One Week to go

Finally we're nearly there, just a week left until the new season kicks off and we can get back to football. Summers all well and good but the lack of football to watch sure seems to make the months drag.
Our pre season hasn't been anything to get excited about. We finally got a win last week against Exeter (2-1) and yesterday threw away a 2 goal lead to draw 2-2 with Torquay, these are teams we really should be hammering. Still no sign of a striker to come in and get us 20 odd goals a season and unfortunately Taylor hasn't received a career threatening injury yet, so I guess we'll be stuck with him for the next 9 months!
Anyway looking forward to my trip down the motorway next Saturday to watch us kick off our season at home to Huddersfield, hopefully I won't be staring at the ground and shaking my head after 10 minutes like I seemed to spend most of last season doing.
Come On U REDS!!!!!

No Goals, No win but Life Just Got Better

Well the game against the mighty Boston United finished goalless, so yet again we fail to get a victory and we're still struggling to score. Johnno played for nearly 70 minutes and apparently looked quite sharp (please, please let him get his form back) he was then replaced by 'Arfur' Daley who was causing some bother and had some chances but as has been the case for way too long we just couldn't finish, so still some more work needed I reckon Mr. Megson. Good news is that Gerrard is back in goal, we're gonna need him next season. He's way too good for this league and could do well in the Prem I reckon but if he wants to stay then I reckon we should cling onto him he could earn us quite a few points in the years to come.
More bad news today in that England lost the first Ashes test, not too surprising really as we haven't won at the Oval for about 5,000 years. On the plus side we did manage to bowl Australia out twice (which makes a change) and Pietersen looks like he has the makings of a top class cricketer, the series ain't over yet Aussies!!!
Fianlly today some great news which has really put the spring back in my step, Ipswich Town are rumoured to be after Alan Rogers (our inept Left Back)after rolling about on the floor laughing for about 20 minutes I did a check to make sure that I wasn't being wound up (most people know how much i despise this useless waste of space) and there it was on Rivals.net. Now I know this isn't the BBC and I shouldn't get too carried away but hopefully, hopefully there's some truth in the rumour. This man is one of the major causes of our demise last season, he's lazy, fat and got an overinflated opinion of himself, can't tackle, can't cross in fact I don't know what he can do that merits his place in the squad. the sooner he's gone the better for the whole club.

Pre Season Tour Moves Back to England

Well Forest have got a game today away to the mighty Boston United, surely this will be the game where we finally get a win and a few goals to boost the confidence of the players? No discredit to Boston but we should not be struggling against this side. Thankfully Megson has decided to include Spencer Weir Daley in the squad for today's match and hopefully he'll get a run out after his 4 goals against Ilkeston, maybe he can show the rest of em where the goal is.
COME ON U REDS!!!!!

Terrorism In London

This is all getting way out of hand, yesterday 4 men again attempted suicide bombs in London but thankfully this time failed. Today we've had a man shot dead on a train by plain clothes police (rumours are that he was one of the unsuccessful bombers from yesterday and was being trailed by the police). I can't believe he was crazy enough to show his face again so soon, surely he didn't think he could get away with it? Absolute madness! Can't imagine what it must be like to live in that city at the moment, must be really nerve wracking at times like this. all I can say is congratulations to you all for not letting the evil bastards win.

Ashes to Ashes

Wow what a start to the Ashes series, at lunch we were all sat there at work discussing how England maybe could give the Aussies a run for their money this year. Australia had already lost 4 wickets and things were looking good, by mid afternoon the convicts were all out for 190, so all that was needed was for England to go out bat for the rest of the day and hopefully not lose any wickets, while notching up some runs and over the course of the second day set up a really big lead.
Unfortunately Glenn McGrath had other ideas and just carved through the England batting order taking 5 wickets for 21 runs, absolutely amazing figures. By the end of the day England were 92-7, which is a good recovery considering the position they were in earlier, now what we've got to do is hopefully overtake the Aussie's score or at least not end up too far behind and give it a go in the second innings. It's certainly set things up for an interesting first test that's for sure, may the series continue in this vein.

You Tell Em Meggo

Our Manager Megson has launched a scathing attack on the useless individuals that have the privilege of wearing the glorious Garibaldi, and good on him. Unfortunately reading these words it sounds all too familiar to me, this was exactly what they were like last season. Play ok for a bit then just sort of give up and not give a damn about it. They need to realise we can't have a team that plays with that attitude otherwise it will be another relegation battle on the cards and that is just unthinkable, if they thought the fans turned on them last season, that is nothing compared to the reaction they'll get if we find ourselves struggling in this mediocre league. This is Nottingham Forest for Christ sake and simply isn't good enough, so either pull your fingers out or do the honourable thing and leave now!!!

