Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
S1:EP7 Wildcard Wednesday - after Ward-Prowse shone on his debut, what are the most memorable Forest debuts from our podcasting team?
20 Plays9 months ago
James, Marley, and Stuart discuss their most memorable Forest debuts - from first day optimism, famous West Midlands exports, to January striker signings!
https://www.instagram.com/gspnforest
https://www.tiktok.com/@gspndailyforest4
https://x.com/GSPNDailyForest
https://www.youtube.com/@GSPNDailyForest
Zencastr - Built for quality - Designed for growth
A new era for creation is here. The only complete audio + video platform to get best-in-class recording, intuitive editing, Al-powered growth features, and top-tier distribution tools — all in one place.
Get started for free! We highly recommend it! https://zencastr.com/?via=ken
Global Sports Podcast Network
Creating the world's first network of 30-minute daily podcasts for the world's biggest sporting export, the English Premier League.
For advertising and sponsorship details or to learn more about the scale and demographics of our audience - email Ken Davies, VP Business & Development at:
ken.davies@globalsportspodcastnetwork.com
www.globalsportspodcastnetwork.com Copyright | 2024 | Global Sports Podcast Network | All Rights Reserved
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction & Wild Card Wednesday
00:00:10
Stuart
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Forest.
Memorable Debuts Discussion Introduction
00:00:13
Stuart
Today we're bringing you our Wild Card Wednesday and after the successful debut of James Ward Prowse in the victory against Liverpool on Saturday, we wanted to delve back into the archives and talk about some other memorable debuts from our time as forest fans. Joining me, Stuart, today we've got Marley.
Marley's Excitement over Liverpool's Defeat
00:00:31
Stuart
Marley, how are you doing?
00:00:33
officialgspn
I'm doing very well, thank you. Still not stop celebrating the Liverpool win and I don't think I will for a very long time.
00:00:38
Stuart
Yeah, if you come across any any Liverpool fans in work or out and about.
00:00:44
officialgspn
and Not in work but two youtubers I enjoy watching are both Liverpool fans so I am very looking forward to watching their videos ones just come out and I watch after recording the other should come out on Thursday because the weekly thing that happens on Thursday
00:00:57
Stuart
Hopefully they're still not still not crying that they're pretending they're the better the better
James on Wedding and Football Predictions
00:01:01
Stuart
team. How about you, James, ah us who is also joining us today. How is your, the group at the wedding you're out on Saturday, how has he been dealing with with the week
00:01:09
James
Um, he's surviving. He's gone to New York, so it can't be bad. Um, but some people who listened to the podcast the other day gave me a bit of a ribbon with regards to my three nil prediction, uh, for the Brighton game on Saturday or Sunday.
00:01:22
James
So that's, uh, yeah, interesting. They said I'm a bit too optimistic, but I'm just feeling on a bit of a high after the Liverpool wins. So why not?
00:01:31
Stuart
Yeah, I think we can all be successful there again. Being based in in in Germany, Liverpool is one of the clubs that everyone everyone over here knows with the clock link as sport as well. Over the last few years, a lot of local fans here. So it's certainly been a very, very enjoyable start to my week as well.
Chronological Debut Discussion Disrupted
00:01:48
Stuart
So we'll start for the debuts. um We'll start in chronological earlier, so chronological order. So we'll go to the earliest first.
00:01:57
Stuart
And James, you've already thrown our format slightly out of the water with your with your selection for your first debutants.
00:02:01
James
Yeah. Sorry about that. Something that you'll learn as you listen to this podcast is Stewart is an encyclopedia of forest knowledge. Um, so as soon as I bought this one out of the bag, he corrected me, but I'm sticking with it because that's just, yeah, it's the one I
Stan Collymore's Impactful Debut
00:02:16
James
like the goal.
00:02:16
James
It's Stan Collimore on his premier league debut in the 94.
00:02:20
Stuart
not do Not as far as one. know I wasn't there there, but it rang instant bell, that as you said.
00:02:22
James
No, no, not his forest one.
00:02:24
Stuart
You're right, James. i ah Nothing gets past me.
00:02:27
James
He was so quick. and But on his Premier League debut against Man United, 94-95 season, and scored a Perler from outside the box to level things at 1-1. But one of the reasons was, in my lifetime, that was one of the high watermarks for Forrest, because that season we finished third in the Premier League.
