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07 Feb 2026 22:47:57
four coaches i'd go for in the summer
Silva
Cooper
Irola
Carrick and in reverse order.
1.) 07 Feb 2026 23:31:32
Might as well just name everyone that isn't Dyche. that's pretty much how i feel. I'd watch things closely at Spurs, i think Frank would be perfect for us. ?.
2.) 08 Feb 2026 11:07:06
Mr Marinakis prefers Spanish/ Portuguese coach's so my choice would be doubtful to be chosen, but the Bodo Glint coach Kjetil Knutsen will soon be pursued by a big European team, why not Forest.
27 Jan 2026 09:37:24
Douglas luiz on his way to villa
Probably a good thing as it hasn't worked out with injuries
Pity though a good player.
1.) 27 Jan 2026 11:09:19
Good business by Villa, sold Luiz to keep with in PSR, now get him back till end of season on wages.
2.) 28 Jan 2026 01:57:23
Luiz is back to villa, awonyi staying along with Jesus, I've not heard mateta other than he won't be there next season but that's said of glasnner, talks on going I guess, a midfield will be signed on deadline day.
13 Jan 2026 22:50:53
Look all these players that get mentioned rarely happen in any window
We are spent up unless we sell Anderson
Rumour has ut that the board isn't happy with the comments made by dyche after the Wrexham game and some aren't happy with recent performances
Personally think we will stick till end of season, but a bad defeat Saturday and anything other than a win against wolves could change things
Either way he's gone by end of may.
1.) 14 Jan 2026 10:38:43
He was 100% correct to criticise the players that are asking to play then perform like they did against Wrexham. I've got no problem with that. Only problem I've got with Dyche is his lack of tactical nous.
2.) 14 Jan 2026 21:00:51
I think Silva will come at end of the season.
3.) 14 Jan 2026 22:34:44
I think sane monty
Anyway up i can't see marinakis sticking with dyche.
4.) 15 Jan 2026 10:05:09
Just to play devils advocate, what happens if we win the Europa league? Do you still think Mr M will wield the axe? ?.
5.) 15 Jan 2026 12:03:37
The question is would Mr Marinakis trust Sean to progress in the Champions League?.
6.) 15 Jan 2026 12:51:51
Bloody hope not mossy ??.
7.) 15 Jan 2026 13:32:15
I can't see us qualifying for the knockouts let alone winning it.
8.) 15 Jan 2026 15:16:52
?Ravers you have been rumbled. ?.
16 Dec 2025 21:55:28
Looking like spurs will listen to offers for jonno?
Love to have him back.
1.) 17 Dec 2025 09:07:48
We wouldn't have to drop anyone out of the squad if we sign him as he counts as a home grown at your own club player.
2.) 17 Dec 2025 10:52:36
I’d have Johnno back. Depends on how young Bakwa shapes up when he gets a proper chance. Especially with Ndoye out of form. First choice wingers are CHO and Hutch so Johnno will have to wait his chance.
The only problem I can see is that Johnson Senior would have to invest in a new scarf ?! ?.
3.) 17 Dec 2025 12:11:56
Just shows, the first team who bid for Johnson was Brentford, not necessarily wanted by Frank?, yes I'd have him back, still young but know has Premier league and European experience.
4.) 17 Dec 2025 13:43:07
Would be a great fit for our side, has got goals in him, would be welcomed back into the club with a far stronger squad than he left. Must admit the last couple of games young Hutchinson has impressed me, not only with offensive work but tracking back also. Also Elanga struggling to impress, he will be the next one muted for a move.
5.) 18 Dec 2025 14:15:44
The Spurs fans I've spoke to don't like jonno at all. Even though he was their top league goal scorer last season. From the wing. I don't understand football fans sometimes.
6.) 18 Dec 2025 19:12:29
My thoughts are that he's learned his trade as a winger, I niw believe both he and CHO could play as deep strikers and use their pace through the middle, like I say would love to have him back
Ndoye I think we would get our money back as a lot of italyeamz would be interested
To me sell ndoye and get jonno back.
