• 24 Sep 2024, 10:36 a.m.

    Morgan isn't a Grealish replacement though, he'd be going as a de Bruyne understudy. In a side like City's where he'd have a bit more space, and where the players around him would be making better and more consistent runs, I can see him absolutely shining. I think he has the talent and the temperament to make it all the way.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 10:38 a.m.

    I'm not so sure. The best of MGW is when we are on the break. He can carry the ball 10-15 yards and play some defence splitting passes. Like at Brighton for our equaliser. Does he have the skillset to play the number 10 role in a team that is camped on the edge of the opposition box for 90 minutes? I honestly don't know. Maybe.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 10:38 a.m.

    If he stays in the UK, the obvious move for me would to replace the ageing (although still superb) van Dijk whose contract is up at the end of this season.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 10:42 a.m.

    If he moved to a big 6 side (and I'm not sure he's quite good enough) Gibbs-White would likely end up as an 8, similar to the role Odegaard plays at Arsenal or Silva at City.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 2:05 p.m.

    Giminez, the striker we wanted, is out for around 3 months.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 2:11 p.m.

    Ok. But if he was at Forest he wouldn't be. As he wouldn't even have been on the pitch where it happened. He would be fine. Or dead from a shooting in the Meadows. Or top scorer in the PL with 20 goals. Who fucking knows. Life/reality doesn't work like this.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 2:38 p.m.

    Haven't you seen Sliding Doors or Final Destination?

  • 24 Sep 2024, 2:54 p.m.

    A Forest version of that might be quite watchable.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:03 p.m.

    Like it…what would be the best Forest Sliding Door moments over the last 30 years?

    1. Selling Bohinen in 1995?
    2. Selling Campbell in 1997?
    3. Des’ own goal in 2003?
    4. VAR penalty decision(s) in play off final?
  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:07 p.m.

    slightly outside the 30 years but Gazza getting sent off in the FA Cup final, or Clough stumping up the cash for Collymore when he had the chance

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:08 p.m.

    If I can stretch it to 35 years (ish) I'd say being pipped to the signing of Dean Saunders by the Bin Dippers. We were one proper striker away from winning the league back then...
    (And for those that only remember Saunders when he did finally come to Forest, honest he used to be good)

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:17 p.m.

    We had a very decent season in 1989/90 but can't help feeling it would have been even better with Neil Webb still around.

    But the fuck-up in the summer of 1998, as Guru points out, is still the obvious one for me. With only a couple of solid additions I think we'd have comfortably stayed up (providing Van Hooijdonk and Campbell stayed fit). Instead our promotion team was broken up - Cooper as big a loss as Campbell arguably - and we were in the third division within six fairly miserable seasons.

    I agree the Gazza one from 1991 is a good shout.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:25 p.m.

    One that effected Forest but out of our control was English teams getting banned from Europe, how many European campaigns would we have had back then

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:56 p.m.

    Without a doubt Campbell and Cooper leaving in summer 1998 would have changed things an awful lot.

    At the other end of the spectrum.....

    If JJ got broken just before Newcastle came a-swooping. Just how fucked would we have been we financially had that deal not happened?

    Or if Fawaz hadn't have come in for is when he did.

    And what if Nigel Doughty hadn't have, t'know, pegged it. Would we just be Bristol City forevermore? Destined to finish between 10th and 15th in the Championship, never in trouble and never challenging for anything?

  • 24 Sep 2024, 3:59 p.m.

    I mean that's backing up my point isn't it? A small change at one moment and reality in those films can take a totally different course. It doesn't all stay exactly the same apart from that one moment.

  • 24 Sep 2024, 4:01 p.m.

    Joining in .... yes. The Campbell and Cooper sales I think. Keep them and we might have been in the PL the last 20 years.