00:02:50
James
um And whilst I was looking at that as well, interesting thing. Everyone um talks about Colin Moore at Liverpool, Liverpool again. and But when I looked at the stats, he scored more goals per game. um For Forrest, he scored 41 goals in 65 games. And I think it was low 30s in 61 games for Liverpool.
Significance of Stan Collymore for Forest
00:03:13
Stuart
Yeah, it's definitely interesting. So it's definitely but before my my time. So what was so special, James, about Stan Collymore or about that, that forest team in general?
00:03:22
James
I think he's the first one I remember as being kind of a superstar for Forest. I would have only been 10 at the time. um So only been to a few games with dads. I had older brothers, so they kind of went to the games. um And yeah, we we never really and had anything.
00:03:44
James
in my earlier life, and but Brian Roy, Stan Collinmore were, yeah, the first superstars in a forest shirt that I remember.
00:03:55
Stuart
ah So were you a season to get hold of for that season as we finished third in the Premier League or was this Collie Moore Premier League debut one of the few games you went to that year and it happened to be one of one of the best games?
00:04:06
James
ah Yeah, it's one of the few games we went to. It's ah it's the one that I remember, kind of the earliest memory. um of being at the city grounds and yeah, the the ground rocking. So I would say it's what made me fall in love with Forrest, but I think that was my dad. I don't think there was any chance of going with any other team, but I'm glad I did.
00:04:27
Stuart
Yeah, it certainly helps having a successful team and in your in your younger years. So how big of an achievement was it seeing in that Forrest came third as a newly
Forrest's Premier League Success & Recognition
00:04:38
Stuart
promoted team? Because nowadays, if a newly promoted team stays up, that's a great achievement. So did Forrest get and enough credit for finishing third? or Because you when you don't really hear that being talked about as one of the great achievements, Forrest finishing third that year.
00:04:52
James
yeah i don't think they did i think it was because of the man united blackburn rovers kind of fight to the finish because it was really close that year between those two for first and second then there was only a couple of points in it whereas forests were about 10 points behind um the the top two there so and forest had done it before with Clough you know um back in the heyday so Yeah, I don't think people gave us the credit that we deserved there. But like you say, if that was to happen now, well, if Gary Lineker had been in his pants again.
00:05:29
Stuart
I'm not sure. that I hope that's something we don't see this year.
00:05:29
officialgspn
and
00:05:31
Stuart
I mean, I don't want Leicester to go down, but yeah, Gary Lineker in his pants is not something
Humorous Gary Lineker Discussion
00:05:36
officialgspn
Well, you know what?
00:05:36
Stuart
I'm i'm hoping for.
00:05:36
James
Yeah.
00:05:37
Stuart
How about...
00:05:37
officialgspn
um bullling I'm willing to make a prediction similar to that. This might sound extreme and I will hold it back, but if Forrest can qualify for Europe this year, then I will record an entire episode of GSPN Forest Daily with a pair, and I do own these, of Nottingham Forest Underpants
00:05:42
Stuart
Go ahead.
00:06:00
officialgspn
on my head.
00:06:01
James
Okay, you made it better at the end there by saying you were just going to put them on your head.
00:06:07
Stuart
Yeah, I mean, I've and owed lots of forest merchandise over the years, but I don't think I've ever had ever had forest underpants. So A, well done, Marley, for which I actually have a commitment, and B, that's a great prediction. And yeah, I hope to see underpants forest underpants on your head.
00:06:24
James
does that Does that include the the ah fake Intertoto Cup style conference league?
00:06:30
officialgspn
The conference the conference league.
00:06:32
James
That's it as well. Although I'd take that.
00:06:35
Stuart
Yeah, it's got its it's got to the end. yeah I mean you look how happy West Ham were when they way won the conference league two years or so ago so yeah we we can't absolutely can't be ah putting our noses up at an away day in Slovakia or Albania or whatever ever exciting trips we could hopefully get
00:06:43
James
yeah
Rafik Jebbor's Unpredictable Debut
00:06:50
Stuart
used to.
