go back there. 

Maybe I’m just cynical but after seeing his apparent bid for power with his agent and Kirchner, makes me wonder what he’s up to. 

8 hours ago, ramit said:

The same was said 7 years ago when Leicester used it to such effect as to win them the title. 

Saying it's archaic has become archaic IMO.

1 exception to the rule. Suppose we could hire Mike Bassett instead of Rosenior. 

4 minutes ago, plymouthram said:

was Steve Mac's son involved in the recruitment team in the past.

Yep. Headed the whole lot up. 

3 hours ago, Ram1988 said:

I hope so. Either 4231 or 433 for me.

This is it, they’re quite similar depending on defensive shape in the most part. 442 is a little archaic at this point, there’s a reason very very few teams play it these days. 

Not for me. We don’t need anymore 33 year olds. 

14 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Perhaps the whole Erik Alonso twitter history is all trolls?! ?

Would make a lot of sense to be fair. 

6 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Perhaps, but isn't it same Twitter handle as he's used before? - @eraIwbd So I assumed he'd done a CK, where he deleted all his old posts and started again but using the same handle ie @cskirchner Joined April 2022 ?

Deleted the handle and a troll claimed it. It ain’t him. 

1 minute ago, TheDeadlySaul said:

How's Mcdonald looked? 

Old. Legs have gone, that’s why he went to Dundee, and now even they released him.