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23 Feb 2026 20:10:47
Scouting update on Fenerbahce .
They've just drawn one all at 10 man Kasimpasos at home. They are 3rd bottom of the Turkish League.
23 Feb 2026 20:20:03
And??
23 Feb 2026 20:37:30
Well, we play them on Thursday, Stevie.
Hence "scouting report", mate. 🙄 🙄
23 Feb 2026 20:43:55
Stokey, having played them 4 days ago, I guess we might have a reasonable idea on what to expect. 😂
23 Feb 2026 20:49:13
Expect the unexpected. It's the Forest way, even with a 3 nil advantage.
23 Feb 2026 21:14:02
Skegs, if you say so. 🥱
23 Feb 2026 21:46:49
Stokie, you have your say. Anyway, lads, off to bed. Early start in the morning. 👍
23 Feb 2026 21:54:04
Skegs, yes, because Stokey never has his say on anything. 🤣 Keep your nose out, Skeg. I'm sure Stokey can speak for himself.
23 Feb 2026 22:11:56
Well, I deduce a few things about Thursday's game, Stevie.
Firstly, Fenerbache have had a day less recovery than us.
Secondly, they will fly out Wednesday, so, again, little preparation time or time to recover from knocks.
Thirdly, they may well be demoralised by drawing at home to a struggling team with 10 men.
It's all good in the lead up.
What do you think?
23 Feb 2026 22:23:01
Stokey, what I think about that is: if we throw a 3-goal lead away to Fenerbahce, we should be looking for our 5th manager! 😊 They might even rotate because they are playing a lot of games and are chasing Galatasaray, and they also have suspensions. I'm looking to book a flight to Seville, hopefully. 😊
23 Feb 2026 17:52:10
Hold on folks. Things look dicey in the league but we have the pleasure of a DTP free site.
🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺.
23 Feb 2026 19:17:24
Oh dear, Frog. Why bother having a go at someone who has left the site?
23 Feb 2026 19:41:08
Because, Gazzi, that's all he ever did - personal attacks on people who held different views to him. I, for one, hope he doesn't come back, and I know for a fact I'm not the only poster who feels the same.
23 Feb 2026 19:49:02
Gazzi, it's typical, mate. He's gone off the site, and people still can't leave it. He had his opinions, and added something to the site, in my opinion, unlike some who cry if people disagree. He's lasted longer than almost all on here.
23 Feb 2026 20:17:33
Stevie, that leaves you as outright winner of the Mr Angry award, mate. 😂😂😂
23 Feb 2026 20:37:31
Stokey, ah, latching on to Skegs labels are we, 😊. Unlike some on here, I don't care what people call me, and I don't go crying, and I certainly don't wish people not to come back on the site.
23 Feb 2026 20:37:49
Never had an issue with the fella tbh.
23 Feb 2026 19:33:40
DTP will be back soon Frog. I get the feeling he doesn't have much of a social life (apart from talking to this gnomes and plants in his back garden), so he'll miss the human interaction!
23 Feb 2026 20:04:29
For me stevie, I've been on this site long enough, had my run ins with you dtp skegs mafia etc etc. Actually especially lately with a lot of politicians and 10 yr olds. And left for more than 2 x hrs at one point. But ya know what bud.
I remember covid etc. The site went blind. I tried everything to keep posters going. From tell me your best bond movie, to your best Indian. Seemed to work bud. Nobody probably give the eds more s*** than me in the past. Bless em, but we carry on. FTID.
23 Feb 2026 20:32:07
And that leaves you stokey to giving us history of the common testicle.
23 Feb 2026 20:01:27
He's disappeared and reappeared. Nearly as many times has you have stevie boy. crying in a corner for a couple of weeks. lets just get on with talking about forest and football. Few boxes of kleenex and he will be back as arnie says.
23 Feb 2026 20:46:33
Legolas, I know him, mate, and I doubt you could be any further from the truth in what you say.
