Augustus

14 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

Better pray they keep the table in alphabetical order until next May, as that’s the best you can hope for!  ?

Which table? Oh, you mean the Premier League table...

16 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

The only difference between our situation and theirs was the administration they were a gnats b****** from.

Well that and us actually submitting our accounts...

13 minutes ago, David said:

Think it’s kinda cute how Forest fans are missing us already, despite the 23 year wait, the huge payday for the club, some don’t want to let us go and. ?

 

It's a bit of morbid curiosity I suppose, like driving past a car crash and not being able to resist looking.

By the way we're looking at around late June for the big day, the Papa Johns first round draw.

Will you play your u17s or do you think you'll rest and rotate for it?

When are the fixtures released then? Looking forward to playing Leicester and getting the East Midlands Derby going again.

Only EM derby we'll be playing for a while anyway. Who's your new EM derby against? Can't be Burton as they're in Staffs so I suppose it's hoping to either get Notts or Mansfield in the 1st Rd of the FA Cup or get our U23s in the Papa Johns.

Well what a pleasant day it was yesterday. Was lovely weather down in London. Have I missed much?

2 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

 

Not difficult to achieve when one individual calls 10/12 times a day.

23 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

Not interested mate only interested in my own club unlike some who seem obsessed and have the rams constantly in their heads. 

Why are you in this thread then?

1 hour ago, Mick Brolly said:

Thought as much, still waiting for that evidence. Apparently us and Olympiakos are thick as thieves and mugging off the entire EFL.

If anyone could post up some proof of wrongdoing between Forest and Olympiakos then I'll accept then that we're no angels (although nowhere DCFCs level of rule-bending).

I'll wait...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c99ktm

Interview with our chairman...First he says...

"Unlike some other clubs, we have stuck by the rules."

Oh dear ?

15 hours ago, Sparkle said:

I do hope they are already looking forward to the torturous journey to and from that hole in London where you can’t afford to eat or take any food in and can’t have a bag unless it’s a colostomy bag whilst spending the equivalent of a season ticket purchase for one game that will be decided on a VAR decision so innocuous you still won’t know what happened. 
I have actually been offered a pair of tickets by a red dog who works at the club but I have to admit they would be sacrificial burnt if I touched them! 

Oh no doubt, its a small fortune. But what can you do. Kind of have to pay it...

2 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Alright, own up. Who put 50p in the tw4t? 

Agreed. Come on Crewton you can do better son.

9 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

Tell me, are you named after the calendar month in which you usually claim to have won the league?  Nice touch, that.  ?

August will be interesting this year, seeing the newly formed Derby City come to the clean end of Brian Clough Way to see 17 year olds get s********* by Forest Green ?

Derby in their current state mocking Forest about a Wembley mug is akin to being dumped by a stunner and having a virgin take the piss

38 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Fair play, at least they're not selling half-and-half ones...

https://shop.nottinghamforest.co.uk/products/nottingham-forest-wembley-train-ticket-mug

Not sure I need to say much more.

5 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

And FWIW, I've not seen a single post, not one, where the poster in question suggests we're going to walk the league. Even if I had, I'd not feel the need to qualify it with a 'healthy does of realism', especially after the season we've just had.

This thread title for one, looking at which teams might compete with you for promotion. With more points deductions coming, a squad even my 8 month old could get a game with and an unproven manager I'd say the rivals you should be worried about are ones for relegation. 

Hate to spoil the League 1 promotion party but I think you're in for a shock if you think it'll be easy to bounce straight back. Ipswich, Pompey, Sunderland, both Sheffield clubs, us and Leeds amongst others have found it (and still find it) very difficult to get out of. And that's without being in the state your squad will be in at the end of June.

I would also say that Rooney has a lot to prove, this season was win/win for him as he has been dealt an awful hand so any points at all are bonuses really. Next season you're one of the cup finals for most teams and regardless of how your squad looks you'll be considered favourites week in week out based on the name alone. Rooney has never managed when he's expected to win games so it'll be interesting to see if he can cope.

