Nottingham Forest banter 2

12 May 2024 10:22:28
Lots of pre-match euphoria and atmosphere but we have to do it on the pitch. At the end of the day another HOME DEFEAT. Reece James and Raheem Stirling are world class internationals and have to be marked. Wood was shocking again - should have been substituted earlier. Some very good attacking football from us but they were walking through our midfield - I won't name the culprit again as he looked lost at times. A mistake to take Yates off (unless injured? ). Aina looked world class at times - we need 3 more players like him. Sorry but I don't know what to make of Niakate but ge doesn't look £17M worth. Getting mixed feelings about going to the ground and watching my team lose most of the time - this has to stop or we will be relegated next season. I have renewed already so can't be more positive than that!

12 May 2024 10:48:18
RHR: Agreed re Niakhate. He’s doesn’t seem the same player since he returned from injury.

12 May 2024 11:32:13
Some changes required to stop more losses than wins but under Cooper we couldn't score and under Nuno a better ratio but he inherited a mixed bunch at the back we need to see what happens when it's certain we're still safe who we bring in and who goes to balance the book's then the coach will earn his money whoever he is.

12 May 2024 10:03:13
Ok, so my take away from the game yesterday, having watched it on the tellybox.

Substitutions were not needed. But, Nuno loves to tinker for no real reason. As ass as they came on the dynamic was massively changed. Montiel and Niakhate were doing fine and Nuno should have left well alone. Having said that Montiel was at fault for their first. I would say I was absolutely astounded by our defending in the last 10-15 mins, but we've done this so many time this season that sadly nothing astounds me anymore.

Toffs is not premier league.
Murillo is a beast and we need to go all out to hang onto him.
We played stupid tippy-tappy football with trick back heels and lost the ball. This needs to stop. At one point we literally looked like we were trying to showboat when we needed to keep it simple.

Wood is too slow. I watched him in a race with Tiago Silva, who at 39, skinned him and got to the ball first. And he's seemingly gone back to his worst again: missing sitters because he cannot shift his feet quick enough.

We need to keep Sels, he a pretty decent stopper. it's the defence in front of him that needs sorting; the way we backed off from Stirling was schoolboy stuff. it's not as if he's an unknown entity in the footballing world and everyone knows what he is capable of.
And how many times did we let Jackson waltz through into our box?

CHO is a classy player when his confidence is high. Let's hope he maintains it for next season.

I did feel sorry for Luton and Burnley. said nobody EVER. Gobby Kompany and mardy-arse Edwards. although I rate both as decent managers, more so Edwards. Get him in for Nuno?

Overall, we put in a decent performance other than the last 10-15 mins. Some snappy tackles, some great passes, marred by some woeful defensive lapses.

Onwards and upwards as surely Luton and Forest can't overcome or screw up a 12 goal goal-difference. can we?

12 May 2024 07:39:50
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12 May 2024 08:00:48
My head isn't buried in the sand balloons?
Do you not think that I'm not aware of our shortcomings?
My point is, you look for every negative regarding our club. always have.
Just swallow your bitter disappointment now we are basically safe, get out and enjoy life, enjoy the sunshine buddy!
🎈🤪🤪🤪😎😎😎.

12 May 2024 08:54:55
Forest played really well yesterday rogie but that collapse (seemingly due to substitutions) was hard to take and very angering. Game just needed closing out. I’m sure the owner would have been fuming and quite alarmed and the exodus of fans shunning the lap of honour - I’m pretty sure he will have got the message how f.ed off the fans are right now. It’s been a strange season and I’m glad it’s over. I’m going to renew but will probably sell them back for most games, I think I’m ready for a break from forest altogether but will likely be up for it again in the future.

12 May 2024 09:59:30
2stars maybe the subs didn’t help, BUT the difference in the end was in the quality of the benches, they’ve initially brought on 80 million pounds raheem sterling, and England full back Reece James, we’ve brought on toffollo and an out of form elanga, we had to make the subs because we’d done a lot of running on a warm evening, yatesy was shattered, so superior squad depth beat us in the end for me.

12 May 2024 10:05:15
Don't blame you mate, this season has taken a lot out of everyone, can't be flirting with relegation every year, really hope we keep Murilllo and MGW.
It will be very hard to hang onto them, if I'm honest I'm sure they won't want to be languishing around the drop zone, if that happens, you would like to think it won't.

12 May 2024 10:32:19
Name the positives this season then Rogie, cause I've searched high and low 🎈.

12 May 2024 10:53:05
Balloons I’ll give you one positive, staying up because it means another 110 million to the club.

12 May 2024 11:22:06
I gave you them?
Look a few posts upwards?
Also having to deal with horrendous decisions against us all season, and STILL stayed up.
I know they're not many at all. however I'll not ridicule the club in which the manner you have.
I could give you 110 Million more.
Keep smiling!
😎.