7.) 18 Dec 2025 19:12:44
I think Spurs will want to make a profit on him and he cost them £48 million odd. So it will upwards of 50. I'd look elsewhere.
8.) 19 Dec 2025 09:55:06
I’m not so sure after his spell at Spurs his value has gone down rather than up. If he’s not getting games he will want out. Would be a great player in our squad, would get more game time at Forest.
Rotating CHO, Hutchinson and Johnson would give us real options. Dan Ndoye has struggled, made a bright start but has for some reason not established himself.
9.) 19 Dec 2025 10:25:18
Ravers, I don’t think they’ll get their £48m back on Johnno mate. They’ll be lucky to get half that back. Could be a good loan deal with option to buy for us in January?
10.) 19 Dec 2025 18:54:06
I'd go with that Stokey. Hopefully, he has realised that 'the grass isn't always greener on the other side'. I reckon his heart is still with Forest.
11.) 19 Dec 2025 20:22:17
He could be open for a return, he not going be first choice at spurs with Kudus there. The squad forest have got now is better than when he left. Reckon a bid of 35m would be enough for Spurs to think about it. Reckon villa will make a move though.
12.) 20 Dec 2025 16:32:20
I know think Elanga will come back to us, and Anderson will return to Newcastle, and we get about 50 million profit!. I think Elanga made a mistake and Anderson would love to return home, unfortunately it means Johnson ends up at Palace or Bournemouth ?.
13.) 20 Dec 2025 22:42:31
Never understood why Eddie howe so desperately wanted elanga?
He had Murphy, Gordon, and Harvey Barnes already and has now made him 4th choice
Ruining his career but has a nice wage coming in.
14.) 22 Dec 2025 17:13:12
If Anderson does leave, I don't think it will be for Newcastle.
I think his ambitions are much higher that them.
Liverpool, Man City or Real Madrid is his destination imo.
{Ed001's Note - I hope you are right with your first suggestion! Fantastic player who would improve pretty much any team in the world.}
15.) 22 Dec 2025 19:22:48
If Ando goes i can see it being to Arsenal, he would suit their system and style. ?.
18 Nov 2025 08:28:36
Looks like we are interested in lames garner along with Newcastle and villa, Dyche a big fan.
1.) 18 Nov 2025 13:58:04
I don't think the feelings mutual, Garner said some things about the style of play under Dyche, what wasn't complimentary!, still a bit harsh calling him "Lame". ?.
2.) 20 Nov 2025 12:06:24
Maybe a short term contract as Sangare will probably be at Afcon. ?.
3.) 20 Nov 2025 12:06:50
In January i meant to put. ?.
4.) 20 Nov 2025 21:39:18
He's not for free in January and afcon starts in December, so wouldn't work.
5.) 21 Nov 2025 09:58:29
I know that, minimal fee January though. ?.
6.) 21 Nov 2025 20:11:53
So a minimal fee and a short contract?
Yes Garner will sign that all day long
Whats not to like about that deal? ???.
7.) 21 Nov 2025 20:30:16
I wouldn't want to sign anyone with the first name "Lames" anyway DTP, you seem to be voicing your opinion loads lately, have you sent in your C. V. to big Mr M as a potential replacement for Edu?
Get a grip man, he's championship quality, had one decent season on loan with us way back when and since has done absolutely zero.
Stop living in the past ???.
8.) 21 Nov 2025 20:45:45
Scraping the barrel winter
Whoops I forgot you don't voice your opinion at all ????.
9.) 21 Nov 2025 21:40:01
Yep you continue laughing at yourself, hilarious ???.
10.) 21 Nov 2025 21:55:13
No your the laughy stock
And all there for anyone to read ???.
11.) 22 Nov 2025 00:28:59
Hmmm Illiterate comes to mind, get off the high horse, hang on in layman's terms.
U spells n speaks bad like, tis a difference between their n there and anyone who thunks diffucuze is onie idiotic.
P. S i tis dount lovie our interchanges DTP ???.
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08 Jun 2026 22:36:38
I see West Ham have no boat to float now.
Checkmate to the porn magnet. ???
1.) 09 Jun 2026 00:53:14
Did you read that in the Daily Sport? ??
