Worse season ever?

[Rich565]

I'm finding this season so tough as a Forest fan. I'm finding it worse than our seasons in league 1 and our last Champ season. It's as tough as the seaosn we went down in the Prem.

I had such high hopes in Sept, and these hopes evaporate, and then re-emerge , and then Forest let me down, then they win at Reading, then we're awful at Watford.

It's the hope that kills me, and the seemingly weekly movement from "what a talented young squad, let's keep going, we'll be fine" to "what is going on, we drop Earnie, we drop Ozzy, we don't turn up at Watford"

Maybe I am feeling this just because of the currentness(is that a word?) of the situation, and kind of the grass is greener sort of thing........

I haven't got a clue what to expect against Burnley then Wolves........I just have a pit in my stomach saying it could all end in tears.

 

[Randy Bumgardener]

Yeah, because this is worse than any time in league one isn't it :blink:

 

[Forest Gurl]

I doubt many will agree with you- we could be 20th in League 1... be grateful!

 

[Brolin]

There have been enjoyable moments, to be fair. I wouldn't have said it's the worst season ever.

In fact, if the league positions stay as they are now until the end of the season, one could argue we've achieved our initial objective.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

We were always going to be between mid-table and a relegation dog fight this season, I don't understand why anyone had higher expectations as we still carried the vast majority of the squad that struggled in the league below.

This season is certainly much better than all three seasons in League One and the relegation to that awful league four years ago. Whilst we may have handed Wolves an easy victory this season, it certainly doesn't match the likes of Plymouth, Coventry, Oldham, Barnsley, Yeovil, Doncaster in the seasons prior.

Keep your chin up.

 

[Eddie]

There have been enjoyable moments, to be fair. I wouldn't have said it's the worst season ever.

In fact, if the league positions stay as they are now until the end of the season, one could argue we've achieved our initial objective.

Very true. :tophat:

 

[Randy Bumgardener]

I think the unanimous view was if we finished 4th from bottom, we would be happy !

 

[cenobite]

Totally agree.
Don't let the serial abusers on here with nothing other than insults to give when they disagree with a point of view get you down. You're right.

 

[EmJay]

I can honestly say ive enjoyed this season.

It's nice to be playing decent teams, and at decent grounds again. If we stay up il be pretty satisfied on the whole

It's not accepting mediocrity, it's just being realistic. Providing we stay up, I fully expect us to be further up the table next season, and pushing for playoffs the season after. Still a very big if though.

 

[Randy Bumgardener]

Yup, very insulting thread eh ! :blink:

 

[Matt90]

I thought we always had to goal of staying up....ok so we have looked a bit crap at times but we aren't in the relegation zone.

Like said earlier I expect us to be higher up the table next year.

And this is definatly not the worst season ever mainly because we don't have to lose to some shitty team in the JPT!

 

[Eastwood Red]

It could be worse, we could be like Notts County :mellow:

 

[sedgred]

The bad times, just ensure you enjoy the good times a little more. All what being a football fan is about.

 

[EmJay]

The bad times, just ensure you enjoy the good times a little more. All what being a football fan is about.

That's what I always say. My mum often expresses her amazement that I stuck with Forest from being a young kid, as weve pretty much been in decline since the day I started properly following us. Especially as all my friends were Manure when I was younger. I always say to her, that one day we will be back at the top again, and maybe il appreciate it more having seen us slump to our lowest ever position

 

[sedgred]

That's what I always say. My mum often expresses her amazement that I stuck with Forest from being a young kid, as weve pretty much been in decline since the day I started properly following us. Especially as all my friends were Manure when I was younger. I always say to her, that one day we will be back at the top again, and maybe il appreciate it more having seen us slump to our lowest ever position

When we have been relegated, I always told the kids, not to worry, when they score next season you'll jump just as high out of your seats as before, because it's Forest

 

[Samuel]

When the final whistle went last May against Yeovil it made the battering we got 12 months earlier from Yeovil brilliant.

I kinda thanked Yeovil they made us stay in League One for one more season purely so I could see Forest do something for once.

 

[Baronvon]

We were always going to be between mid-table and a relegation dog fight this season, I don't understand why anyone had higher expectations as we still carried the vast majority of the squad that struggled in the league below.

This season is certainly much better than all three seasons in League One and the relegation to that awful league four years ago. Whilst we may have handed Wolves an easy victory this season, it certainly doesn't match the likes of Plymouth, Coventry, Oldham, Barnsley, Yeovil, Doncaster in the seasons prior.

Keep your chin up.

Exactamundo

 

[Erik]

We were always going to be between mid-table and a relegation dog fight this season, I don't understand why anyone had higher expectations as we still carried the vast majority of the squad that struggled in the league below.

This season is certainly much better than all three seasons in League One and the relegation to that awful league four years ago. Whilst we may have handed Wolves an easy victory this season, it certainly doesn't match the likes of Plymouth, Coventry, Oldham, Barnsley, Yeovil, Doncaster in the seasons prior.

Spot on.

 

[trickytrees12]

I too have enjoyed this season on the whole.

I think the fact I expected this season to pan out how it has, has helped, and if we stay up it will have been a good season.

