Nottingham Forest banter 8

09 Sep 2026 07:39:13
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 3 - Quick Round Up

09 Sep 2026 10:57:58
Thanks Ed. Good reading as usual mate.
Look forward to catching up with the Ndoye/ Tonali battle as described and the match as a whole.
An interesting start to the season generally. Excellent point about the role reversal at Forest under Glasner and Palaces new boss

{Ed001's Note - it has been a very interesting start to the new season. Arsenal look like they are going to grind their way to another title though at the moment.}

09 Sep 2026 17:22:09
Away from football matters...
I just happen to be watching the quite brilliant "The African Queen ". (3rd time!!)

09 Sep 2026 18:45:57
Rogie, don't mention Queen to Stokie mate. You'll get him all excited again. ?

09 Sep 2026 18:57:00

Rogie, mate, my second favourite Bogart film after “Casablanca” but before (just) “The Big Sleep”. Nobody does the hard-bitten tough guy with a big tender and passionate heart than Bogie.

Apart from our own Bowie on here of course!

Great film! ??

09 Sep 2026 19:18:50
It really is superb,two absolute legends at their brilliant best from a bygone Era.

08 Sep 2026 23:12:47
I feel thankful that due to this site I have met up in person with great people like Stokey, McGovern and Carlo. Telling, though, that this site has lost the other two apart from Stokey.

I'm not a bitter nor a resentful person - but I do wonder how many posters have felt the need to leave this forum due to the 'bitchy element'? Personally, I think DTP was the chief instigator and I'm glad he's gone.

09 Sep 2026 01:48:12
True, Lego, but with DTP, I always found the gloves were off, he'd give it with his handbag, then I'd give him both barrels, but his skin was as thick as his personality. ??

09 Sep 2026 10:37:18
Don't agree, Lego. DTP had his options, but I find that refreshing, & at least when he spoke about football, it was with good knowledge. Nobody had more tussles with him than me, but I never lost any sleep.

It's a banter site, & I enjoyed our exchanges, & I'm sure he did. Some folk take life too seriously. If you want to talk politics, Shakespeare, & charities, etc., there's a discussion section for that. Lighten up, mate.

09 Sep 2026 11:36:58
Bowie and Lego, the voices of reason and worldly wisdom as always.
I found some of the posts from the usual suspects a bit tiresome but it’s like water off a ducks back to me, as you’ve previously pointed out Bowie. Some of the latter stuff, as I remarked was a bit creepy and stalkerish but when put into the context of my proper job ( when, for example,I had professional enforcers after me for some months before me and my team got them potted) then it’s pretty amateurish and lightweight tbh.


Larry, just a suggestion from your post above, mate, shall we leave it to Ed where to put posts on this site?. Ed 1 and his colleagues usually know what they’re doing ?
Moving forward, after this post, I undertake to be a bit more diplomatic in my responses….after all, like DDS, you can’t cure stupid ….
Over and out ……….( apart from the core function on here, which is football and the progress of our famous club) ……?

09 Sep 2026 17:45:31
Lego not quite sure why you’re talking about DTP he’s been gone weeks, at one time of day this used to be a Forest football site, not sure what you would call it now, we’re all grown men on here, so called ‘ bitching and bullying are two words I wouldn’t expect to be used.

09 Sep 2026 21:59:06
Stevie, read down bud. Tried everything. But I admit I get drawn into it.

10 Sep 2026 12:43:47
I'm not sure about his football knowledge and acumen at times tbh. I think DTP lost a lot of credibility on here when he came up with the ludicrous idea that a certain manager ( he that cannot be named. Get thee behind me Satan.) caused Murillo's "season ending injury" by playing him at left wing back in a Europa tie.


Another one on here who never let the facts confuse him once he'd made his mind up. But let's not be bitchy or bullying. He had a nice garden.

08 Sep 2026 19:39:44
Could someone plz tell me how Carlos doing these days, know he hasn't come back as he always called me Mr B ? Nah but seriously. Always had time for the laddie. Met him few times. Legend.
Secondly, plz plz the lot of ya stop pouring into stokey, and stokey bud.

