Ambitious

Very true. We have the second highest goalscorer in the highest level of academy football last season, Jamal Hector Ingram, and the the highest scoring goalscorer in the highest level of academy football this season, Jack Stretton, struggling to even make up the numbers yet because of this fantasy of a target man we're left with CKR on the bench. 
It makes no sense to me. CKR hasn't had much time and he's not done too bad when he's had a chance, but completely undermines the direction I thought the club wanted to go. 
It's outrageous that we have these types of strikers excelling at the very top of the U23 Premier League, but we're not willing to give them an opportunity when we can't buy a goal. 
Marriott is the only striker that's scored a goal from open play for us this season, nearly a quarter of the way in, which is absolutely staggering. 

Marshall is genuinely the reason we have any points at all on the board at all this season. It’s great to see him have this moment that I’m sure he will never forget.
Best keeper since Poom has to be Carson, though, he was unreal for an entire season. He was worth a lot of points that season with match winning performance after match winning performance. Butland was below average here, it’s revisionist to say otherwise I remember the collective sigh of relief when Grant returned. 
Bywater in our promotion season was very good, as was a few players that simply fell of a cliff. Dean Leacock was exceptional that season and he struggled to cut it as a professional footballer after that season. 

Marshall is genuinely the reason we have any points at all on the board at all this season. It’s great to see him have this moment that I’m sure he will never forget.
Best keeper since Poom has to be Carson, though, he was unreal for an entire season. He was worth a lot of points that season with match winning performance after match winning performance. Butland was below average here, it’s revisionist to say otherwise I remember the collective sigh of relief when Grant returned. 
Bywater in our promotion season was very good, as was a few players that simply fell of a cliff. Dean Leacock was exceptional that season and he struggled to cut it as a professional footballer after that season. 

Marshall is genuinely the reason we have any points at all on the board at all this season. It’s great to see him have this moment that I’m sure he will never forget.
Best keeper since Poom has to be Carson, though, he was unreal for an entire season. He was worth a lot of points that season with match winning performance after match winning performance. Butland was below average here, it’s revisionist to say otherwise I remember the collective sigh of relief when Grant returned. 
Bywater in our promotion season was very good, as was a few players that simply fell of a cliff. Dean Leacock was exceptional that season and he struggled to cut it as a professional footballer after that season. 

Yeah, you could well argue that Whittaker, Duncan, JHI and Stretton are the best bunch of strikers currently plying their trade at academy level. When you consider their records through the 18s and 23s for Derby: Whittaker - 43 goals in 74 games, Stretton - 36 goals in 57 games, JHI - 11 in 19 games and Bobby Duncan obviously hasn't played much as of yet, but had 25 goals in 39 games for Liverpool. 
It's crazy that one of them hasn't been given the chance upfront, but we have gone away from the youth players more recently. Bogle and Lowe obviously sold. Bird and SIbley aren't getting in the starting XI which leaves Buchanan and Knight as the only ones consistently playing games. It's a shame and we actually look worse for it. The midfield play has dropped off massively since Bird and Sibley haven't been playing. 

3 words.
Colin Kazim Richards. 
Very weird indeed ?

Man City making easy work of our U23 side. No surprise really. 
Liam Delap just rubbing salt in the wound. I'm sure he would've been in the first team squad for today had he stayed, such a shame. 

U18s are putting Sunderland to the sword though. 2-0 up. 
Derby just pulled one back against City. 2-1 now. 

I'd say that we need to change the system then. Vardy leads the line for Leicester, Palace are playing Zaha and Ayew upfront, Southampton are also going with Adams and Ings. It goes to show that success isn't reliant on having someone upfront who can hold the ball up. 

I'd say that we need to change the system then. Vardy leads the line for Leicester, Palace are playing Zaha and Ayew upfront, Southampton are also going with Adams and Ings. It goes to show that success isn't reliant on having someone upfront who can hold the ball up. 

I championed Hughton as the potential successor to Lampard when he left. I think Hughton gets a hard time for his 'play style' but he's actually just a very adaptable coach and was able to turn around Brighton and get them promoted THEN keep them in the Premier League without much investment. Not to mention what he's done at previous clubs.  I didn't think the Forest job would interest him to be honest, obviously a big club in this division but it's about as chaotic as it gets without a member of the board getting arrested in Fr-.. ok, it IS as chaotic as it gets. 
I'm just not sure how this all works out. I don't imagine whilst Marinakas is still there then this will ever be a settled football club, obviously that doesn't mean they can't be successful, but it's certainly going to be a tough environment to work within. Sabri, I felt, did a really good job with what he had. I do think it eventually caught up with him and they started to concede goals they weren't doing earlier on in the season and the confidence dropped quickly. It will be interesting to see how they get on. 

Exactly. It HAS to be sustainability because no one can tell me with a straight face that it's to ensure a level playing field despite numerous teams having a £50m head start per year.

Exactly. It HAS to be sustainability because no one can tell me with a straight face that it's to ensure a level playing field despite numerous teams having a £50m head start per year.

Or the owner goes to jail ? ?

I does - usually about once every 12 years or so.

Listen right to the end. It’s the last 20 seconds which are ?
 

I only watched the odd game, so wouldn't want to overly criticise him but he never seemed to do much in the games I saw. Zanzala and Vernam were much more visible, all three had similar records for the U23s - albeit Zanzala slightly ahead: 
Zanzala - 12 goals in 32 games
Jakobson - 7 goals in 30 games
Vernam - 13 goals in 51 games
I seem to recall him losing the ball quite a lot when I saw him, just someone I never thought would make it. 

He means when Liverpool stole him from QPR. They at least got £50m for him which was a decent sum at the time. 

At least he could speak the same language as MtW.

Yeah, absolutely no problem with the Forest owner owning two football clubs and funding it this way. As GoC said: if it's a problem then by all means change the rules to stop the same owner of two clubs selling players between them. 
Equally, buy another football team and do the same thing. It's not their own rule - it can be exploited by anyone. 

I'm pleased about Chrstie heading to Forest. He's a player that I really began to loathe during the end of his time here.
He started off really quite promising as Wisdom's replacement, but it wasn't long before things soured. Fundamentally, an exceptionally flawed footballer who prides himself as an attacking fullback that has 1 goal and 3 assists in his last three seasons. 
I can't wait for the backlash of rabid Forest fans after a few games for them. 

That's an incredible result considering the players we're missing. It's the Man City team that took Mansfield (a league club) apart not a week ago. Fair play. 

I always thought Ivan Toney was quick, but he's just lost a foot race to Harlee Dean. Brentford have set up to play on the counter attack here, very bizarre. Birmingham 1-0 up. 
I searched Ivan Toney and slow on Twitter: 
 

I wonder what the record is for a relegated team in terms of points (in this league before anyone starts)?