Nottingham Forest banter 5

08 Jun 2026 11:56:47
Well the World Cup is close now, so I've been waiting for the family draw in fun game - I got Jordan and Australia!!! Why did I bother. ? It could have been worse, a newly wed bride got Iran and Iraq. ? ? ?

{Ed001's Note - I got Colombia and South Africa, so no hope either.}

08 Jun 2026 15:30:38
Sounds better than mine, Scotland, England. ?

08 Jun 2026 17:30:59
Ha ha, we did ours today at work too, Red, DR Congo and Morocco.
Semi-finalists at the last World Cup, I think, but I bet they can't cheat their way to this trophy.

We also have the worst team and the goal of the tournament, so there is still something to go for with the poorer teams.

08 Jun 2026 21:55:35
Austria
Bob Hope and no hope. ?

08 Jun 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - Davey Sulls has posted a new article entitled, Iraola Expectations and Liverpool Squad Priorities

07 Jun 2026 14:45:44
Didn't watch the England game thankfully but Haite beat the same opposition 4-0 speaks volumes for the Jug Eared Krauts squad selection

Foden MGW and Palmer have the X factor that Rodger's Mainoo and The Crab don't have

Tuchel out now.

07 Jun 2026 17:01:16
Didn't watch it, but can cast judgement, lol. We have so many oracles on this site. ??

07 Jun 2026 17:26:04
Don't need to watch England play to know how boring Turtles football is. At least we won't have to put up with it for long. Gone by the quarter-finals.

07 Jun 2026 17:36:30
Skegs, have you been hanging out with DTP again? Can see you both cozied up, arms linked and sharing an ice cream whilst fishing for minnows. ❤️?

07 Jun 2026 17:38:32
Watched a great documentary on England's 2006 World Cup tournament... "The Golden Generation".
Ferdinand quite rightly said, "France, Germany and Spain had theirs too... We were s***... too many rivalries at club level, we were afraid that we might give something away for the following season".


They couldn't really blame "The WAGS"... as when Italy won it, their "WAGS" were there too... or maybe the Italian Press never gave them the platform that the English Media/Journalists gave theirs???
Might be wrong.
Very good insight nonetheless.

07 Jun 2026 18:34:48
@Rogie, It's the hope that kills us! ?

07 Jun 2026 18:52:59
Way I see it, everyone wanted Southgate out, mainly because his style of football was pretty damn dire. They got what they wanted. There were calls for a manager who knows how to win, and we got one.

Now, these same people, who always voice their likes and dislikes about a manager, have decided they want Tommy out. He hasn't even had a game at a major tournament yet. ?

07 Jun 2026 20:19:11
Could you ever imagine Germany hiring a English coach ??? how stupid we must look its about right in many ways for our so called country now

07 Jun 2026 20:51:06
Wishing a speedy recovery to Christian Eriksen. Get well soon, mate.

07 Jun 2026 20:53:33
Can anyone name an English coach who: A. Would want the job?
And B. Is good enough to take the country forward?
There's not exactly many ripping it up in the Premier League. ?

07 Jun 2026 20:56:45
You could cause an argument in a phone box winter.

07 Jun 2026 21:08:46
He tries his best, dtp. ? And, RRH, I would rather have Cooper than a German coach. I wonder what anthem Turtle would sing if we played Germany. That would be very interesting. ?

07 Jun 2026 21:10:58
Top man, Skeggs. ?

07 Jun 2026 21:53:48
I think Winter has a crush on us, Skeggs.
He's been talking to himself and missing us. ??

07 Jun 2026 22:05:04
?? He's secretly stalking our profiles. Be afraid, be very afraid. ?

07 Jun 2026 22:14:16
Be careful, he has his missus looking on. ?

08 Jun 2026 00:14:50
Wow, you pair are about as funny as the Chuckle Brothers. In fact, they'll have you pair over a barrel, just the way you both like it. ? ?

08 Jun 2026 06:18:21
Best of luck to Sir Chris Hoy in his challenge to cycle 400 miles across Spain, for disadvantaged people.
Absolute inspiration.

08 Jun 2026 09:52:15
Don't understand why people take so much notice of what basically are open training sessions.

08 Jun 2026 09:53:27
RRH,
The Chuckle Brothers filmed an episode called "The Steeplechucks" at my house before it was renovated back in the late 1990's, I think.
It's on YouTube.