12 May 2024 11:22:57
Stevie, don’t know if you saw it but I agreed with your comment last night about the gulf in resources. In reality matching Chelsea as we did is commendable and it’s not Nuno’s fault we have 11 good players and very few after that.

12 May 2024 11:25:36
Hope they don't waste it again stevie. That would buy you a new garden shed in Bridgeford 😁🎈.

12 May 2024 12:13:02
It would buy me a lotta Stella and an amazing recliner 😁.

12 May 2024 12:49:18
Balloons buy me a garden shed? I’m living in one in Bridgford mate😂.

12 May 2024 14:16:02
A be positive is we generate another rubbish load of young fans (kids generally pick a team around age 6/ 7) because their dads team and local team is on the prem.
My own kids get to see another prem season, my own kids didn’t have to witness the dreaded drop yesterday. At 16:30 yesterday the 5 of us went from sat in the pub bricking it to loving it. My 3 will always remember being sat in the pub with their mum and dad watching them results swing from catastrophic to dreamland in the space of an hour - that’s what makes football special in my opinion.

12 May 2024 16:31:57
Should have said another generation of young fans ….

12 May 2024 05:02:43
Some interesting posts to read through. It seems the site is split again like it was before cooper got the sack. Should we keep Nuno? Does he deserve a pre-season and to be able to shape his squad? I see no big difference between the two other than Nuno block is slightly higher than coopers ultra low one. We do seem a little more capable under Nuno but have severe defensive issues.

12 May 2024 07:39:14
To be fair mate even if we bought a new manager in he will play the same sort of system that the players are use to playing nunos not been great but end of day he's kept us up ok with 3 worse teams below us but same could be said for last season I'm just happy we've stopped up wether Nuno keeps his job or not that's upto big m but if he does decide to get rid do it after last game not halfway through preseason recruitment and keeping our best players and getting rid of a lot of crap smaller squad a priority and needs sorting straight away let's see what happens.

12 May 2024 08:17:37
BTW Skeggs. dead right about Clough and Taylor. brilliant era, no VAR, mo snoods, no slippers for boots, no stocking for socks. just brilliant characters from nearly every club never mind ours.
Worthington, Currie, Bowles, Brady, Best, to name a few. all just robots now.

12 May 2024 08:29:06
Watched match of the day, praise from all panellists, overflowing with respect. They acknowledged all our good play, goals and great achievement to stay in the prem.
Cannot see what all the fuss is about Sheared and co., Actually saying nothing at all, why don't they just say, "we want you down", be bloody honest, but you can't.

12 May 2024 08:48:03
I’m pretty sure Marankis won’t want another season just scraping survival. If anybody saw his interview after Olympiacos game the other day, he said he was confident we’d stay up, and that he has ‘big plans’ for Forest, so he seems very committed still, but let’s hope he has learnt from his mistakes, and gets the right people doing the right jobs! That would be a start!

12 May 2024 09:13:45
Agreed mate 100%. my ticker won't take another ending like the previous 2!

12 may 2024 09:22:23
Agreed socks, we should all boycott sky sports and bbc. mod anybody that's pays for opinions from the Neville chap and those idiots on motd should be switched off.

11 May 2024 23:20:46
Just no idea. We played a sh1t chelsea team for 3 x quarters and for some reason everyone thinks we done well getting beat 3-2. Am i actually missing something? As for yates i give up. Talk about clinging onto hope. Yeah yeah lay in the lot of ya. Night luv ya all xx.

12 May 2024 03:54:53
Spot on Bowie. Everybody has lost senses of reality. Struggling and mediocrity has become the norm and readily accepted. 2 full seasons, 250 million spent on players and no progress 🎈.

12 May 2024 09:05:44
Ballons, We'll have at least 3 seasons in the Premiership having spent £250m. You can ask Sheff Utd, Burnley and Luton what 'no progress' looks like. I agree we've under achieved but after a season of adversity, much of which wasn't self inflicted, we're still there. I expect us to be 13th or above next season.

11 May 2024 22:42:17
Sign Yates up for life and get Moyes in. Tin hat firmly on and chin strap tightened to the max 😂.

11 May 2024 23:31:09
Former comment yes - he does have his uses. Latter comment - no way. Moyes managing Forest? I'd prefer to soak my stumps in a vat of sulphuric acid.

11 May 2024 23:39:34
Moyes i mean Roystone his pubes are in a jurassic park cane. As for for yates, he finished it. Pure wood. Crack on mate.

11 May 2024 22:31:33
Yates has often been the whipping boy but when he was reminded today it just showed how important he is to us.
CARLO.

