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Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English professional football club based at The City Ground in West Bridgford a suburb of Nottingham, England. The club is currently in League One of the Coca-Cola Football League and has an illustrious history which encompasses winning two consecutive European Cups, along with the domestic title, two FA Cups and four League Cups.
Nottingham Forest takes its name from the Forest Recreation Ground just north of the city centre which is where the team first played and is now the site of the annual Nottingham Goose Fair. The club is often referred to simply as Forest (not to be confused with the entirely unrelated older amateur side, Forest F.C., which is better known as The Wanderers F.C.), the name the club carries on its badge.
Notts is the correct abbreviation of Nottinghamshire (hence Notts County), but not of Nottingham itself. The appropriate abbreviation of Nottingham Forest is Nott'm Forest. Despite this distinction, it is the City Ground which actually lies outside the city of Nottingham.
Relegation to English football's third tier made Forest the first European Cup-winning club ever to fall into its country's third division. Many of today's footballing rules and features, including floodlighting, shinpads, and even lettering on the stands have been pioneered by Forest: see "Forest's firsts" below.
The City Ground:
Nottingham Forest play their home games at The City Ground, which has been their home, directly across the Trent from city rivals, Notts County, since 1898. Before they settled at The City Ground, which is located on the south bank of the Trent, they played at the Forest Recreation Ground, from which the team takes its name.
The City Ground, Home of Nottingham Forest The four stands are:
The Main Stand, the oldest stand in the ground. Capacity: 5,708.
There were plans to rebuild this stand with a much larger capacity in order to raise the City Ground's capacity to 40,000 if the club regains a Premier League place. This was scrapped when the club planned to build a new stadium (see below)
The Trent End, the newest stand, built in 1994. Capacity: 7,500
The Bridgford End, the lower tier houses up to 5,151 away fans, while its total capacity is 7,710
The Brian Clough Stand, which was originally named the Executive Stand but has been renamed to honour Forest's former manager Brian Clough. It is the largest stand in the ground with a capacity of 10,000.
The Capital One Corner, located in one corner of the ground between the Brian Clough and Bridgford stands. Before it was named Pinnacle Place, after the club's previous sponsors. The main noise comes from the capital one corner and the "A" block
The ground's combined capacity is 30,602.
Current Players:
1 GK Paul Smith
2 DF Kelvin Wilson
3 DF Matthew Lockwood
4 DF Luke Chambers
5 DF Wes Morgan
6 DF Ian Breckin (captain)
7 MF James Perch
8 MF Kris Commons
9 FW Nathan Tyson
10 FW Grant Holt
11 FW Scott Dobie
14 MF Arron Davies
15 MF Chris Cohen
16 MF Sammy Clingan
17 MF Lewis McGugan
18 MF Neil Lennon (vice-captain)
23 FW Junior Agogo
24 FW Emile Sinclair
26 MF Matt Thornhill
27 DF Brendan Moloney
28 DF Joe Heath
29 DF Julian Bennett
30 GK Dale Roberts
Players out On-Loan:
13 MF Felix Bastians (on loan at Notts County)
25 MF Alan Power (on loan at Grays Athletic)
39 DF Hamza Bencherif (on loan at Lincoln)
GK Paddy Gamble (on loan at Stalybridge Celtic)
DF Tom Sharpe (on loan at Bury)
FW David Brown (on loan at Eastwood)
Improvements
I would look at getting some new staff in, as most of them arent that good. also a good solid centre back and a right winger are a must. Maybe a new striker when you get promoted.
When i played as nottingham forest it was great. Won the first pre season game 3-2 against a full stregnth fenerbache team. Won the last 2 friendlies 8-0 against Woking and 9-0 angainst another blue square team. Brought Crowe to play at right back who was great. 2 assits in his first game and for a cheap 55k. Also brought Malcolm Christie before the first pre season game for free. He was great against Fenerbache. Scores lots. I also brought Joseph Ndo for 22k who was class before he got injured. Junior Agogo played well for me and found a place in the first team up front with malcolm christie. Grant Holt was good and Dobie was a decent replacement. The centre back stage is tough to pick as all the centre back are preforming fantasticly. Midfield is good. Lennon got better and better every game and Mcguan looks like a top youngster. Nathan Tyson hasent been the same since he came back from injury and cohen when he came back has to make do with a place on the bench as all the midfielders are preforming well. Here's my team.
GK Smith
RB Crowe
CB Wilson
CB Breckin/Morgan
LB Lockwood/Bennett
RM Ndo
CM Lennon
CM Mcguan/Clingan
LM Commons
ST Christie
ST Agogo
S1 Roberts
S2 Breckin/Morgan
S3 Perch
S4 Davies/Cohen
S5 Holt
i'll give you a quick run down of my first full season .
players in -
july -balaz dzsudzak - debrecen - £100k aml / amc
tom heaton - man utd - season loan - gk
andrew barcham - spurs - season loan - amr
anthony grant - chelsea - season loan -dmc
oct - andy king -leicester - 3 m loan - amc -(injury to lewis mcguan and chris cohen)
jan - derek young - aberdeen - £45k - amc (need another amc )
michael spillane - norwich - 6 month loan (lennon not performing and out injured for 3 months)
march - david mcgoldrick - southampton - 3 m loan - needed striker cover
players out -
jan - ian breckin - leeds -£30k - to slow
sammy clingan - colchester - £85k - not performing
kris commons -£18k - colchester - rubbish and always moaning
staff in - david moss - swansea - ass man (all i could find)
dave barron - port vale - fitness
gordon withe , wayne walker , eddie ward - all free transfer
staff out - david kerslake , steve sutton , eoin jess ,nick marshall
came second in league playing a 4-1-2-2-1 formation with gk of course . tried 442 but could not get it to work.
main problem letting to many goals ,but scoring loads
lewis mcguan top scorer with 21 from amc position top player
also balaz dzsudzak is a must buy , board was not happy about him for 3 months .but after that
he was best player and now loads of teams are after him.best position for me was left winger
derek young is great as a left amc
andrew barcham ,perch, spillane, wes morgan ,junior agogo ,chambers,julain bennett,paul smith, cohen all played well
arron davies was a good impact player
tyson was ok
final league postion -http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/659/leaguetablexn6.jpg
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