If only....

[ianb78]

How about some Forest related 'If only's'?

I'll start:

1) If only Forest had beaten Man Utd in 1990 FA Cup 3rd round, Alex Ferguson would have been sacked changing the course of history

2) If only Doughty had opened the purse stings after 2003 play-offs we would now be an established Premier League club and wouldn't have endured the humiliation of League One

be creative!

 

[TheDude]

If only I didn't click on this thread. (sorry)

 

[lard]

If only Fat **** gazza had been showed a red card in the 91 final ......

 

[TheDude]

If only Rangers had won 10 in a row :1st: :hey:

 

[Luke]

If only Wes didn't do that silly pass back against Yeovil.

 

[Kier]

If only Collymore had stayed at Forest, we could have enjoyed a sustained period of riding high in the Premiership.

 

[Shippo]

If only Fat **** gazza had been showed a red card in the 91 final ......

Damn beat me to it... Could have been the cup for Brian, with Gazza fit it could have been us instead of Denmark in 1992 and then as European champions that horrible summer of 1994 would have never happened etc. etc.

 

[Flaggers]

If only Fat **** gazza had been showed a red card in the 91 final ......

This.


So often I've seen threads on "how did we get to where we are now" (especially in the dark days of Division 3...), and more often than not it comes back to that game.

Lots of the other "if we'd bought x or y" are conjecture, but a red card in that game (or more precisely the absence of one) is so much more tangiable as a defining event.

Yes, it's still a "well we might have won, and Cloughie might have quit" exercise, but much more plausible than the others for me.

 

[Flaggers]

How about some Forest related 'If only's'?

I'll start:

1) If only Forest had beaten Man Utd in 1990 FA Cup 3rd round, Alex Ferguson would have been sacked changing the course of history


be creative!

...and to the day I die, I swear that ball was out of play on the main stand touchline immediately before it was crossed in for the goal.

I was in the Trent End, MS side forward and had a pretty good view of things.

Bastards. I think that's where my habit of yelling at linesmen comes from....

 

[forestfan92]

If only Hull got relegated instead of Newcastle on the final day last year.....

West brom would be top, and we'd be second (probably)

 

[RedMark]

If only our unbeaten run didn't carry so many draws

Someone had to moan . . . . . .






Tongue firmly in cheek

 

[Red Duster]

If only camp hadn't flapped at our cross against QPR last season .........

 

[ianb78]

...and to the day I die, I swear that ball was out of play on the main stand touchline immediately before it was crossed in for the goal.

I was in the Trent End, MS side forward and had a pretty good view of things.

Bastards. I think that's where my habit of yelling at linesmen comes from....

Bizarrely I was sat next to a guy in a giant panda costume for that game in the junior reds pen!

I think it was part of a 'Panda softdrinks' promotion lol

 

[Red Duster]

i sat in wb upper while trent end was re built. i screamed myself voiceless (?) at the lino cos he didnt flag a geordie goal offside. i watched it later on telly and he was right.

Doh!

I hope i never get indifferent about forest xx

 

[The Vicar]

Earnie had scored that penalty against West Brom......we would be one point above them with the same games played.
Could be one of the most expensive misses in history.

 

[poole_red]

If only 3rd place in the 94/95 Premiership season had brought us Champions League football and all the money that would of come with it.*

*Though we might of blown it in the qualifying rounds anyway!

 

[Red Duster]

Earnie had scored that penalty against West Brom......we would be one point above them with the same games played.
Could be one of the most expensive misses in history.

i love earnie, despite him being bald and short, but he needs to continue to leave pens to dex. Or raddy, or that bloke in trent end lower, or ned, or our grand-dad 'keeping coach, or the girl with a brace selling pies in trent end upper that gives you too much change.

 

[Le Juif Rouge]

If only there had not been a fire in 1968 - We would have beaten Leeds and gone on to greater glory pre BC.

 

[Flaggers]

If only there had not been a fire in 1968 - We would have beaten Leeds and gone on to greater glory pre BC.

http://www.ltlf.co.uk/forest/2009/06/04/city-ground-main-stand-fire/

 

[lard]

This.


So often I've seen threads on "how did we get to where we are now" (especially in the dark days of Division 3...), and more often than not it comes back to that game.

Lots of the other "if we'd bought x or y" are conjecture, but a red card in that game (or more precisely the absence of one) is so much more tangiable as a defining event.

Yes, it's still a "well we might have won, and Cloughie might have quit" exercise, but much more plausible than the others for me.

It still gets to me that game the anger and pain I felt sitting a few hundred feet from that **** and then he gets subbed meh what a day and what a shit coach journey home it was like someone had died bastards f***ing bastards...filter..lol

 

[Red Duster]

If only .......... we'd not allowed coops and campbell to go, we'd be on channel 5 on thursdays.

 

[winnits]

If only Fat **** gazza had been showed a red card in the 91 final ......

Probably twentiethed by now.

The start of the rot. Of course, we might not have gone on to win the game, but we'd have had a much better chance without the unfeasibly shiney-faced Paul Stewart on the pitch (who I think replaced Gascoigne).

Winning that cup I think would've seen BC retire, hopefully in better health than when he eventually did depart us.

Of course, that would mean he wouldn't end up taking us down... somebody else might've done - who knows?

It was a big moment. Roger Milford will be a **** as long as he lives because of it. To have let him stud Garry Parker in the chest was lax, to have let a second ridiculous challenge on Gary Charles go without a card was scandalous.

Both were straight red offences.

Fat geordie ****.

 

[Kier]

Probably twentiethed by now.

The start of the rot. Of course, we might not have gone on to win the game, but we'd have had a much better chance without the unfeasibly shiney-faced Paul Stewart on the pitch (who I think replaced Gascoigne).

Winning that cup I think would've seen BC retire, hopefully in better health than when he eventually did depart us.

Of course, that would mean he wouldn't end up taking us down... somebody else might've done - who knows?

It was a big moment. Roger Milford will be a **** as long as he lives because of it. To have let him stud Garry Parker in the chest was lax, to have let a second ridiculous challenge on Gary Charles go without a card was scandalous.

Both were straight red offences.

Fat geordie ****.

Nayim replaced Gascoigne who still went onto play a huge role in Tottenham's come back.

Another main one was the decision not to invest in the team after promotion in 1998 when we could have re-established ourselves in the Premiership instead of being relegated and completely humiliated along the way.

 

[winnits]

Ah, I was wavering over Nayim..

No investment/disinvestment (or dismantling) has been a bit of a recurring theme for Forest over the years

 

[Kier]

Indeed but the previous times like in 2003 under Hart the finances were in pretty poor shape so there is an excuse there. Plus without starting a pointless debate on whether he deserved to go or not, he did have enough resources to build a team that should have been well clear of relegation.

However in 1998 we were fine finacially and were going to recieve Premiership income and we sold two of our best players leading to Hooijdonk' strike and Bassett simply did have enough money to do his job effectively. Completely unforgivable and we have never recovered from being screwed Scholar et al.