The worst year as a Forest fan for me has to be our first year in league one, as much as I knew it wouldn't be easy, I really didn't expect us to f*** it up - but even that year ended on a high with Charlie and Frank.

I'd obviously rarther see us at the top of the league, but theres just as much excitment to be had surviving relegation as there is promotion isn't there ?

 

[Rich565]

I think the unanimous view was if we finished 4th from bottom, we would be happy !

I agree.

I didn't mean for this thread to be a typical "Forest are rubbish" thread.
I think in hindsight it's not the worse, I mean maybe the most tortuous. It's a real rollercoaster, because I (and everyone here) really don't want to go back to League 1. I'd hate it.

I suppose it frustrates me seeing Swansea and Donny do so well, thinking that with a bit of this and that we could so easily be there.

 

[Darth Pierre]

i agree, league one was so shit it was fun.

we won loadsa games and we were a big team then.

prefer it to the championship

 

[kennylaing]

I have quite enjoyed it so far actually. There have been quite a few matches where the standard of football has been good!

This is something I have not seen for at least the last 3 years watching Forest.

The football in league 1 was awful; it makes the job of staying up very important, but I do agree it is very nerve-wracking!

Keep the faith I think we will make it.

 

[adam09]

Our previous season in the Championship and first season in League 1 held most of the most dire performances by Forest teams EVER. No fight, not even any talent. At least this season we've witnessed some good matches.

 

[RICH1977]

id rather suffer 10 years of this type of dogfight that another season in the shower of shit that is league one.

 

[goatboy]

This has been a comparatively good season - we've had ups and downs, as opposed to just downs.


The Bad:

Occupying the doldrums - well... newly promoted team, Calderwood wanted a small squad - his biggest error. We're no f***ing Charlton though.

Commons to the Sheep - The fat lazy bugger is inevitably doing better with them - because lazy players always prosper when they've talent and experience providing their service at a decent level. Also, Judas.

Calderwood Out - He'd just got us promoted. Injury nightmare. If he'd been luckier, he might have grown into the role of Championship level Forest Manager. I liked him overall and wish him well.

Signings - Martin was a pillock, Cole was a ponce and early doors Lynch was a f***ing disgrace.

Injuries - Earnshaw half the time, Benno, Anderson, Cohen, McGugan, Moussi, Tys - couldn't make it up. Funny how bloody Chambers never gets injured isn't it?

4 Derby derbies - I've said before - we simply lacked the stamina (from experience) to go four ties in that time. Imagine 80% our best side over four games - there's a win or two in that notion. Sadly most fans can't see beyond the scoreline. Even depleted and deflated, we managed a couple of cracking games with what we had. Speaking of which...

Clough to Derby - I didn't want him here over Davies and he lacks the x factor for turning Forest round as we stand, but the Derby role was the right club at the right time and I'll not begrudge him that. And I love him for his Forest career. Nonetheless I'll admit there is by default a whole thing with that whole thing, though. Clough. Derby. In an ideal world, it just wouldn't have happened.

Shit luck - missed sitters due to jitters, own goals, the ref at Cardiff. Again an unprecedented catalogue of abject random misery. We don't bloody deserve it.


The Good:

Being in the Championship - we are playing similar sized clubs again. About time. We belong in this league, in spite of everything. Might even stick around.

The signings - Earnshaw: best forward since Stan, no contest. Imagine him fit for all season - we'd be mid table. Moussi: The f***ing Moose! Anderson: Sign Him up. Garner: Yes He Can. McLeary: He counts, and he's done bloody well given his pre-Forest career. Except at Cardiff where he was shit. Osbourne: Tidy. McSheffrey: Tidy. Camp: Epic, fleeting, could he do it again? New Lynch: Sign him up, teach him to pass, could push Bennet on even further.

Stepping up - majority of the squad have proved that on their day and with the right team around them they can be top notch Championship layers. Next, consistency. Please, God, consistency.

Big Bad Billy Davies - I love how he pisses people off with the stuff he says. Also for the first time in years I feel as if the manager is explaining what is up with the team to me in a clear and honest manner. Good loan signings eventually, unafraid to call out then retract criticism of his seniors when he doesn't get his man. We might not have the two we got otherwise. I like that every time I feel worried about Forest he's probably making a DVD about next oppositions' wingers for our full backs. I enjoy how dreadfully tiresome he clearly finds interviews with Chippo. I like that he's willing to bully his callow side into gamesmanship to stall a marauding opposition in a game where we've nicked three points, so that we stay in the league.

Redemption - We have more songs, greater debate, more colourful opposition, better gates, a better squad (on the treatment table, I'll grant you) than for ages. I feel the best now that I have since the decent Paul Hart season. I'll take that. And fourth from bottom, or higher.



So all in all, the negatives are pointed and clear, while the positives shine out when you take a wider view of things and try not to get too emotional about it all. But we're football fans and we can't easily do that. Nevertheless we've waited long for the positives we do have and we should celebrate them, because the terraces, forums and pubs of the nation are the only places we can contribute to the survival effort. An effort best served with a positive outlook. We as a fanbase are quicker to criticise a fault than we are to praise its equal and opposite positive thing.