00:06:50
Stuart
um So now for my or the next next one in the end of time order it's my first memorable debut it's from Raffik Jebor in February
00:07:00
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:07:01
Stuart
2014. So in in that January transfer window, Forrest were sick in in the championship, going strong in Billy Davis' second spell in charge. Billy wanted the reinforcements and among those who came in were Raffik Jabba, a prolific striker from Iliviarcos, whose nickname was was The Terrorist. Whether that's ah quite a PC nickname or not, I'm not sure. But either way, I was at university at the time.
00:07:30
Stuart
And yeah, I'd always tell my mates, oh, well, Forrest, we will sign the terrorists. We're definitely going to get promoted now. um So that debut it was against Yeovil on a Sunday. I was at uni, so I was in the library. But really, I was watching Forrest on a du dodgy stream. And Jebel came up with 20 minutes to go and scored from one yard out to make it 3-1. So I was absolutely buzzing, thinking, right, we will sign this made amazing fox in the box.
00:07:58
Stuart
He's going to be the one to fire his to the place in the playoffs and and beyond. But as it happens, that goal from one yard out was his only goal. He finished the season already in the bomb squad completely in the ostracized from from the team. And, yeah, we'll contrast this. This is my second memorable memorable debut, but Rafiq Jabbar.
00:08:18
Stuart
memorable in the fact that he scored um the debt on the debut in a win, but memorable for the wrong reasons in that he was not the key man to get us up, as we all thought he might have been.
00:08:29
James
Yeah, do do I remember those were the foul was years and there's a I think the picture of him signing was the classic foul was on the pitch at the city grounds.
00:08:33
Stuart
Yeah.
00:08:39
Stuart
Yeah, yeah, it was him, Danny Fox, like a defender called ke and Kevin Gomez.
00:08:45
James
Yeah, that's.
00:08:46
Stuart
Yeah, so it was those
00:08:47
James
That's literally all I remember of him, and and that's I remember the the name and that he played for us, but. I don't remember the goal as much as the fact that when, when we're signing good players, people kind of put that foul as picture up and say, remember this.
00:09:01
Stuart
you that as there's a quote to it don't they that this is how how far we've come yeah so that's probably why it sticks in in my mind the fact that it's often replayed.
00:09:05
James
Yeah.
00:09:06
officialgspn
And we'll just give some justice to one of those players. Danny Fox was actually in alright signing. He did play a few seasons.
00:09:14
James
Yeah.
00:09:14
officialgspn
He has a decent centre back for us.
00:09:16
Stuart
But the thing is we thought their signings would get us promoted. He proved to be a decent player under Dougie Friedman when we had a transfer ban and we had no option but to play him but was Danny Fox, Kevin Gomez and Refri Jevor the missing pieces together as promoted? Absolutely not so yeah right He was had more longevity than the other two, but he was only allowed to be a decent player because our level fell rather than ah rising, as we hoped it would have done with him and in the team. So that's why here, Rafik Jabbar is my first memorable debut. Molly, I believe your um yeah both of your two are the next two before we come to mine and James's. So really, she's the first of your memorable debuts.
Thomas Lam's Impactful Goal on Debut
00:09:56
officialgspn
So my first memorable debut is memorable for the correct reasons, and it's a debut of centre-back Thomas Lamb, who I can't remember who we signed him from, but we signed him in the summer of I believe 2016.
00:10:10
Stuart
Yep, that's great.
00:10:11
officialgspn
and And he made his debut in a 4-3 victory over Burton Albion. That'd be the first reason to say memorables, because 4-3 is a score line which we don't see very often with Forrest.
00:10:23
officialgspn
and Thomas Lampope, despite conceding three goals, a very good performance. I think, in fairness, he was surrounded by Pereira, Ivacotti and De Vries, so you couldn't really expect a clean sheet. But I also realised he scored a very good goal on his debut, cutting in off the left-hand side, Callum Hudson and Doy style onto his right foot, and smashing it in at the near post from outside the penalty area.
00:10:51
officialgspn
Granted some very poor goalkeeping from Burton Albion's McLaughlin in net And I believe he proved to be quite a good sign in the end because I remember that season and There was a lot of raving about how well he was doing especially early on being one of our better players and good ahead and No that at that time I would have been in a cypress so
00:11:09
Stuart
Yeah, that's interesting.
00:11:09
James
Yeah, you know.
00:11:10
Stuart
So were you at that game, Marley, or what's your memory of of that goal itself when it happened?
