22/23 LTLF Season Review

[PynchonForest]

I know we've still got Palace to play at the time of writing this but thankfully, that's a dead rubber and the season is over, so I'd like you to reply to this with the following;

Player of the Season: Brennan
Team of the Season (11):
Best Three Players Signed: Felipe, Niahkate and Danilo
Worst Three Players Signed: Jon, Joe and Shelvey
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Lodi
Player That Disappointed You:Freuler
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Probably Yates
Player That Disappointed You: Neco Williams
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: A bit worse
Favourite Game: Last one v Arsenal.
Favourite Moment: Brennan hacking down Richarlison
Your Objective for us Next Season?: Tenth.

 

[Rosie]

Player of the Season: Serious answer - MGW; tongue-in-cheek answer - Scarpa! Inspired me to finish a Rubik’s Cube now five times in my life
Team of the Season (11): Navas, Aurier, Lodi, Niakhate, Felipe, Danilo, Yates, Mangala, Brennan, Awoniyi, MGW.
Best Three Players Signed: Lodi, MGW, Felipe; if he’d been able to play more, I’d probably have Scarpa here too
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Wood, Ayew
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Lodi, Navas or Henderson
Player That Disappointed You: Can I pick four? Shelvey, Dennis, Wood and Ayew
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Scarpa! Was really looking forward to seeing him spraying the ball all around…
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Better
Favourite Game: Though I couldn’t get there, listening to Arsenal (h)
Favourite Moment: Felipe’s goal and somersault. Pity the goal didn’t stand. Great goal, fine specimen of a man
Your Objective for us Next Season?: Mid-table with less stress, please

 

[Grass]

I know we've still got Palace to play at the time of writing this but thankfully, that's a dead rubber and the season is over, so I'd like you to reply to this with the following;

Player of the Season:
Team of the Season (11):
Best Three Players Signed:
Worst Three Players Signed:
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Player That Disappointed You:
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Biggest Miss Through Injury:
Player That Disappointed You:
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?:
Favourite Game:
Favourite Moment:
Your Objective for us Next Season?:

Player of the Season: Felipe
Team of the Season (11): The Fans
Best Three Players Signed: Felipe, Danilo, Aurier
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Shelvey, Shelvey
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Renan Lodi, Kaylor Navas
Player That Disappointed You: Wood
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Yates
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Better
Favourite Game: Beating Liverpool
Favourite Moment: The Felipe Flip
Your Objective for us Next Season?: To win the Title - It should always be to win whatever league you are in from the get go

 

[Captain Sinister]

I know we've still got Palace to play at the time of writing this but thankfully, that's a dead rubber and the season is over, so I'd like you to reply to this with the following;

Player of the Season:
Team of the Season (11):
Best Three Players Signed:
Worst Three Players Signed:
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Player That Disappointed You:
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Biggest Miss Through Injury:
Player That Disappointed You:
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?:
Favourite Game:
Favourite Moment:
Your Objective for us Next Season?:

Assuming this is for NFFC only:
Player of the season is Awoniyi
Team of the season NFFC Gentelman's First XI
Best 3 players signed: Chris Wood (makes the rest of the team look really good); Jonjo Shelvey (same reason as for Wood), Briain (so good, I don't need to give his surname).
Worst 3 players signed: MGW (£42 million... we can't afford that!); JLinz (£180k per week we can't afford that!); Keylor Navas (£200k per week? We can't afford that).
Any Loans Yo'd keep: Can I keep my mortgage please, and not have to repay it?
Player that disappointed me: Omar richards - the one-legged left back formerly a key player in the Neasden United side, managed by the ashen-faced ron Knee)
Was the season bett or worse than expected: the terribly wet late winter/early spring really disappointed me, but the sunshine of the late spring made up for that, so overall it was much as i expected.
Any (more) loans I'd keep: other than the mortgage, I have no other loans;
Biggest miss through injury: I didn't get to many away games because of a broken toe.
Another Player that disappointed me: George shelvey - never really looked like displacing Henderson, Hennesse or Navas.
Favourite game: I rather like association football, but Dwile-flonking has its moments.
Favourite moment: that moment when you tip over the edge and can't hold it off any longer
Objective for forest for Next Season: to have decent prawn sandwiches and a well-chilled champagne (brut, naturally) available at the food and drink counters on the LBC concourse.

 

[Tobias]

Player of the Season: Awoniyi
Team of the Season (11): Navas, Aurier, Felipe, Niakhate, Lodi, Yates, Mangala, Danilo, MGW, Awoniyi, Johnson.
Best Three Players Signed: MGW, Felipe, Danilo.
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Wood, Ayew.
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Henderson, Navas, Lodi.
Player That Disappointed You: Dennis - not anywhere near the impact I thought he might have for us. Scarpa too, although for different reasons. I'm hopeful he'll play a bigger part after a full pre-season at the club.
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Awoniyi
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Better
Favourite Game: Brighton at home.
Favourite Moment: Awoniyi's equaliser at Chelsea.
Your Objective for us Next Season?: Keep the core of the side together, develop a sensible approach to transfers where we target promising players we can develop and push on (Danilo, MGW) with a few more experienced players if the deals are right for the club (Felipe, Lodi, Aurier). Assess the backroom staff/facilities and ensure they're up to Premier League standards where possible. Another cup run and an improved position in the league.

