Frank Clark’s Tash
Jack Burkitt
If we can't muster a winning performance against league whipping boys Sheffield United, then we absolutely deserve to go down irrespective of all the other bullshit surrounding the club.
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Bryn Gunn
Cash is King!
Preston away, on a Tuesday night, love it! 
Seriously though, we can’t go backwards now. The days of being a perennial Championship club and finding some contentment in that have gone.
We are here now and it took a long time to get here. We have to survive or look at bouncing back if we do get relegated, I’m not optimistic on either but that has to be the target.
Its not my bag this league, never followed it before we were promoted and haven’t enjoyed the last two seasons at all if I’m honest. But it’s progress for the club that I have supported over 40 years and Forest belong in the top flight.
Funny though, the Leeds fan who lives a few doors down on my street doesn’t want to get promoted, he prefers the Championship.
Seriously though, we can’t go backwards now. The days of being a perennial Championship club and finding some contentment in that have gone.
We are here now and it took a long time to get here. We have to survive or look at bouncing back if we do get relegated, I’m not optimistic on either but that has to be the target.
Its not my bag this league, never followed it before we were promoted and haven’t enjoyed the last two seasons at all if I’m honest. But it’s progress for the club that I have supported over 40 years and Forest belong in the top flight.
Funny though, the Leeds fan who lives a few doors down on my street doesn’t want to get promoted, he prefers the Championship.
I am friendly with a baggies fan who is the same, he does not want to get promoted at any costPreston away, on a Tuesday night, love it!
Seriously though, we can’t go backwards now. The days of being a perennial Championship club and finding some contentment in that have gone.
We are here now and it took a long time to get here. We have to survive or look at bouncing back if we do get relegated, I’m not optimistic on either but that has to be the target.
Its not my bag this league, never followed it before we were promoted and haven’t enjoyed the last two seasons at all if I’m honest. But it’s progress for the club that I have supported over 40 years and Forest belong in the top flight.
Funny though, the Leeds fan who lives a few doors down on my street doesn’t want to get promoted, he prefers the Championship.
Robertson
Viv Anderson
Either Premier League or Championship - Andy Hinchcliffe
MapperlyMark
A. Trialist
Ultimately I want us to stay in this league as I want us to win every game we play. But, this season has been a mentally draining and at times borderline unbearable. Where to start:
1) The sad end to the Cooper reign (probably had run it’s course) and all the feel good factor that went with his presence
2) Throwing away point after point from winning positions largely via set pieces
3) All of the off the field drama and the stress over points deductions, not to mention the appeals
and counter arguments
4) The fallout from the Season Ticket prices
5) The whole Everton tweet and all the debris from it.
All left a sour taste and us as fans bear the cost. No longer has football been an enjoyable release from everyday life. The on the field stuff I can cope with, but everything else off it has sapped my enjoyment and enthusiasm.
1) The sad end to the Cooper reign (probably had run it’s course) and all the feel good factor that went with his presence
2) Throwing away point after point from winning positions largely via set pieces
3) All of the off the field drama and the stress over points deductions, not to mention the appeals
and counter arguments
4) The fallout from the Season Ticket prices
5) The whole Everton tweet and all the debris from it.
All left a sour taste and us as fans bear the cost. No longer has football been an enjoyable release from everyday life. The on the field stuff I can cope with, but everything else off it has sapped my enjoyment and enthusiasm.
Alan Akbah
Geoff Thomas
Premier League is crap. Stay and pull it down.
Tell the "Big 6", that's the Big 5 + Spuz, to bugger off and stop talking about it too.
Tell the "Big 6", that's the Big 5 + Spuz, to bugger off and stop talking about it too.
Bobby The Brain
Weasel
I want us to stay up but I’m not dreading relegation like I was last season. This campaign has removed the gloss from the land of milk and honey tbh.
To sum the season up I’ll borrow a quote from old Big ‘Ed - “Shut up and show more football”
To sum the season up I’ll borrow a quote from old Big ‘Ed - “Shut up and show more football”
Chappers85
Can't Play Left-Back
Completely agree. We've had many a bad season over the years, many off the field issues, plenty of bad luck - but this year has all of it. It's been a bit soul destroying. My worry is that this is the Premier League. Once the initial shine wears off, it's just miserable.
youreds1986
Geoff Thomas
Stay up, or go down, we will continue to be a farce until we become a professional and competently run club off the pitch.