Megson launches attack on players

Result. Slagelse 2V1 Nottingham Forest

Well at least we scored which is a definite bonus but we lost yet again, i've never even heard of the team we lost to either which doesn't bode well. On the upside the Danish season is about to kick off so their players are going to be that much fitter and better prepared than ours as we don't kick off till August 6th. Frankly I'm still a little worried about the state of our team we haven't really progressed that much in the close season, yeah we've bought in some new players and we're trying to get rid of the carthorses from last season (who is going to buy any of them in all honesty?). But I Still think we're short of a natural goalscorer (Gareth Taylor is definitely not one of those.
Maybe the answer lies in our reserves, they played Ilkeston Town the other night and beat them 7-2 4 goals coming from a young lad yet to make his first team debut by the name of Daley. I say give the lad a go and see what he can do, he surely can't be any worse than some of the muppets we play up front and he may even spring a surprise or two.

Nottingham Forest to sign Swiss Keeper

Forest are hoping to finalise a deal with Danish goalkeeper Rune Pedersen. This is good news if they pull it off, we were in desparate need of a back up keeper for Gerrard. Let's hope the lad is a decent keepr and doesn't get put off by coffee cups!

Forest sign keeper

The Misery Continues

Any of you out there that follow english football will know that last season for me was pretty depressing, awful football (this at a club renowned for it's passing game) an inabilty to score goals and then ultimately at the end of the season, relegation to the 3rd tier of English football (no former European cup winner has sunk so low).
Our manager has spent the close season clearing out all the players that he didn't think were up to the job and bringing in new faces for our promotion push next season. But unfortunately the pre season has continued where last season left off.
We've had 2 matches so far on our tour of Denamrk and won neither of them, failing to score in both!!!! One was a 0-0 draw and last nights was a 1-0 loss. What amazes me is that we continue to play Gareth bloody Taylor I dunno what the manager see's in him but he must like him cos he's even our Captain for some bizarre reason. The man has no footballing ability whatsoever, he can't head a ball, can't control a ball (both pretty much basic skills which are needed for a front man) and whenever he tries to chest a ball he seems to insist on trying to use his hands "It's called FOOTBALL for a reason you halfwit!!!!!" Anyway it is only pre season and hopefully things will pick up as they start to reach match fitness but things certainly haven't started very well. I suppose I should prepare myself for another season of misery.

Muslim Attacks in West Yorkshire

Now before anyone accuses me of being a bleeding heart Liberal, I completely condemn the attacks in London and hope the perpetrators rot in hell, just shame they didn't survive so we could make their deaths as agonisingly slow as possible. But to blame an entire community for the attacks and seek retribution on them is entirely wrong and doesn't make us any better than the bombers. All it does is keep the cycle of violence going endlessly round and round.

Muslim fears of revenge attacks grow

Police raid bookshop

G8 Farce

What a ridiculous mess, we'll offer you money and help sort out the terrible situation you're in (part of which is our fault anyway) but only if you do as we say, THAT'S WHY AFRICA IS SO SCREWED UP IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU MORONS!!!!!

G8 debt deal under threat at IMF

Let me Introduce Myself

Evening people, thanks for popping by. Allow me to introduce myself as the title says I'm a Nottingham man exiled in God's own country, Yorkshire. Not a bad place to be by any means, in fact as the locals frequently tell you one of the most beautiful places on earth to live. The only downside is I live away from the greatest football team on earth (for the uninitiated amongst you that would be the mighty Nottingham Forest, temporarily on loan to Division 3 of the English League!!!!). At the moment I'm still in a quandry about whether to renew my season ticket or not.
You see I love the club and can't imagine spending a season without actually being there but I begrudge paying £450 for what is going to be third rate football (I also begrudge putting money into the club while we have a chairman who sits on his hands and watches the team slide into oblivion but that's another story). A possible solution is just to become an away fan, but that's not going to be so easy in this league, a lot of the clubs have really small grounds and we have quite a huge away following so I'd probably struggle to get a ticket in our end.
At the end of the day I don't know what I'm procastinating about the choice is between spending 3 hours in a car each match day getting to and from the ground or spending my Saturday's going shopping or visiting Garden Centres! No contest really so I realy should get off my arse and go and buy my ticket.
Come on U reds!!!!