17-09-2022, 05:59 PM
(17-09-2022, 03:29 PM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote:(17-09-2022, 02:53 PM)JollyLolly Wrote: Lot of fellow forum members looking back at what might have been or should have been, it matters not as we are in the here and now! I also agree with most on here that it appears SC is looking to use the same playing system with a different group of players who have differing forms of talent to those from last season. He needs to change and adapt quickly instead of persevering with 5 at the back, most teams in the Premier league play a form of 433, I hope he can see this or he will be gone by November or earlier. He is also missing SR which I believe was a big influence during our great run last year and has not been replaced (in my opinion) with the correct type of 1st team coach. The existing playing staff is good enough to be an average side in the league at the very minimum so if SC is unable to make the step-up then the Big Man will surely act. Over to you Sniffer!!!!!!
I find this comment very interesting and before I type what I am about to type I hope that we can discuss it without falling out. After all we are all Forest aren't we?
So what I want to say is this:
Have we overhyped Steve Cooper? Is Steve Cooper really as good a manager as we think he is?
I don't consider him to be very experienced and at PL level he has no experience at all.
He had a couple of decent seasons in the Championship with Swansea but that is about it.
Okay he won the World Cup with England under 17's but Veljko Paunović won the World Cup with Serbia under 20's but he soon got sacked at Reading.
So I am asking a genuine question here have we overhyped Steve Cooper.
Fair question, I would say it's probably its too early to say that. I don't think you could really answer that question properly without a much bigger sample size.
However, to add to the debate. The thing that makes him stand out for me was that team he turned into an elite attacking machine last year was almost exactly the same as the one that CH had struggling at the bottom of the league. Unless we're saying spence is really that good (maybe he is!)