Nottingham Forest banter 6

07 Jun 2026 10:02:06
Well done, Herr Tuchel, for a very uninspiring performance against New Zealand! Play like that in the group stage and England will be coming home!
Poor.

07 Jun 2026 11:20:27
England won't make it past quarter finals. I was watching Corrie catch-up last night; more interesting. There will be a few games I watch in the World Cup, and it won't be England — bore me to tears. But I have had a sneaky bet on Netherlands to get to final. ?

07 Jun 2026 11:28:51
Tommy Turtle billed it as a training/acclimatised game and that was exactly what it was. Twenty two players got a run out. It wasn't the most inspiring performance, but what do you expect?
At one point in the second half, there were three of our Reds on the pitch. Nice to see. ??

07 Jun 2026 09:29:59
The best thing that could happen this summer for Forest would be stability and a plan. After years of change - and I don’t mean just the manager, I mean several board and below board positions - this is what the club needs. That team/squad last year, whilst unbalanced, should have been mid table. Instability and - if you want to call it that - chaos, affects everyone, from the top to the bottom and it does affect players. Change can be fun of course as there is ‘never a dull moment’ but Forest needs a dull period - stable manager, lower profile Chair, fewer transfers, CEO/Sporting Director etc. If it doesn’t happen - and there’s basically zero evidence to suggest it will - we are most likely to continue to see lots of rumours and the prospect of another relegation battle in my view.

Furthermore, putting Anderson to one side as he is going, eventually the ‘chaos’ becomes less fun and players will want to leave - MGW, perhaps Murillo, Williams etc. We have been chronically dependent on Morgan and my own personal view is that if he leaves and the chaos continues, we will be in a very bad situation. Hopefully, against the odds, we plum for a period of stability and decent, limited but higher quality recruitment.

07 Jun 2026 12:40:38
Great post! My thoughts exactly, mate. ???????

07 Jun 2026 21:16:05
Tbh iv've got more faith.
Just remember the previous 20 odd years is all I will say.

06 Jun 2026 19:04:12
Hey Eds, any chance we could have live chat open for the England group and knockout games? (if we get through that is). Friendlies don't matter. ????????

{Ed033's Note - Yes. Go on the Nottingham Forest live chat.

06 Jun 2026 21:18:59
Nice one thx Ed. ? Get involved, gentlemen, we can all cry together when we go out on pens. ??

07 Jun 2026 15:10:06
We won't get out of the group stage with this clueless prat in charge. We lose against Croatia and Ghana beat Panama 1-0.

06 Jun 2026 20:02:16
Curious, who would take Grealish as part ex along with a decent amount of money for Anderson?

06 Jun 2026 20:46:38
In a heartbeat if we get the maverick old version of him in his Villa days, don't want the scaled back Pep influenced version of him though. ?

06 Jun 2026 21:11:04
Alternatively, if United come back in for him I'd take Rashford also. ?

07 Jun 2026 15:13:16
Grealish as a 10 would be great, but more of a Gibbs White replacement, imo, and need an Adam Wharton / Garner / Scott as a like-for-like replacement for Anderson.

09 Jun 2026 11:06:10
Expensive, past it, wrong attitude and doesn't want to work. We don't want playboys and big egos at Forest, imo, so it's a resounding "No" from me.

{Ed001's Note - he missed a game at Everton over Xmas due to being too drunk the night before.}

09 Jun 2026 11:14:46
Exactly, mate! When he managed to actually drag his arse onto the field, he made little contribution. It's a shame because he had enormous talent in his day.
Even at Villa, the signs were there.

I remember him as Villa captain exhorting everyone to obey the COVID rules and save lives and was then caught out and about on the razz. So you add "hypocrisy" to his charge sheet too.

{Ed001's Note - he was that hammered he drove into a bunch of parked cars and was wandering around in a daze with just one flip flop on.}

06 Jun 2026 15:54:25
My wife and I visited the Normandy Beaches and the cemeteries! If you ever want to see the results of today back then, do the visit! It will bring tears ti your eyes, when you see so many white headstones.
RIP to the fallen.
Thank you to those still around, so brave.

06 Jun 2026 16:53:09
I'm sure, mate.
I met a guy who was visiting a Cemetery near Normandy.
He said there's a school that has a designated pupil for each headstone, they look after it for a year, and another pupil takes over the responsibility.
Brilliant idea.

06 Jun 2026 17:42:07
Sorry lads, I regret to inform you, that the Germany World Cup Kit looks brilliant.
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06 Jun 2026 17:44:31
Yes, I heard that about the school! I put forward a suggestion to the government 20 years ago that, on Remembrance Day, a child could stand in for a fallen soldier at school and read about the man or woman, so as to remember them.

It didn't happen, but as a veteran, I remember them.

