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12 Mar 2026 22:38:25
Hola Reds! Legolas reporting in from Barcelona.
I have to say that I hope this is now the 'beginning of the end' of our ill prepared venture into Europe again.
I like the saying 'Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail'. This seems to have become the Forest way over the last few years.
Anyway - back to my Tapas and white wine now. Take care all and here's to the hope of our PL survival.
1.) 13 Mar 2026 11:23:43
My brother lives in the old town in Barca. Enjoy your break, mate.
2.) 13 Mar 2026 13:21:43
It's a great place to be, Lego. Will your legs get you to the top of the Sagrada Familia? I think it's completed this year. Took around 70 years to build, didn't it? The view is tremendous.
I don't know if they managed to factor in disabled access?
Did you manage to pass on Professor Brian Cox's starry night sky observations to Mrs Legolas? Was she impressed or comatose? ? ? ?
07 Mar 2026 19:13:30
Evening Reds. I just want to say that I'm sure along with you all, I'm really glad that Bowie has decided to stay on the site. Despite personally experiencing his wrath directed at me when I first joined the site (!), I've always admired Bowie's passion and knowledge.
I have called him 'The Daddy' of this site before for a good reason.
Keep those 'and so ta bed' posts coming Bowie.
1.) 07 Mar 2026 19:43:20
I am too, as I've said before, Bowie, you keep reminding us to "Cherish the ones around you"....
None of us are perfect. You wore your heart on your sleeve, mate, something to be greatly admired.
2.) 07 Mar 2026 19:46:51
Who's the mammy of the site, Stokie. ?? He helps us all to sleep with his bedtime stories of history.
3.) 07 Mar 2026 21:39:51
Now then, my Geordie boy, what's this nonsense about you leaving the office? Can't have this, not at this time, especially when DTP is due out of rehab. I appreciate that you're in a dark place, but daylight follows night. I was watching Get Carter the other night, and the scene where Jack goes into the pub after his train journey from London and asks for a pint in a thin glass, and the look on the hard-working men's faces was a picture.
I've never met you, yet I know you. You could have been in that pub quite easily, even the working men's club where the singer gets a battering. Priceless, just like you.
4.) 07 Mar 2026 21:23:23
Sorry Skegs, but I've just had an involuntary thought that's popped into my head about you suckling on one of Stokey's breasts.
I'll be getting heavier medication on Monday.
5.) 07 Mar 2026 22:01:32
Oddly enough, Vale, the book on which the film Get Carter was based (by Ted Lewis) was set in Sheffield and moved to Newcastle in the movie. It's a gritty read.
I think, Skeggs and Lego, it's way past both your bedtimes. You'll both be on the naughty step tomorrow. ??????
6.) 07 Mar 2026 22:12:30
Luv ya all, bless, cannot thank you all enough for the great gestures. But need to sort my head out, take care all of ya. Unbelievable family Reds FTID.
7.) 07 Mar 2026 22:14:48
I'll ask Mrs Legolas to chastise me physically tonight for my comments.
I wish.
8.) 07 Mar 2026 22:06:08
Yes lego mate. maybe you've had too many hits to the head in your wheelchair rugby pal. ?
9.) 07 Mar 2026 22:42:21
Didn't know that Stokey, but it does make sense comparing the two cities. Both are industrial and downtrodden, with workers governed by the factory owners who exploited them for their own means.
10.) 07 Mar 2026 22:40:10
You're probably right Skegs. Certainly too many broken ribs as well. Nasty boys sport.
I do love beating-up disabled people though.
11.) 08 Mar 2026 09:10:08
Getting back to your post about Bowie Red Vale, he might well have been in that pub in Get Carter, but you'd never have found him! ?? The Geordie G-spot.
12.) 08 Mar 2026 11:33:35
Vale, the subtle differences between the book and the film are interesting. For example, in the film Carter famously throws Cliff Brumby off a multi-storey car park ("you're a big man but you're out of condition. For me, it's a full time job. Now behave yourself"). In the book Carter chases Brumby round a car park in his car until he's exhausted, then executes him with a shotgun from the boot if I remember correctly.
Sheffield is never mentioned by name in the book, just clues like the rival football teams play in red and white and blue and white, etc.
In the film Carter is shot by a sniper on a beach and his body left on a seaward-bound coal conveyor. In the book, he's left badly wounded, but his death isn't confirmed, leaving the way for a sequel.
Interesting man Ted Lewis. Died in his 40s from alcohol issues just as he was hitting his stride in films and books.