08 Jun 2026 09:54:34
Skegs,
Cooper has won a World Cup with England already, mate... Just saying....

08 Jun 2026 10:41:31
I knew I shouldn't have mentioned Cooper. ??? Yes, anyone that knows football knows that, Stokie. ?? He won it with the boys. So what's your point?

08 Jun 2026 10:57:37
I'm surprised you weren't clamoring for Lee Carsley, Skegs. I mean, he's a proper Englishman. ? ?

08 Jun 2026 11:00:09
Anyway, 'Top Man', Skegs. ? Blossoming new friendships on the site warm the heart. ❤️ ?

08 Jun 2026 11:10:46
Red Robin, yep born in Birmingham.

08 Jun 2026 11:18:45
I know, Stevie, yet capped 40 times for the Irish and refused to sing our national anthem. You should have let Skegs answer. ? ?

08 Jun 2026 14:18:39
Rogie, I echo your best wishes for Erikson. I wonder why he keeps putting himself through it? He must have made his money, and playing with a pacemaker in that heat can't be doing him any good. Great player.

08 Jun 2026 14:24:36
Skegs, mate, it was partly to wind you up, which worked a treat. Very satisfying indeed….. ????…..
But seriously, SC has the pedigree, doesn't he?
To take a bunch of average players, some on the verge of retirement, the vast majority fading into obscurity and never to be heard of again, and injury-prone, from the doldrums into the top echelons of world football.


I mean, he did the same with Forest, didn't he? ??????

08 Jun 2026 14:27:01
Whilst I think about it, Tuchel was hired to win football matches. If you wanted a manager who could sing national anthems the FA should have hired Ed Sheeran .????

08 Jun 2026 15:14:02
RedRobin, sorry mate, didn't realise you'd set a trap. ?

08 Jun 2026 15:25:17
Stokey, how did that wind me up. ??? Stick to your storytelling, pal. Oh no, you're no good at that neither. ? Traps. ?? Oh boys, stick to what you know best. Nothing. ?

08 Jun 2026 15:47:26
Yeah, and you carry on fleecing tourists with those donkey rides. ??

08 Jun 2026 15:49:06
And may I add, isn't it nice to actually have some banter close season without anyone throwing toys outta the pram. ??

08 Jun 2026 20:01:51
Stokey, Baddiel and Skinner auditioned. Apparently they wanted to bin 'God Save The King' for 'Three Lions', which I'm sure everyone would have been behind. ??

08 Jun 2026 22:03:08
RRH
"God Save the King" is a dire national anthem, mate, I have to reluctantly admit.
As E.M. Forster described it, "A curt series of demands upon Jehovah!" About right, I think.
And the second verse is even worse.

08 Jun 2026 22:42:32
Winter, you're the only one young enough to have a pram. ???

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. ?????

09 Jun 2026 00:48:53
Not a pram, but I was once involved in a race down Santa Pod. Boy racer pimped pushchair vs a four poster bed. ??

09 Jun 2026 10:23:13
Light hearted quiz for you, DTP. Without googling, see if you (or anyone, to pass a few minutes) can source the following quotes on who has seen the following......

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

"I've seen the yellow lights go down the Mississippi. I've seen the bridges of the world, and they're for real. I've had a red lights off the wrist, without me even getting kissed.

It still seems so unreal."

"Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets, and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt sleeves, leaning out of windows?"

"I saw a beheaded milkman, his torso still sitting in the driver's seat of his milk float."

"I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it. I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it."

There's no prize but it kills a bit of time before the World Cup kicks off ......

{Ed001's Note - surely they are some of the things Victor Marx has done?}

09 Jun 2026 12:04:43
I've never heard of him Ed. Has he got a sister called Onya?

{Ed001's Note - probably. Google some of his claims, hilarious mate.}

09 Jun 2026 13:22:43
Will do. ??

07 Jun 2026 14:37:46
If Elliott Anderson and MGW leave Forest this window, then we should be receiving 180m in transfer fees

110m and 70m respectively.

Question: can McAtee step up and fill MGW's boots? I have doubts about that but possibly.

Who will replace Anderson? Hackney would be a massive gamble imo so why not got for him and Danilo in case it doesn’t work out

We need 2 strikers imo to replace Wood and Awoniyi as it will leave us the Jesus and Kalimuendo both not target number 9s, so either Mateta or Delap or why not both.

07 Jun 2026 16:19:45
We are not selling MGW. He's not for sale. There is financial pressure to sell him.

If we don't get £115M plus, Anderson will be going nowhere. We do not have to sell anyone unless it's good for Forest.

