It’s that time of year when we need to start fretting about tickets for the playoffs, and indeed, when they might be – well, thankfully we have a bit more information on that score. The provisional dates for the semi-finals are Friday 9th May and Monday 12th May for the first legs, with the second [...]
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Normally I wouldn’t hold much truck with rumours printed in the Sunday People, particularly not when it didn’t even seem newsworthy enough to make it onto their website – but (as has been pointed out in the comments), it does bear a bit of scrutiny.. Dowie set to be Cald into action at Forest Alan [...]
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Tranmere Rovers - 0 Nottingham Forest – 2 In an unusually ruthless performance, Forest made Tranmere pay by converting their two chances on target this afternoon to grab a win that the home side would have felt was a harsh result. Goals either side of half time from Nathan Tyson and Wes Morgan were enough to [...]
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It’s come to that time of the year when football teams start to woo their supporters to get on board for another season of thrills and spills. You have teams like Bradford offering ’2 for the price of 1′ on season tickets, and other clubs around the country offering incentives in the form of discounts [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 1 Bristol Rovers – 1 You could almost sense the moment when (contrary to a comment on the site earlier in the week) it occurred to Smoulds and the players that tonight was a chance to register three consecutive league wins this season – and it was then that we decided that [...]
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Preston are apparently in the midst of a striker shortage – Watford have recalled Tamas Priskin, and Neil Mellor has picked up a hamstring injury leaving the Lancashire side with only two fit strikers ahead of their weekend home match against Barnsley. PNE manager Alan Irvine has suggested a decision won’t be forthcoming until the [...]
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I popped down to Arnold yesterday morning to pick up a copy of Larry Lloyd’s autobiography, “Hard man: Hard game” and get it signed by the man himself, since the local MSR Newsagent down there was running a signing session. It didn’t take too long to get to the table where Larry was dutifully inscribing [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 3 Cheltenham Town – 1 Hot on the heels of the win against Carlisle, Forest have equalled their best run of the season with two consecutive wins – with the opportunity to get to the magic three against Bristol Rovers. Despite going on a goal down due to slack defending, Forest eased [...]
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Vassilis kindly sent me a table breaking down the run-in for the teams at the top of League One, which might help you try to ponder the likely outcome from our point of view come the end of the season. It’s certainly suggestive to me that Swansea, despite their blip, have an ‘on paper’ run-in [...]
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A nice surprise today was to discover that injured-presumed-gone Will Hoskins has returned to training with the Reds, which is tremendous news, particularly given the fact that we still seem to be stuck with the imposter who returned from the African Cup of Nations up front at the moment, it would be good to have [...]
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