MattDockers

@RayMundoFutbol It’s tricky. I like all 3 and feel that they each bring something…but 2 have fitness issues and we need to future proof. Can we carry 4 strikers without European football?

Don't give me that snooty old "we need better patterns of play" or "we've moved on as a club and need better quality." Forest currently have three strikers who are all scoring and seem very happy with their amount of game time Is this one position we don't strengthen? #nffc

@CallumCastel7 2021/22 - The season it finally happened, riding the crest of a wave. 2024/25 - Riding high in 3rd for months, winning at Anfield, OT etc. 7-0. 2022/23 - First year back, best atmospheres. United. 2025/26 - Fun European trips but a constant struggle. 2023/24 - All struggle.

Rank these Nottingham Forest seasons: 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26

@Dannytring @YouBloodyReds He got many more minutes last season and we finished 7th. I’ll take that kind of tits up.

@YouBloodyReds Yeah also less minutes to go around. Fight all he wants quality always prevails of Yates gets more minutes it means recruitment has gone tits up. Much like if Morato gets more minutes.

If you offer the majority of the Prem clubs a 28yr old CM on relative low salary, experience in the Prem (100+ games) plays with total commitment, great character & chips in with the odd goal on a free transfer... They'd say yes! So, YES to keeping Ryan Yates. #NFFC #Forest

@Battlemuch4WW The club was toxic back then. Remember the players going out & getting pissed days before that 3-0 defeat to Plymouth on the way to relegation? This is one of the reasons why I’ll always argue for the likes of Ryan Yates remaining in the squad - culture/standards are so important

Never has a headline had such a double meaning. Oh yes a new era of despair! Anyone who suffered this period in #NFFC history needs a gold medal. Yep I remember it well unfortunately.

@YouBloodyReds @ShaneKReynolds And surely we’d have a chance of getting Spence if Spurs went? With Aina’s fitness issues, I’d take him. Also, Spurs staying up surely increases the risk of MGW leaving?

@ShaneKReynolds I think that’s a fair perspective. Albeit I think of the realistic options at West Ham to go for, mainly Summerville, there’d be huge competition.

Surely all #NFFC fans want to see Nuno keep West Ham up? A man who gave us something so special. Would mean sending down a faux ‘big six’ club in Spurs who tried to steal our talisman in a sly deal this summer… #Forest

@ScottF_NFFC @BrummieTricky The problem is that I can’t imagine he’ll be short on suitors offering big money! He’ll have his pick, it’s remarkable what he’s done at Bournemouth continuing to progress despite selling their best players.

@MattDockers @BrummieTricky Money would have to do the talking!

Under the circumstances regarding Thursday and injuries I thought it was a really good result and performance. Another season in prem, huge huge summer incoming. #nffc

@Tay03Jack @ReissNFFC @nffc1865__ Exactly. And Yates brings so much more than a random new reserve player who has no feel for the club. Culture is so important - setting standards from the first team to the academy. And if we lost MGW too, we’d be so short on leaders who set those standards.

@ReissNFFC @MattDockers @nffc1865__ That’s the thing he’s not gonna replace him and he’s not good enough to start we can’t be spending loads of money on a starter and then an upgrade on a 4th/5th choice player when that market is so hard to shop in anyway and we have other areas. If he wants to leave that’s fair.

we need to have a serious talk on #22, yeah he is of our own but surely with the emergence of zach abbott surely we can start to look at options

@ReissNFFC @Tay03Jack @nffc1865__ That’s the conversation, whether he wants guaranteed starts elsewhere or if he’s happy to fight for his place here, noting that will be more achievable if Anderson leaves. He started half of the games last season in a team that finished 7th so he absolutely has it in him.

@Tay03Jack @nffc1865__ Agree with most of this but surely can’t be happy with his gametime. Just 2 starts in Prem.

@forestmad80 He regularly started in a team that finished 7th last year & came on as a sub in the others. Sure, if he wants a guaranteed starting place elsewhere, then there’s a conversation to be had. Otherwise, he’s so important for standards / culture & can contribute (see Midtjylland)

Now is not the time but we need to have a big and awkward conversation about Ryan Yates in the summer. Most won’t like it but with great sacrifice comes great reward. No one said it was ever gonna be easy… Love you Yatesy. #NFFC

@H_Sax98 🥱

Yates needs to be moved on, twice he’s come on and we’ve declined. Granted today there’s not much other options but I think it’s pointed it out even more. If he does stay then it should only be to see games out, not to change games. No loyalty in football anymore unfortunately

@BrummieTricky @ScottF_NFFC Is this not where Marinakis’s ‘ways’ might hold us back? He’s dismissed 3 managers this season and a high profile sporting director who made a big move from Arsenal…would an in-demand manager like Iraola make that move?