 

[T Francis]

This season has exceeded my expectations by a long way overall. The highs have far outweighed the lows and has produced some really great moments.
A couple of things stand out for me;
Taking 14 points off the 4 teams below that will finish below us. Teams that we were supposedly lucky to finish above!
Taking 11 points off the top 6, unexpected bonus points and a real factor in our survival.
The unbelievable atmosphere created at the majority of home games. Those last 5 minutes against City will stick long in the memory.
Personally, as a bronze member, I did pretty well in the scrambles to get tickets. Managed to 16 out 17 attempts, only missing out on the Liverpool game.
Roll on next season

Forgot to add the first semi final appearance in nearly 30 years as well.
A pretty good season overall

 

[isaacs]

Player of the Season: MGW
Team of the Season (11): Hendo, Aurier, Felipe, Niakhate, Lodi, Danilo, Mangala, Yates, Johnson, MGW, Taiwo
Best Three Players Signed: Aurier, Felipe, MGW
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Wood, Lingard
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Hendo, Lodi
Player That Disappointed You: Freuler
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Big T Awoniyi
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Better
Favourite Game: 1-0 Liverpool
Favourite Moment: MGW's flick for Daniloooooooooooo - mayhem
Your Objective for us Next Season?: Stability, hopefully avoid a relegation battle. 11th-15th

 

[Canadian_red]

No one liking my favourite goal idea, harumph.

 

[Redemption]

No one liking my favourite goal idea, harumph.

I'd start a goal of the season thread, if I were you

 

[vertigored]

Player of the Season: Gibbs-White
Team of the Season (11): Henderson, Aurier, Felipe, Niakhate, Lodi, Yates, Mangala, Danilo, MGW, Awoniyi, Johnson
Best Three Players Signed: MGW, Danilo, Aurier
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Wood, Richards
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Lodi and Henderson
Player That Disappointed You: Shelvey
Biggest Miss Through Injury: boly- thought he looked immense and we were on a roll, but that match when we lost both of them in the first 5 minutes I think set us off on our troubled winless patch.
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Slightly better.
Favourite Game: Wolves playtime…. West Ham at home, first win in the prem for years, with a team of strangers.
Favourite Moment: the return from injury of niakhate, awoniyi and Yates.
Your Objective for us Next Season?: a few less heart attacks, injuries and mid table security.

 

[TrentEndDr]

Player of the Season:  Jonno
Team of the Season (11): Navas, Aurier, Felipe, Niakhate, Lodi, Yates, , Mangala, Danilo, MGW, Jonno, Awoniyi
Best Three Players Signed: Felipe, Aurier, MGW
Worst Three Players Signed: Shelvey, Richards, Ayew
Any Loans You'd Keep?: Lord Lodi
Player That Disappointed You: Shelvey - spoke about how he respected SC and then absolutely turned. Shit effort on the pitch.
Biggest Miss Through Injury: Yates - a close run thing with Awoniyi but his record in the team vs out of it speaks alot
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Better, honestly thought relegation was on the cards. Though an early relegation would have been better on the heart
Favourite Game: In Person: Man City (H). In general Arsenal (H) for the shere relief factor
Favourite Moment: Last Weekend
Your Objective for us Next Season?: A really boring mid table mediocrity where survival is guaranteed early and I dont have a heart attack every week

 

[NFFCForeverRed]

Moment of the season: The big man backing Cooper with a new 5 year contract when most would have reached for the trigger. Top class.

 

[Strummer]

I'd start a goal of the season thread, if I were you

This is the way!

 

[Quntib Hollox]

Player of the Season: MGW
Team of the Season (11): NAVERSON, AURIER, NIAKHATE, FELIPE, LODI, YATES, MANGALA, DANILO, MGW, BJ, AWONIYI
Best Three Players Signed: MGW, FELIPE,AWONIYI
Worst Three Players Signed: WOOD, RICHARDS, HWANG
Any Loans You'd Keep?: HENDO, LODI
Player That Disappointed You: SHELVEY
Any Loans You'd Keep?:
Biggest Miss Through Injury: NIAKHATE
Was the Season how you expected or better/worse?: Far better
Favourite Game: ARSENAL (HOME)
Favourite Moment: FINAL WHISTLE ARSENAL AT HOME
Your Objective for us Next Season?: FORMULATE A MORE PROGRESSIVE STYLE OF PLAY, COMFORTABLE MID TABLE.