Nottingham Forest banter 9

06 Jan 2026 19:24:22
We'll be able to tell within 5 minutes if we're up for the fight tonight.
Fast and press. No passive sitting back.

06 Jan 2026 20:36:46
Created nothing in 30 minutes, need the wind to blow the ball into the net as the way we are going will be only way we get a goal, hopefully wrong and someone gets there shooting boots on.

06 Jan 2026 20:54:15
Not a chance Monty.
Stand more chance of Elvis Presley landing on the Loch Ness Mobster's nose than Forest scoring!
The elephant man could score more than this bunch!

06 Jan 2026 18:13:17
Although tonight's game has a boring 0-0 result written all over it, I'm going for a sneaky Forest goal to scrape it 0-1.

06 Jan 2026 18:49:02
I'd take 1-0 to us, Lego. We need 3 points.

06 Jan 2026 19:18:20
A win, anyway, anyhow, just bloody put a proper performance in, blood, guts and tempo?.

06 Jan 2026 19:32:35
JUST F@#£KING WIN!
(Sorry Ed! )

06 Jan 2026 17:25:59
I've got a feeling that tonight's going to be a good good night ?????
I'm going down the pub to watch
You know with real people and real ale??.

06 Jan 2026 18:13:27
Have a 00 in the 40 Bridges you know it makes sense ??dry January ?????.

06 Jan 2026 18:18:23
DTP glad you do mate At the moment I’ve got zero confidence in these players to show up, they let us down at Bournemouth, Everton, fulham, villa, etc, any racing men on here might remember a publication called timeform, it used to give a horse a number rating based on past performance, and if one was inconsistent or untrustworthy, they used to put asterisk type squiggle at the side of the number, , well if timeform were rating this lot they would definitely have a squiggle, untrustworthy and unreliable, and the manager too, he might have the infamous double squiggle after Saturdays set up, here’s hoping.

06 Jan 2026 18:22:06
Can't see your post dtp (well done eds) ????.

06 Jan 2026 18:26:21
Real people but no friends??.

06 Jan 2026 18:30:58
Hahaha Bowie how do we all sign up to exclude his posts lol ?.

06 Jan 2026 18:36:00
Don't worry winter ill go door knocking to find some ???.

06 Jan 2026 18:36:08
Yeah right i can't find the option ?.

06 Jan 2026 18:37:10
Like it Bowie ??.

06 Jan 2026 18:38:44
Winter is putting his best nail varnish on tonight
Won't be long fingers first on the buttons
Best emoji wins ???.

06 Jan 2026 18:45:01
Stevie my only concern is how dyche goes about getting a result, he worries me more than the players.

06 Jan 2026 18:45:10
Yawn?, only nail varnish i have is the one you left at mine. ?.

06 Jan 2026 18:57:35
I thought all the pubs had banned Labour lefties dtp. You won't get in ?.

06 Jan 2026 19:23:45
Lol i meant my reply below, doesn't quite fit this thread ??.

06 Jan 2026 19:24:21
Not I'll take that back, these panda pops are amazing ???.

06 Jan 2026 19:39:58
Never voted Labour in my life and never will balloons.

06 Jan 2026 15:42:15
One of the Sunderland players said that they started putting more effort in when they saw Granit Xhaka in training. He trained so hard that the others wondered why they weren't putting in the same level of effort and it was humbling. I think maybe we feel over privileged and like we belong in this league. The table will tell us otherwise. I agree tactics have been poor and we are on our 3rd manager in a short space of time.

The truth us though its time for the players to step up. Tonight more than ever. Fight for every inch. If you lose after putting it all on the line then fine, I can accept that. But if you are able to jog off that pitch after a defeat, then your hearts not in it and I feel like we're not a good match.

