Nottingham Forest Banter 2

15 May 2026 07:39:13
{Ed's Note - SaintGGsy has posted a new article entitled, Saints, the EFL, and the spying fallout

14 May 2026 21:55:47
Ok, my next hopefully thoughtful moment.
World Cup, ok ok gonna make it easy on ya all. Apart from England. Who would you say would win? I'm going Spain reds.

14 May 2026 22:07:33
Germany

14 May 2026 22:49:17
Favours South America.

15 May 2026 00:02:58
France. 🌳

15 May 2026 05:08:02
Espania!!!

15 May 2026 10:05:49
Scotland. 😂😂😂😂😂

15 May 2026 11:53:33
That's not nice, Stokie. 🤣🤣

15 May 2026 15:28:34
Argentina is a good bet! 🥳

14 May 2026 17:57:57
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new video entitled entitled, C U Next Time - The Carrick Files}

14 May 2026 15:11:15
Ok Reds, your player of the season. Close between Williams/ mgw/ Anderson but I'm going for Williams. Work rate and commitment been incredible. COYR FTID ALL REDS TOGETHER.

14 May 2026 15:55:28
Williams all day long. 😁

14 May 2026 16:10:24
Sels?

14 May 2026 17:08:14
Bsered, now you've done it. 🤣🤣

14 May 2026 18:35:47
Honestly, until last month I would have gone with Williams for all the reasons above but im going to have to go with MGW. His goals this season have no doubt kept us up. When we needed someone to step forward and play without fear, he has been our man. ⭐🌳⭐

14 May 2026 18:48:36
Not always the goals for me, Winter. You need commitment to create them. Williams. That laddie worked like a horse to the end. Go until his heart popped. F***n hero.

14 May 2026 20:00:42
Williams just about shades it for me, never say die attitude.
Same go's for Murrillo, Milenkovich, and Anderson, they've been brilliant too.

14 May 2026 21:16:58
MGW simple.
He's scoring regularly, and that's a massive plus.
He's the reason we stayed up.
Jesus, for being the most overworked striker we've had.

14 May 2026 21:32:21
So underthought, he had some f****** mares this season dtp. As for Sels. Love the lad but only played a few f***s. Jesus couldn't even find the onion bag on Sundays. Oi, it's all about the badge you lot, not plastic goals every now n then.

14 May 2026 21:38:34
He's kept us up with his goals under a proper coach that understands his talent, Bowie.
Dyche, the dinosaur, couldn't get a tune.

14 May 2026 21:49:20
This is why it is good to have varied opinions here. You asked the question. People will reply. I actually have the Midtjylland right-hand post in a close third behind Williams. 🌳

14 May 2026 21:57:19
Talking of proper coaches that understand his talent, why it actually came from you in a comment, it's there in black and white for every poster to see. Wasn't it your great coach (Nuno) that bought Gibbs-White in from his time at Wolves, knowing he would be a great player? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 😅 Just saying, dtp, Nuno does you again and again.

14 May 2026 22:09:48
No, it was Steve Cooper.
Says it all.

14 May 2026 22:15:47
MGW was part of our survival, Skeggs.
He was our record signing.
Steve Cooper wanted him along with CHO in our first season, and he got his wish.

14 May 2026 22:31:58
Bit sad to see the Smoggys not getting through. Again easy away game for me.

14 May 2026 22:41:57
Smoggy gate could see them there, mate.

14 May 2026 22:30:39
Just checking how much ub40 you had dtp.🤣🤣 and I knew the super cooper would come from your mouth.you are so forest through and through born in Nottingham I think maybe Derbyshire can compliment a manager he loves in super cooper but has no good words to say about a manager that gets a team into Europe after decades of being in the competition apparently it was luck and no injuries.

🤣🤣😅 you sound like linekar mate sure your not eating walkers crisps and being a secret fester fan

14 May 2026 23:42:57
Only an idiot could try that on.
Well done Skeggs. 😂😂😂

14 May 2026 10:48:00
A few tips for next season to our lads….

When taking a corner, always remember to raise both your hands in the air beforehand in case your team mates forget why they are waiting in the box

If you ever meet Cole Palmer and he’s crying, be sensitive and ask him “is it because of the haircut?”

