📉Florist

[KintoreMagpie]

Without knowing too much of the goings on at Forest they clearly are struggling to adapt to life in the premier league. The aim for them this season has got to be to finish above the relegation zone.

I don’t think it’s helped by the fact there has been such a massive change in personnel. They have brought in around 17 players as I understand. Therefore the momentum they had (and probably unity) from last season has been lost.

Forest also owe some degree of loyalty to Steve Cooper for what he did last season taking them from where their playoff final rivals Huddersfield are currently sat in the championship (23rd) to the premier league. An achievement attempted by so many but achieved by none this century until this year. So things could be far worse for them. If they do go back down they’ll have the parachute payments.

Being a long way from Nottingham I am out of touch with the local media and the public sentiment for Forest’s aspirations prior to the start of the season. However if anybody genuinely thought beyond retaining their premiership position as being their top priority then I think they were being delusional. Speaking to my cousin the other night I was shocked to learn that Cooper’s head was on the chopping block already and after the embarrassment of the derby defeat then, on the basis of what my cousin was saying, Cooper is a goner. The argument put to me was that Forest wasted all this money on players who aren’t good enough for the premiership and the responsibility for that lies with the manager. Genuine question, which only occurred to me after my conversation, was recruitment solely down to Cooper or the owner or did they have a panel who made the decisions as to who to bring in, or a combination of all three?

As someone who started supporting Notts just prior to the arrival of Jimmy I did have to swallow hard watching Forest’s success under Clough and suffer the abuse that followed from continuing to support Notts. At least the gulf between the teams was not wide during the 70s and through to the early 90s but, currently, we are so far behind there is no competition and it seems to me that Notts are an irrelevance to most of the Nottingham public and media. Consequently I get less stressed about the situation. Clearly it helps being far removed from Nottingham and being somewhat older. However I can never forget being part of our school football team c 1974 (pre Clough and the Bradford fire) having the dubious honour of getting tickets to see Forest v Bolton. I think we sat in the old East Stand which was a timber construction watching the Forest casuals spend most of the game trying to get at a small group of opposition fans using all means at their disposal. This included building a bonfire to distract the small line of police protecting the away support. This Neanderthal behaviour merely confirmed that I could never support the team in red.

[queenslandpie]

A month really is a long time in football

Leicester fans signing you are getting sacked in the morning aimed at Cooper last night, that's precisely one game after they sang the very same song about Rodgers.

Rightly so people had F*rest's chances of survival at 50:50 not very long ago, since then it's all gone Pete Tong. What chances would you give today?

I am happy to leave this to all the Red Dogs to discuss and argue over who's fault it is, they know the club and are the experts after all

As always I'm just happy to see them lose on TV, or read they have lost on my phone. Tbh I can't imagine being a football fan and not having that feeling about least one club. If you don't personally I think you are missing out but different strokes for different folks.

This was a horrific loss against a winless side sat bottom of the table.

Yes and 23 years is a long time to wait to screw it up in one month. Shambolic panic buying I mean who would have thought that Lingard would be a dud. I could see that happening from my perch here in QLD. They are heading for the largest ever wage bill in the Championship with a squad full of unknown duds on big money. It's Alan Hardy but 500 times worse.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Spending all that money on big contracts and getting relegated is going to be a nightmare. They could well do a Sunderland!

I've noticed a distinct quietening if the local media about them, start of the season was a massive fanfare and now the reality has hit, very quiet indeed!

[countygump]

Yes and 23 years is a long time to wait to screw it up in one month. Shambolic panic buying I mean who would have thought that Lingard would be a dud. I could see that happening from my perch here in QLD. They are heading for the largest ever wage bill in the Championship with a squad full of unknown duds on big money. It's Alan Hardy but 500 times worse.

This^^^ If they do get relegated, any parachute money will be swallowed up and will dissappear without touching the sides. Thanx to their, (what must be a), huge wage bill. They've spent big, but spent foolishly. It's Hardy on steroids territory.

[Elite_Pie]

Swale, you know how this board has a "handbags" thread, where posters who can't stop bickering are (quite rightly) sent to bicker without bothering the rest of us - how about a "be nice to Forest" thread where you can send posters who continually hijack the plss-taking threads by saying "they're nothing to do with us" and "we shouldn't laugh at them" and "we would gladly swap places with them" and so on? Having a laugh at Forest's woes should be a part of every Notts fan's DNA and it gets extremely tiresome to see posts on her that complain about it.

That’s a thread I would never visit!

Hate them with a passion, always have and always will.

[Elite_Pie]

Hope the weathers nice for you, Eli. Hope it doesn't Reynard.

Nice and sunny here, I plan a little look on LTLF by the pool in a bit. I’ll set the stopwatch for anyone interested on how long I’m on there.

I doubt they’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed!

[laddo]

#markit

[crazyfists]

Cooperman or the Kebab man sh!t on the squad that got them up last season. They had a couple of loan players that they lost after going up. Not signing them was the start of the break up of the harmony in the squad. To sign 23 players that the majority of us have never heard of says it all.
The money they have wasted should have been spent on 4 or 5 real quality signings.

If Notts get up, I hope they won't do a reds special

I hope they get whipped by Villa next on tv. Might have to move it to the Commedy channel

Yeah it was crap last night for them, they looked doomed already. You can't bring in that many players and expect results especially if they're not top drawer players. I like Cooper, I don't think this is down to him, they've just bought anyone and expect them to hit the ground running. They went up too quickly for me, if they'd have had another season in the championship to build a squad and maybe sign some of the loans then they'd have been better equipped this season with 4 or 5 quality signings as others have said. I think if you go up and want to build a squad, look who's in the fringes of the team in other Premier league squads who could be bought to take them off the other teams wage h bill. Get 6 or 7 of them and you'd be ok.

[Oldstripy]

If IB gets the boot this weekend he would be great for florist he could teach them to pass the ball across the pitch 15 times before the big boot up the pitch.

[countygump]

If IB gets the boot this weekend he would be great for florist he could teach them to pass the ball across the pitch 15 times before the big boot up the pitch.

There is some talk of Benitez taking the managers job, think I'd sooner keep Cooper. If anyone can scratch enough points together to keep them in the Prem, it's Cooper.



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