On a serious note, what the **** is going on? How does a club like Forest get into this level of shit?
Jeez, this is one of those times when writing it down doesn't do it justice as you'de get fed up of reading it.
Essentially - and really simplified, we had ( still have until he sells up ) a owner Nigel Doughty who bought the club lock stock etc. He had his fingers ( wallet ) burned by David Platt and ever since he has been fanatical about not trusting the managers to buy players so he introduced a Transfers Acquisitions Panel where they discussed any players wanted by the manager and said yay or nay, plus Doughty every now and again would inflict players on the incumbent manager ( Andy Cole / Boyd from Peterborough ).
He ( they ) have failed to back the manager when needed ( last two January windows ) despite their immortal "we shall only buy from a position of strength" perhaps 2 points clear of third and two games in hand wasnt a strong enough position for him.
He had the best manager we have had for a dozen years in Billy Davis and steadfastly refused to back him and Billy had to repeatedly berate the board in the press to make his poin crystal clear and ultimately boardroom harmony was far more important than on-field success. After all, in your life time how many managers have been sacked when none of the fans wanted it - especially after two successive play off campaigns.
We have a hated CEO ( real smarmy oily bastard in Mark Arthur ) who is a complete numpty and incompetent, this is the guy that has run the run the club on Doughtys behalf for a dozen years and somehow made us over 75 million in debt to Doughty ( lots of it is interest charges that Doughty charges the cub ). He came out with "we are serious about promotion are you ?" as a pre-season Season Ticket campaign and then forgot to back the manager.
We have Alan Bexon - Security Chief, who single-handedly is trying his damnest to rid the ground of any and all entertainment, we have stewards, plod and security ( doorman / bouncers ) staff chucking folk out wholesale.
In essence, Doughty the club for 12m back in 99/00 and here we are now, in a worse position only we owe him 75m with him publically stating that Mark Arthur is his best ever signing - total farce and fiasco.
The small club thinking of theirs is why you have the Upper Bridgford Stand as well as the lower, all they had to do was open up it up for Forest fans and it would have been filled, after all, that is where the noisy element are based but now they conceded home advantage just so that they can sell more tickets to you lot - amatuerish and extremely shortsighted
Nothing will change until Nigel Doughty sells up and effs off, taking Mark Arthur and John Pelling ( Financial Director ) with him.
As I say, vastly over simplified but it gives you an idea.