Your football analysis is sometimes brilliant. It's the history of Hitler's wrongun etc and the Cleopatra's wet wipes they tear into ya. Just saying. But on stokey lately it's almost bullying reds. Won't see it with anyone on here. Well progressively.
Now let's reset and get on.

08 Sep 2026 21:40:54
Stokie bullying what you on, Bowie ??. Like he said in a previous comment, fact, as he likes to say, if you can't take it, don't give it, that goes for everyone.

08 Sep 2026 21:53:21
Jay, my friend, isn't about to and fro. And, you know it. It's about calling a halt on us all and getting back to the odd gesture and football. Skegs, the Forest sites tumbling, can't ya see it? Never here to try and rule it. Only to be there for all of ya.

08 Sep 2026 22:08:08
I've got through the last 12 to 14 years on here without any halts like a few on here. It's a banter site, and not everyone agrees with everything, and that's what the site's about; else there would never be one. I like Glasner. Larry doesn't. dtp liked Cooper, I didn't.

Rogie likes everyone, I don't. Carlo used to wind everyone up, same as Rhr with his commentary in-between, but do I still like them? Yes, I do. Because they say what they believe in. Do I like Stokie? Yes, I think he needs a cuddle though, lol. Let it be what it is, a banter site. ?

08 Sep 2026 22:32:05
And I blame VP for losing the semi last season. If we had European football this season, you lot would have something else to moan about. ?

08 Sep 2026 22:59:31
Oh, I forgot Baldy and my best friend, Stevie, the incredible sulk. ?

08 Sep 2026 22:24:35
To be fair i agree with Skegs, yeah several of us can take it to the edge of whats right and whats wrong. But we have Eds to police us, just because Stokey insults us more eloquently, it doesn't mean its not insulting.
And i agree with Skegs again, twice in one reply, a new record for the donkey humping gypo?.

I also don't have a problem with anyone here, i have to admit i even miss DTP(shh don't tell him please).
After the blasting i got from a certain poster about apparently disrespecting our ancestors, which i didn't by the way and never would. Maybe the neighbourhood watch should button it. ??

09 Sep 2026 13:01:56
A joke or banter if funny. The same joke/topic for an entire day and three threads is tedious.

08 Sep 2026 18:38:32
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 3 - Quick Round Up

08 Sep 2026 08:03:29
A few decent players available with no contracts, Karim Benzamar has quit the Saudi Pro League - I think Garibaldi Red would suit him up front!

08 Sep 2026 10:23:39
Apparently several Premier League sides are in talks with Jadon Sancho. Really hoping we aren't one of them. ?

08 Sep 2026 12:24:00
Agreed, RRH! A player with a lot of potential, who decided to sit back, taking the wages, instead of playing to his potential!
No wonder he doesn't have a contract!

09 Sep 2026 19:02:59
Benzimar was probably on half a million a week in Saudi.

08 Sep 2026 07:39:11
{Ed's Note - thefutureisoldgold3 has posted a new article entitled, Wolves Ratings v Birmingham City

07 Sep 2026 20:02:57
Accurate summary Big Larry.

07 Sep 2026 20:25:50
Now, now, now. You pair of bin dippers. ?? Always with the negative attitude, you 2, Glasner, Mr M. We will be living the Forest dream. ???

07 Sep 2026 20:47:25
You've been saying that for weeks, Skeggs!!!.
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08 Sep 2026 10:53:39
And I will keep saying it, Rogie, cause we all know im right in the end. ?

08 Sep 2026 11:07:17
“We ALL know I’m right in the end” same old, same old arrogance eh? ??

No need to get all shirty about it, Stokie. Take a chill pill, pal, its not my fault im always right. ?

08 Sep 2026 12:43:38
And i quote "Ive never been proven wrong". Guess who said that only yesterday? ?. Definitely some black pot kettling going on. ?

08 Sep 2026 13:02:25
The difference being, of course, RRH, in the word "proven", mate. I rest my case...

08 Sep 2026 14:11:53
Superiority complex. ??

08 Sep 2026 14:56:05
Absolutely mate…..Can’t touch this …
As I keep saying to the other East Coast sodomites, words are important. They can save your life or get you killed….
As I’ve said before, I’m just glad I don’t have to follow you clowns into the witness box at Crown Court….
I had the honour and privilege to be taught the Classics at University by a wonderful old chap called Professor John Newt. He was so old fashioned that when females were admitted into St David’s College ( it had been an all male Theology College for years) he took to his rooms and refused to teach them.

