The Seventy Two has canvassed the opinion of several Football League writers from a variety of different clubs to ask one simple question: what do you want from your football club? Given around 300 words to play with, there were numerous responses so we will be looking at a cross-section every day this week, continuing with the thoughts of Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Leicester City and Notts County supporters. Nottingham Forest by Pat Riddell I don’t expect too much from my club (no, really). Winning games is nice — play-off semi-finals seem particularly troublesome for some reason — but it’s…
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Relegation Week: Can Nottingham Forest avoid the chop?
A recent upturn in fortunes has seen Nottingham Forest rise up the Championship table at just the right time. Coinciding with Portsmouth’s ten-point deduction, Forest have taken ten points from their last six games to give themselves the upper hand in their fight against the drop. So can Pat Riddell see his team getting over the line? Joe Harrison finds out. With the appointment of Steve McClaren in the summer, many people made Forest one of their favourites for promotion – were you confident and could you have envisaged a fight against relegation at that stage? Talk of being favourites…
The bewildering boardroom at Nottingham Forest! (part deux)
The situation at the City Ground is awfully familiar. Different manager, similar story. Pat Riddell explains. If the noises Steve McClaren made before the end of the transfer window weren’t alarm bells enough, the newspaper reports on Friday morning were Code Red. And then, almost as soon as it had happened, it was all over. But not without Nottingham Forest’s dirty laundry being hung out in public. Again. Given that the ‘McClaren on the verge of quitting’ stories were published across all the national newspapers — and written by many of Fleet Street’s finest — there seemed more to this…
Championship league ladder: Ipswich Town up, West Ham down
The Seventy Two’s Championship league ladder continues with the thoughts of Pat Riddell. In brief, the idea will be that the table begins in the order that the Championship finished at the end of the 2010/11 season and a series of bloggers and journalists will each re-position one team further up and one team further down based on their thoughts over the summer. By the end, we will have a predicted Championship table for which we can all take some part of the blame… Over to Pat… One up: Ipswich Town Ipswich manager Paul Jewell is rebuilding his reputation in…
Bluffer’s guide to the play-offs: Nottingham Forest
The City Ground began to swell with optimism during the winter period as Nottingham Forest flew up the Championship table and looked set to rival Queen’s Park Rangers for the title. How long ago that seems now, but Billy Davies has steered his ship away from stormy waters and back on course for the Premier League. Pat Riddell is safely on board and talks us through Forest’s chances of returning to the top flight. Feeling confident? How’s your form? Forest and the play-offs don’t have a particularly happy history — three appearances in the past decade and we’ ve never…
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