00:11:25
James
Look at you.
00:11:25
officialgspn
yeah well i was out i was dying it was too hot
00:11:27
James
You know what? It always surprises me. when goalkeepers and defensive players are like the man of the match in high scoring games.
00:11:40
James
When, when Pickford comes off after a five nil thrashing, he was the best player on the pitch. It's just because the other 10 in front of him were absolutely dreadful. um And he made
00:11:50
officialgspn
I think Thomas Ryan was runner-up in Man of a Match, I think Athan Balonga was Man of a Match in that one.
00:11:55
James
Oh, there you go. But that's, that's what I mean. You, you, you spoke about the players next to him in the fact that one player, one player sometimes does make a difference when they're scoring wonder goals, but at the back, you really need to defend as a unit. Um, so yeah, it can be even in high scoring games, um, defenders having good games.
00:12:17
Stuart
Yeah, there's a lot of um promise about that but game. To remind me, Mamal, I think you've got the game up. Oliver Burke was also a goalscorer, so it was a Samba Lange, Lam, and Oliver Burke. Is that right?
00:12:29
officialgspn
was CF. Asamblong got a brace, Burke scored and Lam scored.
00:12:34
Stuart
Yeah, because it was a bit of excitement.
00:12:34
officialgspn
That's correct.
00:12:36
Stuart
It was the first game under Philippe Montagnier, and there was some sort of, because there were so many unknowns, so Yakovitti, you mentioned, was a youngster from the academy, Burke from the academy,
00:12:47
Stuart
Lam and the Finland Senior International. So there was a lot of um excitement, some belonged back after missing almost the whole of the and previous season and with with an injury. So, yeah, there was um definitely excitement, a bit of the unknown with one Tanya, but as with with with the Referee Jebel window, anything under foul as well, complete hit and miss. So Thomas Lam, as you remember fondly, but Hilberta Pereira, again, he was a bit of a loose cannon.
00:13:17
Stuart
And yeah, I probably wouldn't even be able to remember every single one of the other 11 names on on that team sheet such was the lack of structure and the and the randomness we we saw at that time.
00:13:26
officialgspn
I do have a very fond memory of Hilberto Pereira, I believe.
00:13:30
Stuart
I had the Villa game, I think a few weeks later. Is that the one you won you mean?
00:13:34
officialgspn
It would have been a 3-1 win over Birmingham ah in 2016 because that was the first time I'd ever been to the city ground and Forrest had won the match.
00:13:38
Stuart
Okay.
00:13:45
Stuart
Oh, nice, nice. So that's your, formative era, so that was what, on a visit from Cyprus or, so you're living in Cyprus but then you visit the city ground just at Hill de Berto Pereira.
00:13:52
officialgspn
Yeah, I came across to um
00:13:54
Stuart
Not very nice, yeah, a lot of random um players played from that time, I think.
00:13:55
officialgspn
to visit my dad who still lived in Nottingham. And um obviously while i'm ah I was across, I always begged him, can we go to a forest match? And that was the one we went to.
00:14:11
Stuart
about Hill de Berto Pereira, I remember some story had some I think he was a teenager himself, so this doesn't sound as bad as it was, but he did he did get a Nottingham teenage last pregnant, so that's why he ended up at and Northampton Town, so he could ah still still still see her her and the kid. because again He certainly had an interesting year in and Nottingham. I think there's good thematic similarities, Marley, in your next debut because ah this one was Thomas Lamb. It was the first day of the season under a exciting French new manager. And your next memorable debut is the first day of the season, first day in charge for a met for an exciting sounding French manager.
Arijanet Muric's Frustrating Debut
00:14:52
officialgspn
was and it was the first game in charge under a manager who we all thought was the man to take us back where he belonged and then it all went wrong it was Sabri Lamucci who his what is love chant is still one of my favorites of all time and the player is Arjun Mureich signed him on a loan for a season from Manchester City and made his debut in a 2-1 defeat to West Bromwich Albion and Adoma assisted Mati Kash goal which was a very good finish got us off a mark for the season. Then, I can't remember which order they were in, but all I know is both goals were a massive mistake from Aaron Muirich, especially one where he hit it from the byline, curled into Muirich's hands, and then went straight between them. So I was very fuming at the end of that game. 13-year-old me had never been more annoyed at a football match. um And I remember coming out of it thinking,
00:15:49
officialgspn
there is not a chance this goalkeeper has ever actually placed the gloves up for Man City. He's got to have signed for us from Oldham Athletic or something and just be pretending he's from City. But yeah, very annoying game and luckily, very luckily, Breece Samba was in the wings, ready and waiting.
