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Main stand is looking tired nowadays no doubt and it's redevelopment cant come quick enough. Give me that though and what we have around the other 3 sides over an identikit ground every day of the week. I know deep down you all agree as well and would much prefer to be playing at the Baseball Ground...
Take away the lettering across the seats and the colour and you'd find it difficult to identify Pride Park, it could quite easily be the Madejski, King Power, Keepmoat etc...
The City Ground is unique for all its flaws and we've had chances over the years to move and once again, unlike Derby, decided to keep our character and our identity instead of selling out. I can see a pattern emerging...

Things were bad under Fawaz and in parts of the Doughty era and we properly struggled financially. Had embargos, limited ourselves to loans and frees. Had to sell the family silver each summer with Matty Cash, Burke, Brereton, Lascelles/Darlington, Bamford, Appiah and loads of others. All because we did things properly. We messed up on transfers and failed promotion attempts so we paid the penalty by selling talent and not spending for a while.
We paid our debts and can be proud that we never mugged all of our stakeholders off and never went into administration. Cowards way out.
 
 

Would love to go in on you lot harder than Psycho on Ted McMinn but it just feels cruel given where our clubs are.
It's been the worst year in your history so I can understand it that you're all a little sensitive right now.

They're more like some bloke who's been barred for s******* themselves and projectile vomiting on people the last time they were in an 'exclusive' nightclub, who's tried to get back in a number of times but is always spotted by the bouncer and thrown on his arse, no entry.
One time he manages to sneak past the bouncer when he isn't looking, he's back in the club. He deserves to be in the club. That isn't enough though, he thinks he deserves to be in the VIP area.
And so he sets his sights, he needs to walk the walk so goes to the bar and orders a drink, it comes to £5 but he throws a £20 note at the bar and tells them to keep the change. That'll get people's attention. He's a proper big shot, one of the elite.
Approaching the VIP area, he lifts the cordon, those already sat there think "who the flip is this guy?", they tell him to leave, he refuses and goes to sit down in an empty seat. They take exception to this, drag him out of the seat and give him a good beat down.
The bouncers are called over, he cries assault. "Don't you know who I am? I was coming here before you lot were born!" The bouncers take one look at his bloodied face, then another before yes, they do  recognise him, but not in the way he wants them to. He's thrown out, again.
Everyone in the club who witnessed it is laughing their tits off at this delusional fool, everyone in the queue outside thinks "thank god we aren't that p****!"

Don't follow it intensely but they're usually alright. Notts doing well finally and should go up this year back to the football league (be playing you lot soon), Notts CCC n the verge of promotion and Trent Rockets winning the Hundred. Add that to us being back amongthe elite where we belong.
Proper sporting city.

Boooooo!  Oh no, that’s what Red dogs do to their team at full time ?
Those £10 season tickets did sell well to be honest, I’ll give you that

Things were bad under Fawaz and in parts of the Doughty era and we properly struggled financially. Had embargos, limited ourselves to loans and frees. Had to sell the family silver each summer with Matty Cash, Burke, Brereton, Lascelles/Darlington, Bamford, Appiah and loads of others. All because we did things properly. We messed up on transfers and failed promotion attempts so we paid the penalty by selling talent and not spending for a while.
We paid our debts and can be proud that we never mugged all of our stakeholders off and never went into administration. Cowards way out.
 
 

Yep, How to pay off this huge debt, You've pi$$ed your TV money on 22 players, Then there's the wages, You've borrowed £100million from BVI at a high interest rate against leese holds you have, The Tik Tok who was going to get you a place in Europe will be loking for a new contract elsewhere in January as the bench he's warming is giving him splinters.
You could arrange a Fire Sale, I know someone who can help you out there  

Right back at you when Cooper leaves after the next defeat or two, why spend all that money on a manager to give him a couple of months. Makes no sense.

