- Hopefully everyone survived the post-match downpour to reflect on a sturdy win over Huddersfield. Not as spectacular as last time we played the Terriers but we deserved the points and it’s the first time we’ve won on opening day under Davies.
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- The commentary deal is done and the squad numbers have been released. Let’s play some football!
- While you’re waiting for the season to begin, you could do worse than spending a few minutes reading Arsher Ali’s interview with Sean o’Driscoll on Garibaldi Gazette. Sean, as ever, is frank, erudite and magnanimous.
- Seat Pitch are reporting that a commentary deal has been done with Radio Nottingham after a ‘period of negotiation’, but there has been no official announcement except for tweets from Jim Price.
Price himself apparently signed the papers and had an ‘alternative solution’ planned if an agreement could not be reached with the Beeb. So good news that Forest fans will be able to listen to their team on their local radio station, but isn’t it about time that Jim Price’s role at the club was explained? ‘Advisor’ to the manager just doesn’t cut it any more if he’s signing contracts on behalf of the club. And if he’s acting as de facto CEO isn’t that a conflict of interest?
- Fawaz International Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Company, or ‘Fawaz’s Fridges’ as the forum wags put it, have been announced as the shirt sponsor for the 2013/14 season. That at least is one thing sorted out. Now we just need an away kit and a radio broadcaster and we’ll be ready to play some football!
- Still no official word from the club about radio rights for this coming season, but Radio Nottingham’s schedule for Saturday tellingly only promises ‘Updates on Nottingham Forest v Huddersfield’ followed by ‘All the post-match interviews and analysis that really matter’, the latter seeming unlikely considering the manager won’t speak to them.
Meanwhile, Davies’ advisor Jim Price has been making bitchy remarks about the impartiality of certain journalists on Twitter. The ironic thing about impartiality is that it’s often quite a subjective thing, Jim. For instance, this report from the Nottingham Post about Forest’s ‘nasty’ attempts to re-sign Kelvin Wilson seems pretty impartial to us, but you might disagree.