00:16:09
James
Yeah. You know what? He was like, um, a Manchester city shirt from a dodgy site. Not quite the real thing because that Manchester city like label really made me think, man, we've we've got a good goalkeeper here. You know, he's, he's coming through the ranks city, big guy, but yeah, that game, he was a one-shot wonder, wasn't he? See you later.
00:16:33
Stuart
that's That's the weird thing.
00:16:33
officialgspn
Yeah, the problem with him is you can't even defend him with the players he had around him because the back four of Matty Cash, Michael Dawson, Joe Wall and Jack Robinson that season was possibly one of the best in the league.
00:16:36
Stuart
Sorry, that city label is still getting him work today. like He got relegated to the Burnley last year. Who did he switch to in the next period? R.M. Eurek. Somehow, he is Premier League number one, despite showing no tangible goal-giving u ability at all during his brief stint at Forest.
00:17:03
officialgspn
And then moving forward from that, Ben Watson was a very very good holding midfielder.
00:17:09
Stuart
Yeah, so it was weird. So um when we were speculating, so if we had signed Murek and Samba that season, can we assume that Murek was a club signing? And then because of the French link, Samba was Sabri's man. So I think Sabri maybe politically had to start the season with Murek as the club's choice. Then when Murek let us down in those first three or four games, Sabri said, okay, now I'm picking my guy. Now I'm picking Samba. That's how I i think it went down.
00:17:37
James
Yeah, like.
00:17:37
officialgspn
Hopefully, but we did actually sign three goalkeepers that summer I believe And
00:17:45
Stuart
Yeah, so now's
00:17:45
officialgspn
the other one was I believe he was called Diallo wasn't he?
00:17:49
Stuart
the following year. That was the following year.
00:17:51
officialgspn
How was it?
00:17:51
Stuart
So our goalkeeping team that year was Murex, Samba, and Jordan Smith. And then the following year was Samba, Jordan Smith, and Diallo.
00:17:57
officialgspn
i
00:18:00
Stuart
And a very, very forgettable Houston season.
00:18:00
officialgspn
Yeah yellow signed never played a game then disappeared
00:18:05
Stuart
Yeah, definitely.
00:18:08
Stuart
So my second
00:18:08
James
ah you go
00:18:11
Stuart
ah memorable debutant then. Again, it's the same theme as the as the first one, a striker signed in January.
Sam Surridge's Role in Promotion Season
00:18:19
Stuart
But unlike Referee Jebel, this one is Sam Surridge. So in the promotion season 21-22, we started the season with Graben as our main ah striker with Lyle Taylor waiting in the wings. Taylor had his more than played his part with that two goals in 90 seconds against Bristol City.
00:18:38
Stuart
But then for whatever reason, Steve Cooper didn't fancy him. So in January, out went Lyle Taylor, in came Keenan Davis. But then with a day or two to go of that January, Graben picked up an injury. So rather than suddenly having just Keenan Davis as the striker, Sam Surridge was brought in. So that just showed. When you look back to the Jebel year, how random it was, Fauaz parading names on the pitch left, right and center. Here we finally had a plan. The owners realized, okay, we've got a chance of promotion here.
00:19:08
Stuart
Hello, what's it been out for? We don't know, but we can't have just one striker. Yes, we've already signed Keenan Davis. Let's bring in another. It was Sam Surridge, came in for two million, sold him for five, scored some crucial goals in that promotion season. His debut itself, just a two nil win away against Blackburn. Nothing particularly notable. He didn't score. You know, the goals were from James Gunn and Brennan Johnson, but the fact that we could bring those changes in and have series on the bench shows that we finally had a an option, finally had a choice to they'll build a promotion side. And I think the signings like him and Steve Cook as well as the other May-January signing that year were the reasons why we we got promoted.
00:19:53
James
Yeah, I feel a bit bad for Serge because I think me and my son, we were such an affinity for him in that promotion season. And what he did for us, because like you say, his goals, when there were injuries elsewhere, just we wouldn't have got promoted without them. And some of them were fantastic. And then we we get to the Premier League and we signed How many players was it?
