What’s going on at Nottingham Forest?

Currently third. The only team to beat Liverpool. Drew with Chelsea. Only lost one game in the league so far.

Is this them reaping the benefit of the crazy number of signings last season? Or is their new manager doing a great job? Or just one of those times when a relegation threatened team has a completely random very good season?

I screen captured the table yesterday as i was 100% sure it was a funny glitch on the bbc football site. Imagine my disbelief when i checked other sites.
 
That's mind blowing to me and completely blanked out. In my memory, they had a rather poor team by the mid 90s.

Collymore, Stuart Pearce, Ian Woan and Steve Stone during that weird year where he was really good and scoring bangers for England whilst looking like a 47 year old plumber.
 
Collymore, Stuart Pearce, Ian Woan and Steve Stone during that weird year where he was really good and scoring bangers for England whilst looking like a 47 year old plumber.

Bryan Roy aswell.

They still had many of those (and Kevin Campbell and Van Hoojidonk) when they went down in 96/97.
 
It's amazing for their fans but like most seasons an unusual team doing so well at the start will eventually fall when injuries and games build up. But it must be brilliant for them to have a season away from relegation drama. It'll help the club build themselves to a PL mainstay, hope so it's a club with fantastic history.
 
I don't know if we have a history of rivalry but I've always wanted to see Nottingham Forest back in the CL because they have a good history of winning it & as a little boy I was always wondering how a team below the championship did so well in Europe.

Whilst I'm a true fan of Manchester United - I still do view Football as an entertainment rather than a religion so our rivals are just vocalised with hate rather than anything i actually mean.

I've always wanted a PL with Nottingham Forest, Everton, & even our rivals like Leeds because as a league for me the Entertainment excels when all our rivals and sleeping giant clubs are awoken & fighting each other. A bit like what Serie A would be as an entertainment without Inter Milan to AC Milan or vice Versa as a neutral watcher. The return of Dortmund & Leverkusen in the Bundesliga was fun to watch as well. However, no doubt there's 100s of clubs and everyone deserves their chance they reap.

I hope Nottingham Forest do well and manage to atleast get in to the Europa Cup to become an European rated team again.

Players like Hudson Odoi, Elanga & especially Morgan Gibbs White are very good.
 
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Very good defensive manager reaping the rewards of a very solid, organised, strong defensive side - particularly their centre back pairing.

Imagine they’ll peter out to a very respectable mid-table finish. Can see the Wood goals drying up and conceding a few more goals on average.