On 20/04/2022 at 11:22, nottingram said:

Relying on selling Brennan Johnson if you don’t go up is a terrible idea because it’s a volatile market. His knee could go pop tomorrow.

The good thing is about our academy is that we always have more than one saleable asset. If Johnson for whatever reason wasn't sold then Worrall, or Yates, or Might Mighten etc would be.

That's how good academies work. I'd say other than Southampton ours must have produced the most profit in the country over the last 20 odd years. It's a shame some of them don't stay longer but that's football.

Speaking of academy assets, I still keep looking out for Will Hughes in the Barcelona first team but I'm guessing he must be injured at the moment. Surprised he hasn't won a few Ballon D'ors considering the way Derby were going on about him.

On 28/05/2021 at 16:22, shepshedram said:

Perhaps you should try keeping some of them then....

Unfortunately the rest of the club has been a shambles for about 20 years so needs must, but yes what a side it could've been if we'd kept them all.

15 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

That doesn’t point to a good academy, it’s points to an incredible salesmen. They’ve made some serious dollar on some products that are really not worth half the amount. 

Depends I suppose, at the point of sale the players had generally had a good amount of first team experience and clearly had plenty of potential. In some cases they haven't turned out to be the players we thought they would but that's life. Similarly I would say the same about Will Hughes who I had years ago as a potential England player of the future.

I would've had Oliver Burke as someone who would light the Premier League up when he first came through but that just hasn't happened. On the flipside I would never have said Wes Morgan would've been able to play top flight football nevermind win the thing as captain and play in the Champions League.

Our academy has been the consistent positive coming from the club over the past 20 years. It's up for debate whether the purpose of the academy is to produce a constant flow of players for the first team or players who can be sold for big money that keeps the club going. 

Forests ticks both boxes really. It has probably brought in £70/80m in revenue over that time and has produced loads of players for the first team. Worrall will be the next one sold I imagine. Or Mighten.

Over the last 6/7 years alone we've produced and then sold Bamford, Appiah, Brereton, Burke, Osborn, Cash, Darlow and Lascelles. And then you add in the golden generation of the late 90s, early 00s and it's one of the most prolific academies in the country this century.

On 18/11/2020 at 17:35, TigerTedd said:

Funny that there’s such hero worship. I mean, what did he really achieve for you? At least he got us promoted, and we think he’s a dick. 

I wasn't a huge fan of Billeh (the man not the manager) but I can understand why some of the fans still fawn over him. Compared with basically every other manager we've had since Paul Hart in the early 00s he's done pretty well. Plus he clearly enjoyed getting one over on you lot which always endears a manager to the fans.

In fact on the subject...I can't be the only one who misses the good old days of about 10 years ago. When both sides seemed to be chocka with former players of the other, or players who were from the other city (Barker, Osborn etc) and both managers and staff were linked to the other side and clearly there was needle between them.

When I watched the game the other week it was just a non-event, not just because there were no fans but because the players were just detached from the event, there are no villains anymore like Camp, Commons, Savage or Tyson and apart from Rooney and Waghorn I'd barely heard of a single Derby player nevermind get angry just at their very presence on the screen.

15 hours ago, Ramley Apple said:

Two wins at home against last season's League One promotees and suddenly they're rooster-a-hoop

The fact remains they're still closer to us than they are promotion

We aren't exactly firing at the moment. But Hughton is a seasoned manager at this level. In fact he has the best points per game ratio of any manager at this level this century. So whilst the start has been pretty 'meh', we've still only lost once in the last 7 games under him and that was 1-0 at Boro who are doing pretty well at the moment.

To be honest I'm not sure any Forest fan expected us to start playing champagne football when Hughton came in but what we did expect was that we'd look much more solid and have a plan B if things weren't working and so far that's exactly what we've seen.