Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest | England)

chelsea 1 nil up

ange sacked in the morning

2-0 now

the boos have started

forest have played well and missed good chances

jesus missed a sitter. woodsy on.

Ange one of the fastest, if not the fastest manager to be sacked from a PL club?

could be, frank de boer lasted 4 league games in 2017

jeez, felt sorry for ange at the end there. out on the pitch by himself looking forlorne. no assistants with him, which is pretty gutless of them.

Finished a 0-3 loss. Wood on at 74 mins (0-2)

Any of Burnley, West Ham or Wolves win & Forest will fall into the drop zone.

Confirmed - Ange sacked.

"Shortest reign in PL history." From the Guardian.

Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that after a series of disappointing results and performances, Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties as head coach with immediate effect.

The Club will make no further comment at this time.

— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) October 18, 2025

This owner is something, who would even want to take this club on with this much pressure.

Wood needs to get his tail to West Ham. They love kiwis 

Woodsman is loved in Nottingham. Got a bit more credit there for a while and his wife is a Nottingham lass right? Which makes his daughter from Nottingham too, if they’ve moved there. 

Forest have a bunch of good , but very confused players. There’s still plenty for them to play for this season. The new manager keeps them up comfortably and doesn’t do too badly in Europe, they’ll be able to get set and go again next season. 

Bloody hell why would you take a job at Forest with Marinakis as the owner. They just said since 2010 when he brought Olympiakos he has sacked 24 Managers.

ballane

Bloody hell why would you take a job at Forest with Marinakis as the owner. They just said since 2010 when he brought Olympiakos he has sacked 24 Managers.

Sign a decent contract and then get a big payout when he sacks you in a few months time.

Buffon II

ballane

Bloody hell why would you take a job at Forest with Marinakis as the owner. They just said since 2010 when he brought Olympiakos he has sacked 24 Managers.

Sign a decent contract and then get a big payout when he sacks you in a few months time.

*month and ten days

Dyche in advanced talks according to Sky Sports News.

Knows Wood very well.

Don't particularly care what this move does for forest on a whole, but it has to be good for Wood compared to Ange-ball. I feel a lot more confident he'll notch his century of EPL goals this season now

ballane

Bloody hell why would you take a job at Forest with Marinakis as the owner. They just said since 2010 when he brought Olympiakos he has sacked 24 Managers.

 markinakis seems like a bit of a dick to me, sacks the most successful coach in over 2 decades

Dyche is perfect for this squad and perfect for Wood. Might be the best squad Dyche has ever had..

valeo

Dyche is perfect for this squad and perfect for Wood. Might be the best squad Dyche has ever had..

they brought in a whole bunch of players to play a different style than Nuno, so maybe not the best squad for it.

Seeing some of the stats under Ange, between 1st and 3rd for progressive passes, passes in opp half, passes in opp box, and more attacking stats I can't remember, in the EPL. 5th for possession. BUT only 1 goal from 61 shots in 5 games. The last game they lost 3-0 had a positive xg in that game, 2.4 to 1.7. Conceded 10 goals from set pieces in 5 games (the one I saw against Chelsea the keeper comes and punches a corner, it fortuitously lands at a Chelsea player that scuffs their shot but goes through a Forrest player's legs).

Bullion

valeo

Dyche is perfect for this squad and perfect for Wood. Might be the best squad Dyche has ever had..

they brought in a whole bunch of players to play a different style than Nuno, so maybe not the best squad for it.

At least Dyche knows how to set a team up defensively and work towards making set pieces count.

Two things the most recent manager fails miserably at.

Friday morning.
Forest to host Porto, in the Europa League.

https://www.soccerway.com/match/fc-porto-S2NmScGp/nottingham-UsushcZr/?mid=vV3tx5KU

Niche Cache.

One from the archives

Sean Dyche speaking about Chris Wood for @CoachesVoice #FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/TCMTW4QXgc

— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) February 2, 2023

No sighting of Woodsy in the training photos. Hope he's not injured.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe

No sighting of Woodsy in the training photos. Hope he's not injured.

Apparently arrived back from the All Whites with a knee niggle.

https://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/news/2025/october/22/forest-preview---dyche-era-begins-with-porto-at-the-city-ground/

Sean Dyche confirmed Chris Wood is a doubt for the visit of FC Porto after sitting out training earlier on Wednesday. He also confirmed Dilane Bakwa has sustained an injury.

Hopefully Wood is good for the game.

Hardly ever see a NZ player play against my team. And if we break our unbeaten streak here, a Chris Wood goal would soften the blow.

Unfortunately no Wood.
Gibbs-White pen and Forest lead 1-0 at HT

Dyche with the new manager bounce.
Forest a 2-0 win.

I should’ve kept my trap shut, Porto do this to me literally every time.

Would’ve loved to see Wood involved but congrats to Forest for being the first team to beat us this season.

Took Dyche 90 minutes to eclipse anything Ange did at Forest.

Forest travel to Bournemouth

Sadly Wood's knee injury further delays a reunion with Dyche.

Forest downed 2-0, to stay in the bottom 3.

Not a huge surprise. Woodsman seems unlikely for AWs November games.

https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2025/10/31/injury-casts-doubt-on-chris-woods-availability-for-upcoming-all-whites-games/

The All Whites striker has been ruled out of Nottingham Forest’s English Premier League game against Manchester United on Sunday November 2 (NZT), and his manager, Sean Dyche, says Wood may also miss the next EPL fixture, against Leeds United, on Monday November 10 (NZT).

Speaking ahead of the Manchester United match, Dyche said: “Woody’s going to be possible for the Leeds United game, but won’t make this one; we’ll have to see how that goes.”

Wood is not playing but Forest host Man U

I don't have a problem with him missing the Nov AWs games if that is what happens.

Forest pay him a rumoured £90,000 per week, yet his season with them so far is basically a non event. 

Two goals in EPL round 1 against Brentford and that's really it. Forest now with some genuine relegation fears, with 75% of the season to go.

The bigger picture is we want him fit and healthy for the World Cup.

2-2 draw

Europa League, Forest travel to Austria to play Sturm Graz

https://www.soccerway.com/match/nottingham-UsushcZr/sturm-graz-zsktjfsD/?mid=vgvmsngC

0-0, Wood didn’t make the trip

Sounds like he might be fit enough to get mins against Leeds this weekend 

Anyone think Wood could go to WHU in January? Nuno may need him to keep them up. Sorry if its been said.