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Viv Anderson
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When was your first time?
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Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
duncanmckenzie
First Team Squad
Correct, when you consider he was effectively replaced by Gary Bannister.
Morpeth
John Robertson
Mine was Robert Rosario, until we all found out that the big name premier league signing was... Robert Rosario.
Chappers85
Can't Play Left-Back
The 93/94 season was the first season I was really into football and Forest so it was all new. I remember my brother being excited by Collymore and Bohinen so I was too but they just names to me. But then I watched my first World Cup (USA 94) so had seen Bryan Roy play so remember being really excited he was being signed for Forest. I had Roy 22 on the first Forest shirt I had.
As @Samba's Water Bottle said, I remember being really excited about Marlon King. What a disaster he was! I think strikers are the ones that have always excited me. PVH, Stern John, Nathan Tyson, Earnshaw, Assombalonga, Grabban...I think it's a coping mechanism for never having really gotten over Stan leaving and desperate for someone else to replace him. Weirdly, I wasn't particularly excited by Awoniyi but he may be the closest we've had since (I still think PVH is a bit overrated but maybe it's just bitterness).
REDDERS78
Jack Armstrong
Difficult one to answer, I started going in 86/86 but until the early 90's there was never really any speculation about potential signings, they just rocked up and it was done as far as I remember. I guess it would have to be Collymore, who I knew we were linkied with in Cloughies last season and Frank Clarke managed to get him for 2m. Bryan Roy was BIG news, just had a great world cup with Holland too. These days kids know before the player does!
Harry Arter was also a big deal!
Harry Arter was also a big deal!
Cloughie1975
John Robertson
I saw Joe Baker only a few times before his career was sabotaged by the horrendous Labone challenge.
My uncle told me his signing in March 1966 caused a fair bit of excitement-but the first player my Dad and I
liked when we first attended together in late 1966 was Ian Storey-Moore.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
Don't think I ever got really excited by Forest signings. When I first started following the club, I really didn't know much about them at all, only saw a couple of games then was at a distance until we started the Cup run in 1959. I was at school in King's Lynn and Norwich, despite being in Div III (S) also started on a run and I hoped we would meet in the final, but they lost to Luton in the semis.
That was the first team where I knew all the names, but they were all at the club when I became aware of them.
Since then, they come and they go. Never really excited, just hopeful.
I suppose Cloughie was the signing that got my juices going the most.
That was the first team where I knew all the names, but they were all at the club when I became aware of them.
Since then, they come and they go. Never really excited, just hopeful.
I suppose Cloughie was the signing that got my juices going the most.
DizzyBala
Jack Armstrong
Pierre Van Hoojidonk
Souvik
First Team Squad
Roberto Baggio!
Forest are magic on and off the pitch!
Forest are magic on and off the pitch!
Hullakazam
A. Trialist
As a norwegian, Lars Bohinen signing when I was 6 years is probably one of the key reasons I am a Forest man. (That, and Disneys Robin Hood)
Alfie Håland too, but Bohinen was one of my favorite players at the time.
Alfie Håland too, but Bohinen was one of my favorite players at the time.
Cloughie1975
John Robertson
I agree,VP-setting aside signing exciting players,Clough arriving created the biggest sense of
anticipation for me.
Despite the ordinary start and fairly low attendances-I just knew something big was around the corner.
adam09
Super Koopa
Sheringham.
Jah
Jack Armstrong
Romario, Brazillian legend and just what we need to score some goals and get us moving up the table
Sadly the excitement didnt last long
Sadly the excitement didnt last long
Thomas
Martel Maxwell Enjoyer
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I can't remember as a kid getting excited about new players jining.
There were far less movements in thos far off days.
I remember getting really angry when the papers were full of talk about Ian Storey-Moore leaving us.
I was absolutely gutted.
The only ones incoming that caused a frisson were SVC, and PVH.
I loved Joe Baker, but was ignorant of his qualities before he joined so don't recall getting all excited about him joining.
There were far less movements in thos far off days.
I remember getting really angry when the papers were full of talk about Ian Storey-Moore leaving us.
I was absolutely gutted.
The only ones incoming that caused a frisson were SVC, and PVH.
I loved Joe Baker, but was ignorant of his qualities before he joined so don't recall getting all excited about him joining.
trentendnz
Lurking in the shadows
Bryan Roy, first proper "what the hell is he doing at our piss arse little club" superstar. He was one of the best players in the world cup and chose us? Turned out he is mad as a hatter...
It was everywhere tv, front pages 1979 equivalent to " Let's Go"..well Clough had his own version "Take your hands out of your pockets, young man”
Rosie
Viv Anderson
My stepmother was going through some boxes from the attic years ago, and came across an old autograph book.
Bearing in mind she doesn’t follow football, I still remember Dad‘s and my gasps of shock and astonishment when she flicked through the pages reading out the names, and saying “Joe Baker. Was he any good?”
Dad was 14 when he joined Forest, and I was a mere twinkle, but I remember him waxing lyrical about Zigger Zagger. The fact that my stepmother has something from someone so legendary, and she didn’t have a clue, makes me smile.
Major Oak Morgan
First Team Squad
Bryan Roy for me too. A Dutch international with a big reputation. He didn’t disappoint either, his partnership with Collymore was sublime.
I'd agree with Roy. The season before we were signing players like Lyttle, Lee, Haaland etc - no disrespect to them but suddenly we had bought a player about to play in the World Cup, it seemed a very big deal.
Caveman Ninja
Fucjin g wot karate
Probably Nikola Jerkan. That worked out well then
Wes' Organ
Biggles
Tricky Trev for me too, what even was a million quid?
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Around the time (in my head at least) we were chasing Gary McAllister, who I was very excited we were after because he was exactly what we needed, I got quite excited about Ray McKinnon of all people - he came with lovely write ups about his talent and passing (I forget what the hype train had nicknamed him, but I seem to remember he was the Scottish someone or other). John Sheridan too - I was a sucker for falling in love with a long persued center mid that Cloughie would ultimately very quickly he didn't rate. Thank goodness Keane eventually came along.
Honourable mention for Silenzi - Arsenal had his highlights playing on the screens at Highbury prior to our fixture - me and my mate thought we'd signed prime Maradona or something... It was a first (and lasting) lesson in never trusting the YouTube highlight reels a decade or so prior to YouTube's beginning.
Honourable mention for Silenzi - Arsenal had his highlights playing on the screens at Highbury prior to our fixture - me and my mate thought we'd signed prime Maradona or something... It was a first (and lasting) lesson in never trusting the YouTube highlight reels a decade or so prior to YouTube's beginning.