Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[stirred]

When I started supporting Forest they had some principles, on how to play and how to behave. I liked both of them. Neutrals liked us. I was proud to support us.

Watching us now is embarrassing, and it saddens me that the club is gaining a reputation for being dour and negative. For me it is far worse to watch us play like we do now than to approach matches trying to win but (also) with limited success.

I feel ya bruvver

I got concerns about the game and our team profile and also the huge global reach and revenue potential and like you I wish we adopted the ultimate utopian sporting philosophy with integrity that really makes you want to wear the shirt and follow the team home and away through the wind and the rain

But unfortunately today isn't the day as it turned out being a very valuable point, probably our highest league position of the year and a 5 point and 5 team cushion above the bottom 3

Also there is still clear and present danger and still feel the focus for now has to be survival, teams near the bottom rarely seem to entertain

Also i didn't get to see the game, paid £2.50 for commentary!  

I can't understand why Chris Hughton didn't bring on some fresh legs, we always seem reactionary as opposed to proactive and i think the squad as much as possible needs to be involved and developed and ideally share in monumental last gasp winners, but the negative stuff does p1ss me off a bit, particularly against Barnsley where he made an 87th minute sub just to run down the clock and hold on for the draw

We can't argue with the challenge Chris Hughton has faced, the circumstances, 5 previous managers players and he has achieved a distinct upturn in form, so I give him full credit, he certainly isn't a tinkerman or experimental and I have to respect him for 'sticking to his guns'.

But we need some vision for the future, playing ourselves into form for next season, bringing players on, creating optimism and excitement.

Ultimately, i think football should be 4 points for the win, 2 points for score draw, 1 point for goalless draw, replace gd with goals scored or maybe even disciplinary, alot of football is tedious and too much cheating and also need to make negative cheating football obsolete

Yes! I'd like to see some innovation in the game. There's so much analysis now that the rules are being exploited. Cynical free-kicks, rotating the foulers to make the most of your yellow cards, touch-and-fall tactics with play too often broken up by free-kicks etc.

I'd be open to changing the rules to encourage good play and discourage the dark arts. More points for wins compared to draws? I'm open to that.

Sin bins is one I'd be interested to see. The cynical fouls that stop a counter attack - give them an orange card. Between a yellow and red. Like a yellow but you have to sit out 10 minutes as well. I bet the cynical fouls would soon reduce.

If the rules and points system encourages 'good' football, we'll see more of it and I won't have to moan about the manager :)