2.) 09 Jun 2026 22:37:34
Do they still do razzle winter?
Just a question?
3.) 10 Jun 2026 00:26:12
Considering i had to google it, no lol, i wasn't born in the Stone Age. We have Internet now, check it out, every perversion is catered for, even for someone like you. ? ?
03 Jun 2026
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1.) 03 Jun 2026 10:52:32
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's superb, though trippy, novel. In a world of his own imagination, perhaps opium inspired.
I saw an incredible production of it one summers evenings at Newstead Abbey many years ago. We, the audience, were taken to a beautiful spot by the Lake with our picnics and wine, then after a while everyone started to "wonder" when the action was going to start and where the stage was.
Right on cue, a large boat was sighted being rowed across the Lake towards us full of the characters in full costume ( like in the poster).
Rowed by mice.
Then every scene was done in a different spot by a mobile professional cast ( with the Cheshire Cat grinning from the branches of various trees, chatting to us, the audience. I remember the King, a Brian Blessed type actor, remarking to me conversationally that the Queen of Hearts " wasn't the woman he married you know" as she pointed out people with the words "Off with his head".
Very funny and amazing special effects.
A magnificent evenings entertainment
{Ed001's Note - seriously Stokey, he was a paedophile having paedophile fantasies, they are vile books. They make my flesh crawl.}
2.) 03 Jun 2026 11:18:23
Well that took a dark turn didn't it. ?
3.) 03 Jun 2026 11:25:43
Now look what I've started? ?
4.) 03 Jun 2026 11:34:06
DTP, mate, that's one badge of honour that I wouldn't be proud of. ?
5.) 03 Jun 2026 13:36:48
Ed 1 mate. There was never a shred of evidence to support this. Sure, Carroll was an oddity, very shy, odd looking with a stutter and deaf in one ear. A loner who never married. The photos he took were always with the Alice Liddells parent (s ) present and Alice herself ( nor her highly respectable family) never made any allegations. She lived to a ripe old age and had children of her own.
The photos are uncomfortable to us but were common in Victorian times with those new fangled things called cameras. John Ruskin and the dozens of Pre Raphaelite painters were well into it and it was widely regarded as harmless at the time.
Unlike say, Eric Gill the sculptor ( who famously created the iconic Ariel and Prospero statues outside the BBCs main door in at Broadcasting House).
He committed dreadful sexual crimes against his daughters as kids, incest, bestiality and paedophilia, were confirmed in his personal diaries found after his death and confirmed by his daughters ( who, sadly, were brought up at home and rarely let out, and assumed it was natural behaviour).
The BBC recently restored his statues after they were attacked by a man with a hammer shouting " Pedo" and who was arrested and is pending trial. It cost £500, 000 quid including a protective screen to prevent further attacks
{Ed001's Note - you haven't read the letters then? There is plentiful evidence to support it in them.}
6.) 03 Jun 2026 15:04:18
I stopped believing you, Stokey, when it got to the mice rowing the boat. ??
7.) 03 Jun 2026 15:09:06
Well, I had drunk most of a bottle of red by then to be fair. ? ?
8.) 03 Jun 2026 14:09:44
I've read a large selection of them Ed. Just seemed, from what I remember as background reading in my University days, that they were odd but harmless. Juvenile word play, as if he was a man with an immature and juvenile sensibility. Playing games with words and a bit boring to read after a while ( a bit like my posts I guess) ??
{Ed001's Note - maybe I am just suspicious, as one of my friends' daughters was the victim of a paedophile, but to me they were seriously creepy. Nothing like your posts at all. Asking to take pictures of a child on its own is a massive red flag to me. It is not normal. You only have to look at the stuff in the Epstein files etc to see that it is very much the kind of thing they used to do, wanting young children to be models etc. It is very much grooming.}
9.) 03 Jun 2026 14:40:00
No doubt your spot on your spot on Ed1, Stokey as always been a bit sus ??
{Ed001's Note - he has obviously just got a less cynical mindset than me.}
10.) 03 Jun 2026 15:42:49
Fair enough Ed. As I said, the photos nowadays make for uncomfortable viewing.
