Any Lessons learned?

Mt lad is having a Duke of Edinburgh meeting at the City Ground on Sat. Will anyone be there to open up?

Its the best I can do RFB.....as was the feeble fecal attempt

comment by Iwaslevel - Carry On Kuwait (U4836)
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Mt lad is having a Duke of Edinburgh meeting at the City Ground on Sat. Will anyone be there to open up?
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With our away support it is unlikely

<lightbulb> Ah, you mean

Today's Telegraph

Dougie Freedman will be unveiled by Nottingham Forest on Tuesday with the club facing further turmoil after the departure of chief executive Paul Faulkner.

Forest have been plunged into another off-field crisis after Faulkner followed Stuart Pearce out of the exit door, with sources claiming his position was untenable under the regime of chairman Fawaz Al-Hasawi.

Pearce, the legendary former captain, has also rejected a consultancy role at the City Ground to finally sever his links with the club following his dismissal by the Championship club on Sunday.

Freedman was appointed barely an hour after Pearce’s dismissal was confirmed and is due to hold a press conference today but it is Al-Hasawi, the Kuwaiti owner, who is facing renewed scrutiny after the exit of Faulkner.

Telegraph Sport understands Faulkner, who was appointed in August, was frustrated for more than four months by the restrictions placed on him and clashed repeatedly with Al-Hasawi’s assistants

He was keen to introduce a proper structure and long-term plan for the future but was frequently ignored and undermined by financial director Lalou Tifrit and Hassan Saef, two aides close to Al-Hasawi.

The Football League is believed to have written to Saef last year to ask him to subscribe to the owner and directors’ test, amid suspicions he is involved in daily operations at the club.

Faulkner is alleged to have been exasperated by Al-Hasawi’s delay in paying clubs for players, with Hull City and Crystal Palace thought to have been waiting for payments owed for the Thomas Ince and Jack Hunt deals respectively.

Peterborough are also owed around £1.5million for Forest's £5.5million signing Britt Assombalonga and chairman Darragh MacAnthony accused Al-Hasawi of missing a payment on Monday night, insisiting it had prevented them from signing players.

In a series of tweets, he wrote: "There wont be any incoming signings today but that has nothing to do with players having to leave etc, the real reason is due
to a certain championship club failing to make an agreed large payment (not thousands btw) last week on plyr they bought from us.

"This same club did this to us in August & now again. Truthfully its a disgrace & their chairman is the same. It has put us last minute in a terrible predicament.

"Its also a shambles the Football League allow this nonsense to carry on & not for the first time. I'm also sure we are not only club who its happened to but the knock on effect is outrageous."

Many agents and suppliers are also understood to have been paid late or are still waiting for money.

There is no suggestion that Al-Hasawi is experiencing financial difficulties but there have been issues regarding the distribution of funds since the takeover in the summer of 2012.

The final straw for Faulkner came when Freedman’s appointment was made without him even being consulted.

Faulkner, who previously held a similar role at Aston Villa, informed Al-Hasawi of his decision to resign and was promptly placed on gardening leave.
Pearce’s extensive back-room staff, which included Steve Wigley, Brian Eastick and Tim Flowers, have also been put on gardening leave in a mass clear-out which is likely to cost a significant amount of money in pay-offs.

Freedman addressed Forest’s players at the training ground on Monday morning in a brief discussion and is expected to bring in long-serving assistants Lennie Lawrence and Curtis Fleming. His contract is rumoured to only be until the end of this season.

The 40-year-old is Al-Hasawi’s seventh managerial appointment in just over two-and-a-half years and he will be working under a transfer embargo after the club breached financial fair play rules.

Despite those financial restrictions, Forest managed to stave off interest from West Bromwich Albion in winger Michail Antonio while Burnley were rebuffed in an attempt to sign Henri Lansbury

Bloody hell!... has Fawaz nicked me lightbulb?

The train set analogy is a good one, and one that has been said before.

However, if I was seriously minted and it was my train set that I really cared about, I might have a short period of jiggling and tinkering about with it to try and make sure it was the best train set possible amongst those of other model train enthusiasts. But, if that failed, and some pip-squeak of a competitor like “Choo Choo Bob” was visibly doing better than me (to the point that I was losing face) then it would be ‘glove’s off time’ and I would chuck all available cash I had at it to get things back on track.

Fawaz seems happy to ‘keep tinkering’, which is a worry. He should either take up another hobby, or get fully on board and blow the likes of Choo Choo Bob out of the water.

On a more serious note, that Telegraph article is very worrying for Forest. Its an awful way to run a football club and you cant blame Faulkner for leaving

I saw Mickey Mouse yesterday on the telly; he had a Nottingham Forest watch on.

What was the time on it?