Always include free hearing tests in your new contracts so that when you score a goal in front of 50,000 people you don’t have to cup your hands to your ears to hear the cheers….



Finally, a tribute to Tommy Cooper (RIP)

I went to the Doctor the other day and he told me to take off all my clothes, stand in front of the window and stick my tongue out.
When I asked why he said “Because I don’t like the bloke who lives across the road” ……

🤔🙄😃.

14 May 2026 10:29:21
Hey, come on comrades, let’s put all our differences behind us. It’s been a difficult and frankly stressful season with a lot of friction on here. As L. P. Hartley famous wrote in “The Go Between” … “the past is a foreign country. They do things differently there”.


For the present….
🎼 We’re on the beach with Vitor.
We’re on the beach with Vitor …. 🎼
Let’s keep things in perspective, ok we’ve ensured our 5th season of Premiership football. Even Derby got 4 seasons so let’s enjoy it …. Coyr!

14 May 2026 14:39:55
We all love each other. What you on about, Stokie. 😁 And everyone has got to be happy with stopping up and with Vitor Pereira. My downside is, and I've spoken to a few other Forest fans, this season was massive for us and there was so much to look forward to, and really it's been disastrous.

I'm hoping we beat Man Utd. That would put a smile back on my face. I'm hoping we keep Vitor for next season, and I'm really looking forward to next season now, and no stupid UEFA League in between. I'm hoping we get players in early for pre season, but I can't see that happening with the World Cup.

And I just hope Mr M doesn't get involved with changing managers again. But this is Mr M we're talking about. I think Murillo and Anderson will go, but for good money, so let's hope that gets invested wisely, and just 3 or 4 good signings needed, not 15. I expect us top 8 next season and some good cup runs, build a better squad slowly, ready to challenge for European football in a couple of seasons' time. Bring on Man Utd and next season uredddssss. We love everyone. 😁

14 May 2026 19:21:55
Wow! What's up with you, Jay? That's a really good sensible post with some great content and excellent observations. You are losing your touch, brother. Did you get razzed up on the Stella, fall off your recliner and bang your head? 🤣

14 May 2026 19:42:54
Im actually with you, Perko, bud. Brilliant, Skegs. Although, as Balloons would say, Stokey ish. Btw, luv your posts, Stokey, just not your literature quotes. 👍👍

14 May 2026 20:02:04
Great post, Skeggs!!!!
May I???.
👏👏👏

14 May 2026 21:20:06
Nuno is not here to mess up the start of next season, simple, because he caused the chaos after three games.

14 May 2026 21:50:49
Oh dear dtp how boring you get.and you say it's me with the problem with nuno.how he must keep you up every night giving you nightmares proving you wrong and wrong again. Try and see someone about it pal 🤣🤣

14 May 2026 22:04:53
Just my honest opinion, which you can't accept, Skeggs, because you'd rather blame our savior and owner, Marinakis.
So you see, Perko, it's pointless saying anything against the recliner boy born in Leicester.

14 May 2026 22:19:38
Boring dtp, you got anything new. 🙄🤪😝😜

14 May 2026 22:24:38
Well, no need to comment then, pal.

14 May 2026 22:29:39
Bowie, many thanks for your kind words. There's a lovely true story about Winston Churchill as a young man addressing a crowd at a public meeting. Photos show he sported a very dashing moustache.
A witty lady in the crowd shouted "Young man, I care neither for your politics nor your moustache," to which Churchill replied, "Madam, you are as unlikely to come into meaningful contact with the one as with the other."
My posts follow the same line, mate.

Hopefully relevant, but always with a bit of literature or history thrown in. 🤔🤔😂😂🙄

13 May 2026 21:23:34
I'm sure it was dtp who said each team's fans should show placards of something like justice against many city. And how f kn right he was. Reds, reds, reds. Plz don't let the one little piece of justice let go in football.

Please. I beg football as a whole. Otherwise, the league becomes pointless. You all know my views on the Premier. But love football. Just saying.