00:20:16
James
and Well over 22.
00:20:18
Stuart
Any two in that first summer or 20? Yeah.
00:20:22
James
And then he did he get ah much of a chance to ah show what he could do in the Premier League before he got shipped off to the States?
00:20:27
Stuart
Not really, no. I mean...
00:20:30
officialgspn
I think he got a few appearances, I know ah know he scored away at Berb, was it Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium to make it 1-1?
00:20:36
Stuart
Boom, yeah. But he he was coming on in the last 10 minutes ah of games.
00:20:38
James
Yeah.
00:20:40
Stuart
He was well well down the pecking order. I mean, I think his... moment of that season was in the Carabao Cup semi the Man United. He had a disallowed goal which would have made it 1-1 in that first leg. So if that goal had stood that would have been the turning point for us in that semi final and for his forest career but didn't go in.
00:20:51
James
Yeah.
00:20:57
Stuart
ah He barely played again and of course ahly we did we didn't progress past United so I think that was the turning point for him and yeah it worked out well for him in the in the US.
00:21:03
James
Yeah.
00:21:06
Stuart
He's a regular regular scorer for for Nashville.
00:21:08
James
Yeah. And yeah, just plays like him, Joe Lolly, you know, absolute machine for us. And now he had his injury issues towards the end with his shins. Um, but yeah, just off to Australia. So the bomb squad, let you say.
00:21:25
Stuart
Yeah. And I think where it's been nice, actually, we've did this unintentionally, but all of our debutants have gone for a theme. So for my theme, it was January Transfer Window Strike Enforcement.
00:21:37
Stuart
Marley's was first days of the seasons under the French menu managers. James, your theme is ignoring the rules and picking whoever you like. So who who is your second memorable debutant and what white why have you picked them?
00:21:45
officialgspn
so
00:21:49
James
I don't think it's ignoring the rules. I think it's just stretching them to the limit of their, you know, breaking point.
Morgan Gibbs-White's England Debut
00:21:55
James
No, the second one is Gibbs White, but not for his forest debut, for his England debut um a couple of weeks ago against Ireland. And the the reason I chose him just like Collie Moore is I think they
00:22:07
officialgspn
So this is true.
00:22:07
James
both like the the 94-95 season was a high water mark and I think Gibbs White appearing for England the first forest player on the pitch in a competitive game since Stuart Pearce was another high water mark for the club um To show where we're going and he didn't do bad I was really worried when he came on that he was gonna get an injury or something like that because that's International injuries for Forrest seemed to be standard um but He did well Maybe a bit too well because it'll draw attention to you know, the clubs all come calling a little bit more um Which is always a worry
00:22:47
James
But yeah, Gibbs White for England, I think was yeah a really good moment for Forrest.
00:22:56
Stuart
Definitely Mamali, what are your memories of that game or all of two weeks ago?
00:23:01
officialgspn
Uh, yeah. Uh, my memories are that he played really well. As I said, I think the day after, a couple of days after he was moving constantly, always wanting the ball and almost had a very good assist. But what I wanted to point out was another theme that James has gone with is something very specific about the two players. Because I know that Stan Collymore himself tweeted this the same day that we signed the man. I'm going to delay what I try and find it.
00:23:32
officialgspn
I can't find the actual tweet, but he said that Forrest has signed a player from the exact same place that Dan Collimore was from, who will also be wearing the shirt number 10.
00:23:45
James
Wow.
00:23:45
Stuart
ah So that's joe James's theme then, number 10s from the West Midlands.
00:23:46
James
You know what?
00:23:49
James
Yeah, I knew that. I knew that.
00:23:52
officialgspn
so
00:23:52
Stuart
I think it's sir yeah it's definitely nice.
00:23:52
James
Definitely knew that.
00:23:55
James
Take that one.
00:23:57
Stuart
It's is it interesting again, i um and we were chatting in the in the group chat throughout the day and we decided to do this memorable debut idea, but I think it's really interesting that we all picked them for different reasons.
00:24:09
Stuart
like um I was not at either of my debuts. So I said, I might watch the first one at uni in the second one. I think, I think at home, uh, James, you are at your, you're calling more game and, and none of the gives white one and Marley, you are at neither of them or you were you at the West Brown one.