23 Feb 2026 20:52:04
Skegs, when I've disappeared, it's been through boredom. Didn't you pack it in for half an hour last week? Making a big announcement on discussion? 🤣
23 Feb 2026 21:00:13
Stevie, if you know DTP, tell him in all honesty to come back - but only if he cuts the vitriol and downright spiteful comments on other posters. Seems simple enough? We may all have disagreed in the past, but some of his comments have been well out of order.
23 Feb 2026 21:10:51
Red Frog, mate, I said I know him. I can't tell him what to post and what is acceptable, that's Ed's job. I don't know if he'll come back or not. I was told by some it's a banter site. When I was called a clown by some lefty on here, I leave the moderating to the moderator, as I believe we should all do.
23 Feb 2026 21:30:54
Actually well said Stevie. 👍
23 Feb 2026 22:16:28
If you look at my previous posts, Stevie, I've actually urged him to rejoin. I've enjoyed our frank exchange of views, as I've said (check it out).
I'm still curious who this lefty Guardian reader was who called you a clown, mate. All very odd....
23 Feb 2026 22:26:16
Stokey Cyclist has been known to quote Guardian rumours, and has called me a clown. 😊 Did you think I was referring to you, mate? If I was referring to you, I would have said.
23 Feb 2026 16:42:32
What on earth is happening to our great game, Sangares toe kept Liverpool onside. bull. Who makes this nonesence up, for the games sake can we get back to some form of reality. I thought Vitor got us playing some very positive stuff in the first half, minus the vital statistic as usual. That excellent half was difficult to repeat though because we could not find the energy levels required., thanks to playing on Thursday. Good result and performance in Istanbul, but I fear it could cost us dearly, but I so hope I am wrong.
The Premier League is all that matters but we are stuck with this second rate standard competition and to many games taking its toll. I was in Munich and Madrid to see us win the real thing, which Europa league is not even close to. Besides all that I still think we can stay up under Vitor and am now thinking could Awonyi not be worth a try again in a side that as scored less than a goal a game. U REDS.
23 Feb 2026 17:54:05
I totally get what you are saying, RR, but if you're using it, it is either on-side or off-side, and unfortunately for us, his toe kept him on-side. Just like VAR showed the ball hit McAllister's arm just before, that would have been given without VAR, so I guess we can't have it both ways, as much as I would have wanted us to.
:) But, we can take heart from a great performance, and the fans really got behind that. If we can continue in the same vein, I am sure we will be fine, but we just must start hitting the onion bag in the league.
23 Feb 2026 19:16:35
Ginger, it was semi-automated VAR. That graphic was a mock-up with human input. The goal should have been disallowed for offside, but I’m not complaining too much because I would have been disappointed as a Forest fan if we had a goal disallowed like McAllister's first effort.
He didn’t deliberately handle it, and although I know by the letter of the law it was handball, it seemed harsh. We should have defended better in injury time.
23 Feb 2026 19:32:08
So, you're saying the Scouse are armless, Stevie. Pffft, f*** em. Getting too soft, laddie. Offside for Taylor's sake. You know how many of them would feel sorry for us? Yes, you do. Any Cheltenham shortly?
23 Feb 2026 19:40:20
Bowie, I despise Liverpool, but we were architects of our own downfall yesterday. Liverpool were crap, and unfortunately we couldn't put them away 1st half.
23 Feb 2026 19:49:51
Doesn't give them the right to 3 x points, Stevie F. Fs.
23 Feb 2026 20:26:09
Bowie, I'm struggling to see where I said that. I just said I would have been disappointed if we'd had a goal disallowed in that fashion, and we should have defended better, mate. Sorry I missed your question. No, no Cheltenham this year, unfortunately, mate.
23 Feb 2026 20:39:43
Stevie, what I'm saying is what most of the country have seen, bud. (Going off most of my Geordie mates.) Surely the rest feel the same. It was offside. Couldn't be more obvious. Yes, I agree, probably we have the same strikers/midfield that shot at Trump (for the politicians), but why be robbed of a point? Huge to us.