07 Jun 2026 16:27:46
Agree that we need striker (or 2) and Mateta looks decent. Openda used to be lightning, although I think he is more a speedy attacker who can play across the front, not just a number 9.

07 Jun 2026 16:58:56
*It should say there is no financial pressure to sell MGW!!!

07 Jun 2026 17:03:52
Openda is a hell of a player, Cyclist. Don't judge him on Juventus, look back at his performances for Racing Club Lens and RB Leipzig. ?

07 Jun 2026 17:09:10
Yes, I'd give Openda a punt, for sure. He'll be available for less than he's worth now, I expect.

07 Jun 2026 17:40:29
Imagine if we managed to keep Anderson, MGW, etc.?
And a few quality signings?
We'd be nowhere near a relegation fight next season.

07 Jun 2026 21:09:50
Without Europe we won't be anywhere there anyway, Rogie.

07 Jun 2026 10:02:06
Well done, Herr Tuchel, for a very uninspiring performance against New Zealand! Play like that in the group stage and England will be coming home!
Poor.

07 Jun 2026 11:20:27
England won't make it past quarter finals. I was watching Corrie catch-up last night; more interesting. There will be a few games I watch in the World Cup, and it won't be England — bore me to tears. But I have had a sneaky bet on Netherlands to get to final. ?

07 Jun 2026 11:28:51
Tommy Turtle billed it as a training/acclimatised game and that was exactly what it was. Twenty two players got a run out. It wasn't the most inspiring performance, but what do you expect?
At one point in the second half, there were three of our Reds on the pitch. Nice to see. ??

07 Jun 2026 09:29:59
The best thing that could happen this summer for Forest would be stability and a plan. After years of change - and I don’t mean just the manager, I mean several board and below board positions - this is what the club needs. That team/squad last year, whilst unbalanced, should have been mid table. Instability and - if you want to call it that - chaos, affects everyone, from the top to the bottom and it does affect players. Change can be fun of course as there is ‘never a dull moment’ but Forest needs a dull period - stable manager, lower profile Chair, fewer transfers, CEO/Sporting Director etc. If it doesn’t happen - and there’s basically zero evidence to suggest it will - we are most likely to continue to see lots of rumours and the prospect of another relegation battle in my view.

Furthermore, putting Anderson to one side as he is going, eventually the ‘chaos’ becomes less fun and players will want to leave - MGW, perhaps Murillo, Williams etc. We have been chronically dependent on Morgan and my own personal view is that if he leaves and the chaos continues, we will be in a very bad situation. Hopefully, against the odds, we plum for a period of stability and decent, limited but higher quality recruitment.

07 Jun 2026 12:40:38
Great post! My thoughts exactly, mate. ???????

07 Jun 2026 21:16:05
Tbh iv've got more faith.
Just remember the previous 20 odd years is all I will say.

06 Jun 2026 19:04:12
Hey Eds, any chance we could have live chat open for the England group and knockout games? (if we get through that is). Friendlies don't matter. ????????

{Ed033's Note - Yes. Go on the Nottingham Forest live chat.

06 Jun 2026 21:18:59
Nice one thx Ed. ? Get involved, gentlemen, we can all cry together when we go out on pens. ??

07 Jun 2026 15:10:06
We won't get out of the group stage with this clueless prat in charge. We lose against Croatia and Ghana beat Panama 1-0.

06 Jun 2026 20:02:16
Curious, who would take Grealish as part ex along with a decent amount of money for Anderson?

06 Jun 2026 20:46:38
In a heartbeat if we get the maverick old version of him in his Villa days, don't want the scaled back Pep influenced version of him though. ?

06 Jun 2026 21:11:04
Alternatively, if United come back in for him I'd take Rashford also. ?

07 Jun 2026 15:13:16
Grealish as a 10 would be great, but more of a Gibbs White replacement, imo, and need an Adam Wharton / Garner / Scott as a like-for-like replacement for Anderson.

09 Jun 2026 11:06:10
Expensive, past it, wrong attitude and doesn't want to work. We don't want playboys and big egos at Forest, imo, so it's a resounding "No" from me.

{Ed001's Note - he missed a game at Everton over Xmas due to being too drunk the night before.}

09 Jun 2026 11:14:46
Exactly, mate! When he managed to actually drag his arse onto the field, he made little contribution. It's a shame because he had enormous talent in his day.
Even at Villa, the signs were there.

I remember him as Villa captain exhorting everyone to obey the COVID rules and save lives and was then caught out and about on the razz. So you add "hypocrisy" to his charge sheet too.