@ScottF_NFFC Go all out Iraola

@ReissNFFC I agree with the formation but that midfield battle would become Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton, Willock v Anderson and Dominguez. I think they’d steamroller us in there as McAtee and Bakwa don’t offer any physicality.

Team wise if no one back, has to go with a 5 today. Sels Neco Cunha Milenkovic Morato Netz Dominguez Anderson Bakwa McAtee Taiwo Look to bring the likes of Yates, Hutchinson & Wood/Jesus on. #NFFC

@YouBloodyReds @No_wukinfurries I agree, knowing that a draw is realistically enough for us today, we have to make sure that first and foremost we’re competitive in midfield. If we have 3 in there, Jesus would have to peel left in a 433 (or be dropped entirely), so maybe a 532 / 353 is the best option.

@MattDockers @No_wukinfurries Yeah he’s got it in him to keep going. Especially if he’s allowed to play narrower in either a 3 or box. If it’s a 4231 there’s too much work for him to do and we’ll get out numbered by their 3

Think we need an extra man in midfield today to compete with Bruno, Tonali and Joelinton. Either 433 or 3421 box. Good argument for the latter with Netz and Williams as WB. Then Dom, Ando with Yates and another as the 4. Taiwo up top please. #NFFC #Forest

@No_wukinfurries @YouBloodyReds I’m not sure Dominguez is capable of being tired 😂

@YouBloodyReds Strangely I woke up thinking of that too. Dominguez will be tired so who?

@VillaJG_ @JackNFFC1865 I should add - good luck in the final, it’ll be some occasion. Villa are a great club and winning a trophy after so long would be huge.

@VillaJG_ @JackNFFC1865 Yeah, injuries are a cruel party of the game. The higher up the echelons you are, the easier that clubs can cope due to squad depth. City can handle injuries better than Villa, likewise Villa can handle them better than Forest. Our poor recruitment last summer didn’t help either!

Struggle to find a better performance ever in football history? You only had to wait a week 🤣

@pierrestanley45 @SmithLovelace @JimmyTheBrummie Exactly. 2 injuries to regular starters is very different to half the team. Based on current form, I think it would have been a very close match with Aina, Murillo, Sangare, MGW, CHO available…but that’s immaterial, we did have those injuries and were comprehensively beaten.

@SmithLovelace @JimmyTheBrummie It wasn't just MGW that was out. We had the heart of our 1st team ripped out. Doesn't matter now and all the best of luck for the Final. I will definitely be cheering you on!

Let’s have a debate Villans. Has a chat yesterday with a Forest fan. Who tell me if MGW started that game it would have been a different story? Correct me if I’m wrong we would have still battered them. #UTV #AVFC

@nffc999 It would have been a completely different game and based on current form, I’m quietly confident that we’d have won.

The replys to this are insane.. 😂 it wasn't just Morgan either, we where missing Sangarè/Murillo and Aina which makes a huge difference to us as we don't have the depth Villa have. We got beat fair and square but if we have a fully fit squad we don't lose 4-0 #NFFC

@DNOnMAZ9 As soon as I saw the team news, deep down I knew what was coming. You can’t be missing half of your starting outfield players and not be massively impacted, especially with Netz & Awoniyi not in the Europa squad. It was a tough enough challenge had we been at full strength.

Pre Villa everything was perfect for us, form, momentum, Vitor said we would go there for the win, we had destroyed Chelsea, form team in the league, Villa 3 losses in a row, still can't get my head around any of it. So difficult to get up for tomorrow in any way at all. #nffc

@VillaJG_ @JackNFFC1865 I said that Villa played well! And they did blow us away. I just don’t believe that would have been the case had Aina, Murillo, Sangare, MGW (& arguably CHO) been fit & available. With the form we’ve been in I reckon it would have been a great game. Unfortunately we’ll never know

@MattDockers @JackNFFC1865 Of course it’s comparable. We were missing Onana and Kamara on Thursday and walked it 4-0. You were missing 4 starters. That’s irrelevant to the tweet anyway. Villa blew you away and played very well.