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Howe was very complimentary of him today.

There are times when the bank balance is important. As much as I love Eddie, you can't turn down 15m for Wood.

It's fucking mint isn't it. Ruthless. Can't wait to see what we do.

@Heronneeds to have a serious word with wor Flags about a Schar flag like.

There was a huge hint from Eddie about it being someone "not necessarily with PL experiance". It's quite a bold thing for him to affectively lay down the gauntlet to our recruitment team too. I got the impression he wasn't happy about losing Wood. Just to be clear, I'm not saying there's some sort of rift, more that our manager had his hands tied when I came to letting Wood go.

I'm well in the minority but I've always liked Gordon. He's always one the better players when we play them. He's young. He grafts his arse off. He's versatile. He's an absolute little rat (good if he's on your team).

HWTFL

Beat Palace and we are in an unreal spot.

Someone will be along to accuse you of racism soon.

Tyler is going senile. At one point in the first half he claimed City didn't know the offside rule last week because they should have completely ignore Rashford. I've always given him a pass but now I just think he's a cunt.

I expect our lot to have put some serious work into making sure that an obligation is virtually sealed. 10 appearance or something. Also worth remembering how haphazard Forest are when it comes to signing players.

Shame he can't play against Man U. Could have got him to crock Rashford.

Especially with his wages off the books and potentially a 15m boost to the auld FFP coffers.

Fucking 15m. We are sooooo going to put that to good use.

Dan Ashworth take a bow son.

Tell you what has struck me most, the fact that north east journos are nowhere near this story. Everything has come from the Forest end. Bodes well for any potential incomings.

Not a rumour but, just enjoy it.

We are better than Man United, so we will beat them.

Would happily see Darmesh and Kaveh fight to the death and then see the winner get shot.

And thats fine but we have 2 games in 4 days. We could play the same team in both but with Isak just back from injury I can't see that. The question is which do you see as a priority?

It's very rare that a player turns up in a plane without the press getting wind of it before hand. IF that plane has anything to do with football, its more likely an agent coming in for talks. Remember we had Seskos agent on Tyneside, it doesn't always mean anything significant. I'd wager that Ashworth and Nickson have multiple discussions everyday with agents and intermediaries.

So the big debate is whether to start Wilson/Isak vs Palace or Southampton. I suppose Howes real question is who is suited to which opposition. I'd argue that Palace are more likely to have a tight defence, so I'd want Wilson available to for those cute finishes or will there be more space on the pitch and more counter attacking opportunities for Isak?

Is there not a scenario where you could reset the loyalty points every 3 years or so. This allows a period where some can get tickets but also allows the opportunity for those with a lot of loyalty points to rebuild. The likelihood is that those who go regularly to away games will rebuild their points quickly anyway because alot of fans just want to go to the odd away game. Also, why can't you build up a smaller number of loyalty points from cup games? There has to be a balance somewhere. To be clear, I clearly get those who have built up points being frustrated by suggestions but at the same time, they shouldn't have guaranteed tickets for away games

Joelinton as an option up front is fine but I'd still suggest we were spread too thin in the wide areas in that scenario. I'd be more than happy as Joelinton 3rd choice CF, provided we bulked up in other areas.

Don't care how many forwards other teams have. We need 3 because: 1. Wilson has paper legs and misses 50% of a season. 2. We don't have wide forwards who can play a false 9 or even play legitimate striker roles.