Posts Tagged ‘Nottingham Forest’

James and the giant paycheck?

Posted July 10th, 2010 by toonsy | 94 Comments

A rather interesting revelation has surfaced regarding our new recruit, James Perch, and particularly regarding the state of play with his wages at Newcastle United. Perch sign a four-year contract at the start of the week and on the surface it looked like a decent deal. We got a player who can play in a [...]

Breaking news: Newcastle have bid accepted for James Perch.

Posted July 5th, 2010 by toonsy | 93 Comments

Breaking news regarding Newcastle United as it has been revealed that a fee has been agreed between clubs for Nottingham Forest utitlity man James Perch. Details are sketchy at the minute although a fee of around £1 million has been mentioned for a player who will add to the numbers within our squad. Perch impressed [...]

United front?

Posted March 30th, 2010 by bowburnmag | 275 Comments

Level 7 was undoubtedly in fine voice last night as the natives played their own part in Newcastle’s crucial victory over promotion hopefuls, Nottingham Forest. By the time Jose Enrique scored to make it 2-0, the appropriate volume which would have been fitting for such an occasion deserted me. I was so hoarse it came [...]

Toon Perch’ed for Forest utility player move?

Posted January 19th, 2010 by toonsy | 61 Comments

A little bit of a transfer news coming out of St James’s Park suggests we could be on the verge of making our first signing of the January transfer window. Nottingham Forest’s James Perch worked under Colin Calderwood during his spell as Forest manager, so no doubt there would have been some recommendation coming from [...]

Forest 1 Newcastle 0 – the law of averages?

Posted October 18th, 2009 by bowburnmag | 24 Comments

Well what a miserable bloody night…..stuck in a pub where I could only just about see and hear the game in the first half and where the locals seem to treat the bar as a place to lounge rather than a place to buy a drink. I was already hacked off before the game kicked [...]

The Forest controversy of 1974.

Posted October 16th, 2009 by geordie deb | 63 Comments

The Forest fixture against Newcastle United on Saturday brings to mind a bizarre group of matches between our two teams in 1974. Following success in the earlier rounds, Newcastle United found themselves at home in the quarter finals of the FA cup in front of a crowd of 54,500 facing second division Nottingham Forest. Excitement [...]

Smith Trotting out of Toon and does Jose know the way?

Posted October 11th, 2009 by bowburnmag | 49 Comments

The traditional Sunday trawl of the back pages has begun, except technically I’ve gone all modern these days and access the back pages online (partly because I’m hungover and don’t fancy the walk to the paper shop). Anyway, so what do they have to say? Well first of all, an amusing story of Freddie Shepherd [...]

Newcastle defenders for the Chop.

Posted September 8th, 2009 by bowburnmag | 27 Comments

In a country well known for it’s love of lamb (easy tiger), there’s a new Chop on the menu. It’s not of the woolly variety though, it’s the history-making Michael Chopra and his scoring boots that has the city of Cardiff salivating. Chops was breaking down the barriers back in 2006, when he became the [...]

 
 

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