My own experience of paedophilia and child abuse is pretty horrific
I've spent a significant portion of my career putting the perpetrators inside. I was on the Broxtowe Child Abuse enquiry, if anyone remembers it? From beginning to end. It was basically an extended family ( dozens of adults and over 150 kids, almost a clan) committing sexual abuse going back generations, right back to long dead great grandparents. Basically, the abused became abusers in their turn. Organized abuse " parties " by extremely low intelligence swamp dwellers who had somehow escaped mixing with the rest of society ( their kids rarely attended school and confused the authorities by changing addresses and hiding from social and educational visits.
Some of the more extreme excesses ( such as Satanism) were, on our prosecution barristers advice, not brought up in the trial in case the jury wouldn't believe it and it tainted the rest of the evidence.
It broke my heart and occasionally the horror of it haunts me and breaks through the veneer of civilisation we try to inhabit.
I remember one Mother saying in interview " Well, they're all our kids, we can do what we like with them can't we? "
All the offenders were potted after a massive operation and the kids went into care and many were fostered. We had specially trained foster parents because often disclosed fresh horrors off the cuff at say, breakfast or whilst watching TV.
I remember one pair of foster parents having the run of a huge house with around 25 kids in it. Meals were in sittings. The thing that haunts me is that not one single person arrested believed they were doing anything wrong. And these beliefs were inculcated into their kids over several generations.
When society or a section of it goes wrong, it goes very very wrong .
{Ed001's Note - that is such a sad story Stokey. Horrific too, but sad that people could treat their own children that way.}
11.) 03 Jun 2026 23:26:16
The human animal has an infinite capacity to be inhuman. I don't have much faith in the majority of people, and have more faith in animals, especially dogs and horses.
12.) 04 Jun 2026 10:48:03
Anyway, to lighten the mood, thank goodness it's the start of the First Test against the Kiwis at Lord's in ten minutes, weather permitting.
Back to civilisation.
13.) 04 Jun 2026 10:45:20
I have a great deal of sympathy for your thoughts BSE.
I must stress that this clan was exceptional its isolation from society and longevity of abuse. They were of very very low intelligence and basically feral. The biggest problem we had in evidence gathering and interview was in complying with the "Mcnaugten Rules" where we had to prove that they knew that what they were doing was wrong. They were right on the boundary according to the social psychologists who assessed them.
As you say Ed, very sad indeed.
They were definitely at the the other end of the spectrum of intelligence of abusers we were discussing, the Eric Gills of this world.
I mentioned in an earlier post the wonderful, light and joyous book by Gerald Durrell " My Family and Other Animals ".
Thus time last year I read " The Alexandria Quartet" by his brother Lawrence. Altogether darker.
One of his daughters ( he was married 4 times) committed suicide at a very young age and in her diaries revealed that Lawrence had committed incest and abused her as a child over many years.
Nothing was ever proven but in his book the main character has an intimate knowledge of the child prostitution brothels of Egypt where he was stationed during and after the War when he worked for the Foreign Office.
It's a tough old read though a magnificent novel ( or 4 novels).
30 May 2026 20:37:30
So boring old Arsenal still can't join the elite of English football. ???
1.) 30 May 2026 21:37:30
Only time I've ever wanted Arsenal to win. But got to say referee was terrible, poor decisions, and probably cost Arsenal.
2.) 30 May 2026 21:47:41
Tbh, Skeggs, most finals are boring.
So much at stake.
3.) 30 May 2026 21:53:39
Skegs, I thought the outcome was fair, only one team trying to play football and win the game. Arteta moans like f*** when teams play 'low block' against them. Best outcome for football.
4.) 30 May 2026 22:13:06
Yes Stevie, Arsenal were boring the hell out of me. Reminded me of the days of Cooper's football in the Premier League. But I still wanted them to win.
5.) 30 May 2026 22:30:27
Why did you want Arsenal to win?
6.) 31 May 2026 23:34:58
Skegs, I agree we did play low block under Cooper, but I think the big difference is the Arsenal squad is valued at a billion quid.