04 Mar 2026 21:49:43
I'll more than settle for that against one of the best teams in the world. We gave them a game and that was all that I was hoping for. To get a point there is fantastic.
PS. I enjoyed the company of those on live chat this evening. OK I was only there for the 2nd half, but I think more of us should do it. For those in two minds - there was no bitchiness at all!
1.) 04 Mar 2026 22:37:49
Fantastic performance mate, can't grumble at that, two absolute belters from our England pair. Lego, we're always well behaved on live lol, well mostly, and any urine taking is amongst ourselves, and I'd like to think we all give and take it well. ?
2.) 04 Mar 2026 22:39:04
Got to be happy with that. Much improved on Sunday.
If MGW maintains this recently found form for the rest of the season, we should be okay.
02 Mar 2026 20:49:47
I've just been reading through the last three pages of banter and I'm in the mood for a rant Gents!
It's starting to rile me - us paying supporters (obviously alongside Big M's financial support) are, in effect, the 'employers' of all Nottingham Forest players. Without us and Big M, they wouldn't be paid to kick a football around to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds per week.
Therefore, it riles me that I'm reading that our precious players in their 20's prime are 'fatigued'. My point is why?
Two games a week. Really? These are supposed to be superbly honed-athletes in their prime physically and they get tired playing two games a week? It's not just Forest - it seems most other clubs seem to be using the same excuse nowadays.
To me, it is a reflection of our society nowadays. Nobody seems to be willing to 'put the work in' anymore. Feeling tired with a few cuts and grazes - is that an excuse for not putting the effort in with the excessive wages they are paid? Personally, I think our players' gutless response to Forest's current PL standing is a slap in the face to both the supporters and Big M.
Rant over.
1.) 02 Mar 2026 20:57:14
Been saying it a long time, Lego. ?
2.) 02 Mar 2026 21:04:41
I hear you, Lego. I agree, though I do think some of the fatigue could be mental. Leaving your wife and kids regularly for European trips can't be easy. Plus, factor in that most of our players are also away on international duty from time to time. Lots of travelling with little rest in between.
However, given their salaries, you're most probably correct.
3.) 02 Mar 2026 21:54:23
That's a fair point, Frog. However, I was posted away from my family whilst serving in the Army for 6-12 months at a time. Yet, I still 'performed in my job' despite being paid a pittance in comparison to pro footballers nowadays.
I will go to my grave loving Forest. However, in the meantime, I am seriously falling out of love with football in general. Money has taken over and infected our great game for the worse.
4.) 02 Mar 2026 22:43:01
The FIFA Peace Prize award given to Trump was the final straw for me. Greed, a lack of morals, and corruption have infected our once-great sport.
I wonder how the Iranian citizens are feeling atm, subjected to barrages of US missiles delivered by the 'Peace President'.
Football had to evolve over the years, as every sport has to.
However, I think that football, as a whole, has actually degenerated over the years. The supporters, I feel, have had their loyalty abused through the obsessive behaviour of owners consumed by both greed and ego.
Think about it.
5.) 02 Mar 2026 22:58:21
Red Frog, struggling with the bit about leaving their families behind for European trips. Away from home for a couple of days at most, families in the lap of luxury, players travelling 1st class everywhere. This is what they became footballers to do, this was their dream. Some I know were sent to the world's danger spots at short notice, death and serious injury a definite possibility, probability in some cases.
Their families often did not know where they were, or if they were ever coming back. And if they did not 'perform', their lives were at greater risk. But this is also what they signed up to do, and they got on with it, and never made excuses. I think these pampered athletes need to man up and act in the same manner, and not embarrass themselves any further.
6.) 02 Mar 2026 22:44:23
Bottlers Lego
7.) 02 Mar 2026 22:46:27
Let's get this straight they chose to be footballers nobody as forced them to be.at the average age of 26 they've learnt more money than we can dream of in a lifetime of working our assess off.and it must be hard on them to leave there family for a couple of weeks why they earn a 100,000 give me a break soldier's lorry drivers etc do it for pittance.
They're playing like a bunch of fairies that don't care about the fans that pay there hard earned money to watch them play rubbish obviously i'm the sensible one in my recliner watching it for free even then, I still have to pay extra for my extra beers to get over the depression of watching how bad they are.
8.) 03 Mar 2026 00:52:16
Spot on, Lego. "Falling out of love with football."
Me too. I haven't not watched a match yet, but it's seriously getting close to that point. You've seen my posts about the horrendous abuse the players get, forced into enduring a 6hr week for a poxy £3 million a year.