{Ed001's Note - he was that hammered he drove into a bunch of parked cars and was wandering around in a daze with just one flip flop on.}

06 Jun 2026 15:54:25
My wife and I visited the Normandy Beaches and the cemeteries! If you ever want to see the results of today back then, do the visit! It will bring tears ti your eyes, when you see so many white headstones.
RIP to the fallen.
Thank you to those still around, so brave.

06 Jun 2026 16:53:09
I'm sure, mate.
I met a guy who was visiting a Cemetery near Normandy.
He said there's a school that has a designated pupil for each headstone, they look after it for a year, and another pupil takes over the responsibility.
Brilliant idea.

06 Jun 2026 17:42:07
Sorry lads, I regret to inform you, that the Germany World Cup Kit looks brilliant.
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06 Jun 2026 17:44:31
Yes, I heard that about the school! I put forward a suggestion to the government 20 years ago that, on Remembrance Day, a child could stand in for a fallen soldier at school and read about the man or woman, so as to remember them.

It didn't happen, but as a veteran, I remember them.

06 Jun 2026 19:06:22
We salute you, sir!!!. ?

06 Jun 2026 20:16:29
Keeff, my family and I visited Normandy a few years back and, like you, I was moved and very impressed by what you describe, particularly how immaculately kept the graves were.
I don't know if you saw the remains of the floating Mulberry Harbour just off the beach. It epitomises the "can do" attitude of that time from Churchil down to the youngest private. No port no problem. We 'll just tow one with us. With a full underwater fuel pipeline ( PLUTO ( pipe line under the Ocean) up and running from the Isle of Wight within a few weeks of the landing. A British invention, all of it.Now, with all our advanced technology we can't even build a railway from London to Leeds
Those men ( and women) were like mythical giants then, scarcely imaginable to our present enfeebled generation and society.
We visited Pegasus Bridge too. Six gliders ( apart from basic instrumentation, entirely made of wood) carrying 30 glider troops each from the Oxfords and Bucks, trained and led by Major John Howard ( in civilian life a Police Inspector from Oxford City Force).
The closest glider ( navigated at night, by the light of the moon, following the canals, no engine, no radar, no way home) landed less than the width of a football pitch from one heavily defended end of the bridge.

Piloted by an ex salesman Sgt Jim Wallwork from Salford.He went on to do perform similar miracles in every subsequent British glider operation in the War and lived to a ripe old age as did Howard. The position of the glider is still marked in outline. The bridge ( and the next one) were captured with few casualties in ten minutes ( and held for three days under heavy counter attack until the Paras arrived. You could throw a stone from where it landed to the German gun emplacement. German survivors said they heard a heavy thud and foliage snapping then within 2 minutes they were prisoners ( or dead).
Cafe Gondee is still there at the end of the bridge and ( when I went) still owned by the same family. The first premises in occupied Europe to be liberated.
The original bridge is in a field nearby, still marked by gunfire damage. As is ( or was) a reconstructed glider.
As I say, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, courage and ingenuity beyond belief. As Churchill said " Our finest hour".

06 Jun 2026 21:23:39
Brilliant mate, just brilliant.

06 Jun 2026 23:15:38
Great post, Stokey. ?

07 Jun 2026 10:00:21
Yes, Stokey, great post, mate! We did the full tour, taking in the Pont du Hoc, where the huge gun casements are. Plus, the lookout post that is still in one piece. We went up to Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where the paratrooper landed on the church spire.

They have a dummy hanging there now.
We walked along Omaha Beach, looking at the gun positions, and my Mrs found a pound coin on the beach. ?

07 Jun 2026 16:14:58
Excellent Keefe, mate! ?

06 Jun 2026 07:39:15
{Ed's Note - Seano_ has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Squad Assessment and Summer Priorities

06 Jun 2026 09:50:00
RIP to all who fought today.... and in WW2.
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06 Jun 2026 11:00:37
Rogie
The Golden Generation, the like of which we will never see again.
We always go to the National Memorial Arboretum at Lichfield, near where we live, to pay our respects.
Truly heroic. We owe them our freedom (which nowadays we tend to take for granted).

06 Jun 2026 12:32:31
... And they were, mate, incredible courage, and bravery.

06 Jun 2026 13:10:36
We shall remember. ?

06 Jun 2026 14:49:17
Proud of them all. Men, women, children, animals. Who sacrificed for us. Looking at our country now... Well, you end the line in your heads.

06 Jun 2026 17:44:06
Someone said recently...
"If they knew then what they know now... they would have got back on their Landing Crafts."
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