Jobyfox

Because that would have meant us paying a fee

We are fortunate that we currently have 2 better goalkeepers and Iversen hasn’t convinced he deserves another contract. I’m not disappointed he’s going. The possibility of Mads leaving and worrying about Ward shouldn’t be a reason to keep him. Having a effective recruitment strategy should be the aim. We were left short by Jakub’s injury at the beginning of the season and Iversen should have been on the bench. Perplexingly and alarmingly that role was given to Ward so it probably would have made sense to get money for Iversen in the summer.

My depressing thought of the day. I imagined myself going back 5 years and telling my younger self that the only saving grace of the 2024/25 season would be stopping Forest from getting Champions League football, whilst we are relegated for the second time in three seasons. A stark reminder of how far we've fallen. It would be great to beat them, but it does nothing to ease my despair of how poorly the football club has been managed over the last few years. How could we have foooked it up this badly and still have the same people running the club?

I wonder how many people debating whether he should be in the first team or not have seen him play over a sustained period of time. What’s for sure is that nobody will have witnessed that in the Championship. The reality is that his ability should dictate the future direction. Is he good enough to be a squad player in a team that presumably should be pushing for promotion? We haven’t got the luxury of playing somebody just to develop them, but only if they have the ability. No point putting him in the team to keep him happy, we stay down and he just goes to Man City anyway at the end of the season to sit in their reserves. He needs to contribute consistently

I had thought about Simpson and it’s a good comparison. What that team achieved, however, is likely to throw up a few exceptions to prove a rule. DS didn’t set the world alight in any other team. Luke might be lucky enough to play in a team like that one day, alongside a Morgan or Huth, with a world class winger ahead of him, in a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. I think that’s quite unlikely, however, and it’s much more likely his ceiling is mediocre player at Championship level

I agree with this. So many people react to short term upticks in form just as they do to poor form. “Oh… I’ve always defended him and how right I was ….” Etc. There is nothing stand out in his game in any department. If consolidation in the Championship is our aim then he might be our man. Any other longer term ambition … I don’t see it personally

Not sure you’re on the right thread, but I’d probably take Zhao Xintong over RvN as manager at this point

Alan Paris? Really?

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Let’s hope it’s Wrexham then

There has been some shite posted on this site over the years, but congratulations for plummeting to a new level

It’s nowhere near as cut and dried as it used to be that a manager is responsible for recruitment. They should, however, be part of the process given it’s them who take accountability for the performance of the team and the players brought in. I’m actually reassured by the suggestion that Cooper was involved in the summer transfer window. There has been much talk about whether it was right to sack him (given the subsequent performance of RvN), but that window alone is grounds for his instant dismissal. If it was up to me though I’d get rid of the entire team and start again

Not seen a lot of Alves at Cardiff. However to improve our squad next season he only has to be better than BDCR and McAteer. Not the highest bar. Does anyone have an insight whether he’s reached that level?

I actually thought that Skipp was an ok signing as an alternative to Winks, although I thought we'd overpaid by about £15m. I didn't know much about Bilal, but I thought the other signings were incredibly poor from the outset. It's frustrating when people can't see it (Skipp is worse than I expected and I can't argue I called that one), but it's fine to have an opinion either way. What I found even more weird is that people were still arguing about some of these signings being ok when we were about half way through the season. I'm in no doubt now, and with the benefit of hindsight, that the summer window was one of the most disastrous in our history. How we could invest so much money and arguably end up with a worse squad than we were promoted with is beyond me and I'm still angry about it!

Just in case you’d forgotten what a useful Skip looks like …

Well that’s cleared that up then

I was going through the Radio Times and making a note of any films that had a red triangle next to them. Then watching them in my bedroom in the knowledge that there was a good chance they’d have some tits in them

At this point nobody wants to build again with RvN next season so he’s a dead man walking. I’d put him on gardening leave so we don’t have to pay him off in this accounting year. Put Andy King in charge - or literally anybody … and then try and appoint a proper manager at the start of next season

If we can’t afford to sack him then just put him on gardening leave. There is literally nobody at the club who could do a worse job as we’ve already reached the very bottom

Just logged on. Have we lost yet?

If there was a single game this season where it was imperative that Danny Ward wasn’t in goal!!!

Shit - Forest might get Champions League, Coventry might get promoted through the play-offs, whilst we suffer one of the worst relegations in history. Arrrrrgggghhhhh !!!!!!!!

Apologies - just noticed you’d said “or” and not “and”

So a win then

When Wolves beat us 3-0 I knew we were down. It wasn’t technically a “must win” but, for all intents and purposes, it felt like one. To lose it so badly just felt like a turning point of the season. We’ve never looked like exitting the relegation zone since