New Signings?

[SithHappens]

"the" Tommy Smith has been dead for over 3 years, so I'd be surprised if we were in for him. Although he probably could still hack it in League 1

And probably still be a better signing than jlingz on 4 million a week, oh crap I took it off topic again 😀

[SithHappens]

It all went wrong on 24 May 2014..... ever since its been a battle against the odds leading us to where we are now. Even if we'd come straight back down we'd have had parachute money to become a yoyo club. in reality we were always on an uphill treadmill from that fatal day - despite a year when 3 premier class loan signings landed on our doormat thanks to a celebrity manager who was never going to stick around.

We were certainly in a strong position then, and I will always think we were unlucky the following season, I know all clubs have injuries but the ones we had after the new year that season was ridiculous.

It does get me down thinking about that team and what could have been. (Should have been)

Maybe wind it back a couple of months when Bobby madeley had his horrific refereeing performance when we played Burnley though. Sliding doors and all that.

[macstheman]

"the" Tommy Smith has been dead for over 3 years, so I'd be surprised if we were in for him. Although he probably could still hack it in League 1

Another ex-footballer who developed Alzheimers in later life!
A real toughie but I'd have had him in my team!!

[Andy_Faber]

Maybe wind it back a couple of months when Bobby madeley had his horrific refereeing performance when we played Burnley though. Sliding doors and all that.

Was that the Chris Martin non-penalty / sending off farce? I said at the time that was a turning point

[SithHappens]

Was that the Chris Martin non-penalty / sending off farce? I said at the time that was a turning point

Yep, even madeley has admitted since he had a stinker. He had a pre conception about Martin being a cheat, its obvious. When you watch it back Martin clearly slips, doesn’t even appeal. Hendricks goal should have been allowed to stand.

Referees can have a massive influence, I guess you could also say the same for Forest, they came so close to relegation that they were at one point in the bottom 3 on the last day, that same season the ref had a stinker by falling for lansbury cheating against Newcastle and then the game against us where Johnson was denied what would likely have been a winning goal for a foul on the Forest keeper even though it was actually a Forest player who committed the foul on his own keeper.

[DCFCArmy]

That playoff final was the watershed moment for sure

But the way we started going against everything wed done the previous few seasons in that jan 2015 transfer palava month still pi33es me of more than the final loss.

Ince was a decent signing and he should have been the only signing that month unless we wanted adequate bench warmers that fit the style of play we had grown into. instead we signed Bent and Lingard amongst others and there was no need, none of them other than Ince fitted that team style and even Ince was a push to get in the team, at least he scored goals in it though. Instead we should have signed a proper 2nd Martin type along with a Thorne type ie another Eustace.

Instead what we got was that muppet pushing McClaren to one sude and bringing in candy type players that didnt fit the style and it slowly unravelled despite us pushing for the playoffs for a few more seasons after, although that was down to the quality we at least got albeit it was never sustainable long term and it slowly began to fade.

We didnt need those signings we just needed adequate cover on the bench, that ckown tried to reinvent the wheel though

Saying that... come on we should have scored one of those chamces vs QPR, but I dread to think what baldy would have done with all that lolly pop money in the prem, wed have ended up paying Jlingz 100k a week for one season....

[DCFCArmy]

If i was a Forest fan right now what Derby are or arent doing would barely even register

No one in the prem bubble gives a to33 about them so theyre having to try and wind us up and get some attention and relevance elsewhere

As Ive said befire the prem will not guve a damn about them, the top 6 wont care they wont even register the name only when they have them on the Sunday or Monday night. Most of the others are josstling for their chair underneath them so they will only care about staying in the bubble. The media wont care, theyll give a bit of attention until the start of the season because of Clough but then its on to the season and Klopp vs Pep and Conte, Ronaldo etc, the brand and all that. Leicester have found all this out and theyre bored, the novelty has long since worn off same fir Leeds and the few ithers.

We’ll have a lot more fun batering with real fans, not the tik tok brigade the prem attracts.

[DCFCArmy]

But i didn't say that.
The PL is the goal for every league club.
Your persepctive is not the norm. I repsect it, but are you seriously talling me, that any club followed by football supporters don't/wouldn't push for their team to be as good as it could be?
That just enjoying "football" is what they want?

Yes the novelty may wear off for some if we’re still here come May or for some if it goes over into a 3rd season, but I bet right now we’ll have more fun down here than you will up there trying to find your position which as I said in the post above will forever be with the likes of Leicester, Wolves etc, who all get ignored because they aint the cash darlings

We all want to be the best because in this football climate its never happening because its been monopolised b

Just to remind you, now that you mention the enjoyment side of it.
We all watch it for that reason and are you saying that watching Mickleover is better/ more entertaining than watching Brazil / Barcelona/ Liverpool?

Of course not, we all enjoy watching the best footballers turf up th best football.
We'll see how enntertained you are at the end of the season in the 3rd tier. Its awful entertainment wise, no matter how nostalgic you are.

The premiership is not entertaining and hasnt been since about 2010

Its a brand, its like watching WWF/E nowadays

I watch more south american football and lower league stuff (Championship being the most interesting I find although that does need soemthing changing in regards to ffp and parachute payments before it goes the way the prem has)

I pray the day the rich bast@rds take their circus elsewhere and guve us our football back in this country

The novelty will wear off trust me

[StensonRam]

The truth of the matter is though whether you like the PL or not while ever there is a league higher than the one your playing in you have to strive to get there otherwise whats the point, are you to throw games if you start getting to too close to promotion just because you don't like the PL, if so whats the actual point in buying players and training then, whats the point in having a club even or fans for that matter

[Geoff Parkstone]

In a little under 60 years that I've been watching football, the top flight has been won by 12 different teams - 4 of whom have won it just once -and dominated by 4 or 5 teams.

It's an oligopoly, currently driven entirely by cash and greed. You ask what's the point of buying players and training, Stenson : I agree - what is the point. Most clubs flounder around looking for momentary flashes of light - a cup run, a promotion, the development of a good player. But such success is ephemeral.

The only way to success is to invest huge sums of money to buy that success. To me, that's not football. Football is a mug of Bovril supporting your team on a bleak wet Saturday afternoon at Spotland. (other grounds are available)