23 Feb 2026 20:48:46
Bowie, I agree it was offside and should have been disallowed, mate. I'm talking about the handball goal.
23 Feb 2026 21:15:18
Again, Stevie, the rules say any ball off the arm/hand is wrong, hence a defence like most in the Premier when there's an attack. Look like Daleks and d***s protruding from their heads. Simples.
23 Feb 2026 22:06:06
Bowie, I know, and I talked about the letter of the law in my original post. I'm just saying the rule is harsh.
23 Feb 2026 16:25:01
Talk of any midfield to forwards, for me they've all let us down. don't care what manager was in charge.
Aye they work hard, aye they want to win and look tired actually. But my not one of them have really brought the food to the table, starved the fans of any REAL honesty.
And don't tell me they haven't had chances, (again blaming manager and edu) we get in final 3rd the ball goes against, a defender, a keeper, or goes wide. Remember not long ago it was the defence fault, keeper and marking.
It's just sad to see the actual defence has kept us within shooting range to stay up (excuse the pun)
Sorted defence out beautifully. BYE HOW WE MISS WOOD AND SO MANY TOOK HIM FOR GRANTED, every game now I see forwards shooting over the bar along with midfield, as Bobby Charlton RIP legend taught us, look up with chest over the f kn ball. Really is that easy. Just frustrating every dam game reds. FTID.
23 Feb 2026 12:20:25
Longish post incoming, so scroll past Gold Stars and others with short attention spans.
Desperately unlucky not to get at least a point ( which many on here, myself included, would have taken before kick off). VAR got it right first time, you can't scored off your elbow, accidentally or not, even though it caught Macallisters back as well. I didn't understand the winner being allowed as the bulk of Virgil's body ( and the Liverpool player behind him) was offside even though Ainas toe nail was in front of his feet. The upper body ( minus the arms and hands) is a legitimate area to score from, not just the feet.
A line drawn vertically from Ainas toe would have included Virgil's chest and shoulder imo. I don't think VAR even checked the early movement. But, it wouldn't be a normal for a Reds game to be reffed by Anthony Taylor not to be controversial would it?
Overall, I was impressed by VPs positivity. Front foot, more pressing, more possession than SDs. Went for the winner, changed his entire front line and even brought the more attacking McAteer on for MGW near the end in an attempt to win it. I'd have shut up shop and brought Yates on instead as we tired.
VD has inherited the same problems as SD and the previous managers. It's the fault of poor recruitment that we were dominant whilst we had the " First 11" on but faded when Ndoye and Bakwa arrived. Liverpool had 8 days to prepare for this, with a quality squad which cost 3 or 4 times ours, this was our 2nd game in 4 days ( with a long trip away in Istanbul thrown in). Their subs, particularly their young winger, made a massive impact, unlike ours.
The crucial failure, recruitment wise, remains the non replacement of Wood and ( until January) the extra specialist cover at full back ( so we we had to use centre backs like Morato, Savonha and Abbott out of position).
I still think we will stay up provided we keep key players like Murillo, MGW, Anderson, Sanghere and Malenkovic ( plus Aina and Williams) fit.
23 Feb 2026 14:39:07
VAR honestly baffles me sometimes, like you, I couldn't get my head around the final call from the VAR caravan hundreds of miles away. All in all, if we can keep that first 11 fit, we should be fine come the end of the season. 🌳
23 Feb 2026 17:23:55
I honestly believe that, if the shoe had been on the other foot (pardon the Upn), would we have been given it? 🤨
23 Feb 2026 17:27:15
I'd love to comment on your post, Stokey, but I scrolled quickly past it.
23 Feb 2026 17:32:00
We still have Netz to use at full back.
23 Feb 2026 18:48:24
Very wise, Lego, mate. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 👍 👍
23 Feb 2026 10:49:15
We need a number 9 to put the ball in the net, simple!