13 May 2026 22:00:56
All other prem teams should refuse to play City until the matter is resolved, one way or another.

13 May 2026 22:03:12
Spot on, Stevie, bud. And good to see ya.

13 May 2026 22:43:05
Yes, it would render the league irrelevant, and they'd have to act on it.

14 May 2026 05:51:24
Well said, mate...
Appalling corruption.

13 May 2026 23:00:49
Its all it would take as I've said before if every clubs fans demonstrated against city at every premier game, but it needs organising to happen in sync
They have to be dealt with
To me the one club with clout Arsenal lose the premier to them? Should and could sue them

14 May 2026 11:30:23
You all sound like a bunch of '60's students..

14 May 2026 12:42:16
"Peace Maaaaan!"
🌻🌸🌹🌼
🤭.

14 May 2026 19:46:26
Oi bsered, I've just been to Harrogate. How dare you, you long haired young man. 😅

14 May 2026 21:46:51
Joking, obviously, bud. I swear I was blown away with your amazing reply, my friend. And I know how it carries.

15 May 2026 13:48:00
I love Harrogate and we stay there when visiting our friends in Knaresborough. My step son was born there. But, then again, I didn't have to grow up or live there... Fair enough, Bse
My mate follows the Sulpherites (Harrogate Town). Relegated on the last day of the season, unfortunately.

13 May 2026 19:50:01
I know some of you don’t like stats but here’s one to digest……
VP so far has averaged 1.65 points a game. If he’d been at the helm since the start of the season, we’d be on 59 points i.e. 5th or 6th depending on GD.
Talk of replacing him is crazy (but that word does describe the way our famous club is run……).

13 May 2026 20:15:35
Stokey, you didn't want Dyche replacing.
Redfrog told us we were heading for the Championship under Vitor as he hadn't won a game for Wolves.
All I know is Vitor has put a smile back on every player's face, no bomb squad, and had to get results immediately. That's some achievement while getting to semis in Europe as well.

13 May 2026 20:51:09
DTP, I wanted stability and Dyche was on course for comfortable survival, which he was. But I also said I would support whoever was the current manager at Forest, mate.
If you check back, you will also see that I repeatedly stuck up for VP when he was attacked for his poor record at Wolves at the start of this season by pointing out, repeatedly, that Wolves owners had sold his best players without replacing them (Cunha to ManUtd and a few others whose name escapes me atm).

Hence his record was skewed.
Anyway, mate, hats off to you and credit where it's due. You did predict our survival this weekend. Although, Arsenal made very hard work of it on our behalf. It was "a damned close run thing" as Wellington said of the Battle of Waterloo...

13 May 2026 21:14:10
They owed us one, when we held City.

13 May 2026 21:45:13
We'd have gone down under Dyche, as he'd lost the dressing room and had no tactical knowhow.

13 May 2026 22:16:23
According to you, DTP, we would have got relegated with Nuno, and Sels was a waste of space. So, facts actually show you were wrong. Who knows what would've happened with Dyche? That's just you guessing again, because you don't like someone. That's not really worked out for you with your past predictions, it just shows.

13 May 2026 22:20:29
Get back to the recliner.

13 May 2026 22:48:25
Dyche has a solid record and I respect him. For some reason it had hit the buffers with us. I think he alienated 5 or 6 players, which left us with a very small squad. The same players look part of a cohesive squad under VP.

Not sure what was going wrong under SD, as his teams usually galvanise and have spirit. Ours didn’t, and I feel it was only going one way. Glad we changed, but would like to wish SD and his team good luck for the future.

13 May 2026 17:33:11
I have a “To Do” and a “Not To List” for our owner….
Do tell the recruitment team to sign no more than 4 players of high quality to replace MGW, Ando and Murillo, plus a big goal scorer centre forward to cover for Woody who’s not getting any younger.
Do not spaff the TV money on 8 or 9 new faces of doubtful quality as you have in the past.
Do sort out the incomings and outgoings ASAP and in any case well before the season starts, notwithstanding the World Cup.
Do not bring in Silva or any other manager to replace VP but nurture and support him because he has the players onside and he knows what he’s doing.