7.) 01 Jun 2026 20:17:48
I've been saying that for several seasons, Stevie, but it never seems to register, sadly.
26 May 2026 23:00:57
Pep, is he leaving a sinking ship?
I believe he knows what's coming.
Big points reduction and what will hurt them more, a transfer embargo for two seasons.
Come on, get it done.
25 May 2026 23:35:23
Nuno gets sacked tomorrow.
Deserves it and who's next?
1.) 26 May 2026 05:36:05
Dpt the Skegness mafia are running a masters course in how to get bites on banter.
Your primitive attempts are so out of date & for a reasonable fee (24 cans of Stella) & a lifetime membership to the live chat miners welfare, we could propel you to new heights.
Just think of the benefits.
Lego losing it, Bowie bricking it, Rogie ranting & Robin Hood Red raging. You'll find the enrollment form at. talking garbage.com ???
2.) 26 May 2026 10:25:44
Brilliant Balloons. ???
3.) 26 May 2026 10:43:22
That would be way too many amphibians, though. We already have a resident Frog and Skegs (as slippery as a Salamander). They would all be trying to spawn in our beer, so definitely no room for a toad. ?
4.) 26 May 2026 10:59:02
Master "Baiters" Course mors like!!!.
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5.) 26 May 2026 11:11:49
Hence the post, Rogie, as you're the number one recipient. If you were a fish, you'd have taken that many bites, you'd have no lips left. ??
6.) 26 May 2026 12:24:55
Just admit you're a Ram.
???
7.) 26 May 2026 20:36:12
I'm not bothered about West Ham or Spurs (and I've got mates who support both), but let's not forget Spurs survived because Unai Emry, the manager of Aston Villa, put out a weak team against Spurs, gifting 3 points. If I were Nuno, I'd be sending him a card saying "Thanks a bunch......". ? ? ?
8.) 26 May 2026 21:43:48
Stokey, I don't think it's so much Villa put out a weakened team; it's that they didn't try at all and threw the game completely.
9.) 26 May 2026 22:07:07
Karma, Nuno got exactly what he deserved.
Poor results in vital games.
He needs to accept he's a coach, like most do.
He had the chance to be a Forest legend and win a European trophy, but decided otherwise.
Now he's got relegation on his CV.
And, apparently, no pay off from the Hammers.
Karma.
10.) 26 May 2026 21:56:25
Stokey you're an ex copper mate. It's letter bombs you send, can't see "thanks a bunch hurting any f kr,?
28 May 2026 21:33:19
They'll get hit with embargo. ?
18 Feb 2026 18:40:28
Really, Skeggs? We are going to lose those three anyway. Milenkovic, Cho, Hutchinson, Williams, Aina, Jesus, Sangare, Ndoye, Dominguez will all fetch big bucks regardless if we get relegated. Just remember, Skeggs, most of the players who were part of Nuno's side are still here.
13 Feb 2026 23:18:57
Tbh I've only had one court case and I won, hear say is irrelevant as its not possible to prove
Its al about actually facts and evidence?
Short statement but true.
13 Feb 2026 22:40:12
No one will know what really happened
But putting it simply, marinakis wasn't impressed with the performance against Palace Leeds and wolves and neither was i or the vast majority of supporters?
So whoever he chose to speak to player wise is irrelevant
He obviously wanted to hear from a players point of view, but in reality had decided to axe dyche anyway and rightly so.
13 Feb 2026 20:46:06
There's some glory hunters on here aswell that turn their backs on the club when results aren't good.
09 Jun 2026 22:37:34
Do they still do razzle winter?
Just a question?
09 Jun 2026 22:10:10
Oakham, look at his record when he was same age.
Bellingham, I believe, will be one of the greats though. Had an injury-hit season, that's all.
09 Jun 2026 20:35:39
Remember Dele Alli. He started just like Bellingham for a number of years, but faded badly.
08 Jun 2026 22:52:02
And, ps, Stokey must have arrested someone for speeding with a pram?
As he's done and seen everything else. ?????
08 Jun 2026 22:42:32
Winter, you're the only one young enough to have a pram. ???