Nottingham Forest Banter 3

04 Jun 2026 18:46:59
I see we are signing every player in the world that is available, perhaps we should just give Ando a pay rise.

04 Jun 2026 15:47:28
115 charges.
If just One can be proven then that should be actioned appropriately.
That leaves 114 charges and again if another can be proven it should be actioned appropriately... and so on and so on as time goes by.

As for a price for Anderson? If he wants to leave then £115m please.

04 Jun 2026 17:30:59
And to think we were docked points because a proposed transfer didn't go through in time.

04 Jun 2026 17:42:32
Two tier justice, plays out in many walks of life these days. 🌳

04 Jun 2026 20:14:53
What gets me is that most of the players and the coach have applied for PIP. 🫢 Just wrong.

04 Jun 2026 20:24:27
Been found guilty, the Premier seem frightened to announce it, probably due to the severity that it will entail.
A year ago Pep said he would stay even if City were relegated to League Two, as long as the club were being honest with him and they'd done nothing wrong.
Well, he decided to leave.

04 Jun 2026 20:37:59
Put the t##ts in Scottish 3rd division i say.

04 Jun 2026 22:09:01
Originally I said they should be docked 1 point for each charge if found guilty. I take that back now. It should be 3 points a charge for time taken and any advantages they have gained in the time being. 🌳

04 Jun 2026 22:51:14
FIFA found them guilty years ago, and they were fined and had a smaller squad for the Champions League as "punishment"?

04 Jun 2026 22:53:27
Transfer embargo would hurt them more than anything else.

04 Jun 2026 23:10:36
Man City was the only ground I've ever been thrown out of and banned from during my earlier Geordie years. 🤣🤣 Couldn't find my mates. Total headf***. Ended up with the psychos on the yard, against them. I just ran for it. 🤣 Had to beg my money back home.

04 Jun 2026 07:40:20
If we are to lose Anderson to City this year (hopefully not) why not ask for 100mil and Rico Lewis with a big sell on clause or $$ if they win the league or Champions League? We should learn to start wearing the pants in these negotiations rather than wearing a skirt with no underwear.

04 Jun 2026 08:10:45
At last a post about football. Yep, we should screw these arrogant, cheating parasites for every last penny. The so-called big 5 are a scourge on the game. Every time a player has a couple of good seasons, they are hovering around.

Hope City eventually get their comeuppance. One positive for next season is we won't have to see Guardiola spitting all over the place on the sidelines.

04 Jun 2026 08:36:36
I think it's a dangerous time for players to sign for City, they don't know the outcome of the 115 charges yet.
I personally think they should have a transfer embargo put on them, plus points deduction.

04 Jun 2026 08:45:06
I'm pretty sure agents dealing with City will be asking to insert a clause into the players' contracts allowing them to leave if any sanctions mean their careers suffer.
It could be a legal minefield. I hope it comes to that as well.
Total corruption, in my opinion.

04 Jun 2026 09:35:01
I think also the Premier League should have suspended any transfer activity pending the outcome.

04 Jun 2026 12:05:27
Anderson's price tag should be well over £100 million.

04 Jun 2026 12:09:59
Bsered, apparently the big man has said 115 million or see you later, the irony of that figure. 😂

04 Jun 2026 00:14:11
So City's first bid has been rejected. Would love to know how much it was. I have a feeling we have the most expensive English player in history sitting our squad. Rice was 105 mill and is record. If they really, really want him they had better sell more Oil in Abu Dhabi because our Greek mafia boss ain't no pushover. 🛢️🌳

04 Jun 2026 10:45:55
City bid £80m for Anderson.
Mr Marinakis has already quoted £100m plus a massive sell-on clause.
We don't need to sell for FFP.

03 Jun 2026 18:59:45
After last night's 'antics', I feel the need to send a new post (positively) about Skegs. The guy is a total enigma to me which is why I find him so interesting. One minute a post with extremely harsh comments/ humour, and the next post being the peace-making 'voice of reason'. He must be a Gemini star sign!

I'll liase with McGovern to get a ticket for a home game early next season. I'd love to meet up with as many posters on here as possible at the TBI beforehand to have a couple of beers together.

03 Jun 2026 11:52:21
This is one specially for Bowie: I know you treasure the pic of Kuntze.
the Lead character in ROOTS by Arthur Hailey was Kunta Kinte. Ufuk is a common Arabic name. A mate of mine in London knew someone called Ufuk Kunta. 'nuff said.

03 Jun 2026 12:52:56
A village in Austria has changed it's name to Fugging after the long suffering residents got fed up with the jokes about it's former name Fuc49ing! I'd upload the sign but not sure how the Eds feel about it. I will try?

03 Jun 2026 13:52:36
Classic watch bsered, bud. Remember it well. 👍

03 Jun 2026 16:12:46
There's a village in Southern Germany, close to the ski area - it's called W***!!! I wouldn't want to live there. 😅🤣😂

03 Jun 2026 15:37:44
@Come on Ed, it's only a road sign. 🙏

{Ed033's Note - This is not a road sign picture site.

03 Jun 2026 17:29:53
The one in South Germany is actually a mountain, I think. We thought it was a town...

03 Jun 2026 20:27:26
I've got a picture from Wales, two of my friends and myself stood in front of the sign for 'Three Cocks'. 😁🌳

03 Jun 2026 21:20:38
I once stayed at "The Cock Inn" just outside Ashbourne.

03 Jun 2026 21:25:45
There's a hamlet/tiny village in Essex called 'Fingringhoe', ironic. 🌳

03 Jun 2026 23:19:44
Vance with a W is in Southern Germany!
Plus, near Wellingborough, there is a street called Bell End lol close to Doc Martin's Ltd Office lol.