00:24:21
James
the first one.
00:24:27
officialgspn
I was at the Miurich one, I wasn't at the Lahm one.
00:24:29
Stuart
Yeah.
00:24:31
Stuart
Yeah. So again, it's been an interesting exercise. I think if we did our ah favorite goal, I think we would all pick get goals we've seen live. But debut is it something different, things stick in your mind for for different reasons. So maybe the ones we watched online or on TV, if we were remember watching it for the debut, then that becomes the occasion more than something that happens in the in the stadium.
00:24:53
James
Yep.
00:24:55
officialgspn
and honestly there are so many different ones we could have gone with as well which could be honorable mentions example any single player who played in that new castle game first game back in the premier league could have been on the list for obvious reasons and another one that could have been an honorable mention is actually no it can't be because he played the new castle game
00:25:20
officialgspn
I thought Tywo's debut was when he scored our first Premier League goal in 23 years, but I've just checked he came off a bench against Newcastle.
00:25:20
Stuart
No.
00:25:24
Stuart
ah
00:25:25
James
No.
00:25:27
Stuart
Yeah, I think so. For Sam Surridge, ironically, the thing that was one of his very few Premier League stars, Sam Surridge, was that Newcastle game before he was already usurped by Taiwo. So yeah, I think in terms of who the next forest debut will be, if I'm right in thinking, all of our summer signings have played at least once, but there's someone I'm forgetting.
00:25:49
Stuart
So I think we've seen everyone who's, I mean, I know Miguel and Marrero only played in and the cup, but everyone has at least at least as we've played so far.
00:25:59
James
Yeah. Yeah. They, they played against Newcastle in that, that game at the secret.
00:26:01
officialgspn
leave
00:26:02
Stuart
Yeah.
00:26:03
James
All right. Yeah. Um, now I think we've seen them all, um, has, I know Abbott played in the cup, um, and he's in the squad. He's not, has he played in the Premier league yet?
00:26:16
Stuart
No, I don't think, so I think, yeah,
00:26:16
James
I know it's only been a couple of games and at the yards now.
00:26:18
officialgspn
No, he hasn't
00:26:19
Stuart
hopefully be be the next Premier League, Premier League debutant I would like to see. Yeah, because he e certainly didn't let himself down at all in in the Newcastle game. So I think, yeah, if we can hear him when we talk about this in a few years' time, maybe those of us like like yourself.
00:26:29
James
Yeah.
00:26:34
Stuart
Marley, were you at the cup Cup game, James, or were you there too?
00:26:39
James
At the Newcastle game now.
00:26:40
Stuart
Yeah, okay, then Marley will be so telling his kids and his grandkids he was there for Zach Ebert's Forest debut, first Forest start.
00:26:41
James
no just
00:26:41
officialgspn
I was there.
00:26:48
officialgspn
Actually, I went to see my kids. I was there for his a Forest debut. as His date is actual debut was off a bench against Grimsby Town in the cook in in the first season back in the Premier League.
00:26:48
Stuart
And then the guy around the cup.
00:26:55
Stuart
good Grimsby.
00:26:58
officialgspn
it was a but No, I wasn't there, sadly.
00:26:58
Stuart
You got a ticket, is that a way to end at Grimsby?
00:27:03
Stuart
No, you weren't there. Sorry, you weren't there. Okay, fair enough. No, you three are.
00:27:05
officialgspn
Thank you.
00:27:06
Stuart
I was just saying, it was his first debut. I didn't remember. He had played one of one of the cup games under Cooper. But no, I think this has been a great exercise. So for the rest of the week, Mark will again be our representative, I think, on the crossover.
00:27:20
Stuart
So he'll be defending Forrest in the Daily Brighton episodes. We'll go out on Thursday. Friday, we'll do a preview.
Episode Wrap-up & Thanks
00:27:29
Stuart
And then Sunday, we'll record for Monday, hopefully another review of a perfect away win.
00:27:35
James
three no
00:27:36
Stuart
Thanks, 3-0. You've heard it here. You heard it on Monday. And you're hearing it again now from James. So thanks all for your time. And if you want to follow us on socials, you can check out the show notes, wherever you've listened to this podcast.