Nottingham Forest Banter 2

05 May 2026 18:40:05
Everyone is probably aware of this stat, but since the first season of the Premiership in 1992/93 only one team with 42 points has been relegated and that was West Ham in 2002/3. I think Bolton on 44 points finished just above the trap door. West Ham had a GD of minus 17, (similar to the minus 19 they have atm).

05 May 2026 19:20:19
The other stat, which really shows how we've turned the corner, is that between the well-worked goal that Burnley scored at the WFCG in first-half injury time and Pedro's brilliant consolation goal yesterday, we had scored 13 goals without reply... Staggering.

05 May 2026 19:30:55
Finally, on this stats theme (for those of you who are still awake), may I recommend the BBC Football website article on MGW and possible England call-up (with some interesting stats attached)? VP is truly getting a tune out of him...

05 May 2026 19:37:57
Never take any notice of stats, Stokey. Them stats can be great at the time of playing for a certain team, in a certain way that helps the players to get them stats. Playing for a different team, in a different way, them stats usually go out of the window. You ask Chelsea about stats for players they've bought with their billion pound squad. 🤣🤣

05 May 2026 19:39:54
I read the MGW article, and, looking at the stats, it's a no-brainer. The comments section of the article is particularly telling, as most of them support different clubs, and most say he has to play. Palmer and Foden have done nothing this season, and their form is terrible.

Eze? Maybe on the plane. Bellingham? Tbh, I don't watch much Spanish football, so can't really judge his form after his injury. So, for me, MGW starts over Rogers atm. 🌳

05 May 2026 19:50:36
Be interesting to hear what Ed thinks about the England number 10 situation. 🌳

{Ed001's Note - has to be MGW I would say. Bellingham is turning into a Madrid diva and Palmer has been awful since returning from injury.}

05 May 2026 21:56:57
Cheers Ed👍🌳

{Ed001's Note - very welcome.}

05 May 2026 14:37:06
Stokey did you ever serve at Carlton Nick?

05 May 2026 17:27:37
No mate. I did a few short stints there as a cover Custody Sgt though when they were short, perhaps a few weeks, off and on, over a period of a couple of months.
I worked at Beeston, Hyson Green, Bulwell, Hucknall, Central and Canning, Broxtowe and CID at Radford Road

05 May 2026 19:12:19
Ok.did you come across a PC Derek Barkes in your at Carlton?

05 May 2026 19:48:32
No, mate, doesn't ring any bells. Is he a relation or friend or some other connection?

05 May 2026 20:00:13
He was, bless him, a good friend of my parents.
He served in the 70's until he passed away unexpectedly in the mid 80's.

05 May 2026 11:28:43
Doesn’t really matter in the context of our win yesterday, but 2 of Taylor’s decisions had me scratching my head….
Yellow card rather than red for the Chelsea defender who grabbed Taiwo's shirt leading to the penalty. Last man, surely stopping a goal-scoring opportunity?
Their penalty, I thought Abbott got his head to the ball first before the two clattered into each other? By the way, no mention of Abbott going off, just the Chelsea lad on the stretcher, but that’s by the by.


I watched it on TV. I’d be interested to hear comments from anyone but especially those who were there on both incidents?

05 May 2026 14:33:23
Don't post anymore, as those who know why, know why.
However, just called by and couldn't agree with you more, Stokey.
Decrepit referee - that was a definite sending off offence against Awoniyi.
Good win anyway.
COYR
Have a good one, folks, bye. 👋

05 May 2026 15:04:34
"Hop" back on here, mate!

05 May 2026 16:10:18
Frog, mate, hope you are doing well. Don't be a stranger. 🌳

05 May 2026 17:39:26
Thanks, Red Frog. Get yourself back on here, mate, the more the merrier!

05 May 2026 18:07:43
Agree, Taylor isn't great, but overall I feel we've had a much fairer and balanced standard of officiating of late. Maybe it always was, but it didn't feel it at times. Perhaps we see what we want to see.

05 May 2026 18:34:15
Nice one, Rogie!. 👍👍😂😂

05 May 2026 21:53:56
I thaaang you!
🤣

05 May 2026 22:10:43
Missed ya froggy bud, you know it. 👍

05 May 2026 08:36:13
That is one hell of a facial injury, get well soon Morgan!
Coyr.

05 May 2026 09:05:01
Yes, he will be feeling that today.

05 May 2026 09:32:58
Half a packet of paracetamol, a double dark rum, and one of those funky new masks. He'll be okay for Thursday night, adrenaline will kick in prematch. 🌳

05 May 2026 10:58:37
That's commitment!!!

05 May 2026 12:34:34
A mere flesh wound, MGW. I once had 5 stitches across my right eyebrow from a head-butt I received arresting a nutter (!) at Nuthall Service Station on the A610 opposite the old Cinderhill Colliery. Mind you, I got off lightly because the bloke who did it had just killed his father-in-law with an axe.
I did a handover statement as soon as I'd got back to Strelley Police Station from QMC and reported for duty in the morning.