Does anyone know if Taiwo is injured?
23 Feb 2026 12:59:39
I thought you wanted somebody to put the ball in the net?
23 Feb 2026 14:07:52
You raise a serious point, Redtree and Mr McKay. If we do go down this season (I personally don't believe we will, subject to keeping key players available) poor recruitment will be largely to blame. Particularly in the case of goal scoring. It's just dim to believe that a 34 year old striker in the twilight of a long and successful career wouldn't pick up or exacerbate injuries. Woody worked wonders for us last season, not only with his 20 goal contribution but his workrate, hold up play and experience.
But, in his position, being battered week in, week out by at least 2 centre backs was always going to take its toll. Ironically, his signing for £15 million was a brilliant bit of recruitment. A good goal scorer would now cost northwards of £50 to £60 m (even more if you are talking about a Harland). Palace have just gambled £48 million on a very average centre forward.
23 Feb 2026 14:41:11
We paid good money for Kalimuendo who has been doing alright since he left. Shame we didn't have the foresight to see that there was a good player in there. 🌳
23 Feb 2026 17:33:36
Kalimuendo is doing ok in a lesser league. Top-class strikers for the Premier League are like hen's teeth.
23 Feb 2026 17:57:10
Maybe he would have come, given a run in the team, but personally I thought he was out of his depth and had a poor first touch.
23 Feb 2026 21:39:39
We need someone to put the ball in the net. It doesn't matter who.
23 Feb 2026 09:28:50
Simple now we have to best Brighton so start with this team on Thursday
Ortega
Aina
Cunha
Abbott
Williams
Yates
Dominguez
Nodye
McAtee
Bakwa
Jesus/ Awoniyi
Subs Gunn MGW Anderson Sangare Hudson Odoi Milenkovic Murillo Lucca Hutchinson.
23 Feb 2026 13:54:33
Abbott will not get a look-in.
23 Feb 2026 16:48:14
The way things are going, well, put a weaker team out and we will probably lose 3 nil. We need to keep the memento and confidence going. Play best 11, and if we go a goal up, then bring in fringe players.
23 Feb 2026 17:34:38
If we were not in the Europa League, we'd be well up the table by now.
23 Feb 2026 09:26:31
How much do we miss chris wood
Sangare great again gibbs whyte 1st half
23 Feb 2026 09:59:24
We definitely do. MGW gave his all... as did all of them.
23 Feb 2026 10:01:41
Positive comments about the new Forest from the media gang! Great. We can be optimistic? Last 2 Prem games, 200 min: attacking football, no goals, exhausted players, 1 point. When does it improve? For the first time I'm feeling a little worried about our fixtures in August!
23 Feb 2026 14:10:20
Great post, Joan. He was a key player and sorely missed. But please see my above post about recruiting cover for him.
23 Feb 2026 09:13:22
So DTP has left the site because of the negative comments. Shame that. Damn good poster in my opinion.
Unfortunate I'm going to add to the negativity and it's regarding our scoring problem. We didn't play badly yesterday at all. Very solid defence until Aina lost concentration because he was out on his feet. Neco was brilliant. Sangare had a good game too although his shooting is pants.
MGW was really good especially in the first half as for Anderson. He's a ball winner and giver, a very good one too but he must be the worst corner taker In Forest history.
Our real problem is that we play with 10 men. We don't have a CF. Jesus is a very poor signing, can't run at all, it's as though he's running in 6 inches of mud. He takes an age to get a shot away and he's too short to possess any aerial threat. I could go on but I don't want anyone else to leave the site.
We played OK yesterday but if we were playing like that until doomsday, we still wouldn't score.
23 Feb 2026 09:33:17
You being serious, Gazzibaldi? You've been on the site long enough to know when DTP doesn't like what other posters are saying, he spits his dummy out and says he's leaving. It's just attention seeking, and within 2 weeks, after enough people (foolishly) beg him to come back, he pops up again. Just leave him be to enjoy his 2-week break.