Bowie's been saying it for years. The game is unrecognisable from the working class afternoon out of years gone by. We are in serious trouble & it's all Big M's fault. He will wreck our club, mark my words.
9.) 03 Mar 2026 09:17:09
Foolish comment yet again.
10.) 03 Mar 2026 19:11:20
Lego, on Trump, Munmad? Yeah, I agree, bud.
22 Feb 2026 19:04:07
Some very good posts this evening Reds. Personally, I'm very disappointed at the result as we all are - yet at the same time I feel more hopeful about our PL survival than I have done in many weeks.
At last, in the 1st half there was fight and belief on show. Excellent pressing, not allowing Liverpool to settle. Very poor 2nd half though overall, mostly down to fatigue. Throughout the game as a whole though I thought both Williams and Sangare were superb.
As most have mentioned - we need a goal scorer very badly. Hutchinson as a stand-in CF? He is very quick and I think more suited playing off Lucca in a 4-4-2.
1.) 22 Feb 2026 20:19:20.
I certainly don't think we're done! We definitely have it in us... Fat lady sings? Not there yet! Uuuuu Reds!
15 Mar 2026 21:21:00
I don't know about you, Stevie, but I think Stokey served his country in a way many Veterans could not have done. I admire him for that.
I can't imagine myself, or most of the other Veterans that I know, having the balanced-view, tolerance, and cool-headed nature that Coppers are expected to have nowadays.
Personally, I couldn't have done it.
13 Mar 2026 22:05:07
Just for a bit of fun Stokey - I'll put in a bit of ex-Int Corps banter about each of your seven:
Royal Marines - great soldiers with a superb sense of dry humour. Slightly gay with a tendency to dress in women's clothing at any opportunity.
Parachute Regiment - great soldiers yet with no sense of humour, which has been buried due to their own arrogance. Wilt into the background when you explain that you have done parachuting too and then beat them in a BFT run.
Foresters - who.cares? Always an also-ran Rgt.
Submariners - even more gay than the Royals. Always smell very strange after 6 months submerged on a nuke sub with the weird stuff they put into the Aircon system.
RMP - universally hated throughout the Army. Mostly failed civvy police recruits. Usually billeted with the Int Corps for their own protection.
Navy radio operator - more civvy than a civvy.
Welsh Guards - brilliant at drill but rubbish soldiers in the field. Mostly foul-mouthed morons from the Valleys who would otherwise be stealing off their Mums.
12 Mar 2026 23:01:25
C'mon Stokey - take the p*** out of the Royals as all the Squaddies do! I served alongside them in NI and 'elsewhere'. Without doubt, top quality soldiers who I really respected but a bit too much in touch with their 'feminine side' for my liking! Very 'touchy-feely' which I never felt comfortable with.
Wasn't it the Borat comedy sketch where he said Marines are just like the Army, but gay.
19 Dec 2025 19:02:56
I'd hate to see Murillo go - but my gut feeling is that if an offer came in around £70-80M, and he wanted to go, Big M would let him go.
19 Dec 2025 18:54:06
I'd go with that Stokey. Hopefully, he has realised that 'the grass isn't always greener on the other side'. I reckon his heart is still with Forest.
13 Mar 2026 21:15:20
From my own experience Keeff, you need to set yourself goals for your own physical improvement. Write them down, from the simplest of those goals to achieve to the hardest, from 1 to 10.
For example, and I know it sounds pathetic now, my first goal was to be able to wear prosthetic legs sitting down for 4 hours. My second goal was to walk around my kitchen on those new legs holding onto the worktops.
Hopefully you get the picture.
Then, work through your list with grit, determination and passion. You know all about those traits as a Veteran! To start ticking off achieving your goals in rehab, I found a massive help both physically and mentally.
09 Mar 2026 20:27:34
Are you really a Scorpio, Stevie? That shocks me a lot from your posts!!
Brothers in Arms in many ways, mate.
08 Mar 2026 21:11:56
I do love it when Stokey and Stevie set upon each other. They seem to be as stubborn as each other. However, for those into star signs - as a Scorpio, I am a black-belt ninja at stubbornness.
Amateurs.
07 Mar 2026 22:40:10
You're probably right Skegs. Certainly too many broken ribs as well. Nasty boys sport.
I do love beating-up disabled people though.
07 Mar 2026 22:14:48
I'll ask Mrs Legolas to chastise me physically tonight for my comments.
I wish.