Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[wassy04]

As you know Didn't want hughton as manager, because of the type of football he dishes up, and so it is being proved, another bad appointment by the Greeks and not surprised by some of the apathy of fans towards him, and a number of restless fans grow more each game.

Norwich stuck with Farke cos they could see what he was about, a young coach getting to know the championship / English football and he was playing football in the right way and in an entertaining manner.

Hughton, shouldn't need time to get to know championship, but time and time again, he is falling short to the newcomers to the championship and if his football is an indication of what we can expect, then we should all be worried.

Look at the chap who took on Barnsley the same time as Hughton came in and look at the gulf that has developed between us and them, not just Norwich.

Same time we haven't seen any improvements of a style of play, apart from an improvement defending. Sticking with older players, and strange decisions like completely ignoring Riberio again and making Grabban captain. Freeman over others? His lack of subs is also baffling.

Talks a good game, but he is not delivering.

Still lacking in goals, creativity, endeavour and pace. No heart, as soon as we go a goal down, we are done for and also not showing anything to look forward to, or green shots to recovery. Not sure i would want him looking at Transfers, it would be another year for Glenn Murray no doubt.

Norwich have clearly shown, you can win more games than you lose in this league, with young exciting players, playing good passing, high pressing football, same as Brentford who we play next.

Hughton old skool tactics simply not working, so why stick with him??

That was going to be my other point regarding Barnsley’s managerial change....Would anyone say Barnsley have a better squad than us?? I’m not for one moment saying our squad is fantastic, but he’s got them challenging for a play off place playing some good attacking football along the way.

Ok but it's not fair to pick out this one example and ignore all times where it's failed. Barnsley are overachieving in the same way we did last year, albeit playing better football.

I think it's fair to talk about the style of football though, we've consistently focused on managers with a pragmatic style as opposed to a more attacking focus since Warbs left. Now I would say its a positive that there has been a consistency in style of football, theoretically this should allow for an easier transition to a different manager. This style of football I would say is the most likely to get a team up that doesn't have parachute payments in my opinion (although Barnsley are showing it is possible)

From a fan's perspective, yes it would be great to employ someone with a more exciting style. I really wanted Carlos Carvalhal formerly of Wednesday and Swansea who we almost appointed after Karanka I think (or maybe it would've been instead of him I forget). I think it gives the manager a bit more leeway with the fans if they can see a more exciting style, although maybe Warbs can testify that wasn't necessarily the case.

So from the owners perspective you can see why they might go down the route of someone more likely to win as opposed to someone that might suit the fans better. Is this view outdated? Maybe so, Leeds went up last year playing high tempo, attacking football, maybe benefitted from the break to avoid their annual blip though. 

Looking down the league, it's worked for Norwich, Brentford to an extent, Barnsley, QPR overachieving probably, Luton too. 

Alternatively, Bournemouth, Stoke, Blackburn, Huddersfield, Derby, Rotherham, Coventry have all tried to be more progressive and it's not worked out great for them really. 

So in conclusion, lets sack him and bring in Carvalhal... :D