The shift Sgt decided I looked too frightening to go out on public patrol with a swollen eye and sent me on a prisoner escort to Wallsend.....
So, man up, Morgan, see ya Thursday, mare.
PS, the bloke was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, ended up at Rampton and I got 300 quid a stitch from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. 👍👍👍👍

05 May 2026 13:40:36
There were a couple of strange sequels to this calamitous incident...
I got a Chief Constable's commendation for arresting a dangerous armed man (he wasn't armed, luckily, as he'd chucked the axe away before he got to the Service Station).
I also got a complaint from a passing motorist and his wife, who kindly reported that they'd seen a Police Officer sitting astride a man who was covered in lots of blood and punching him repeatedly.

The last bit was true, but the blood was mostly his father-in-law's and mine...
Lastly, I ended up with two black eyes and was nicknamed "Chi Chi" for months afterwards...

05 May 2026 14:08:35
Dedication to duty - thanks for your brave service, Stokey.

05 May 2026 17:36:22
Thanks Buster, mate. Unfortunately, this was in the days before body armour and tasers, so it was hand to hand for several minutes. Never used my Police issue truncheon in 30 years of frontline service. Except to gain access to houses by smashing a window then using the strap to reach through to undo the latch.
I worked on the basis that if I was stronger than them I didn't need it and if I was weaker than them, they take it off me and beat me up with it .


I was born in Radford and grew up at Bestwood Park Estate and Bulwell, so I tended to forget Home Office self defence policy and just fight dirty if push came to shove, as they say .😇😇

05 May 2026 18:18:18
Took a whack on back of leg from one of those truncheons v Leicester, early 90s, in the Meadows.

My whole leg was black n blue the next day, n I could barely walk. Also got trampled by a police horse, back of away end v Sunderland, and I still got the scars from that 1.

Obviously, I was an innocent bystander on both occasions, officer.

05 May 2026 18:36:04
Redstripe, it can happen mate! 😂😂😂 🙄🙄 Collateral damage as the Americans say.

05 May 2026 19:44:30
Stripe, police horses lol. One stood on my foot outside Villa Park a few years back. They threatened to arrest me for foul and abusive language. 🤣 That was before they saw my purple bleeding foot. 🖕 🌳

06 May 2026 10:53:38
RRH, mate, did they tell you to "hop it" ... sorry. As David Attenborough said "the only animal with a c*** on its back". 😁 🤔
On a serious note, they are gentle creatures but intimidating, and can cause a lot of damage by their sheer size and weight. Every year of my service we had an "away day" at the deserted RAF base near Bingham RAF Newton. We worked with the Dog and Horse section on Public Order.
One of the scariest exercises was for us infantry to line up in full riot gear, facing forward, at another group of training officers throwing bricks and petrol bombs at us (we had shields and a fire extinguisher officer. They probably don't do it nowadays for health and safety reasons).


Anyway, two Sgts took turns standing behind the line whose job it was to pull a couple of officers by the shoulder backwards and inwards to create a gap in the line at the last second for half a dozen horses at the gallop to run through, then close the gap when they'd passed through....
I tell you, facing forward and hearing those horses approaching you from behind, and counting on your Sgts' timing, made one trump a bit.
The only untoward incident I saw during this particular exercise was when a horse was pulled up in front and promptly urinated on a few of the lads and lasses. Like a chuffing cascade. The hundreds of un-urinated-on people were, of course, doubled up laughing.

06 May 2026 22:05:39
Wallsend, about a mile from me, Stokey.

05 May 2026 07:39:14
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04 May 2026
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05 May 2026 06:11:52
Happy Birthday To Bowie!!!
Many of them, mate!!!
Uuuuuu Redddss!!!

05 May 2026 09:00:30
Ditto the diamond, have an amazing day bud. 👍

05 May 2026 09:05:53
You 2 think your queen's. 🤣🤣 Have a good day.

05 May 2026 13:24:41
Have a great time in Guernsey Lego. The photo of MGW posted by DTP was the one I tried (and failed) to send you on WhatsApp yesterday evening, mate.
I had a great time on Guernsey's sister island, Jersey, on a Notts Police Rugby tour back in the day. From what I can remember of it anyway. 😂 🤪

04 May 2026 22:07:03
Well now the oremier is over for us. A prediction for next season.
Top 6 without a doubt.
Got the right coach.