23 Feb 2026 09:41:10
We were playing the champions, for God's sake, a side that was assembled for about 5 or 6 times ours. Under Dyche we would have sat with 10 players 5 yards from our goal line. VP will turn around the good ship Forest (Admiral Marinakis will be watching with interest). We pretty much have a free hit Thursday, so I think it'll be rotation time, with the first-teamers ready to save the day from the bench.
Really can't see the point in moaning about results that happened weeks ago, with so many positives to take from our performances under VP. With just about 1/4 of the league season to go and 33 points to play for, it's time we all got behind the lads. Midtable is still well within our reach. 🌳
23 Feb 2026 11:49:31
I agree that we played well yesterday, mostly, anyway, but having played well, we still can't score a goal. Without a goal scorer, I fear the worst. As you say, get behind the lads. I do that every match from my seat in the Clough Stand.
23 Feb 2026 11:50:39
Yet Dyche's team beat Liverpool 3 nil at their place, did they not, Red Robin?
23 Feb 2026 13:04:22
Dtp left because of negative comments, Gazzi? It's not negative comments; it's called debate and opinions, mate. We are 4th from bottom. Hasn't it occurred to him that something is not right?
23 Feb 2026 14:16:25
Incredibly, I agree with DTP on this one. We are being over-pessimistic and downbeat. As I've said previously, recruitment has been very poor, and 4 managers in a season is just downright stupid. Still 11 games to go, 33 points available, and, provided key players stay fit and available, I believe we will survive.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but get your ass back on here, DTP. I always enjoy our frank exchange of views. In Dick Emery's words, "You are awful... but I like you." 😂
23 Feb 2026 14:48:32
Enough of the 'we'. I'm happy with the change of management and the way the team has performed the last two games. A small ray of light in a disaster of a season. As you said, Stokey, there's still a long way to go and, heyho, you never know, Champions League qualification could still be on the table.
Who would moan at finishing 16th or 17th and taking home the Europa League? And, please leave DTP to sulk for the rest of the season. 🌳
23 Feb 2026 18:02:00
Blarry, trust me, I know it is from both sides, but you and your mate just try to get reactions by constantly going on about Edu out and calling players Judas, etc. That's not a football debate, as you say, that is just plain childish attention seeking.
23 Feb 2026 19:01:30
Hey Strawberry Blonde, so you don't think Edu has anything to do with the bad season we're having? I mean, it's not rocket science. First, he nudges out a manager that's got us into Europe for the first time in decades, then he spends 200 million on what should make our squad stronger.
🤣🤣 And now we're hearing Edu will be on his way out soon. So, again, I guess we were right in what we said, Strawberry. 🍓 👱♂️ 😁
23 Feb 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - SystonVilla has posted a new article entitled, Villa Fans Need Perspective and Positivity
23 Feb 2026 07:01:29
Morning all, palace and wolves home games will bury us- with Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle and Villa still to play I can't see us getting anything more than 38 points at best. Goals win games. Jesus tries but isn't Premier League quality.
Pizza Crouch is exactly what I expected, 1 goal in three or four games at best.
Sadly what worries me more is that we will be stuck with players like McAttee and Bakwa in the championship. Lightweight duds.
23 Feb 2026 07:54:17
100% They're the games that will finish us. All would have been well otherwise. Only 3 or 4 players, for me, can hold their heads high. The rest should be left by the doorstep for the pop man, and we might get 3 p for each of them, so long as we've rinsed them out...
23 Feb 2026 08:56:49
Gold Stars. The pop man. 😆 Brings back memories.
23 Feb 2026 08:58:05
If we do stay up, and of course I hope we can, my biggest concern is that either way it will be rinse and repeat with the set we have. If we get it right, same as last season, we c*** it up within 1 month of the new season. I can't see any change in that set up; a few new coaches, a few same-type players, no progress there then.