06 Jan 2026 13:57:50
Callum Wilson anyone?

06 Jan 2026 14:38:41
I’d take Richard Wilson at the minute, he’d probably fit in better on here as a poster though.

06 Jan 2026 15:17:08
I'd take Wilson from Castaway if it got goals!

06 Jan 2026 16:59:13
I'd take Howard Wilson. Pipe not allowed in changing room though. got to keep strict.

06 Jan 2026 17:26:41
We'll need Sgt Wilson!
COYRS!

06 Jan 2026 18:27:53
On a serious note I'm glad he's not playing against us he always causes us trouble
I'd take him till end of the season be a good impact sub imo.

06 Jan 2026 18:29:57
Woodrow?

06 Jan 2026 18:45:18
He's lost some weight, Robin.

06 Jan 2026 19:04:35
Whimpey?

06 Jan 2026 12:52:50
Oh no way not that bloody Harrington ref tonight. Remember that foul on Dominguez that he called so wrong which led to the Sunderland goal? Yes it’s him. Jeez you can’t make this crap up- he was abysmal that day. Looks like we are playing 12 again.

06 Jan 2026 16:43:17
We'll struggle against 9 men. We have been abysmal for the last few games, bar the city match.

06 Jan 2026 11:11:28
I’m just wondering which Forest team will turn up tonight?
The one that played great entertaining and committed football like against Man Utd, Man City, Spurs, Leeds and Liverpool or the flaccid version like against Villa, Everton, Brighton.

I’d even take a grim grind out of a win like against Wolves to give us some breathing space, then a couple of tweaks in the transfer window, rebuild confidence, cut out the basic errors and go again.

06 Jan 2026 11:55:09
Think we'd all take a win stokey no matter the performance in this game
To me even a draw is ok, a liss would be disastrous.

06 Jan 2026 12:01:38
The team that will turn up to night is the one that picks itself every week because there no quality on the bench.
Over to you the Lump it Brothers. I've cancelled the Nytol for tonight. It's going to be Woan-derful.

06 Jan 2026 12:08:30
We can't lose to West ham that got battered by wolves last week no excuses should be a easy win I've put 20 on forest -1 goal uredddsssss.

06 Jan 2026 12:17:46
I think West Ham and Nuno are in a worst position to Forest. ATM we are the closest team to them. Goal scoring is both clubs big negative. Do it depends then whose defence is worst. Melonvich was slow to close down for the first two Villa goals, so he is the weak link in our defence.

SD for me is a more inspirational manager on and off the pitch. It would sadden me if they didn’t play until they drop tonight for SD position.

06 Jan 2026 12:17:56
It is a massive game for Nuno and Dyche what ever they say, since West Ham beat us at the City Ground there form has nosed dived, and it could be Nunos last game, defeat for us will just increase the discontent amongst the supporters for Dyche!, we should beat them and gain what would be a massive three points.

06 Jan 2026 13:15:32
Keep it tight at the back first 20, in courage Hutch to get in the box waste of time throwing in crosses hard and low it will turn their defence to jelly leaving Jesus to pick up knock ins just need to feed Hutchinson and whoever is on the other flank including the wingbacks we need Anderson and whoever partners him to step up and control the midfield COYR.

06 Jan 2026 13:55:24
We can't score goals, that's the main problem.

06 Jan 2026 15:21:42
This is a significant game, but I am unsure who will score for us. Hopefully, we will win, and again, hopefully, Edu will be released from his duties!

06 Jan 2026 16:43:58
Own goal might be our best hope, Ripley.

06 Jan 2026 16:54:12
As long as it's in Wet Sam's net I don't care ??.

06 Jan 2026 10:54:25
Do clubs really not learn their lessons? Chelsea giving Rosenior a six year contract. How much of a payout will he get when they sack him in the summer?
And Utd, cost them in the ballpark of 27 million to hire then fire Amorim. Reports of a 10 million severance package lol. ?.

06 Jan 2026 11:51:08
Had to laugh at the Sun’s headline ( no I’m not a reader)
“When the trophies are nil
And it’s cost 30 mill
That’s Amorim “…. ??.

06 Jan 2026 11:51:13
He's come from their parents club though winter
He knows how it works within the blue co empire
Hwewon't kick up a fuss about recruitment because he knows his job is purely as a coach and to get results, it's quite clever giving him his apprenticeship and seeing how he gets on
Chelsea obviously believe he's now ready for the big job.