04 May 2026 23:28:32
Not very often, I agree, but yeah, dtp, I think we've found the best manager for this club. I just hope our owner doesn't sell too many of our best players.

05 May 2026 05:08:32
Mate, if they decide they want to go, Mr M can only do so much to make them stay. Then, again, if we happen to actually win the Europa League with Champions League football at Forest, who knows?

04 May 2026 21:00:05
Hey up cyclist aint it good we know how to keep the faith? 😂😂
I said to gazzibaldi couple of games ago, renew dont worry.
We wasnt ready for Europe, but we had to except the challenge and its affected our league form, same for Palace.
Thursday defnes our season.
Massive opportunity.

04 May 2026 21:48:06
And I did renew Ff.
Never really in doubt. It's in me blood, me duck.

04 May 2026 21:51:51
Good and keep it up.
You know we are worth it, pal.

04 May 2026 22:14:17
I've upgraded my recliner for next season. 😁

04 May 2026 22:24:41
Hopefully to a rocket fully loaded with rocket fuel. 🤣🤣

04 May 2026 23:02:15
I'll hold my hand up. It was either season tickets for me and son, or 6 weeks in Spain. I love Forest, but it wasn't a contest. Be great to see us back in the Champions League. If we don't lose to Villa, we are going to qualify.

😎

04 May 2026 23:08:02
I believed. I voted stay up and Champ's League in the poll. Don't know how many did, but we're close even if we don't make it.

More fun to try to believe, although under Ange and Dyche, I was struggling to believe what I was watching, let alone believe we'd win games. 😆

04 May 2026 23:24:10
Perhaps the big man was right to have 4 managers per season. 🤣

05 May 2026 09:37:17
In a weird coincidence, Olympiacos had four managers the year they won the Conference League. 🌳

04 May 2026 19:42:51
What can I say after that performance? I’ve run out of superlatives. VP said it best…. “this is a special squad of players. I ask a lot of them and they keep producing”. Battered, bruised, tired (by Sunday 3 games in 6 days), like Rocky they keep getting up off the canvas and beating teams which are both more expensively assembled (Chelsea, Villa, Spurs) or have had much more recovery time between matches (Sunderland for example).
I know now what VP is scribbling down in his notebook. He’s calculating the minutes each player has played, the combinations and evolving tactics, substitutions….

There’s some science involved but it’s like playing 3 dimensional chess. What a manager! Connected to the fans, great man manager, astute tactician who the players to a man want to play for. Good humoured, never moans, always maintains his dignity on camera (take note Dick Emery). Great charisma too.
He and his players are massively over achieving and winning matches against great odds. Great to be a Forest fan in recent months. Quite remarkable turn around…….

04 May 2026 20:16:34
Good post. Missed the game as was working, but what a result. I think 1 point pretty much guarantees we stay up.

I was really concerned when I saw the lineup, but they produced. Well done, Forest.

Hopefully the most negative on here can concede it looks like we are going to pull it off.

Well done, VP, great job in such a short time and has everyone playing with confidence.

Next up, only our biggest match of the season so far!

04 May 2026 20:18:40
Great post, Stokey. Myself, I'm from your part of the UK, n couldn't put it better myself. 💯

04 May 2026 20:29:54
Never doubt.
Like, I've said over the past two months, we are the form team, and that's what counts. Points in the bag and not lost in ten now.
Scoring for fun as well.
Can't wait for Thursday.

04 May 2026 20:48:46
Ginger, we were staying up when West Ham lost to Brentford.
We weren't in danger before today's game, as posted yesterday.
We don't need any points.

04 May 2026 21:31:00
Great post, Stokey. Now in St Peter's Port in Guernsey with Mrs Legolas revelling in our latest success! Forest are on a roll and that's good enough for me!

04 May 2026 22:42:43
Ain't it great. Great coach like Vitor moving us forward. And hopefully taking us to that special place, a final in the UEFA, thanks to Nuno from last season. Yes, DTP, if it wasn't for him you wouldn't be looking forward to Thursday, whatever you say. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

04 May 2026 23:05:53
Marinakis picked Cooper = Prem.

Marinakis picked Nuno = Europe.

Marinakis picked Vitor = Champions League??

Syrianos/Edu picked Dyche =. 😱🤡😱

Who picked Ange?

04 May 2026 23:30:14
You ain't got a clue skegs what disruption nuno caused after 3 games
The same players Edu signed are now performing
Nuno never tried to give it a go full stop
Why?

05 May 2026 19:24:34
Hey, Redclough, which part of the Potteries are you from, mate?

04 May 2026 19:55:24
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new video entitled entitled, C U Next Time - Seamus Gloats}