I will always be a Red, but I am getting bored with the way the club is going. If we could change from the top, that would encourage me. It won't happen, of course, so don't panic.
23 Feb 2026 09:07:35
Yesterday, starting with 2 wingers was the perfect scenario for Lucca. I'm sorry, but the rhetoric aimed at Wood was exactly the same on here, yet he just kept banging them in. To start with, Christopher almighty was a wasted opportunity. Jesus just cannot pre-empt or make deft moves to lose his marker, where Wood was the master at that. If you watch the goals Lucca scored last season, you can see he has this ability and can head a ball.
He just needs to be picked, or if he is no good, then why put him on the bench? Bakwa, ffs, taking off Hutchinson for that? Did you notice how MGW faded drastically? Once his running goes, he offers nothing. What yesterday needed was Lucca in for Jayzoo, and a midfield pushing right up, supporting and getting accurate shots off.
23 Feb 2026 02:24:44
Maybe it's just me but but starting with jayzoos was the problem. The manager needed to be brave and stick Lucca straight in. The style of football we insist on would suit him so much better. Jayzoos is a dreadful player and proven at this level he is clueless, no pace, comes way too deep and never gets on the end of anything. People on here say Lucca is weak, really? We never get the chance to see him yet his first touch against Leeds was a trade mark header from a decent cross. Been saying it for months our set plays are awful. As for shooting, another area I bang on about but Alison had nothing to do yesterday. It was laughable watching balls sailing into the Bridgford end from all angles, even Hudson odoi managed to hit the ball straight at Alison where it was easier to score. Taking off hutchinson was a bizarre decision and only giving Lucca 12 minutes even more so given that there was no one left on the pitch who could cross a ball.
Liverpool were there for the taking but we kept getting bogged down when we broke, out wide it would go then it all slowed down allowing Liverpool to recover and man the box. We have nothing down the middle no one other than murillo who can carry the ball centrally push on and punish teams. Its all wide wide wide and too late. I don't agree that we played well, other than Sangare, we were predictable and again lacking cutting edge. Harsh you might say but true. Lady luck is a cruel mistress but at the end when Liverpool came at us it was with numbers and a desire to get that ball in the net. We couldn't stop the crosses or deal with them and that was the difference. You can't defend at nil nil with knackered players one slip and you lose everything.
23 Feb 2026 06:32:27
Agree with most of what you say, mate... However, Lucca fluffed his lines v Leeds' open goal, and he skies it. Terrible buy from what I've seen so far.
23 Feb 2026 09:01:30
It's early days for Pereira Rutters, and yes, I know that we are running out of time, but I expect changes up front for the next game. I get your frustrations, I really do, and I was fuming yesterday after conceding so late. But keep the faith, we can still get off the trap door.
22 Feb 2026 23:34:32
Wow was i dreaming, MOTD, actually took time to chat about forest. Robbed reds. Hate it. Not going to shy away. We put a shift in. The lads done brilliant. But my our final 3rd is woeful. we all know it.
23 Feb 2026 09:04:32
Dead right, Bowie, we have no creativity or goal threat up front, which is our downfall. I’m sure the new manager will change things up, although he doesn’t have many options, as all of the front line look as bad as each other. The big Kiwi needs to come back and save us from the abyss.
23 Feb 2026 09:44:30
Genuinely think that's the first time Murphy has complemented us. 🌳
23 Feb 2026 19:03:58
Red Robin, I usually fast forward the so-called pundits' chat on Sky and MOTD, because they usually talk absolute tosh. However, I think Murphy is one of the more astute pundits, and he has praised us before, particularly last season.
Incidentally, Mark Chapman, I think, is absolutely brilliant, because, as a non footballer, he asks the questions that a fan would ask. A million times better than Lineker, imo.
23 Feb 2026 19:32:31
I have to agree, although I'm terrible for fast-forwarding it myself, the new cast on MOTD is way better. Given and Hart are also great, shame about Mr Potato Head (Wayne the stain). 🌳
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