Definitely a repressed and closet gay, like you guys.
There are loads of references to gayness in the Ancient Greek and Roman lexicon. For example the death in Battle before Troy of Achilles boyfriend Patroclus by Hector.
He used to refer to “ the unspeakable vice of the Greeks”…???
Anyway, it was only when he passed away that it came to light that he was a decorated code breaker at Bletchley park …. One of his many secrets I’m sure….
Anyway, I’ll keep my remarks to football matters as I don’t want to raise any false hopes for you desperadoes…….

08 Sep 2026 17:58:37
Haha ?, I think we touched a nerve there. ?
We maybe annoying, immature, but I genuinely think we're funny, especially when sticking to a know it all toff (or at least someone who thinks he is). ? ?

08 Sep 2026 18:05:05
And if i had a chance to spend time with a toff or a couple of East Coast sodomites, well, I'd be taking a no.2.???

08 Sep 2026 18:39:14
A man’s got to have a hobby RRH mate……
I bet with those 2 you don’t know which way to turn …….
Sooner you than me ……good luck !

08 Sep 2026 18:57:19
A toff….. Dad from Radford, Mam from the Meadows, born in Radford, lived on Bestwood Park Estate and Farley St Bulwell………went to Ellis Guilford and Forest Fields, Dad a welder Mam a cleaning lady…… you, sir, or either mad or you have the pox ………?????

08 Sep 2026 21:06:03
After hanging around with the sodomite two, i have got a rash?, can you catch STDs from toilet seats? ???

09 Sep 2026 16:04:05
Ask skegs, but in your case it's probably gum disease winter. Try sitting.

09 Sep 2026 16:52:39
About as funny as it gets, bog standard as usual. ?

09 Sep 2026 18:36:58
I will explain the joke some other time. For now, loo loo it's to Sir with Love.

07 Sep 2026 15:33:44
Well I listened to the whole game on Saturday and now I've watched the whole game on Forest TV.
So my observations:
Cunha, McAtee and Schlager were good.
Ndoye was ineffective but Jesus was miles better. Delap was ok but Kalimuendo rather than Wood would have made more sense from a thrust and speed point of view. MGW never got into the game.
In general terms both sides were poor. Forest had no fire and got no rhythm going at all especially in midfield since McAtee was asked to be defensive - Sangare can do much better there and push McAtee further forward.
If there was a Glasner plan I failed to see it at all. Much of the game seemed aimless on both sides, perhaps because they don't know what to do or can't yet combine with each other.


We wasted corners and failed to keep any possession except in the last 15 minutes.
Distribution by Sels and Murillo was poor, and we kept failing to get any second balls.
Munoz is ok and Delap will get better with more minutes and harder training.
All in all a nothing game and hard to predict what we might be like ten games in, but if we fail to improve it looks like a bottom of the table scrap again.
Not sure Williams scored but not sure on this showing that we deserved it. Peter Bankes is anathema to us.

07 Sep 2026 15:51:35
It simply has to be the manager, mate?
Most of the first 11 have been together for nearly 3 years now.
They must know how each other plays.

07 Sep 2026 16:14:36
Thanks, Bse... I'm missing my Forest fix atm and need a catch up. Interesting analysis, and much appreciated. ?

07 Sep 2026 16:50:28
Cheerio, Edu!!!!.
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07 Sep 2026 16:57:08
Bsered, here's my observation, but a much shorter analysis.
Before slipping into a coma with acute boredom on 65 mins, I witnessed the biggest pile of disjointed garbage in a long time. Another bang-average season at best unfolded.

07 Sep 2026 20:30:08
Reading your posts, Larry, I slip into a coma long before that, mate. ? ?

07 Sep 2026 21:11:41
Fishing rod time, another defeat, Stokie. Is Dyche managing you?. ??

07 Sep 2026 20:52:02
Have you actually read your own posts stokie.by the time you've read them you slip into a coma die come back as a zombie.and slip into a coma again ????

