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I’m sure he was all of those things at under-23 level, but struggled with the physicality of L2. Our next set of defenders/loan signings need to have shown they can handle men’s football, otherwise...

Thanks for that, very interesting. Stags seem to have done well with loanees from Forest, Derby and Leicester in recent seasons.

Good call! Hope you enjoy the ups and downs we’re no doubt guaranteed.

He never stood out the few times I saw him play. And it’s worth noting that for all the youth players we’ve released in recent decades, Colby Bishop was an outlier and one of the few (maybe with...

Exactly. Every single decision makes sense, though I’m sure a couple must have been tough calls.

JOB did really well overall this year, but we need players who can start 46 league games and stay...

Amen to that (no pun intended). JB always came across as a thoroughly decent guy and I’m sure all Notts fans wish him nothing but the best going forwards. Unfortunately, it was his increasing...

Come on Solihull. Be nice to see Boston back in the NL too, a proper non-league club.

Brindley’s gone. Our only option may be sending the likes of Rawlinson, Chicksen, Stone, Morias and Slocombe out on loan next season if we can’t offload them as free transfers. It’s a lot of players...

It’s a good point about the top 3, they really were too good for everyone else.

For the other 21 clubs, it was such a strange and unpredictable league, epitomised by Doncaster’s surge up the...

The one thing we know is that we can’t afford to go down again and risk the academy funding. In that sense, this season was a free hit for SM, but he can’t expect the same next season if the results...

I agree with you - 86 goals against is horrific. But the weird thing when you look at the table is that every team from 11th on down ended up with a negative goal difference except for us (plus 3)....

I just don’t see many teams with the necessary funds to buy JJ or Macca - assuming that no Championship team comes in for either of them. Jodi’s been a joy to watch, but he can’t defend well enough...

That would be incredibly reasonable if true (no offence to your source, Durham), given the general rise in prices since last year.

I thought they said it would be a bit later than that, but no official date offered. It was noticeable at the open training day that he and Baj were still doing very basic fitness work away from the...

If we can trust the BBC formations information, it does feel like 4-2-3-1 is more popular than 3-5-2 these days. By playing two genuine full backs, it would hopefully redress the attack/defence...

Great post. I’m sure this Wednesday’s forum will prove illuminating, because for the first time there is some frustration about how the season went downhill. It will be interesting to hear the...

It would be great if that game were winner take all, because Burnley are everything Forest are not as a side - attack-minded and fun to watch. They deserved to beat Man Utd yesterday, but share...

Like Jones, Crowley has one year left on his contract. It would be bad business to let them leave for nothing at the end of next season, so it will be interesting to see what happens this summer.
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I agree with you on both points - swap the two halves of the season around and we’d be feeling a lot more upbeat about next season. And when we needed our big players to step up, they didn’t (Macca...

I hope so, but as we’ve seen with Scott, it’s going to take a while for him to get back to his best. I’m sure the club will be nursing him back carefully, though.

It’s not quite accurate to say we didn’t turn up against the top 7 - we played well away at Stockport, Wrexham and Mansfield, but lost by the odd goal each time. Crewe (where we also could have got...

The point is if you think a season like this is a reason not to renew your season ticket, you clearly weren’t around when we were truly dire and the entertainment value was pretty much zero.

Maybe a few have grown too accustomed to us winning most of our home games over the past five seasons. I just find the “not renewing my season ticket” response rather laughable.

Macca winning the golden boot seems to have gone a little under the radar - 70 goals in two seasons really is a remarkable achievement.

I did see something on X the other day (so it must be true)...

I’m reserving judgement until we have better midfielders alongside him like a fully fit Palmer and a replacement for JOB/Bostock.