Sorry but WTAF! is wrong with our club and the people who run it/own it?
Rotherham's manager!! Rotherham!!!
Liam Rosenior has spent the summer assembling a very decent squad in L1 or indeed the Championship.
And we sit essentially in the play-offs, and with not even 10 games played he's moved aside(unless he doesn't want the gig?)
Utterly ridiculous. I could maybe... just maybe...? understand if Arsene Wenger or some other managerial legend was making a come back?
But a guy who bounces his team between L1 and the Championship. Madness!!
However I suppose that after 50+ years supporting this great club I shouldn't expect anything different!

Marinakis is trigger-happy in Greece where the footballing culture is different, particularly at the top club. But at Forest you could argue he gave Lamouchi and definitely Hughton too much time...

The truth is that if Derby fans are intent on booing the team off then a change is inevitable. 
If you're supportive of Rosenior then you need to support, because for the plenty anything other than being in the top six is worthy of a manager change. 
I thought we had personally learned lessons, as a fan base following the impact of Mel Morris, especially remembering the days where we booed a team off who were top six in the championship on more than one occasion during bad periods, but it seems not. The entitled Derby fans are back and in full voice.

I was pretty much in line with it and wasn't that surprised it was given, though the contact looked minimal. 
Later in the same half, at the other end of the pitch, NML went down in very similar circumstances on the LHS of their area, but the ref waved our claims away. I'd like to see that one on a replay too. 

Thanks for your pointless post. I wasn’t here when we lost to Charlton, or when we lost to Plymouth. 

Don’t Forest know they can only field 11 players at once?
They must have a squad of over 40 now.

unfortunately I see Henderson keeping them up. They dominated spurs over large periods today, I thought they would look much worse than they do

Pretty soon there'll be more boots in their dressing room than Imelda Marcos' wardrobe. 

Teams will continue to go back up whilst championship clubs can’t lose over £39 million every 3 years yet relegated clubs can spend up to £200 million - is that fair - no of course not - just handicap those clubs accepting the parachute money for about minus 16 points each season. If folk don’t think it’s fair to handicap clubs then what about clubs going into administration and being deducted points and then restricted from spending money above a certain limit and unable to sign anybody other than out of contract players and on loan youngsters who have hardly ever played football. 

Absolutely no chance they get anyway near 50 million back on those two.  Your looking at excess of 250-280 million overall with fees and wages they'll be stuck with for 3-4 years or take a huge loss.

£30+ I said, £15m each is fairly standard for top young players going from Championship to Premier League.
As for wages, that's complete guess work, Lingard's has been well documented but not the rest. 
Don't forget they will have other revenue streams on top of that Premier League money. City Ground will be at capacity for every game, hospitality, sponsorship increases etc.
Can't see them signing many more now, probably see a few like Grabban leave.

Thats a huge loss on just two players though -28 million-  and if there showing is poor they won't get that.  There wage bill will be astronomical there can be little doubt, as it will reflect the ridiculous fees and the convincing of these players to make a move to a just promoted side.  Playing for Forest is like working a night shift on Saturday.  Plenty of enhancement required. 

It would be a huge loss, I'm looking at worst case scenario figures here though on relegation. 
They are 2 young highly thought of players that will have no problems finding another club if needed.
Honestly think they will be fine and it pains me to say it. Would have preferred them going out and doing a United spending £60m on a 30 year old.

Not sure about all of the comments about insanity and insane decision making.....worst case for them if they get relegated then they'll get about 150 million just for parachute payments, they'll have the best squad in the Championship by a country mile and huge earners like Lingard will be off their books anyway 

Dawnie got banned didnt they and EezeeTiger before that. THink Augustus might still be able to post, but they were intermittent anyway

If you're a forest fan I don't see that there's any reason for pessimism. They have gone up and spent big on players that generally should be able to contribute at Premiersh*t level.
As a fan of another club I would love to be able to laugh at them and be confident that they are going to be floundering at the bottom of the league but unfortunately I just don't see that being the case. 
They are spending money that it is impossible to spend in the Championship due to FFP which is the root of the big problem facing football at the moment.
If they are relegated at the end of the season they are already virtual certainties to be promoted next season with the squad they will have, so as sad as it makes me feel, fair play to them.
Still hope that they have a sh*t season