Ultimately, that's all I really want to see. The club being run well, and that translating to performances on the pitch and a positive feeling around the club. The way we have pissed away what should have been the biggest opportunity to build some lasting positivity both internally but also externally across the footballing community is utterly unbelievable.
Ultimately, that's all I really want to see. The club being run well, and that translating to performances on the pitch and a positive feeling around the club. The way we have pissed away what should have been the biggest opportunity to build some lasting positivity both internally but also externally across the footballing community is utterly unbelievable.
Alan Akbah
Geoff Thomas
I would probably laugh myself inside out if they broke their own record.
Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
The sad way some of our fans not only accepted Cooper's dismissal with ease, but also championed it really left a foul taste too.
I hope that when we go down they are the ones to jump ship. Most will be glory fannies anyway, like Wolverine.
adam09
Super Koopa
Agree with this.
Was hoping this season we'd be doing a Palace/Bournemouth and as you say, without all the shite, we probably would be.
Keepers/set pieces cost us a few points too. Sels would have been worth a few more points on his own.
Hopefully we stay up and keep the majority of this squad. Get us a Tarkowski/Anderson/Killman type defender or two who'll win everything in the air and put Murillo to CDM if he stays.
The Red Mill
First Team Squad
There is no big six, only a big three.
Man city are no bigger than Leeds, Spurs are no bigger than Everton, and Chelsea are no bigger than Forest. There is only a cartel six.
glosterred
First Team Squad
I can’t imagine if Cooper was still here we would now have a thread where fans are discussing whether we would rather be in the championship or premier league - it’s madness really.
I swear the ones that are not fussed about getting relegated are largely the same as the ones championing Coopers exit….
Alan Akbah
Geoff Thomas
People like me aren't fussed because it's no fun.
That said, the fans that turn out regularly now have more of a right to an opinion on the issue than an old man like me whose home and away days, bar the odd one, are long done.
Berkshire Red
Jack Armstrong
Why is that? Because you think we wouldn't be in this position?
Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Yeah, Cooper's presence alone lifted people because of what he had already achieved with us, and flushing all that away for absolutely no progress at all was incredibly short-sighted.
I'd fancied us to fly straight back up under Cooper....Nuno?.....more likely Mendes will load the squad full of Carvalho's lol.
But that's what tossers like Wolverine would rather have....people like Mendes using our club as a training facility for his players, rather than standing by genuinely decent people like Cooper who actually care about the community around us to the point they make low-profile visits to schools, and invite families of murder victims to the CG.
We've already been relegated in a way, because we've lost a core part of what made us a positive club again. The table is almost irrelevant.
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The only time I’d be interested in going down is if Claudia Schiffer knocked on my apartment door clutching a crate of Bier and wearing nothing but a Forest shirt.
Otherwise, forget it.
Otherwise, forget it.
glosterred
First Team Squad
I can’t put it any better than the post directly below your question!
Redemption
Agenda Benda
You can only see the lack of progress in Hindsight.
More like.
Collymore!
Grenville Morris
It’s a sad situation we find ourselves in. While I feel we’ve been a really poor side this season, plus all the off-field distractions and bad decisions, our results have been closer this season than last.
We’ve lost loads of games by one goal, whereas last season we got smashed a few times. We feel very much like a lower-mid table team who have a bad season and go down, rather than a newly promoted side getting hammered.
Things just haven’t clicked though, whether that’s the new players, new manager, injuries - the culture which contributed to a few wins last season is gone. We should have another 6-8 points regardless of refereeing decisions, and that’s our fault.
On paper, we’re the kind of squad which could bounce straight back… but feels like it’s too turbulent behind the scenes for that to happen, and arguably too many potential problems next season within the squad. We’ll have loads of players who feel they’re better than the Champ, and it’ll be a shit show, lots of the squad will go through the motions until we’re left with a squad of Champ cloggers again after a few years.
We’ve lost loads of games by one goal, whereas last season we got smashed a few times. We feel very much like a lower-mid table team who have a bad season and go down, rather than a newly promoted side getting hammered.
Things just haven’t clicked though, whether that’s the new players, new manager, injuries - the culture which contributed to a few wins last season is gone. We should have another 6-8 points regardless of refereeing decisions, and that’s our fault.
On paper, we’re the kind of squad which could bounce straight back… but feels like it’s too turbulent behind the scenes for that to happen, and arguably too many potential problems next season within the squad. We’ll have loads of players who feel they’re better than the Champ, and it’ll be a shit show, lots of the squad will go through the motions until we’re left with a squad of Champ cloggers again after a few years.