All posts tagged Nottingham Forest

Despite Billy Davies’s posture and demeanour remaining as combative and shouty as ever, Nottingham Forest looked a whole lot more solid than for most of last season during their opening run out on Saturday. Davies and Reds fans returning to Reading station on the bus were united in decrying their lack of defensive reinforcements, although openly attacking one’s employers when they have given you six million to spend might be unwise, especially with twenty more days in which to do business. Infact, the often maligned Wes Morgan had a strong afternoon, albeit against a lone striker making only his second…

Nottingham Forest’s agreement to take Paul McKenna to the City Ground is the latest statement of intent from a side determined to recapture their days of yore. Few players can have clocked up the best part of five hundred starts for a club and then been tempted to move on, but McKenna’s quiet efficiency, incise passing and tigerish tackling have been evident to the Championship cognoscenti for some time now. McKenna is one of the few remaining links to David Moyes’ time in charge at North End, a golden period that relaunched the lilywhites as a respectable force within the…

Paul Anderson opting for Nottingham Forest for a season long loan from Liverpool last summer, having turned down the Swansea City side that he had represented during their promotion year the previous season was a surprise. Perhaps he was influenced by the Bright Lights-Big City feelings once exhibited by Brian Roy? The winger has now followed this up by opting for the same choice this year. All this is another setback for beleaguered Swans’ boss Paulo Sousa. Anderson really impressed me last season, a campaign ravaged by injuries – but is it sound policy to sign players who have been…

“Following Southampton’s relegation, my agent told me that a few clubs were interested in me. Once I became aware of Forest’s interest, I told him to get me there and he’s managed to do that, which I’m very grateful for.” Perhaps, but I’m sure David McGoldrick’s agent wasn’t acting out of the goodness of his heart and to see a player so eagerly join the rivals of the club that gave him his break in league football is disappointing for the true fans among us. McGoldrick certainly caught the eye in Southampton’s desperate season with some lithe displays in the…