06 Jan 2026 16:20:46
I bet Rosenior can't believe his luck with a 6 year contract. He'll be sacked in the summer.

06 Jan 2026 17:36:05
Not luck though silkman chelsea have spent the effort of trying him out at their parent club
Refreshing to see a young coach in premier.

06 Jan 2026 17:57:18
Weird that stokey i'd have had you down as sun reader all day long ????.

06 Jan 2026 09:27:32
We cannot repeat CANNOT afford to lose at West Han today

They have the worst defence in the league we can’t sit back and be passive we have to control the game and be on the front foot

Sels

Aina
Milenkovic
Murrilo
Williams

Hutchinson
Anderson
Luis
Bakwa

MGW
Jesus.

06 Jan 2026 12:09:17
MM I agree the team almost picks itself. Personally I would put our best goal scorer up front ie MGW. Then we have an extra in midfield.

06 Jan 2026 13:57:22
If CHO is fit I'd use him first half.

06 Jan 2026 09:22:26
Do a swap deal with Wolves McAtee for Strsnd Larsen and stop the LKalimuendo loan deal as we only need an injury to Jesus.

06 Jan 2026 10:55:08
Sounds good to me munmad??.

06 Jan 2026 00:34:40
Ed033, is the "Ignore" feature a real thing and being put on every teams pages, bit unusual for a Banter site, but can see the logic?.

{Ed033's Note - I would imagine most posters won't use the feature when it is implemented on here.

06 Jan 2026 11:34:20
Thank you for replying Ed033, would the poster know if they are being blocked?, may help to know if it's worth posting in the first place if the majority of site are blocking you?.

{Ed033's Note - All that happens is if you decided for example to hide DTP posts in the My Profile page, DTP's posts and replies text gets replaced with the words, DTP's text hidden when you visit the main pages on this site. DTP wouldn't notice anything different and no one else would notice anything different unless they have hidden DTP posts in the My Profile page and they are logged in.

i would imagine that most people won't use the feature. It's only if when logged in posters come onto the site, they get triggered when they see any posts from a specific poster, which can lead to one poster sending in derogatory posts about another poster.

06 Jan 2026 12:32:37
Thanks again for your reply and the site evolution, not technically minded myself, more a Steve Jobs, have a Idea then go to more technical people and say "Do this! ", but always thought in the close season have an open Forum for all the sites posters to comment on one another's teams, can you imagine a discussion between Stokey and Shappy?.

{Ed033's Note - It's something for me to ponder about.

06 Jan 2026 15:42:18
Ed003, it would be amusing if you could force members to ignore each other. That might stop them hurling abuse at each other every day. The only problem is I think a lot of people find that more interesting to read than posts about football.

{Ed033's Note - If i was a Jedi, i could use the Force.

06 Jan 2026 17:29:40
A lot of it could be cut and pasted from 4 years ago?.

06 Jan 2026 17:11:25
And a fine example edd ??.

{Ed033's Note - Right, could mean less remarks fro some about other posters

06 Jan 2026 07:39:23
{Ed's Note - Red Man has posted a new article entitled, Time to Reflect on Manchester United

06 Jan 2026 05:12:58
I wonder if it has crossed Dyche”s tiny dinosaur mind to try Taiwo and Kalimuendo as a strike partnership? You would have thought Cretaceous period football of lump it long would have demanded such a gesture. Surely it would have been worth a go under the circumstances of generally being unable to score goals?

06 Jan 2026 10:46:12
Frog, he might as well send 9 players out mate. I won’t comment on the “Crustacean” bit of your post, you will have gathered my views on SD.

06 Jan 2026 10:56:27
Yes frog, Cretaceous love it! ?.

06 Jan 2026 11:53:19
Bloody spell check. Although some of the so called advanced footballing sides like Man City and Arsenal do pass sideways a lot ……. ??.

06 Jan 2026 12:04:08
Weirdly enough Stokey, crabs walk sideways ??.

06 Jan 2026 13:10:46
Exactly mate……. ????.