11 May 2024 22:43:16
Lost me there carlo? You on about his premier goal. Again looking for things not there.

11 May 2024 22:57:06
Removed
CARLO.

11 May 2024 23:28:11
🤣🤣removed.

12 May 2024 00:05:32
We lost carlo.

12 May 2024 00:46:38
Carlo, the thing is Yates was subbed but nobody came on in his position. Elanga came on, nobody dropped into midfield, we got overrun. I like Nuno but what was his thinking there I don't know. We've stopped up, great but I'm still not happy We've lost.





Danillo.

12 May 2024 13:31:55
Would Yates have asked to come off, never ever, dreadful mistake by Nuno lost us the game, end of.
CARLO.

11 May 2024 22:09:07
We are in trouble if we stick with nuno end of.

11 May 2024 23:15:05
Yes your right there end of. Would have had the same outcome if we kept over worked Cooper end of. Nuno made no difference apart from the inconsistent atmosphere, lack of togetherness with the fans, community ect end of. Nuno is a wet fish, no disrespect end of.

12 May 2024 06:26:35
I do feel for you both it's horrible having a manager in charge you don't like and don't feel like he can do the job 🤔 you 2 definitely remind me of me this time last season and I had to put up with him for another half season so guess what lads looks like Nuno will be starting the season with us and well deserved it is to end of 🤣🤣.

11 May 2024 21:19:57
We are not far away from being a decent Prem team we narrowly lost to City Arsenal and Liverpool beat Villa Man U and Newcastle

Three or 4 quality signings ga next season and we will be mid table ino.

11 May 2024 22:21:01
I agree Munmad - we're not far away from being a decent PL team. I do hope we can clear out the deadwood and hangers-on asap though.

11 May 2024 22:35:52
We are munmad, 4th bottom on goal difference? Get your head outta your arse. Ya know i commend ya on your commitment sir.

11 May 2024 22:45:15
Btw we are there bye up ffp. So don't try starting in on that stuff.

11 May 2024 23:14:38
Beer talk my friend.

12 May 2024 07:20:42
We are miles away from being a decent Premier League team, MUNMAD. We are worse this season than last season. Just like last close season we need major improvements. Better defenders and someone who can finish. We create chances but we're not putting them away and defending is schoolboy-esque at times. We were fortunate that the 3 that came up were as bad as they ended up being. Next season it will be more difficult with the likes of the bin-dippers coming up. Then one of either Leeds, Saints, Norwich or the Baggies to boot. None of which will be as bad the 3 we had this season.

12 May 2024 07:59:44
Bin dippers will be starting on minus and and Ipswich and whoever comes up with I won't be bothered about but we need to be aiming top 10 next season not worrying about bottom 3 so off we go again 3rd time lucky.

11 May 2024 21:17:04
Well the usual Saturday after chat on banter site eds have all gone sleep again 🤣🤣.

11 May 2024 20:38:29
I am sorry to say the manager lost that match with bizarre substitutions. A team who for 75 mins played very well. Montial was the only player you would bring off. Yates, Danillo were excellent. Then he brought on Toffolo and moved Aniai to the other side. With drew MGW and put Elanga in who has not done well recently on the wing. Then we had two identical forwards on in Wood and Tiawo. This ruined the game for everyone I have to say. Most went home without saying thank you to the players. Nuno has to go, his record with our club is poor. I agree we are playing more exciting football but there is no point if we still loose. There is no way I will Celebrate staying up on goal difference with Luton. Next season there must be major changes, NOT NEW PLAYERS otherwise I have no doubt we will be relegated. It starts with the manager!

11 May 2024 21:40:48
Lol doc I guess the 2 that hit the post from forest was nunos fault as well because he had the posts moved before the game what a load of rubbish west ham got hammered by them last week and they are apart from arsenal and man city the most in form team well done Nuno Nuno nuno.

11 May 2024 22:04:23
Doc m I’ll celebrate the life out of it, if it’s goal difference it’s only because we have been robbed of 4 points, it’s not our fault Luton and Burnley are crap,

11 May 2024 22:20:42
Whilst I understand and share your frustration Doc - I've come to the conclusion that the most logical thing to do (which Big M probably won't do. ) is to give Nuno a full pre-season, allow him to give his preferences on signings and then give him 10 games next season to show his true colours. I very much doubt this will transpire, but I hope it does.

11 May 2024 22:41:54
Yes have to agree there pal. We played well today and the atmosphere was bouncing, it took the gloss off a really good performance. For 80 mins everybody in party mode, a few subs later and very subdued. Still think we have good defenders but they switch off individually too often it's the reason we had 6 or 7 3 2 defeats.

Chelsea were poor today I thought, OK had a lot of the ball but Luke warm performance. We were better than them. Once Reese James gets free to cross why oh why was Jackson allowed so much time to put the ball in the net. No-one picked him up, no one shouted to team mates to pick him up.