03 Jun 2026 23:23:23
It is Ed???
We drive you round the "Bend" mate!!
🤭🤭🤭

03 Jun 2026 23:34:57
ED???
I think you'll have to tell the lads in a "Roundabout" way!!
🤣🤣🤣

04 Jun 2026 13:28:00
Hey Rogie
There's only "One Way" this will go mate!
It's either the Eds way or the "Highway"
The lads will have to "cone" centrate on something else 🙄🙄🤔😃
"

03 Jun 2026 10:24:06
Newsflash Jordan Henderson injured in training. MGW was first reserve, but they wanted a like replacement. Apparently beaches are being scoured looking for a 35 year old crab!

03 Jun 2026 11:17:16
Japanese spider crabs can live to the ripe old age of one hundred. 🦀🌳

03 Jun 2026
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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.}

03 Jun 2026 11:18:23
Well that took a dark turn didn't it. 🌳

03 Jun 2026 11:25:43
Now look what I've started? 😂

03 Jun 2026 11:34:06
DTP, mate, that's one badge of honour that I wouldn't be proud of. 🌳

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.}

03 Jun 2026 15:04:18
I stopped believing you, Stokey, when it got to the mice rowing the boat. 😂😂

03 Jun 2026 15:09:06
Well, I had drunk most of a bottle of red by then to be fair. 🤪 🤪

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.}

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.}

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.}

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.

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.

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).

02 Jun 2026 20:20:05
Anyway……

I’ve heard that the Arsenal club shop are selling back to school writing and drawing kits for kids. They are going cheap because they’re missing 2 pens …… .😃

My World Cup tip for Scotland when playing Brazil, Haiti and Morocco is to give yourselves more of a chance by sending the mascots out…… .😂😂👏🏻👏🏻

Just to give you all the heads up I’ve formed a Glenn Campbell fan club and now I’m getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know…….

.🤔🤔😂😂😂

03 Jun 2026 06:01:20
🤣🤣🤣
Stokey...
Finally getting round to watching Four Weeks That Shook The World Italia 90...
What a tournament that was!!!

03 Jun 2026 08:48:01
Wishing speedy recoveries to John Barnes, Kevin Keegan and King Kenny in their fight against the b****** that is cancer.

03 Jun 2026 15:10:41
Rogie, yes, I keep meaning to catch up with that.
And you are completely right about cancer mate. 👍

02 Jun 2026 10:57:19
GKs
We have a 1st choice in Sels
Ortega off to Germany
Gunn (off to get 1st team footy)
Victor (competent back up?)



CBs

Bindon
Murillo
Milenkovic
Morato
Abbott
Cuhna
Boly (becomes a 1st team coach?)
(Savona - I'm a right back, honest Guvnor)
Also that other lad who was out on loan.


FBs
Williams (LB/RB)
Aina (RB/LB)
Netz (LB)
Savona (RB)


MF

Yates
Sangare
Ando
Dominguez

AM

MGW
McAtee


Wingers
Ndoye (more to come?)
Bakwa (I think he'll do better 2nd season)
CHO (good on his day but average most of the time)
Hutch (decent)


Strikers
Lucca (gone)
Wood (won't play enough games)
Taiwo (decent but not 1st choice if we are going for Europe)
Jesus (good link up but better as supporting striker false 10 type thing)




Honestly:

One senior keeper for backup to Sels.


One young keeper as 3rd choice.

FB
One new FB.

CB: We are fine and have too many.


MF
One if Ando leaves.

AM
Keep. McAtee will improve this season and he wants to leave for 1st team lend him out and replace. If we sold not we'd get bugger all so needs to play and increase value.


Wing
Look for upgrades but don't change all four.

Striker
We need another main striker. Wood won't play enough, Taiwo and Jesus are decent but to qualify for Europe we need more goals.


Overloaded.

02 Jun 2026 20:09:03
We are being linked to a Roma CB. You couldn't make it up. The only position we don't really need anyone for.

02 Jun 2026 20:24:42
Got to agree, Cyclist, not a lot needed.
Even Arsenal struggle to find a 20-goal striker.
We're in good shape to move forward, and no Europe to stop us.
I said we weren't ready for Europe, and it's cost us in the Premier, but we will come back stronger.

02 Jun 2026 21:15:20
Ffs, Reds, of course we need a good injection of players. Especially if we lose our star players. "Geordie voice, who goes? You decide."

02 Jun 2026 23:17:20
We don't know we are losing any key players. I mentioned Anderson. Not convinced any of the other key players will be allowed to leave.

03 Jun 2026 00:04:50
Anderson is not a sure thing either.

Mr M won't sell for less than top dollar, which is north of 100 million. Man City are thinking 80, apparently.

He has plenty of time left on his contract and is still improving.

He is an asset on the books. Also, he doesn't strike me as the type to spit his dummy out.

If no one comes up with the money, we should get another season of him in the Garibaldi.

03 Jun 2026 11:25:36
That's a really good point, 67, keeping Ando would be a result and better than signing ten new players. Only going to get better. Knows the club and players around him. Win, win. 🌳