A mildly interesting development is that Spencer Weir-Daley has turned his nose up at a deal from Forest and gone over the river to Notts County. It must have been a fairly derisory offer, and given that he’s even fallen behind Scott Dobie in the striker list, you can understand his fear of not getting [...]
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I’d dismissed the rumours of a groundmove that have been circulating for a day or so as boredom induced storytelling. But it does appear there’s something in this. We’ll all know more after the 10:30 press conference, but it would appear there are plans afoot for Forest to depart the City Ground, our home since [...]
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And for us as well – a one year deal with an optional extension. There’s confirmation on the Forest website and everything… cunning timing since the season ticket renewal packs went out yesterday, I suppose – but to have snagged a player who was captaining a side (albeit a Scottish one) in the Champions League [...]
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I think it’s a really bad idea to have a friendly (if such a thing is possible) against Derby this season. Now, obviously as a Forest fan I don’t have much time for Derby at all, but I’m not one of those irrational vitriol-filled people who seem to lose all sense of rhyme and reason [...]
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Forest today announced another addition to the preseason friendly schedule, against dearest neighbours Notts County. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this game with the Magpies, probably coming down on the side of negative overall. I do think in general the preseason plans are probably sensible, certainly the tour of Scotland will be [...]
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I’d half forgotten to mention Jack Lester’s move to Chesterfield following his release from the Reds in Smoulderwood’s cull; so I’ll mention it now since I have Chesterfield on my mind for other reasons (as I shall explain below). Whilst I think that letting Jack move on was a sensible decision (dependent on summer signings, [...]
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If, like me, you are feeling the lack of football already this summer then I may have a short term fix for you. I’ve just finished reading ‘My Father, and other working class football heroes’ by Gary Imlach, son of former Forest winger Stewart – who played a starring role in our 1959 FA Cup [...]
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It’s not often you hear stories of ex footballers logging onto a fan’s forum to thank them for their petition but respectfully decline the opportunity to attempt a dramatic comeback. Of course, this is notwithstanding that Smoulds and co. would also need to be involved at some point. But gleeful fans were treated to a [...]
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Close season does funny things to football fans, particularly when the year ends with an odd number as we have no World Cup or European Championship to tide us over until next season. Of course, some fans can take solace in watching England lose their first game at the new Wembley stadium against Brazil later [...]
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I was quite sad to hear than Ian ‘Charlie’ McParland, half of the ‘Charlie and Frank’ duo who have perhaps provided our most consistent spell of decent football in years, has departed the City Ground having shared the assistant manager role with David Kerslake this season. It’s unclear whether he’s been fired or whether he [...]
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