Remember what happened when you appointed Ange on a whim ….
Do give VP at least a bare minimum 2 preseasons and 3 transfer windows.
Do support the Academy. We must be the most attractive in the East Midlands and (apart from Villa) the West Mids plus most of Yorkshire (apart from Leeds). Plus from abroad as per Lego’s suggestion.
Do try to instil a sense of stability into the running of the Club.
Do get the WFCG expansion in motion.

13 May 2026 18:37:59
Haha Stokey, what have you been drinking today? Mr M does what he wants, he's impulsive and demanding. Doubtful he cares what us peasants think. 🌳

13 May 2026 19:17:28
Well, RRH, it's his money he's wasting, but it will always, in one sense, be our club, mate. I live in hope.
In the police, we always planned for the worst case scenario, which in our case would mean losing Murillo, Ando and MGW, plus Woody to injury and age.


My message, for what it's worth, is that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Mr M has a penchant for doing daft things on a whim and ignoring good advice.

13 May 2026 21:16:24
Can a leopard 🐆 change its spots?
Marinakis will do as he pleases, unfortunately.
Hopefully he has learned valuable lessons this season and takes on board how close Forest were to relegation.
Regarding Silva, me personally would stick with VP.

{Ed001's Note - yes it can and they all do as they age.}

13 May 2026 23:07:05
Bottom line is, we overachieved with a small squad, and got lucky with no injuries on the whole.
Europe came too soon.
Overall our signings have been on the plus side since we got promoted to the prem.

13 May 2026 16:49:02
Seems like everything for next season hangs on who we can retain, who leaves and who we bring in. Bearing in mind that whoever we buy has to be Premier League quality, it looks like a daunting task.
We also have to balance the books which means selling for big money.
A further problem is continuity as we need as much of an established nucleus as possible.
My thoughts are this for a starting side:
Sels
Williams Malenkovic Cunha Aina
Sangare Domingues/ Yates
Hutchinson Wood Jesus Bakwa

Defence could still have Morato, Savona and Netz.


Midfield has McAtee.
Attack stiil have CHO and Awoniyi.

If we sell Anderson, MGW and Murillo we will need another creative midfielder, possibly a DM and another Prem Quality Striker.

I's going to be a balancing act, but we don't want another huge influx of people who won't make it in this league.
I'm looking for mid table 10-14th.
What think ye comrades?

13 May 2026 17:27:11
Good luck finding a quality striker in the Premier, bud. Especially on our legal coffers.

13 May 2026 19:25:03
I agree with most of that analysis, Bse, mate. I've always said our squad (well, the first 17 or 18) is, properly led, coached and organised, at least mid table Prem quality. That is where they will finish roughly, but lower mid table rather than mid or upper, because of the change of managers and instability. It's no coincidence we haven't lost in the last 8 games under Vitor Pereira.


But, minus MGW, Ando and Murillo (and Woody injured for long periods, like last season), we will struggle without quality replacements.
Bear in mind Murillo was a freak signing, and Ando came because of Newcastle's FFP indiscretions.
It won't be easy, as you say, Bowie, particularly with Prem quality strikers.

13 May 2026 23:33:04
Stokey
Inspector Clussoe could tell that it's hard to find Premier, i.e. world-class strikers for the Prem, ask Chelsea and Liverpool who've thought they'd bought the best.
To me, we have 3 very good strikers now in Awoniyi, Wood and Jesus, and Kalimuendo we don't know yet.


We keep scoring under Vitor anyway.
To me, we need a right back and winger as it stands right now, but Bakwa is showing signs so not that much needed.
Sangare has come into his own now and no Europe makes less demand on the squad next season.

14 May 2026 14:18:02
Yes, I agree about the difficulties of signing a quality Premier League striker, mate. As I've posted before, they are as rare as rocking horse. 💩
The 3 you mention might do the job. Taiwo was showing good signs late in the season. Woody is carrying (or "managing") an injury and not getting any younger, and Jesus is best behind the big front man.