Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Frochy1977]

So anyone have any good information about our new manager. I’ve heard he impressed winning the Prince’s Cup for El Jaish in Qatar...

Lets just wait and see. Sometimes it just clicks for a certain manager at a certain club.

I admit I had never heard of him but that doesn't really matter, I had never heard of Wagner, Farke and Jokanovic (when at Watford) either.

[wassy04]

Shall we take bets on how long he lasts?! I reckon he’ll sneak into December

[Sausage Roll]

Bruno Baltazar to be assistant manager.

[the jock]

I enjoyed reading lamouchi interview. Said he has lost his voice already from shouting

[PsychoStanleyStone]

A few thoughts, first of all, if your enthusiasm, excitement, passion for the new season has intensified in the last few days, honestly and genuinely i am pleased for you, i can remember a few seasons where i was desperately waiting for the season to start, the first season under Frank Clark .. i think it the 5.3 win over Grimsby, then the next season the 1.1 v Man U, I went to the Dell 1 season and saw us win but maybe not the 1st game, I remember the 0.3 away at Coventry, obviously Psycho's win over Blackpool, Warbs's 3.4 win at Brentford, all really memorable days early or possibly first games.
I envy you, because for me it has totally gone, i agree M o N and R K weren't to focused on champagne football but for some probably meaningless reasons, i loved them being here. I won't bother with talking experience and all that. Even the most bitter critic would have to concede that they did ok for the 19 games.
I would say the squad spirit, togetherness, band of brothers ... problem, ie there was discontent, i'd say was inherited. Even then i am not going to blame AK, because that is what he does, he signs players, the ones that get injured or don't work for him .. i think he casts aside but for someone else to move on, AK probably wanted to work with the gold and silver and let someone else deal with the slag and slurry, why not?
To be honest with you, i can't make any sense of it anymore. All i can conclude is that it is a very strange club, a bit sinister, actually sinister is quite good, it's more cowardly, desperate, pathetic but veiled. The decency has gone, maybe it went years ago. That might be why i liked Billy Davies, he sort of sparred, was a bit sinister himself, there was a sort of honesty with him but an honesty that he was devious, acknowledging that the truth and transparency doesn't win you games, he was the pantomime baddy.
Anyway i am damaged now, maybe we all are.
I've got to say, at this moment in time there isn't really anything genuinely silver lining to look forward to.
We are officially in blind hope alley, i'm not saying there aren't good things but that there isn't anything to feel proud about, everyone running the show at the moment seem like complete strangers to me, it's not that, it is a feeling of nothingness, it's gone. Nothing to feel strongly about nothing to condemn, no identity, definately no decency, maybe a glut of money?

[ac_vodka]

Have to agree with the some of the above - what really blew my mind yesterday was being jealous of Derby`s pragmatic approach to their recruitment and how they seem to be doing a much better job all round. An experienced legend with a decent record at a top club who brings through youth players. Really pains me to say it but everyone around us ( Leeds/Bristol City/Stoke/WBA ) are ahead of us and will continue to do so whilst we continue to dabble with a inconsistent recruitment strategy and continually create problems in the squad. Im very grateful for the new owner but if I`m brutally honest the football side of things have not improved like everything else has and I`m just not sure it will do at this time. Hope to be proven wrong.

[Redgirl]

Agree with AC. I will get behind the new manager but we do seem to have a hit and hope recruitment policy. I look at our squad and feel totally dejected. I’m not convinced Mendes (if that is the route we’re going) will do any better for us this season than he did last season. Once again it’s all hope with no substance.

[Username]

A few thoughts, first of all, if your enthusiasm, excitement, passion for the new season has intensified in the last few days, honestly and genuinely i am pleased for you, i can remember a few seasons where i was desperately waiting for the season to start, the first season under Frank Clark .. i think it the 5.3 win over Grimsby, then the next season the 1.1 v Man U, I went to the Dell 1 season and saw us win but maybe not the 1st game, I remember the 0.3 away at Coventry, obviously Psycho's win over Blackpool, Warbs's 3.4 win at Brentford, all really memorable days early or possibly first games.  
I envy you, because for me it has totally gone, i agree M o N and R K weren't to focused on champagne football but for some probably meaningless reasons, i loved them being here.  I won't bother with talking experience and all that.  Even the most bitter critic would have to concede that they did ok for the 19 games.
I would say the squad spirit, togetherness, band of brothers ... problem, ie there was discontent, i'd say was inherited.  Even then i am not going to blame AK, because that is what he does, he signs players, the ones that get injured or don't work for him .. i think he casts aside but for someone else to move on, AK probably wanted to work with the gold and silver and let someone else deal with the slag and slurry, why not?
To be honest with you, i can't make any sense of it anymore.  All i can conclude is that it is a very strange club, a bit sinister, actually sinister is quite good, it's more cowardly, desperate, pathetic but veiled.  The decency has gone, maybe it went years ago.  That might be why i liked Billy Davies, he sort of sparred, was a bit sinister himself, there was a sort of honesty with him but an honesty that he was devious, acknowledging that the truth and transparency doesn't win you games, he was the pantomime baddy.
Anyway i am damaged now, maybe we all are.  
I've got to say, at this moment in time there isn't really anything genuinely silver lining to look forward to.
We are officially in blind hope alley, i'm not saying there aren't good things but that there isn't anything to feel proud about, everyone running the show at the moment seem like complete strangers to me, it's not that, it is a feeling of nothingness, it's gone.  Nothing to feel strongly about nothing to condemn, no identity, definately no decency, maybe a glut of money?

So in conclusion, AK = Bad Guy, BD = Good Guy, MON & RK worked with the squad for five months = not their fault if there was discontent.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Bruno Baltazar to be assistant manager.

Don't know much about him so did a quick check on Wiki.

He certainly doesn't appear to stay long in a job.

Only 42 years old but played for about 13 clubs and as already managed/coached about 10 others.

[ozzyten10]

Did a decent job at empoli last year in difficult circumstances by all accounts.

[Mcforest]

Must be one of these coaches that is more suited to a second in command role. Must be able to clearly show he is good coaching and training or would not keep getting jobs or being head hunted when he is in a coaching role. Just is missing that vital trait that makes you a good manager in your own right.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

I think I am in the majority of wishing Lamouchi well but with no real expectation he will be able to deliver success.

I confess to looking at the lot down the road lining up Philip Cocu, you can see where they are coming from with him, won the dutch league with unfashionable club, history of developing youth. They admittedly have no better record than us of holding on to managers, it just seems a bit better thought through.

I think it is the lack of communication that there is any sort of plan that grates, as an outsider it looks like we have just gone for the first bloke who is a Mendes client and looking for a job. What is his brief, build and develop? Or the usual promotion or bust with the reward of the sack if he fails?

None of us have any idea how it will pan out, experience warns us not to be over optimistic.