I agree Nuno has to go for me only MGW and CHO have improved under him, no point in playing some games better but still losing. The nucleus of a good side is there but needs improving and it depends if we lose 2 if not 3 of them. Murrilo, if a top 6 team come knocking is he really going to want to stay with us, same for MGW, he may stay another season but eventually he going to go. Would be the same even if we were decent mid table it's an unfortunate circumstance of top flight football, players seeking to win things with a top club.

I'll thank Nuno but we need a coach with a philosophy the board thinks is a good idea and could work and believe in his ideas go with him, like Arteta. Let him put the squad together, give him the time not here you go, here's your toys make it work.

11 May 2024 22:46:38
Stevie live with it we broke rules wtf is up with you lot.

11 May 2024 22:46:55
I am sorry but something has to change. Nuno has no better track record to his predecessor and lost us this game in front of a huge crowd.

11 May 2024 22:57:41
some people on here, seriously

Stayed up lads and I personally don't give a monkeys if it's on goal difference or what

Great day out plenty of shandies loads of scantily dressed woman round town n we Stayed up other than missing out on a kebab because of train perfect day.

11 May 2024 23:13:32
Bowie you need to live with the fact we had a points deduction and still survived, spare me your lecture pal, I repeat it’s not our fault Luton Burnley, and especially that horrible team from Sheffield were dogs***.

11 May 2024 23:21:59
Redstripe it's not just about today, yes I don't care how we did it or do it just stay up. It's the bigger picture most are talking about. It's OK the fans having a few sherberts but there's no rest for those running the club, things need to change if we want to progress.

11 May 2024 23:22:37
Firstly if we hadn’t had the point deduction we would be on 33, still 6 pts behind Brentford. I think last year we ended with 34 points. So what have we achieved in a season. Sacked our best manager for many a year and replaced with someone who has not achieved either. My the skin of our teeth we will survive. We sometimes talk about life, that quality is more important than quantity and that applies to our club
I hope we beat another already relegated club next week. Should the club sell our best two players in Murillo and MGW we will have another poor season. If Big M doesn’t see the writing on the wall I woould be surprised. Olympiacus had 4 managers this season and number 4 has got them to the final of a European competition. So let’s hope he feels the same about changing the direction Forest are heading. All the thousands walking out of the ground with us were very subdued. There was no elation about staying up no chanting nothing just flat. They had just seen the manager throw away the final game of the season and deflated everyone’s heart even I suspect the players who tried their hardest for us. Nuno will not charge the direction the club is heading. If the spine of our team is sold we done even before the next season starts in less than 3 months.

11 May 2024 23:38:49
Good drills Stripe! I'm glad you had a good day. That's what it's all about.

12 May 2024 08:00:27
Good posts Stevie.

11 May 2024 20:33:08
Sorry but we can't rely on other teams every season
And if Chris woods is a premier league striker than so am I.

11 May 2024 21:41:45
All started with cooper mate onwards and upwards Nuno Nuno nuno.

11 May 2024 22:26:42
Me too Stab. Whilst I wouldn't be great in the air nowadays, I could beat Woods' finishing every time if the ball was delivered low!

11 May 2024 22:56:34
Woods should not be given a new contract.

11 May 2024 22:59:35
Didn't hear wood getting slagged after newcastle away. goals he scored played massive part in keeping us up

Nor the greatest but got double figures in prem.

11 May 2024 23:31:21
Dic have you actually looked at woods contributions?

11 May 2024 23:49:02
Well said stripey.

11 May 2024 20:24:14
If ever there was a need to ask a question about nuno it was today
Winning with ten minutes to go and he makes his usual bad subs
Nit only does he make the subs, he moves a left wing back and plays him as a right back and goes and changed formation aswell
Get him out of our club asap.

11 May 2024 21:42:26
Blah blah blah wrong as always Mr fist pump.

11 May 2024 22:17:20
Don't worry you'll get your wish as he won't be here next season.

What I find strange is the posters that keep saying they want stability and it's wrong to keep chopping and changing managers have taken an instant dislike to Nuno.

Understandable in a way after Cooper bit it's hypocrisy of the highest order.

With what he's had to deal with regarding points deductions and crap ref decisions and not being able to bring in any players of his choosing yet he's done as much as can be expected.

11 May 2024 22:56:25
Yeah fred, as I've said. Exciting going forward. And the world against us. And we got found out cheating. It's the simple f kn set pieces that get me. Defensive and attacking just dreadful. Swear week in week out mate.

12 May 2024 00:11:07
You keep him Fred
It's a smoke screen from nuno
Blaming anyone but himaelf.

12 May 2024 00:20:43
Nuno is clueless end of
Said many times it might look good on the eye?
But we don't win, ?
The stats speak out loud on that
We got away with it because of other teams failures
Sack nuno now he's been disastrous.