Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[Tricky]

in 2015/16, Hughtons first full season, Brighton scored the joint most goals in the league 72, accumulated 89 points and only missed out on automatic by goal differance of 2, losing out to Karanka's Boro

extremely impressive, but raises questions like where did it go wrong this season, oh yeh we blame the players and delight at the stability

Firstly, Hughton hasn't yet had a full season at the club, so hasnt yet had a chance to build the side that he wants. He has been forced to use the squad that he inherited, which we all acknowledge was an absolute mish mash of individuals, some of whom had lost all confidence as a result of the end of last seasons collapse.

So do we blame Hughton for all of the individual errors that cost us goals this season which cost us more points than we realise? Do we blame Hughton for our attack missing sitters (and no I am not just blaming Grabban, but including the likes of Yates, Knockaert, Krovinovich etc), which would have won us more points than we would care to admit? Was it Hughton that was playing poor passing all over the pitch throughout the majority of games this season, you know, that fundamental basic skill first taught at primary school? No! It was the players. I am pretty damned certain that if Hughton had a squad full of players of his choosing and not what he had inherited, the majority of the side he was picking would not have been in the matchday squad let alone playing week in week out. He worked with what he had got, that's all he could do!

You seem to have some kind of bee in your bonnet about stability at the club? Would you be happier if we went down the Phillipe Montanier route again, hoping we outscore the opponents and winning matches 4-3 or losing them 4-3? If we adopt that approach again, then we will be in L1. Or would you rather we were as stable as our neighbours down the A52? I am sure their fans would happily swap places with us for the stability of their club for the stability of ours.

Would you be happier with another Fawaz type of owner running things? Or have you forgotten just how dangerously close our club was to going bust as a result of the instability it found itself in? 

Yes, I accept that things could be done better on and off the field. But I am prepared to give Hughton the benefit of the doubt with a full pre-season and season to see where we do actually stand. It is all well and good quoting Hughton's full seasons in charge at Brighton and at Newcastle, but you have to be honest and add that his first season in charge of those clubs was to stabilise them and avoid the threat of relegation, which did include some defensive and dour football. It would also appear that our CEO has also been listening to fans concerns about his involvement and interferences with the playing side of things and has taken a step back.

There is only one way Forest have not adopted yet in order to try and achieve promotion back to the PL and that is by being patient and stable in all departments. Chopping and changing managers for no reason, buying in past their sell by date players for hefty fees and wages have not worked, throwing good money after bad in terms of sacking managers and buying average quality players on a whim has not worked, yet we have done this time and time again over the past 22 years. All of those years of instability, and yes! they have been unstable years.

Maybe now is the right time to accept that we, as a club, have been going down the wrong route and now is the time to try something different, something the fans haven't experienced in years, something that seemed to work rather well when Forest were an actual force to be reckoned with. Stability from the top down