06 Jun 2026 19:06:22
We salute you, sir!!!. ?

06 Jun 2026 20:16:29
Keeff, my family and I visited Normandy a few years back and, like you, I was moved and very impressed by what you describe, particularly how immaculately kept the graves were.
I don't know if you saw the remains of the floating Mulberry Harbour just off the beach. It epitomises the "can do" attitude of that time from Churchil down to the youngest private. No port no problem. We 'll just tow one with us. With a full underwater fuel pipeline ( PLUTO ( pipe line under the Ocean) up and running from the Isle of Wight within a few weeks of the landing. A British invention, all of it.Now, with all our advanced technology we can't even build a railway from London to Leeds
Those men ( and women) were like mythical giants then, scarcely imaginable to our present enfeebled generation and society.
We visited Pegasus Bridge too. Six gliders ( apart from basic instrumentation, entirely made of wood) carrying 30 glider troops each from the Oxfords and Bucks, trained and led by Major John Howard ( in civilian life a Police Inspector from Oxford City Force).
The closest glider ( navigated at night, by the light of the moon, following the canals, no engine, no radar, no way home) landed less than the width of a football pitch from one heavily defended end of the bridge.

Piloted by an ex salesman Sgt Jim Wallwork from Salford.He went on to do perform similar miracles in every subsequent British glider operation in the War and lived to a ripe old age as did Howard. The position of the glider is still marked in outline. The bridge ( and the next one) were captured with few casualties in ten minutes ( and held for three days under heavy counter attack until the Paras arrived. You could throw a stone from where it landed to the German gun emplacement. German survivors said they heard a heavy thud and foliage snapping then within 2 minutes they were prisoners ( or dead).
Cafe Gondee is still there at the end of the bridge and ( when I went) still owned by the same family. The first premises in occupied Europe to be liberated.
The original bridge is in a field nearby, still marked by gunfire damage. As is ( or was) a reconstructed glider.
As I say, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, courage and ingenuity beyond belief. As Churchill said " Our finest hour".

06 Jun 2026 21:23:39
Brilliant mate, just brilliant.

06 Jun 2026 23:15:38
Great post, Stokey. ?

07 Jun 2026 10:00:21
Yes, Stokey, great post, mate! We did the full tour, taking in the Pont du Hoc, where the huge gun casements are. Plus, the lookout post that is still in one piece. We went up to Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where the paratrooper landed on the church spire.

They have a dummy hanging there now.
We walked along Omaha Beach, looking at the gun positions, and my Mrs found a pound coin on the beach. ?

07 Jun 2026 16:14:58
Excellent Keefe, mate! ?

06 Jun 2026 07:39:15
{Ed's Note - Seano_ has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Squad Assessment and Summer Priorities

06 Jun 2026 09:50:00
RIP to all who fought today.... and in WW2.
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06 Jun 2026 11:00:37
Rogie
The Golden Generation, the like of which we will never see again.
We always go to the National Memorial Arboretum at Lichfield, near where we live, to pay our respects.
Truly heroic. We owe them our freedom (which nowadays we tend to take for granted).

06 Jun 2026 12:32:31
... And they were, mate, incredible courage, and bravery.

06 Jun 2026 13:10:36
We shall remember. ?

06 Jun 2026 14:49:17
Proud of them all. Men, women, children, animals. Who sacrificed for us. Looking at our country now... Well, you end the line in your heads.

06 Jun 2026 17:44:06
Someone said recently...
"If they knew then what they know now... they would have got back on their Landing Crafts."
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05 Jun 2026 10:45:23
So Turki Al-Sheikh wants to invest in the sheep, footballs new regular better this right. Linked to a regime constantly committing human rights abuses and that already owns an English side. With heavy investment the sheep would be playing alongside the magpies. Dodgy dealings would be expected. ?

05 Jun 2026 11:33:40
? Better get this right...don't walk and type.

05 Jun 2026 13:45:19
Red Robin, he's only worth just over a third of what Marinakis is worth. This is not another Newcastle, who were basically taken over by the state of Saudi Arabia.

05 Jun 2026 14:46:36
Even so, mate, he's still linked to the Saudi Investment Fund and we're talking about the dirty sheep botherers.
We'll soon see if this new regular is up to task. ?

05 Jun 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - BlueNose1878 has posted a new article entitled, Everton Must Plan Properly If Ndiaye Goes

04 Jun 2026 23:45:15
So to bed, reds.
Next season, could we please please please have a player that can take a corner or set piece. Take care of them around ya, never take em for granted. Ps take your old gran down to a beach or some kinda day out. Never goes unnoticed x FTID.

04 Jun 2026
New image uploaded to the
Nottingham Forest Player Sightings page entitled, Dear Bowie.

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04 Jun 2026 23:50:37
??? Brilliant bud. ?