08 Sep 2026 08:15:18
Talking of zombies, how are things in Skegmess?

08 Sep 2026 09:00:56
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This fishing rod really winds you up doesn’t it Larry. Is that why you failed as a prison officer ?….
“Boo hoo, the lags on my wing keep laughing at me and wont follow my rules…..Boo hoo” ???????

08 Sep 2026 09:19:04
You clearly don’t read your own posts Skegs ……….epic fails on repetition, punctuation, spelling and it’s often pure gobbledegook when you’re agitated…..
By the way, did anyone on here ever bring you that bottle of water you asked for ? ……
???

08 Sep 2026 10:29:37
It's the old justify the fishing rods chestnut because I've been sussed & made a fool of myself. ?

08 Sep 2026 10:55:09
Well, it's very generous of you to admit that, Larry. As welcome as it was, unexpected. ???

08 Sep 2026 11:04:01
You must have had a good holiday. Spent 90% of it on your phone posting. I bet the Saturday nights fly by in your house.

08 Sep 2026 11:30:40
Still having a great holiday, Larry. The sun continues to shine, the cold drinks continue to arrive, mate. But I prefer a more active, yomping type holiday like our cruise around the Mediterranean earlier in the summer. The only exercise I get poolside is running rings around you ... Gotta go, another cocktail ? and snack arriving.
Cheers. ? ??

08 Sep 2026 12:15:03
What's the cocktail you're drinking, Stokie? Over the rainbow. ? ?

08 Sep 2026 12:37:54
Just as we suspected, Skegs. Stokie goes cruising. ? It's all falling into place now. ??

08 Sep 2026 12:51:03
Meanwhile, whilst sunning myself on Brighton seafront, the waiter appears 'Another Over Rainbow, Stokey?', with a cheeky wink and slap of his backside, 'Of course, Tarquin.' ?

08 Sep 2026 13:09:32
It's all getting a bit creepy and stalker-ish, to be honest, lads. I'm out of here...
Before I go, I remember Julian Cleary fantasising (for comedic purposes, obviously not genuine acolytes like you lot) to Ian Hislop on HIGNFY about tying him up and having his way with him...
Hislop's reply was superb. "Tie me down? Yes, you'd have to, Julian". ????

08 Sep 2026 14:13:31
Stalker-ish? Or close to home? lol, so we're right then. ??

08 Sep 2026 14:13:44
I'll take your word for it, Stokie, it's your world. ? ? Hislop & Cleary were superb, eh? Bless ya. Glad you enjoyed it. ??

08 Sep 2026 15:15:34
I did enjoy it, Larry, thank you. They are very, very funny in a way that you can only dream of, mate. You are to wit what (your icon) Larry Grayson was to Rugby League. ? ?

08 Sep 2026 16:20:25
Wow, that's told me. My, however, will I recover from that put down. ???

08 Sep 2026 16:58:31
Please feel free to come back at me, Larry. Just hope I don't bust another rib laughing, mate. ? ?

07 Sep 2026 11:21:33
Our next two games are winnable.

Villa are in a state of flux atm. If we play like we did against Liverpool I think we can win there and we should beat Coventry. That would be a decent start, then 8pts from 5 games.



Delap is getting fitter and hopefully Diamonde too.

I would like to see a back three of Diamonde Cunha and Murrilo as I think Cunha is much more mobile than Milenkovic.

07 Sep 2026 12:37:25
Good shout, Munmad, I was thinking much the same about our upcoming fixtures. Need to get a couple of wins before the international break. ?

07 Sep 2026 17:48:19
Both games have draw written over them for different reasons.

07 Sep 2026 09:54:46
To put Neco's goal controversy to bed, Sky Sports News has a different angle of the video, taken from the top right corner. It does hit his hand just as it crosses the line. Debatable if that counts as clear and obvious though. ?

07 Sep 2026 13:55:10
Well, whatever it was, it wasn't "clear and obvious". If it had been, the Spurs players would have been going mad about it. They didn't; the referee gave the goal, but VAR decided to stick their oar in, and after what seemed an eternity decided it was "a clear and obvious mistake". The fact it took so long proved that it wasn't. Door handles!